You certainly wouldn't be allowed to do my hiring. All I'd want are capable employees.
To do any of these, all that is required is knowledge. Knowledge which is covered much more verbosely in books and papers than in lectures. An H.S. grad with a serious interest in computers should be able to do all of these just as well as a college grad, if not better as he's learned the specific knowledge required out of self-interest, developing a deeper understanding than a college grad who was merely chasing a good grade.
Passion and experience are worth far more than degrees.
Corporations have the freedom to provide whatever benefits they want, including none. People have the freedom not to work some place that doesn't provide the benefits they want.
Is it just possible that the top 10% of students, after spending 4-5 years studying a field, might actually be more qualified than a high school graduate?
A fresh out of high school graduate, yes. But a high school grad who has been in the indsutry working for 4-5 years? No. Most of the time, he'll wipe the floor with the college graduate.
I always find it a little sad when people think you need schooling or a degree to truly know something. It's like they're putting artificial limitations on themselves.
The point I'm making is that we Americans should have the freedom to choose what kind of health care we want.
No one forces you to use drugs. Having alternative cures fall under the same regulations as drugs wouldn't deter the use of them.
By the way, you're not really making that point. If you were, you'd have shut up there, but you didn't. You droned on about the wonders of alternative cures, which means I must rebutte that too.
The Chinese, and others, have been using herbs since recorded history.
That doesn't mean they work.
What are the warnings on herbs and vitamins? None!
Um, yeah, because, ya know, the FDA isn't regulating it.
We're f'ing with Mother Nature.
Our ability to fuck with mother nature is what separates us from the animals. It's why we are Earth's supreme overlords. Earth is our bitch.
Chinese medicine (herbs, acupuncture, etc.) has been around for thousands of years. People have been curing themselves long before Big Pharma pushed all of their drugs on us.
Couple hundred years ago, draining blood was considered a cure for just about anything. Lets bring it back. Next time you have a headache, slit your wrists.
God, you "all natural" medicine freaks are about as bad as those Scientologist.
How can they be against it? It's an idea that floats.
After Chernobyl, my penis, is falling off.
Mod me down. I deserve it. (By saying this, I secretly hope you'll mod me up, since we all know geeks never listen. Incidentally, the previous sentence should cause a buffer overrun in your mind, resulting in a crash.)
Q. Who is Tonic Systems? What are their products? A: Tonic Systems is a San Francisco-based company that provides Java presentation automation products and solutions for document management - Tonic Systems Builder, Tonic Systems Filter, Tonic Systems Transformer, Tonic Systems Viewer, and JarJar Links. Features of their products included text extraction for indexing documents, presentation creation capabilities and document conversion tools.
With the announcement the company revealed that they have purchased Tonic Systems to help with the new presentation software.
What exactly do Google employees do all day? Count money, play pool, and ride Segways?
Furthermore, if this cannot export to PDF or PowerPoint, it's pretty much useless. When giving presentations, Internet access is rarely provided or is flakey at best.
Designed over 30 years ago, the success of the Internet is a testament to the foresight of a handful of visionary researchers. Hundreds of millions of users rely on it for business and pleasure; and it is now hard to imagine a world without it.
But our reliance on the Internet makes us victims of its success, and vulnerable to its shortcomings. Some of the shortcomings are self-evident, such as the plague of security breaches, spread of worms, and denial of service attacks. Even without attacks, service is often not available due to failures in equipment or fragile routing protocols. And its behavior is unpredictable making it unsuitable for time-critical applications. Other short- comings are less obvious: The Internet was designed for computers in fixed locations, and is ill-suited to support mobile end-hosts; it uses packet-switching making it hard to take advantage of improvements in optical switching technology; it neither ensures anonymity, nor facilitates accountability; and the demise and restructuring of most network service providers suggests that providing network service is not profitable.
In summary, we dont believe that we can or should continue to rely on a network that is often broken, frequently disconnected, unpredictable in its behavior, rampant with (and unprotected from) malicious users, and probably not economically sustainable.
I think the last paragraph is disconnected with reality, but the second paragraph makes a good point or two.
