'While it would be imprudent to allow ourselves to fall significantly behind our peers with respect to scientific performance benchmarks that have demonstrable practical significance, a single-minded focus on maintaining clear superiority in terms of flops count is probably not in our national interest,"
... We (the GNU Compiler Collection) have a policy about this for our mailing lists:
"Recruiting postings, including recruiting for GCC or other free software jobs, are not permitted on this list, or on any of the other GCC mailing lists."
We can't (and won't, of course) prohibit you to contact individual developers personally. Note, however, that most are already employed.
When you buy a Mac, part of what you pay goes for Apple to buy product placements.
Dang ! Am I glad that I recently saw a 70s movie that was actually shot in the seventies...
No need to fake cars, phones sitting on desks (with dial, in black), the only screens were actual TV (eh, it was about a TV station).
Ten minutes into the movie, I thought Jane Fonda's character was uttering an anachronism, when she referred to "get him on the mobile phone", but - thank God - she was referring to the thing in their car.
COBOL also has better support for binary coded decimals than most languages.
And, what everyone and his dog seems to forget: it has an embedded declarative language for number formatting, the single most important thing in financial programming.
"A congressional hearing on alternative long-range energy strategies was conducted jointly by two U.S. Senate committees on December 9, 1976.
[... ]
The period of time during which deposits of the man-made element plutonium must be separated from the biosphere is 250,000 years [it's "half-life" - when half of its atoms have decayed - is 24,400 years]- twice as far in the future as the beginnings of Neanderthal man are distant in the past."
The Energy Controversy, Amory Lovins & his critics.
FISA's role in this endeavor is whether TSP requires court orders preceding each and every intercept. The FISA courts cannot authorized "domestic spying". There is not a domestic spying component to these programs.
Indeed. What it does encapsulate is my discussion on Groklaw.net about the recent ruling on the Second Amendment of the Supreme Court.
Of course, this discussion clearly shows I'm a terrorist.
Do note that I'll (re-)enter the country on the 9th of August, for the 185th meeting of the Fortran Standardization Committee.
If I'm not mistaken, the firearms in use at the time the Second Amendment was written, were so slow to operate that native Americans well experienced with bow and arrow could "fire" 8 shots to 1 from the gun-toter.
Pfew, at least my next visit to Las Vegas (August, the 185th meeting of the Fortran Standardization Committee) will be much safer...
And still find nothing.
This is doomed to failure.
I bought a Asus EEE PC so as to log in remote to home - where the tough stuff is.
Obviously, without waterboarding me, they're not going to obtain the passphrase to do so.
... a 4 CPU, 512 Mword, vector computer, it came with a Cray engineer on site(and cost the Dutch tax payer 50 million Dutch guilders - 22 million Euro's ~ 35 million $).
Nowadays, it's simply a 1000 dollar offering from one of the obvious "media PC" providers.
Luckily, I can still compute what I need to compute with these ersatz TV's as long as I install Debian testing !
How about "reverse downtime". I.e., you work on your workstation at home using a secure ssh tunnel, because the stuff in the work place leaves much to be desired ?
How about disk space (my case: 60 Gbyte vs 20 Gbyte; was 2 Gbyte until a month ago).
AMD 64 processor instead of this lame 32-bit stuff we have to make do with.
In Europe, there's no problem (and need I talk about China ?).
Fix your problem, vote for a presidential candidate that actually has a chance to talk to some experienced economic advisors (her husband's - remember the Clinton years: a healthy economy and a government budget surplus).
Well, I can't help that HP calls the quad-core system I bought last Thursday a "desktop" system (I'm certainly not going to place it on a desktop;-)
After plugging another 2 Gbyte of RAM in it to get to 4 Gbyte, I'll use it to nightly check our Weather Prediction System (you know the drill: svn up && recompile && run).
The only reason it's not doing it yet is that I have to wait until the one and only right OS to *use* a 4 Gbyte machine arrives: Debian GNU/Linux AMD64.
