I wish some companies look towards and invest money in http://www.tug.org/ and
http://www.latex-project.org/ as well.
TeX is a far-far superior way of formatting and writing documents compared to any of the word packages.
Yeah, I also use Firefox, adblock and flashblock and block all ads. I have never seen a google add or any flash promo. Now, I want to stop the ads which they show in the RSS feeds.
I have to use Windows a lot at work. I haven't seen a BSOD in years.
I was wondering what blue screen of death(BSOD) meant. I initially thought it to be some Linux installation related problematic blue screen . But your post explained what it meant.
I think people talking about BSOD must have only used Windows 98, or some other older versions.
Its been atleast 3 to 4 years, since I have ever seen a blue screen. And by the way, I am someone who spends on average 6 to 7 hours daily with computer running Windows operating system.
I have read lots of post in this thread and several other slashdot threads where people, say that US should own/control the Internet because they did most of the technological work in creating it.
I think this argument is ludicrous, because over the course of humanity, people in different parts of the world, have made different inventions, the Chinese invented gunpowder and paper, does that means they should control everything related to that? The Indians are credited for inventing 0, and the decimal system, so should they be allowed to assert control of most of Mathematics?
Technologies and science should not be owned by a nation or a group of people, rather they should belong to humanity in general. When as a scientist, one publishes a technological paper in some journal, she is donating her knowledge or discovery to humanity, and she should not then lament that she is not able to exploit the fruits of her discovery.
All said, this doesn't mean that US should cease control of the Internet, rather there are other legitimate arguments which should be raised.
But it could have been happening at thousands and thousands of vents worldwide, in thousands and thousands of inorganic chambers per vent. All of that combinatorial power adds up.
Multiply that by millions of galaxies and planets.
Its the people who have been saying this for 20 years, and not businesses. But, the way things are moving, this patent trolling thing, will force corporations (and consequently politicians) to act.
Global warming or no global warming, the earth will continue to move on its axis.
Nothing happens to the planet, but it is the associated human catastrophe, which is of concern, imagine cities going under water, climate patterns changing. I will leave the rest on your own 'conscience', if you have any.
The ice reflects off sunlight back into the space, but when there is no ice, all the heat will be abosrobed by water, and this in turn will increase the rate of ice melting, the rate of rise in global temperatures will be even higher. So, don't expect the water temperature to stay below 4 degree C.
Already, we have had the hottest year(2005) since, people started recording temperatures.
but can you make the link between reading my email and controlling every aspect of my life more explicit?
Imagine that you are a big google fan.
Google already knows about what kind of information you seek on the web, what web pages you read and browse, it also knows about all the emails you send and receive (and they are never deleted, even if you delete them, Google still keeps them), all the instant messages which you exchange with different people. It also hopes to become your bank (Google Wallet), your library, your shopping mall, your newspaper, and as things get more integrated with the web maybe it wall have access to your medical records, your tax records, insurance records, etc., almost every aspect of your life.
OK, so what?
Scenario 1: Imagine countries like China, or even the Patriot Act, or imagine the powers to be getting paranoid (the way they got about Communism during fifties), they can easily arm-twist Google to reveal all your personal information. The FBI, CIA persons can then go through all your personal and private stuff. Even if you are an honest person, and they cannot do you any direct harm, they might leak information about you the way it was done about but "Valerie Plame" to discredit "Wilson". The possibilities are endless.
Scenario 2: Google was born in the machine learning lab of Stanford. Although machine learning is a powerful science, which can do immense good to humans, for example in biology, chemistry, business, Internet, etc. But like any other technology it can be exploited too. What I am worried about is some behemoth (which Google hopes to become) having all the information about every bit of our personal life. You will become focus of targeted advertising (this is already happening, but is still not very sophisticated), if you are buying or looking for houses, where ever you go on web you will be shown real estate ads, furniture ads, imagine whatever you decide to do, they start you showing ads related to that (this can be good or bad depends upon perspective). Whatever you shop or choices you make is controlled some way or the other by google. Imagine, going to a car agent, who is somehow affiliated to Google, you tell him your name and in minutes he knows most of your background, whether you are there just for fun, or are you seriously interested in buying a car. To sum up, it is the loss of privacy, handing over my choices and decisions to corporations, is what I am worried about the most.
I am sorry, I didn't mean to accuse you of heckling, no you weren't, I wanted to post my message in a new thread, but I messed up somewhere, and instead replied to your post.
