And of course, the fact that 2001 et all claimed it to be "the one" 8^)
Seriously, the heat on Europa is also partially due to the deforming effects of being in Jupiter's gravitational well. The surface has tides which generates heat through the friction.
The info is correct in this case. The pointing was off enough that as they got closer, the asteroid moved out of the field of view. The ion detection experiment got data so it wasn't a total washout. The other thing to remember is that this was a "getaway special" to validate technology and the fact that they passed so close was a major piece of the validation. The mission wasn't to get a picture but for an autonomous approach/flyby.
No, it implies that they said hydrocarbons (like methane) and the press went and said, what's a simple word for hydrocarbons that the illiterate readership and relate to... hmmmm... OIL!
Does anyone else read the BBC article and think of he old stories of the canals on Mars? I really smile when I read a paragraph like:
The dark material could be a sea of liquid methane, ethane or other hydrocarbons," Livermore's Bruce Macintosh said. "It's one of the darkest things in the solar system. It could also be solid organic material."
Seems to me the simple answer is to process all blocks twice and compare the results. This would then solve/detect the problem where a hacked client was sending back "untrue" results. Anything that comes back with "different" results gets sent to a third "validated" respondent and the differing on of the initial pair gets demoted from validated. This also solves the workload bottleneck for the time being.
I think there are other technologies coming that will allow for flexible screens so the laptop will be no bigger than the keyboard (imagine a standard desktop keyboard) with a pull out screen that comes out of the top almost like a piece of paper going into one of those paper port keyboards. A couple of side stiffeners and it would be stable. The electric ink technology is showing it can be done on 3mm vinyl for posters. The speed and color will come with time. The biggest thing with flat panels today is the protection from damage. If it rolls up in the keyboard like a window blind (maybe I should trademark that as a name? 8^), it's pretty safe. We know that the other components will fit in the housing. We're doing it in the Palm and WinCE world already. I'd much prefer a standard keyboard. I'd also prefer a portrait display which addresses the big screen, small footprint better since you're rolling up the large axis into the smaller width. With a standard laptop there's no advantage to screen orientation.
I'm 43. I'm a well paid consultant, working in the trenches, writing code. I've been ou on my own since 1988 and I've found that if I want to avoid the management game (the fingers are too far from the keyboard), being a technical consultant is a good trade-off. One of the things I've come to realize is that if they're going to pay top dollar, they aren't going to give you a crap project.
When I got started coding, it was very important to know what every byte was being used for. You had to code efficiently and elegantly, simply to fit in the machine. You could debug code and actually see the big picture. lately, with the advent of cheap storage, code has lost the constraint of the hardware. People have lost sight of the fact that layers of abstraction aren't always good. You need to know what's going on at the hardware level if you're in a performance critical application. Lots of people jump on the bloatware bandwagon but very few realize that the talent to avoid it is being lost, slowly but surely. Performance is becoming a big issue in the industry but Moore's Law just says to wait and it will get better. I think that the lack of low level programming skills is starting to erode the programmer base and people are losing touch with the implementation.
The other side of the coin that I'm seeing as a hiring resource is that freshouts are coming into the industry expecting people to fall all over them just because they know how to put the latest compiler on their machine. One of the main questions I ask these kids when the come in is what the largest codebase is that they've worked on. Many of them have never worked on large scale systems. I'm hearing numbers in the "hundreds of lines of code" for the most part. Very few new team members are going to come on board and be given a blank sheet of paper to go write code on. They are going to come into a 2nd or 3rd generation software project to fix bugs or to add minor features. They may have to dive into 100k lines of code to try to figure out what's going on before they even get to write one line of their own. If they can't get their brains around it, they can't be a productive member of the team. I hold the schools responsible for this. I see the Linux movement helping here to a large extent because most up and coming "hackers" (the CORRECT usage) can't resist diving into their favorite distribution and trying to get their name on some patch. As that hiring manager, I'm thrilled to find that kid, but I'm more likely to hire the old hand that's been on several project teams and owned some subsystem. That old "folk" is going to get his brain around the project much faster than some script kiddie, used to dealing with 1-200 lines at a time. He's going to be more expensive to hire (but that gap seems to be closing fast, just ask someone 5 years out of college about freshout salaries) but hes going to contribute. I'm seeing a generally older median age in successful projects.
