Deregulation will take the blame for instead of the environmental nutballs who didn't want to build generation. Democrat legislators always try to punish the citizens so that they will change their ways.
Bose makes great sounding speakers that are unobtrusive and it's driving audiophiles nutty. You'll get a lot of flack for recommending them.
Most audiophiles are pure drivil anyway. They buy things like after-market power cords and unidirectional digital cables when we all know a coathanger will work.
While Canada is a nice place to visit, I think the question was on where one could find more freedom.
Cananda is a Certified Socialist Nation now so you can expect high taxes which means the government now has more of your life energy to grow on. A few months back Cananda tossed one Dr. Laura off the air because she said things that were offensive to the state. Basically when Cananda did that, they overturned the right to free speech. When free speech goes, so do the rest of the rights.
So, where is a freedom luvin fellow like yourself go? Not many places left. Sealand is probably ideal but they are at capacity. Texas actually might be a nice choice. Texas is not a country but they have managed to maintain some freedoms. You could also do like L. Ron Fuckin' Hubard and live on a boat in international waters.
4) CS degrees are geared towards developing you into a CS professor
Nowadays I would aim at a CIS degree and then get a certification (like MCSE, MCSD, or Oracle DBA).
You need some pratical training to along with the academia.
I've probably hired 40 programmers in the past four years and most have been CS majors but lots of math, CIS, and a couple history/music types sprinkled in.
When the job ad reads: "Wanted: Java programmer for excited new yada yada yada" -- you need to know Java, structured programming, OOP, working with a devopment team, testing tools, CASE tools, etc. If you have all those wonderful skills you have a fair chance of landing the job.
Now if you're bent on becoming an architect of doing research you should consider the CS route but that's mostly because programming has changed due to component driven programming.
Most software dev shops don't want you writing sorting algorithms on their dime. So whether you know that the Big O of Heapsort is n log n makes a scant bit of difference.
Go with what you enjoy. If you don't like math and like hands on then do CIS. You'll be in good shape either way.
Firstly, the contest is not a programming contest but a unix geekfest. Put a decent Delphi programming in there with Delphi and Win32 and he would kick ass so quickly it woudln't be close. Where the fuck are the modern languages anyway? I just see a bunch of 1980ish stuff.
Moderators,
Please award Siqnal11 with a prestegious "Most Uninformed Post of The Year." He manages to write grossly incorrect statements in each and every post.
Indeed Delphi creates product with better speed than C++ most of the time. It's not just a better RAD tool.
Perl and Python are used for the same applications but they are hardly for the same level programmer. Python is far easier to read. There's a lot more to Perl.
Any of us who have read the C# language spec and made an honest comparison to other languages knows it's not a java clone but the best of C++, Java, Delphi, and a bunch of great new innovations.
In the end, we'll find siqnal11's posts more drivil not even worth reading.
Dear Robert, I've been reading your Infoworld column for many years now. It's always the highlight of the magazine and I usually flip to the back to read it first. Two question: 1. Will you be making a Triumph of the Nerds 2? I'd love to hear your take on the Internet era. 2. What's Pammy up to these days? Is she available?
Thanks for posting something substantial. It's a shame the moderators are giving more and more credit to the drivil instead of encouraging discussion of an otherwise exciting topic. I'll be adding more content to my web site on this subject. See http://www.rulesroost.com
This is old school thinking. Dr. Pepperberg isn't some circus freak show. She's a respectable scientist and made every effort to conduct a an accurate test.... her grad students did much of the testing. I would really recommend reading some of the studies here to see this what parrot research is really about.
Actually Alex has been working on basic math but he's only 50% reliable so Dr. Pepperberg hasn't published her findings yet... You are being intellectually dishonest by not conceeding that maybe parrots do more than immitate.
I'm glad to know that while there are children in the country starving and women being beaten and raped and people dying of a million diseases, someone is funding the development of a web-browser for a freaking bird.
Agreed 100%. But put things in perspective. Look at the piles of money going down this shithole.
How do you teach a dog to bark "I love you" or a horse to click his stomp his hoofs to 'count' the occurance of something? Our perception of something intelligent doesn't necessarily denote it as intelligent.
I'm not talking about immitations. I'm talking about higher level cognition. How does a parrot count items? If the parrot is not really counting and it's an illusion that's being misinterpreted, then what is the reality?
Tell me, how does a parrot count items that it has never seen before? How does it recognize if two items are same or different. I'd love to hear how you would condition a parrot to do this.
Re-read my post and you will see that I don't disagree with you. The African Grey, right now, is the king of animal intelligence. The raven is smart but the way they think is so alien, it's hard to measure. The quaker is just now being studied.
A lot of money is spent on research labs for chimps and studying origins and animal behaviors. Parrots can offer some insight into these fields. What annoys me is that some animal behavior shithole programs get a ton of money and they are far less interested in science than they are political agendas.
So a few bucks were spent on some parrot research? Look at the kind of money spent at this shithole.
