These "CEO raise" stats are always BS, because the compensation they're based on is mostly from exercised stock options in good years, which goes away in bad years. It's not like the boards of directors are rewarding CEO's for outsourcing, its more like the market is rewarding their companies for being successful in their businesses (and thus raising their stock prices). This is how it should be in a free market, liberal whining notwithstanding.
Also, they identified three big gainers out of their pool of 50 leading outsourcers, and those three account for a big chunk of the increase (including Oracle CEO Ellison whose "compensation" went up 103,000 percent from roughly zero to about $40 million; I'm sure basically all of it was due to stock market changes).
In an interview with French TV magazine Télé 7 Jour, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas said that he had no intentions of creating a third trilogy to his popular franchise, even though that's what he had originally intended to do.
Unfortunately, some problems are particularly unsuitable for clusters of commercial computers, and really benefit from specialized architectures such as shared memory or vector processors.
My guess is that most of these problems could be done massively parallel, it's just harder to program (and thus hasn't been pursued yet). You can buy a lot of programmer-years for $10 million, though, and unlike a big vector mainframe purchase, you can share the results if you spend the money on software development instead.
The surprising thing about this is that there are still companies making big-iron vector supercomputers. I worked in this industry from about 1980 to 1995, and when I left it was dying already. Even then, the majority of scientific computer users would rather have their own mini or microcomputer than get a small share of some behemoth Cray mainframe. It provided them more flexibility, and if they can use it 24 hours per day it also was more effective.
For things like weather forecasting, maybe big vector machines still have an edge, but I suspect that's changing as the weather guys get more experience in using machines with large numbers of micros. This seems to have already occurred, in fact; NCAR
appears to have mostly IBM RS6000 and SGI computers these days, with nary a Cray in sight.
The most common term I used to hear in the early 90's was Killer Micros; I think the term dates back David Bailey in the 80's sometime. If you want more evidence that the death of the supercomputer has been going on for a long time, check out The Dead Supercomputer Society, which lists dozens of failed companies and projects over the years; this page was apparently last updated 6 years ago!
Those wily hackers will find out who Kerry's running mate is going to be!
Or even worse, they'll find out the key planks in the Democrats platforms!
What, exactly, does Hiawatha think the hackers are going to steal, anyway? Are there any secrets of interest at this convention?
When I was skiing last winter, it occurred to me that you can draw OS preferences are kind of like snow-riding equipment preferences:
Windows users are alpine skiers. They're the most common, they're generally well-behaved and not big risk-takers, and they're looked down on by the other groups. They also tend to crash a lot. Grandma is an alpine skier.
Linux users are snowboarders. They tend to be younger, out-of-control, risk-takers, they don't really crash as much, and they annoy the skiers (for no good reason, they're just annoying). Teenage boys with eyebrow piercings are snowboarders.
Mac users are telemark skiers. They aren't as adventurous as the snowboarders, and they have more in common with the skiers, but they also have this smooth, sophisticated sheen of coolness about them that neither of the other two groups have. Barbara Streisand is probably a telemarker.
Tele skiers get invited to the highest-class parties; snowboarders throw the best parties; alpine skiers have to get the kids in bed because there's school tomorrow.:)
ROTK STARTED at 3 and a half hours... How long is the *extended* edition going to be!?!
I'd be happy if it were about 15 minutes shorter (remove the going-to-the-ships ending, for starters), but I guess I can always hit the skip button on my DVD remote to get the same effect.
Last October, there was a NATO conference held at a hotel three miles from my house. For most of the week they were here, my garage opener didn't work. Once the conference was over, it started working again. This was documented
here, among other places.
Apparently you don't need your tinfoil hat any more, as the government will jam the thought-control rays for you (at least when important officials are in town).
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And where does the RIAA factor into this?
Also, they identified three big gainers out of their pool of 50 leading outsourcers, and those three account for a big chunk of the increase (including Oracle CEO Ellison whose "compensation" went up 103,000 percent from roughly zero to about $40 million; I'm sure basically all of it was due to stock market changes).
FYI, I'm voting for Kerry.
I don't know about you, but I don't consider Microsoft a "well-meaning friend"!
Has anybody ever gotten a virus from an infected CD?
Check out this September 2001 quote from Rotten Tomatoes:
In an interview with French TV magazine Télé 7 Jour, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas said that he had no intentions of creating a third trilogy to his popular franchise, even though that's what he had originally intended to do.
Funny how a post titled "Interesting" can be rated funny!
I've got a bad feeling about this...
I want an online replacement for my web browser. Even Firefox takes too much memory on my PC.
I believe the spelling you want is "phallusy".
Steve the SuperVillain has one!
b) Maybe the sloc counter didn't recognize Perl comments, so it overcounted lines. Wait, Perl programs never have comments.
c) Does this make it "a Perl of great price"?
My guess is that most of these problems could be done massively parallel, it's just harder to program (and thus hasn't been pursued yet). You can buy a lot of programmer-years for $10 million, though, and unlike a big vector mainframe purchase, you can share the results if you spend the money on software development instead.
For things like weather forecasting, maybe big vector machines still have an edge, but I suspect that's changing as the weather guys get more experience in using machines with large numbers of micros. This seems to have already occurred, in fact; NCAR appears to have mostly IBM RS6000 and SGI computers these days, with nary a Cray in sight.
The most common term I used to hear in the early 90's was Killer Micros; I think the term dates back David Bailey in the 80's sometime. If you want more evidence that the death of the supercomputer has been going on for a long time, check out The Dead Supercomputer Society, which lists dozens of failed companies and projects over the years; this page was apparently last updated 6 years ago!
Those wily hackers will find out who Kerry's running mate is going to be! Or even worse, they'll find out the key planks in the Democrats platforms! What, exactly, does Hiawatha think the hackers are going to steal, anyway? Are there any secrets of interest at this convention?
Windows users are alpine skiers. They're the most common, they're generally well-behaved and not big risk-takers, and they're looked down on by the other groups. They also tend to crash a lot. Grandma is an alpine skier.
Linux users are snowboarders. They tend to be younger, out-of-control, risk-takers, they don't really crash as much, and they annoy the skiers (for no good reason, they're just annoying). Teenage boys with eyebrow piercings are snowboarders.
Mac users are telemark skiers. They aren't as adventurous as the snowboarders, and they have more in common with the skiers, but they also have this smooth, sophisticated sheen of coolness about them that neither of the other two groups have. Barbara Streisand is probably a telemarker.
Tele skiers get invited to the highest-class parties; snowboarders throw the best parties; alpine skiers have to get the kids in bed because there's school tomorrow. :)
The system requirements include IE and DirectX, as well as Windows. For security reasons, there's no way I'm going to touch this thing.
Shouldn't that be DKOP? (I know, the K jokes have been beaten to a pulp already...)
I'd be happy if it were about 15 minutes shorter (remove the going-to-the-ships ending, for starters), but I guess I can always hit the skip button on my DVD remote to get the same effect.
Microsoft? Boeing? Amazon? Could you be more specific here?
Apparently you don't need your tinfoil hat any more, as the government will jam the thought-control rays for you (at least when important officials are in town).
Also, that stuff will rot your teeth. Everybody with a mother knows that.
Science News is an excellent source for recent stories about science-related topics (even better than Slashdot most of the time, I think :).
Surely an XML database would be able to handle this. After all, XML fixes everything!
I want to know how to run a gnutella server on my iPod.
Yes, I read it. Did you? (hint: read the whole entry.