A math degree would require less laboratory classes and less projects. You could do the studying to learn u/g level mathematical concepts at your own time and you would mostly have to worry about homeworks, midterms and exams and not so much about big (team) projects.
Projects in CS curriculums are extremely time-consuming. And most importantly, after all these years of s/w engineering experience, you don't need them. You have already acquired most of or more than the skills that these classes are designed to teach.
On the other hand, what you most likely lack is formal CS theory training. Being able to grasp deep algorithmic and complexity concepts, discrete math, numerical analysis, linear algebra, data structures etc would undoubtedly help you become a better engineer.
So my suggestion is a Math degree with as many CS theory courses as possible. Keep in mind that some of them will have projects, e.g., numerical analysis or algorithms, but those projects will actually teach _you_ something and are usually not as time consuming as big S/W engineering design and analysis or compilers projects.
Absolutely not. You don't need to differentiate packet based on content, source or destination to provide CDN services.
You just need to build a CDN, i.e., caches, mechanisms for content replication close to its destinations etc etc.
Akamai does not need Telcos to differentiate packets for its CDN to work. Similarly Telco CDNs do not imply that Telcos differentiate packets.
If I am still not understood, here is the wikipedia definition to make it easier for you.
"A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottlenecks near that server."
Similar to those deployed by Akamai and Limelight for their customers, and by Google and Microsoft for themselves.
A typical case of a Telco moving into an additional market. Arguably, it does allow BT to offer multi-tier services. But it is not packet-level differentiation in the network, which is the issue at the heart of the net-neutrality debate.
If Content Distribution Networks violate net neutrality and the/. crowd thinks so, then we should be blasting Akamai and Google long time before we started blasting the Telcos.
"You wonder if our technology is developing faster than our enlightenment? We already have enough weapons to kill everybody on the planet 100 times over, and our top priority is watching "Jersey Shore"... does that answer your question?"
It is very simple really. ISPs in the densely populated EU quickly figured out that if they don't restrict internet access to the paying customers, many other users from the nearby apartments/townhouses will free-ride.
So, they simply sell the model and the wireless router as one package, with a passcode that is setup by the ISP and printed on the back of the router.
It is not that European users or ISPs are more aware of security. It is because ISPs want to make sure people do not free-ride on their services, and that the users do not have to set up themselves the security of their wireless router.
So this is a list that gives credit only to business people for the success of Open Source...
You are missing: Linus Torvalds (Linux creator), Eric S. Raymond (Open Source advocate), Bruce Perens (started Debian Linux and coined the term “Open Source”), Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation spiritual father),
If you were aiming to credit people with substantial influence in the business part of IT, then why did you omit: Bob Young & Marc Ewing (Red Hat founders) and Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google founders).
This is just a list of nobodies (OSS-wise) that at some point in their life decided to use OSS in their business... This is insulting really. Please no more of these self-validation articles!
As a non-US citizen I have experienced the frustration of long border controls in US and Canada too many times, and from now on I will try my best to minimize them.
The Olympics is a celebration of peace and freedom. Please oh please no more overpoliced olympics!
So not really a short answer:)
Rio was the best for 3 reasons:
a) Infrastructure and preparation. Recall that they have two main events to organize within 2 years. If the World cup is successful, no doubt they will organize an equally successful Olympics. Even if it fails, they will have enough time to fix all the problems, which they will have learned first hand, thus it is more likely they will absorb the lessons of failure.
b) Not a main target for terrorists etc. Face it, the US is a prime target and policing events on the mainland is a nightmare. Also some countries are less likely to be attacked simply because they have not pissed off as many people as the US. So was Greece in 2004, and so will be Brazil in 2016.
c) Latin America. The Olympics should go there at some point... and where better than the magical city of Rio, in one of the most vibrant economies in the world?
RIPPER is an acronym for the Robotic Interplanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever. It is an automated two-stage spacecraft and Earth Reentry Capsule (ERC) designed to land on and return samples from the smaller extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. This includes the moons, the asteroids, and the comets."
"As significant resources are directed towards clean-slate networking research, it is imperative to understand how cleanslate architectural research compares to the diametrically opposite paradigm of evolutionary research. This paper approaches the âoeevolution versus clean-slateâ debate through a biological metaphor. We argue that evolutionary research can lead to less costly (more competitive) and more robust designs than clean-slate architectural research. We also argue that the Internet architecture is not ossified, as recently claimed, but that its core protocols play the role of âoeevolutionary kernelsâ, meaning that they are conserved so that complexity and diversity can emerge at the lower and higher layers. We then discuss the factors that determine the deployment of new architectures or protocols, and argue, based on the notion of âoeauto-catalytic setsâ, that successful innovations are those that become synergistic components in closed loops of existing modules. The paper closes emphasizing the role of evolutionary Internet research."
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A math degree would require less laboratory classes and less projects. You could do the studying to learn u/g level mathematical concepts at your own time and you would mostly have to worry about homeworks, midterms and exams and not so much about big (team) projects.
Projects in CS curriculums are extremely time-consuming. And most importantly, after all these years of s/w engineering experience, you don't need them. You have already acquired most of or more than the skills that these classes are designed to teach.
On the other hand, what you most likely lack is formal CS theory training. Being able to grasp deep algorithmic and complexity concepts, discrete math, numerical analysis, linear algebra, data structures etc would undoubtedly help you become a better engineer.
So my suggestion is a Math degree with as many CS theory courses as possible. Keep in mind that some of them will have projects, e.g., numerical analysis or algorithms, but those projects will actually teach _you_ something and are usually not as time consuming as big S/W engineering design and analysis or compilers projects.
