I'm Australian so according to the list... 20 days
However, what I actually get as paid days off is a lot more where I work. I get 33 full pay days off.
I've been working more my company for 8.5 years now. When that hits 10 years, I get an additional 50 fully paid day of recreational or long service leave. Encourages me to hang around.
HR get a little angry when you have accumulated more than 80 days off and force you to take it. I also get 10 sick days per year and 7 personal leave days.
I was called in on a project to help reduce the problem of congestion in an Aussie city. We were immediately cut off at the knees... apparently, congestion is seen, and used, as an indicator to determine the wealth of a nation (just as Internet penetration/uptake is). If you are a wealthy nation, you have congestion.
The policy makers deliberately prevent you from coming up with an all encompassing solution.
I think the government here is a little short on cash. The algorithm you use (and is probably wanted here) is possibly too expensive given the budget of the program.
My guess is that they're trying to get it on the cheap... $10K is cheap for a fully functioning algorithm and the full rights to use it.
Congrats on having a fully functional government that is forward thinking.
Yeah, I'll admit there can be a lot of those. But there are lots of very small transactions that are 3,4 or 5 that you just don't realise or 'forget'. Hence how important it is to write down *EVERYTHING*. Every single transaction (If you have cash in your wallet, you are making these sorts of transactions). It is that small stuff that 'doesn't matter' that does really matter.
Up until around age 27 I lived from payday to payday. During any point at that time if you had asked I would have told you that there was no way I could save cash.
But then I met somebody who made a few suggestions. The first one was record a spreadsheet of *every* cent you spend. You have to be really honest here.... EVERY cent. At the end of the payperiod if you are out by a cent then you have to do it again.
After doing that, you then go through and classify every cent. Essential, non-essential. Build up a rating system from 1-5 where 1 is absolutely essential... rent/mortgage, petrol. Note that electricity is not a 1 because you can save cash by monitoring your electricity usage in exactly the same way.
7 years later and I've built up a buffer that is 3.5 times my yearly wage.
There is another reason other than running the generic linear/non-linear algebraic apps.
"If you build it, they will come." is true in this case. When you build a massive machine, you tend to attract minds that have big problems to solve. Looks good on paper when filing up the tree. Makes the institution look good. Makes the country look good. Compute plus minds make a good recipe for great results.
Now, I'm not saying that those sort of minds absolutely need that machine, rather they have a piece of code that smaller machines (1000 - 10000 cores) still can't handle. They need more numerical throughput.
What they really need are access to some specialist HPC programmers who will implement the code right down close to the hardware. Eg. for a single core of an X56xx chip you can easily get over 16 operations per cycle. The next generation will get 32. This is just for one feature on the chip (there are others).
But that takes time to implement cause it requires the code to be (mostly) rewritten. The minds also need to have access to these people which is much more difficult than finding more compute.
If you have access to 'real' HPC programmers you don't really *need* machines that size.
Unless you don't know what it is you are looking for;)
In my view... yes. You will save 300K faster than you will pay off a 300K loan (and that includes renting, bills, etc.). You will save 25K faster for that car than pay off a 25K loan. So why do it? It has to be addiction. If it isn't then the only other thing I can think of is stupidity.
Just because going into debt to buy a house was the way our parents did it and their parents did it doesn't mean it is still a good idea. Yet parents will still continue to tell their kids that buying a house is the best thing you can do with your money. Well, it was, for them. I think a few things need to change in the Australian mindset... the idea of "The Australian Dream" has been marketed to us ad nauseam. For the benefit of who? Not you and me, that's for sure.
The financial landscape has changed considerably in the last decade. I have been on both sides (rented and mortgage) and have examined *every* dollar involved (and cent - got down to needing to know at what time of the day the bank charges/pays the daily interest) and there was a clear winner... save money in the bank and earn whatever interest you can given your level of risk and pay rent. I have my target number that when I reach it, I'm pulling out of the rat race. I want to reach it as fast as possible and paying off a mortgage will mean that I won't ever hit that number (not before I'm 67 anyhow).
But people continue taking out loans that will cripple them for years. Everyone I know who has gotten married in the last 10 years have had this in mind... "Must have a car, must have a nice wedding (average Australian wedding costs $36,000), must have a house". No actual in-depth bookwork is done that would reveal that it is much better to earn interest than to pay interest. Every time the rates increase, the difference between the two camps widens by 2x the increase (now the opposite was also true, but how long did that last?). When will the penny drop? Probably never given how bad at money management everybody I know is.
Oh, and I don't have any stress. That baseline stress level of knowing that I owed that much money just isn't there. The stats don't lie... the number one reason for relationship breakup is financial. I refuse to be part of that statistic./End Rant... Sorry:)
Just flipped through Telstra's latest Annual Report to Shareholders (01/10/2010 12:21PM) and although they only mention T-Box and sales, they do use other examples of businesses consuming other licenses for T-Suite products.
They are fully aware of license conditions. You don't sell different levels of licenses for products and claim that "you were not aware" other other license conditions.
