I work on a trade floor and some of the guys here have 8 monitors connected to two PCs (KVMd) making up a kind of mad video wall. All on VESA mountings so you can move them around to suit. I only have 3 screens as I'm just a developer on mounts but it's great to be able to position and adjust that much workspace.
Might I add that most LCDs are going to take up less space than your current CRT. What you loose in width by having, say a 24" screen, you're going to gain so much depth.
Moreover, BT the (global) telecommunications company has used this brand long before BitTorrent existed. Might I suggest he stops calling BitTorrent BT to avoid himself getting confussed?
Also, AT&T don't call themselves American Telephone & Telegraph Company in all their advertising literature and billing, do they? Perhaps for the hell of it he could stop referring to them as AT&T because he might also easily confuse their name with AT&T.
Alternatively, he could just use wikipedia's disambiguation before posting silly requests.
I've been to Roppongi a couple of times and found it to be very different from anywhere else in Japan - in a bad way. I'm not surprised at the drug testing because the way foreigners behave there is hard to understand even for me. The guys trying to drag you into their hostess bars are also really annoying.
Thanks for your post, again it's good to see your perspective on things. I often read your posts relating to life in Japan and falways find them very interesting. More of the same please!
It's possible that he wasn't going to sell it to anyone. I think he was just moving his toolbox to the next job rather than re-write common/useful stuff he might need again from memory. This sort of thing is quite common.
Anyway, I doubt his next employer knew anything about it in advance. Would you hire a guy who was going to walk out with your code when he left? No major bank would want anything to do with this particular headache.
Microsoft...jumped on it as a marketing opportunity.
They have to reap what they sow here. If you use someone else's work as an example of your own ability, you better be damned sure you understand it's quality.
I've always believed that Microsoft don't really get mission critical software so I'm surprised they got the contract. My experience with their OSs suggests that time and time again they fail to get the basics right or that things just work superficially. They cover this up by submerging it in a slopping sea of unwanted bloaty features.
What this implies is that they must have damned good sales executives to overcome the word on the street.
Maybe that's a potential business model. Buy the all the data behind TPB and sue all the trackable uploaders/downloaders into oblivion. I wonder how much of $4.7M they could make back using that strategy and with access to that data...
What branch of physics do Computer Science graduates work in?
CS grads are aware of to mixed degrees of concepts such as Moore's Law, Chip Design, FPGAs etc. The more involved with modules in System Level Design they are, the more likely they are to know this stuff. There are tonnes of other areas of computing where an understanding of the physics of the machince has an impact on how you solve particular problems.
Where does philosophy fit in?
This is stuff which is more art than really science - a set of heuristics and concepts for dealing with certain kinds of problem. For example Human Computer Interaction, AI and debateably Computability and Intractability. Maybe this isn't Plato's philosophy but it involves the same abstract parts of the brain in my view.
Yes they are hiring. One of the very few. That should narrow the search a bit if you google for news for who is doing well at the moment (vs. their peers).
I work for a top investment bank which employs more than 10,000 developers worldwide. They have recently got rid of all outsourced developers and insourced everything. From the very top level of IT management it was decided that quality is indeed worth it. You can read into this any way you like but the facts speak for themselves and there's nothing Vineet Nayar can say or do about it. I can imagine that any development groups that value the same principles will follow suit eventually.
Programming has become more of a commodity and so thankfully Computer Science isn't just about programming.
there may be wisdom in offering a new kind of computer engineering degree targeted toward the student who is more interested in succeeding in industry than exploring computing theory.
What exactly does this mean? If you want to learn about business, do an MBA. If you want to be a computer programmer, learn it yourself because it's not difficult enough to warrant an entire university degree devoted to it.
Computer Science gives you a deep understanding not just HOW to use computers but something deeper than that. It's a mixture of the maths, physics and philosophy that underpins the whole concept of computing. Knowing what is possible and how to get there helps create the engineers of tomorrow, not some desk jockeys that solve transient problems and are equally interchangable with counterparts from any country. Most blue chip graduate programmes look for thinkers and creatives - not spare parts for the corporate machine that can be 'sourced' at commodity rates.
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I work on a trade floor and some of the guys here have 8 monitors connected to two PCs (KVMd) making up a kind of mad video wall. All on VESA mountings so you can move them around to suit. I only have 3 screens as I'm just a developer on mounts but it's great to be able to position and adjust that much workspace.
