Well for "_instanly_ hot" you might just not need a girlfriend but pay $50 to someone on the corner. It is kind of like eating Taco Bell instead of fine cuisine that takes longer to prepare. You get it fast and quick but then you feel sick for a long time. With a girlfriend you need millions, coffee, chocolates, flowers and time but then you might find someone to be with you for the rest of your life.
Well, I didn't have millions, my girlfriend (now wife) luckily for me overlooked that requirement.
It does. But in addition to the coffee mug you need movie tickets, a box of chocolates and sometimes flowers.
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I doesn't surprise me but I feel somewhat sad. I used to work for a CAD/CAE company that used SGI as their primary development platform. We had a couple of nice quad R12000 servers with 2Gb or ram back in 2000 to do the nightly builds and CAE solving on. And everyone had an SGI on their desk. I have grown to like it, but I could tell that at home with a linux box that was 10 times as cheap to build as the price of my SGI workstation at work, I could get about the same processing power.
I do remember the nice smooth graphics even when I was rotating a 500Mb CAE model.
The best thing that SGI did that is still valueble is release XFS to be used in Linux...
What are ordinary people going to do with 100Mpbs next year that they have such a difficulty doing now?
I am not talking about Slashdotters who will put spinners on their Cable Modems and will overclock the cpu to the limit, but about ordinary people who still only use their computer to look at web pages and write email. Will 100Mbps provide 50x better experience than 2Mbps? I would rather them lower the cost by at least by 50% that would be much better.
Older computers that run Windows 98 that a lot of people still use, probably can't even handle a consistent 100Mbps stream.
Because by default the router broadcasts its openness and availability inviting connection from other systems that by default might be looking for an open wireless router.
It is "open" and not just "passively open" as in "left the door unlocked" it is open as in "there is a big sign saying, please come inside." If you want to stick to just the electronic data transmission, imagine that one day your neighbour drops a cat5 cable on your front porch with a note that says "free internet". Then you use it, then he calls the cops and says, "he is stealing, just like he would be stealing my copy of windows, please jail him, kill his family and kick his dog"
The police of course, didn't have their doughnuts that day, have a low blood sugar and are ready to beat up and throw in jail anyone who looks at them the wrong way, especially terrorists like the guy who used his neighbours wi-fi network. (it goes without saying he was chatting with Osama all that time).
Ok...I think I got carried way there on the last paragraph but you get the idea.
For a short term I would agree that low-level technical superiority doesn't always mean better end-user experience, but that is only in short term. In the long term CDMA offers more room for improvement and it uses the bandwidth more efficiently than GSM. The next generation of mobile technology that is being developed will be based off CDMA. What that means is that if the Europeans and other GSM-locked countries will want to evolve they'll have to pay to replace all their infrastructure and one way or another they'll push that onto the end-user.
But of course that is not way I got Verizon, I got because it was cheaper and more reliable in my area. In two years I would have no problem switching to T-Mobile or Cingular -- or whoever has cheaper+better service.
Pretty soon Jimmy the roach will be driving you to work every morning and picking up your kids from school. All it wants in return is some garbage and cartboard to poop on.
The lack of Java 5.0 support was a turn-off for me.
Netbeans had that for quite a while, and I happen to be fond of those new features (such as autoboxing and generics) and don't want them flagged as errors by the editor. So as powerful as Eclipse was, I switched to Netbeans 4.1 and I am liking it, don't think I'll switch back any time soon.
This shows how irrational and stupid thinking can win against common sense even on large scales, such as national policy. What about US -- they have not built too many reactors since the mid 80s. Chernobyl scare combined with leftover fear of the cold war nuclear appocalipse didn't help, but one would think people who make such decisions will act rationally.
if they can produce a better antivirus then all those companies then probably all of them will go the way Netscape went, but as of now many of those companies are ahead in terms of performance, accuracy and management+administration optiona than this sybary or whatever its called - that I've never heard of before.
How about just Walmart making everyone sign a waiver or some kind of agreement then they are off the hook. Companies already do that "everything you do or think while working for us - belongs to us", so Walmart can have "everything you shoot will belong to us" agreement. If someone is a professional though, I doubt they will be using Walmart in the first place...
