MIT's undergrad tuition is free for families making http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/08/mit_announces_need_based_financial_aid_plan/
This is increasingly true of all of the bigger schools, as the article points out.
Also, very few grad students at MIT pay tuition. In CS, for example, tuition is guaranteed for the first year of grad school, and by then almost everyone has found a funded project to work on -- if not, you just work as a TA.
Not to mention that the Incas were doing this more than 1500 years earlier... they had an extensive network of towers that could relay messages using reflections off metalic surfaces, smoke signals, or horn-blowing in foggy conditions. They could pass messages hundreds of miles across the Inca empire in very short periods of time.
The biggest performance hit in Firefox seems to be to do with the fact that the UI is multithreaded (as is the JS engine). Is there any chance this is going to be addressed in Firefox 3? Using a single-threaded browser in a multicore environment is painful, especially when working with many tabs at a time.
That's what Gnumeric and AbiWord are trying to accomplish. (At least it's in Gnumeric's stated long-term goals, which they're moving into now that they have >100% function coverage and almost 100% feature parity... and AbiWord is already getting kinda wild as far as word processor features are concerned, they're not waiting to be a Word clone first...)
I just visited the DPRK a month ago. Contrary to what the Great Leader is telling the world, there are miles and miles and miles of corn, soy, rice, wheat and other grains. We drove 3 hours from Pyongyang to Kaesong (by the DMZ) and I could see edible crops pretty much the entire distance. There was, of course, also no sign of the flood damage that Kim Jong Il had asked for food aid for. The real problem is not that there isn't food, it's that basic freedoms denied North Koreans (including freedom of movement) extend to the distribution of food supplies.
"An anonymous reader" writes:...crown jewels...5 scant months...a very functional, robust illustration program...a true professional grade graphics package...you owe it to yourself to see the new Xara Xtreme Linux Screenshot gallery...with amazing, unbelievable vector graphic art
Could "An anonymous reader" possibly be Xara?
Check out the source code, this thing is a monolith. I think I'm sticking to Inkscape for now, though I wish the Xara team the best of luck, and it was a nice gesture to release the source code under the GPL.
The best kind of news is the kind that you can announce over and over again, and it makes the front page every time.
Any guesses how long it will take until they announce they just finished sequencing the human genome *again*?
Umm, did they think about pointing it upwards?
Oh wait, it's happening in Australia.
I don't know whether to think this is the Australians' doing, or the Brits' for having their up-vector aligned with the North Pole.
Why do Americans like to call Imperial units "English units"? It's like they're trying to pass the buck or something. Come on guys, the English stopped using Imperial units a long time ago. Own up to your own antiquated ways and call them "American units". After all, you're the only ones in the world using them now anyway.
I hope they report all the bugs they found in the source code with their automatic tools. Wow, once they fix all those bugs, there won't be any left, because obviously the tools found all the bugs that exist in the code, automatically, and didn't identify anything as a bug that wasn't one.
It all comes down to one thing. Can the user reconfigure their mouse so that right-click launches a terminal? If not, it's a useless desktop, and you should tell everybody to switch to a REAL desktop environment.
You could calculate the percentage overlap between the 275 million lines of code and SCO's source code.
For additional interest, you could plot that percentage as a function of time. You should see it go up right before every major new SCO filing.
Doesn't matter, check out MapReduce: http://labs.google.com/papers/
They have a general-purpose computing framework for just about anything. Google engineers regularly submit MapReduce jobs to do all sorts of things other than search (whatever they happen to be working on at the time).
Ask a real Google employee, and they'll get edgy as soon as you ask questions like that. Also try asking them how many Ph.D.s they hire... There are things they are not supposed to talk about. The mysteriousness of their company is part of their corporate image.
Actually H1B workers have to make 95% of the Prevailing Wage by law. Their employer sends a list of their credentials to the Labor Dept. for that, and they have to pay at least 95% of what the Labor Dept. says an American worker would make for the same job. If there's a problem, it's because the Labor Dept. is lying (or just uninformed) as to how much the job is worth in the area, not because the employer is underpaying them. Or it is possible that the other programmers are all overpaid what they're worth:)
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MIT's undergrad tuition is free for families making http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/08/mit_announces_need_based_financial_aid_plan/ This is increasingly true of all of the bigger schools, as the article points out. Also, very few grad students at MIT pay tuition. In CS, for example, tuition is guaranteed for the first year of grad school, and by then almost everyone has found a funded project to work on -- if not, you just work as a TA.