[ BTW, now I know why you don't see 4 Gbyte "personal computers" - they're sold with 32-bit Vista because
- in the words of the help-desk technician of the shop where I bought the machine: You can't use
4 Gbyte because Windows doesn't see it - HAH:-) ]
Because at home I am my own workstation administrator
1. An up-to-date (as of last Sunday morning) Debian testing AMD64 environment
(and none of this stupid, last century's 32-bit stuff).
2. Decent compilers. Gcc/Gfortran 4.3.0 are far enough into Stage 3 development
(see at gcc.gnu.org) to use them, safely.
3. A 60 Gbyte hard disk, instead of a 2 Gbyte home partition (think of the
backups !)
4. A working internet connection (it might not be as fast as at work, when it's
working, but at least it doesn't mysteriously "fail").
5. No firewalls - repeat after me - no firewalls, and hence no stupid company
policy concerning what's allowable "to the outside".
6. No anti-virus deamons running on your system "because you might insert a
floppy or a USB stick containing a virus"
7. No colleagues who sent me.doc attachments, because that departments don't
know (and aren't frugal enough with Google) to figure out, my home e-mail
address.
8. No bans on e-mails containing PDF attachments "because Acrobat Reader on
Windows has a security vulnerability".
I probably could go on to 10, like the commandments.
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'While it would be imprudent to allow ourselves to fall significantly behind our peers with respect to scientific performance benchmarks that have demonstrable practical significance, a single-minded focus on maintaining clear superiority in terms of flops count is probably not in our national interest,"
Now try to explain *that* to your TayPartists ...
I got a new glass eye the 22nd of November (you're supposed to replace them every 3 years, because, even though they're made of glass, they wear out).
Nobody noticed.
... We (the GNU Compiler Collection) have a policy about this for our mailing lists:
"Recruiting postings, including recruiting for GCC or other free software jobs, are not permitted on this list, or on any of the other GCC mailing lists."
We can't (and won't, of course) prohibit you to contact individual developers personally. Note, however, that most are already employed.
... if the mobile phone were as inconspicuous as a wrist watch.
Unfortunately, it's (still ?) a loudmouth that's too large to go unnoticed.
I'd think so. Cygnus was founded in '89.
There are ChangeLogs in the GCC repository that go back to January '88.
Before that, it was RMS and a few fellow hackers.
... because I simply use Debian testing, updated each Sunday (like today) morning.
I wonder what the fetishism is with Debian stable ...
You (especially US inhabitants) can live without food for days, if not weeks.
However, you'll perish within 24-48 hours without contamination-free drinking water.
1. Get a few liters of it, NOW !
2. Get out of the line of Gustav.
You don't want to be there.
It's amazing how little the first defense against death in a flooded area is mentioned: Clean Drinking Water.
You can do without food for days, may be even a week - not so for drinking water.
Again, this shows without reservation that Nature has a liberal bias.
How else do you explain that Gustav will blow up the RNC and not the DNC ?
Dang ! Am I glad that I recently saw a 70s movie that was actually shot in the seventies ...
No need to fake cars, phones sitting on desks (with dial, in black), the only screens were actual TV (eh, it was about a TV station).
Ten minutes into the movie, I thought Jane Fonda's character was uttering an anachronism, when she referred to "get him on the mobile phone", but - thank God - she was referring to the thing in their car.
The movie ? China Syndrome, of course !
And, what everyone and his dog seems to forget: it has an embedded declarative language for number formatting, the single most important thing in financial programming.
"A congressional hearing on alternative long-range energy strategies was conducted jointly by two U.S. Senate committees on December 9, 1976.
[ ... ]
The period of time during which deposits of the man-made element plutonium must be separated from the biosphere is 250,000 years [it's "half-life" - when half of its atoms have decayed - is 24,400 years]- twice as far in the future as the beginnings of Neanderthal man are distant in the past."
The Energy Controversy, Amory Lovins & his critics.
Indeed. What it does encapsulate is my discussion on Groklaw.net about the recent ruling on the Second Amendment of the Supreme Court.