Yes, I admit slowly even advanced high level technical jobs, might start being offshored, but as the world becomes more competetive, we cannot just sit still and watch it passively. We also need to grow and improve our standards, in fact more people should choose technology careers, and innovate and keep America in the fore-front of technology.
Unless we do this companies like Microsoft, IBM, Dell have to go offshore to get their work done, they are corporations who want to make money, and if they don't do this then their rivals will, or else some company from these nations will take over and kill their business.
It seems to me that Google, contrary to other IT companies, actually sees its business as providing access to information, whereas companies like MS and AOL seek vendor lock-in for their file formats and protocols.
What about google reading your emails, monitoring your behavior, trying to control every aspect of your life?
Though I may be complaining about this, ironically, even I am guilty, because I am working on technologies which makes it possible for Google or any other comapny to do so.
# What financial motivation do large software companies have to keep CS jobs in the United States?
CS people early a much better salary compared to most workers in US.
# Do you see outsourcing as a growing or shrinking trend?
There is still no dearth of IT jobs, and any decently trained computer guy won't have any problem in finding a decent well-paying job.
The reason why the companies had to clamor for increase in H1 visas and then hire people from outside is because, the lack of *quality* CS talent in US.
In fact it is more expensive and troublesome for companies to get foreign workers on H1 visas, and it doesn't result in any cost saving, rather they have to shell out more money on the paper work and stuff, and besides there are communication problems.
If more American students study CS, and do masters or phd, then definitely the number of people working in Microsoft or any IT company on H1 visas will decrease.
Instead of heckling others and being outright xenophobic, look at yourself and try to figure out why you were fired?
And outsourcing, the work which is outsourced is generally the low end one, but if people stop studying advanced level technical subjects, then pretty soon even the high level work will have to be outsourced.
I have used and in fact even tested these configuration managers, initially they might be pain, but definitely its better to use them, then going to several different websites downloading the softwares reading the manual, installing them and configuring it.
With the solution stack I can start the installation procedure, and then go out for lunch and when I come back everything is installed and ready to be used. I can start the development work without worrying about whether the different softwares are configured or not.
Solution stack save lot of time and its of immense benefit to IT people in companies as when all the developers are using the same stack, it makes things much easier.
Well said.
Can the government stop 12-13 year teenagers from having sex?
This is nothing but myopic on part of yahoo, and how are they going to enforce it?
More corporate and venture capitalists interest in open source softwares is a good thing. Use of open source softwares in corporate environments, will lead to OSS getting better, stabler, robust and more user friendly. The developers of OSS, instead of developing and working on projects as a part time hobby thing, can work on it full time and also make some money.
We casual/poor users, who cannot or do not want to pay money, are going to benefit immensely from this, because all the money and resources invested by the different corporations and financial institutions will go a long way in making the open source products more viable and more feature rich.
Generally most open source softwares rarely have very user friendly interfaces especially for non-expert users, but the different companies and financial institutes in particular will demand and invest in usability improvements, and this will definitely help non geeky users. I hope someday I will be able to teach my grandpa, how to play DVDs on Linux box.
In fact I just finished a summer internship in one of these open source companies. And they treat the open source developers as demi-gods, and pay them huge sum of money to visit their premises and interact with their developers. Some, people may not like the idea that OSS developers making money out of their software, but the truth is that the developers have families, and they need to earn money. The philosophy of the open source movement is that people should be free to use, hack, and distribute softwares. Even the venerable Richard M. Stallman is not against making money.
I am not very confident about the success of business model adopted by the different open source companies, and it may even end up the way the dot com boom did.
But, even out of the dot com boom there emerged some positives like the yahoos, googles, amazons, ebays, etc, and without it I don't think we could have had the web which we now do.
Scientifically, I don't think there is much to be gained by a manned lunar expedition.
But still countries want to do it to demonstrate their clout in space science.
And for Chinese government to do it there are few more reasons, the communists are able to survive by fermenting nationalistic fervor among the people, and a manned lunar mission is a good way of whipping up mass patrioitsm. Also, it will help in making a point or two to American and Western European dominance in space
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the test was done after exposing the mice to urine swabs of females.
I wonder if the mice were actually singing or crying in disgust?
I wish some companies look towards and invest money in http://www.tug.org/ and http://www.latex-project.org/ as well.
TeX is a far-far superior way of formatting and writing documents compared to any of the word packages.
