Engineers that do things right would 1. Integrate 64 bit with 32 bit to foster the transition to 64 bit 2. Increase processing power per GHz rather than pump GHz as a marketing move that shoots you in the foot when you hit the 4GHz barrier 3. Implement dual core on die rather than sapping performance by duct-taping 2 old CPUs into the same package and losing big time on bus speed. AMD has done all of the above right, a year ahead of Intel; Intel has done it all wrong. All they can do is release half-assed dual core a few days ahead of AMD and claim they invented it, while rapidly backpedaling to copy the above 3 critical moves AMD made a year ahead of them, and spewing out press released to whoring magazines and hack writers about how they'll have the hot chips REAL SOON NOW. Nice to see the soft shoe shuffle marketing clowns that got Intel into this mess have to break a sweat and tap dance for the next year or two.
Let me induce (so to speak) the following argument:
Apple tried to twist IBM's arm (so to speak) and now jumps to Intel.
Next (so to speak), they can twist Intel's arm by threatening to jump to AMD. This next betrayal is far easier, being essentially the same architecture.
Machiavelli would be proud.
1. How come they didn't switch to AMD, which actually has the superior dual core architecture, instead of implementing dual core by stuffing 2 old chips into the same package like Intel does
2. How will Apple prevent me from running their OS XIV on my cheap Intel (or AMD) box?
HBS had a 2003 acceptance rate of 11.6%, only Stanford's 9.2% acceptance rate was lower.
The math says of the 119 people who peeked,
only 14 were accepted. But the autocrat bitch
who runs the place had to puff the numbers and
try to spite them. Pathetic.
Companies often post fake job listings to bolster their case for more offshoring and H1-B hiring. A significant percentage of those jobs just don't exist. At least not if you're an American and/or over 40. Soon, many of you reading this will become American. Soon, many of you reading this will become over 40. Hear me now, believe me later. Let's call it karma.
Does anyone actually burn only 10 songs in.wav format on a CD any more? Can I get you to make me some 8-track tapes? The future is here now, and it means burning hundred of mp3's on a CD or thousands of songs on a DVD. I guess the label burning is interesting, but there's no room to fit all the song titles.
I ended up quitting. The guy they replaced me with, I have to believe they tried to treat him like a doormat too. He was an H1-B. When you are H1-B or temp-to-perm, you simply have to take a lot of abuse. Management sets up these situations where petty tyrants get a bit more status and then they abuse you. They like indentured servants (6 year term for H1-B, sounds like you've done 2 years so far as temp-to-perm) because when they say jump you have to say, how high sir!? Anyway, my replacement, he ended up using drugs (probably to deal with the daily stress and insult) and died of a speedball overdose. True story. But hey, its all in the name of capitalism and efficiency. They didn't even have the courtesy to give me an exit interview, where I would have told them that the project was out of control. Yes, there are many factors here, but my conviction is that they have blood on their hands. You take care of yourself. Remember, there are no victims, only volunteers.
Are they offering you temp-to-perm or contract?
My advice is to read the book Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson. This business about, its easier to get approval for contractor, that is their problem. The fact that there are several hundred thousand H1-B workers willing to take the same job is your problem. Get them to make the first offer, if they make you move first, your ballpark hourly rate is $70/hour for a $70,000 job. I want to emphasize that temp-to-perm is in practice different than pure contracting. You're kind of in purgatory for an indefinite period. Because you're on a short leash, your power relationships with your colleagues will be compromised. With temp-to-perm, they try to get the best of both worlds, you will have to behave like a model employee, possibly work extra hours, but with none of the security. I don't like it. The promises of the "to perm" half in practice make life worse than being a purebred contractor.
Pentagon spokesmen today said the reason we have no body count for dead Iraqis is that they just forgot to update it. Furthermore, the war ended 16 months ago, according to our head prophet, so there's really no need to update it. Besides, do you think Google or the Pentagon has any budget for that kind of bean counting?
1100 US Soldiers Killed
? Contractors killed (who cares)
100,000 Iraqis Killed (mostly civilians)
(lets call that collateral damages,
sound nicer than DEAD FAMILIES)
I think the plan is when there are more US troops than Iraqis left alive, we'll acheive democracy
When *nobody* on *all* of Google has my problem, my reaction is that I'm doing something very wrong. I wonder why slashdot even publishes this question. I wonder why I'm even responding.
I have a Dell 2001FP and have *never* had this "cursor lag" problem. I suggest its your video card, or driver, or maybe your machine has been taken over for use as a zombie. The 2001FP has about 4 different inputs, does the same problem exist on the analog as well as the DVI ports?
