There are many more H-1B workers about to come
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There is a mandate for each congressional committee to come up with some savings to compensate for such brilliant expenditures as Alaska's bridge to nowhere. So the Senate Judiciary Committe has recently passed a proposal that will make them some money while satisfying their corporate masters. Businesses will be able to buy hundreds of additional green cards and H-1B visas to keep their labor costs low http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/H1B.html.
A country stuck with only 256 IP addresses in the IPv4 address space should see this as an excellent opportunity to leap ahead of that hidebound superpower and adopt IPv6. Many Asian countries have done so.
I think that rather than "simplicity of the rules" what Sid really meant to say was "size of the combinatorial game space". With a 19 x 19 go board vs. an 8 x 8 chess board, the size of the go game tree is vastly larger than that of the chess game tree. Chess is just simple enough that a brute force alpha-beta search of the game tree to a fairly decent depth, combined with a good static evaluator, can produce a very good chess program. Although search certainly has a role in playing go, it is not possible to have a brute force search of the entire game tree beyond a few moves if you want to do it before all the protons in the universe decay. Civilization is much bigger than go in terms of its search space, so simple minded search of the sort done by chess programs is a non-starter.
Well, he could simply be working on an exponential time algorithm with a lower exponent. There are academic hackers who work on that sort of thing. See, for example,
"An Improved Exponential-Time Algorithm for k-SAT",
by R. Paturi, P. Pudlak, M. E. Saks, and F. Zane in J. ACM, vol. 52 no. 3.
A 2**0.5n algorithm would be practical for larger values of n than a 2**n algorithm.
"Thanks to globalization," the report said, "workers in virtually every sector must now face competitors who live just a mouse-click away in Ireland, Finland, China, India or dozens of other nations whose economies are growing."
The cost of employing one chemist or engineer in the United States is equal to about five chemists in China and 11 engineers in India.
Chemical companies last year shut 70 facilities in the United States and marked 40 for closure. Of 120 large chemical plants under construction globally, one is in the United States and 50 are in China.
In short, major in engineering, be three times as productive as your Indian and Chinese competition, and see your job get outsourced anyway because it's still cheaper to hire the Asians. Who in their right mind would major in engineering with these facts in mind?
"When it comes to natural selection, is consolidation banned from the game?"
Certainly not when it comes to us eukaryotes. The mitochondria in our cells were once free living bacteria, which became symbionts and and gradually transfered most of their DNA to the nucleus. They still have some DNA of their own, however. Chloroplasts in plant cells are also the result of symbiosis with bacteria.
P.S. I know Microsoft is evil and all, but it would be nice if Slashdot's "preview" function would work with IE, as it used to.
If you google 49.7 and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" you will indeed get the Microsoft web page describing the bug. But it only applies to Windows 95 and Windows 98, both long obselete. It does not apply to Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
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I do wonder who keeps modding this guy up.
I don't see any reason to give this "Spengler" guy more authority than the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.linuxgoldcorp.com/
Of course, there is no likelihood of confusing "Linux, the operating system" with "Linux, the gold mining company". So this isn't a trademark violation.
I'm surprised that the Australian government decided that "Linux" is a generic term. Just who was using it to refer to operating systems before Linus Torvalds came along?
Well, the world is getting noisier -- it doesn't help matters that your iPod has to compete against the 1000 watt super bass system of that kid cruising down the street. But the solution is simple -- if the environment is too noisey to be able to listen comfortably to music, then don't listen to music.
Yes, I wish I had bought Google when it IPOed. But I know that if I had and held it until now, I'd be selling it. A P/E ratio over 100 can only
be justified if Google is managed by God and his Archangels. Coming out with lots of cool (but free) software doesn't explain how they're going to get the quadrupling of profits needed to justify their current valuation. And don't forget the storm clouds over the horizon -- copyright owners getting increasingly antsy about Google pawing through their stuff, and Microsoft determined to horn in on their business.
I don't think Google is going to dot-bomb and disappear tomorrow. I do think it could do an Amazon and settle down to a stock price about half of what it is now.
The reality in Iraq is this: For as long as we stay in Iraq, we will lose troops on a regular basis to attacks by insurgents who just want the damn infidels out. As soon as we leave, the country will collapse into civil war. Unlike Japan, Iraq didn't attack us first. There isn't going to be any return on this "investment".
Also, you have a very strange idea of what ordinary people really need if you think the manned space program is a better investment than modern, high speed trains that can actually get them to work each day.
