I would also add that e) stressing about writing grants every few years and progress reports for those grants every year - is a deterrent for continuing a career in science.
Except for the computer scientist that writes a working grant generating AI. (as long as he only publishes the results of the AI, not the AI code itself)
What are you talking about??? The guy could have inundated the cops with naughty pictures which as we know are far more dangerous than guns and bullets. (Both of which can be bought at your local Walmart)
And how many KB of source code was that? Care to venture a guess how that compares to the Windows XP code base, and the associated cost of maintenance?
Enough code to solve the problem I had. Why would I want more than what solves my problem?
GNU grep. I needed a feature that Solaris 2.5 grep didn't have. This was over 12 years ago, but I don't have any doubt that I could get that 1980's version of grep working on a modern Unix type box. As a matter of fact, looking at the grep on the Suse box I use:
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
If we believe the copyright notice, I am using a version that was last updated 10 years ago.
Google for "One Firmware for All"
The Sampo 631CF uses a regular IDE type DVD drive, so some enterprising hackers adjusted the firmware to do things like add harddrive support.
Until the Blu-Ray producers allow such things, I'm fine with DVDs. Internet downloads will take over before BR is usable, so I guess I'll just skip that technology. C'est L'vie
It's financial Mutual Assured Destruction. We can threaten to cancel the debt, they can threaten to stop lending us money. Both would be bad for the world economy.
If you owe the bank $1,000 and you can't pay, you're in trouble.
If you owe the bank $1,000,000,000 and you can't pay, the bank is in trouble.
If your country owes their country $10,000,000,000,000 and it can't pay, the World is in trouble...
Subterfuge. It works every time. When I started in this industry nearly 33 years ago it was your attitude and your quality of work that determined your path of promotion and success.
It's always been this way, since before the Roman Empire. When you are young, attitude and your quality of work do make a difference. Alternatively you can get ahead if your dad owns the business.
When people get older, they tend to get more conservative. They tend to get locked into where they live, and what they do. That means less risk taking, less wave making. Once people find a comfortable job close to where they live, they'll settle into a groove and learn politics. There's a lot of political power in being able to quit anytime. The reverse is true, if your direct supervisor knows you won't quit no matter what, there's no reason for him to give you a raise or not overload you.
As a manager, your value is not directly quantifiable and in most cases imaginary. That makes the position much harder to justify and much easier to cut when times are tough.
Any decent manager knows how to take credit for the output of her workers, even if she credits them. Everyone, in any position, always needs to know what they bring to the table, and during performance reviews makes sure that gets noticed.
"Last Quarter, we saved the company one millions dollars, because of my project XYZ." Part of the trick of management is to dodge assignments that aren't going to have a payback, and take or create assignment that have real dollar value in revenue or cost savings. If you get stuck with a money sink of a project and can't shake it off, then yes, polish your resume and jump ship.
Depends on the definition of "Replaceable". Many small, and some large businesses go under because the founder left or died. Apple almost went under after Steve was forced out.
Often, I'm not replaceable because I'm the low bidder. My employer would never be able to find anyone who could do my job, at the salary I'm currently making.
Thinking of it from an employer's view: Could I live without this person? Yes, I can live no matter who leaves me. Will I die without this person? Yes, everyone dies.
The short answer: Everyone is replaceable, except for those that aren't.
UHF => Ultra High Frequency. Yet, somehow the spaces between are channels are "low frequency". Perhaps they mean low bandwidth, as each unused channel in only about 6MHz. Alternately, this could just be a redefinition of what "High Frequency" is.
So, Slashdot with an AI filter to remove untruths would facilitate reasoned debate. But, how to sell it to the masses?
Simple, determine someone's political persuasion by looking at their comments and moderations. Then, once we get a handle on the person, we can supply them with a personal, meta-slashdot that only has opinions that agree with what they believe in. If we do it subtly enough, they won't even know or care that they are only seeing things that they agree with.
Cue evil laugh...
In phase II, we even show them some opinions that they don't agree with, but only when those are followed by scathing counter-opinions that do agree with their personal viewpoints.
I predict that such a system would re-invent, then replace FOX news.
I just bought my first Blu-Ray, Tron Legacy, and I'm really not impressed by the picture. On a 47" 1080P LCD it just doesn't look any better than a normal DVD....
HDMI has copy protection built into it. If your Blu-Ray player and display device don't get along, it will silently degrade down to DVD quality.
Is it possible that you're not getting any better quality than a regular DVD? Not a great selling point for Blu-Ray.
I upgraded the firmware on my DVD player. Now I can fast forward through the FBI/Interpol warnings, and turn macrovision off. Is there a Blu-Ray player that can do that?
I could be wrong about eHow, but there are sites like it that have AI generated articles. (Just not very good AI). Basically they wrote a paraphrase engine, then scoured the Internet for data.
