Thanks AC, my name is Michael Woods, I have an MBA from Northwestern University and I currently consult Midwest Eye Professionals, EyeGrads and four small eye doctor's offices on the southside of Chicago. It might be a different sector, but the ideas are still the same. Next time, if your opinion is going to make you sound like an idiot, keep to yourself.
I'm not going to get into an involved response, but had they opted for Celerons rather than Opterons, the time would have been much, much greater, start at any level you want and the Opteron is a better processor for this job.
Let's seriously think about this, the Germans, if anything, lost money on this excursion, they upped an bought 80 opteron processors with the hardware required to run them and the RAM needed, they pumped electricity into the building where this heavy processing was taking place, and they paid the people running the computers... all for $30,000 - fees, customs, taxes and such... if anything, they probably lost a substantial sum.
I think that's really cool and would wish them the best of luck, but I would like to know how many processor hours that took them to crack it? Also, with that chunky $30,000 reward, did they turn any profit (after taxes, fees, and such). Second one's a joke, calm down. But it'd be cool to know the processor time it took.
I used to work in IT at my university (it was like the defacto thing for CS majors to do for some reason... guess they didn't know CS majors didn't know a damn thing about information technology). Anyway, I remember getting this one call where this one sorority girl calls up (i saw the name of the sorority house on the phone) and I picked up the phone and said what is in the subject line above. And she says to me "my Internet is down" and (this was during a scheduled downtime) i said "yes, along with everyone else's on campus" and she says "well i hope you talk to everyone like that" and i said " well, i hope you have the deed for "your Internet" in your hands right now. Seriously, why do people refer to things on their computer like "my aim," "my internet," "my little blinky light that you can only see if you look at it from a weird angle"... i mean, if it's not hardware (i know, the hdd light is, but it was a funny example) how is it really your's... especially if it's "your internet." and that's why i threw a red stapler right into the screen of a brand-new compaq R3000... i got to keep the computer after they made me pay $1500 for it...
To be honest, I think this could happen very soon and I both think and hope that the Supreme Court will be on the side of free speech. Everyone in the United States has a right to free speech, but we also have consequences to bear for taking out freedom of speech too far, in public schools I imagine there will be fewer to no free speech restrictions. However, in private schools, I think they will put a harsh ban on violating their rules if they have any. I imagine that few (private) schools will actually enact AND progressively enforce these rules, but if they do, the punishment will be harsh, like suspension if the pupil does it twice, and expulsion for a third offense. Naturally, the first time will just be a nice "please take the site down NOW." This topic has me baffled, still, my personal belief is that everybody should have the right to free speech, especially when it's approiate, and bad-mouthing one's school (in many cases) is not only normal, it's almost expected for students at some schools, and if a school is so bad that more than 25% of the students express extreme dislike, I also think the school should re-evaluate its priorities.
The parent's parent's poster's handle was BWJones, I find it simply hilarious that you are in support of what the parent's parent is saying yet you seem to be making fun of him... "Bob Jones University" versus "BWJones"
Let's think about this. These programmers aren't "jury-rig[ging]" code to work, they take a program that is relatively simple and make it as hard to read as possible. One of the points of the competition is to make your code difficult to read, which is a hard enough task to do, trust me. Reading obfuscated code is quite difficult, as I'm sure you would agree, but don't you think being able to both write and read obfuscated code might actually have some programming value? I've had to debug some people's weird stuff in the past and I honestly thing if I could write something like I've seen even beginning CS students write (and they make it work [let's take something really simple, like a doubly linked list]) I think I'd be a better programmer. To the example, a doubly linked list is really easy to write, right.... (hopefully)... anyway, let's tell a student who just got out of an syntax class to write a doubly linked list and only give him what functions we expect, still very simple functions. And let's give him or her two weeks to do it. With what I've seen, students will actually get something to work, it will be very messed up and probably have horrible timing, but it will work. Also, as I'm leading to, it would be extremely hard to read, he or she might not make it easy on him or herself, he or she may not know many of the tricks to do this, but it will work, every function and every variable will work. If we translate this into a higher level and tell an MS of computer science to write a dissertation, they will probably have a highly functional program that will be very hard to read and explain (even for the grad student), but might be the beginning to something great. Being able to read badly developed code can have it's advantages.
