"you'd think that after the dot.com bubble burst the venture capitalists would be a little more careful with their money when it came to tech"
I *strongly* suspect that venture capitalists (and brokers) made a killing during the dot com era regardless of the collapse.
It's the bigger fool idea - each person buys at stupidly inflated prices assuming there is an even bigger fool who will buy after them - but the VCs get in first so there was very often much bigger fools begging to be ripped off.
I seriously doubt that another bubble is going to be seen as anything but an opportunity by VCs.
or the Greg Bear novel 'Slant' where a scientist intentionally causes something like Tourette's in herself to 'get an edge'. I never really understood how it supposed to help though.
Wish I worked for an employer like you. I'm getting grief about coming in at 11am. The fact that I a) work about 20 hours per week longer than most and b) actually achieve things (unlike a large minority) seems to be completely beside the point.
If your butt's not warming the seat at 7.30am then you've "got a bad attitude". One of the guys on my team has had several "attitude reassignment meetings" I'm still waiting for my first... any day now...
I have worked with some very good and some very bad developers. In my experience, there is no strong correlation with style of course taken.
There are great programmers who didn't study CS at university and there are also certainly some appalling post-university developers (and post "vocational" institution developers). However, the inverse is also true.
The best developers learn most of what they know because they want to and would learn it whether they go to university or not. The piece of paper, wherever it comes from, is just a ticket to a job. Once in the front door, hopefully, they can show what they can do and it shouldn't matter.
I've been in a position both as a TA and as an "industry supervisor" where I have been told not to fail students. Failing students reflects badly on the wrong people and can mean funding problems. I'm not at all surprised that people are graduating from university who can't code. Just don't assume they understand the theory not the practice - it's more likely they just don't have a clue.
The company I work for used "disabled" (as in disability) in variable names. Locally, this term is not at all sensitive but is a big red button for the overly PC country where many of our customers are. Turns out that there's actually a law against it so we had to change every reference (and there's thousands) to this as we deliver full source.
I can only imagine how much worse this would be if programmers wrote code assuming source would never be published.
Ah, the mote in God's eye - don't expect a faithful interpretation of this from Hollywood any time soon. Lines abot how useless pregnant women are probably wouldn't go down all that well.
the data in the XML document is available to any application
Not with any meaningful intepretaion. The problem is there no information about the meaning of the terms that appear nor about the meaning of the absence of terms.
Even with a DTD/schema all you get is syntactic information - it doesn't tell you what anything actually means without getting access to documentation.
Good specification documentation that is freely available and freely implementable makes something open.
From TFA: "Like the iPod, it will be a simple device"
This is a full desktop-style PC running a full unix-style operating system - this is not simple in the same sense as the iPod. It has massive capability (and complexity) that a dedicated device like the iPod doesn't have and it doesn't have a simple play/stop/next type of interface. It doesn't even have anything like the specs of a "media" PC (no remote, no on box LCD disply, no on box controls - volume, play/stop, etc).
I see it as the new cube - cute but not particularly exciting.
An algorithm (as linked to in another post) that could be run on a quantum computer can do this in about the same amount of time as it took to generate the key in the first place (i.e. very, very quickly).
Bottom line: When someone says "only the person with the private key can decrypt it" you can automatically add "or someone with lots of computing power". A quantum computer just makes a much more efficient solution possible.
This would not just get thrown out in Australia but the lawyer that threatened legal action could be disbarred ("struck off the roll").
Here, it is against the law to threaten someone with being sued. The law is not a tool/weapon to be used by those in the know or with the money to pay them.
IANAL (but I know one who nearly got into trouble for this)
I convinced my employer to get me a Dual 2GHz G5 with a 20" cinema display.
I am very impressed.
Now tell *me* how to do this...
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nonsense - no government in the world can guarantee safety. It's the illusion of this that was destroyed for Americans (and "western liberal democracies" in general) on 9/11 and for many others at various different points in history.
Strangely enough, this seems to have strengthened the various governments rather than weakened them.
As has been proven time and time again, human beings are much tougher and more resilient than we often give ourselves credit for.
asynchronous CPUs - different parts of the CPU go at their own speed and the results are co-ordinated in other ways (i.e. without lockstep execution across the whole chip).
This is much more complicated to design and to mass produce but the power savings may make it worthwhile.
The vast majority of information and communication is from/between people who are not "the press".
"freedom of speech" doesn't have to be total for useful information and communication to take place. This is a good thing because it doesn't exist anywhere that I am aware of.
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"you'd think that after the dot.com bubble burst the venture capitalists would be a little more careful with their money when it came to tech"
I *strongly* suspect that venture capitalists (and brokers) made a killing during the dot com era regardless of the collapse.
It's the bigger fool idea - each person buys at stupidly inflated prices assuming there is an even bigger fool who will buy after them - but the VCs get in first so there was very often much bigger fools begging to be ripped off.
I seriously doubt that another bubble is going to be seen as anything but an opportunity by VCs.
or the Greg Bear novel 'Slant' where a scientist intentionally causes something like Tourette's in herself to 'get an edge'. I never really understood how it supposed to help though.
I belive the photo referred to is http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog200405252.jpg which clearly shows someone wearing a British uniform - certainly no stars and stripes. See here for comparison.