Where are they getting the terabytes of storage that this requires and the throughput. They will probably dump the costs onto the users and also there will be a slowdown in connection speeds.
Big net companies that manage the Internet backbone already do some of this as part of the industrial espionage strategy (="We'll route your traffic for you but we also get too look at it").
Sorry but that his how the media works too. If someone kills 100 people in China or Africa, there might be a little story at the bottom of CNN's web page, or a little 3 second segment on TV about it. But if someone captures a cute blond-haired girl from the American suburbs, all the media outlets will jump on the story, make it front page, people will start having candle light vigils, it will be the topic of the week on Oprah and all that stuff.
I am wondering if an African American little girl would be kidnapped would that make front page news? Or are lives of the people in Darfur somehow worth less? Anyway just a thought, probably will get modded as a troll or offtopic...
I just saying what I accomplished, being proud of what I did is not being arogant. Putting others down at the same time is, which I didn't think I did. So if a doctor displays their Harvard diploma on the wall, are they being arrogant?
The point of the thread was that you don't have to have college degree, just like Steve Jobs, but the fact is that it will be much harder for you to be professional out of highschool. Everyone I know that dropped out, didn't make it past fast food - gas station - bank clerk type jobs. And I think that is true on the average.
If you didn't have to go to college and still be successful nobody would go to college then, trust me, people wouldn't spend tens of thousands and years of their lives if it didn't, on average, translate to better pay or a better job.
Using Bill Gates or Steve Jobs as an example, you might as well advise people to play the lottery, they have a better chance of being successful at that than becoming the next "Larry Ellison" in the business world.
I was in a way "luckier" I grew up poor in a comunist country, my mom only went to school for 7 years then was forced to work in the fields. Often we couldn't afford extravagant food (like meat!) and clothes, you'd be surprized how that motivates someone. So ever since I was 12 I was already motivated and focused on going to a good college, now many years later I am in US, graduated college here with Summa Cum Laude, and now go to graduate school - not bad.
I also coudn't tollerate people whining about how its tough for them to have some much homework that they cannot party as much as they want or that daddy didn't buy them a car for their birthday. Too bad many kids are not taught to appreciate what they have - I learned the hard way and I am not sure there is an easy way though.
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The source code is there for comfort and security (no not real data security - just emotional), you know like a blanky. I know its there and I know I can look at it if I want, even though I never do.
The fact that the code is available also means that the product can be developed by others if the original auther drops it. I think given the choice of two similar products most would choose the one that has the open source available.
If he could actually pulversize the water and spray it into the air then somehow remove it so his room doesn't drenched, he might have a much more efficient system. I saw something like that on sale somewhere - basically a fan with a hose attached to it, it is good to put by the pool in the summer or in the backyard, clearly not in the house. That is how some of those huge heat excangers for large HVAC stations work. Water absorbs heat when it evaporates, in this guy's case water only exchanges heat with the air through the small area of the tubing. Not very efficient, might as well start the shower in the bathroom and make sure it sprays a fine mist and let it drain in the bathtub, then put fans in the dorway. No need to spend any money to build, is more efficient, but still gotta pay for the water bill.
That's exaclty what I don't want. Equal opportunity and affirmative action are often just reverse discrimination and racism. I saw some "affirmative action" African American students that where accepted with a full ride scholarships into the computer science program at my university and they all dropped out by the first year. I would rather see that money go to someone who really wanted and was qualified.
In the workplace though people who are hired just to be some kinds of mascots linger around and waste company's money for years, because they are often not qualified and everyone has to do their job. Some, as I saw at my company, are even promoted into management by the higher-ups just so they can satisfy their "diversity" needs.
One of my other "favorites" is when there is only one Asian or African American in largely white, middle-class "yuppies" company you can bet that person's picture is going to make it onto the website and onto the company's marketing brochures.