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Boy does that all sound familiar. That was certainly part of the DEC spiral. Look at the comments about trying to sell VMS as open standards. The meeting comments especially. Nice to see that DEC lives on...
Yeah, but Palmer was like that too. It's somewhat a hidden agenda to go over what's happening behind the scenes. When I used to do setup/breakdown in the 80s I was far more impressed by the DEC VPs that showed up in shorts and a sweatshirt and got their hands dirty. You felt that they cared about getting it done and had a vested interest in it happening. Suits hovering over setup (never breakdown since they were long gone at that point) always reminded me of the 4 DPW foremen standing around telling the one guy with the shovel to dig faster...
It is good to know that he wasn't above talking to the SEs but it's nice when they're also willing to dive into the trenches.
High, but never 100%. You always have the option of only reading the stories that interest you. It certainly isn't a serial stream. Did you comment to the other sites that their ratio was too low?
On the other side of the same coin, I will agree with another comment I saw recently that made the point that/. seems to be getting to be more of a press release portal lately.
As a former DEC consultant, I'm very pleased that Compaq went this way as opposed to the rumors about bringing Palmer back to run the place. Palmer was a great axe man but I never had much confidence in him actually being able to run more than an auction. The rule of thumb in the late 80s/early 90s was if you showed a profit, you were sold. Of course this wasn't always good news for the likes of Quantum, Intel and Cabletron which were on the receiving end.
Seems to me that one of the weakest points in the whole thing is the fact that most computer systems are monolithic. Even SMP is still modelled after a monolithic machine. What we need is multiple independent machines coexisting in the same memory space and able to run checks and balances on each other. This has the added benefit of being able to run multiple platform apps in their native format. Seems to me that this type of watchdog system would prevent a lot of lower level crap that the current systems allow. A cooperative file system based on a server metaphor would allow only authorized access and it could be that programs were allowed certain rights upon initial execution (which is what the encryption stuff I'm working on now enforces)And I mean at the level of a specific Word Macro, not ALL Word Macros. Most people would do fine with this since once something is installed and loaded, it would have the rights it needed and wouldn't be any different than today.
I commute past there and saw the article. The dome was cleared off by the 5pm commute last night even through the article claimed they'd leave it up until thursday
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There was a press release yesterday that stated that ViaVoice from IBM had a beta on the 6.0 app CD
Yep, I do know. Like I said, my training is nuclear physics but my career is CS. That was a choice based on morals.
A fission trigger will still pollute enough but the yield will be enhanced by fusion. They're both nukes as designed by the current arsenals.
As for my funding comment, the comment was in response to a US based observation. Since you called me on it, you obviously realized it was US based as well. I can only speak of the job market I'm in. I guess I didn't realize readers needed such specific context.
Sorry guys, you don't see the point. Nobody is funding it because they already have a weapon from the technology. The only projects that get funded are weapon systems or weapons support systems with very few exceptions. That's a major reason my my major was physics but my career is CS.
Are there notes made available from these meetings? I have a class in central mass tonight that I need to go to. Is there additional info available on BVU?
I've asked about this before. I wouldn't mind donating some cycles to the project. I have a contract that would work very well with Speech input. Mostly I need a system that will record/recognize stuff for data capture in real time with offline verification/correction. Basically a voice dump/sink. I have also heard that Dictaphone was supporting an offline/after the fact server for speech to text.
Spicy food and take-out containers don't mix. If the container can hold it, it isn't hot enough 8^)
Personally, the commercial food preparations aren't anywhere near what you can do on your own but with a fast connection and high performance devo system, there wouldn't be enough wait time to cook 8^)
Give them a T3 and one of the Penguin 8 processor boxes and a few broken drivers (to work on) and you could have the house in any backwoods location that Domino's delivers to.
I worked for John back in his DEC days. He has no love of MS. They didn't make his time at DEC any easier. I did find it humorous when Compaq bought DEC and he got control over his old, ousted position again. I will definately have to follow his testimony and see how brown his nose has gotten. I'm not sure 15 years is enough time to do a full 180...
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And of course, the fact that 2001 et all claimed it to be "the one" 8^)
Seriously, the heat on Europa is also partially due to the deforming effects of being in Jupiter's gravitational well. The surface has tides which generates heat through the friction.
