They're crunching 13-million-digit numbers with a desktop processor? Do they realize that they can put eight quad-core xeons in a machine and finish the calculation in a single shift instead of waiting a month?
Since graduating, never in my career have I encountered a situation where I had to solve 25 simple yet unrelated problems in under an hour without the use of references or collaboration.
I said this same thing in Algebra 1, and Geometry, and Algebra 2. Around precalc I started to get the picture. I can't imagine going to a reference book to see that the b in y=mx+b is the y-intercept.
I suddenly felt a pain in my hand. Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang
Yeah right. Pain signals travel through nerves at less than 10 feet per second and it takes much, much longer for the brain to recognize something's wrong. But you hear something almost instantaneously.
You forgot Japan, which has the best infrastructure in the world. The US and UK, however, have poor infrastructure and it actually does cost telecoms tons of money to bring broadband to households.
This shouldn't be an issue at all; the BBC's ISP should be charging them a fortune for their high bandwidth use and then the squabble is between ISPs for peering costs. Also BT should be charging by the gigabyte instead of offering unrealistic "unlimited" packages that cause problems when people actually use their bandwidth.
Very interesting. Your counterarguments are weak though. How about something like "the developer may refuse to make part of his project closed source" or "the developer may do it cheaper if we play hesitant to open source"
A company won't see higher profits if they pay their employees more. Maybe a microscopic amount might trickle down eventually but what the stockholders will see is quarterly profits instantly dropping exactly as much as you're increasing wages. It just doesn't make good market sense for a single company to increase wages. What they want is everyone else to increase wages while they keep them as low as possible (while still attracting needed talent). It's not a problem with the economy right now it's a problem inherent in the free market.
Courting OSS developers is good when you do it like Google: give them exciting tools and let them solve their own problems with it. Problems get solved, code gets written, and Google gets free work done!
But developers have no reason to just work for someone for free.
your company can encourage the developers to add the features you've been yearning for â" for far, far less money than you imagine
This should never happen in a board meeting: "We need feature X but we can't afford it so let's get someone to do it for free". Open source developers will develop your platform to develop the features they want. It happens naturally; you can't just buy everyone pizza and sit them down and tell them to get to work.
Your numbers are swapped for Finding Nemo. Also the profits aren't as slim as they seem.. Finding Nemo made $864 million worldwide. Yeah their profits are falling (coincidence probably) but those are profits. If you're making money ahead of inflation then you're alive.
What are you going on about? You can download books from Project Gutenberg (or p2p or whatever) and Amazon will transfer them to your kindle for free over the cell connection. They give you an email address @amazon.com or something and you just attach your ebooks to an email.
You could run twm and lynx if you really wanted to. But if you want graphics and you want javascript and you want flash, you need to give up "efficiency." It makes no market sense to spend billions of dollars making processors thousands of times more powerful and then not use it. The point of powerful processors is to be able to do more, not to see your load approach.01.
You're right though; things are less efficient, but only because there's plenty of spare power and efficiency is very expensive and impossible for some large projects (at least with human programmers).
The pilot should never be able to fly into a mountain but there should always be a manual override. OK so have a super override locked behind steel doors that if you open this door then you lose your pilots license but do what you have to do! So you satisfy your nagging doubts about some fantastic crazy situation where you have to flight through a mountain.. the pilot does have the option and they're not helpless trying to hotwire the thing.
I don't even want to touch Kindle until I see "Kindle Final - We Will Never Upgrade This Product Again". Every time there's a new kindle I'm like whew I barely didn't buy the last one and now there's a thousand must-have features yay but WAIT WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT ONE.
Similarly, I'm never upgrading from my 4 year old laptop, ever. If I spend the money then 2 months later people will be floating past my window on flying scooters with 8-socket quad core xeons on their wrists. I'm terrified of the day I realize I'm counting memory in gigs the same way I count in megs (64 128 256 512 1024 range).
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I hate the product. Who cares that you're brushing your teeth or climbing a particularly steep flight of stairs? Microblogging is maddeningly inane.