These sort of things always reduce to the problem or natural language processing and recognition. The question that is really asked is "Can computers understand human language and act accordingly?" that is not new and it has been the topic of research for decades. To answer a natural language query, the system has to have common sense among other things (stuff that everyone of us knows and we know that others know it). When we ask the computer a question most of the time we assume the computer has the same common knowledge that we have and that is a problem.
It is better to teach people instead to use the existing search and teach them a small query language (think of Google's link: define: site: modifiers) than to teach the computer human language (we certainly don't want it to because it might become aware of itself and see us humans for who we are, then it will either want to destroy us or destroy itself out of frustration;)
I agree that's what happens. I am not saying whether it's the right attitude, but those with piercings and tatoos and other stuff like that are seen as immature, not serious, social outcasts. If anything they would probably have difficulty fitting into a team and will be known as the 'freak'. But at the same time, if they are the only person who invented some very cool algorithm or are just very good at something, they will hire him/her even if they has carvings on their face.
But this leads me to another topic. What about the people with disabilies (someone in a wheelchair)? Some might miss a limb or certainly look different but probably not on purpose. Is it the the same attitude and close-mindedness that will keep those people from getting a job?
I don't have a physical handicap but I have a speech impediment - I stutter rather badly once in a while (especially on an interview and other stressful times), I definetly know it will be a problem when getting a new job if I stutter during the interview. As bad as they might feel about my impediment, they wouldn't want to have me in a meeting. Now the company that hired me out of college didn't worry about that, I think my higher GPA helped offset my 'wierdness' factor. So a good recruiter will always balance certain trade-offs. So if some is 'different' in any way it is better if they have plenty of appealing qualities and rare skills.
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Well, I didn't have millions, my girlfriend (now wife) luckily for me overlooked that requirement.
Or is it the hidrogen sulfide gasses spewed from the black holes of the galaxies that make other galaxies shy away from them.
It does. But in addition to the coffee mug you need movie tickets, a box of chocolates and sometimes flowers.
I do remember the nice smooth graphics even when I was rotating a 500Mb CAE model.
The best thing that SGI did that is still valueble is release XFS to be used in Linux...
I am not talking about Slashdotters who will put spinners on their Cable Modems and will overclock the cpu to the limit, but about ordinary people who still only use their computer to look at web pages and write email. Will 100Mbps provide 50x better experience than 2Mbps? I would rather them lower the cost by at least by 50% that would be much better.
Older computers that run Windows 98 that a lot of people still use, probably can't even handle a consistent 100Mbps stream.
It is "open" and not just "passively open" as in "left the door unlocked" it is open as in "there is a big sign saying, please come inside." If you want to stick to just the electronic data transmission, imagine that one day your neighbour drops a cat5 cable on your front porch with a note that says "free internet". Then you use it, then he calls the cops and says, "he is stealing, just like he would be stealing my copy of windows, please jail him, kill his family and kick his dog"
The police of course, didn't have their doughnuts that day, have a low blood sugar and are ready to beat up and throw in jail anyone who looks at them the wrong way, especially terrorists like the guy who used his neighbours wi-fi network. (it goes without saying he was chatting with Osama all that time).
Ok...I think I got carried way there on the last paragraph but you get the idea.
But of course that is not way I got Verizon, I got because it was cheaper and more reliable in my area. In two years I would have no problem switching to T-Mobile or Cingular -- or whoever has cheaper+better service.
Pretty soon Jimmy the roach will be driving you to work every morning and picking up your kids from school. All it wants in return is some garbage and cartboard to poop on.
Whatever, mod the parent up, that was great joke!
The lack of Java 5.0 support was a turn-off for me. Netbeans had that for quite a while, and I happen to be fond of those new features (such as autoboxing and generics) and don't want them flagged as errors by the editor. So as powerful as Eclipse was, I switched to Netbeans 4.1 and I am liking it, don't think I'll switch back any time soon.
This shows how irrational and stupid thinking can win against common sense even on large scales, such as national policy. What about US -- they have not built too many reactors since the mid 80s. Chernobyl scare combined with leftover fear of the cold war nuclear appocalipse didn't help, but one would think people who make such decisions will act rationally.
if they can produce a better antivirus then all those companies then probably all of them will go the way Netscape went, but as of now many of those companies are ahead in terms of performance, accuracy and management+administration optiona than this sybary or whatever its called - that I've never heard of before.