Might I add that most LCDs are going to take up less space than your current CRT. What you loose in width by having, say a 24" screen, you're going to gain so much depth.
The expensive RadiForce one has a response time of 50ms. Those aren't skeletons, they're ghosts... :)
Given Google's history, I'm betting it will run Java apps.
Easy to do - the speeds are about the same.
Moreover, BT the (global) telecommunications company has used this brand long before BitTorrent existed. Might I suggest he stops calling BitTorrent BT to avoid himself getting confussed?
Also, AT&T don't call themselves American Telephone & Telegraph Company in all their advertising literature and billing, do they? Perhaps for the hell of it he could stop referring to them as AT&T because he might also easily confuse their name with AT&T.
Alternatively, he could just use wikipedia's disambiguation before posting silly requests.
I'd head to HR for the same reason...
Dare I ask what the most painful was?
I've been to Roppongi a couple of times and found it to be very different from anywhere else in Japan - in a bad way. I'm not surprised at the drug testing because the way foreigners behave there is hard to understand even for me. The guys trying to drag you into their hostess bars are also really annoying.
Thanks for your post, again it's good to see your perspective on things. I often read your posts relating to life in Japan and falways find them very interesting. More of the same please!
It's possible that he wasn't going to sell it to anyone. I think he was just moving his toolbox to the next job rather than re-write common/useful stuff he might need again from memory. This sort of thing is quite common.
Anyway, I doubt his next employer knew anything about it in advance. Would you hire a guy who was going to walk out with your code when he left? No major bank would want anything to do with this particular headache.
They have to reap what they sow here. If you use someone else's work as an example of your own ability, you better be damned sure you understand it's quality.
I've always believed that Microsoft don't really get mission critical software so I'm surprised they got the contract. My experience with their OSs suggests that time and time again they fail to get the basics right or that things just work superficially. They cover this up by submerging it in a slopping sea of unwanted bloaty features.
What this implies is that they must have damned good sales executives to overcome the word on the street.
Again proving that men all over the world like to "Hit the Hut", so to speak...
Maybe that's a potential business model. Buy the all the data behind TPB and sue all the trackable uploaders/downloaders into oblivion. I wonder how much of $4.7M they could make back using that strategy and with access to that data...
CS grads are aware of to mixed degrees of concepts such as Moore's Law, Chip Design, FPGAs etc. The more involved with modules in System Level Design they are, the more likely they are to know this stuff. There are tonnes of other areas of computing where an understanding of the physics of the machince has an impact on how you solve particular problems.
This is stuff which is more art than really science - a set of heuristics and concepts for dealing with certain kinds of problem. For example Human Computer Interaction, AI and debateably Computability and Intractability. Maybe this isn't Plato's philosophy but it involves the same abstract parts of the brain in my view.
This company did not receive any bail-out money and isn't US.
Yes they are hiring. One of the very few. That should narrow the search a bit if you google for news for who is doing well at the moment (vs. their peers).
I work for a top investment bank which employs more than 10,000 developers worldwide. They have recently got rid of all outsourced developers and insourced everything. From the very top level of IT management it was decided that quality is indeed worth it. You can read into this any way you like but the facts speak for themselves and there's nothing Vineet Nayar can say or do about it. I can imagine that any development groups that value the same principles will follow suit eventually.
It took you that long to read the summary? :)
Programming has become more of a commodity and so thankfully Computer Science isn't just about programming.
What exactly does this mean? If you want to learn about business, do an MBA. If you want to be a computer programmer, learn it yourself because it's not difficult enough to warrant an entire university degree devoted to it.
Computer Science gives you a deep understanding not just HOW to use computers but something deeper than that. It's a mixture of the maths, physics and philosophy that underpins the whole concept of computing. Knowing what is possible and how to get there helps create the engineers of tomorrow, not some desk jockeys that solve transient problems and are equally interchangable with counterparts from any country. Most blue chip graduate programmes look for thinkers and creatives - not spare parts for the corporate machine that can be 'sourced' at commodity rates.
Less well scientifically endowed individuals might think that storm = rain, thunder and lightening as well as wind.
Except that you might get it named after. Not really much of a consolation though.
Me too! Sign me up for medical trials and show me the money!
Pirates and Ninjas is only very a game for very small values of fun. Call me when there's something more substatial
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