Sorry for replying to myself, but I totally forgot the really best one. Rickard Wilson made the one of the most visited doctorate disputation ever at Chalmers in 1955. It was covered by papers, radio and even national TV (at a time when there was only a single channel in Sweden!). The topic was fatilar calculus (fatilarkalkyl). The only thing is, it was fake (the Gothenburg papers had got a notice before so it was only Stockholm ones that really published articles about it...)
Lots of pranks are done at Chalmers too. My favorite is when a couple of chalmerists went to the city public parking dept and asked to buy a park bench. The answer, of course, was no. But after some nagging, ultimately, the students got to buy a bench. They got a receipt and all.
The students started to carry the bench all over the city. Of course, the suspicious behavior made the police stop them. Multiple times... Finally, there was a broadcast on the police radio "there are two chalmerists carrying a park bench. DO NOT stop them - they have bought it and have a receipt". Of course, the radio amateur students were listening to the police radio at the time, and all the park benches in the city were carried by two students each (not the original ones) and all put on Götaplatsen...
There are many other good pranks from Chalmers though, like welding a tram to its track (if that hadn't cost really lots of money as the tram broke catastrofically it would have been great), or exchanging the messages of the speed radar notifications (mere notification, no speed cameras) outside town in the eighties for references to Woody Woodpecker, the mascot of the newly started computer engineering programme. And there probably is a whole bunch of them that I totally forgot, too.
MS is already pushing driver updates through Windows Update. For my computer, it has suggested updates for my network card, my Ti4200 graphics card, and my Hercules Game Theatre XP sound card. Sadly, only one of them worked. The graphics card driver was a newer version that didn't play well with my TV card - can't really blame MS for that one. The driver for the sound card was worse though - as it was for other soundcards than mine (with the same chipset) and installing it meant broken sound, and reinstalling of the real driver...
In Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia, christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve, not on Christmas day. Even though normally santa won't come until the afternoon or evening (and visit the children in person so they can get really scared so they, hopefully, behave the next year), there still probably are plenty of families who Santa already left earlier than five hours ago from now...
The point I actually was trying to get to was that there probably are a lot more younger programmers, as the whole sector has grown really much. We have autodidact programmers today aswell...
"Lots" is a very relative word. Yes, there WERE educations in (EE)CS, yes. The amount of them have grown tremendously though, and the sizes of the classes probably too. As a reference, the CS programme at my university started 19 years ago, and after that huge amounts of other CS programmes have been started, even at universities and university colleges that hadn't even started 20 years ago!
1) You would have at least one alternative career path.
2) There probably aren't that many of them. Few people change career totally at higher ages - most choose at least the general direction while growing up. And the software business has grown hugely the last 15-20 years...
... or possibly, there just aren't that many programmers over 40. Most educations aimed at programming started approximately 15-20 years ago or less. If you were programming before that, it wasn't very likely that you had been educated for programming, but for something else...
Actually I think that it might be a GOOD idea for them. Most matchmaking sites available today are really really expensive to use, which tend to really nullify their practical usefulness (it simply costs too much for the not-so-desperate singles out there). I just don't really understand what it is that costs that much, and kinda hope that it would be the same for Google (yeah I'm the classical/. stereotype single male...)
"You are so (amskralig) that i pee in my underwear (nar) I see it".
The dots that sometimes are above "a" are important in Swedish! (to be really exact it isn't dots above a, ä and a are different letters in Swedish. Mixing them up is like mixing up u and o in English, or something...
är = are (to be)
ar = are (100 m^2)
nar = not a word in Swedish
när = when
amskralig = not a word in Swedish, you possibly meant "anskrämlig", but that isn't really a common word...
Scanning it and using OCR to read the words seems like a more sensible thing to do, then post-processing it by sorting out only unique words. Of course, a backside with this solution is that there WILL be some manual tidying-up to do...
In general I agree with your post, I still have to add the following though:
Uhm, AppleScript. At work we have a scripting program for Windows named MacroWorks to, it is able to show windows etc too...
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It sure does raise cost, exactly as you say. But if you're making the components smaller, you'll be able to make the chips smaller, implying:
1) more chips in each wafer
2) assuming same density of defects in the silicon crystal, a higher yield rate, as there is a lower chance that there is an error in each chip, as the area of each chip gets smaller. (easy demonstration: take a paper, draw 10 random dots on it. If you then split the paper in 8 pieces the chance of having a dot on a specific piece of paper is bigger than if you split the paper in 16 pieces)
1) and 2) together means that even if your costs will rise, as long as your density of errors rises dramatically (it isn't supposed to), you'll be able to get a lot more chips per wafer.
Conclusion: Even if the costs per wafer rise, as long as the cost per chip sinks, it will be profitable business.
If it's still PD that doesn't mean it's available - e.g. it's a really obscure, but very good program that only the "middle-hand" has possibility to get. Then the program would only be available to the public with restrictions. With GPL, those additions would be illegal to make.
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Sorry for replying to myself, but I totally forgot the really best one. Rickard Wilson made the one of the most visited doctorate disputation ever at Chalmers in 1955. It was covered by papers, radio and even national TV (at a time when there was only a single channel in Sweden!). The topic was fatilar calculus (fatilarkalkyl). The only thing is, it was fake (the Gothenburg papers had got a notice before so it was only Stockholm ones that really published articles about it...)