The info is correct in this case. The pointing was off enough that as they got closer, the asteroid moved out of the field of view. The ion detection experiment got data so it wasn't a total washout. The other thing to remember is that this was a "getaway special" to validate technology and the fact that they passed so close was a major piece of the validation. The mission wasn't to get a picture but for an autonomous approach/flyby.
No, it implies that they said hydrocarbons (like methane) and the press went and said, what's a simple word for hydrocarbons that the illiterate readership and relate to... hmmmm... OIL!
Does anyone else read the BBC article and think of he old stories of the canals on Mars? I really smile when I read a paragraph like:
The dark material could be a sea of liquid methane, ethane or other hydrocarbons," Livermore's Bruce Macintosh said. "It's one of the darkest things in the solar system. It could also be solid organic material."
Seems to me the simple answer is to process all blocks twice and compare the results. This would then solve/detect the problem where a hacked client was sending back "untrue" results. Anything that comes back with "different" results gets sent to a third "validated" respondent and the differing on of the initial pair gets demoted from validated. This also solves the workload bottleneck for the time being.
One thing that most people seem to be ignoring is that this is also the basis for your 17" flat desktop display.
I think there are other technologies coming that will allow for flexible screens so the laptop will be no bigger than the keyboard (imagine a standard desktop keyboard) with a pull out screen that comes out of the top almost like a piece of paper going into one of those paper port keyboards. A couple of side stiffeners and it would be stable. The electric ink technology is showing it can be done on 3mm vinyl for posters. The speed and color will come with time. The biggest thing with flat panels today is the protection from damage. If it rolls up in the keyboard like a window blind (maybe I should trademark that as a name? 8^), it's pretty safe. We know that the other components will fit in the housing. We're doing it in the Palm and WinCE world already. I'd much prefer a standard keyboard. I'd also prefer a portrait display which addresses the big screen, small footprint better since you're rolling up the large axis into the smaller width. With a standard laptop there's no advantage to screen orientation.
I'm 43. I'm a well paid consultant, working in the trenches, writing code. I've been ou on my own since 1988 and I've found that if I want to avoid the management game (the fingers are too far from the keyboard), being a technical consultant is a good trade-off. One of the things I've come to realize is that if they're going to pay top dollar, they aren't going to give you a crap project.
When I got started coding, it was very important to know what every byte was being used for. You had to code efficiently and elegantly, simply to fit in the machine. You could debug code and actually see the big picture. lately, with the advent of cheap storage, code has lost the constraint of the hardware. People have lost sight of the fact that layers of abstraction aren't always good. You need to know what's going on at the hardware level if you're in a performance critical application. Lots of people jump on the bloatware bandwagon but very few realize that the talent to avoid it is being lost, slowly but surely. Performance is becoming a big issue in the industry but Moore's Law just says to wait and it will get better. I think that the lack of low level programming skills is starting to erode the programmer base and people are losing touch with the implementation.
The other side of the coin that I'm seeing as a hiring resource is that freshouts are coming into the industry expecting people to fall all over them just because they know how to put the latest compiler on their machine. One of the main questions I ask these kids when the come in is what the largest codebase is that they've worked on. Many of them have never worked on large scale systems. I'm hearing numbers in the "hundreds of lines of code" for the most part. Very few new team members are going to come on board and be given a blank sheet of paper to go write code on. They are going to come into a 2nd or 3rd generation software project to fix bugs or to add minor features. They may have to dive into 100k lines of code to try to figure out what's going on before they even get to write one line of their own. If they can't get their brains around it, they can't be a productive member of the team. I hold the schools responsible for this. I see the Linux movement helping here to a large extent because most up and coming "hackers" (the CORRECT usage) can't resist diving into their favorite distribution and trying to get their name on some patch. As that hiring manager, I'm thrilled to find that kid, but I'm more likely to hire the old hand that's been on several project teams and owned some subsystem. That old "folk" is going to get his brain around the project much faster than some script kiddie, used to dealing with 1-200 lines at a time. He's going to be more expensive to hire (but that gap seems to be closing fast, just ask someone 5 years out of college about freshout salaries) but hes going to contribute. I'm seeing a generally older median age in successful projects.