How come they don't bring in 400,000 lawyers or doctors on H1-B? We have been very politically naive and have now been sold up the river by industry, VCs, Harris Miller, the ITAA, the republicans, and others.
Also, try becoming a citizen of China, India, or Japan. They are far more protectionist, monoracial, xenophobic, and lets just say it, racist. Why should we open our borders and society more than they do?
If you are interested in a thorough analysis of the issues, be sure to look at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.html
-LUH
I have only one question for the voters: is the rich person you are working for better off now than they were four years ago?
Major corporations all own a war chest of patents.
Clearly, they are not engaged in endemic warfare
over each and every patent, though they could be.
Instead, they simply cross-license their patents,
in a form of detente. However, any small upstart
corporations have nothing to bargain with, and can
be attacked and suppressed.
One of Linux's large benefactors needs to step up
and protect Linux under the aegis of their
existing patent portfolio, with some kind of
cross-licensing arrangement. Or HP or IBM buys
Novell to the same effect. If they care enough
about screwing Microsoft to the wall they will
need to protect linux (define it somehow) in
this manner eventually.
Software patents have gotten out of hand but
at least linux has a godfather or two that can
and should step in to defend it. IBM or HP should make some
announcement about cross licensing some patents to linux dispel the evil
spin being applied to linux in the current press. A small portfolio of patents that is enough to make Microsoft or anyone hoping to attach linux on patent grounds realize their own weaknesses and want to avoid endless retaliatory patent litigation.
Would like to hear from more people _actually_using_ RAID, particulary SATA based. I use a 3ware 7506-4LP on FreeBSD and I have had no problems yet. Uses 4 WD 1200JB PATA drives in RAID 5.
I want my next RAID to be SATA but I am cautious. Here are some caveats: http://www.ata-atapi.com/sata.htm "DO NOT tie wrap SATA cables together. DO NOT put sharp bends in SATA cables. DO NOT route SATA cables near PATA cables. Avoid placing SATA devices close to each other such that the SATA cable connectors are close to each other." etc.
Check the link for more cautionary info about SATA. Have we even heard from _one_ SATA RAID user? Lotta data at stake here.
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This will soon make cell phones obsolete. Serves the greedy marketing-driven cell companies right. If only the Netgear-Skype wifi phone would play mp3's too. No greedy cell phone companies to stop them from adding that feature... http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/05/73605_HN netgearskypephone_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www .infoworld.com/article/06/01/05/73605_HNnetgearsky pephone_1.html
Engineers that do things right would 1. Integrate 64 bit with 32 bit to foster the transition to 64 bit 2. Increase processing power per GHz rather than pump GHz as a marketing move that shoots you in the foot when you hit the 4GHz barrier 3. Implement dual core on die rather than sapping performance by duct-taping 2 old CPUs into the same package and losing big time on bus speed. AMD has done all of the above right, a year ahead of Intel; Intel has done it all wrong. All they can do is release half-assed dual core a few days ahead of AMD and claim they invented it, while rapidly backpedaling to copy the above 3 critical moves AMD made a year ahead of them, and spewing out press released to whoring magazines and hack writers about how they'll have the hot chips REAL SOON NOW. Nice to see the soft shoe shuffle marketing clowns that got Intel into this mess have to break a sweat and tap dance for the next year or two.
Let me induce (so to speak) the following argument: Apple tried to twist IBM's arm (so to speak) and now jumps to Intel. Next (so to speak), they can twist Intel's arm by threatening to jump to AMD. This next betrayal is far easier, being essentially the same architecture. Machiavelli would be proud.
1. How come they didn't switch to AMD, which actually has the superior dual core architecture, instead of implementing dual core by stuffing 2 old chips into the same package like Intel does 2. How will Apple prevent me from running their OS XIV on my cheap Intel (or AMD) box?
Gee, maybe it has something to do with people living longer now than they did a century ago, d'ya think?
HBS had a 2003 acceptance rate of 11.6%, only Stanford's 9.2% acceptance rate was lower. The math says of the 119 people who peeked, only 14 were accepted. But the autocrat bitch who runs the place had to puff the numbers and try to spite them. Pathetic.
Companies often post fake job listings to bolster their case for more offshoring and H1-B hiring. A significant percentage of those jobs just don't exist. At least not if you're an American and/or over 40. Soon, many of you reading this will become American. Soon, many of you reading this will become over 40. Hear me now, believe me later. Let's call it karma.