The dollar is indeed dropping, as it must due to the awesome scale of our Federal budget and trade deficits. But it will have to drop a lot further before it is no longer competitive to outsource to India. In real terms American programmers will have to make less than half of what they make now. A declining dollar will not improve our trade deficit for the simple reasons that (1) imports (like oil) will cost more, increasing the deficit, and (2) we no longer manufacture anything so we have nothing to export, no matter how cheap the dollar gets. (There is no global market for U.S. lawyers.)
"You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer's comment that said, 'Does this belong here?' "Lok says. "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."
In other words, the Linux kernel had an honest hacker. Every substantial piece of code has some sections that a competent programmer can see should be better organized, factored out, rewritten, deleted as obselete, etc. That doesn't mean it's broken.
A country with a $500 billion dollar federal budget deficit and a $700 billion dollar trade deficit has no damn business pulling stunts like a trip to Mars. That should be left to solvent countries like China. What has been promised is inflation. Thanks a lot.
Of course the professional pirate doesn't even need the sound proof room or the microphones.
Our ears are analog, and the final transducer in the chain - a speaker coil, an electrostatic panel, etc., is also analog. So just tap the analog signal and use a high quality analog to digital converter. You're just one D-A/A-D pair of conversions away from the original CD, and with good quality equipment the human ear would be hard put to hear any difference.
Well, some years ago a famous picture came out of IBM's labs showing "IBM" spelled out with xenon atoms on a nickel substrate, produced with a scanning tunneling microscope. It was one of the first demonstrations of the new found ability to push atoms around, one by one.
The problem with the idea of making your money by providing support for software, rather than the software itself, is that it creates perverse incentives. Ideally software would install easily, have an intuitive interface, be well documented, and have no bugs. Such software is very expensive to develop but doesn't need any support, so trying to fund it with fees for "support" is a losing proposition.
OTOH, make a complicated system with no documentation, a zillion peculiar configuration settings, and a propensity to crash, and you have a real cash cow in the "support" model.
When I last got laid off my employer immediately cut off my e-mail and network access. The result was that I couldn't check in the latest version of my source code. Their loss.
I don't know what you mean by "not many details". The 12 page paper he links to describes how to use timing of L2 cache missing to determine what numbers Open SSL is multiplying. Overall, it's a pretty impressive demonstration of just how hard it is to cover all security holes.
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There is a mandate for each congressional committee to come up with some savings to compensate for such brilliant expenditures as Alaska's bridge to nowhere. So the Senate Judiciary Committe has recently passed a proposal that will make them some money while satisfying their corporate masters. Businesses will be able to buy hundreds of additional green cards and H-1B visas to keep their labor costs low http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/H1B.html.
A country stuck with only 256 IP addresses in the IPv4 address space should see this as an excellent opportunity to leap ahead of that hidebound superpower and adopt IPv6. Many Asian countries have done so.
I think that rather than "simplicity of the rules" what Sid really meant to say was "size of the combinatorial game space". With a 19 x 19 go board vs. an 8 x 8 chess board, the size of the go game tree is vastly larger than that of the chess game tree. Chess is just simple enough that a brute force alpha-beta search of the game tree to a fairly decent depth, combined with a good static evaluator, can produce a very good chess program. Although search certainly has a role in playing go, it is not possible to have a brute force search of the entire game tree beyond a few moves if you want to do it before all the protons in the universe decay. Civilization is much bigger than go in terms of its search space, so simple minded search of the sort done by chess programs is a non-starter.
Well, he could simply be working on an exponential time algorithm with a lower exponent. There are academic hackers who work on that sort of thing. See, for example, "An Improved Exponential-Time Algorithm for k-SAT", by R. Paturi, P. Pudlak, M. E. Saks, and F. Zane in J. ACM, vol. 52 no. 3. A 2**0.5n algorithm would be practical for larger values of n than a 2**n algorithm.
At least three independent lines of vertebrates evolved flight: pterosaurs, birds, and bats.
"When it comes to natural selection, is consolidation banned from the game?"
Certainly not when it comes to us eukaryotes. The mitochondria in our cells were once free living bacteria, which became symbionts and and gradually transfered most of their DNA to the nucleus. They still have some DNA of their own, however. Chloroplasts in plant cells are also the result of symbiosis with bacteria.
