She has a degree in genetics and breeds plants professionally... or something like that. She describes her experience in the book, which I've already had to lend out.:P
The advantages of Java (and.Net, once Mono comes out) is not just portability but managed code as well, to help you protect from things like buffer overflows. This applies as well to interpreted languages like Perl, Tcl, Python, etc.
Where I see a real possibility is in taking the JVM/CLR/Parrot/etc. and putting part of THAT functionality on-chip. Imagine your bytecode or interpreted programs running as fast on this platform as a compiled program runs on your run-of-the-mill Intel or AMD processor!
I've got a nice cushy IT job now, working as a security engineer for a nonprofit. About half the staff at the organization are developers or system/network engineers. It's not very stressful.
Last year and the year before, I was working as an engineer for an IT consulting company. It's great experience, but it's a lot more stressful than working in one department for one set of people on one small set of projects.
I don't know if I'm weird, greedy, or just a masochist, but I'm giving up my cushy IT job to go finish a degree (any degree!) and become a market maker (that's a term some stock/options exchanges use for a floor trader that provides liquidity). Talk about a stressful job. The nice thing is the money and the skill you gain in doing it - if I wanted to retire after 5-10 years with a mil or two and just trade a few hours a day/week for the rest of my life, I could. Plus, I hear they have LOTS of vacation time!:)
Actually, assuming this is for real, we now have a source of free energy.
With an input of 540 watts and an output of ~1.57 KW (when hooking the motor to a generator) all you need to do is split the output of the generator between the motor and some other load, and your generator is now powering the motor that drives it and up to ~1KW load. That's 1KW of free energy!
I think it has a very high likelihood of being BS, but if it's not, then hell... I can't wait to see it! Live-off-the-grid time for me!
Nutzilla Firecock. I wonder what other names people have come up with.
After this article, I'm hoping the Slashdot editors go through the logs and find the funniest client names and post a list (after a few days for people to play with names). I can't wait to see what you bastards come up with!:)
. . . on March 25, 1954 at a price of $1000 (about $4000 in today's dollars).
Ouch. There's an argument against keeping your retirement savings in bills stuffed in a mattress.:)
Since the birth of the US, the dollar has depreciated by 95% of its value (that's 2000% inflation). A dollar used to be defined as 1/20th of an ounce of gold, and now it's around $400/oz.
I have moral issues against eminent domain (as well as against the scenario I described above), but switching to Apple and Linux would not be without cost. There is a lot of labor and training involved, even if the software is free.
Also, MS' shareholders would lose a lot of money either way. Bill would be a much less wealthy man.
I think, actually, Microsoft could do something like that.
"You people are pissed off at us and our 'monopoly?' Fine. You can't have any more Windows. What's more, we're firing all our software engineers, sales and marketing professionals, secretaries, etc. and cashing out our stock."
The US would shit its pants, as would the EU. That'd be thousands of jobs lost, support ended, etc. etc.
Dr Trombetti is adamant that a cup of milky coffee could make the ideal start for the next generation of coffee lovers - Italy's drowsy school kids - stimulating their brains ahead of a day that often lasts from 0830 until 1600.
When I wash their age, I wash in shcool from sheven pm the night before to nine pm every shingle day! And I tell you what, shonny, I liked it and didn't need no shtinkin' coffee, no siree! And we didn't have no shtinkin' 24-hour time neither!
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Pirate material templates? Why not open-source? :)
If they've got open-source genetic sequences, why not material templates and physical product designs?
This is where I see true benefit beginning to happen.
I think Joe L. User would have it right on this one - CLICK EVERYWHERE! :)
Which is still before Longhorn will come out. :)
She has a degree in genetics and breeds plants professionally... or something like that. She describes her experience in the book, which I've already had to lend out. :P
You can.
I just recently bought Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's & Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding & Seed Saving by Carol Deppe. It's a very good treatment, by a professional geneticist, on breeding your own vegetables, fruits, flowers, etc. It's a testament to the power of more natural and even organic ways of getting what you want out of plants.
