Unisys' DMS database optionally uses linked lists. Singly- or doubly-linked lists can be traversed in multiple orders (no reordering necessary: pointers are used).
Unisys will kill LSI if they notice the patent. Their DMS database has been around at least 20 years.
ning out Flash too quickly. I'd say give it a chance. I mean Flash 9 and Flex 2 are out just couple of months ago and Adobe also donated their supposedly (for Flash haters) "crappy" Flash 9 JS engine to Firefox, which will replace SpiderMonkey in the near future.
Flash is older than the Internet. Flash has had it's chance; let it die gracefully please.
Summary: US Kids are dumb, lazy, and fat and only interested in video games and lighting their farts on fire. Jobs in the US are leaving the country.
The solution is Web 3.0: rewrite cooperative video games so that while the user thinks he is pursuing aliens on level 12 and lighting farts, he is actually solving a partial differential equation optimizing the consumer choice of fabrics for womens' purses.
Then we write a fat paycheck to the kids with a letter of thanks. Economic equilibrium restored!
I recently visited some major cities in China. The rules of the road are hierarchical:
The pedestrian has the right-of-way,
Bicycles yield to pedestrians,
Motorcycles yield to bicycles & pedestrians,
Cars yield to motorcycles, bicycles, & pedestrians,
Trucks yield to cars, motorcycles, bicycles, & pedestrians.
with the proviso that about one of five drivers will honk if blocked. At night, neither cars nor motorcycles turn on their lights in general.
This appears chaotic but works extremely well. We saw only one accident in a week's time, and that involved very little damage (car bumped a truck on the side), although the consequent crowd that developed (everyone has an opinion in China) did not disperse for 2 hours.
Once we realized that we were safe on foot, we plunged fearlessly into traffic. Sure enough the river of cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles parted like the Red Sea around us, beeping all the while. But the ultimate sense is surprising: that one is sheltered in the hands of many careful drivers.
Traffic speeds are slower than in the U.S. and it appears that drivers are more attentive. In fact I believe that it is impossible for American drivers to be as attentive as Chinese drivers: after so many years of acclimation to the "rules of the road" they are most likely unable to pay attention enough to be good Chinese-style drivers. In America, drivers hit you first and then call a lawyer and an ambulance (in that order); in China they just don't hit you.
In this instance, the environment of the lizards is altered by addition of a new predator. In response to that environmental change, lizards are selected for the next generation based on leg length. In this case climbing is a better evasive maneuver than running away and lizards with shorter legs climb better, therefore lizards with shorter legs survive to reproduce. Lizards with longer legs are more likely to be killed and therefore do not reproduce as often.
So there's nothing new here. It's just another example of how the environment of an organism (here, the lizards) influences it's evolution.
A priori your chances of getting and keeping a good job in the gaming industry are nearly 0. Should you fail to get that job, a degree in gaming will not be of much value.
In contrast, a CS degree is still a CS degree: it has value inside and outside the gaming industry. So you should hedge your bet here on the side of the CS degree.
If you don't understand what I'm saying here, which is a simple analysis of risk, then you certainly should not take the gaming degree.
Metricom's wireless network was Ricochet. But prior to that they put up a wireless mobile network in IIRC Georgia for Georgia Power & Light. They did the whole state.
Later they set up wireless networks in several major cities including San Francisco. They planned to go nationwide. These were working networks and you could buy a subscription and a Metricom Ricochet modem. You could surf the net at 128kbps while driving in your car, provided you were in their coverage area. Their network NOC was in Houston with a backup Network Operations Center in CA.
If Metricom's patents applied, they could pound CSIRO's ass all night long with them.
"If I got your resume, I'd be looking at anything that shows you have a passion for the work - Open Source involvement..."
You're nuts! If someone is trying to get a job they're going to be busy doing that, not developing ope source projects.
And another thing: open source work actually decreases demand for IT developers and contributions to FOSS tends to drive demand downward. If all software were available tomorrow as FOSS, demand for IT developers would immediately drop to near zero levels. As a highly skilled IT person the last thing I'm going to do is develop a FOSS system. Instead I'll produce something proprietary that I can keep to myself and profit from.
The analysis assumes that all factors remain unchanged. This is the same error that led to Malthus' very incorrect prediction of overpopulation.
The major contravening factor is innovative technology. By 2048 there will be improved methods of producing fish. For example as profitability increases fish, beef, pork and other foods will increasingly be farmed and farming techniques will improve. It is likely that by 2030 or earlier all fish and meat shall be "grown" under controlled circumstances in factories. Once such a process is proven economical, the ocean-based fishing industry will collapse, the oceans will quickly recover and we'll be hearing the same people complaining about an "overpopulation of fish" and suggesting that we perform birth-control on sea bass.
In any case a prognostication to the year 2048 using the same maths (and undoubtedly done by some of the same people) who cannot accurately predict the economy 5 years hence, is sheer lunacy.
Five years ago I realized that this tidal wave was coming, I went back to school part-time to learn computer programming and started earning my certifications while working in the video game industry. At first, it was hard to get classes because they were too many students. Now I can't get the last two advance classes I need to graduate since there are not enough students to run a class.
And what a fool you are for it! I know someone else who, like you, took the contrarian position. He's underemployed too. That's what you get for "pissing into the wind"!