It is one of the few sites that can be entirely setup online (no posting of signatures). Their online site and internet banking is not that great but they do offer the good rates.
The base rate is ~6% but if you setup automatic debit from another account you can get the extra 0.5%. I have it automatically transfer $300 to an account that then automatically transfers back into ubank to get the extra basis points.
I'm currently earning a 6.51% on the cash that is not invested (probably will raise another 0.25% at least in the next few weeks). So, you are right. I am earning a nice, guaranteed rate on idle cash deposits. Not as good as shares, after the biggest drop in 80 years, but a bankable rate.
It's a predictable two edged sword... those that are debt addicted suffer, those that are not are happy.
Since going debt free and actually earning interest rather than paying it (as well as share market), I have made a big mistake. I forgot (got sloppy) and stopped recording every bank transaction, credit card transaction and high interest savings account transaction I ever make. I have an issue with an energy company that I corrected in January but because another action has happened, the computer systems didn't register the original error. Now I have to prove it all again but this time, I have lost the transaction history. I'm missing the crucial 2 months. It will end up being a $161 error. The maximum I can get is 90 days.
I'm screwed. I realise that IT systems are 'challenging' but tracking a million transactions per customer can't cost more than the $5 per month I currently get charged (officially although I don't pay given I demanded they earn enough out of me anyhows).
I'm in my 30s and a nerd and I think it's fucking awesome. I love it that there are people out there that lead lives that are just so different in every possible way. It's all about the diversity.
I'm sure there are those that look at our lives and think, 'losers'.
I just did a aptitude upgrade and downloaded 140MB from an Australian server at an average just over 1Mbps. That's faster than my ISP in Australia (600Kbps). That is from a hotel in Bucheon.
By no means a thorough test, but still knocks your statement.
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I cannot wait until somebody writes a script to rank all Universities in the world.
I just did the top ten in my country and the results are not what we are led to believe according to the current ranking system.
I did harvard.edu and, honestly, kudos.
So ... are zombies the seg. fault? Broken pipe? Shit man, programming just got real.
I'm Australian so according to the list ... 20 days
However, what I actually get as paid days off is a lot more where I work. I get 33 full pay days off.
I've been working more my company for 8.5 years now. When that hits 10 years, I get an additional 50 fully paid day of recreational or long service leave. Encourages me to hang around.
HR get a little angry when you have accumulated more than 80 days off and force you to take it. I also get 10 sick days per year and 7 personal leave days.
I have taken 2 sick days in 8 years.
I enjoy my job. Actually, I love my job.
But improved distribution.
I was called in on a project to help reduce the problem of congestion in an Aussie city. We were immediately cut off at the knees ... apparently, congestion is seen, and used, as an indicator to determine the wealth of a nation (just as Internet penetration/uptake is). If you are a wealthy nation, you have congestion.
The policy makers deliberately prevent you from coming up with an all encompassing solution.
I think the government here is a little short on cash. The algorithm you use (and is probably wanted here) is possibly too expensive given the budget of the program.
My guess is that they're trying to get it on the cheap ... $10K is cheap for a fully functioning algorithm and the full rights to use it.
Congrats on having a fully functional government that is forward thinking.
Yeah, I'll admit there can be a lot of those. But there are lots of very small transactions that are 3,4 or 5 that you just don't realise or 'forget'. Hence how important it is to write down *EVERYTHING*. Every single transaction (If you have cash in your wallet, you are making these sorts of transactions). It is that small stuff that 'doesn't matter' that does really matter.
Up until around age 27 I lived from payday to payday. During any point at that time if you had asked I would have told you that there was no way I could save cash.
But then I met somebody who made a few suggestions. The first one was record a spreadsheet of *every* cent you spend. You have to be really honest here .... EVERY cent. At the end of the payperiod if you are out by a cent then you have to do it again.
After doing that, you then go through and classify every cent. Essential, non-essential. Build up a rating system from 1-5 where 1 is absolutely essential ... rent/mortgage, petrol. Note that electricity is not a 1 because you can save cash by monitoring your electricity usage in exactly the same way.
7 years later and I've built up a buffer that is 3.5 times my yearly wage.
A shame you were modded flamebait ... I think it more truth.
"corrupted file in its mainframe computer"
Do they honestly expect us to believe this shit?
There is another reason other than running the generic linear/non-linear algebraic apps.
"If you build it, they will come." is true in this case. When you build a massive machine, you tend to attract minds that have big problems to solve. Looks good on paper when filing up the tree. Makes the institution look good. Makes the country look good. Compute plus minds make a good recipe for great results.
Now, I'm not saying that those sort of minds absolutely need that machine, rather they have a piece of code that smaller machines (1000 - 10000 cores) still can't handle. They need more numerical throughput.
What they really need are access to some specialist HPC programmers who will implement the code right down close to the hardware. Eg. for a single core of an X56xx chip you can easily get over 16 operations per cycle. The next generation will get 32. This is just for one feature on the chip (there are others).
