She's probably a frustrated country artist at heart.
since we're conjecturing, i think what we have here is a slightly misguided person on a massive power trip. now that she's a person of consequence (to herself at any rate), she feels that she has the right, NAY the obligation!, to champion issues that she feels are morally correct, even if they are completely outside the normal functioning of her job.
she's just misguided. any rational person would examine the pros and cons of anything they decide to champion. All we have to do is wait for some DRM f***up to affect her life before she thinks "hmm, maybe it does more than it claims to do...." it's just too bad that people don't do that in the first place.
goes to show that if one person has complete mastery over a piece of code (e.g. the kernel), and if they're decently competent, they should be able to fix it very quickly and very soon. imagine this floating around a programming group -- being passed from one person to the next, each with their partial understanding of the whole system.
Microsoft has spent so much ill-will capital, the collective technology users' almost (almost) want Microsoft to go away.
I wouldn't agree. The collective users minus the knowledgeable community are just happy that the "media center edition windows" that came equipped with their dell lets them do all this "new" cool stuff. don't count out a dazzling UI, fancy-sounding jargon or some other gimmick to win back the ignorant hordes, because I really doubt that true innovation will come by and kill or beat some of the great products already out there.
Either that, or look out for a deadly string of buyouts. Honestly, I love using Visio because it feels so different from the rest of the Office suite. Things just work sometimes -- made me finally give up xfig. If I'm not mistaken Visio was a company that made...Visio...and then got bought out by MS.
no i think you might be mistaken. sad, lonely geeks compile their own gentoo system for a sense of accomplishment that is really quite insignificant in the "real" world. what did you do today? cure cancer? do a honest day's work? nope...just compiled sources that someone else wrote.
we had a similar token ring network, but an odd factor we noticed was that once the ring was initialized, latency between token passes increased linearly with time until all clients were asleep.
Aside from the terrible, terrible, sad analogy, do you enjoy Windows vulnerabilities as much as a cigarette after sex? Patching flaws without disclosure (as long as that is indeed what they are doing) is like taking a pill for a cold and having it cure your syphillis while it's at it.
Exactly. Except if they're big and have the money for it, they're called "bulk advertisers", "certified targeted marketing" or a whole lot of other jargon that might lead you to believe they really are in fact something other than spam.
I disagree with you. Funding and markets might dry up, but innovation in computer science is cheap. As long as they keep hiring smart people, they'll keep having at least some smart ideas. Or at least as long as there are startups looking to be swallowed up, there will still be innovation.
If anyone still cares about the latest Google beta in five years, now that seems more interesting...
I know English majors aren't the most technologically gifted, but COME ON!!:
The algorithm, or search engine tool, is called Orion.
Way to reduce CS to the web. And that was possibly the most UN-enlightening article I've EVER read. Does anyone have a link to something with more meat??
I was JUST thinking that. This seems like the beginning of a whole slew of semi-ridiculous ideas that get funded because their proponents seem 'ahead of their time'. Did someone at a funding company not think of the following two points:
1) the web is growing at a phenomenal rate. in a few years, the only thing that you'll be able to fit on even high-density media is very narrow, specific content. is there really such a huge market for that?
2) wifi is nearly ubiquitous. why pay for a static snapshot of the web that will be obsolete in a few days when you can walk into a starbucks with you laptop and get the fresh stuff almost for free??
I'm sure the guys who want to put the web on a disk have thought these points through, but me...I just really want to sigh. and buy some short-term stocks.
why on earth would you write an article about the style of headlines in Google's news aggregation? it really isn't like Google is creating its own summary by mashing all the aggregated news articles together. some reporter somewhere wrote that dry headline.
then you have your pick of post-docs just about anywhere in the country with a top comp sci. department.
But by definition, the top comp sci. departments are a small fraction of all the comp sci. departments, and the students in those top departments are by extension a small fraction of all comp sci. grad students. Postdocs certainly aren't as freely available as you claim to the rest of us (i.e. tier 2 onwards).