A while back I had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Irene Pepperberg, an animal behavior scientist, talk about Alex the parrot and some of her other African Grey parrots.
Dr. Pepperberg would hold out a tray of various objects and ask Alex how many red squares or ask him what a key was made out of... "4 red squares"... "metel key"... Alex sounded out. It was really quite amazing. He understood concepts like same and different as well.
What I found amusing was that Alex performed all of the intelligence tests normally given to chimpanzees, small children, smart dogs, elephants, and dolphins. Of course Alex passed these tests with flying colors showing a theoretically greater intelligence. This was very conflicting to the animal behaviorists because they had always relied on two givens:
Small animals with small brains will have less intelligence.
Animals closer to humans in the evolutionary tree will have higher intelligence (aka chimps)
So here we have Alex who can easily be compared to a 5-year-old child but is stuck in a tiny body of beak and feathers. Poor Dr. Pepperberg was ostracized by the rest of the scientists because her well published findings didn't gel with the prevailing theories.
Now African Grey's are getting more attention and a whole new monkey wrench has been thrown in the mix. That monkey wrench being quaker parrots. These pint-sized peckers are less than 1/3rd the size of an African Grey and have much of the same intelligence. These resiliant little guys are the only parrot banned in 15 states because the ag boards feel they might get out and eat the crops. In fact the Argentine government recently killed 450,000 of them fearing their numbers were too great. Consider the political ramifications of killing that many chimps or elephants or dolphins? Remember these little green birds are more intelligent. Interesting, eh?
Lots of folks here are making deals with the devil to bring Microsoft down. It's amazing because the government and Microsoft's competitors are doing some really rotten things that, in the bigger picture, are truly evil.
I too expect a big implosion. Look at the fallout from the termoil at Ion Storm. Even the termoil at Blizzard and Cedant have caused Diablo 2 to be two years late and not as impressive. Id already lost their #2 programmer earlier to work on an Everquest sequel. I would imagine Doom III will come out years late and uninspired.
... after all this Khmer Rouge lead genocide is more recent history and killed millions as well. So why don't we object to these types of auctions? I have a few theories:
Jews in the media and positions of power have worked hard to keep the holocaust as THE holocaust. I'm applying no value judgement here, just pointing out what might be true.
Cambodians and Vietnamese are not white. Again, no value judgement but their race contributes to why we don't care as much.
Cambodians and Vietnamese are poor. There's no Steven Spielberg to build an electronic shrine for their dead and survivors.
What the French and other socialist European countries are failing to understand is that by going down the path of censorship they are playing right into the hand of the Hitler's and Pol Pot's of this world. Why not protest Nazis by promoting extreme individual rights? Let people burn the country flag, fly the confederate flag, let lesbian humans marry hetrosexual horses, say words like "shit", and carry pistols in their pockets.
I love it how everybody is justifying their use of Napster or showing how pirate MP3's actually increase CD sales. The Rock says: It doesn't matter what your candy ass thinks. If MGM releases a CD and says you may not share the songs with your friend then you can choose to play by those rules or not buy the CD. You can't set the rules later on it just doesn't work that way in the land of intellectual capital.
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Deregulation will take the blame for instead of the environmental nutballs who didn't want to build generation. Democrat legislators always try to punish the citizens so that they will change their ways.
Most audiophiles are pure drivil anyway. They buy things like after-market power cords and unidirectional digital cables when we all know a coathanger will work.
Anyways ignore the audiofuckers. Bose are great.
There's nothing at all insightful about that post. He's full of shite.
Cananda is a Certified Socialist Nation now so you can expect high taxes which means the government now has more of your life energy to grow on. A few months back Cananda tossed one Dr. Laura off the air because she said things that were offensive to the state. Basically when Cananda did that, they overturned the right to free speech. When free speech goes, so do the rest of the rights.
So, where is a freedom luvin fellow like yourself go? Not many places left. Sealand is probably ideal but they are at capacity. Texas actually might be a nice choice. Texas is not a country but they have managed to maintain some freedoms. You could also do like L. Ron Fuckin' Hubard and live on a boat in international waters.
Good luck, mate.
4) CS degrees are geared towards developing you into a CS professor Nowadays I would aim at a CIS degree and then get a certification (like MCSE, MCSD, or Oracle DBA). You need some pratical training to along with the academia. I've probably hired 40 programmers in the past four years and most have been CS majors but lots of math, CIS, and a couple history/music types sprinkled in. When the job ad reads: "Wanted: Java programmer for excited new yada yada yada" -- you need to know Java, structured programming, OOP, working with a devopment team, testing tools, CASE tools, etc. If you have all those wonderful skills you have a fair chance of landing the job. Now if you're bent on becoming an architect of doing research you should consider the CS route but that's mostly because programming has changed due to component driven programming. Most software dev shops don't want you writing sorting algorithms on their dime. So whether you know that the Big O of Heapsort is n log n makes a scant bit of difference. Go with what you enjoy. If you don't like math and like hands on then do CIS. You'll be in good shape either way.