Yeah, I also use Firefox, adblock and flashblock and block all ads. I have never seen a google add or any flash promo. Now, I want to stop the ads which they show in the RSS feeds.
Any idea how to do that?
Indeed I know some good scientists, who say that it is good which led them to discover what they did.
It seems you are using Windows 98, time to move onto newer OS.
I have to use Windows a lot at work. I haven't seen a BSOD in years.
I was wondering what blue screen of death(BSOD) meant. I initially thought it to be some Linux installation related problematic blue screen . But your post explained what it meant.
I think people talking about BSOD must have only used Windows 98, or some other older versions.
Its been atleast 3 to 4 years, since I have ever seen a blue screen. And by the way, I am someone who spends on average 6 to 7 hours daily with computer running Windows operating system.
I have read lots of post in this thread and several other slashdot threads where people, say that US should own/control the Internet because they did most of the technological work in creating it.
I think this argument is ludicrous, because over the course of humanity, people in different parts of the world, have made different inventions, the Chinese invented gunpowder and paper, does that means they should control everything related to that? The Indians are credited for inventing 0, and the decimal system, so should they be allowed to assert control of most of Mathematics?
Technologies and science should not be owned by a nation or a group of people, rather they should belong to humanity in general. When as a scientist, one publishes a technological paper in some journal, she is donating her knowledge or discovery to humanity, and she should not then lament that she is not able to exploit the fruits of her discovery.
All said, this doesn't mean that US should cease control of the Internet, rather there are other legitimate arguments which should be raised.
Capitalism for the rich, and members of communist party.
Communism for the poor and peasants.
But it could have been happening at thousands and thousands of vents worldwide, in thousands and thousands of inorganic chambers per vent. All of that combinatorial power adds up.
Multiply that by millions of galaxies and planets.
Its the people who have been saying this for 20 years, and not businesses. But, the way things are moving, this patent trolling thing, will force corporations (and consequently politicians) to act.
Global warming or no global warming, the earth will continue to move on its axis.
Nothing happens to the planet, but it is the associated human catastrophe, which is of concern, imagine cities going under water, climate patterns changing. I will leave the rest on your own 'conscience', if you have any.
The ice reflects off sunlight back into the space, but when there is no ice, all the heat will be abosrobed by water, and this in turn will increase the rate of ice melting, the rate of rise in global temperatures will be even higher. So, don't expect the water temperature to stay below 4 degree C.
Already, we have had the hottest year(2005) since, people started recording temperatures.
Not long before we say "Good bye Bangladesh".
but can you make the link between reading my email and controlling every aspect of my life more explicit?
Imagine that you are a big google fan.
Google already knows about what kind of information you seek on the web, what web pages you read and browse, it also knows about all the emails you send and receive (and they are never deleted, even if you delete them, Google still keeps them), all the instant messages which you exchange with different people. It also hopes to become your bank (Google Wallet), your library, your shopping mall, your newspaper, and as things get more integrated with the web maybe it wall have access to your medical records, your tax records, insurance records, etc., almost every aspect of your life.
OK, so what?
Scenario 1: Imagine countries like China, or even the Patriot Act, or imagine the powers to be getting paranoid (the way they got about Communism during fifties), they can easily arm-twist Google to reveal all your personal information. The FBI, CIA persons can then go through all your personal and private stuff. Even if you are an honest person, and they cannot do you any direct harm, they might leak information about you the way it was done about but "Valerie Plame" to discredit "Wilson". The possibilities are endless.
Scenario 2: Google was born in the machine learning lab of Stanford. Although machine learning is a powerful science, which can do immense good to humans, for example in biology, chemistry, business, Internet, etc. But like any other technology it can be exploited too. What I am worried about is some behemoth (which Google hopes to become) having all the information about every bit of our personal life. You will become focus of targeted advertising (this is already happening, but is still not very sophisticated), if you are buying or looking for houses, where ever you go on web you will be shown real estate ads, furniture ads, imagine whatever you decide to do, they start you showing ads related to that (this can be good or bad depends upon perspective). Whatever you shop or choices you make is controlled some way or the other by google. Imagine, going to a car agent, who is somehow affiliated to Google, you tell him your name and in minutes he knows most of your background, whether you are there just for fun, or are you seriously interested in buying a car. To sum up, it is the loss of privacy, handing over my choices and decisions to corporations, is what I am worried about the most.
I am sorry, I didn't mean to accuse you of heckling, no you weren't, I wanted to post my message in a new thread, but I messed up somewhere, and instead replied to your post.
