Anyone can draw, most people can draw pictures, the really good ones make art.
Nearly anyone can be taught to code. Most of the coders can make programs to solve problems, but a few of them can make software.
A lot of the skills are similar to art, a lot of touchy feely stuff learned thru skill and practice. We can learn the skills but it takes real practice to be good at it.
Unions have a lot of money and political pull too.
In many ways they have more political pull per dollar. Because the Unions in the US need just as much reform as the business system does.
Why am I paying out of my paycheck to something that will use for political campaigning for a party I may or may not believe in. That money should be used to pay for a small staff of legal experts, and for operations. The rest of the money should be held to pay for strikers pay during a strike.
I mean really? Every time there is a patent dispute it is a patent troll. Ok fine you don't like patents, I can respect that opinion, but there are here and they were there to protect the inventors. This could be a legitimate dispute. Oh wait I am sorry Red Hat is the Open Source company so by default they are the good guy and everyone else must be evil.
Normally with these patent cases both sides own patents and what normally ends up is an agreement to share each other patents. the GNU Forbids Patents, so copyright is the next best thing, perhaps it is even bigger then the patent because it is even more blatant misuse.
A something happened that to a group that I believed in. There must be some dark reasoning behind it. But if the same thing happened to a group I hated they deserved it.
for example... "Legal pressure has forced Twitter to handed over messages sent by an Tea Party protester. Twitter spent months resisting the call to release the messages, saying to do so would undermine privacy laws. The DC district attorney's office wanted the tweets to help its case against protester Joe Redeck. It believes the messages undermine Mr. Redeck' claim that DC police led protesters on to the Washington Monument to make it easier to arrest them. It claims the messages will show Mr. Redeck was aware of police orders that he then disregarded."
How dare tweeter hold onto an avoid hinder the investigation against Joe Redeck!!!
Usually the cutoff is where the companies assets + shareholder equity > Liability. In cases if you sell the company you can pay off your debts.
However if the individual even under a corporation put his home as collateral he will loose it. However if he didn't and say got sued for everything, he would loose his home, the company would just go out of business.
AMD, VIA and ARM may also take Intels lead on this too.
Linux for the desktop has such a small market share, however it is a vocal, demanding, and very diverse minority. That they figure that they will loose more supporting Linux for this chip then adding support.
Dealing with smaller low volume vendors, Distributions that are made that really put the chips features at a disadvantage, or just loud and obnoxious support calls.
There is a big difference here. Microsoft took steps to make sure the DR DOS wouldn't run windows, where it could.
Intel is just not going the extra step to allow Linux compatibility. If the Open Source guys are as smart as they think they are there should be an open source patch shortly to allow Linux to run with that chip. Now if Intel has a fit over this, then they may be crossing the line, if they just let it continue and if there is an issue the help desk goes sorry we do not support Linux on this chip. That is just keeping the status quo.
For the economy to grow we need people to take risks. Having a business requires you to put up a lot of risk. However if it fails (lets say you broke an Apple Pattent and got sued by them.) Your business and your effort would be tossed out, but your personal home and what not wouldn't be effected.
But it is important to try to get groups to realize that they are part of the problem.
Whenever you think you are part of a group that is some how immune to being part of the problem, then you open yourself up to be a bigger part of the problem.
For example... The Catholic Priest Scandal: Priests for generations, heck for thousands of years, have been considered by the public to better people then the rest of us. So claims against them will suffer punishment from the victim as they seem that much better of a person that it couldn't happen.
Pen State: These figures were so popular and idolized as hero's that they got corrupt because no one was willing to draw the line on them.
Politics: Well that is too easy. Most recent I know of is the New Jersey mayor....
We as a society want a real life Superman, who has massive power and incorruptible. But that is fiction. It takes a lot of work to keep yourself following your morals, especially as you gain more power in life. Usually the stumbling block is the phrase "I Deserve this" which is either a slip in your diet, or taking a bribe for a Hawaii vacation in turn of not putting an investigation to a companies practices.
Business when done properly will have a profitable result. Science when done properly will have either a positive or negative result.
The scientific process for the Facebook Generation... I have this crazy idea. How to measure if my crazy idea works. Lets run tests that measure my crazy idea. Does the tests match my expected results? If (Not even close) { Your idea was really crazy, try an other one } If (close) { Your idea may have some backing but will need to be tweaked } if (spot on) { These results may be a fluke, try again and by different people, preferably by people who think your idea is insane }
Science is about being open to everything, only to find ways to shoot the bad idea out.
There are a lot of American Colleges that require a year or a semester of internship. Fail do do so means you cannot graduate from college, thus you will normally go back home and work a minimum wage job.
Ob. Simpson Quote. Stanley, Standly, No Degree, 2 credits short at M I T
If you look at it, the internship program is basically free labor.
I was self taught, and then I went and got a degree. I was glad I did.
