The first impression after following the links is how weird the new google groups look. The whole censorship of the original emails is enough to destroy any sense of "history" in the posts.
I would rather prefer a "perfect" archive, where anyone looking could get a copy of the intact document that was posted at that time.
I wonder if a balance can be achieved between email harvesting and protecting the original documents.
I don't think that a TS 2000 ever existed, perhaps you were thinking about a TS 2068 ?. I had a TS 1000 (with the 16K expansion pack that could freak out any time you touch it). I still own a TS 2068 and I allow my kids to "play" with it. Who knows perhaps they will develop a taste for computer programming in the future.
The market for retro video games must be really big right now. I have seen those little atari/arcade/namco controllers that plug on the TV to play our all time favorite 8 bit video games popping out on every single toy store.
The question here is, how the emulation scene will be affected and more important when will the ready-for-TV-ZX Spectrum arrive.
Thank you for the reference and link about "Go". I have seen the game many times before in our local Toys R us but never got interested on it. I will definitively give a try as soon as I can.
It is embarrassing but I must confess that I thought that Othello was one of the most complex board games (no counting chess). This just shows how little I know about games around the world.
One of my kids attends school here in the US (third grade), and the level of "math" that she is being thaught is amazing, at least compared with the one that I had back in my "third world" country. Abstract reasoning, pattern extraction, problem solving. All of that has been present since first grade. But, the paradox arises because I am also the legal guardian of a high school boy and I can tell you, that what he is being thaught is a joke ! (I must concede that he is not in the AP or Honor classes).
So what is going on? It seems that there is a disconnection between the advance skill development provided to kids during elementary years, to what is actually available to them when they reach HS. Just the fact that math becomes optional in the last years of high school is enough to explain the findings of the study.
I agree with the premise of your comment, however if that were the only reason to go for a different type of lincese, then why go bother going open source at all ? Perhaps someone with a better insight into the company can tell us what Sun is really trying to do.
Nothing like putting extra printf's to get rid of an error. Thankfully the universe is a better place since the invention of Purify, (since most of the Heisenbugs are memory problems --evil pointers--).
However the most challenging heisenbugs are the timing related ones, specially in networked applications. Those @#%'s are really hard to debug.I remember a project in particular where the heisenbug will only occur in Windows (not flame intended), but it would go away whenever we put a fprintf just before sending any packets trhu the socket.
I think that the developer could not figure out the problem on time for the production deadline, so the fprintf to a bogus file is still there (about 6 years after the fact).
I have been an H1B visa holder for the past five years and I was able to get a job with a pay rate above the 100K per year. I worked for two different high profile companies (in their fields) while enjoying awards, merit raises and promotions.
It seems for some reason that H1B is always associated with cheap labor, but I believe that that has never been the case. A company sponsoring an H1B must spend a considerable amount of time and money in the process, it must also pay for international relocation expenses and on top of that it must wait several months befores the visa is approved (if it does get approved at all).
I don't claim to know the reasons of top managers for doing this, but I guess they expect to get in return highly talented and motivate engineers that can bring a different perpective on how to do things.
The chep labor thing, saddly is an urban myth that will stay for ever.
-Leo
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The first impression after following the links is how weird the new google groups look. The whole censorship of the original emails is enough to destroy any sense of "history" in the posts.
I would rather prefer a "perfect" archive, where anyone looking could get a copy of the intact document that was posted at that time.
I wonder if a balance can be achieved between email harvesting and protecting the original documents.
I don't think that a TS 2000 ever existed, perhaps you were thinking about a TS 2068 ?. I had a TS 1000 (with the 16K expansion pack that could freak out any time you touch it). I still own a TS 2068 and I allow my kids to "play" with it. Who knows perhaps they will develop a taste for computer programming in the future.
The market for retro video games must be really big right now. I have seen those little atari /arcade /namco controllers that plug on the TV to play our all time favorite 8 bit video games popping out on every single toy store.
The question here is, how the emulation scene will be affected and more important when will the ready-for-TV-ZX Spectrum arrive.
Thank you for the reference and link about "Go". I have seen the game many times before in our local Toys R us but never got interested on it. I will definitively give a try as soon as I can.
It is embarrassing but I must confess that I thought that Othello was one of the most complex board games (no counting chess). This just shows how little I know about games around the world.
One of my kids attends school here in the US (third grade), and the level of "math" that she is being thaught is amazing, at least compared with the one that I had back in my "third world" country. Abstract reasoning, pattern extraction, problem solving. All of that has been present since first grade. But, the paradox arises because I am also the legal guardian of a high school boy and I can tell you, that what he is being thaught is a joke ! (I must concede that he is not in the AP or Honor classes).
So what is going on? It seems that there is a disconnection between the advance skill development provided to kids during elementary years, to what is actually available to them when they reach HS. Just the fact that math becomes optional in the last years of high school is enough to explain the findings of the study.
I agree with the premise of your comment, however if that were the only reason to go for a different type of lincese, then why go bother going open source at all ? Perhaps someone with a better insight into the company can tell us what Sun is really trying to do.
Nothing like putting extra printf's to get rid of an error. Thankfully the universe is a better place since the invention of Purify, (since most of the Heisenbugs are memory problems --evil pointers--). However the most challenging heisenbugs are the timing related ones, specially in networked applications. Those @#%'s are really hard to debug.I remember a project in particular where the heisenbug will only occur in Windows (not flame intended), but it would go away whenever we put a fprintf just before sending any packets trhu the socket. I think that the developer could not figure out the problem on time for the production deadline, so the fprintf to a bogus file is still there (about 6 years after the fact).
I have been an H1B visa holder for the past five years and I was able to get a job with a pay rate above the 100K per year. I worked for two different high profile companies (in their fields) while enjoying awards, merit raises and promotions. It seems for some reason that H1B is always associated with cheap labor, but I believe that that has never been the case. A company sponsoring an H1B must spend a considerable amount of time and money in the process, it must also pay for international relocation expenses and on top of that it must wait several months befores the visa is approved (if it does get approved at all). I don't claim to know the reasons of top managers for doing this, but I guess they expect to get in return highly talented and motivate engineers that can bring a different perpective on how to do things. The chep labor thing, saddly is an urban myth that will stay for ever. -Leo