You can in some circumstances get more than that. I went to the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2001-2006. My 6 internships paid roughly: 15,16,12,19,23,25 per hour (all in CAD, except the last which was in USD). The third was terrible and not really a technical position. Waterloo publishes a salary survey for its interns, so you can get an idea of what at least some interns are getting:
More simply, just run google's own spam-finding algorithms on the messages and start preventing email from going out from accounts that are sending a lot of spam. No captchas, no pictures games, just the algorithms which are already preventing people from getting most spam in their gmail accounts (I get hundreds of spam messages per month and one or two get through on average)
I also favor limiting/blocking invites for users whose invitees are either spammers or inviting spammers
I'm kind of shocked that that update made it into the article. Aside from the fact that it isn't fully tested, they're asking you to "trust us" and click on the links in the article _which are all affiliate links_. This looks like a blatent money-grab and it shouldn't be part of the article.
I actually saw Tanenbaum giving a talk above Minix a few weeks ago. He brought up the speed issue, saying that in modern (and future) hardware the performance hit from the microkernel will be less and less relevant. Even my current computer is probably more power than I need almost all the time, and I need a lot more computing power than a casual user. Tanenbaum firmly believes that the stability and modularity will be prefered over a slight speed increase. After he showed all of the benefits of the Minix architecture, I was inclined to agree.
One thing which hasn't really been touched on in this thread yet is exactly what the modularity means for end users. It isn't just that the kernel is simplified. When the drivers and other subsystems are external to the kernel, their failure can become a non-issue. This *does not* just mean that they won't take the whole system down. Minix has a process called the ressurection server. It monitors all of the various drivers and subsystems and, if one of them fails, will attempt to get it running again. Professor Tanenbaum showed us data where the hard disk controller was failing a rediculous number of times per second, but the system was still maintaining about 90% of the speed that it would have if it wasn't failing at all. The OS design can actually make up for poorly designed drivers.
Wikipedia makes it sound like there were about 1 million at the peak. It stands to reason that there were 1.5-2x the amount over the total lifespan. I'm not sure where that leaves the comparison.
Knight: Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii!
Arthur: Who are you?
Knight: We are the Knights who say..... "Wii"!
Arthur: No! Not the Knights who say "Wii"!
Knight: The same.
This may be a bit naive of me, but as more people turn to search for finding things more, are't a lot of these domains going to go down in value? I barely ever type a domain anymore. I'll reflexively google the name, then click it when the website comes up.
Electricity costs money too, and it keeps costing money even after the initial capital purchase (or lack-there-of). If you're building a cluster powerful enough to be comparable with even a couple low-mid end modern PCs you're not going to be running for too long before you hit the point where the power savings makes the modern PCs less expensive. A more thorough explanation can be found in these two posts from a beowulf mailing list:
Tiling windows tiles all of my windows. I just want to manually tile two of them. One on the left, one on the right. Think of it like simulating the ability to have several maximized documents that you have with a multi-monitor setup.
While the specific features are good to know about, I was mainly giving them as examples of the sorts of things that I want to be able to do. I'll give more general examples based on what I had above. How, exactly, would I do each of the following. In powerpro it's is a matter of navigating a few menus (in an, admittedly, poorly layed out UI)
1. Change the behaviour of the min, max, and close buttons in every non-skinned application to do something I might like based on which mouse button I clicked and which modifier keys were active. This could be anything from minimizing to tray to resizing or moving the window.
2. Bring up a menu with the contents of a folder I select based on a mouse combination or keystroke. The menu should be bindable to things like double-right clicking, or pressing middle+right on the mouse.
3. Send a windows message (not sure what the *nix equivalent is) to a window with a certain title text. In my example before, it sends an message which tells a pesky dialog box to close. While it was caused by windows being dumb, a similar problem could easily come up in another application.
What I'm wondering about is a window manager which supports me doing these kinds of things without forcing me to edit their code and recompile. I'm not actually restricted to explorer with this--I used litestep for a while--but explorer seems to complement it better.
