Recent content by GaryS

Sorry about the injuries... but this sort of shit happens. Try working at a car garage. Fires break out occasionally and good fire-suppression makes this just another excuse to break for coffee+doughnuts (as apposed to burning out the floor and injuring grandma). Well, not an issue as...

There's a notice on their site about "optimization for Intel architecture only". - so, you'll need to do cross-platform performance testing on your own time.

Wasn't a very scientific test... But, a quick check on Xeon E5 CPUs looks encouraging. RAM prices also look good. Though disappointed in apparent degradation in overall quality. Seems that manufactures are OK with a roughly 10-20% output failure rate (i.e. customer testing).

That's so damn close to wearing a uniform and shipping out. If that's your thing... [sung to tune of Village People: Y-M-C-A]

I've encountered the same problem. Very few honest resumes. Amazing really. And, I'm generally forgiving if the candidate lies on the experience but is able to back it up with know-how (who cares where they got it...). I now focus on capabilities and interests. For example, if they're an...

I'm guessing nobody watched Deadliest Catch? Sig Hansen of the Northwestern: "Robots are good. Robots don't think. Robots are used to repetition. Robots don't complain. Robots are little zombies."

I also was allowed to bring in ref' material for major exams. Strict policy on plagiarism/cheating enforced via allowed ref' materials - no rock to hide-behind if tempted to steal other's work. These were NOT multiple-choice tests... More about writing an essay on-the-spot, under deadline...

I have one of those old Asus laptops. Purchased as a smoking, no-frills laptop and added my own RAM and SSD. Asus stopped selling those bare-bones models though... (hot i7 with minimal $$$ add-ons). I'm now looking at a Lenovo as my next mobile workstation. Not bad way to go for i7...

Honestly surprised nobody picked up on his patterned game strategies (or bathroom breaks). But, maybe the environment (like cruise ships) required frequent visits to the toilet. Anybody practicing against a hard-core chess program should have picked up on the applied algorithms - in...

This is very hard to believe that Miele would get into bed with MicroSoft... - MS itself just doesn't represent the same quality/niche that Miele dominates. Basically... why?

The guy wasn't supposed to be purchasing tickets... hence the fact that he didn't collect until the very last hours. And, he used a 2nd party to orchestrate collection of the prize-money. Typically, anybody close to business-systems is monitored or simply blocked from client-oriented systems...

Stressing the point (AI?) Philip K. Dick: - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - A Scanner Darkly "Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again...

Exactly! Making this worse is when The Media begins spreading the nonsense about AI as a science. No such thing! Artificial intelligence... wrong. A philosophical perspective is reasonable - being a fan of Isaac Asimov and understanding the need to reevaluate ethics/morality within the...

I've found that Mac users are generally not systems aware - meaning that they just don't have the mindset for distributed, multi-server host/platform environments. Typically, Mac users are applications developers with a focus on in-browser work heavily leaning towards UX/UI oriented activities...

A couple of martinis at lunch was perfectly acceptable... encouraged even. Doesn't say ***t about age. The good news is that the life-is-too short philosophy is making its way back very quickly. Problem is that many folks never had a good time. Scares them off even!