Firstly, the contest is not a programming contest but a unix geekfest. Put a decent Delphi programming in there with Delphi and Win32 and he would kick ass so quickly it woudln't be close. Where the fuck are the modern languages anyway? I just see a bunch of 1980ish stuff.
Please award Siqnal11 with a prestegious "Most Uninformed Post of The Year." He manages to write grossly incorrect statements in each and every post.
In the end, we'll find siqnal11's posts more drivil not even worth reading.
Those freaks are so nationalistic. They only care about their image and how they compare to the US. Marxist ratbags.
Dear Robert, I've been reading your Infoworld column for many years now. It's always the highlight of the magazine and I usually flip to the back to read it first. Two question:
1. Will you be making a Triumph of the Nerds 2? I'd love to hear your take on the Internet era.
2. What's Pammy up to these days? Is she available?
Thanks for posting something substantial. It's a shame the moderators are giving more and more credit to the drivil instead of encouraging discussion of an otherwise exciting topic. I'll be adding more content to my web site on this subject. See http://www.rulesroost.com
Also, there's a new article at The Register and a Slashdot alert on the main site.
This is old school thinking. Dr. Pepperberg isn't some circus freak show. She's a respectable scientist and made every effort to conduct a an accurate test. ... her grad students did much of the testing. I would really recommend reading some of the studies here to see this what parrot research is really about.
Actually Alex has been working on basic math but he's only 50% reliable so Dr. Pepperberg hasn't published her findings yet... You are being intellectually dishonest by not conceeding that maybe parrots do more than immitate.
Tell me, how does a parrot count items that it has never seen before? How does it recognize if two items are same or different. I'd love to hear how you would condition a parrot to do this.
Re-read my post and you will see that I don't disagree with you. The African Grey, right now, is the king of animal intelligence. The raven is smart but the way they think is so alien, it's hard to measure. The quaker is just now being studied.
So a few bucks were spent on some parrot research? Look at the kind of money spent at this shithole.
Dr. Pepperberg would hold out a tray of various objects and ask Alex how many red squares or ask him what a key was made out of ... "4 red squares"... "metel key" ... Alex sounded out. It was really quite amazing. He understood concepts like same and different as well.
What I found amusing was that Alex performed all of the intelligence tests normally given to chimpanzees, small children, smart dogs, elephants, and dolphins. Of course Alex passed these tests with flying colors showing a theoretically greater intelligence. This was very conflicting to the animal behaviorists because they had always relied on two givens:
- Small animals with small brains will have less intelligence.
- Animals closer to humans in the evolutionary tree will have higher intelligence (aka chimps)
So here we have Alex who can easily be compared to a 5-year-old child but is stuck in a tiny body of beak and feathers. Poor Dr. Pepperberg was ostracized by the rest of the scientists because her well published findings didn't gel with the prevailing theories.Now African Grey's are getting more attention and a whole new monkey wrench has been thrown in the mix. That monkey wrench being quaker parrots. These pint-sized peckers are less than 1/3rd the size of an African Grey and have much of the same intelligence. These resiliant little guys are the only parrot banned in 15 states because the ag boards feel they might get out and eat the crops. In fact the Argentine government recently killed 450,000 of them fearing their numbers were too great. Consider the political ramifications of killing that many chimps or elephants or dolphins? Remember these little green birds are more intelligent. Interesting, eh?
Ok so if you want to read more about Dr. Pepperberg you can visit here: http://www.cages.org/research/p epperberg/index.html or you can catch her on the discovery channel every once in a while with Alex.
Lots of folks here are making deals with the devil to bring Microsoft down. It's amazing because the government and Microsoft's competitors are doing some really rotten things that, in the bigger picture, are truly evil.
He promised some lovely shades of yellow and maybe even some washed out red and blue. Look for an overall theme of brown though.
I too expect a big implosion. Look at the fallout from the termoil at Ion Storm. Even the termoil at Blizzard and Cedant have caused Diablo 2 to be two years late and not as impressive. Id already lost their #2 programmer earlier to work on an Everquest sequel. I would imagine Doom III will come out years late and uninspired.
What the French and other socialist European countries are failing to understand is that by going down the path of censorship they are playing right into the hand of the Hitler's and Pol Pot's of this world. Why not protest Nazis by promoting extreme individual rights? Let people burn the country flag, fly the confederate flag, let lesbian humans marry hetrosexual horses, say words like "shit", and carry pistols in their pockets.
I love it how everybody is justifying their use of Napster or showing how pirate MP3's actually increase CD sales. The Rock says: It doesn't matter what your candy ass thinks. If MGM releases a CD and says you may not share the songs with your friend then you can choose to play by those rules or not buy the CD. You can't set the rules later on it just doesn't work that way in the land of intellectual capital.
Sorry folks!
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Sorry I misspoke :-) Price and performance!