I've been attending private institutions all my life and I intent to have my children go to similar institutions. I agree that a catholic school can make a rule that says a personal website is not permited, but there can be no legal repercussions should he student violate this rule, the very worst the [Catholic or private] institution could do would be to permanately remove the pupil from their institution. Guess that's nothing new...
Does anyone remember that big deal that happened in New York where students were told not to start personal websites (MySpace and the like). Here, I found the Slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/25/235524 3&tid=95 Now, I know one can make the argument that these are different situations, but they both deal with a school's right to compel their students to change what they do outside of school, specifically on the Internet. The other large difference is that this is a public school and the other school was Catholic, but this really shouldn't matter outside of school. Schools should have no right, Catholic or public, to compel their students to take down personal blogs, much less self-maintained websites. To add another two cents to my already tall stack, a middle school should be encouraging the growth of a mind who has already written and maintained his own website before he turned 15, just eight years ago this student probably would have been considered nothing less than a genius and encouraged, no matter the contense of the site... just my two cents...
Well, you know your karma and what your mod says your post is worth is your worth as a person... Need I refer to:
"Why is my karma not what I expect?
If you've been moderating or posting, your karma will likely fluctuate a little as you are moderated or metamoderate. Don't worry about it; this is normal. Please remember that this is just a number in a database that helps us determine who gets selected as a moderator. It doesn't determine your IQ or your value as a human being. It's simply not a big deal."
Oh, I guess it's NOT your value as a human being, my bad.
Grant it, it'd be cool to have a greater amount of choice when choosing a platform, but the IA32 ISA is pretty well locked as the standard, and looking into the future with the "Apple Switch," the standard is going to stick, anyway, what's wrong with the IA32/x85 architecture. I can think of several reasons, but seeing as how embedded the architecture is in society and business, a change to a new architecture (preferably one that doesn't have it's roots in really old technology, like the x86 does) would take years, if not decades. Just a little warning, IA32 is here to stay, and if you're a developer or EE, then it seems preferable to stick with the current standard.
This doesn't really surprise me, AMD has outdone Intel in most (nearly all) benchmarks in the past, this is just continuing the trend, it's cool, though, to know AMD keeps beating out the deeper pockets of Intel.
What kind of grape and what kind of watermelon? Let's take a look at this, though. Yes, Dell is still making more money than Apple, but let's talk relitively. Apple's PC base isn't nearly as large as Dell's, henceforth, Apple makes fewer computers and spends less money, also. Both are reputable companies, but (currently) fiscally, Apple is having a greater amount of success. It's really easier to look at in terms of fractions. In this end, as a business, Apple is having a greater amount of success then Dell.
I know what you mean, but I believe you should be saying "Does it run on linux?" [other mistakes not corrected, I would write it as "Does it run on GNU/Linux?" How this was modded insightful, I'll never understand.
Is it revolving around the black hole counter-clockwise like in america or clockwise like in australia?... wait, guess it depends on how you look at it... but seriously, since it is revolving around the black hole, does that mean it is slowly being sucked in?
I'm not a big roleplayer, but I did used to dabble in WOTC's MTG when I was a youngun and I've noticed that MTG probably led me to my fate as a computer scientist... which led me to be a home-brewer, too, both (back to MTH and computer science) required a good amout of logic, even though the types of logic and rules differ and do so on different levels, they still require you to think what's to come in the future and how everything will interplay with everything else, all of which is very logical. I can't help but wonder what the people who are saying "programmers have no life" do for a living, are you extreeeeeme snowboarders that skateboard on each other's back and get paid for it?
After student loans and other such fiscal treasures, I'd be happy to sell my identity to one of these places that sells it to other people... so, where do I sign up?
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Thanks AC, my name is Michael Woods, I have an MBA from Northwestern University and I currently consult Midwest Eye Professionals, EyeGrads and four small eye doctor's offices on the southside of Chicago. It might be a different sector, but the ideas are still the same. Next time, if your opinion is going to make you sound like an idiot, keep to yourself.