Of course, this discussion clearly shows I'm a terrorist.
Do note that I'll (re-)enter the country on the 9th of August, for the 185th meeting of the Fortran Standardization Committee.
Just ponder my response on Groklaw.
Not particularly new. See Andrew Carnegie.
> Your mistake isn't not to trust Viacom, your
> mistake is to trust Google.
I don't mind trusting Google - I know pretty well what to trust it with.
Television - thrown out of the house a quarter of a century ago. I do not know why anyone would trust that.
OK, that clarifies it sufficiently.
If I'm not mistaken, the firearms in use at the time the Second Amendment was written, were so slow to operate that native Americans well experienced with bow and arrow could "fire" 8 shots to 1 from the gun-toter.
Pfew, at least my next visit to Las Vegas (August, the 185th meeting of the Fortran Standardization Committee) will be much safer ...
And still find nothing. This is doomed to failure. I bought a Asus EEE PC so as to log in remote to home - where the tough stuff is. Obviously, without waterboarding me, they're not going to obtain the passphrase to do so.
... a 4 CPU, 512 Mword, vector computer, it came with a Cray engineer on site(and cost the Dutch tax payer 50 million Dutch guilders - 22 million Euro's ~ 35 million $).
Nowadays, it's simply a 1000 dollar offering from one of the obvious "media PC" providers.
Luckily, I can still compute what I need to compute with these ersatz TV's as long as I install Debian testing !
> The depressing thing is, as a man I can't really think of why we should be allowed to stick around.
I think it was Bill Joy who wrote a book about that a couple of years ago: "Why the future doesn't need us".
How about "reverse downtime". I.e., you work on your workstation at home using a secure ssh tunnel, because the stuff in the work place leaves much to be desired ?
How about disk space (my case: 60 Gbyte vs 20 Gbyte; was 2 Gbyte until a month ago).
AMD 64 processor instead of this lame 32-bit stuff we have to make do with.
Bah.
In Europe, there's no problem (and need I talk about China ?).
:-)
Fix your problem, vote for a presidential candidate that actually has a chance to talk to some experienced economic advisors (her husband's - remember the Clinton years: a healthy economy and a government budget surplus).
See you in 2016
> ... on your desktop?
;-)
:-) ]
Well, I can't help that HP calls the quad-core system I bought last Thursday a "desktop" system (I'm certainly not going to place it on a desktop
After plugging another 2 Gbyte of RAM in it to get to 4 Gbyte, I'll use it to nightly check our Weather Prediction System (you know the drill: svn up && recompile && run).
The only reason it's not doing it yet is that I have to wait until the one and only right OS to *use* a 4 Gbyte machine arrives: Debian GNU/Linux AMD64.
[ BTW, now I know why you don't see 4 Gbyte "personal computers" - they're sold with 32-bit Vista because
- in the words of the help-desk technician of the shop where I bought the machine: You can't use
4 Gbyte because Windows doesn't see it - HAH
Because at home I am my own workstation administrator
.doc attachments, because that departments don't
1. An up-to-date (as of last Sunday morning) Debian testing AMD64 environment
(and none of this stupid, last century's 32-bit stuff).
2. Decent compilers. Gcc/Gfortran 4.3.0 are far enough into Stage 3 development
(see at gcc.gnu.org) to use them, safely.
3. A 60 Gbyte hard disk, instead of a 2 Gbyte home partition (think of the
backups !)
4. A working internet connection (it might not be as fast as at work, when it's
working, but at least it doesn't mysteriously "fail").
5. No firewalls - repeat after me - no firewalls, and hence no stupid company
policy concerning what's allowable "to the outside".
6. No anti-virus deamons running on your system "because you might insert a
floppy or a USB stick containing a virus"
7. No colleagues who sent me
know (and aren't frugal enough with Google) to figure out, my home e-mail
address.
8. No bans on e-mails containing PDF attachments "because Acrobat Reader on
Windows has a security vulnerability".
I probably could go on to 10, like the commandments.
Just Google
...
"toon moene"
No problem