>*sigh*. We're trying to hire people again...it's not going well...
It's a consequence that you face when you insist on hiring Computer Scientists to do the work of Programmers. Some Programmers are Computer Scientists, and some Computer Scientists are Programmers. But in some fields, the best programmers are those who understand the business domain for which they are developing. All the automata theory in the world won't prepare you for that. Likewise there are programmers out there who really are unaware of theory, and don't realize that a lack of a theoretical background is to their detriment.
In a way it's kind of sad to hire computer scientists who end up writing business software. The good ones know so much about the field, and have all kinds of research behind them, but they get jobs where very little of it is applied in any specific way.
You're free to disagree, of course. I myself might re-evaluate these ideas on a different day. (I consider myself to be both a Computer Scientist and a Programmer, but I regard these as separate, closely related disciplines.)
I have found that, long after cancelling an Orkut account, the information is still on the site. I receive messages from people that I cannot respond to, because while they get my information from the old entry, I have no access to it. Repeated attempts to contact Orkut have been met with silence.
"Luckily the new illegal combat bill will allow the residing president to arrest opposing candidates and toss them in jail indefiently without access to the courts,lawyers,etc."
Someone other than G.W. Bush will be sworn in as President in January 2009.
If it is a Republican, it will be a more moderate Republican who has appealed to moderates. If it is a Democrat, heads will roll, maybe literally.
Okay, so 24 bit optical dynamic range is not past the threshold of human perception, as is 24-bit audio dynamic range. Good to know.
In the audio world there is significant debate as to whether high samplerates and wide dynamic range are overkill for the application already. While it is argued, nobody can ever seem to point to any legitimate research findings that support the argument either way. I say use 24(32)-bit, 96kHz for recording masters because you can, not because anyone can actually hear the difference between it and a 24-bit 48kHz recording of the same signal in the same enviornment with the same equipment. (I do argue for 24-bit over 16-bit dynamic range, but that's because I record orchestral instruments; for dance music or hard rock where the signals are commonly dominating whatever dynamics would be available, it does not matter.)
But I had understood that 24-bit images were similarly overkill.
Do you actually know anyone who, in a controlled test, could distinguish a 24-bit image from a 32-bit image or higher? Can you point to any documentation that this is even possible?
>the republicans control everything and don't need to comprimise.
The smart ones can recognize the fact that all this power that has been asserted by the executive branch, will sooner or later be handed over wholesale to an incoming administration with differing partisanship.
Any Bush supporter should carefully consider any authority ascribed to Bush, by thinking about whether they would appreciate a member of the opposition party weilding the same authority. For example, "warrantless wiretapping" -- do Bush supporters of today really want to give "warrantless wiretapping" authority to a liberal democrat president? Really? Because any power you grant to this administration, sooner or later gets handed over to someone else who may abuse it in different ways from the ones they embrace.
>Will you people please do something about your government?!?!?
The thing you fail to recognize, is the fact that this government is operating with the general consent of the people it governs. Despite beliefs held by certain people, the US government is not some rogue state whose government is the result of an illegal coup. Do you believe that the representatives who voted on the piece of legislation in TFA were not elected by at-large votes?
They all qualify as "noisy". To approach "Silent", the noise measurement needs to be on the order of -27dBA.
Granted, they are being measured without a case, and closer than the 1 meter that is conventional for such things. And I could accept that all drives are within this range of noise. But it still stinks for making audio equipment that can be used in the same space as a sensitive microphone.
>If you left your door unlocked and open, you can't charge them for breaking and entering.
Don't bet your life on that one. Speaking for my jurisdiction, if it is trespass, then it is breaking and entering. If you have a firearm in your possession, or if there are any among a long list of aggravating factors (e.g., you jumped a fence before walking into the open door), it's automatically burglary.
Yes, and of synechdoche, and I still get sick and tired of hearing about a house speaking.
The people who make these statements have names, and rather than put their names against their statemtents, they hide behind a "house."
I find that shows a lack of integrity among the people running my government, and I do not approve of it.
What is acceptable for a poet or novelist is not necessarily appropriate for a head of state (particularly one that is making aggressive efforts to hide his own crimes.)
It was a long time before I experienced any dialup connection FTP transfer that was faster than an HST Zmodem download, which was even better than some of my early broadband experiences!
Sometimes I still believe a direct-dialup access can be better than an ssh session over broadband.
But these days I have 15 megabit to the home-office, and the network I connect to is gig-E. I don't find myself pining for the "good old days." But I do keep backups of all my BBS stuff, because I worked hard on my board, and it represents a big effort and a lot of time.
If I didn't have my BBS, I would never have gotten the opportunity to start the business that led to the great job I have now. (The only way the investment partners knew how to find me, was via my FIDONET node!)
"The universities can easily own copyright to all your papers. And get used to it. Almost all companies you agree to work for make you sign agreements that everything you come up with while you work for them is their property."
Nobody can force you to sign anything -- if they tried, whatever you signed would not be a valid contract anyway.
Now, *persuading* you to *choose* to sign, is a completely separate matter.
"Basically their position is that federal regulations state they are able to operate a radio station without license during wartime."
