You can't surreptitiously bring up a false charge. If you did, you couldn't file it because no one would know about it. You might do it maliciously, you could do it egregiously, you could do it any number of ways... but not surreptitiously.
Total survival for a glioblastoma is around 9 percent for three years, but this is three years survival after treatment; 2 out of 18 is already a little better (probably not significant with an n of 18), but it's a selected population. In any case, gliomas are such nasty beasts that any hope is good news.
Also, it's a write limitation. There are a lot of files (the gcc executable, say) that get written very rarely, like once, and read thousands of times.
I'll grant I've only been an active engineer since about 1978, but I know a bunch of guys who've really been at it a long time, and none of them remember a time when a reasonably senior engineer wasn't expected to be a decent drafter (we called them draughtsmen and used pencils, but it's much the same), do his own computations, supervise junior engineers, make budgets, and do costing.
Other than another demonstration that people writing for magazines think "time immemorial" is anything before about 1994, I don't see much surprising here.
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Yup, exactly. In fact, Fred Brooks extends it in general to any specialized processor --- you find that your specialized processor can never keep up with doing the same thing in a generalized processor. Consider, for example, the IBM System/38 --- which became the AS/400, simulating the S/38's wild-ass object-based architecture on cheap commodity processors; the Symbolics Lisp Machine, which was wiped out as a Lisp platform by pretty much the next generation of GP processors; or graphics processors, like PIxar's specialized graphics machine, which has been replaced by a bunch of Linux boxes.
In this case, the guy is re-inventing massively parallel computing; a useful technique for certain problems, but hard to map to general computing.
how different is this from multi-core SPARCs running a thread per core?
I should have been an academic after all, I think. All I'd have to do is write a paper that says the same thing Fred Brooks said 25 years earlier and people would think I'm brilliant.
Actually the article was about someone fired for *writing* something which went onto and stayed on the classified network. It's not even clear that the blog entry contained any classified information. Nor is there any implication in the article that she talked about the blog entry anywhere else before she got fired.
No, go back and look. She at least asserted that she had read transcripts of an interrogation; those would be pretty highly classified. She then talked about them, or her opinion of the practices she claimed to have read about them, on her internal blog, which wasn't limited only to people in that "compartment."
Um, Valerie Plame, given the most charitable interpretation for her role, didn't see anything wrong with what the CIA weas doing; her complaint is that she can't keep doing it.
Bullshit. She wasn't publishing outside the intel network; she didn't go to the Inspector General. Should could have quit. And since when did "civil disobedience" mean "I can' do anything I want and suffer no consequences"? The title of MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" isn't "Letter from Birminham Holiday Inn".
Nah. Blogs are a marvelous mechanism for informal info management. Don't imagine they're the only mechanism CIA uses --- I was helping with big info management systems for CIA 30 years ago.
A private classified network to which you only get access if you agree to a set of rules that distinctly limit your freedoms with information under those rules.
It's on YRO because there are a bunch of goddamn children around who think "TOP SECRET" means "I won't talk about it unless I'm of a mind to."
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You can't surreptitiously bring up a false charge. If you did, you couldn't file it because no one would know about it. You might do it maliciously, you could do it egregiously, you could do it any number of ways ... but not surreptitiously.
You mean "specious". "Surreptitious" means "secretive, sneaky".
Total survival for a glioblastoma is around 9 percent for three years, but this is three years survival after treatment; 2 out of 18 is already a little better (probably not significant with an n of 18), but it's a selected population. In any case, gliomas are such nasty beasts that any hope is good news.
My sympathy as well --- I lost a girlfriend to a GBM some years ago.
Also, it's a write limitation. There are a lot of files (the gcc executable, say) that get written very rarely, like once, and read thousands of times.
Slashdot needs a "Well, duh!" category.
My only quibble is that software companies are engineering firms. Otherwise, good points all.
I'll grant I've only been an active engineer since about 1978, but I know a bunch of guys who've really been at it a long time, and none of them remember a time when a reasonably senior engineer wasn't expected to be a decent drafter (we called them draughtsmen and used pencils, but it's much the same), do his own computations, supervise junior engineers, make budgets, and do costing.
Other than another demonstration that people writing for magazines think "time immemorial" is anything before about 1994, I don't see much surprising here.
Yup, exactly. In fact, Fred Brooks extends it in general to any specialized processor --- you find that your specialized processor can never keep up with doing the same thing in a generalized processor. Consider, for example, the IBM System/38 --- which became the AS/400, simulating the S/38's wild-ass object-based architecture on cheap commodity processors; the Symbolics Lisp Machine, which was wiped out as a Lisp platform by pretty much the next generation of GP processors; or graphics processors, like PIxar's specialized graphics machine, which has been replaced by a bunch of Linux boxes.
In this case, the guy is re-inventing massively parallel computing; a useful technique for certain problems, but hard to map to general computing.
how different is this from multi-core SPARCs running a thread per core?
I should have been an academic after all, I think. All I'd have to do is write a paper that says the same thing Fred Brooks said 25 years earlier and people would think I'm brilliant.
How did you miss insulting C, Prolog and ML?
Actually the article was about someone fired for *writing* something which went onto and stayed on the classified network. It's not even clear that the blog entry contained any classified information. Nor is there any implication in the article that she talked about the blog entry anywhere else before she got fired.
No, go back and look. She at least asserted that she had read transcripts of an interrogation; those would be pretty highly classified. She then talked about them, or her opinion of the practices she claimed to have read about them, on her internal blog, which wasn't limited only to people in that "compartment."
Hey, mister, can you enlighten this poor, benighted child?
Probably not. I'm not a miracle worker.
Nope, sorry. Doesn't work that way.
See above. This wasn't leaking to the press --- at least, not until Dana got the story --- it was on an internal network.
Complaining to other CIA people on a classified net is leaking?
Um, Valerie Plame, given the most charitable interpretation for her role, didn't see anything wrong with what the CIA weas doing; her complaint is that she can't keep doing it.
Bullshit. She wasn't publishing outside the intel network; she didn't go to the Inspector General. Should could have quit. And since when did "civil disobedience" mean "I can' do anything I want and suffer no consequences"? The title of MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" isn't "Letter from Birminham Holiday Inn".
Exactly right.
Nah. Blogs are a marvelous mechanism for informal info management. Don't imagine they're the only mechanism CIA uses --- I was helping with big info management systems for CIA 30 years ago.
I wish I hadn't commented so I could mod this funny.
A private classified network to which you only get access if you agree to a set of rules that distinctly limit your freedoms with information under those rules.
It's on YRO because there are a bunch of goddamn children around who think "TOP SECRET" means "I won't talk about it unless I'm of a mind to."