This reminds me of why I use Windows. About a year ago I found a program called powerpro. It allows massive amounts of scripting to be done to the windows environment without too much effort. Menus, shortcut keys, macros, window messages and controls. I was completely blown away when I found it, and it has ruined me for using any other operating environment. It let me add functionality which I considered basic that had been denied to me because either explorer didn't support them or the programs chose not to give me access to them (always-on-top being a big offender)
Here are some simple examples of things I've done with it that I'm not sure how I could easily and universally accomplish in any other OS. Do feel free to explain if there is a simple and universal way to do these sorts of things in some Linux distro or OSX. I'm a coder, but I have no intrest in pouring through the code of the window manager to add these sorts of thigns in.
Left/Right Tile: When I middle or right click maximize, the window resizes to fill half the screen on the left or right respectively. This saves me tons of time fitting two windows on my widescreen monitor. I also use it when I'm not wide screen, though less often.
Min-to-tray: When I right click minimize on a window it minimizes to the tray. Extremely useful for console applications or other programs that need to be running but are taking up precious taskbar space. My taskbar is for things I'm using only.
cursor menu: when I press win+S I get a menu which has my start menu items at the cursor. I don't use it all the time, but it is handy to have.
window control menu: if I double right-click on a window I have a menu that gives a bunch of options that I often want to perform on windows (min to tray/min/max/tiling as above/always on top/send to back/etc). Most of these things I can do with other shortcuts, but sometimes an app is skinned and I won't have access to the standard buttons like minimize and maximize.
manual playlist advance in winamp: I have a shortcut set up which sends the message to winamp to switch into manual playlist advance. The function wasn't included in winamp's global hotkey list, but I still got the functionality.
Auto-click on "rename": Windows has an EXTREMELY annoying habit of asking me whether I want to change the extension of a file. I have a simple script which, when the dialog comes up, auto-clicks the button. I usually don't even see it before it is gone.
In addition to powerpro, I also use resource hacker to edit some programs to make their menus and shortcuts more to my liking. These are just a few of the things that make my life easier.
Ideally I'd be able to layer this on top of a fully configurable and consistent UI as you mentioned, but no OS is there yet but windows isn't terribly bad. Windows just happened to be the OS to give me powerful and easy to use tools (again, if there is something equivalent on other operating systems I would like to know about it for when I happen to use them)
This could work in a very similar way to how the student housing co-operative I live at works. By having people work together to shoulder the effort of cleaning (uploading) we can, at least in theory, not have to hire a professional cleaning staff (reduce the provider's bandwidth usage) and have the hiring cost (bandwidth cost) passed back along to us, resulting in cheaper rent (download costs). I'm not sure how much of the cost you could actually save from sharing, though.
The same question that comes up here is the one that potential users of commercial P2P will have to deal with: is the savings in cost worth the bandwidth you are sacrificing? My upload bandwidth, to a point, is nearly worthless to me. I'd either not care, or only do it if there was a significant (say, 15-20%) drop in the overall cost.
No, but there are places which are much closer than the US. Consider the direct democracy that is used in many places--most notably Switzerland. Even in a system where you have representation you can still have the facilities for more direct approaches built into the system.
"Especially" is a bit of an overstatement. The exchange rate is about 275L for 1USD. Even the *most expensive* one on that page was only about $13 USD for what appears to be a few hours. I doubt even the best could get enough work each day to support themselves, and certainly not enough to live comfortably.
Fact: Not every job requires phenominal applicants.
It's rediculous to toss this kind of qualification aside. The people who have certifications probably aren't going to be the best of the best, but most companies aren't looking for (and couldn't afford) those people anyways. If you're looking for someone really good you should be looking are references and prior work experience. If you're looking for someone to get a job done, certification gives you some idea of what you're getting into with a candidate. In the worst case you'll realize they're stupid in the interview.
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You can in some circumstances get more than that. I went to the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2001-2006. My 6 internships paid roughly: 15,16,12,19,23,25 per hour (all in CAD, except the last which was in USD). The third was terrible and not really a technical position. Waterloo publishes a salary survey for its interns, so you can get an idea of what at least some interns are getting:
http://www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/students/salary.php
In the last of the six I got my boss to tell me that I was still effectively a cheap contractor.