The advantages of Java (and .Net, once Mono comes out) is not just portability but managed code as well, to help you protect from things like buffer overflows. This applies as well to interpreted languages like Perl, Tcl, Python, etc.
Where I see a real possibility is in taking the JVM/CLR/Parrot/etc. and putting part of THAT functionality on-chip. Imagine your bytecode or interpreted programs running as fast on this platform as a compiled program runs on your run-of-the-mill Intel or AMD processor!
It looks like it's available under the MIT license. :P
I've got a nice cushy IT job now, working as a security engineer for a nonprofit. About half the staff at the organization are developers or system/network engineers. It's not very stressful.
:)
Last year and the year before, I was working as an engineer for an IT consulting company. It's great experience, but it's a lot more stressful than working in one department for one set of people on one small set of projects.
I don't know if I'm weird, greedy, or just a masochist, but I'm giving up my cushy IT job to go finish a degree (any degree!) and become a market maker (that's a term some stock/options exchanges use for a floor trader that provides liquidity). Talk about a stressful job. The nice thing is the money and the skill you gain in doing it - if I wanted to retire after 5-10 years with a mil or two and just trade a few hours a day/week for the rest of my life, I could. Plus, I hear they have LOTS of vacation time!
I trade online, you insensitive clod!
By "very high likelihood" I mean "near certainty." Free energy... riiiight. :D
Actually, assuming this is for real, we now have a source of free energy.
With an input of 540 watts and an output of ~1.57 KW (when hooking the motor to a generator) all you need to do is split the output of the generator between the motor and some other load, and your generator is now powering the motor that drives it and up to ~1KW load. That's 1KW of free energy!
I think it has a very high likelihood of being BS, but if it's not, then hell... I can't wait to see it! Live-off-the-grid time for me!
Just a typo correction for you...
..
and there exists two elements 0 and 1 in the structure such that
A + 0 = A
A * A = A
The parent poster probably intended to type:
A * 1 = A
Nutzilla Firecock. I wonder what other names people have come up with.
:)
After this article, I'm hoping the Slashdot editors go through the logs and find the funniest client names and post a list (after a few days for people to play with names). I can't wait to see what you bastards come up with!
I realize this, but I figured a political rant about fiat money would be WAY offtopic. :P
. . . on March 25, 1954 at a price of $1000 (about $4000 in today's dollars).
:)
Ouch. There's an argument against keeping your retirement savings in bills stuffed in a mattress.
Since the birth of the US, the dollar has depreciated by 95% of its value (that's 2000% inflation). A dollar used to be defined as 1/20th of an ounce of gold, and now it's around $400/oz.
The parents prefer to join the Parents Television Council and make sure other people's kids can't hear profanity rather than watching their own.
:)
If only everyone would mind their own fucking business...
Remember your towel!
YOU've got my vote too. Hell, I'm giving away votes here. :)
Hah. You've got my vote!
That's where the idea came from.
I simply regurgitate.
Holy Rand,
Holy Holy Rand,
Holy Holy Holy!
Yep. It's the Atlas Shrugged failure method. :)
"Who is Bill Gates?"
I have moral issues against eminent domain (as well as against the scenario I described above), but switching to Apple and Linux would not be without cost. There is a lot of labor and training involved, even if the software is free.
Also, MS' shareholders would lose a lot of money either way. Bill would be a much less wealthy man.
I think, actually, Microsoft could do something like that.
"You people are pissed off at us and our 'monopoly?' Fine. You can't have any more Windows. What's more, we're firing all our software engineers, sales and marketing professionals, secretaries, etc. and cashing out our stock."
The US would shit its pants, as would the EU. That'd be thousands of jobs lost, support ended, etc. etc.
I'd be amused.
Dr Trombetti is adamant that a cup of milky coffee could make the ideal start for the next generation of coffee lovers - Italy's drowsy school kids - stimulating their brains ahead of a day that often lasts from 0830 until 1600.
When I wash their age, I wash in shcool from sheven pm the night before to nine pm every shingle day! And I tell you what, shonny, I liked it and didn't need no shtinkin' coffee, no siree! And we didn't have no shtinkin' 24-hour time neither!