Like in academics, athletics, and and other competition, there should be no prize for second place.
I'm not going to get into an involved response, but had they opted for Celerons rather than Opterons, the time would have been much, much greater, start at any level you want and the Opteron is a better processor for this job.
Let's seriously think about this, the Germans, if anything, lost money on this excursion, they upped an bought 80 opteron processors with the hardware required to run them and the RAM needed, they pumped electricity into the building where this heavy processing was taking place, and they paid the people running the computers... all for $30,000 - fees, customs, taxes and such... if anything, they probably lost a substantial sum.
I think that's really cool and would wish them the best of luck, but I would like to know how many processor hours that took them to crack it? Also, with that chunky $30,000 reward, did they turn any profit (after taxes, fees, and such). Second one's a joke, calm down. But it'd be cool to know the processor time it took.
I used to work in IT at my university (it was like the defacto thing for CS majors to do for some reason... guess they didn't know CS majors didn't know a damn thing about information technology). Anyway, I remember getting this one call where this one sorority girl calls up (i saw the name of the sorority house on the phone) and I picked up the phone and said what is in the subject line above. And she says to me "my Internet is down" and (this was during a scheduled downtime) i said "yes, along with everyone else's on campus" and she says "well i hope you talk to everyone like that" and i said " well, i hope you have the deed for "your Internet" in your hands right now. Seriously, why do people refer to things on their computer like "my aim," "my internet," "my little blinky light that you can only see if you look at it from a weird angle"... i mean, if it's not hardware (i know, the hdd light is, but it was a funny example) how is it really your's... especially if it's "your internet." and that's why i threw a red stapler right into the screen of a brand-new compaq R3000... i got to keep the computer after they made me pay $1500 for it...
To be honest, I think this could happen very soon and I both think and hope that the Supreme Court will be on the side of free speech. Everyone in the United States has a right to free speech, but we also have consequences to bear for taking out freedom of speech too far, in public schools I imagine there will be fewer to no free speech restrictions. However, in private schools, I think they will put a harsh ban on violating their rules if they have any. I imagine that few (private) schools will actually enact AND progressively enforce these rules, but if they do, the punishment will be harsh, like suspension if the pupil does it twice, and expulsion for a third offense. Naturally, the first time will just be a nice "please take the site down NOW." This topic has me baffled, still, my personal belief is that everybody should have the right to free speech, especially when it's approiate, and bad-mouthing one's school (in many cases) is not only normal, it's almost expected for students at some schools, and if a school is so bad that more than 25% of the students express extreme dislike, I also think the school should re-evaluate its priorities.
The parent's parent's poster's handle was BWJones, I find it simply hilarious that you are in support of what the parent's parent is saying yet you seem to be making fun of him... "Bob Jones University" versus "BWJones"
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Let's think about this. These programmers aren't "jury-rig[ging]" code to work, they take a program that is relatively simple and make it as hard to read as possible. One of the points of the competition is to make your code difficult to read, which is a hard enough task to do, trust me. Reading obfuscated code is quite difficult, as I'm sure you would agree, but don't you think being able to both write and read obfuscated code might actually have some programming value? I've had to debug some people's weird stuff in the past and I honestly thing if I could write something like I've seen even beginning CS students write (and they make it work [let's take something really simple, like a doubly linked list]) I think I'd be a better programmer. To the example, a doubly linked list is really easy to write, right.... (hopefully)... anyway, let's tell a student who just got out of an syntax class to write a doubly linked list and only give him what functions we expect, still very simple functions. And let's give him or her two weeks to do it. With what I've seen, students will actually get something to work, it will be very messed up and probably have horrible timing, but it will work. Also, as I'm leading to, it would be extremely hard to read, he or she might not make it easy on him or herself, he or she may not know many of the tricks to do this, but it will work, every function and every variable will work. If we translate this into a higher level and tell an MS of computer science to write a dissertation, they will probably have a highly functional program that will be very hard to read and explain (even for the grad student), but might be the beginning to something great. Being able to read badly developed code can have it's advantages.