P.S. I know Microsoft is evil and all, but it would be nice if Slashdot's "preview" function would work with IE, as it used to.
If you google 49.7 and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" you will indeed get the Microsoft web page describing the bug. But it only applies to Windows 95 and Windows 98, both long obselete. It does not apply to Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
I do wonder who keeps modding this guy up.
I don't see any reason to give this "Spengler" guy more authority than the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.linuxgoldcorp.com/ Of course, there is no likelihood of confusing "Linux, the operating system" with "Linux, the gold mining company". So this isn't a trademark violation. I'm surprised that the Australian government decided that "Linux" is a generic term. Just who was using it to refer to operating systems before Linus Torvalds came along?
Well, the world is getting noisier -- it doesn't help matters that your iPod has to compete against the 1000 watt super bass system of that kid cruising down the street. But the solution is simple -- if the environment is too noisey to be able to listen comfortably to music, then don't listen to music.
In 1985 they were also telling you that smoking is bad for you. And we all know how foolish that was.
Yes, I wish I had bought Google when it IPOed. But I know that if I had and held it until now, I'd be selling it. A P/E ratio over 100 can only be justified if Google is managed by God and his Archangels. Coming out with lots of cool (but free) software doesn't explain how they're going to get the quadrupling of profits needed to justify their current valuation. And don't forget the storm clouds over the horizon -- copyright owners getting increasingly antsy about Google pawing through their stuff, and Microsoft determined to horn in on their business.
I don't think Google is going to dot-bomb and disappear tomorrow. I do think it could do an Amazon and settle down to a stock price about half of what it is now.
The reality in Iraq is this: For as long as we stay in Iraq, we will lose troops on a regular basis to attacks by insurgents who just want the damn infidels out. As soon as we leave, the country will collapse into civil war. Unlike Japan, Iraq didn't attack us first. There isn't going to be any return on this "investment".
Also, you have a very strange idea of what ordinary people really need if you think the manned space program is a better investment than modern, high speed trains that can actually get them to work each day.
The dollar is indeed dropping, as it must due to the awesome scale of our Federal budget and trade deficits. But it will have to drop a lot further before it is no longer competitive to outsource to India. In real terms American programmers will have to make less than half of what they make now. A declining dollar will not improve our trade deficit for the simple reasons that (1) imports (like oil) will cost more, increasing the deficit, and (2) we no longer manufacture anything so we have nothing to export, no matter how cheap the dollar gets. (There is no global market for U.S. lawyers.)
If Tiger Woods, a famous rich sportsman, qualifies as a geek then the scope of the term has been expanded to meaninglessnees.
A country with a $500 billion dollar federal budget deficit and a $700 billion dollar trade deficit has no damn business pulling stunts like a trip to Mars. That should be left to solvent countries like China. What has been promised is inflation. Thanks a lot.
Of course the professional pirate doesn't even need the sound proof room or the microphones.
Our ears are analog, and the final transducer in the chain - a speaker coil, an electrostatic panel, etc., is also analog. So just tap the analog signal and use a high quality analog to digital converter. You're just one D-A/A-D pair of conversions away from the original CD, and with good quality equipment the human ear would be hard put to hear any difference.
Well, some years ago a famous picture came out of IBM's labs showing "IBM" spelled out with xenon atoms on a nickel substrate, produced with a scanning tunneling microscope. It was one of the first demonstrations of the new found ability to push atoms around, one by one.
Unfortunately the two links don't tell us what those uberhard problems were. Anybody know?
The problem with the idea of making your money by providing support for software, rather than the software itself, is that it creates perverse incentives. Ideally software would install easily, have an intuitive interface, be well documented, and have no bugs. Such software is very expensive to develop but doesn't need any support, so trying to fund it with fees for "support" is a losing proposition.
OTOH, make a complicated system with no documentation, a zillion peculiar configuration settings, and a propensity to crash, and you have a real cash cow in the "support" model.
When I last got laid off my employer immediately cut off my e-mail and network access. The result was that I couldn't check in the latest version of my source code. Their loss.
I don't know what you mean by "not many details". The 12 page paper he links to describes how to use timing of L2 cache missing to determine what numbers Open SSL is multiplying. Overall, it's a pretty impressive demonstration of just how hard it is to cover all security holes.
Duel core processors are for gamers -- the two cores fight each other, so the gamer can run Excel and get his work done.
My spelling and grammer combined with the fact that I have college degree, proves a problem with the educaion system
You're right about that.