If that sounds paranoid... US officials have occasionally admitted that one of the goals of the JSF programme, at least it multinational aspect, is to drive other suppliers of combat aircraft out of business and ensure for the USA a monopoly on the supply of advanced defence equipment.
It's funny that you use the term 'defense' equipment since I don't think that these machine have ever or will ever be used to stop an offense. I also think that the US is hesitant to release code that also controls the US machines so that no figures our how to shut them off.
As far as writing for multiple cores are concerned...you generate the most parallelism by separating all code that works on mutually independent segments of data and not by thinking in terms of how many processors you have.
Most classically trained Computer Scientists are at least taught to develop in this way and I think that most professional software is developed using multiple threads as it is. Even on a single CPU machine a thread gets a window in which to execute and then is suspended to let another run. The only difference when you add more cores is the thread scheduler.
You are right though, to see a performance boost from one specific application run in isolation it will need to be written using threads. Luckily our operating systems these days are multi-threaded so having more cores can only help:)
On top of bugs, why expose your users to extra work if you don't have to. This update would require software updates to the blackberry units and to corporate servers and we all know that rolling something out is a pain in the ars.
Someone with an economics background won't stop to think of how a solar panel will be built if there is no energy to build it and how a government can afford to make one if we wait for oil to rocket up to $500/barrel. Economics does not negate the need for planning.
As far as the price drop (and I read everything about p/e ratios in this thread) but in simpler terms the stock is valued based on the expected reported earning and since there was a difference between expected and actual we had a gap in the market price. It had nothing do with Google as a company beyond that
I've used tigerdirect rebates before but I'm not sure if I had to go through the online system or if it was a mail in. (it's been a while) I did just use the online rebate process from Staples and my cheque arrived within the week. It was pretty amazing.
What I'm confused about is that I assumed that rebates were set knowing an expected value of the number of rebates they would give based on the pain-in-the-ass factor of mailing? If your promotion budget is still $X and the online rebate submission is easier then wouldn't it follow that the rebate sizes will decrease?
My hope is that the cost savings of automating the process negate that and hopefully they can make the rebates bigger. We'll see I guess.
The moderators think I'm number one! (They it put beside every one of my posts )
Salt is required...and sometimes I healthy shake of malt vinigar. This is the guy who said "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."[here]
I guess it's not a stretch to say that whatever he likes and interpret it however he wants.
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"Because that's the way Americans are now. They're always willing to trade away a little of their freedom for the feeling, the illusion--of security." George Carlin on airport security
While many claim that patents strive to increase the efficiency of the market, it is quite clear they do not.
Patents were originally intended to allow 'the little guy' a chance to make _his_ idea into a reality without larger, more resourcefull, entities stealing the idea and making money off it. A ticket to the American dream of a man with an idea making something of himself.
Patents last 11(?) years to allow innovation to spur the economy. There is a fee every year of that term to encourage the holder to actually do something towards producing the idea in question.
IMO, RIM should pull all BlackBerry Service from the US and see how long it takes for the courts to clear things up. Maybe this would also motivate some change to patent laws that would make the leaches like NTP a thinkg of the past. Like making patent fees ony payable from income derived from the patented object...I doubt it would work, but there must be something that would
Even more than randomly calling people up...where I took CS (and I'm sure at many other schools) all our submissions were run through comparison software to find the cheaters. It was smart enough to compare parse trees and wouldn't be fooled by changing your variable names around and moving one function above another. Spending $100 on an assignment that would take 40hrs sounds like a good investment, but not if it's going to get you thrown out of your $thousands/year program!
Maybe this means that we can use an open source GUI on a windows subsytem. Talk about a wolf in sheeps clothing//Made fun of ms...now back to work on my MS desktop, server,....
Access is the key. I thought about using Ubuntu when I first started my current position so I threw the Hoary Live CD in and spent a day with it. My network, email, dual display...everything I wanted was working within 20 minutes. Since the majority of my work is done remotely I thought I was in the clear. Access is a real buzzkill.
My advice, stick one machine in a corner with ssh, vnc, and access. Whenever anything goes WINsane then light some incense and rub the machines case for luck.