People just think "integer" and type "int". That's what happens when you learn from 5-page tutorials instead of a comprehensive spec.
They're crunching 13-million-digit numbers with a desktop processor? Do they realize that they can put eight quad-core xeons in a machine and finish the calculation in a single shift instead of waiting a month?
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
when you can just capture plans and software from your access to all US telecommunications?
I said this same thing in Algebra 1, and Geometry, and Algebra 2. Around precalc I started to get the picture. I can't imagine going to a reference book to see that the b in y=mx+b is the y-intercept.
Which is exactly his point. If you can cleverly solve the problem then why do you have to write out the stupid method?
How is flipping through pages of tables the skill?
I suppose you think computer science is programming and software engineering.
From a graze on the hand?
Yeah right. Pain signals travel through nerves at less than 10 feet per second and it takes much, much longer for the brain to recognize something's wrong. But you hear something almost instantaneously.
You forgot Japan, which has the best infrastructure in the world. The US and UK, however, have poor infrastructure and it actually does cost telecoms tons of money to bring broadband to households.
That may just be peak hours.
This shouldn't be an issue at all; the BBC's ISP should be charging them a fortune for their high bandwidth use and then the squabble is between ISPs for peering costs. Also BT should be charging by the gigabyte instead of offering unrealistic "unlimited" packages that cause problems when people actually use their bandwidth.
Very interesting. Your counterarguments are weak though. How about something like "the developer may refuse to make part of his project closed source" or "the developer may do it cheaper if we play hesitant to open source"
Yes. People volunteer for the community all of the time. Nobody walks into a factory and starts sewing shirts for someone's personal profit.
A company won't see higher profits if they pay their employees more. Maybe a microscopic amount might trickle down eventually but what the stockholders will see is quarterly profits instantly dropping exactly as much as you're increasing wages. It just doesn't make good market sense for a single company to increase wages. What they want is everyone else to increase wages while they keep them as low as possible (while still attracting needed talent). It's not a problem with the economy right now it's a problem inherent in the free market.
It's the guy's daughter.
But developers have no reason to just work for someone for free.
This should never happen in a board meeting: "We need feature X but we can't afford it so let's get someone to do it for free". Open source developers will develop your platform to develop the features they want. It happens naturally; you can't just buy everyone pizza and sit them down and tell them to get to work.
Your numbers are swapped for Finding Nemo. Also the profits aren't as slim as they seem.. Finding Nemo made $864 million worldwide. Yeah their profits are falling (coincidence probably) but those are profits. If you're making money ahead of inflation then you're alive.
What are you going on about? You can download books from Project Gutenberg (or p2p or whatever) and Amazon will transfer them to your kindle for free over the cell connection. They give you an email address @amazon.com or something and you just attach your ebooks to an email.
You might want to rethink your order of magnitude there.. your hard disk probably has like 16 million ish times more capacity.
You could run twm and lynx if you really wanted to. But if you want graphics and you want javascript and you want flash, you need to give up "efficiency." It makes no market sense to spend billions of dollars making processors thousands of times more powerful and then not use it. The point of powerful processors is to be able to do more, not to see your load approach .01.
You're right though; things are less efficient, but only because there's plenty of spare power and efficiency is very expensive and impossible for some large projects (at least with human programmers).
The pilot should never be able to fly into a mountain but there should always be a manual override. OK so have a super override locked behind steel doors that if you open this door then you lose your pilots license but do what you have to do! So you satisfy your nagging doubts about some fantastic crazy situation where you have to flight through a mountain.. the pilot does have the option and they're not helpless trying to hotwire the thing.
I don't even want to touch Kindle until I see "Kindle Final - We Will Never Upgrade This Product Again". Every time there's a new kindle I'm like whew I barely didn't buy the last one and now there's a thousand must-have features yay but WAIT WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT ONE.
Similarly, I'm never upgrading from my 4 year old laptop, ever. If I spend the money then 2 months later people will be floating past my window on flying scooters with 8-socket quad core xeons on their wrists. I'm terrified of the day I realize I'm counting memory in gigs the same way I count in megs (64 128 256 512 1024 range).
You can keep your number.