Just taking my experience of job hunting just out of college, a CS bach. degree is not that desirable to businesses.
Unless changed in the last few year's, the 'Big 6' liked anything but CS majors. EDS (I know bad example) even went so far as to prefer MUSIC majors. Their argument was that anyone can be taught to code - the 'free thinkers' in the BA degrees were where their employees resided.
Add to that the out-of-country outsourcing (where specific programming disciplines are taught), and a BSCS does not appear to be a good career path, 2 OR 4 years.
50GB available for a game? Unless the games loaded HD video clips directly into the play scenario there seems to be a little excess capacity. IMO, the PS3 game makers would start including videos of the developer, a storyline about the company, music (and music video) clips for the music embedded in the game, web content (even links to 'sponsors'.
Even if the supposed 'proof' email is admissible in court, how much damage can be gained by a port to a different CPU? (PowerPC). Plus, I think the PowerPC AIX development was underway BEFORE r5 (AS400-type machines ran PowerPC chips)
I would think at best a modest fine could be garnered from this.
This announcement was more likely the act of a desperate corporation trying to get their stock out of the basement.
Property 'ownership' should be on physical presence basis. If business A spends $20 billion to create a sustained colony on Mars, then their buildings/development should be respected. If the colony discovers something like oil, they have rights to that oil since they spent the money/effort to get there (Hallimartian - CEO: Dick Cheney's head).
This does not mean the entire planet is theirs.
The sun cannot be 'owned' by anyone (that's 1 helluva Nomex suit if someone can land on the Sun).
One the other hand, if there are indigenous inhabitants (future-speak) found on a planet, they trump the visitors.
I think I did not spell it out far enough (or muddled my thought). You have those that came to vote and the supposed vote tally (R1 and V1). The 'K1' was intended to mean the count of the 'skipped' votes (ex. - did not vote for prez, determined by tracking key presses; if the keys for president were not pressed while voter logged in then counts as a deliberate 'no' vote).
Example (very small area): If 30 people signed in to vote, 14 voted Rep., 14 Democrat, and 2 'non-selects' were determined by the lack of key press on the possible selections, the 30 = 14 + 14 + 2.
If, however, the key tracker determined one of the prez keys was selected but somehow not counted: ERROR. This should NEVER happen and be caught by the verification process and repaired. If not, there is something wrong with the election. Would the count be invalidated? Possibly.
I think that is due to the understanding (Consp. Theory 101) that people create the voting process (machine), and said people can evilly circumvent elections thru somewhat easily obsfuscated design (code).
On the other hand, if a double-logged (and encrypted) system were developed correctly and ethically, paperless voting IS possible, and preferable (hides the vote whilst protecting it).
Unless you watch every vote being counted with your own eyes, theres no guarantee the every vote is counted
I think you meant 'every vote is accurate'.
It is somewhat simple to verify the vote counts. It takes a known voter role R1 (x people signed in to vote), a known keypress count K1 (x people actually pressed 'A' for candidate 1), and a total vote count V1 (x votes for c1 + y votes for c2).
Then if V1 + K1 does not equal R1, ya got an under/overcount.
Now if the keypress for c1 in Broward couny resulted in a vote for c2, the totals would be correct but the vote stolen. This sort of tracking would need the keypresses tied to the actual vote count - possible, but ugly (or butt ugly).
As Diebold has proven, having a private firm develop voting machine code can be detrimental to a democratic society.
More eyes checking on the code will find these problems faster than the machinations of a private corporation. Factor in corporate bias and the potential for 'back door' code is immense.
As cited, the CA elections showed how unusable the current offerings of e-machines are.
The only criteria is if it is easy to use, traceable, and accurate.
I have not seen it implemented - 1 site referenced it but did not require it (had std PayPal/CC).
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As long as opinion is not the dominating factor of the news item.
All of the big media conglomerates seem to have an agenda to obtain/maintain viewership.
Some go for a demographic (ie. - conservative or liberal). Some go for the sensational (Horrible tragedy narrowly averted by patriotic quadriplegic albinos).
For those willing to sift through the personal biases, having a large source of new items is good to discern the actual facts more easily.
Like the story a ways back on the eBay scammer who was also discovered to be fraudulently claiming death benefits (donations).
It may very well be that corporate 'blogs' will be limited in their allowed communication scope - more like a 'look how fun and skilled we are' and 'menu for today' type of things.
With the rampant IP filings (software patents), any real information about a companies offerings could be reworded and patented, thereby forcing a legal battle, which small companies would lose financially (i.e. - 25% of budget to legal fees vs. product research/marketing).
Although it seems a doomed strategy, Sun could be allowing for an internal Linux development path which they could then back-port' to Solaris, allowing Solaris to expand its portfolio.
This would, IMO, backfire since a potential customer would see Linux as the more influential and therefore desirable IT tool.
If software patents are adopted in a country (or co-op like EU), it is more likely governments will shy away from OSS.
Although most patents filed seem to be common practice/prior art, the legal fees associated with fighting these 'illegal' patents seems to be the prohibitive factor.