Alternately, they are paying people in low wage countries to write paraphrased articles, then auto spell and grammar checking them.
You can go right to http://www.google.com/reviews/t to set things up in bulk. You do have to be logged into a google service first, and for the blocking to work.
You have to be logged into a google service, click on a link in the search results, go back, then just that link will have the "Block" button. It took me a few tries before it worked for me.
Even better, you can go right to http://www.google.com/reviews/t to set things up in bulk. Then, when you search, at the bottom of the page should be a link like "Some items were blocked, click to see"
I was referring to the greater GNU supporting community, but you're right, the FSF are specifically responsible for GPLv3.
Propaganda is distinct and about as important as lawyering. I'm not happy about paying for either, but I can see the value in both.
Every worthwhile project has to have a advocate, or else it dies out. (Look at how many Shakers are left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers ) The nature of project advocacy tends toward propaganda. In the real world, if you want N, you have to ask for N+x, or else you are only going to get N-y.
Alas, no High Def yet, however last time I priced a new Tivo it was around $500 for a new box with product lifetime service with the current owner discount. However, a refurbished machine with product lifetime service was ~$500. No current owner discount. (:-(
I did buy a Series II for $5 so that I have a spare power supply, but it's useless beyond that. (I've heard that if I get an older image of the software, I could at least use it as a security camera DVR, but that's still a license violation and more trouble than it's worth.)
GPLv2 didn't "Allow" what Tivo did, it overlooked it. Once Tivo Inc. showed GNU just how evil a corporation can be, they had to spend time and money creating GPLv3, time and money that could have been spent actually doing something, instead had to be spent on lawyering.
As a side note, Tivo Inc. is losing customers, and every useless Tivo sitting unsold at a yard sale is a message to consumers that a Tivo box is worthless. If Tivo Inc. were to provide some small amount of functionality for these machine, they would at least be able to upsell some customers.
There's already a Concorde and a Space Shuttle (Enterprise) at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly Virginia. (As well as a ton of other aircraft. From Udvar-Hazy you can catch a shuttle that goes to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in DC (I think you have to go to Dulles Airport, then to the Metro). http://www.nasm.si.edu/udvarhazy/
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I would also add that e) stressing about writing grants every few years and progress reports for those grants every year - is a deterrent for continuing a career in science.
Except for the computer scientist that writes a working grant generating AI. (as long as he only publishes the results of the AI, not the AI code itself)
What are you talking about??? The guy could have inundated the cops with naughty pictures which as we know are far more dangerous than guns and bullets. (Both of which can be bought at your local Walmart)
And how many KB of source code was that? Care to venture a guess how that compares to the Windows XP code base, and the associated cost of maintenance?
Enough code to solve the problem I had. Why would I want more than what solves my problem?
GNU grep. I needed a feature that Solaris 2.5 grep didn't have. This was over 12 years ago, but I don't have any doubt that I could get that 1980's version of grep working on a modern Unix type box. As a matter of fact, looking at the grep on the Suse box I use:
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
If we believe the copyright notice, I am using a version that was last updated 10 years ago.
I've compiled > 10 year old GNU software on what was a modern OS at the time. Worked great.
God, is there an internet rule that states that for any reasonably technical topic that there will be an xkcd comic for it? =)
There is now...
Google for "One Firmware for All"
The Sampo 631CF uses a regular IDE type DVD drive, so some enterprising hackers adjusted the firmware to do things like add harddrive support.
Until the Blu-Ray producers allow such things, I'm fine with DVDs. Internet downloads will take over before BR is usable, so I guess I'll just skip that technology. C'est L'vie
It's financial Mutual Assured Destruction. We can threaten to cancel the debt, they can threaten to stop lending us money. Both would be bad for the world economy.
If you owe the bank $1,000 and you can't pay, you're in trouble.
If you owe the bank $1,000,000,000 and you can't pay, the bank is in trouble.
If your country owes their country $10,000,000,000,000 and it can't pay, the World is in trouble...
We owe China more than the expected value of Taiwan ATW (After the War)
Private Pilot flies the SR-71 simulator: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srsim~1.htm
Private Pilots fly the Mig-29 (with a Russian Pilot in the 2nd seat) http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/ken/mig.html
Subterfuge. It works every time. When I started in this industry nearly 33 years ago it was your attitude and your quality of work that determined your path of promotion and success.
It's always been this way, since before the Roman Empire. When you are young, attitude and your quality of work do make a difference. Alternatively you can get ahead if your dad owns the business.
When people get older, they tend to get more conservative. They tend to get locked into where they live, and what they do. That means less risk taking, less wave making. Once people find a comfortable job close to where they live, they'll settle into a groove and learn politics. There's a lot of political power in being able to quit anytime. The reverse is true, if your direct supervisor knows you won't quit no matter what, there's no reason for him to give you a raise or not overload you.
