Ahh! You can check google/yahoo maps on your mobile phone to find that out. Whay I am asking is "Is there a GPS that gives realtime
traffic information?". Its ok if we need to buy a subscription for it.
This could be a valid patent if somebody did it in 50's or 60's, though it would have expired by now. How come a technique that has been in use for so long be patented? I cannot but observe that this is incompetence of the highest nature on part of the present day patenting process.
Ok I see a lot of comments pointing out Google' flaws. A google recruiter approached me too - And my experiences were not that different. Heck the questions were pretty much same.
What I would like to hear is "What does it take to get in there?". And I am not looking for what's already laid out in the article. Some of these questions are not intended to be solved on the phone(atleast not in their entirety), unless you heard about the problem before. Did you all Googlers solved them on the phone right away? For heaven's sake give us some feedback on the interview. And not the crappy "Wow, we are so cool" messages and pompous advertisements. Until then, I am not applying there again, because I dont see how it could be different this time around.
I cant believe that so many people are ignorant of the range of software IBM does. IBM has entire vertical stack of software including compilers, os, virtual machines, databases, servers, java webserves. Incase you dont know it, it is said that IBM understands Java better than Sun. I am not sure if they have updated their vm', but as of Java 1.4, theirs was faster than Sun.
If there is a industry for a major software product, IBM does it.
Looks like lot of wrong people out there are in power, and are out to extort money.
What has the world come to? First there was internet as tubes comic strip, then there was
somebody who came up with a brilliant plan of charging for e-mails (supposedly to
prevent scam! duh!!) and now ICANN wants to charge these insane amounts of money...
These incompetents dont see how to make money by innovation and thus they resort to
bullying. Taxing businesses unnecessarily is the surest way to kill the market place.
Intel can afford to do this, as its graphics systems are not state of the art, and it does not need to fear competitors stealing trade secrets. This probably is counter move by Intel to face AMD/ATI. This improves the state of art for open-source graphics drivers(licenses permitting). As somebody who needs cheap, no-nonsense, non-gaming, decent graphics on linux workstations, I cant wait to get one of their motherboards with graphics builtin.
Heard of Communism and the total lack of privacy that results in those countries? The deal is, it only works until it does not bother those affected too much.Corner a cat, and we all know what happens...
Hmm.. Since research involves considering a lot of factors while making a decision or arriving at a conclusion.. I wonder if this research is done consciouly or subconsciously..
It is common knowledge that Darwins theory does not specifically goes into details, but gives a general framework to think evolution of organisms in. Though it is not proved, people in the community have a sense that some mutations are not gradual, and evolution does not solve some problems twice. Genetic code contains a lot of junk, but people do feel that junk has a purpose like memory about past problems.
Coming to the funny part, as this guy states about evolution, fish did not ever try to grow one tooth at a time. It probably occured by hardening the jaw first, having some divisions in the jaw, having harder parts on top of the jaw(Called the tooth) and having many tooth. I seriously doubt wether this guy knows Darwins evolution at all..
To start with a CPU has atleast 3 connectors.. keyboard, mouse and monitor cable. I do not see how ppl can have a monitor, keyboard, mouse lying around
wherever they go, even in poor countries.
I guess Microsoft will sell a dumb terminal which accomodates the cellphone. This dumb terminal will have some sort of video card, because the cellphone's graphics h/w for the small terminal may not work with the big screens.. but that might change.
Courtesy service providers, these cell phones in US will be given for free. The dumb terminal might cost like 80$(the screen is the costly part and if its color lcd or something.. I do not know the price.).
Finally cost in US is 80$, where as in the other countries it will be more like 180$(incl. of cell phone).
Make the rich richer and poor poorer.. He hee..
What people forget most here is, you are what you grow up on. If your basics are right, then tool for writing code is not a big deal. There have always been programmers who code 50X faster than other mortals.My professor uses Emacs to such an extent that once he famously said "When are people coming up with emacs on bios, because thats all you need". He is atleast 30X faster than me.
Teach CS students C(because it gives a good idea of how hardware works), Java(gives a very good idea of code reuse), and a functional programming language like Scheme or ML(its more mathematically intuitive and beautifully recursive). I have learnt functional programming last, and God it has undone many of my bad coding practices thus enabling me to write code faster (around 2X). I think students should develop a taste for good code and enjoy it.
Finally in the job, you can learn the libraries (And consequently suffer from some brain damage:)). Learning(Memorizing) libraries and using them a lot does not make you a better programmer. Many of students who do that are just taking a short-cut for getting a job.
Or am I wrong? The article was not very clear. But if they added a gene to make the male mosquitoes glow, just to sort them out they made a big mistake. The females which mate with glow males will not reproduce and so their gene pool goes into oblivion. On the other hand, the offsprings which result from non sterile males will have an interesting characteristic. This will be in effect in 10 generations or something if not straight away. The females will just be turned off by the glow males and will not mate with them. Bingo, back to square one.
But if the mosquitoes are blind to glow, and cannot detect the sterile males then this work would be succesful.
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Now that is retarded. Spell after me, retarded. That single platform is not made possible by Microsoft,
but by intel and other semiconductor companies. The innovations in etching and mass production made it possible. Microsoft was in the right place at right time, kicking IBM hard on its ass.
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May be it is not a Universal binary.
On non-native hardware.
On a related note, Google now has option for tracking realtime data, without entering the location into the mobile. http://www.google.com/gmm/gps.html?utm_source=en-e t-maps&utm_medium=et&utm_source=gpspromo
Ahh! You can check google/yahoo maps on your mobile phone to find that out. Whay I am asking is "Is there a GPS that gives realtime traffic information?". Its ok if we need to buy a subscription for it.