Yes, I admit slowly even advanced high level technical jobs, might start being offshored, but as the world becomes more competetive, we cannot just sit still and watch it passively. We also need to grow and improve our standards, in fact more people should choose technology careers, and innovate and keep America in the fore-front of technology.
Unless we do this companies like Microsoft, IBM, Dell have to go offshore to get their work done, they are corporations who want to make money, and if they don't do this then their rivals will, or else some company from these nations will take over and kill their business.
"Check out this Google Word Processor and Spreadsheet application, it just came with my new version of AOL!"
Or is it Sun Office??
It seems to me that Google, contrary to other IT companies, actually sees its business as providing access to information, whereas companies like MS and AOL seek vendor lock-in for their file formats and protocols.
What about google reading your emails, monitoring your behavior, trying to control every aspect of your life?
Though I may be complaining about this, ironically, even I am guilty, because I am working on technologies which makes it possible for Google or any other comapny to do so.
# What financial motivation do large software companies have to keep CS jobs in the United States? CS people early a much better salary compared to most workers in US. # Do you see outsourcing as a growing or shrinking trend? There is still no dearth of IT jobs, and any decently trained computer guy won't have any problem in finding a decent well-paying job.
The reason why the companies had to clamor for increase in H1 visas and then hire people from outside is because, the lack of *quality* CS talent in US.
In fact it is more expensive and troublesome for companies to get foreign workers on H1 visas, and it doesn't result in any cost saving, rather they have to shell out more money on the paper work and stuff, and besides there are communication problems.
If more American students study CS, and do masters or phd, then definitely the number of people working in Microsoft or any IT company on H1 visas will decrease.
Instead of heckling others and being outright xenophobic, look at yourself and try to figure out why you were fired?
And outsourcing, the work which is outsourced is generally the low end one, but if people stop studying advanced level technical subjects, then pretty soon even the high level work will have to be outsourced.
I have used and in fact even tested these configuration managers, initially they might be pain, but definitely its better to use them, then going to several different websites downloading the softwares reading the manual, installing them and configuring it.
With the solution stack I can start the installation procedure, and then go out for lunch and when I come back everything is installed and ready to be used. I can start the development work without worrying about whether the different softwares are configured or not.
Solution stack save lot of time and its of immense benefit to IT people in companies as when all the developers are using the same stack, it makes things much easier.
Well said. Can the government stop 12-13 year teenagers from having sex? This is nothing but myopic on part of yahoo, and how are they going to enforce it?
I feel really pathetic, that there is not a single Linux *Desktop* for general computer users in my school.
I hope that most universities are like mine. I could not understand how a professor of Computer Science could actually use Windows.
:)
To plays movies, games and other cool stuff
More corporate and venture capitalists interest in open source softwares is a good thing. Use of open source softwares in corporate environments, will lead to OSS getting better, stabler, robust and more user friendly. The developers of OSS, instead of developing and working on projects as a part time hobby thing, can work on it full time and also make some money. We casual/poor users, who cannot or do not want to pay money, are going to benefit immensely from this, because all the money and resources invested by the different corporations and financial institutions will go a long way in making the open source products more viable and more feature rich. Generally most open source softwares rarely have very user friendly interfaces especially for non-expert users, but the different companies and financial institutes in particular will demand and invest in usability improvements, and this will definitely help non geeky users. I hope someday I will be able to teach my grandpa, how to play DVDs on Linux box. In fact I just finished a summer internship in one of these open source companies. And they treat the open source developers as demi-gods, and pay them huge sum of money to visit their premises and interact with their developers. Some, people may not like the idea that OSS developers making money out of their software, but the truth is that the developers have families, and they need to earn money. The philosophy of the open source movement is that people should be free to use, hack, and distribute softwares. Even the venerable Richard M. Stallman is not against making money. I am not very confident about the success of business model adopted by the different open source companies, and it may even end up the way the dot com boom did. But, even out of the dot com boom there emerged some positives like the yahoos, googles, amazons, ebays, etc, and without it I don't think we could have had the web which we now do.
Scientifically, I don't think there is much to be gained by a manned lunar expedition. But still countries want to do it to demonstrate their clout in space science. And for Chinese government to do it there are few more reasons, the communists are able to survive by fermenting nationalistic fervor among the people, and a manned lunar mission is a good way of whipping up mass patrioitsm. Also, it will help in making a point or two to American and Western European dominance in space
Democracies are conservative and not very likely to go to war.