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Comment Re:PaaT (Score 1) 213

by jeffstar (#31326786) Attached to: AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Over the Next 10 Years

Bandwidth does keep getting cheaper, but mobile bandwidth is different.

There is a finite amount of spectrum that is suitable for mobile, and it has a fixed capacity dictated by the Shannon limit.

The only way to increase mobile bandwidth is to increase the density of the base stations or the amount of spectrum used whereas increasing bandwidth to a fixed location is simply a matter of more wires/fiber.
Java

After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293

Posted by timothy from the nice-hot-bath dept.
Niris writes "I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book Absolute Java, 4th edition, by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the usual 'This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object,' and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading Beginning Algorithms, by Simon Harris and James Ross."

Comment Re:Depends on specialization and responsibilities (Score 1) 844

by jeffstar (#30907060) Attached to: Is Programming a Lucrative Profession?

and how much does everyone make?

I've got an ee degree but have not specialized: java programming, control systems, worked for a utility, RF networks, etc.

I like it all, but I know I'm a piss poor java coder when I see the stuff other people put out, so would not want to be depending on that for my family's meal ticket.
Businesses

Red Hat Support Continues To Flourish 215

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the focus-is-everything dept.
ruphus13 writes "As the pure-play Open Source companies continue to dwindle, Red Hat has thrived through the recession. Its support revenues have grown 20+%, and account for 75+% of its revenues. 'Instead of the traditional strategy of selling expensive proprietary software licenses, as practiced by the Microsofts and Oracles of the world, Red Hat gets the vast majority of its revenues from selling support contracts. In the third quarter of last year, support subscriptions accounted for $164 million of its $194 million in revenue, up 21 percent year-over-year. All 25 of the company's largest support subscribers renewed subscriptions, even despite a higher price tag.'"
Mars

NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars 66

Posted by timothy from the find-waldo-win-a-shuttle-main-engine dept.
tedlistens writes "NASA is asking the public to suggest subjects for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, its super powerful camera currently orbiting Mars. Since it arrived there in 2006, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen more success than that lost lander, recording nearly 13,000 observations of Martian terrain, with each image covering dozens of square miles and revealing details as small as a desk. By letting the public in on the Martian photo shoot, scientists aren't just getting more people excited about space exploration. They're hoping that crowdsourcing imaging targets will increase the camera's already bountiful science return. Despite the thousands of pictures already taken, less than 1 percent of the Martian surface has been imaged."
Linux

Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating' 177

Posted by Soulskill from the what-are-you-looking-at dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Key Linux kernel contributor Jonathan Corbet has admitted the developer community can be intimidating and hard to break into. He highlighted the issue during his Linux.conf.au presentation on the Linux kernel. Corbet expressed concern about the exclusivity of the kernel community, but says it's doing well regardless. He said in a period of just over a year, 55,000 individual changes from 2,700 developers (representing 370 employers) were made to the kernel, equaling 2.8 million lines of code. Corbet called the process 'alive and active.'"

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