A while back I was looking at Slicehost and Linode. I ended up picking Linode since you get significantly more memory and disk space. Right now I'm paying $20/month for their first plan (16 GB of disk space, 360 MB of memory, 200 GB transfer). For the same price, Slicehost gives you 256 MB of memory, 10 GB disk space, and 150 GB of bandwidth). Slicehost does seem to scale up farther (just in case you want 16 GB of memory), but buying your own server and paying for colo is probably cheaper at that point ($800/month).
Anyway, I haven't had any problems with Linode, and it's faster than Bluehost. In my quick test, Bluehost's ping was 60-80 ms, while Linode's was 30-35 ms. I uploaded a file to Linode at 9.5 MB/s (using scp from a school computer), and download that file back to the school computer at 4.5 MB/s. I uploaded a file to Bluehost using ncftp at 2 MB/s and then downloaded with wget at 480 KB/s.
The only downside to Linode is that you have to configure everything yourself, but so far I haven't had to change anything except my Apache configs since I installed Arch on it a year ago (with regular updates). I like the extra control, but it is extra work.
I suppose the problem is that a "computer science" degree (something which should only be useful to people doing research or writing compilers) is required for pretty much every programming job (where writing your own compiler or using assembly would be idiotic).
I assume you're talking about my claim that formal proofs aren't needed? Why would anyone possibly need to? Answer this, if a program takes n^2 * 50 * 100000 * n * log(n) * sqrt(n) steps to complete, what's the big O? If you're working on a formal proof right now for something that's obviously O(n^2), I hope you never get hired because you'll be the slowest programmer to ever live. Not to mention that the formal proof doesn't tell you anything anything unless you're insane, while the intuitive "Big O is based on how fast execution time increases as a function of the number of things you're working with" tells you quite a bit.
Intensive math training = Knowing that n^2 grows faster than n * log(n)? You don't even need to understand math for that (Wolfram Alpha or a calculator will tell you). Figuring out if a program/function completes in O(n), O(n^2) or O(c^n) time is something that anyone with a basic understanding of loops and jr high math could do. O(log(n)) or O(nlog(n)) are slightly harder, but that's only because most people don't deal with logs in everyday life.
And one more thing.. what's the big deal about teaching people hexadecimal? What's the purpose? I can do it, but I've never once thought of a reason I'd want to. Isn't the whole point of the compiler that it does that stuff for you?
Learning to analyze algorithms is very helpful. Spending an entire semester is not. You could teach people all they need to know about big O and common algorithms in an afternoon. Not to mention teachers' obsessions with showing formal proofs. I'm not a mathematician, you can teach me the easy way and I'll just take your word for it that it works.
There were tons of 17 year olds and a couple 16 year olds at the community college I went to and none of them had any social problems.. Maybe the problem with high school is adults assuming that 16 year olds are all idiots?
Are you intentionally trolling or just an idiot? I'm not talking about something people should use to make hiring decisions. Companies absolutely should not take race into account during the hiring process. What I'm saying is that if you don't take race into account, it may superficially look like you do if all someone looks at is the proportion of races hired.
This article is about how some companies don't want to release that information, and I was suggesting a reason why they may not want to. Let me spell it out for you: If Google hires people based only on ability, it's likely that people would look at the numbers and call them racists, causing a shitstorm and thus forcing them into racist hiring practices (making sure to keep the "right" proportion of each race).
What does your example prove? Do you not know the difference between a single event and statistics? I wouldn't be surprised if there were more poor white people than black people in the United States (simply because there are more white people). In statistics you also expect some people to deviate from the norm (someone who has everything against them and still succeeds). But none of that matters when you're talking about averages, and averages are what is important when you're calling a company's hiring practices racist.
All I'm saying is that out of an equal sized pool of random white and black people, statistically speaking, for certain jobs there are legitimate (non-racist) reasons to hire more of the white people. To put this another way, if the employers were choosing the best candidates and didn't know their races, they would choose the better educated candidates, which tend to be the ones who grew up around more wealth, which tends to give white people an advantage. Sorry if this is over your head, but it's not that complicated.
It's hard to say, but my experience is that there is no difference (and if there is its certainly not big enough to warrant hiring policies based on race).
