What school teaches all of the languages you listed?
Here at University of Florida, they teach Java, Java, and more Java. They do dap a bit in C, PHP, and C++ in certain courses, but other than that it's mainly Java. I don't care if they do teach more languages, because it's been my experience that A)if you are an excellent problem solver using one language it can be replicated in others, B) those that want to learn more languages, do.
But please do tell me what you University is teaching. I am quite interested.
Though I don't work for google, I do know they hire contractors for non engineering jobs. Jobs like HR, Data Center technicians, their assistants, etc start out as contract employees then earn the full time status after a year is up.
I agree. Not trying to Troll but How about making useful extensions or features to firefox such as viewing OpenDocument Format in Firefox as a webpage or the same for PDF. I can open JPG, HTML, BMP, GIF, TXT right in my browser. Why can't Firefox handle ODF, PDF formats as well instead of getting a third party like adobe to create a memory hogging, slow plug-in?
There are people in Michigan that leave their cars running during work. They do this because this device does not shut off your car in the middle of it being on. Too many accidents were caused by this. This is a normal thing among the Detroit area. Plus the sales lot that has this gizmo charges ubsurd interest rates and doesn't do a credit check and people still sign up!!
Wouldn't this violate some type of anti-trust law? I'm confused on how msft can require a software developer to lock in their product to one and only one OS. Could I sue for such behavior?
No, wrong logic. The fact that IBM could not pump out enough PPCs and could not keep down the G5 power consumption (getting too hot) was what prompted Jobs to switch to intel.
A lot of their consulting work in the dept at PWC I applied for deals with hacking an array of different boxen, be it Unix, Linux, BSD, Windows. Don't be too shocked if this trend continues.
Haven't you ever wanted a better tool than you currently have? So why not ccreate such a product AND profit from it without charging the enduser? Brilliant!
It just so happens that Google writes some nice AJAX UIs and sells adspace on the gmail pages.
Plus they hadn't yet intended to go public in the early summer of 2004 when Gmail (Beta) was released. So they weren't acting on behalf of the shareholders best interest.
next to a door are 3 light switches. one of the switches are connected to an incandescant light bulb in the windowless room on the other side of the door. you may not open the door and flip the switches. you may only enter the room once. which switch lights up the room?
Solution
Just to harp on parent's comment: Go to a local college pub/bar and the local acts are loved by the students. Post free mp3s on your site and/or iTunes/Napster and students know where to go to SUPPORT this band. The band makes enough money and maybe enough exposure to play other gigs in the same city and even tour to another local city because bar owners tend to own multiple bars and know the other bar owners.
What is the ultimate goal of a band? Strike it rich? or Promote their music because it's their life's desire? If you choose option A as a band, you have better odds that a/.er has a girlfriend.
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Fri Oct 7, 9:09 PM ET
Students at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, Wash., are getting class materials in a new way this year: on a tiny flash-memory drive that plugs into a computer's USB port.
Small enough to wear on a necklace, this "digital backpack" can hold textbooks, novels, plays, study aids, the dictionary, graphing-calculator software -- almost anything, really.
Falling prices in computer memory have made these little flash drives -- also called pen, thumb or key drives -- into enormously powerful tools that are on the verge of changing the concept of "personal" computing.
With a gigabyte of flash memory now available for less than $100, these inexpensive digital storehouses can hold not just important data but also entire software programs. The information they carry can be encrypted and accessed speedily, a benefit of faster microprocessors.
What this all means is that computer users are no longer at the mercy of the machine that happens to be nearby. Everything we need to interact with computers -- even down to the appearance of our home PC's desktop -- can be carried with us and used on almost any computer.
"What's your personal computer, anyways?" computing pioneer Bill Joy said in a speech that touched on the trend at a recent conference. "Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person."
A few years ago Jay Elliot was looking for a way to help doctors move medical information securely and decided that flash memory -- which has no moving parts, unlike hard-disk storage -- was the perfect solution.
But as memory prices kept falling, he realized there was room for more than just data. So he invented Migo, software that lets removable storage devices such as USB drives and iPods essentially function as portable computers.
Plug a Migo-enabled device into a computer and enter your password, and a secure session launches in which you can send and receive e-mail and work on documents, with the background desktop and icons from your own PC rather than the ones on the host computer.
When you're done and remove the drive, all traces of what you did are removed from that computer. The next time you plug the drive into your home computer, data on each are synchronized.
Multiple people can share one USB device, with separate password-protected profiles for each. So when Elliot recently went on vacation, he, his wife and two sons each called up personalized desktops on a hotel computer -- all through a drive smaller than a cigarette lighter.
"People are carrying very expensive devices with them, but they only use 4 or 5 percent of their capability. What a waste," said Elliot, who heads Migo's maker, PowerHouse Technologies Group Inc.
