It's deeper than just the hours vs. the compensation. It sounds like your boss has no vision. What is the problem being solved? What are your customers either asking for or complaining about? Simply adding "features" without any connection to the customer is pointless. It sounds like your PHB has read Spolsky out of context and has no clue.
Mondrian was a TopView clone created by Dynamical Systems Research, a company formed by Nathan Myhrvold and Chuck Whitmer. Microsoft bought them because Mondrian was arguabley smaller and faster than the IBM product. The team of engineers went to work in the WIndows team and were a good part of the reason that Windows 3.0 emereged as the "good enough" GUI to dominate the industry efver since.
Windows 1 was developed by people that had been with Microsoft and worked on MSDOS 1-3. IBM's Topview was considered to be the real competition, so Microsoft bought a company named Dynamical Systems (Nathan Myhrvold and Chuck Whitmer). This company had created a TopView clone named Mondrian that was smaller and faster than IBM's product. These are the guys that drove the effort that eventually became Windows 3.0, generally acknowledged as the first one that was good enough to use.
I was in Best Buy last weekend and they were demonstrating the Kinect. My 9 year old daughter, who doesn't like to play console based video games, started playing one of the demos. It was sort of like Breakout, but you kicked or punched the balls instead of using a remote. I had a hard time getting her to leave.
Lipton was one of the co-authors of a great analysis called "Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs" (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/social.pdf). It points out how a very complex proof is only as valid as the community of scientists who believe it. There are great risks for subtle lapses of logic in a 90 page proof and at best, a distinguished team of reviewers can only agree that they have not found a flaw. That said, the P != NP proof is great in that it has started a new social process that will undoubtedly uncover more good things.
I'll take this to the next level. 15 years ago Microsoft engaged in business practices that were on the borderline (one side or the other) of being ethical. BillG took his 50 BILLION dollars of perhaps ill gotten gains and is now working to wipe out malaria and fund education throughout the 3rd world. Huzzah! In the end we all win.
In discussions like this many people tend to confuse "how it works" with "what it is". To most of the world it doesn't matter how it works.
My suggestion on what it is: The Internet is another whole world that you can only get to through your computer. It has information, entertainment, shopping, and social groups. Just like the real world, it also has crime, hate, and misinformation. And just like the real world, when we all participate in the Internet as good citizens, it enriches our lives. Unlike the real world you can participate in all these activities without leaving your home.
You are right about "first proof of concept". However, the ultimate judgement is on the results. This fruity video pales in comparison (my opinion) to the Carlos presentation of Bach. In "stop motion" Will Vinton wins in video, but I am not aware of any other good pure audio examples. Any suggestions?
I date myself, but one of the phenomenal events in recorded music was "Swithced on Bach" by Walter (now Wendy) Carlos. This was a presentation of some of Bach's most popular works with a Moog Synthesizer. The difficulty was that the song had to be "programmed" notes at a time with patch cords (analog programming!). It was at least as laborious as the presentation here, and with much more complex material.
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The rebranded WinFX (now.NET Framework 3.0) contains the RTM release of.NET Framework 2.0 (the runtime) as well as WPF (Avalon), WWF, and WCF (Indigo). It represents a superset of the 2.0 runtime.
Yes, I work there too.
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Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs by DeMillo, Lipton, and Perlis. Let the social process begin.
Corollary: The reason government is corrupt is the same reason we need it in the first place.
Errors, yes. But no hoaxes!
Also, http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377 for a VP8 tear down.
It's deeper than just the hours vs. the compensation. It sounds like your boss has no vision. What is the problem being solved? What are your customers either asking for or complaining about? Simply adding "features" without any connection to the customer is pointless. It sounds like your PHB has read Spolsky out of context and has no clue.
Mondrian was a TopView clone created by Dynamical Systems Research, a company formed by Nathan Myhrvold and Chuck Whitmer. Microsoft bought them because Mondrian was arguabley smaller and faster than the IBM product. The team of engineers went to work in the WIndows team and were a good part of the reason that Windows 3.0 emereged as the "good enough" GUI to dominate the industry efver since.
Windows 1 was developed by people that had been with Microsoft and worked on MSDOS 1-3. IBM's Topview was considered to be the real competition, so Microsoft bought a company named Dynamical Systems (Nathan Myhrvold and Chuck Whitmer). This company had created a TopView clone named Mondrian that was smaller and faster than IBM's product. These are the guys that drove the effort that eventually became Windows 3.0, generally acknowledged as the first one that was good enough to use.
If you build a better mousetrap you'll evolve a better mouse.
I was in Best Buy last weekend and they were demonstrating the Kinect. My 9 year old daughter, who doesn't like to play console based video games, started playing one of the demos. It was sort of like Breakout, but you kicked or punched the balls instead of using a remote. I had a hard time getting her to leave.
Lipton was one of the co-authors of a great analysis called "Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs" (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/social.pdf). It points out how a very complex proof is only as valid as the community of scientists who believe it. There are great risks for subtle lapses of logic in a 90 page proof and at best, a distinguished team of reviewers can only agree that they have not found a flaw. That said, the P != NP proof is great in that it has started a new social process that will undoubtedly uncover more good things.
My Dad had a sign on his desk that said, "Siks munths ago I coodnt even spel injuneer. Now I are one."
I'm about to file a patent for a "single finger rejection" method.
I'll take this to the next level. 15 years ago Microsoft engaged in business practices that were on the borderline (one side or the other) of being ethical. BillG took his 50 BILLION dollars of perhaps ill gotten gains and is now working to wipe out malaria and fund education throughout the 3rd world. Huzzah! In the end we all win.
The solution for best legibility is not just color. See the MSR paper at: http://research.microsoft.com/~jplatt/clearType/
In discussions like this many people tend to confuse "how it works" with "what it is". To most of the world it doesn't matter how it works.
My suggestion on what it is:
The Internet is another whole world that you can only get to through your computer. It has information, entertainment, shopping, and social groups. Just like the real world, it also has crime, hate, and misinformation. And just like the real world, when we all participate in the Internet as good citizens, it enriches our lives. Unlike the real world you can participate in all these activities without leaving your home.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable for a description of Google's column oriented database.
I have not seen a single post from anyone who has met her in the real world. Does she actually exist?
I'm still waiting for *anyone* to say that they know her personally. As it stands, she exits only by her work.
You are right about "first proof of concept". However, the ultimate judgement is on the results. This fruity video pales in comparison (my opinion) to the Carlos presentation of Bach. In "stop motion" Will Vinton wins in video, but I am not aware of any other good pure audio examples. Any suggestions?
I date myself, but one of the phenomenal events in recorded music was "Swithced on Bach" by Walter (now Wendy) Carlos. This was a presentation of some of Bach's most popular works with a Moog Synthesizer. The difficulty was that the song had to be "programmed" notes at a time with patch cords (analog programming!). It was at least as laborious as the presentation here, and with much more complex material.
The rebranded WinFX (now .NET Framework 3.0) contains the RTM release of .NET Framework 2.0 (the runtime) as well as WPF (Avalon), WWF, and WCF (Indigo). It represents a superset of the 2.0 runtime.
Yes, I work there too.