37% can make a big difference. That's more than a third of your funding. And keep in mind that that's the average, so a school in a rich neighborhood might be receiving 90% of its funding from local sources, while one in a poor neighborhood receives less than 10% (I don't know the actual percentages though).
How am I a racist? By pointing out that how education is funded in the US is unfair to the poor? Or the fact that statistically speaking, white people are less likely to be poor? It's a fact. You don't solve problems by pretending they don't exist.
US Census, median incomes for 2006:
White: $50,000 / year
Black: $32,000 / year
Hispanic: $38,000 / year
Your point about Windows getting hardware support first isn't entirely true. Linux supports just about everything right about when it comes out (contrary to popular belief, this includes sound cards). Ubuntu does use old versions. Jaunty was released in May, 2009, slightly over 2 months after ALSA 1.0.19 was released. By the time Karmic came out, Ubuntu was still using 1.0.18 (by this point ALSA was at 1.0.21a). That's 4 versions behind on possibly the most important piece of software to keep up to date (because the main change in each release is new drivers and better support for new hardware). Karmic is currently on 1.0.20 (2 versions behind at release) and ALSA is at 1.0.22.1 (making Karmic 4 versions behind). If any of those numbers don't make sense to you, it's because ALSA has a very strange versioning scheme.
I gave up on Ubuntu a while ago for Arch. It just bothers me that there's no good choice as a beginner distro. Ubuntu and Debian define stability in a way that doesn't make sense for desktop users, and the rolling release distros tend to not be user friendly (at least, not computer-illiterate friendly). I really think if Ubuntu separated out "things that should be stable" and "things that should be new" and did releases that way, it would make a lot more sense. For example, any program that a Windows user would download from the internet and install (Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, etc.) should always be up to date, while you can just apply security patches to an old kernel for years and no one will notice. And then they make it incredibly difficult to update if you need a newer version of something like ALSA..
It would be nice if companies could get a diverse set of feedback on their business/products/strategy, but really, how many companies listen to any feedback at all? My guess is approximately 0.
Don't you love how school funding works here? "Hey guys I have a great idea, it's called public education." "That sounds great.. you know.. as long as I don't have to pay for anyone else's schools. Can we make almost all of a school's funding come from the surrounding neighborhood? Oh and make sure the lines are drawn so we have clearly segregated rich kid schools and poor kid schools."
There's a difference between "certain races are inferior" and "certain races are statistically more likely to not be qualified for certain jobs" (as a result of how education funding is related to a neighborhood's wealth, and white people tend to be richer than everyone else).
The frameworks aren't the only things behind. What about all of the people who think "Linux is broken" or "Linux doesn't support new hardware" because Ubuntu ships with old versions of ALSA and the kernel (so old video drivers)?
A sports car company? No sports car company would choose such an idiotic name.
Comcast Marketing Team: Ok so the name we came up with was Xfinity. Our research conducted in the 90's says that people like "x-treme" things, so we basically just put an x in front of a word that sounds cool. Comcast Executives: That's brilliant! Our retarded customers will love it!
Sports Car Marketing Team: Ok so what do you think of Xfinity? We came up with it while we were drunk and watching power rangers. Sports Car Executives: That's retarded. Imagine using this pickup line, "Hey baby, wanna see my xfinity?" No one will get laid showing off a car with that name. Sports Car Marketing Team: Good point, back to spending all of that money you gave us.. I mean research.
I think the point is that Intel is making it. You know.. Intel, the company which primarily makes IA32 and AMD64 processors, is making an operating system that also supports ARM. Imagine if the line read "Interestingly this means that Microsoft will be sponsoring an office suite which will run on Linux".
I seem to remember having some sort of folder-related issues when I first started, but I found that if I create folders in Thunderbird (and not on Gmail's web interface), they worked perfectly.
What I'm wondering is how they'd make them into movies at all. I mean this in the best way, but Foundation is more suited to be released in the form of a history textbook than a movie. If they drew each storyline out into an entire movie, it might work, but as one?
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A while back I was looking at Slicehost and Linode. I ended up picking Linode since you get significantly more memory and disk space. Right now I'm paying $20/month for their first plan (16 GB of disk space, 360 MB of memory, 200 GB transfer). For the same price, Slicehost gives you 256 MB of memory, 10 GB disk space, and 150 GB of bandwidth). Slicehost does seem to scale up farther (just in case you want 16 GB of memory), but buying your own server and paying for colo is probably cheaper at that point ($800/month).