Do they have a chapter and verse cite for that regulation, and, is it also part of the body of law that defines what "war" is?
There is some debate as to whether the current period is genuinely called "wartime", because some requirements are not being met (e.g., gas and food rationing, limits on contractor profit-taking, that sort of thing.)
>they certainly have plenty of Iraq war veterans to practice on, over 20,000 injured to date , 2700 dead and >counting
I rarely come across any detailed report of those injuries. Not all injuries are the same. And who considers two lost arms to be an equivalent disability to one lost leg, or even two legs? (I don't, but I get the impression it's not "socially correct" to say so.)
All we hear about is the aggregate number of casualties. Nothing to tell us what kind of injuries they represent. Some of those 20,000 might recover, and others will not, and there is a big difference between different injuries.
"just as a company you work for owns the copyright to any code you produce for them (and in some situations, code you produce for yourself)."
This is only true if an explicit agreement claims a "work for hire" agreement.
Academic work may or may not fall under this type of agreement. (It probably does, but only because the student signed something affirming such an agreement.)
I bet there's less skullduggerry here than the article implies. For instance, my company probably has 800 Toshibas that it bought for employee use in 1997. Some sort of second generation Pentium-1, Win95 machines. Do you think the company knows where any of those machines are today? Do you think anyone actually cares?
>Most Blackberry addicts stumble around holding them in their hand, making them easy targets.
People who haven't been mugged tend to have distorted ideas of the process.
The "pickpocket" isn't necessarily going to use stealth. It's much more common for them to just walk up and forceably take stuff out of your hands or whatever. Happened to me once like this: Somebody comes up from behind, grabs my raincoat hood, pulls it over my head, grabs the stuff out of my hand, and forcefully rips a chain I was wearing around my neck. No stealth involved. This was done in plain view in a large crowd, with Atlanta police no more than 30 meters away.
>how many kazillions of car stereos have simiar anti-theft technology built in
The anti-theft solution on the radio in my car is simple. I expoxied razor blades to the back and sides. Anyone who takes the brute force approach will be in for a surprise. I will take it out for the next owner, don't worry.
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>> One out of 40 engineers is qualified.
>*sigh*. We're trying to hire people again...it's not going well...
It's a consequence that you face when you insist on hiring Computer Scientists to do the work of Programmers.
Some Programmers are Computer Scientists, and some Computer Scientists are Programmers. But in some fields,
the best programmers are those who understand the business domain for which they are developing. All the automata theory in the world won't prepare you for that. Likewise there are programmers out there who really are unaware of theory, and don't realize that a lack of a theoretical background is to their detriment.
In a way it's kind of sad to hire computer scientists who end up writing business software. The good ones know so much about the field, and have all kinds of research behind them, but they get jobs where very little of it is applied in any specific way.
You're free to disagree, of course. I myself might re-evaluate these ideas on a different day. (I consider myself to be both a Computer Scientist and a Programmer, but I regard these as separate, closely related disciplines.)
GOTO has nothing on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device
I have found that, long after cancelling an Orkut account, the information is still on the site.
I receive messages from people that I cannot respond to, because while they get my information from the
old entry, I have no access to it. Repeated attempts to contact Orkut have been met with silence.
"Luckily the new illegal combat bill will allow the residing president to arrest opposing candidates and toss them in jail indefiently without access to the courts,lawyers,etc."
Someone other than G.W. Bush will be sworn in as President in January 2009.
If it is a Republican, it will be a more moderate Republican who has appealed to moderates. If it is a Democrat, heads will roll, maybe literally.
Okay, so 24 bit optical dynamic range is not past the threshold of human perception, as is 24-bit audio
dynamic range. Good to know.
In the audio world there is significant debate as to whether high samplerates and wide dynamic range are overkill for the application already. While it is argued, nobody can ever seem to point to any legitimate research findings that support the argument either way. I say use 24(32)-bit, 96kHz for recording masters because you can, not because anyone can actually hear the difference between it and a 24-bit 48kHz recording of the same signal in the same enviornment with the same equipment. (I do argue for 24-bit over 16-bit dynamic range, but that's because I record orchestral instruments; for dance music or hard rock where the signals are commonly dominating whatever dynamics would be available, it does not matter.)
But I had understood that 24-bit images were similarly overkill.
"I claim this land for Texas."
Do you actually know anyone who, in a controlled test, could distinguish a 24-bit image from a 32-bit image or higher? Can you point to any documentation that this is even possible?
>the republicans control everything and don't need to comprimise.
The smart ones can recognize the fact that all this power that has been asserted by the executive branch,
will sooner or later be handed over wholesale to an incoming administration with differing partisanship.
Any Bush supporter should carefully consider any authority ascribed to Bush, by thinking about whether they would appreciate a member of the opposition party weilding the same authority. For example, "warrantless wiretapping" -- do Bush supporters of today really want to give "warrantless wiretapping" authority to a liberal democrat president? Really? Because any power you grant to this administration, sooner or later gets handed over to someone else who may abuse it in different ways from the ones they embrace.
>Will you people please do something about your government?!?!?