How about just Walmart making everyone sign a waiver or some kind of agreement then they are off the hook. Companies already do that "everything you do or think while working for us - belongs to us", so Walmart can have "everything you shoot will belong to us" agreement. If someone is a professional though, I doubt they will be using Walmart in the first place...
Big net companies that manage the Internet backbone already do some of this as part of the industrial espionage strategy (="We'll route your traffic for you but we also get too look at it").
I am wondering if an African American little girl would be kidnapped would that make front page news? Or are lives of the people in Darfur somehow worth less? Anyway just a thought, probably will get modded as a troll or offtopic ...
The point of the thread was that you don't have to have college degree, just like Steve Jobs, but the fact is that it will be much harder for you to be professional out of highschool. Everyone I know that dropped out, didn't make it past fast food - gas station - bank clerk type jobs. And I think that is true on the average.
If you didn't have to go to college and still be successful nobody would go to college then, trust me, people wouldn't spend tens of thousands and years of their lives if it didn't, on average, translate to better pay or a better job.
Using Bill Gates or Steve Jobs as an example, you might as well advise people to play the lottery, they have a better chance of being successful at that than becoming the next "Larry Ellison" in the business world.
I also coudn't tollerate people whining about how its tough for them to have some much homework that they cannot party as much as they want or that daddy didn't buy them a car for their birthday. Too bad many kids are not taught to appreciate what they have - I learned the hard way and I am not sure there is an easy way though.
The fact that the code is available also means that the product can be developed by others if the original auther drops it. I think given the choice of two similar products most would choose the one that has the open source available.
Good advice. I bet that nasty stuff from the water is bacteria, that is a problem with many commercial humidifiers too.
If he could actually pulversize the water and spray it into the air then somehow remove it so his room doesn't drenched, he might have a much more efficient system. I saw something like that on sale somewhere - basically a fan with a hose attached to it, it is good to put by the pool in the summer or in the backyard, clearly not in the house. That is how some of those huge heat excangers for large HVAC stations work. Water absorbs heat when it evaporates, in this guy's case water only exchanges heat with the air through the small area of the tubing. Not very efficient, might as well start the shower in the bathroom and make sure it sprays a fine mist and let it drain in the bathtub, then put fans in the dorway. No need to spend any money to build, is more efficient, but still gotta pay for the water bill.
Fo shnizzle yo JPL, wussup!
Inglewood - always up to no good! /sorry, had to be said, probably will get modded down by someone who is not a slashdot brotha'
In the workplace though people who are hired just to be some kinds of mascots linger around and waste company's money for years, because they are often not qualified and everyone has to do their job. Some, as I saw at my company, are even promoted into management by the higher-ups just so they can satisfy their "diversity" needs.
One of my other "favorites" is when there is only one Asian or African American in largely white, middle-class "yuppies" company you can bet that person's picture is going to make it onto the website and onto the company's marketing brochures.
It is better to teach people instead to use the existing search and teach them a small query language (think of Google's link: define: site: modifiers) than to teach the computer human language (we certainly don't want it to because it might become aware of itself and see us humans for who we are, then it will either want to destroy us or destroy itself out of frustration ;)
But this leads me to another topic. What about the people with disabilies (someone in a wheelchair)? Some might miss a limb or certainly look different but probably not on purpose. Is it the the same attitude and close-mindedness that will keep those people from getting a job?
I don't have a physical handicap but I have a speech impediment - I stutter rather badly once in a while (especially on an interview and other stressful times), I definetly know it will be a problem when getting a new job if I stutter during the interview. As bad as they might feel about my impediment, they wouldn't want to have me in a meeting. Now the company that hired me out of college didn't worry about that, I think my higher GPA helped offset my 'wierdness' factor. So a good recruiter will always balance certain trade-offs. So if some is 'different' in any way it is better if they have plenty of appealing qualities and rare skills.