Anyway, I haven't had any problems with Linode, and it's faster than Bluehost. In my quick test, Bluehost's ping was 60-80 ms, while Linode's was 30-35 ms. I uploaded a file to Linode at 9.5 MB/s (using scp from a school computer), and download that file back to the school computer at 4.5 MB/s. I uploaded a file to Bluehost using ncftp at 2 MB/s and then downloaded with wget at 480 KB/s.
The only downside to Linode is that you have to configure everything yourself, but so far I haven't had to change anything except my Apache configs since I installed Arch on it a year ago (with regular updates). I like the extra control, but it is extra work.
Actually you're right, and wrong. I was writing quickly. It's actually O(n^3 log(n) sqrt(n)) (and all of those are relevant). I meant to do +'s.
I suppose the problem is that a "computer science" degree (something which should only be useful to people doing research or writing compilers) is required for pretty much every programming job (where writing your own compiler or using assembly would be idiotic).
I assume you're talking about my claim that formal proofs aren't needed? Why would anyone possibly need to? Answer this, if a program takes n^2 * 50 * 100000 * n * log(n) * sqrt(n) steps to complete, what's the big O? If you're working on a formal proof right now for something that's obviously O(n^2), I hope you never get hired because you'll be the slowest programmer to ever live. Not to mention that the formal proof doesn't tell you anything anything unless you're insane, while the intuitive "Big O is based on how fast execution time increases as a function of the number of things you're working with" tells you quite a bit.
Intensive math training = Knowing that n^2 grows faster than n * log(n)? You don't even need to understand math for that (Wolfram Alpha or a calculator will tell you). Figuring out if a program/function completes in O(n), O(n^2) or O(c^n) time is something that anyone with a basic understanding of loops and jr high math could do. O(log(n)) or O(nlog(n)) are slightly harder, but that's only because most people don't deal with logs in everyday life.
And one more thing.. what's the big deal about teaching people hexadecimal? What's the purpose? I can do it, but I've never once thought of a reason I'd want to. Isn't the whole point of the compiler that it does that stuff for you?
Learning to analyze algorithms is very helpful. Spending an entire semester is not. You could teach people all they need to know about big O and common algorithms in an afternoon. Not to mention teachers' obsessions with showing formal proofs. I'm not a mathematician, you can teach me the easy way and I'll just take your word for it that it works.
There were tons of 17 year olds and a couple 16 year olds at the community college I went to and none of them had any social problems.. Maybe the problem with high school is adults assuming that 16 year olds are all idiots?
Are you intentionally trolling or just an idiot? I'm not talking about something people should use to make hiring decisions. Companies absolutely should not take race into account during the hiring process. What I'm saying is that if you don't take race into account, it may superficially look like you do if all someone looks at is the proportion of races hired.
This article is about how some companies don't want to release that information, and I was suggesting a reason why they may not want to. Let me spell it out for you: If Google hires people based only on ability, it's likely that people would look at the numbers and call them racists, causing a shitstorm and thus forcing them into racist hiring practices (making sure to keep the "right" proportion of each race).
What does your example prove? Do you not know the difference between a single event and statistics? I wouldn't be surprised if there were more poor white people than black people in the United States (simply because there are more white people). In statistics you also expect some people to deviate from the norm (someone who has everything against them and still succeeds). But none of that matters when you're talking about averages, and averages are what is important when you're calling a company's hiring practices racist.
All I'm saying is that out of an equal sized pool of random white and black people, statistically speaking, for certain jobs there are legitimate (non-racist) reasons to hire more of the white people. To put this another way, if the employers were choosing the best candidates and didn't know their races, they would choose the better educated candidates, which tend to be the ones who grew up around more wealth, which tends to give white people an advantage. Sorry if this is over your head, but it's not that complicated.
It's hard to say, but my experience is that there is no difference (and if there is its certainly not big enough to warrant hiring policies based on race).
37% can make a big difference. That's more than a third of your funding. And keep in mind that that's the average, so a school in a rich neighborhood might be receiving 90% of its funding from local sources, while one in a poor neighborhood receives less than 10% (I don't know the actual percentages though).