Change your degree plan to business, take a few extra courses and thank your lucky stars you have the free time to get any degree whatsoever.
The French enjoy an enormous comparative advantage in producing fine wine. The climate is right, they have the wineries already in place, they are well-known as wine producers and so on. If you own a winery in France, or work at a winery in France, or ship French wines, or even just occasionally mash grapes with your feet, you've got it made it in the shade. Your goods will find plenty of willing buyers in the global marketplace.
You've chosen a bad example. The French wine industry has been in a depression for years. They dump wine into the rivers! What happens when you have a long-term investment in your field and it's comparative advantage disappears? I guess this is "creative destruction" (such a handy phrase for an economist).
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Unisys will kill LSI if they notice the patent. Their DMS database has been around at least 20 years.
Flash is older than the Internet. Flash has had it's chance; let it die gracefully please.
Spinning black holes with hair would be sooo hot!
The solution is Web 3.0: rewrite cooperative video games so that while the user thinks he is pursuing aliens on level 12 and lighting farts, he is actually solving a partial differential equation optimizing the consumer choice of fabrics for womens' purses.
Then we write a fat paycheck to the kids with a letter of thanks. Economic equilibrium restored!
with the proviso that about one of five drivers will honk if blocked. At night, neither cars nor motorcycles turn on their lights in general.
This appears chaotic but works extremely well. We saw only one accident in a week's time, and that involved very little damage (car bumped a truck on the side), although the consequent crowd that developed (everyone has an opinion in China) did not disperse for 2 hours.
Once we realized that we were safe on foot, we plunged fearlessly into traffic. Sure enough the river of cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles parted like the Red Sea around us, beeping all the while. But the ultimate sense is surprising: that one is sheltered in the hands of many careful drivers.
Traffic speeds are slower than in the U.S. and it appears that drivers are more attentive. In fact I believe that it is impossible for American drivers to be as attentive as Chinese drivers: after so many years of acclimation to the "rules of the road" they are most likely unable to pay attention enough to be good Chinese-style drivers. In America, drivers hit you first and then call a lawyer and an ambulance (in that order); in China they just don't hit you.
So there's nothing new here. It's just another example of how the environment of an organism (here, the lizards) influences it's evolution.
In contrast, a CS degree is still a CS degree: it has value inside and outside the gaming industry. So you should hedge your bet here on the side of the CS degree.
If you don't understand what I'm saying here, which is a simple analysis of risk, then you certainly should not take the gaming degree.
Only if it bankrolls charlatans outside their field.
Seriously, fuggetaboutit and get a business degree instead.
Later they set up wireless networks in several major cities including San Francisco. They planned to go nationwide. These were working networks and you could buy a subscription and a Metricom Ricochet modem. You could surf the net at 128kbps while driving in your car, provided you were in their coverage area. Their network NOC was in Houston with a backup Network Operations Center in CA.
If Metricom's patents applied, they could pound CSIRO's ass all night long with them.
You're nuts! If someone is trying to get a job they're going to be busy doing that, not developing ope source projects.
And another thing: open source work actually decreases demand for IT developers and contributions to FOSS tends to drive demand downward. If all software were available tomorrow as FOSS, demand for IT developers would immediately drop to near zero levels. As a highly skilled IT person the last thing I'm going to do is develop a FOSS system. Instead I'll produce something proprietary that I can keep to myself and profit from.
Back to HTML 3.2, folks!
Seems easy to me... am I missing something?
The major contravening factor is innovative technology. By 2048 there will be improved methods of producing fish. For example as profitability increases fish, beef, pork and other foods will increasingly be farmed and farming techniques will improve. It is likely that by 2030 or earlier all fish and meat shall be "grown" under controlled circumstances in factories. Once such a process is proven economical, the ocean-based fishing industry will collapse, the oceans will quickly recover and we'll be hearing the same people complaining about an "overpopulation of fish" and suggesting that we perform birth-control on sea bass.
In any case a prognostication to the year 2048 using the same maths (and undoubtedly done by some of the same people) who cannot accurately predict the economy 5 years hence, is sheer lunacy.
Even Bill Gates knows Malthus was wrong.
using Windows!
Another example of FUD, followed by a buy-out of developers.
JavaScript, like all downloadable executables, cannot be trusted. There is no other way.
"Carthago delenda est!" ("Carthage must be destroyed!")
- Cato the Elder to the Roman Senate
I'll try Vista. But first I gotta drink a quart of whisky and nail my penis to a picnic table.
The answer is critical to my new random number generator.
You did want a job, didn't you?
My Gawd! You're right! How...???
And what a fool you are for it! I know someone else who, like you, took the contrarian position. He's underemployed too. That's what you get for "pissing into the wind"!
Change your degree plan to business, take a few extra courses and thank your lucky stars you have the free time to get any degree whatsoever.
You've chosen a bad example. The French wine industry has been in a depression for years. They dump wine into the rivers! What happens when you have a long-term investment in your field and it's comparative advantage disappears? I guess this is "creative destruction" (such a handy phrase for an economist).
Hell, Of course most folks NOT working in IT have been saying this. But those working, and everyone else, weren't listening.
Welcome to the global revolution, dumbasses!
I sure hope they don't send any pictures of fat broads.