Instead, he said, the model should be that "your data goes with you, in whatever form you want it. You just find a place to use it."
Another reason this flexibility is now possible is that software makers and flash-drive manufacturers relatively recently settled on technological standards that let programs be stored and run off the tiny drives.
Two hardware vendors, SanDisk Corp. and M-Systems Inc., formed a separate company, U3 LLC, to license and facilitate that technology.
Now a spate of U3-enabled drives have hit the market, preloaded with everything from photo-management software to the Firefox Web browser and instant-messaging programs.
Skype Technologies SA's Internet phone software is also available, meaning almost any computer can be used to make free calls over Skype, even if the computer owner never bothered to download Skype.
"The next time you go to install software that's going to be locked to the hard drive, your first reaction is going to be `Man, I want this on my U3 so I can have this anywhere,'" said Kate Purmal, U3's CEO.
The only big missing element for now is Microsoft Corp. software.
10/06/2005 07:09:00 AM
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Senior Policy Counsel
It seems that policymaking and regulatory activity in Washington, D.C. affect Google and our users more every day. It's important to be involved - to participate in the policy process and contribute to the debates that inform it. So we've opened up a shop there. The first member of our Washington team is Alan Davidson, a veteran thinker and advocate for issues we care about.
Our mission in Washington boils down to this: Defend the Internet as a free and open platform for information, communication and innovation. OK, that sounds a little high and mighty, so let me break it down into something a bit wonkier with a sampling of the U.S. policy issues we're working on:
Net neutrality. As voice, video, and data rapidly converge, Congress is rewriting U.S. telecommunications laws and deregulating broadband connectivity, which is largely a good thing. But in a country where most citizens have only one or two viable broadband options, there are real dangers for the Internet: Should network operators be able to block their customers from reaching competing websites and services (such as Internet voice calls and video-on-demand)? Should they be able to speed up their own sites and services, while degrading those offered by competitors? Should an innovator with a new online service or application be forced to get permission from each broadband cable and DSL provider before rolling it out? Or, if that's not blunt enough for you, what's better: [a] Centralized control by network operators, or [b] free user choice on the decentralized, open, and astoundingly successful end-to-end Internet? (Hint: It's not [a].)
Copyrights and fair use. Google believes in protecting copyrights while maintaining strong, viable fair use rights in this new digital age. We support efforts by the U.S. Copyright Office to facilitate the use of orphan works (works whose rights-holders can't be found), while fully respecting the interests of creators. We applauded the Supreme Court's carefully calibrated decision in the Grokster case, but worked to defeat legislation that would have created new forms of liability for neutral technologies and services like Google.
Intermediary liability. As a search engine, Google crawls the Internet, gathering information everywhere we can find it. We're a neutral tool that allows users to find information posted by others - like a continuously updated table of contents for the Internet. Not surprisingly, we don't believe the Internet works well if intermediaries and ISPs are held liable for things created by others but made searchable through us. That's why Google will continue to oppose efforts to force us to block or limit lawful speech; instead, we focus on providing users the information, tools, and features (such as SafeSearch) they need to protect themselves online.
This is just a taste. We're also engaged in policy debates over privacy and spyware, trademark dilution, patent law reform, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VOIP) regulation, and more. The Internet policy world is fluid, so our priorities will surely morph over time. And, of course, Google is a global company. In a future post, we'll introduce you to some of the policy issues we're confronting outside the U.S.
The funny part about your comment is that I and my mother (thru me) have applied to CIA and NSA. The online app process was very thorough and asked very specific questions about my language skills and I thought that this could possibly get me somewhere. No replies since. I guess they are flooded with apps for linguists.
The ECE Department at UF had Dr. Scott Thompson, an Intel Fellow and former Director of 90nm Logic Technology at Intel, teach a class on semiconductor nanotechnology. This was a great class because Dr. Thompson didn't overburden the students with tedious homework but rather would assign projects to help us get a better understanding of the different nanotechnologies. He lectured about the future of these technologies and how soon we could be seeing such technologies. He went into great detail about MOSFETS, CNTFETS, spintronics, Single Electron Transistors, Resonant Tunneling Diodes, Quantum Cellular Automota, Molecular Electronics. I highly recommend anyone interested with new technologies to try out a class like this if its offered at your school.
AOL does need to clean up there act. They won't allow any emails sent from.ufl.edu domain to reach any of there users. They claim that too much spam is originating from ufl.edu. Looks like AOL is getting a taste of their own medicine.
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For a good laugh call (202) 456-1414
I don't see where the humor lies when the White House answered the phone call.
What school teaches all of the languages you listed?
Here at University of Florida, they teach Java, Java, and more Java. They do dap a bit in C, PHP, and C++ in certain courses, but other than that it's mainly Java. I don't care if they do teach more languages, because it's been my experience that A)if you are an excellent problem solver using one language it can be replicated in others, B) those that want to learn more languages, do.