Does anyone actually burn only 10 songs in .wav format on a CD any more? Can I get you to make me some 8-track tapes? The future is here now, and it means burning hundred of mp3's on a CD or thousands of songs on a DVD. I guess the label burning is interesting, but there's no room to fit all the song titles.
I ended up quitting. The guy they replaced me with, I have to believe they tried to treat him like a doormat too. He was an H1-B. When you are H1-B or temp-to-perm, you simply have to take a lot of abuse. Management sets up these situations where petty tyrants get a bit more status and then they abuse you. They like indentured servants (6 year term for H1-B, sounds like you've done 2 years so far as temp-to-perm) because when they say jump you have to say, how high sir!? Anyway, my replacement, he ended up using drugs (probably to deal with the daily stress and insult) and died of a speedball overdose. True story. But hey, its all in the name of capitalism and efficiency. They didn't even have the courtesy to give me an exit interview, where I would have told them that the project was out of control. Yes, there are many factors here, but my conviction is that they have blood on their hands. You take care of yourself. Remember, there are no victims, only volunteers.
Are they offering you temp-to-perm or contract? My advice is to read the book Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson. This business about, its easier to get approval for contractor, that is their problem. The fact that there are several hundred thousand H1-B workers willing to take the same job is your problem. Get them to make the first offer, if they make you move first, your ballpark hourly rate is $70/hour for a $70,000 job. I want to emphasize that temp-to-perm is in practice different than pure contracting. You're kind of in purgatory for an indefinite period. Because you're on a short leash, your power relationships with your colleagues will be compromised. With temp-to-perm, they try to get the best of both worlds, you will have to behave like a model employee, possibly work extra hours, but with none of the security. I don't like it. The promises of the "to perm" half in practice make life worse than being a purebred contractor.
Pentagon spokesmen today said the reason we have no body count for dead Iraqis is that they just forgot to update it. Furthermore, the war ended 16 months ago, according to our head prophet, so there's really no need to update it. Besides, do you think Google or the Pentagon has any budget for that kind of bean counting?
1100 US Soldiers Killed
? Contractors killed (who cares)
100,000 Iraqis Killed (mostly civilians)
(lets call that collateral damages, sound nicer than DEAD FAMILIES)
I think the plan is when there are more US troops than Iraqis left alive, we'll acheive democracy
When *nobody* on *all* of Google has my problem, my reaction is that I'm doing something very wrong. I wonder why slashdot even publishes this question. I wonder why I'm even responding. I have a Dell 2001FP and have *never* had this "cursor lag" problem. I suggest its your video card, or driver, or maybe your machine has been taken over for use as a zombie. The 2001FP has about 4 different inputs, does the same problem exist on the analog as well as the DVI ports?
How come they don't bring in 400,000 lawyers or doctors on H1-B? We have been very politically naive and have now been sold up the river by industry, VCs, Harris Miller, the ITAA, the republicans, and others. Also, try becoming a citizen of China, India, or Japan. They are far more protectionist, monoracial, xenophobic, and lets just say it, racist. Why should we open our borders and society more than they do? If you are interested in a thorough analysis of the issues, be sure to look at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.html -LUH I have only one question for the voters: is the rich person you are working for better off now than they were four years ago?
Nationalist != Racist. Get a dictionary. Michael and I are happy to work with American blacks, hispanics, indians, chinese, etc. programmers.
One of Linux's large benefactors needs to step up and protect Linux under the aegis of their existing patent portfolio, with some kind of cross-licensing arrangement. Or HP or IBM buys Novell to the same effect. If they care enough about screwing Microsoft to the wall they will need to protect linux (define it somehow) in this manner eventually.
Software patents have gotten out of hand but at least linux has a godfather or two that can and should step in to defend it. IBM or HP should make some announcement about cross licensing some patents to linux dispel the evil spin being applied to linux in the current press. A small portfolio of patents that is enough to make Microsoft or anyone hoping to attach linux on patent grounds realize their own weaknesses and want to avoid endless retaliatory patent litigation.
Would like to hear from more people _actually_using_ RAID, particulary SATA based. I use a 3ware 7506-4LP on FreeBSD and I have had no problems yet. Uses 4 WD 1200JB PATA drives in RAID 5. I want my next RAID to be SATA but I am cautious. Here are some caveats: http://www.ata-atapi.com/sata.htm "DO NOT tie wrap SATA cables together. DO NOT put sharp bends in SATA cables. DO NOT route SATA cables near PATA cables. Avoid placing SATA devices close to each other such that the SATA cable connectors are close to each other." etc. Check the link for more cautionary info about SATA. Have we even heard from _one_ SATA RAID user? Lotta data at stake here.