Hopefully they are only accepting a piece of text when a lot of the people give the same thing.
More simply, just run google's own spam-finding algorithms on the messages and start preventing email from going out from accounts that are sending a lot of spam. No captchas, no pictures games, just the algorithms which are already preventing people from getting most spam in their gmail accounts (I get hundreds of spam messages per month and one or two get through on average)
I also favor limiting/blocking invites for users whose invitees are either spammers or inviting spammers
I'm kind of shocked that that update made it into the article. Aside from the fact that it isn't fully tested, they're asking you to "trust us" and click on the links in the article _which are all affiliate links_. This looks like a blatent money-grab and it shouldn't be part of the article.
I actually saw Tanenbaum giving a talk above Minix a few weeks ago. He brought up the speed issue, saying that in modern (and future) hardware the performance hit from the microkernel will be less and less relevant. Even my current computer is probably more power than I need almost all the time, and I need a lot more computing power than a casual user. Tanenbaum firmly believes that the stability and modularity will be prefered over a slight speed increase. After he showed all of the benefits of the Minix architecture, I was inclined to agree.
One thing which hasn't really been touched on in this thread yet is exactly what the modularity means for end users. It isn't just that the kernel is simplified. When the drivers and other subsystems are external to the kernel, their failure can become a non-issue. This *does not* just mean that they won't take the whole system down. Minix has a process called the ressurection server. It monitors all of the various drivers and subsystems and, if one of them fails, will attempt to get it running again. Professor Tanenbaum showed us data where the hard disk controller was failing a rediculous number of times per second, but the system was still maintaining about 90% of the speed that it would have if it wasn't failing at all. The OS design can actually make up for poorly designed drivers.
Wikipedia makes it sound like there were about 1 million at the peak. It stands to reason that there were 1.5-2x the amount over the total lifespan. I'm not sure where that leaves the comparison.
Knight: Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Wii! Arthur: Who are you? Knight: We are the Knights who say..... "Wii"! Arthur: No! Not the Knights who say "Wii"! Knight: The same.
This may be a bit naive of me, but as more people turn to search for finding things more, are't a lot of these domains going to go down in value? I barely ever type a domain anymore. I'll reflexively google the name, then click it when the website comes up.
Electricity costs money too, and it keeps costing money even after the initial capital purchase (or lack-there-of). If you're building a cluster powerful enough to be comparable with even a couple low-mid end modern PCs you're not going to be running for too long before you hit the point where the power savings makes the modern PCs less expensive. A more thorough explanation can be found in these two posts from a beowulf mailing list:
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http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2003-March/009658.
http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2003-March/009662.
Wired news has Mark Klein's (the whistle-blower) statement. It sounds pretty credible:
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70621-0.ht
...and you want them to retroactively apply the language change over the last 10 years?
Tiling windows tiles all of my windows. I just want to manually tile two of them. One on the left, one on the right. Think of it like simulating the ability to have several maximized documents that you have with a multi-monitor setup.
While the specific features are good to know about, I was mainly giving them as examples of the sorts of things that I want to be able to do. I'll give more general examples based on what I had above. How, exactly, would I do each of the following. In powerpro it's is a matter of navigating a few menus (in an, admittedly, poorly layed out UI)
1. Change the behaviour of the min, max, and close buttons in every non-skinned application to do something I might like based on which mouse button I clicked and which modifier keys were active. This could be anything from minimizing to tray to resizing or moving the window.
2. Bring up a menu with the contents of a folder I select based on a mouse combination or keystroke. The menu should be bindable to things like double-right clicking, or pressing middle+right on the mouse.
3. Send a windows message (not sure what the *nix equivalent is) to a window with a certain title text. In my example before, it sends an message which tells a pesky dialog box to close. While it was caused by windows being dumb, a similar problem could easily come up in another application.