But please do tell me what you University is teaching. I am quite interested.
No no. China has the upper hand. They control their own pipelines and can cut off any access to Google if they please. They have done it before.
Though I don't work for google, I do know they hire contractors for non engineering jobs. Jobs like HR, Data Center technicians, their assistants, etc start out as contract employees then earn the full time status after a year is up.
I agree. Not trying to Troll but How about making useful extensions or features to firefox such as viewing OpenDocument Format in Firefox as a webpage or the same for PDF. I can open JPG, HTML, BMP, GIF, TXT right in my browser. Why can't Firefox handle ODF, PDF formats as well instead of getting a third party like adobe to create a memory hogging, slow plug-in?
There are people in Michigan that leave their cars running during work. They do this because this device does not shut off your car in the middle of it being on. Too many accidents were caused by this. This is a normal thing among the Detroit area. Plus the sales lot that has this gizmo charges ubsurd interest rates and doesn't do a credit check and people still sign up!!
Wouldn't this violate some type of anti-trust law? I'm confused on how msft can require a software developer to lock in their product to one and only one OS. Could I sue for such behavior?
No, wrong logic. The fact that IBM could not pump out enough PPCs and could not keep down the G5 power consumption (getting too hot) was what prompted Jobs to switch to intel.
A lot of their consulting work in the dept at PWC I applied for deals with hacking an array of different boxen, be it Unix, Linux, BSD, Windows. Don't be too shocked if this trend continues.
Haven't you ever wanted a better tool than you currently have? So why not ccreate such a product AND profit from it without charging the enduser? Brilliant! It just so happens that Google writes some nice AJAX UIs and sells adspace on the gmail pages. Plus they hadn't yet intended to go public in the early summer of 2004 when Gmail (Beta) was released. So they weren't acting on behalf of the shareholders best interest.
here's an oldy MSFT asks on job interviews:
next to a door are 3 light switches. one of the switches are connected to an incandescant light bulb in the windowless room on the other side of the door. you may not open the door and flip the switches. you may only enter the room once. which switch lights up the room?
Solution
Just to harp on parent's comment: Go to a local college pub/bar and the local acts are loved by the students. Post free mp3s on your site and/or iTunes/Napster and students know where to go to SUPPORT this band. The band makes enough money and maybe enough exposure to play other gigs in the same city and even tour to another local city because bar owners tend to own multiple bars and know the other bar owners.
What is the ultimate goal of a band? Strike it rich? or Promote their music because it's their life's desire? If you choose option A as a band, you have better odds that a /.er has a girlfriend.
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Fri Oct 7, 9:09 PM ET
Students at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, Wash., are getting class materials in a new way this year: on a tiny flash-memory drive that plugs into a computer's USB port.
Small enough to wear on a necklace, this "digital backpack" can hold textbooks, novels, plays, study aids, the dictionary, graphing-calculator software -- almost anything, really.
Falling prices in computer memory have made these little flash drives -- also called pen, thumb or key drives -- into enormously powerful tools that are on the verge of changing the concept of "personal" computing.
With a gigabyte of flash memory now available for less than $100, these inexpensive digital storehouses can hold not just important data but also entire software programs. The information they carry can be encrypted and accessed speedily, a benefit of faster microprocessors.
What this all means is that computer users are no longer at the mercy of the machine that happens to be nearby. Everything we need to interact with computers -- even down to the appearance of our home PC's desktop -- can be carried with us and used on almost any computer.
"What's your personal computer, anyways?" computing pioneer Bill Joy said in a speech that touched on the trend at a recent conference. "Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person."
A few years ago Jay Elliot was looking for a way to help doctors move medical information securely and decided that flash memory -- which has no moving parts, unlike hard-disk storage -- was the perfect solution.
But as memory prices kept falling, he realized there was room for more than just data. So he invented Migo, software that lets removable storage devices such as USB drives and iPods essentially function as portable computers.
Plug a Migo-enabled device into a computer and enter your password, and a secure session launches in which you can send and receive e-mail and work on documents, with the background desktop and icons from your own PC rather than the ones on the host computer.
When you're done and remove the drive, all traces of what you did are removed from that computer. The next time you plug the drive into your home computer, data on each are synchronized.
Multiple people can share one USB device, with separate password-protected profiles for each. So when Elliot recently went on vacation, he, his wife and two sons each called up personalized desktops on a hotel computer -- all through a drive smaller than a cigarette lighter.
"People are carrying very expensive devices with them, but they only use 4 or 5 percent of their capability. What a waste," said Elliot, who heads Migo's maker, PowerHouse Technologies Group Inc.
Instead, he said, the model should be that "your data goes with you, in whatever form you want it. You just find a place to use it."
