That is amusing. I moved back to Germany from NH in February (to Dresden actually). But don't kid yourself, that life free or die thing is not a German invention. Germany might be looking better these days but it is not the US. You probably have a lighter view of German drug law than would be a good idea, but the Netherlands are close by american standards. That beer part is true though.
There is a good chance that you have to get a german drivers license, plan to pay some money for it, hundreds of euros, this isn't a piece of cake as it was for me in NH. You might even fail the test.
If you actually go to the east you might need more German, I have a colleague who is trying to get around on english right now, I wonder how he will fare. We mainly learned russian in the east and english only if we wanted. Younger people might be better at english I would guess.
You will possibly earn 50%-70% of what you earned in the US before taxes, and on top of that you might pay 40% tax, but renting might be much cheaper (30%) than in the US where it is a rip off. If you are staying in Western Germany this might be different.
If you need to see mountains nearby (not that we have the exact White Mountains) you can have a look at Saxon Switzerland which is a sort of small canyon (green and pretty, made out of sandstone). Then there are those hills between Germany and Czech Republic, which are interesting for their mining history (notice that they still have trees on them, planted by hand and in perfect order, quite unlike NH).
Anyway, I wish you luck, I hope it all works out for you.
to let my carts being drawn by 16 horses instead of 1024 chickens.
Somebody came up with this I forgot who.
I kinda wonder what sort of architecture they will use to make effective use of this cluster without causing communication overhead slowing the application down. I hope Intel has heard about Amdahl's law by now, otherwise I'm guessing they are going to leave the field to IBM and AMD.
I just hate it like intel tries to optimize one thing only to peddle their products to people who can only keep one thing in their mind.
Thanks that helps, I was originally concerned about government harassment, but it seems to be better than thought. I wasn't prepared to use the internet anywhere in Africa, well maybe in South Africa, but I guess my views are backward:).
I just got a practical question, when have you been there? Is it reasonably save for westerners to go there? It is supposedly pretty appart from the human dimension. My government doesn't say don't go there. I was pondering to go there in a couple of months. The craziest country I have seen is Romania before in '86 or '87 I guess Simbabwe might be worse.
Anyway, I didn't make any stupid statements about people not winning the cold war, I certainly gained something. Even though the Romanians we visited might have gotten into worse shape temporarily after '89 but at least they got rid of their terrible government (they even executed this idiot they had for a president). Well I'm willing to have look at the mess which might be Zimbabwe, so if you could make some suggestions I would be glad.
"Why limit yourself to only consulting your own past solutions when there are decades of well-documented research into innovative, ingenius, and non-intuitive solutions that smarter people (Kernigan, Ritchie, Knuth, Torvalds, Tanenbaum, etc.) have already figured out and written out for you to learn?"
The idea that he had a system for all his notes is amazing to me, he has been in a position where this made a lot of sense, but how nice that we can access it now in such a convenient way.
Ha, first post and dead on (at least from what I'm seeing) my thinking. I'll take a pay cut by %50, cange of country, and ~70% PhD level among my colleagues (me excluded, I just got a MSc). I'll start next week, Monday. Lets see what is comming out of it.
Also I'll move back into my parents basement, for a while.
into thinking that gotos can't give faster code. I demonstrated this to a CS guy who looked at my goto with disgust. I replaced a for loop with an if (...) goto label; statement in my C code and out came improved performance. Gotos are useful in coaxing gcc based compilers into giving up loop optimization and leaving it to the guy who should worry about it in the first place - the user. The other compilers are so bad they don't matter or are so good I don't have to worry about.
I suppose I switched because I was fed up with inferior technology. When I finally got a decent machine (133MHz Pentium) in '95, I was able to actually use Linux. It started out with support for preemptive Multitasking and a linear memory model. DOS+Win3.11 was a hopeless kludge compared to that. In addition to that I wanted to learn some C which I had started with in '94, since PASCAL wouldn't cut it anymore, and Linux made that switch really simple. I always thought that you shouldn't get a segmented memory model into the way of your assembly programming either, which was a side issue but added to the bad image. When Windows95 came out, it was too late I was hooked to Linux. Windows95 was still a kludge but on the way to improvement.
So just in case some think that people have switched in the past only because of anti microsoft activism, that is wrong, Linux always had something to offer, it just depended on your preferences.
Good point, and look at Dr. Barrett instead (the previous CEO):...