More info if you speak Swedish: 1, 2.
Lots of pranks are done at Chalmers too. My favorite is when a couple of chalmerists went to the city public parking dept and asked to buy a park bench. The answer, of course, was no. But after some nagging, ultimately, the students got to buy a bench. They got a receipt and all.
The students started to carry the bench all over the city. Of course, the suspicious behavior made the police stop them. Multiple times... Finally, there was a broadcast on the police radio "there are two chalmerists carrying a park bench. DO NOT stop them - they have bought it and have a receipt". Of course, the radio amateur students were listening to the police radio at the time, and all the park benches in the city were carried by two students each (not the original ones) and all put on Götaplatsen...
There are many other good pranks from Chalmers though, like welding a tram to its track (if that hadn't cost really lots of money as the tram broke catastrofically it would have been great), or exchanging the messages of the speed radar notifications (mere notification, no speed cameras) outside town in the eighties for references to Woody Woodpecker, the mascot of the newly started computer engineering programme. And there probably is a whole bunch of them that I totally forgot, too.
MS is already pushing driver updates through Windows Update. For my computer, it has suggested updates for my network card, my Ti4200 graphics card, and my Hercules Game Theatre XP sound card. Sadly, only one of them worked. The graphics card driver was a newer version that didn't play well with my TV card - can't really blame MS for that one. The driver for the sound card was worse though - as it was for other soundcards than mine (with the same chipset) and installing it meant broken sound, and reinstalling of the real driver...
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In Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia, christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve, not on Christmas day. Even though normally santa won't come until the afternoon or evening (and visit the children in person so they can get really scared so they, hopefully, behave the next year), there still probably are plenty of families who Santa already left earlier than five hours ago from now...
Look at the @ symbol. Until email, few people would ever consider using @, in fact, I can't even remember why the symbol existed before email.
One example: It was used in AutoCAD for specifying relative coordinates.
The point I actually was trying to get to was that there probably are a lot more younger programmers, as the whole sector has grown really much. We have autodidact programmers today aswell...
should have been your subject instead... :)
"Lots" is a very relative word. Yes, there WERE educations in (EE)CS, yes. The amount of them have grown tremendously though, and the sizes of the classes probably too. As a reference, the CS programme at my university started 19 years ago, and after that huge amounts of other CS programmes have been started, even at universities and university colleges that hadn't even started 20 years ago!
1) You would have at least one alternative career path.
2) There probably aren't that many of them. Few people change career totally at higher ages - most choose at least the general direction while growing up. And the software business has grown hugely the last 15-20 years...
... or possibly, there just aren't that many programmers over 40. Most educations aimed at programming started approximately 15-20 years ago or less. If you were programming before that, it wasn't very likely that you had been educated for programming, but for something else...
wouldn't it be much easier just to use the permalink?
Muchas gracias, señor!
Actually I think that it might be a GOOD idea for them. Most matchmaking sites available today are really really expensive to use, which tend to really nullify their practical usefulness (it simply costs too much for the not-so-desperate singles out there). I just don't really understand what it is that costs that much, and kinda hope that it would be the same for Google (yeah I'm the classical /. stereotype single male...)
The DC protocol already does exactly what you describe (private hubs).
if it works maybe we will see some form of freeware educational e-books. it seems like a noble effort to help educate people.
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Isn't there even a possibility for a solution in a non-euclidian geometry?
Because less parts = cheaper...
"You are so (amskralig) that i pee in my underwear (nar) I see it".
The dots that sometimes are above "a" are important in Swedish! (to be really exact it isn't dots above a, ä and a are different letters in Swedish. Mixing them up is like mixing up u and o in English, or something...
är = are (to be)
ar = are (100 m^2)
nar = not a word in Swedish
när = when
amskralig = not a word in Swedish, you possibly meant "anskrämlig", but that isn't really a common word...
I'm writing in Swenglish, you insensitive clod! ;-) (no hard feelings, just had to explain the error...)
Scanning it and using OCR to read the words seems like a more sensible thing to do, then post-processing it by sorting out only unique words. Of course, a backside with this solution is that there WILL be some manual tidying-up to do...
unless you've seen a script with a GUI,
In general I agree with your post, I still have to add the following though:
Uhm, AppleScript. At work we have a scripting program for Windows named MacroWorks to, it is able to show windows etc too...
It sure does raise cost, exactly as you say. But if you're making the components smaller, you'll be able to make the chips smaller, implying:
1) more chips in each wafer
2) assuming same density of defects in the silicon crystal, a higher yield rate, as there is a lower chance that there is an error in each chip, as the area of each chip gets smaller. (easy demonstration: take a paper, draw 10 random dots on it. If you then split the paper in 8 pieces the chance of having a dot on a specific piece of paper is bigger than if you split the paper in 16 pieces)
1) and 2) together means that even if your costs will rise, as long as your density of errors rises dramatically (it isn't supposed to), you'll be able to get a lot more chips per wafer.
Conclusion: Even if the costs per wafer rise, as long as the cost per chip sinks, it will be profitable business.
If it's still PD that doesn't mean it's available - e.g. it's a really obscure, but very good program that only the "middle-hand" has possibility to get. Then the program would only be available to the public with restrictions. With GPL, those additions would be illegal to make.
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It already was... :)