It's the old 'I know I am right but it would cost more to fight so I am giving in'.
Althought the article does not mention it, it does not seem like the hardware used to accomplish this was all that advanced.
If that is the case, their technology could be implemented in limited population density areas, tying back to the somewhat larger urban areas.
Take for example Iowa. There are many areas over 30 miles from any town larger than 15-30k. Surprisingly enough, these 'large' towns have cable/phone (DSL) access.
So now the remote areas can be wifi attached to the bigger towns/cities and get the faster access (although 11b is not screaming it is better than modem).
A counter measure to this would be 'sniffers' looking for these signals. Program guided warheads/projectiles and you could have a relatively easy kill.
Wonder if these suits will come with an excessive moisture sensor? ("I think Johnson has just entered combat - or is incontinent").
It's about time RP10 came out. Although I did not see a screen shot, the purported UI integration should help it seem more polished. Support for Ogg & AAC are definitely welcome.
Will reserve overall judgement to after the installation and operation of this, however.
The more draconian countries get with 'IP' rules, the less said countries actually innovate. This is similar to the industries monopolized by IP giants.
Take for example the hated SCO. They are so focused on IP litigation that their product line is dying.
Microsoft has the same problem, especially with security provisions. So many have probed the limits of this common OS and since it has not significantly changed in over 6 years, exploits are easy.
What will happen, in the end, is that these countries will become more dependent on other, more flexible ('hungry?') countries for future innovations. And their influence in the world will lessen.
With this connectivity, there would seem to be a need to standardize CPU chip speeds. Otherwise, a multi-CPU system w/disparate chip speeds would need a sophisticated register design to allow the faster chips to 'idle' while the slow one occupies a needed memory address.
If designed, however, this could allow admins to assign quickie chips to the OLTP (or DSS batch loads @ night) systems, and the slower CPUs to the less intensive tasks (like sys admin).
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Just taking my experience of job hunting just out of college, a CS bach. degree is not that desirable to businesses.
Unless changed in the last few year's, the 'Big 6' liked anything but CS majors. EDS (I know bad example) even went so far as to prefer MUSIC majors. Their argument was that anyone can be taught to code - the 'free thinkers' in the BA degrees were where their employees resided.
Add to that the out-of-country outsourcing (where specific programming disciplines are taught), and a BSCS does not appear to be a good career path, 2 OR 4 years.
50GB available for a game? Unless the games loaded HD video clips directly into the play scenario there seems to be a little excess capacity.
IMO, the PS3 game makers would start including videos of the developer, a storyline about the company, music (and music video) clips for the music embedded in the game, web content (even links to 'sponsors'.
A buy-back of 23.2 million shares and 5.6 million options ARE only worth $25.9m?
Sounds like 'Pennies' stock to me.
Even if the supposed 'proof' email is admissible in court, how much damage can be gained by a port to a different CPU? (PowerPC). Plus, I think the PowerPC AIX development was underway BEFORE r5 (AS400-type machines ran PowerPC chips)
I would think at best a modest fine could be garnered from this.
This announcement was more likely the act of a desperate corporation trying to get their stock out of the basement.
Property 'ownership' should be on physical presence basis. If business A spends $20 billion to create a sustained colony on Mars, then their buildings/development should be respected. If the colony discovers something like oil, they have rights to that oil since they spent the money/effort to get there (Hallimartian - CEO: Dick Cheney's head).
This does not mean the entire planet is theirs.
The sun cannot be 'owned' by anyone (that's 1 helluva Nomex suit if someone can land on the Sun).
One the other hand, if there are indigenous inhabitants (future-speak) found on a planet, they trump the visitors.
Where's Batman?
I think I did not spell it out far enough (or muddled my thought). You have those that came to vote and the supposed vote tally (R1 and V1). The 'K1' was intended to mean the count of the 'skipped' votes (ex. - did not vote for prez, determined by tracking key presses; if the keys for president were not pressed while voter logged in then counts as a deliberate 'no' vote) .
Example (very small area): If 30 people signed in to vote, 14 voted Rep., 14 Democrat, and 2 'non-selects' were determined by the lack of key press on the possible selections, the 30 = 14 + 14 + 2.
If, however, the key tracker determined one of the prez keys was selected but somehow not counted: ERROR. This should NEVER happen and be caught by the verification process and repaired. If not, there is something wrong with the election. Would the count be invalidated? Possibly.
I think that is due to the understanding (Consp. Theory 101) that people create the voting process (machine), and said people can evilly circumvent elections thru somewhat easily obsfuscated design (code).
On the other hand, if a double-logged (and encrypted) system were developed correctly and ethically, paperless voting IS possible, and preferable (hides the vote whilst protecting it).
Unless you watch every vote being counted with your own eyes, theres no guarantee the every vote is counted
I think you meant 'every vote is accurate'.
It is somewhat simple to verify the vote counts. It takes a known voter role R1 (x people signed in to vote), a known keypress count K1 (x people actually pressed 'A' for candidate 1), and a total vote count V1 (x votes for c1 + y votes for c2).