Bah! This doesn't give you real time data. Only slightly better than present day GPS'.
This could be a valid patent if somebody did it in 50's or 60's, though it would have expired by now. How come a technique that has been in use for so long be patented? I cannot but observe that this is incompetence of the highest nature on part of the present day patenting process.
What I would like to hear is "What does it take to get in there?". And I am not looking for what's already laid out in the article. Some of these questions are not intended to be solved on the phone(atleast not in their entirety), unless you heard about the problem before. Did you all Googlers solved them on the phone right away? For heaven's sake give us some feedback on the interview. And not the crappy "Wow, we are so cool" messages and pompous advertisements. Until then, I am not applying there again, because I dont see how it could be different this time around.
I cant believe that so many people are ignorant of the range of software IBM does. IBM has entire vertical stack of software including compilers, os, virtual machines, databases, servers, java webserves. Incase you dont know it, it is said that IBM understands Java better than Sun. I am not sure if they have updated their vm', but as of Java 1.4, theirs was faster than Sun.
If there is a industry for a major software product, IBM does it.
No more burning libraries during invasions! All your dogs, cats have our data.
Isn't this why Windows is hacked more often, because it is more widely used? What did I say???? Screw it..
Now, what happens to birds when you fire a gazillion of these things into sky. On a cautionary note - please keep it away from Dick Cheney.
Its been a long time since we have seen a truly innovative feature.. Hail Apple.
May be time is money. But hell, MONEY IS'NT TIME. One would never get this time back!
The poster, eastbayted, is hanged just after violating the church of slashdot. He is survived by his two wives, Mindoz and Fruity.
Looks like lot of wrong people out there are in power, and are out to extort money. What has the world come to? First there was internet as tubes comic strip, then there was somebody who came up with a brilliant plan of charging for e-mails (supposedly to prevent scam! duh!!) and now ICANN wants to charge these insane amounts of money...
These incompetents dont see how to make money by innovation and thus they resort to bullying.
Taxing businesses unnecessarily is the surest way to kill the market place.
Intel can afford to do this, as its graphics systems are not state of the art, and it does not need to fear competitors stealing trade secrets. This probably is counter move by Intel to face AMD/ATI. This improves the state of art for open-source graphics drivers(licenses permitting). As somebody who needs cheap, no-nonsense, non-gaming, decent graphics on linux workstations, I cant wait to get one of their motherboards with graphics builtin.
Heard of Communism and the total lack of privacy that results in those countries? The deal is, it only works until it does not bother those affected too much.Corner a cat, and we all know what happens...
"They should either be run in user-space through a strict Free-software gateway or provided as a safe byte-code for a driver virtual machine."
Both approaches are slow. In the cut throat world of graphic cards, I believe both would not work.
Hmm.. Since research involves considering a lot of factors while making a decision or arriving at a conclusion.. I wonder if this research is done consciouly or subconsciously..
It is common knowledge that Darwins theory does not specifically goes into details, but gives a general framework to think evolution of organisms in. Though it is not proved, people in the community have a sense that some mutations are not gradual, and evolution does not solve some problems twice. Genetic code contains a lot of junk, but people do feel that junk has a purpose like memory about past problems. Coming to the funny part, as this guy states about evolution, fish did not ever try to grow one tooth at a time. It probably occured by hardening the jaw first, having some divisions in the jaw, having harder parts on top of the jaw(Called the tooth) and having many tooth. I seriously doubt wether this guy knows Darwins evolution at all..
To start with a CPU has atleast 3 connectors.. keyboard, mouse and monitor cable. I do not see how ppl can have a monitor, keyboard, mouse lying around wherever they go, even in poor countries. I guess Microsoft will sell a dumb terminal which accomodates the cellphone. This dumb terminal will have some sort of video card, because the cellphone's graphics h/w for the small terminal may not work with the big screens.. but that might change. Courtesy service providers, these cell phones in US will be given for free. The dumb terminal might cost like 80$(the screen is the costly part and if its color lcd or something.. I do not know the price.). Finally cost in US is 80$, where as in the other countries it will be more like 180$(incl. of cell phone). Make the rich richer and poor poorer.. He hee..
What people forget most here is, you are what you grow up on. If your basics are right, then tool for writing code is not a big deal. There have always been programmers who code 50X faster than other mortals.My professor uses Emacs to such an extent that once he famously said "When are people coming up with emacs on bios, because thats all you need". He is atleast 30X faster than me.
:)). Learning(Memorizing) libraries and using them a lot does not make you a better programmer. Many of students who do that are just taking a short-cut for getting a job.
Teach CS students C(because it gives a good idea of how hardware works), Java(gives a very good idea of code reuse), and a functional programming language like Scheme or ML(its more mathematically intuitive and beautifully recursive). I have learnt functional programming last, and God it has undone many of my bad coding practices thus enabling me to write code faster (around 2X). I think students should develop a taste for good code and enjoy it.
Finally in the job, you can learn the libraries (And consequently suffer from some brain damage
Or am I wrong? The article was not very clear. But if they added a gene to make the male mosquitoes glow, just to sort them out they made a big mistake. The females which mate with glow males will not reproduce and so their gene pool goes
into oblivion. On the other hand, the offsprings which result from non sterile males will have an interesting characteristic. This will be in effect in 10 generations or something if not straight away. The females will just be turned off
by the glow males and will not mate with them. Bingo, back to square one.
But if the mosquitoes are blind to glow, and cannot detect the sterile males then this work would be succesful.
Now that is retarded. Spell after me, retarded. That single platform is not made possible by Microsoft, but by intel and other semiconductor companies. The innovations in etching and mass production made it possible. Microsoft was in the right place at right time, kicking IBM hard on its ass.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/29/news/toll.h tml