Dr. Barrett joined Intel Corporation in 1974 as a technology development manager. He was named a vice president of the corporation in 1984, promoted to senior vice president in 1987, and executive vice president in 1990. Dr. Barrett was elected to Intel Corporation's Board of Directors in 1992 and was named the company's chief operating officer in 1993. He became Intel's fourth president in May 1997, chief executive officer in 1998 and chairman of the Board on May 18, 2005.
Dr. Barrett is the author of over 40 technical papers dealing with the influence of microstructure on the properties of materials, and a textbook on materials science, Principles of Engineering Materials....
There is a little bit more in the brain department he has to offer. One may wonder though, how much influence a CEO has on technological decisions.
Come on, "Royal Canadian Air Farce" and "This Hour has 22 Minutes" is funny. If you look at your southern neighbour it's kinda hard to imagine that they would ever parody their own patriotism, in Canada its even state sponsored.
This is great, I feel an extension to this project comming on. In the olden days that stout waitress at the october fest had to search for empty beer mugs, nowadays we can use the DraughtFinder3000 based on antenna arrays combined with direction finding algorithms to detect empty beer mugs.
I know the SmartDesk2000 could solve this problem as well by programming the coasters to send the desk id together with the mug weight. However I always wanted to find an application for all this stuff I learnt at the university.
All the original papers from the group mentioned in the article are too pricey. Unfortunately I can't make neither heads nor tails out of this, somebody care to explain?
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Conservative light bulbs could also be called dark bulbs.
Hmm, parentheses. Now I know why I like Lisp, it's all those cushiony feminine curves.
That is amusing. I moved back to Germany from NH in February (to Dresden actually). But don't kid yourself, that life free or die thing is not a German invention. Germany might be looking better these days but it is not the US. You probably have a lighter view of German drug law than would be a good idea, but the Netherlands are close by american standards. That beer part is true though.
There is a good chance that you have to get a german drivers license, plan to pay some money for it, hundreds of euros, this isn't a piece of cake as it was for me in NH. You might even fail the test.
If you actually go to the east you might need more German, I have a colleague who is trying to get around on english right now, I wonder how he will fare. We mainly learned russian in the east and english only if we wanted. Younger people might be better at english I would guess.
You will possibly earn 50%-70% of what you earned in the US before taxes, and on top of that you might pay 40% tax, but renting might be much cheaper (30%) than in the US where it is a rip off. If you are staying in Western Germany this might be different.
If you need to see mountains nearby (not that we have the exact White Mountains) you can have a look at Saxon Switzerland which is a sort of small canyon (green and pretty, made out of sandstone). Then there are those hills between Germany and Czech Republic, which are interesting for their mining history (notice that they still have trees on them, planted by hand and in perfect order, quite unlike NH).
Anyway, I wish you luck, I hope it all works out for you.
D.E. Knuth is then indefinitely unavailable for an email interview.
to let my carts being drawn by 16 horses instead of 1024 chickens.
...
Somebody came up with this I forgot who.
I kinda wonder what sort of architecture they will use to make effective
use of this cluster without causing communication overhead slowing the
application down. I hope Intel has heard about Amdahl's law by
now, otherwise I'm guessing they are going to leave the field to IBM and AMD.
I just hate it like intel tries to optimize one thing only to peddle their
products to people who can only keep one thing in their mind.
Grrr
Thanks that helps, I was originally concerned about government harassment, but it seems to be better than thought. I wasn't prepared to use the internet anywhere in Africa, well maybe in South Africa, but I guess my views are backward :).
I just got a practical question, when have you been there? Is it reasonably save for westerners to go there? It is supposedly pretty appart from the human dimension. My government doesn't say don't go there. I was pondering to go there in a couple of months. The craziest country I have seen is Romania before in '86 or '87 I guess Simbabwe might be worse.
Anyway, I didn't make any stupid statements about people not winning the cold war, I certainly gained something. Even though
the Romanians we visited might have gotten into worse shape temporarily after '89 but at least they got rid of their terrible government (they even executed this idiot they had for a president). Well I'm willing to have look at the mess which might be Zimbabwe, so if you could make some suggestions I would be glad.
Whatever that might mean...
Mud? What MUD? Multiuserdetection? I'm sure those defense guys could find this interesting too.
Lets do some karma whoring.