The thing you fail to recognize, is the fact that this government is operating with the
general consent of the people it governs. Despite beliefs held by certain people, the US government
is not some rogue state whose government is the result of an illegal coup. Do you believe that the representatives who voted on the piece of legislation in TFA were not elected by at-large votes?
They all qualify as "noisy". To approach "Silent", the noise measurement needs to be on the order of -27dBA.
Granted, they are being measured without a case, and closer than the 1 meter that is conventional for such things. And I could accept that all drives are within this range of noise. But it still stinks for making audio equipment that can be used in the same space as a sensitive microphone.
>If you left your door unlocked and open, you can't charge them for breaking and entering.
Don't bet your life on that one. Speaking for my jurisdiction, if it is trespass, then it is
breaking and entering. If you have a firearm in your possession, or if there are any among a long
list of aggravating factors (e.g., you jumped a fence before walking into the open door), it's
automatically burglary.
"The President is not a leader, he is only president. The country is mostly run by the various legislatures, who ultimately answer to the President."
You are mistaken. The President answers to the legislature and ultimately, to the States.
>Ever heard of metonymy?
Yes, and of synechdoche, and I still get sick and tired of hearing about a house speaking.
The people who make these statements have names, and rather than put their names against their statemtents,
they hide behind a "house."
I find that shows a lack of integrity among the people running my government, and I do not approve of it.
What is acceptable for a poet or novelist is not necessarily appropriate for a head of state (particularly one that is making aggressive efforts to hide his own crimes.)
"Is there any position the White House should take on this bill?"
The only *position* the building should occupy is its current address at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The *White House* is not capable of having an opinion.
>you couldn't beat an HST to HST connection.
It was a long time before I experienced any dialup connection FTP transfer that was faster than
an HST Zmodem download, which was even better than some of my early broadband experiences!
Sometimes I still believe a direct-dialup access can be better than an ssh session over broadband.
But these days I have 15 megabit to the home-office, and the network I connect to is gig-E.
I don't find myself pining for the "good old days." But I do keep backups of all my BBS stuff, because I worked hard on my board, and it represents a big effort and a lot of time.
If I didn't have my BBS, I would never have gotten the opportunity to start the business that led to the great job I have now. (The only way the investment partners knew how to find me, was via my FIDONET node!)
"Authority may be granted, on a temporary basis, in extraordinary circumstances requiring emergency operation to serve the public interest."
If that's their case, they lose!
"The universities can easily own copyright to all your papers. And get used to it. Almost all companies you agree to work for make you sign agreements that everything you come up with while you work for them is their property."
Nobody can force you to sign anything -- if they tried, whatever you signed would not be a valid contract anyway.
Now, *persuading* you to *choose* to sign, is a completely separate matter.
"Basically their position is that federal regulations state they are able to operate a radio station without license during wartime."
Do they have a chapter and verse cite for that regulation, and, is it also part of the body of law that defines what "war" is?
There is some debate as to whether the current period is genuinely called "wartime", because some requirements are not being met (e.g., gas and food rationing, limits on contractor profit-taking, that sort of thing.)
"You know, it's a number."
- White House spokesman Tony Snow, in response to a question about the President's reaction to 2500 troop deaths in Iraq.
>they certainly have plenty of Iraq war veterans to practice on, over 20,000 injured to date , 2700 dead and >counting
I rarely come across any detailed report of those injuries. Not all injuries are the same. And who considers two lost arms to be an equivalent disability to one lost leg, or even two legs? (I don't, but I get the impression it's not "socially correct" to say so.)
All we hear about is the aggregate number of casualties. Nothing to tell us what kind of injuries they represent. Some of those 20,000 might recover, and others will not, and there is a big difference between different injuries.
"just as a company you work for owns the copyright to any code you produce for them (and in some situations, code you produce for yourself)."
This is only true if an explicit agreement claims a "work for hire" agreement.
Academic work may or may not fall under this type of agreement. (It probably does, but only because the student signed something affirming such an agreement.)
>Simple. Turn the password lock off.
That works for *me*, not that I'd own such a device. But I don't see how your advice protects the *other* guy from *my* mayhem.
I bet there's less skullduggerry here than the article implies. For instance, my company probably has 800 Toshibas that it bought for employee use in 1997. Some sort of second generation Pentium-1, Win95 machines.
Do you think the company knows where any of those machines are today? Do you think anyone actually cares?
>Most Blackberry addicts stumble around holding them in their hand, making them easy targets.
People who haven't been mugged tend to have distorted ideas of the process.
The "pickpocket" isn't necessarily going to use stealth. It's much more common for them to just walk up and forceably take stuff out of your hands or whatever. Happened to me once like this: Somebody comes up from behind, grabs my raincoat hood, pulls it over my head, grabs the stuff out of my hand, and forcefully rips a chain I was wearing around my neck. No stealth involved. This was done in plain view in a large crowd, with Atlanta police no more than 30 meters away.
>how many kazillions of car stereos have simiar anti-theft technology built in
The anti-theft solution on the radio in my car is simple. I expoxied razor blades to the back and sides.
Anyone who takes the brute force approach will be in for a surprise. I will take it out for the next owner, don't worry.