Wow. This is *exactly* the situation in Australia - just change the names of the guilty:
Telia -> Telstra
Televerket -> Telecom
Wish I worked for an employer like you. I'm getting grief about coming in at 11am. The fact that I a) work about 20 hours per week longer than most and b) actually achieve things (unlike a large minority) seems to be completely beside the point.
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If your butt's not warming the seat at 7.30am then you've "got a bad attitude". One of the guys on my team has had several "attitude reassignment meetings" I'm still waiting for my first... any day now
your corporate environment must be different to mine:
:-)
:-)
* average English grammar/spelling around about 6th grade
* better than 25% people w/ English as second language
The funny thing is that it's those from English speaking countries who seem to have the worst grammar/spelling (particularly northern England
BTW your post would have been blocked: Spelling unknown - posible spam "maby"
I have worked with some very good and some very bad developers. In my experience, there is no strong correlation with style of course taken.
There are great programmers who didn't study CS at university and there are also certainly some appalling post-university developers (and post "vocational" institution developers). However, the inverse is also true.
The best developers learn most of what they know because they want to and would learn it whether they go to university or not. The piece of paper, wherever it comes from, is just a ticket to a job. Once in the front door, hopefully, they can show what they can do and it shouldn't matter.
I've been in a position both as a TA and as an "industry supervisor" where I have been told not to fail students. Failing students reflects badly on the wrong people and can mean funding problems. I'm not at all surprised that people are graduating from university who can't code. Just don't assume they understand the theory not the practice - it's more likely they just don't have a clue.
The company I work for used "disabled" (as in disability) in variable names. Locally, this term is not at all sensitive but is a big red button for the overly PC country where many of our customers are. Turns out that there's actually a law against it so we had to change every reference (and there's thousands) to this as we deliver full source.
I can only imagine how much worse this would be if programmers wrote code assuming source would never be published.
Java and python are interpreted.
Guess what the interpreters are generally written in?
Ah, the mote in God's eye - don't expect a faithful interpretation of this from Hollywood any time soon. Lines abot how useless pregnant women are probably wouldn't go down all that well.
the data in the XML document is available to any application
Not with any meaningful intepretaion. The problem is there no information about the meaning of the terms that appear nor about the meaning of the absence of terms.
Even with a DTD/schema all you get is syntactic information - it doesn't tell you what anything actually means without getting access to documentation.
Good specification documentation that is freely available and freely implementable makes something open.
From TFA: "Like the iPod, it will be a simple device"
This is a full desktop-style PC running a full unix-style operating
system - this is not simple in the same sense as the iPod. It has
massive capability (and complexity) that a dedicated device like the
iPod doesn't have and it doesn't have a simple play/stop/next type of
interface. It doesn't even have anything like the specs of a "media"
PC (no remote, no on box LCD disply, no on box controls - volume,
play/stop, etc).
I see it as the new cube - cute but not particularly exciting.
My AMD64 runs fine without a fan - currently sitting at 39 C/102 F.
There are some exceptional heat sinks out there...
You don't try every key at once - you use an algorithm to derive the private key from the public key.
9 0 for some examples.
The algorithms to do this for current processors are very expensive (i.e. take a very long time). See http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=21
An algorithm (as linked to in another post) that could be run on a quantum computer can do this in about the same amount of time as it took to generate the key in the first place (i.e. very, very quickly).
Bottom line: When someone says "only the person with the private key can decrypt it" you can automatically add "or someone with lots of computing power". A quantum computer just makes a much more efficient solution possible.
you don't need dna to prove that someone was somewhere at some time [...] usually someone saw them
Eyewitness testimony is often the least reliable but, unfortunately, carries most weight with the average juror.
Whilst you are correct that 'your majesty' is appropriate and 'your grace' is inappropriate, it is not reserved for religion.
In the British nobility one addresses a duke as 'your grace'.
This would not just get thrown out in Australia but the lawyer that threatened legal action could be disbarred ("struck off the roll").
Here, it is against the law to threaten someone with being sued. The law is not a tool/weapon to be used by those in the know or with the money to pay them.
IANAL (but I know one who nearly got into trouble for this)
I convinced my employer to get me a Dual 2GHz G5 with a 20" cinema display.
I am very impressed.
Now tell *me* how to do this...
nonsense - no government in the world can guarantee safety. It's the illusion of this that was destroyed for Americans (and "western liberal democracies" in general) on 9/11 and for many others at various different points in history.
Strangely enough, this seems to have strengthened the various governments rather than weakened them.
As has been proven time and time again, human beings are much tougher and more resilient than we often give ourselves credit for.
asynchronous CPUs - different parts of the CPU go at their own speed and the results are co-ordinated in other ways (i.e. without lockstep execution across the whole chip).
This is much more complicated to design and to mass produce but the power savings may make it worthwhile.
exactly how was this a troll?
Total freedom of speech is not available anywhere for some very good reasons.
The vast majority of information and communication is from/between people who are not "the press".
"freedom of speech" doesn't have to be total for useful information and communication to take place.
This is a good thing because it doesn't exist anywhere that I am aware of.
our new Chinese overlords
Is it funny when it's true?