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It's funny that you use the term 'defense' equipment since I don't think that these machine have ever or will ever be used to stop an offense. I also think that the US is hesitant to release code that also controls the US machines so that no figures our how to shut them off.
As far as writing for multiple cores are concerned...you generate the most parallelism by separating all code that works on mutually independent segments of data and not by thinking in terms of how many processors you have.
:)
Most classically trained Computer Scientists are at least taught to develop in this way and I think that most professional software is developed using multiple threads as it is. Even on a single CPU machine a thread gets a window in which to execute and then is suspended to let another run. The only difference when you add more cores is the thread scheduler.
You are right though, to see a performance boost from one specific application run in isolation it will need to be written using threads. Luckily our operating systems these days are multi-threaded so having more cores can only help
On top of bugs, why expose your users to extra work if you don't have to. This update would require software updates to the blackberry units and to corporate servers and we all know that rolling something out is a pain in the ars.
Someone with an economics background won't stop to think of how a solar panel will be built if there is no energy to build it and how a government can afford to make one if we wait for oil to rocket up to $500/barrel. Economics does not negate the need for planning.
As far as the price drop (and I read everything about p/e ratios in this thread) but in simpler terms the stock is valued based on the expected reported earning and since there was a difference between expected and actual we had a gap in the market price. It had nothing do with Google as a company beyond that
I've used tigerdirect rebates before but I'm not sure if I had to go through the online system or if it was a mail in. (it's been a while) I did just use the online rebate process from Staples and my cheque arrived within the week. It was pretty amazing.
What I'm confused about is that I assumed that rebates were set knowing an expected value of the number of rebates they would give based on the pain-in-the-ass factor of mailing? If your promotion budget is still $X and the online rebate submission is easier then wouldn't it follow that the rebate sizes will decrease?
My hope is that the cost savings of automating the process negate that and hopefully they can make the rebates bigger. We'll see I guess.
The moderators think I'm number one! (They it put beside every one of my posts )
Salt is required...and sometimes I healthy shake of malt vinigar. This is the guy who said
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." [here]
I guess it's not a stretch to say that whatever he likes and interpret it however he wants.
--
"Because that's the way Americans are now. They're always willing to trade away a little of their freedom for the feeling, the illusion--of security." George Carlin on airport security
Hopefully it takes off and Stewie can finally end Opera's reign of estrogrnical terror!
Patents were originally intended to allow 'the little guy' a chance to make _his_ idea into a reality without larger, more resourcefull, entities stealing the idea and making money off it. A ticket to the American dream of a man with an idea making something of himself.
Patents last 11(?) years to allow innovation to spur the economy. There is a fee every year of that term to encourage the holder to actually do something towards producing the idea in question.
IMO, RIM should pull all BlackBerry Service from the US and see how long it takes for the courts to clear things up. Maybe this would also motivate some change to patent laws that would make the leaches like NTP a thinkg of the past. Like making patent fees ony payable from income derived from the patented object...I doubt it would work, but there must be something that would
Even more than randomly calling people up...where I took CS (and I'm sure at many other schools) all our submissions were run through comparison software to find the cheaters. It was smart enough to compare parse trees and wouldn't be fooled by changing your variable names around and moving one function above another. Spending $100 on an assignment that would take 40hrs sounds like a good investment, but not if it's going to get you thrown out of your $thousands/year program!
Right, and that thing those other boys from Ohio made was just a kite with more engines
Given that n is an integer of course...
How many times I lost marks for forgetting that one!
Maybe this means that we can use an open source GUI on a windows subsytem. Talk about a wolf in sheeps clothing //Made fun of ms...now back to work on my MS desktop, server, ....
Access is the key. I thought about using Ubuntu when I first started my current position so I threw the Hoary Live CD in and spent a day with it. My network, email, dual display...everything I wanted was working within 20 minutes. Since the majority of my work is done remotely I thought I was in the clear. Access is a real buzzkill. My advice, stick one machine in a corner with ssh, vnc, and access. Whenever anything goes WINsane then light some incense and rub the machines case for luck.