As a manager, your value is not directly quantifiable and in most cases imaginary. That makes the position much harder to justify and much easier to cut when times are tough.
Any decent manager knows how to take credit for the output of her workers, even if she credits them. Everyone, in any position, always needs to know what they bring to the table, and during performance reviews makes sure that gets noticed.
"Last Quarter, we saved the company one millions dollars, because of my project XYZ." Part of the trick of management is to dodge assignments that aren't going to have a payback, and take or create assignment that have real dollar value in revenue or cost savings. If you get stuck with a money sink of a project and can't shake it off, then yes, polish your resume and jump ship.
Depends on the definition of "Replaceable". Many small, and some large businesses go under because the founder left or died. Apple almost went under after Steve was forced out.
Often, I'm not replaceable because I'm the low bidder. My employer would never be able to find anyone who could do my job, at the salary I'm currently making.
Thinking of it from an employer's view: Could I live without this person? Yes, I can live no matter who leaves me. Will I die without this person? Yes, everyone dies.
The short answer: Everyone is replaceable, except for those that aren't.
UHF => Ultra High Frequency. Yet, somehow the spaces between are channels are "low frequency". Perhaps they mean low bandwidth, as each unused channel in only about 6MHz. Alternately, this could just be a redefinition of what "High Frequency" is.
So, Slashdot with an AI filter to remove untruths would facilitate reasoned debate. But, how to sell it to the masses?
Simple, determine someone's political persuasion by looking at their comments and moderations. Then, once we get a handle on the person, we can supply them with a personal, meta-slashdot that only has opinions that agree with what they believe in. If we do it subtly enough, they won't even know or care that they are only seeing things that they agree with. Cue evil laugh...
In phase II, we even show them some opinions that they don't agree with, but only when those are followed by scathing counter-opinions that do agree with their personal viewpoints.
I predict that such a system would re-invent, then replace FOX news.
I just bought my first Blu-Ray, Tron Legacy, and I'm really not impressed by the picture. On a 47" 1080P LCD it just doesn't look any better than a normal DVD. ...
HDMI has copy protection built into it. If your Blu-Ray player and display device don't get along, it will silently degrade down to DVD quality.
Is it possible that you're not getting any better quality than a regular DVD? Not a great selling point for Blu-Ray.
I upgraded the firmware on my DVD player. Now I can fast forward through the FBI/Interpol warnings, and turn macrovision off. Is there a Blu-Ray player that can do that?
I could be wrong about eHow, but there are sites like it that have AI generated articles. (Just not very good AI). Basically they wrote a paraphrase engine, then scoured the Internet for data.
Alternately, they are paying people in low wage countries to write paraphrased articles, then auto spell and grammar checking them.
You can go right to http://www.google.com/reviews/t to set things up in bulk. You do have to be logged into a google service first, and for the blocking to work.
You have to be logged into a google service, click on a link in the search results, go back, then just that link will have the "Block" button. It took me a few tries before it worked for me.
Even better, you can go right to http://www.google.com/reviews/t to set things up in bulk. Then, when you search, at the bottom of the page should be a link like "Some items were blocked, click to see"
I was referring to the greater GNU supporting community, but you're right, the FSF are specifically responsible for GPLv3.
Propaganda is distinct and about as important as lawyering. I'm not happy about paying for either, but I can see the value in both.
Every worthwhile project has to have a advocate, or else it dies out. (Look at how many Shakers are left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers ) The nature of project advocacy tends toward propaganda. In the real world, if you want N, you have to ask for N+x, or else you are only going to get N-y.
Alas, no High Def yet, however last time I priced a new Tivo it was around $500 for a new box with product lifetime service with the current owner discount. However, a refurbished machine with product lifetime service was ~$500. No current owner discount. (:-(
I did buy a Series II for $5 so that I have a spare power supply, but it's useless beyond that. (I've heard that if I get an older image of the software, I could at least use it as a security camera DVR, but that's still a license violation and more trouble than it's worth.)
GPLv2 didn't "Allow" what Tivo did, it overlooked it. Once Tivo Inc. showed GNU just how evil a corporation can be, they had to spend time and money creating GPLv3, time and money that could have been spent actually doing something, instead had to be spent on lawyering.
As a side note, Tivo Inc. is losing customers, and every useless Tivo sitting unsold at a yard sale is a message to consumers that a Tivo box is worthless. If Tivo Inc. were to provide some small amount of functionality for these machine, they would at least be able to upsell some customers.
There's already a Concorde and a Space Shuttle (Enterprise) at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly Virginia. (As well as a ton of other aircraft. From Udvar-Hazy you can catch a shuttle that goes to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in DC (I think you have to go to Dulles Airport, then to the Metro). http://www.nasm.si.edu/udvarhazy/
For a few years she was parked off the runway at Dulles Airport until they got Udvar-Hazy built.