"Why limit yourself to only consulting your own past solutions when there are decades of well-documented research into innovative, ingenius, and non-intuitive solutions that smarter people (Kernigan, Ritchie, Knuth, Torvalds, Tanenbaum, etc.) have already figured out and written out for you to learn?"
You forgot Dijkstra, start there:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/welcome.html
The idea that he had a system for all his notes is amazing to me, he has been in a position where this made a lot of sense, but how nice that we can access it now in such a convenient way.
So go ahead read it, and don't live in a bubble.
If it is subscription based you would expect that the time people stay online is rewarded in some cheap way.
This is war:
0 7042,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,10
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93466,00.html
Mr President, we can not allow a Barge gap!
Ha, first post and dead on (at least from what I'm seeing) my thinking. I'll take a pay cut by %50, cange of country, and ~70% PhD level among my colleagues
(me excluded, I just got a MSc). I'll start next week, Monday. Lets see what is comming out of it.
Also I'll move back into my parents basement, for a while.
Also note that most native english speakers have difficulty pronouncing 'ü' properly. The french and germans on the other hand do reasonably well.
into thinking that gotos can't give faster code. I demonstrated this to a CS guy who looked at my goto with disgust. I replaced a for loop with an if (...) goto label; statement in my C code and out came improved performance. Gotos are useful in coaxing gcc based compilers into giving up loop optimization and leaving it to the guy who should worry about it in the first place - the user. The other compilers are so bad they don't matter or are so good I don't have to worry about.
I suppose I switched because I was fed up with inferior technology. When I finally got a decent machine (133MHz Pentium) in '95, I was able to actually use Linux. It started out with support for preemptive Multitasking and a linear memory model. DOS+Win3.11 was a hopeless kludge compared to that. In addition to that I wanted to learn some C which I had started with in '94, since PASCAL wouldn't cut it anymore, and Linux made that switch really simple. I always thought that you shouldn't get a segmented memory model into the way of your assembly programming either, which was a side issue but added to the bad image. When Windows95 came out, it was too late I was hooked to Linux. Windows95 was still a kludge but on the way to improvement.
So just in case some think that people have switched in the past only because of anti microsoft activism, that is wrong, Linux always had something to offer, it just depended on your preferences.
Good point, and look at Dr. Barrett instead (the previous CEO): ...
...
Dr. Barrett joined Intel Corporation in 1974 as a technology development manager. He was named a vice president of the corporation in 1984, promoted to senior vice president in 1987, and executive vice president in 1990. Dr. Barrett was elected to Intel Corporation's Board of Directors in 1992 and was named the company's chief operating officer in 1993. He became Intel's fourth president in May 1997, chief executive officer in 1998 and chairman of the Board on May 18, 2005.
Dr. Barrett is the author of over 40 technical papers dealing with the influence of microstructure on the properties of materials, and a textbook on materials science, Principles of Engineering Materials.
There is a little bit more in the brain department he has to offer. One may wonder though, how much influence a CEO has on technological decisions.
Only if it lands on the school board. You will hear the rest of the world rejoicing.
This is quite an interesting assortment of languages they support there (page bottom I mean): Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, Chinese, and English.
;)
Which other page is that international
the guys in Colorado that to be Hippies in space they don't need to actually get there physically. A flower in space is a nice touch though.
Come on, "Royal Canadian Air Farce" and "This Hour has 22 Minutes" is funny. If you look at your southern neighbour it's kinda hard to imagine that they would ever parody their own patriotism, in Canada its even state sponsored.
Have fun!
This is great, I feel an extension to this project comming on. In the olden days that stout waitress at the october fest had to search for empty beer mugs, nowadays we can use the DraughtFinder3000 based on antenna arrays combined with direction finding algorithms to detect empty beer mugs.
I know the SmartDesk2000 could solve this problem as well by programming the coasters to send the desk id together with the mug weight. However I always wanted to find an application for all this stuff I learnt at the university.
Cheers!
I found a related paper:
N OT.pdf
http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~peter/publications/
All the original papers from the group mentioned in the article are too pricey.
Unfortunately I can't make neither heads nor tails out of this, somebody care to explain?
Have fun!
Those young whipersnappers nowadays, back in the old days we had to listen to Strauss when going to the moon.
... of our famous 'newspaper' called Bild.
No, no you were looking for another word - 'infamous'.
Gee, this is BILD, always bringing out the best in people.