Not to mention that the Incas were doing this more than 1500 years earlier... they had an extensive network of towers that could relay messages using reflections off metalic surfaces, smoke signals, or horn-blowing in foggy conditions. They could pass messages hundreds of miles across the Inca empire in very short periods of time.
Oops, that should say "is *not* multithreaded"...
The biggest performance hit in Firefox seems to be to do with the fact that the UI is multithreaded (as is the JS engine). Is there any chance this is going to be addressed in Firefox 3? Using a single-threaded browser in a multicore environment is painful, especially when working with many tabs at a time.
Holy cow! I think I see the Virgin Mary in chromosome 15!
That's what Gnumeric and AbiWord are trying to accomplish. (At least it's in Gnumeric's stated long-term goals, which they're moving into now that they have >100% function coverage and almost 100% feature parity... and AbiWord is already getting kinda wild as far as word processor features are concerned, they're not waiting to be a Word clone first...)
Funny, those are exactly the areas they are focusing on.
I just visited the DPRK a month ago. Contrary to what the Great Leader is telling the world, there are miles and miles and miles of corn, soy, rice, wheat and other grains. We drove 3 hours from Pyongyang to Kaesong (by the DMZ) and I could see edible crops pretty much the entire distance. There was, of course, also no sign of the flood damage that Kim Jong Il had asked for food aid for. The real problem is not that there isn't food, it's that basic freedoms denied North Koreans (including freedom of movement) extend to the distribution of food supplies.
"An anonymous reader" writes: ...crown jewels...5 scant months...a very functional, robust illustration program...a true professional grade graphics package...you owe it to yourself to see the new Xara Xtreme Linux Screenshot gallery...with amazing, unbelievable vector graphic art
Could "An anonymous reader" possibly be Xara?
Check out the source code, this thing is a monolith. I think I'm sticking to Inkscape for now, though I wish the Xara team the best of luck, and it was a nice gesture to release the source code under the GPL.
The best kind of news is the kind that you can announce over and over again, and it makes the front page every time. Any guesses how long it will take until they announce they just finished sequencing the human genome *again*?
Umm, did they think about pointing it upwards? Oh wait, it's happening in Australia. I don't know whether to think this is the Australians' doing, or the Brits' for having their up-vector aligned with the North Pole.
Why do Americans like to call Imperial units "English units"? It's like they're trying to pass the buck or something. Come on guys, the English stopped using Imperial units a long time ago. Own up to your own antiquated ways and call them "American units". After all, you're the only ones in the world using them now anyway.
I hope they report all the bugs they found in the source code with their automatic tools. Wow, once they fix all those bugs, there won't be any left, because obviously the tools found all the bugs that exist in the code, automatically, and didn't identify anything as a bug that wasn't one.
In other news, Verizon was charged access fees by 10,000 companies because Verizon's users were accessing content on those 10,000 companies' sites.
Google stated that periods would be ignored when you first created your username, way back in beta testing days...
It all comes down to one thing. Can the user reconfigure their mouse so that right-click launches a terminal? If not, it's a useless desktop, and you should tell everybody to switch to a REAL desktop environment.
More importantly, how do you FLY in cyberspace?
You could calculate the percentage overlap between the 275 million lines of code and SCO's source code. For additional interest, you could plot that percentage as a function of time. You should see it go up right before every major new SCO filing.
Doesn't matter, check out MapReduce: http://labs.google.com/papers/ They have a general-purpose computing framework for just about anything. Google engineers regularly submit MapReduce jobs to do all sorts of things other than search (whatever they happen to be working on at the time).
Ask a real Google employee, and they'll get edgy as soon as you ask questions like that. Also try asking them how many Ph.D.s they hire... There are things they are not supposed to talk about. The mysteriousness of their company is part of their corporate image.
When will Google add themselves to the list? (I know, they don't qualify... and they don't want to tell people how many beige boxes they have...)
Selling moon property to someone would imply that you own the rights to sell it.
Actually H1B workers have to make 95% of the Prevailing Wage by law. Their employer sends a list of their credentials to the Labor Dept. for that, and they have to pay at least 95% of what the Labor Dept. says an American worker would make for the same job. If there's a problem, it's because the Labor Dept. is lying (or just uninformed) as to how much the job is worth in the area, not because the employer is underpaying them. Or it is possible that the other programmers are all overpaid what they're worth :)
In other news, DVD Jon is cuffed as he enters LAX.
I bet those same companies are not also claiming that "Companies that lock their cellphones are engaging in anticompetitive behavior"...
I figure if I pay for a phone, it's mine... and I should be entitled to use it however I want.