What I'm wondering about is a window manager which supports me doing these kinds of things without forcing me to edit their code and recompile. I'm not actually restricted to explorer with this--I used litestep for a while--but explorer seems to complement it better.
This reminds me of why I use Windows. About a year ago I found a program called powerpro. It allows massive amounts of scripting to be done to the windows environment without too much effort. Menus, shortcut keys, macros, window messages and controls. I was completely blown away when I found it, and it has ruined me for using any other operating environment. It let me add functionality which I considered basic that had been denied to me because either explorer didn't support them or the programs chose not to give me access to them (always-on-top being a big offender)
Here are some simple examples of things I've done with it that I'm not sure how I could easily and universally accomplish in any other OS. Do feel free to explain if there is a simple and universal way to do these sorts of things in some Linux distro or OSX. I'm a coder, but I have no intrest in pouring through the code of the window manager to add these sorts of thigns in.
Left/Right Tile: When I middle or right click maximize, the window resizes to fill half the screen on the left or right respectively. This saves me tons of time fitting two windows on my widescreen monitor. I also use it when I'm not wide screen, though less often.
Min-to-tray: When I right click minimize on a window it minimizes to the tray. Extremely useful for console applications or other programs that need to be running but are taking up precious taskbar space. My taskbar is for things I'm using only.
cursor menu: when I press win+S I get a menu which has my start menu items at the cursor. I don't use it all the time, but it is handy to have.
window control menu: if I double right-click on a window I have a menu that gives a bunch of options that I often want to perform on windows (min to tray/min/max/tiling as above/always on top/send to back/etc). Most of these things I can do with other shortcuts, but sometimes an app is skinned and I won't have access to the standard buttons like minimize and maximize.
manual playlist advance in winamp: I have a shortcut set up which sends the message to winamp to switch into manual playlist advance. The function wasn't included in winamp's global hotkey list, but I still got the functionality.
Auto-click on "rename": Windows has an EXTREMELY annoying habit of asking me whether I want to change the extension of a file. I have a simple script which, when the dialog comes up, auto-clicks the button. I usually don't even see it before it is gone.
In addition to powerpro, I also use resource hacker to edit some programs to make their menus and shortcuts more to my liking. These are just a few of the things that make my life easier.
Ideally I'd be able to layer this on top of a fully configurable and consistent UI as you mentioned, but no OS is there yet but windows isn't terribly bad. Windows just happened to be the OS to give me powerful and easy to use tools (again, if there is something equivalent on other operating systems I would like to know about it for when I happen to use them)
This could work in a very similar way to how the student housing co-operative I live at works. By having people work together to shoulder the effort of cleaning (uploading) we can, at least in theory, not have to hire a professional cleaning staff (reduce the provider's bandwidth usage) and have the hiring cost (bandwidth cost) passed back along to us, resulting in cheaper rent (download costs). I'm not sure how much of the cost you could actually save from sharing, though.
The same question that comes up here is the one that potential users of commercial P2P will have to deal with: is the savings in cost worth the bandwidth you are sacrificing? My upload bandwidth, to a point, is nearly worthless to me. I'd either not care, or only do it if there was a significant (say, 15-20%) drop in the overall cost.
> Nobody has a truly democratic society
No, but there are places which are much closer than the US. Consider the direct democracy that is used in many places--most notably Switzerland. Even in a system where you have representation you can still have the facilities for more direct approaches built into the system.
"Especially" is a bit of an overstatement. The exchange rate is about 275L for 1USD. Even the *most expensive* one on that page was only about $13 USD for what appears to be a few hours. I doubt even the best could get enough work each day to support themselves, and certainly not enough to live comfortably.
Fact: Not every job requires phenominal applicants. It's rediculous to toss this kind of qualification aside. The people who have certifications probably aren't going to be the best of the best, but most companies aren't looking for (and couldn't afford) those people anyways. If you're looking for someone really good you should be looking are references and prior work experience. If you're looking for someone to get a job done, certification gives you some idea of what you're getting into with a candidate. In the worst case you'll realize they're stupid in the interview.