Boy does that all sound familiar. That was certainly part of the DEC spiral. Look at the comments about trying to sell VMS as open standards. The meeting comments especially. Nice to see that DEC lives on...
Yeah, but Palmer was like that too. It's somewhat a hidden agenda to go over what's happening behind the scenes. When I used to do setup/breakdown in the 80s I was far more impressed by the DEC VPs that showed up in shorts and a sweatshirt and got their hands dirty. You felt that they cared about getting it done and had a vested interest in it happening. Suits hovering over setup (never breakdown since they were long gone at that point) always reminded me of the 4 DPW foremen standing around telling the one guy with the shovel to dig faster...
It is good to know that he wasn't above talking to the SEs but it's nice when they're also willing to dive into the trenches.
High, but never 100%. You always have the option of only reading the stories that interest you. It certainly isn't a serial stream. Did you comment to the other sites that their ratio was too low?
/. seems to be getting to be more of a press release portal lately.
On the other side of the same coin, I will agree with another comment I saw recently that made the point that
As a former DEC consultant, I'm very pleased that Compaq went this way as opposed to the rumors about bringing Palmer back to run the place. Palmer was a great axe man but I never had much confidence in him actually being able to run more than an auction. The rule of thumb in the late 80s/early 90s was if you showed a profit, you were sold. Of course this wasn't always good news for the likes of Quantum, Intel and Cabletron which were on the receiving end.
Because that is where we assume all the brain tissue migrated too
Seems to me that one of the weakest points in the whole thing is the fact that most computer systems are monolithic. Even SMP is still modelled after a monolithic machine. What we need is multiple independent machines coexisting in the same memory space and able to run checks and balances on each other. This has the added benefit of being able to run multiple platform apps in their native format. Seems to me that this type of watchdog system would prevent a lot of lower level crap that the current systems allow. A cooperative file system based on a server metaphor would allow only authorized access and it could be that programs were allowed certain rights upon initial execution (which is what the encryption stuff I'm working on now enforces)And I mean at the level of a specific Word Macro, not ALL Word Macros. Most people would do fine with this since once something is installed and loaded, it would have the rights it needed and wouldn't be any different than today.
I commute past there and saw the article. The dome was cleared off by the 5pm commute last night even through the article claimed they'd leave it up until thursday
There was a press release yesterday that stated that ViaVoice from IBM had a beta on the 6.0 app CD
into a big tank with nutrients being fed in and waste heat being used to... hey, wait a minute...
Yep, I do know. Like I said, my training is nuclear physics but my career is CS. That was a choice based on morals.
A fission trigger will still pollute enough but the yield will be enhanced by fusion. They're both nukes as designed by the current arsenals.
As for my funding comment, the comment was in response to a US based observation. Since you called me on it, you obviously realized it was US based as well. I can only speak of the job market I'm in. I guess I didn't realize readers needed such specific context.
Sorry guys, you don't see the point. Nobody is funding it because they already have a weapon from the technology. The only projects that get funded are weapon systems or weapons support systems with very few exceptions. That's a major reason my my major was physics but my career is CS.
My favorite quote is:
Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Are there notes made available from these meetings? I have a class in central mass tonight that I need to go to. Is there additional info available on BVU?
I've asked about this before. I wouldn't mind donating some cycles to the project. I have a contract that would work very well with Speech input. Mostly I need a system that will record/recognize stuff for data capture in real time with offline verification/correction. Basically a voice dump/sink. I have also heard that Dictaphone was supporting an offline/after the fact server for speech to text.
Will just wants to yell at his robots 8^)
Spicy food and take-out containers don't mix. If the container can hold it, it isn't hot enough 8^)
Personally, the commercial food preparations aren't anywhere near what you can do on your own but with a fast connection and high performance devo system, there wouldn't be enough wait time to cook 8^)
Give them a T3 and one of the Penguin 8 processor boxes and a few broken drivers (to work on) and you could have the house in any backwoods location that Domino's delivers to.
When are people going to realize that you can write an applet that will do the same thing from a website and defeat TURNING IT OFF.
I worked for John back in his DEC days. He has no love of MS. They didn't make his time at DEC any easier. I did find it humorous when Compaq bought DEC and he got control over his old, ousted position again. I will definately have to follow his testimony and see how brown his nose has gotten. I'm not sure 15 years is enough time to do a full 180...