Then if V1 + K1 does not equal R1, ya got an under/overcount.
Now if the keypress for c1 in Broward couny resulted in a vote for c2, the totals would be correct but the vote stolen. This sort of tracking would need the keypresses tied to the actual vote count - possible, but ugly (or butt ugly).
As Diebold has proven, having a private firm develop voting machine code can be detrimental to a democratic society.
More eyes checking on the code will find these problems faster than the machinations of a private corporation. Factor in corporate bias and the potential for 'back door' code is immense.
As cited, the CA elections showed how unusable the current offerings of e-machines are.
The only criteria is if it is easy to use, traceable, and accurate.
With the lengthy delivery date, NWN2 seems to be allowing for design into one or more of the future game consoles.
Or they just got the storyline done now.
If it is the former then there is a huge risk in console delivery delays. If it is the latter: 'Get Crackin, dammit!!!'
They should be using XNA - they'd be done by now!!!
I have not seen it implemented - 1 site referenced it but did not require it (had std PayPal/CC).
As long as opinion is not the dominating factor of the news item.
All of the big media conglomerates seem to have an agenda to obtain/maintain viewership.
Some go for a demographic (ie. - conservative or liberal). Some go for the sensational (Horrible tragedy narrowly averted by patriotic quadriplegic albinos).
For those willing to sift through the personal biases, having a large source of new items is good to discern the actual facts more easily.
Like the story a ways back on the eBay scammer who was also discovered to be fraudulently claiming death benefits (donations).
1) Requested entry of information the consumer would not wish to give out.
2) Constant re-entry of personal information which would be freely given by the consumer.
Issue 1 is best handled with a pseudonym ('I am Dash Riprock').
Issue 2 is the current holy grail for the online business and consumer. MS has Passport, and the others have the Liberty Alliance.
You Choose (viva libre!!!)
It may very well be that corporate 'blogs' will be limited in their allowed communication scope - more like a 'look how fun and skilled we are' and 'menu for today' type of things.
With the rampant IP filings (software patents), any real information about a companies offerings could be reworded and patented, thereby forcing a legal battle, which small companies would lose financially (i.e. - 25% of budget to legal fees vs. product research/marketing).
If ground-squirrel hibernation is similar to bear hibernation, only fat people could be sent. They would then wake up many dozens of pounds lighter.
'Try the new NASA diet. Just sleep the pounds (and your life) away'.
Although it seems a doomed strategy, Sun could be allowing for an internal Linux development path which they could then back-port' to Solaris, allowing Solaris to expand its portfolio.
This would, IMO, backfire since a potential customer would see Linux as the more influential and therefore desirable IT tool.
If software patents are adopted in a country (or co-op like EU), it is more likely governments will shy away from OSS.
Although most patents filed seem to be common practice/prior art, the legal fees associated with fighting these 'illegal' patents seems to be the prohibitive factor.
It's the old 'I know I am right but it would cost more to fight so I am giving in'.
Althought the article does not mention it, it does not seem like the hardware used to accomplish this was all that advanced.
If that is the case, their technology could be implemented in limited population density areas, tying back to the somewhat larger urban areas.
Take for example Iowa. There are many areas over 30 miles from any town larger than 15-30k.
Surprisingly enough, these 'large' towns have cable/phone (DSL) access.
So now the remote areas can be wifi attached to the bigger towns/cities and get the faster access (although 11b is not screaming it is better than modem).
Is it that Doom has gathered up the minions to unleash the chaos of open source?
"Mary Cheney - I am your father; Quit doing that with other women"
Announcer: Not that there's anything wrong with that.
A counter measure to this would be 'sniffers' looking for these signals. Program guided warheads/projectiles and you could have a relatively easy kill.
Wonder if these suits will come with an excessive moisture sensor? ("I think Johnson has just entered combat - or is incontinent").
It's about time RP10 came out. Although I did not see a screen shot, the purported UI integration should help it seem more polished. Support for Ogg & AAC are definitely welcome.
Will reserve overall judgement to after the installation and operation of this, however.
The more draconian countries get with 'IP' rules, the less said countries actually innovate. This is similar to the industries monopolized by IP giants.
Take for example the hated SCO. They are so focused on IP litigation that their product line is dying.
Microsoft has the same problem, especially with security provisions. So many have probed the limits of this common OS and since it has not significantly changed in over 6 years, exploits are easy.
What will happen, in the end, is that these countries will become more dependent on other, more flexible ('hungry?') countries for future innovations. And their influence in the world will lessen.
With this connectivity, there would seem to be a need to standardize CPU chip speeds. Otherwise, a multi-CPU system w/disparate chip speeds would need a sophisticated register design to allow the faster chips to 'idle' while the slow one occupies a needed memory address.
If designed, however, this could allow admins to assign quickie chips to the OLTP (or DSS batch loads @ night) systems, and the slower CPUs to the less intensive tasks (like sys admin).