But that takes time to implement cause it requires the code to be (mostly) rewritten. The minds also need to have access to these people which is much more difficult than finding more compute.
If you have access to 'real' HPC programmers you don't really *need* machines that size.
Unless you don't know what it is you are looking for ;)
As a professional HPC programmer, using "days to run for a large data set" is absolutely meaningless to me.
Define large. Means different things to different people.
Don't worry, the Americans are working on the next one: 10 petaflops
Here's hoping I get to work on it :)
In my view ... yes. You will save 300K faster than you will pay off a 300K loan (and that includes renting, bills, etc.). You will save 25K faster for that car than pay off a 25K loan. So why do it? It has to be addiction. If it isn't then the only other thing I can think of is stupidity.
Just because going into debt to buy a house was the way our parents did it and their parents did it doesn't mean it is still a good idea. Yet parents will still continue to tell their kids that buying a house is the best thing you can do with your money. Well, it was, for them. I think a few things need to change in the Australian mindset ... the idea of "The Australian Dream" has been marketed to us ad nauseam. For the benefit of who? Not you and me, that's for sure.
The financial landscape has changed considerably in the last decade. I have been on both sides (rented and mortgage) and have examined *every* dollar involved (and cent - got down to needing to know at what time of the day the bank charges/pays the daily interest) and there was a clear winner ... save money in the bank and earn whatever interest you can given your level of risk and pay rent. I have my target number that when I reach it, I'm pulling out of the rat race. I want to reach it as fast as possible and paying off a mortgage will mean that I won't ever hit that number (not before I'm 67 anyhow).
But people continue taking out loans that will cripple them for years. Everyone I know who has gotten married in the last 10 years have had this in mind ... "Must have a car, must have a nice wedding (average Australian wedding costs $36,000), must have a house". No actual in-depth bookwork is done that would reveal that it is much better to earn interest than to pay interest. Every time the rates increase, the difference between the two camps widens by 2x the increase (now the opposite was also true, but how long did that last?). When will the penny drop? Probably never given how bad at money management everybody I know is.
Oh, and I don't have any stress. That baseline stress level of knowing that I owed that much money just isn't there. The stats don't lie ... the number one reason for relationship breakup is financial. I refuse to be part of that statistic. /End Rant ... Sorry :)
I'd prefer to avoid a "two men enter, one man leaves" type scenario altogether thanks.
Just flipped through Telstra's latest Annual Report to Shareholders (01/10/2010 12:21PM) and although they only mention T-Box and sales, they do use other examples of businesses consuming other licenses for T-Suite products.
They are fully aware of license conditions. You don't sell different levels of licenses for products and claim that "you were not aware" other other license conditions.
This was deliberate.
ubank
It is one of the few sites that can be entirely setup online (no posting of signatures). Their online site and internet banking is not that great but they do offer the good rates.
The base rate is ~6% but if you setup automatic debit from another account you can get the extra 0.5%. I have it automatically transfer $300 to an account that then automatically transfers back into ubank to get the extra basis points.
I'm currently earning a 6.51% on the cash that is not invested (probably will raise another 0.25% at least in the next few weeks). So, you are right. I am earning a nice, guaranteed rate on idle cash deposits. Not as good as shares, after the biggest drop in 80 years, but a bankable rate.
It's a predictable two edged sword ... those that are debt addicted suffer, those that are not are happy.
Ahh but you can't download a years history.
Since going debt free and actually earning interest rather than paying it (as well as share market), I have made a big mistake. I forgot (got sloppy) and stopped recording every bank transaction, credit card transaction and high interest savings account transaction I ever make. I have an issue with an energy company that I corrected in January but because another action has happened, the computer systems didn't register the original error. Now I have to prove it all again but this time, I have lost the transaction history. I'm missing the crucial 2 months. It will end up being a $161 error. The maximum I can get is 90 days.
I'm screwed. I realise that IT systems are 'challenging' but tracking a million transactions per customer can't cost more than the $5 per month I currently get charged (officially although I don't pay given I demanded they earn enough out of me anyhows).
I'd prefer somebody who has to do the job than somebody who wants to do the job.
Cocaine and amphetamine overdoses can cause cardiac arrest.
It's also called a partial Jeffery. Now excuse me while I go stroke some fury walls.
I dunno.
I'm in my 30s and a nerd and I think it's fucking awesome. I love it that there are people out there that lead lives that are just so different in every possible way. It's all about the diversity.
I'm sure there are those that look at our lives and think, 'losers'.
I just did a aptitude upgrade and downloaded 140MB from an Australian server at an average just over 1Mbps. That's faster than my ISP in Australia (600Kbps). That is from a hotel in Bucheon.
By no means a thorough test, but still knocks your statement.
I hope that it is 'dead'. That way I can continue using it the way I do.
The more people that adopt it, the more viruses, malware, etc etc etc that'll pop up. Then, what will I do to remain productive? BSD?
1-2% is a pretty big number. Especially if you take a survey on the type of work that 1-2% do. I'd be very, very happy with that.i
These guys probably beg to differ :P