The conference version of the paper appeared in IEEE S&P 2008.
http://cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/oakland08.pdf
Absolutely not. You don't need to differentiate packet based on content, source or destination to provide CDN services.
You just need to build a CDN, i.e., caches, mechanisms for content replication close to its destinations etc etc.
Akamai does not need Telcos to differentiate packets for its CDN to work. Similarly Telco CDNs do not imply that Telcos differentiate packets.
If I am still not understood, here is the wikipedia definition to make it easier for you.
"A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottlenecks near that server."
Similar to those deployed by Akamai and Limelight for their customers, and by Google and Microsoft for themselves.
A typical case of a Telco moving into an additional market.
Arguably, it does allow BT to offer multi-tier services. But it is not packet-level differentiation
in the network, which is the issue at the heart of the net-neutrality debate.
If Content Distribution Networks violate net neutrality and the /. crowd thinks so, then
we should be blasting Akamai and Google long time before we started blasting the Telcos.
Respect ...
what are you talking about? INRIA is in France, and France is in the EU. Even more,
INRIA is largely funded by the EU
For me it was the Slashroulette
Wow, Glen Beck is gonna have a field day with this guy ...
"You wonder if our technology is developing faster than our enlightenment? We already have enough weapons to kill everybody on the planet 100 times over, and our top priority is watching "Jersey Shore"... does that answer your question?"
Slightly off topic, but according to this article your "100 times over" assertion is incorrect: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html
It is very simple really. ISPs in the densely populated EU quickly figured out that if they don't restrict internet
access to the paying customers, many other users from the nearby apartments/townhouses will free-ride.
So, they simply sell the model and the wireless router as one package, with a passcode that is setup by the ISP
and printed on the back of the router.
It is not that European users or ISPs are more aware of security. It is because ISPs want to make sure people
do not free-ride on their services, and that the users do not have to set up themselves the security of their wireless router.
endangered (thus rare) fish randomly ends up in your dish?
So this is a list that gives credit only to business people for the success of Open Source ...
You are missing: Linus Torvalds (Linux creator), Eric S. Raymond (Open Source advocate), Bruce Perens (started Debian Linux and coined the term “Open Source”), Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation spiritual father),
If you were aiming to credit people with substantial influence in the business part of IT, then why did you omit:
Bob Young & Marc Ewing (Red Hat founders) and Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google founders).
This is just a list of nobodies (OSS-wise) that at some point in their life decided to use OSS in their business ... This is insulting really. Please no more
of these self-validation articles!
"Do you honestly think what he's done is on the level with Martin Luther King? Or Mother Theresa? Or Linus Paulinvg?"
Hell, even Linus Torvalds has done more for world peace!
Of course it has been a factor.
As a non-US citizen I have experienced the frustration of long border controls in US and Canada
too many times, and from now on I will try my best to minimize them.
The Olympics is a celebration of peace and freedom. Please oh please no more overpoliced olympics!
So not really a short answer :)
Rio was the best for 3 reasons:
a) Infrastructure and preparation. Recall that they have two main events to organize within 2 years.
If the World cup is successful, no doubt they will organize an equally successful Olympics.
Even if it fails, they will have enough time to fix all the problems, which they will
have learned first hand, thus it is more likely they will absorb the lessons of failure.
b) Not a main target for terrorists etc. Face it, the US is a prime target and policing
events on the mainland is a nightmare. Also some countries are less likely
to be attacked simply because they have not pissed off as many people
as the US. So was Greece in 2004, and so will be Brazil in 2016.
c) Latin America. The Olympics should go there at some point ... and where
better than the magical city of Rio, in one of the most vibrant economies in the world?
hate to reply to my posts, but this is funny:
"What is the RIPPER?
RIPPER is an acronym for the Robotic Interplanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever. It is an automated two-stage spacecraft and Earth Reentry Capsule (ERC) designed to land on and return samples from the smaller extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. This includes the moons, the asteroids, and the comets."
"Ripper"... how appropriate ...
They are selling lunar samples from their missions to moon starting 2012 ...
http://www.interorbital.com/Lunar%20Sample%20Return_1.htm
"How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? "
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
bigger yes. Taking into account that the US has ~300 million vs EU's ~450 million population, richer not.
"2) celebrate gay culture and heritage."
_Sir_ Elton John ... 'nough said.
Good point. A colleague of John Doyle also agrees with you:
What would Darwin Think about Clean-Slate Architectures? ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR), Editorial Zone, January 2008.
http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/drupal/files/p29-v38n1g-dovrolis.pdf
From the abstract:
"As significant resources are directed towards clean-slate networking
research, it is imperative to understand how cleanslate
architectural research compares to the diametrically
opposite paradigm of evolutionary research. This paper approaches
the âoeevolution versus clean-slateâ debate through
a biological metaphor. We argue that evolutionary research
can lead to less costly (more competitive) and more robust
designs than clean-slate architectural research. We also argue
that the Internet architecture is not ossified, as recently
claimed, but that its core protocols play the role of âoeevolutionary
kernelsâ, meaning that they are conserved so that
complexity and diversity can emerge at the lower and higher
layers. We then discuss the factors that determine the deployment
of new architectures or protocols, and argue, based
on the notion of âoeauto-catalytic setsâ, that successful innovations
are those that become synergistic components in
closed loops of existing modules. The paper closes emphasizing
the role of evolutionary Internet research."
Nope, he still does ... :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3382491587979249836
Brian Shuster, Johnson Leong, Matthew Price, Brian Lam, Desmond Ford Johnson.
So that their names show up in this /. post every time somebody googles them ...
hate to break this little bubble of yours ... but couldn't resist the temptation:
http://uniorb.com/RCHECK/drone.htm
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