Another reason this flexibility is now possible is that software makers and flash-drive manufacturers relatively recently settled on technological standards that let programs be stored and run off the tiny drives.
Two hardware vendors, SanDisk Corp. and M-Systems Inc., formed a separate company, U3 LLC, to license and facilitate that technology.
Now a spate of U3-enabled drives have hit the market, preloaded with everything from photo-management software to the Firefox Web browser and instant-messaging programs.
Skype Technologies SA's Internet phone software is also available, meaning almost any computer can be used to make free calls over Skype, even if the computer owner never bothered to download Skype.
"The next time you go to install software that's going to be locked to the hard drive, your first reaction is going to be `Man, I want this on my U3 so I can have this anywhere,'" said Kate Purmal, U3's CEO.
The only big missing element for now is Microsoft Corp. software.
Alt
Google goes to Washington
10/06/2005 07:09:00 AM
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Senior Policy Counsel
It seems that policymaking and regulatory activity in Washington, D.C. affect Google and our users more every day. It's important to be involved - to participate in the policy process and contribute to the debates that inform it. So we've opened up a shop there. The first member of our Washington team is Alan Davidson, a veteran thinker and advocate for issues we care about.
Our mission in Washington boils down to this: Defend the Internet as a free and open platform for information, communication and innovation. OK, that sounds a little high and mighty, so let me break it down into something a bit wonkier with a sampling of the U.S. policy issues we're working on:
Net neutrality. As voice, video, and data rapidly converge, Congress is rewriting U.S. telecommunications laws and deregulating broadband connectivity, which is largely a good thing. But in a country where most citizens have only one or two viable broadband options, there are real dangers for the Internet: Should network operators be able to block their customers from reaching competing websites and services (such as Internet voice calls and video-on-demand)? Should they be able to speed up their own sites and services, while degrading those offered by competitors? Should an innovator with a new online service or application be forced to get permission from each broadband cable and DSL provider before rolling it out? Or, if that's not blunt enough for you, what's better: [a] Centralized control by network operators, or [b] free user choice on the decentralized, open, and astoundingly successful end-to-end Internet? (Hint: It's not [a].)
Copyrights and fair use. Google believes in protecting copyrights while maintaining strong, viable fair use rights in this new digital age. We support efforts by the U.S. Copyright Office to facilitate the use of orphan works (works whose rights-holders can't be found), while fully respecting the interests of creators. We applauded the Supreme Court's carefully calibrated decision in the Grokster case, but worked to defeat legislation that would have created new forms of liability for neutral technologies and services like Google.
Intermediary liability. As a search engine, Google crawls the Internet, gathering information everywhere we can find it. We're a neutral tool that allows users to find information posted by others - like a continuously updated table of contents for the Internet. Not surprisingly, we don't believe the Internet works well if intermediaries and ISPs are held liable for things created by others but made searchable through us. That's why Google will continue to oppose efforts to force us to block or limit lawful speech; instead, we focus on providing users the information, tools, and features (such as SafeSearch) they need to protect themselves online.
This is just a taste. We're also engaged in policy debates over privacy and spyware, trademark dilution, patent law reform, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VOIP) regulation, and more. The Internet policy world is fluid, so our priorities will surely morph over time. And, of course, Google is a global company. In a future post, we'll introduce you to some of the policy issues we're confronting outside the U.S.
CheckGMail for X11 (GNU/Linux) http://rss.freshmeat.net/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releas es-global?m=2037
Just an RSS aggregator as another /.er stated.
The funny part about your comment is that I and my mother (thru me) have applied to CIA and NSA. The online app process was very thorough and asked very specific questions about my language skills and I thought that this could possibly get me somewhere. No replies since. I guess they are flooded with apps for linguists.
The ECE Department at UF had Dr. Scott Thompson, an Intel Fellow and former Director of 90nm Logic Technology at Intel, teach a class on semiconductor nanotechnology. This was a great class because Dr. Thompson didn't overburden the students with tedious homework but rather would assign projects to help us get a better understanding of the different nanotechnologies. He lectured about the future of these technologies and how soon we could be seeing such technologies. He went into great detail about MOSFETS, CNTFETS, spintronics, Single Electron Transistors, Resonant Tunneling Diodes, Quantum Cellular Automota, Molecular Electronics. I highly recommend anyone interested with new technologies to try out a class like this if its offered at your school.
According to Intel Fellow Scott Thompson, he says the next display technology will be carbon nanotube displays.
The consume less power, produce better lights and have much clearer displays because you have groups of CNTs together to produce one pixel.
Motorola released a Carbon nanotube display recently. Not sure how quickly the rest of the markey will follow.
AOL does need to clean up there act. They won't allow any emails sent from .ufl.edu domain to reach any of there users. They claim that too much spam is originating from ufl.edu. Looks like AOL is getting a taste of their own medicine.