I've been attending private institutions all my life and I intent to have my children go to similar institutions. I agree that a catholic school can make a rule that says a personal website is not permited, but there can be no legal repercussions should he student violate this rule, the very worst the [Catholic or private] institution could do would be to permanately remove the pupil from their institution. Guess that's nothing new...
Does anyone remember that big deal that happened in New York where students were told not to start personal websites (MySpace and the like). Here, I found the Slashdot article:4 3&tid=95
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/25/23552
Now, I know one can make the argument that these are different situations, but they both deal with a school's right to compel their students to change what they do outside of school, specifically on the Internet. The other large difference is that this is a public school and the other school was Catholic, but this really shouldn't matter outside of school. Schools should have no right, Catholic or public, to compel their students to take down personal blogs, much less self-maintained websites. To add another two cents to my already tall stack, a middle school should be encouraging the growth of a mind who has already written and maintained his own website before he turned 15, just eight years ago this student probably would have been considered nothing less than a genius and encouraged, no matter the contense of the site... just my two cents...
Maybe one of the pixels graduated to becming a "gangsta"? While the rest are all just "thugs" tryin' to keep up da image, yo!
Well, you know your karma and what your mod says your post is worth is your worth as a person... Need I refer to:
"Why is my karma not what I expect? If you've been moderating or posting, your karma will likely fluctuate a little as you are moderated or metamoderate. Don't worry about it; this is normal. Please remember that this is just a number in a database that helps us determine who gets selected as a moderator. It doesn't determine your IQ or your value as a human being. It's simply not a big deal."
Oh, I guess it's NOT your value as a human being, my bad.
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml
Grant it, it'd be cool to have a greater amount of choice when choosing a platform, but the IA32 ISA is pretty well locked as the standard, and looking into the future with the "Apple Switch," the standard is going to stick, anyway, what's wrong with the IA32/x85 architecture. I can think of several reasons, but seeing as how embedded the architecture is in society and business, a change to a new architecture (preferably one that doesn't have it's roots in really old technology, like the x86 does) would take years, if not decades. Just a little warning, IA32 is here to stay, and if you're a developer or EE, then it seems preferable to stick with the current standard.
This doesn't really surprise me, AMD has outdone Intel in most (nearly all) benchmarks in the past, this is just continuing the trend, it's cool, though, to know AMD keeps beating out the deeper pockets of Intel.
Yea, I gues my MBA and my 35 years' experience as a consultant are useless when it comes to evaluating a business, you're right, you always are...
What kind of grape and what kind of watermelon? Let's take a look at this, though. Yes, Dell is still making more money than Apple, but let's talk relitively. Apple's PC base isn't nearly as large as Dell's, henceforth, Apple makes fewer computers and spends less money, also. Both are reputable companies, but (currently) fiscally, Apple is having a greater amount of success. It's really easier to look at in terms of fractions. In this end, as a business, Apple is having a greater amount of success then Dell.
I have no clue what the hell that means...
I know what you mean, but I believe you should be saying "Does it run on linux?" [other mistakes not corrected, I would write it as "Does it run on GNU/Linux?" How this was modded insightful, I'll never understand.
Is it revolving around the black hole counter-clockwise like in america or clockwise like in australia?... wait, guess it depends on how you look at it... but seriously, since it is revolving around the black hole, does that mean it is slowly being sucked in?
I'm not a big roleplayer, but I did used to dabble in WOTC's MTG when I was a youngun and I've noticed that MTG probably led me to my fate as a computer scientist... which led me to be a home-brewer, too, both (back to MTH and computer science) required a good amout of logic, even though the types of logic and rules differ and do so on different levels, they still require you to think what's to come in the future and how everything will interplay with everything else, all of which is very logical. I can't help but wonder what the people who are saying "programmers have no life" do for a living, are you extreeeeeme snowboarders that skateboard on each other's back and get paid for it?
You'll get what to write code?
By God, a troll on slashdot, I sure hope he doesn't want the sherry and muffins I'm taking to grandmother's house tomorrow!
After student loans and other such fiscal treasures, I'd be happy to sell my identity to one of these places that sells it to other people... so, where do I sign up?