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College isn't the only place to you can learn theoretical computer science.
You certainly wouldn't be allowed to do my hiring. All I'd want are capable employees.
To do any of these, all that is required is knowledge. Knowledge which is covered much more verbosely in books and papers than in lectures. An H.S. grad with a serious interest in computers should be able to do all of these just as well as a college grad, if not better as he's learned the specific knowledge required out of self-interest, developing a deeper understanding than a college grad who was merely chasing a good grade.
Passion and experience are worth far more than degrees.
First, nice broken English.
Second, make some solid points demonstrating that the U.S. lacks freedom. Otherwise, you're just trolling.
Corporations have the freedom to provide whatever benefits they want, including none.
People have the freedom not to work some place that doesn't provide the benefits they want.
Freedom is good.
People and corporations have freedom in America. *points and laughs at Britian*
A fresh out of high school graduate, yes. But a high school grad who has been in the indsutry working for 4-5 years? No. Most of the time, he'll wipe the floor with the college graduate.
I always find it a little sad when people think you need schooling or a degree to truly know something. It's like they're putting artificial limitations on themselves.
Having kooky titles like Culture Czar & Google-y reinforces the buzz about the place.
I feel like they're infantizing their employees, reducing them to cutesie-wootsie titles.
Perhaps I'm just different.
If I had mod points...
If that's a viable business model, create a startup.
A bunch of wires connected to a bunch of other wires.
The point I'm making is that we Americans should have the freedom to choose what kind of health care we want.
No one forces you to use drugs. Having alternative cures fall under the same regulations as drugs wouldn't deter the use of them.
By the way, you're not really making that point. If you were, you'd have shut up there, but you didn't. You droned on about the wonders of alternative cures, which means I must rebutte that too.
The Chinese, and others, have been using herbs since recorded history.
That doesn't mean they work.
What are the warnings on herbs and vitamins? None!
Um, yeah, because, ya know, the FDA isn't regulating it.
We're f'ing with Mother Nature.
Our ability to fuck with mother nature is what separates us from the animals. It's why we are Earth's supreme overlords. Earth is our bitch.
Can you suggest something for this?
Go for the jugular. If that fails, you're doomed to die.
Chinese medicine (herbs, acupuncture, etc.) has been around for thousands of years. People have been curing themselves long before Big Pharma pushed all of their drugs on us.
Couple hundred years ago, draining blood was considered a cure for just about anything. Lets bring it back. Next time you have a headache, slit your wrists.
God, you "all natural" medicine freaks are about as bad as those Scientologist.
Why is this posted to Slashdot? Talk about off-topic.
Did you mean "beryl"? Seriously, you got it right in the title but not in the blurb.
And you can find the project here. Has web 2.0 killed direct-linking? Let me write a blog post and submit to Slashdot to find out.
In Soviet Russia, greens are under fire!
How can they be against it? It's an idea that floats.
After Chernobyl, my penis, is falling off.
Mod me down. I deserve it. (By saying this, I secretly hope you'll mod me up, since we all know geeks never listen. Incidentally, the previous sentence should cause a buffer overrun in your mind, resulting in a crash.)
Wouldn't it be easier to apply countermeasures to prevent eavesdropping to an entire room instead of individual pieces of hardware?
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Of course any hacker with intentions of being a naughty boy is not going to show up and (a) make himself known or (b) reveal the holes.
But freelance security professionals and security companies looking to make a name for themselves will.
With the announcement the company revealed that they have purchased Tonic Systems to help with the new presentation software.
What exactly do Google employees do all day? Count money, play pool, and ride Segways?
Furthermore, if this cannot export to PDF or PowerPoint, it's pretty much useless. When giving presentations, Internet access is rarely provided or is flakey at best.
You're assuming he's human. In fact, he's a beowulf cluster of chimps typing away on keyboards.
Why, in my day, we asked the NSA and that's the way we'ds likes it!!!
I think the last paragraph is disconnected with reality, but the second paragraph makes a good point or two.
It's worse than that: It's one of those research projects created to justify Ph.D's.