By the way, 30k/year for a grad stipend???? That troubles me deeply...I thought my 17k was high-end. Some lucky bastard somewhere is enjoying lobster bisque while I shell out for ramen. But then again, who does this for the money?
absolutely. we had a bunch of old P3s lying around with about 256mb each. i spent some time putting them into a cluster because the departmental servers were overloaded. turned out that it just wasn't useful. the overloaded dual-opteron server with 4 gigs of ram ran a set of intensive experiments faster than the p3s could crank out their stuff. from my gross, empirical estimates, 5 p3s w/256mb each == 1 overloaded dual-opteron server at fairly I/O intensive tasks. Don't even want to think about power/heat issues.
I don't think its so much of a bad thing as quite a sudden change. Most of these old stodges you talk about have been used to their entire professional lives revolving around the same principles they learnt as kids. now, all of a sudden, there's this hot new "fad" that all the kids are using to produce stuff that they clearly don't understand very well. with any change will come a period of uncertainty, when the established voices get to...voice...concern about how it will affect their fields.
remember when OOP was still relatively new? i remember scoffing at it initially as an excuse for people who couldn't code in hard C (it still is sometimes)...
implants based on GPRS/GPS to control where your kids go. if they leave their "safe zone", a tiny electric shock is delivered straight to their brain!! 1 year contract required.
will it come with Clippy the dancing enterprise resource planner paperclip, or Fido the inventory managing wonderdog?
seriously though, i'd be interested in seeing how they take an incredibly complex app domain (in general) and try to fit it into a typical microsoft interface template, where things like selectively averaging columns in Excel is non-trivial...
Here's a reason why (although there are many others): I recently built a spanking new box and ordered FC4, Debian and Gentoo from FrozenTech. FC4 x86_64 had trouble with the video, FC4 x86 worked fine but kept freezing every 20 minutes with no useful log messages. Debian x86_64 didn't like my wireless drivers, including the native src drivers from the manufacturer. Debian x86 also had problems with my wireless card.
Solution: if you can't get drivers for your hardware, use VMWare to abstract the Windows drivers to Linux. My wireless card looks like a regular 100mbps Ethernet card to Linux, which needless to say works great. With a decent processor and 2gigs of ram, I'm very, very happy with FC4 under VMWare at 1900x1600.
If there's one thing that Windows is unbeatable at, it's adapting proprietary drivers to Linux!
even for a techie early adopter, somehow the knowledge that there's a war brewing makes these things quite undesirable. i wonder if the people who actually buy it at this point know what's coming...?
if this is ever widely accepted, it seems that the inevitable deluge of security researchers trying to find predictability in the patterns would be a beneficial thing. if one ever comes close to succeeding, sure your credit card details could be stolen, but we'd understand the universe a tiny little bit better...
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she's just misguided. any rational person would examine the pros and cons of anything they decide to champion. All we have to do is wait for some DRM f***up to affect her life before she thinks "hmm, maybe it does more than it claims to do...." it's just too bad that people don't do that in the first place.
that's one up for good ol' fashioned hacking...
not true --- security by obfuscation is not security at all. that's one of the founding principles of modern cryptography.
I wouldn't agree. The collective users minus the knowledgeable community are just happy that the "media center edition windows" that came equipped with their dell lets them do all this "new" cool stuff. don't count out a dazzling UI, fancy-sounding jargon or some other gimmick to win back the ignorant hordes, because I really doubt that true innovation will come by and kill or beat some of the great products already out there.
Either that, or look out for a deadly string of buyouts. Honestly, I love using Visio because it feels so different from the rest of the Office suite. Things just work sometimes -- made me finally give up xfig. If I'm not mistaken Visio was a company that made ...Visio...and then got bought out by MS.
no i think you might be mistaken. sad, lonely geeks compile their own gentoo system for a sense of accomplishment that is really quite insignificant in the "real" world. what did you do today? cure cancer? do a honest day's work? nope...just compiled sources that someone else wrote.
we had a similar token ring network, but an odd factor we noticed was that once the ring was initialized, latency between token passes increased linearly with time until all clients were asleep.