How am I a racist? By pointing out that how education is funded in the US is unfair to the poor? Or the fact that statistically speaking, white people are less likely to be poor? It's a fact. You don't solve problems by pretending they don't exist.
US Census, median incomes for 2006:
White: $50,000 / year
Black: $32,000 / year
Hispanic: $38,000 / year
The percentages are also interesting.
Your point about Windows getting hardware support first isn't entirely true. Linux supports just about everything right about when it comes out (contrary to popular belief, this includes sound cards). Ubuntu does use old versions. Jaunty was released in May, 2009, slightly over 2 months after ALSA 1.0.19 was released. By the time Karmic came out, Ubuntu was still using 1.0.18 (by this point ALSA was at 1.0.21a). That's 4 versions behind on possibly the most important piece of software to keep up to date (because the main change in each release is new drivers and better support for new hardware). Karmic is currently on 1.0.20 (2 versions behind at release) and ALSA is at 1.0.22.1 (making Karmic 4 versions behind). If any of those numbers don't make sense to you, it's because ALSA has a very strange versioning scheme.
I gave up on Ubuntu a while ago for Arch. It just bothers me that there's no good choice as a beginner distro. Ubuntu and Debian define stability in a way that doesn't make sense for desktop users, and the rolling release distros tend to not be user friendly (at least, not computer-illiterate friendly). I really think if Ubuntu separated out "things that should be stable" and "things that should be new" and did releases that way, it would make a lot more sense. For example, any program that a Windows user would download from the internet and install (Firefox, Pidgin, OpenOffice, etc.) should always be up to date, while you can just apply security patches to an old kernel for years and no one will notice. And then they make it incredibly difficult to update if you need a newer version of something like ALSA..
It would be nice if companies could get a diverse set of feedback on their business/products/strategy, but really, how many companies listen to any feedback at all? My guess is approximately 0.
Don't you love how school funding works here? "Hey guys I have a great idea, it's called public education." "That sounds great.. you know.. as long as I don't have to pay for anyone else's schools. Can we make almost all of a school's funding come from the surrounding neighborhood? Oh and make sure the lines are drawn so we have clearly segregated rich kid schools and poor kid schools."
There's a difference between "certain races are inferior" and "certain races are statistically more likely to not be qualified for certain jobs" (as a result of how education funding is related to a neighborhood's wealth, and white people tend to be richer than everyone else).
The frameworks aren't the only things behind. What about all of the people who think "Linux is broken" or "Linux doesn't support new hardware" because Ubuntu ships with old versions of ALSA and the kernel (so old video drivers)?
0. People being paid by big companies like HP, Red Hat, and Novell to fix Linux bugs.
AMD64 is an architecture. I guess Intel made minor changes and calls it "Intel 64", but I've never heard anyone actually call it that.
A sports car company? No sports car company would choose such an idiotic name.
Comcast Marketing Team: Ok so the name we came up with was Xfinity. Our research conducted in the 90's says that people like "x-treme" things, so we basically just put an x in front of a word that sounds cool.
Comcast Executives: That's brilliant! Our retarded customers will love it!
Sports Car Marketing Team: Ok so what do you think of Xfinity? We came up with it while we were drunk and watching power rangers.
Sports Car Executives: That's retarded. Imagine using this pickup line, "Hey baby, wanna see my xfinity?" No one will get laid showing off a car with that name.
Sports Car Marketing Team: Good point, back to spending all of that money you gave us.. I mean research.
..a largely overseas group butting in to things that don't concern them..
Uh, the plan is to also block 4chan, which I assume does concern them. Possibly more than the loss of golden shower porn.
I think the point is that Intel is making it. You know.. Intel, the company which primarily makes IA32 and AMD64 processors, is making an operating system that also supports ARM. Imagine if the line read "Interestingly this means that Microsoft will be sponsoring an office suite which will run on Linux".
I seem to remember having some sort of folder-related issues when I first started, but I found that if I create folders in Thunderbird (and not on Gmail's web interface), they worked perfectly.
If the directory of I, Robot didn't want people complaining that it was nothing like the book, they shouldn't have named it "I, Robot".
What I'm wondering is how they'd make them into movies at all. I mean this in the best way, but Foundation is more suited to be released in the form of a history textbook than a movie. If they drew each storyline out into an entire movie, it might work, but as one?