Aside from the terrible, terrible, sad analogy, do you enjoy Windows vulnerabilities as much as a cigarette after sex? Patching flaws without disclosure (as long as that is indeed what they are doing) is like taking a pill for a cold and having it cure your syphillis while it's at it.
how exactly do you represent or see half a pixel? i thought pixels were supposed to be atomic...?
Exactly. Except if they're big and have the money for it, they're called "bulk advertisers", "certified targeted marketing" or a whole lot of other jargon that might lead you to believe they really are in fact something other than spam.
If anyone still cares about the latest Google beta in five years, now that seems more interesting...
The algorithm, or search engine tool, is called Orion.
Way to reduce CS to the web. And that was possibly the most UN-enlightening article I've EVER read. Does anyone have a link to something with more meat??
content, if not coffee.
1) the web is growing at a phenomenal rate. in a few years, the only thing that you'll be able to fit on even high-density media is very narrow, specific content. is there really such a huge market for that?
2) wifi is nearly ubiquitous. why pay for a static snapshot of the web that will be obsolete in a few days when you can walk into a starbucks with you laptop and get the fresh stuff almost for free??
I'm sure the guys who want to put the web on a disk have thought these points through, but me...I just really want to sigh. and buy some short-term stocks.
why on earth would you write an article about the style of headlines in Google's news aggregation? it really isn't like Google is creating its own summary by mashing all the aggregated news articles together. some reporter somewhere wrote that dry headline.
But by definition, the top comp sci. departments are a small fraction of all the comp sci. departments, and the students in those top departments are by extension a small fraction of all comp sci. grad students. Postdocs certainly aren't as freely available as you claim to the rest of us (i.e. tier 2 onwards).
By the way, 30k/year for a grad stipend???? That troubles me deeply...I thought my 17k was high-end. Some lucky bastard somewhere is enjoying lobster bisque while I shell out for ramen. But then again, who does this for the money?
absolutely. we had a bunch of old P3s lying around with about 256mb each. i spent some time putting them into a cluster because the departmental servers were overloaded. turned out that it just wasn't useful. the overloaded dual-opteron server with 4 gigs of ram ran a set of intensive experiments faster than the p3s could crank out their stuff. from my gross, empirical estimates, 5 p3s w/256mb each == 1 overloaded dual-opteron server at fairly I/O intensive tasks. Don't even want to think about power/heat issues.
remember when OOP was still relatively new? i remember scoffing at it initially as an excuse for people who couldn't code in hard C (it still is sometimes)...
um....why are you getting drunk and reading slashdot?
implants based on GPRS/GPS to control where your kids go. if they leave their "safe zone", a tiny electric shock is delivered straight to their brain!! 1 year contract required.
anyone have any idea what a 'performance management system' is? seriously, it feels like the 80's again with all this stupid management jargon.
seriously though, i'd be interested in seeing how they take an incredibly complex app domain (in general) and try to fit it into a typical microsoft interface template, where things like selectively averaging columns in Excel is non-trivial...
Solution: if you can't get drivers for your hardware, use VMWare to abstract the Windows drivers to Linux. My wireless card looks like a regular 100mbps Ethernet card to Linux, which needless to say works great. With a decent processor and 2gigs of ram, I'm very, very happy with FC4 under VMWare at 1900x1600.
If there's one thing that Windows is unbeatable at, it's adapting proprietary drivers to Linux!
even for a techie early adopter, somehow the knowledge that there's a war brewing makes these things quite undesirable. i wonder if the people who actually buy it at this point know what's coming...?
"karma whore"?? wow you really need to get a life...
if this is ever widely accepted, it seems that the inevitable deluge of security researchers trying to find predictability in the patterns would be a beneficial thing. if one ever comes close to succeeding, sure your credit card details could be stolen, but we'd understand the universe a tiny little bit better...