Being self taught your skills are distributed rather oddly. You learn some very complicated ideas that they may not even cover in school, but at the same time miss a very important element that is taught in the first few days. Every self taught programmer has a different distribution of these skills.
Being self taught really does enhance the education that you get out of school. For many of my peers in school taking computer science. In the early classes they were stressing over getting the damn code to compile, while I was focusing more on following good form, and practicing the general idea being taught. (My professors knew I was advanced so they graded me harder based on my form and less on the fact if the program worked or not) There were a lot of students especially in the beginning they thought their assignment was done once the code compiles.
I found myself having to deal with concepts that I wouldn't have picked up myself in my professional life. For example some simple things... Two's Complement Binary: I get why is this legacy program failing now, it worked fine for 20 years... Then I did a count and found that there is now over 2 billion records, and the new ID being generated are huge negative numbers (that happens to be 1 number larger of the absolute value).
Endianness: Oh I am working on an old mainframe and trying to move over an old save data file that is in essence a memory dump, to an Intel Platform. Well it looks like I am going to need to flip some grouping of bits around.
Numeric Base: We had a Dos.BAT file that took the current month and subtracted it by one. The program worked great until August? Well duh the date had a leading 0 so it meant it was base 8. so there isn't an octal 8 or octal 9. Those two months would cause a problem.
Floating Point errors: why after the all the calculations the value is off by 0.000001293 Simple base 2 has new set of irrational numbers compared to base 10. Lets round those values or use a different decimal data type if the language supports it. It will be slower but it will be more accurate.
Things like that you tend not to learn by do it yourself but by proper instructions.
When you go to work in the real world. Your skills are based on how flexible you are. If you are just a C#.NET or a C++ Developer. You may get hired and do a good job, but you are not going to be the guy who can deal with the issues when things get tough, just because your self learning for most people is too narrow focused.
You have a sales team, you are trying to sell your product. That is hard enough. Now you need to push Linux too on their existing Windows infrastructure too...
Companies like consistency. Linux is a perfectly good OS. However we are a windows shop here, and don't want to support two platforms.
Companies will pay more money to keep a consistent environment. Those Linux servers will need to cost $500 less then their windows counterparts. You need to be less then the OS cost and less then the Its different cost, then you will need to deal with people who will just get the lesser cost system and put their own OS on it (legal/illegal/let the courts decide if they find out)
That and what we call and OS has became far more complex.
We have the Kernel, but the Kernel isn't the OS, We have the Boot Loader, but that isn't the full OS too. We have the default User Interface but that isn't an OS too.... It is a whole collection of stuff combined to make a full OS.
Now sometimes there is a redesign of the User Interface. But the kernel is left untouched, other times the kernel is greatly improved however the UI is near the same. There isn't really a good standard to say what count as a version change vs a minor number change.
Lets use Solaris. They have been on Version 5 for a long time but they kept changing the name because they got stuck in minor numbers that wasn't that impressive. 5.2.6 5.2.7 (Became Solaris 7) 5.2.8 (Became Solaris 8) 5.2.9...
What happens with paper if there are problems with the cockpit light? There is an error in the documentation, or you just didn't get the latest greatest yet, someone takes your document and prints out an other page that is incorrect. Paper isn't fool proof. Think about all the warehouses of paper backup of digital data we have. One fire and it is all gone. Vs. Digital Data synced on Remote Location servers with proper raid and backup power.
Paper rips gets smudgy, near impossible to clean....
Should they have a paper copy sure. But they don't need it in their planes, they can just hold onto it in their lockers if they forgot to charge their iPad that day.
Online Games, it is the game makers best interests to be hard against cheater. Because if left uncontrolled they will ruin the game for everyone. So if you are going to be taking screen shots of your cheating. Might as well get tracked down and banned because of it.
I remember back in them olden days of Lan Parties. A professor in my college actually hosted a WarCraft II Lan Party. So we were on two teams, One side had the professors 8th grade kid. He found a cheat that worked online. Once we found out both sides of the players (including his own team) in general told him that he cant play anymore. We wanted to play using our own skills if we won we won, if we loss we loss no big deal, not cheat, just to win.
That is what I was figuring. You are a science teacher. You have a supply of calculators that you can loan, what else do you need to do with them.
I mean if you have a huge inventory of them you can share them with other science teachers to share too.
Ti-83's while useful they are only really good for 11th grade-12th grade students. Once you go to college they normally require the higher end calculators (If they still do so, I would except they may be using Matlab or Maple)
In theory they could go to an unprivileged school however the idea of giving stuff to a school sometimes causes more political problems then it is worth.
So just share them with your peers who may have a student forget or loose their calculator.
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Right the union will allow the company to do this, in exchange of hiring 20 more unioned employees.
I have worked in Union vs. Non Unioned shops, The Unioned ones seems to have far more employee restrictions then the non-unioned.
Anyone can draw, most people can draw pictures, the really good ones make art.
Nearly anyone can be taught to code. Most of the coders can make programs to solve problems, but a few of them can make software.
A lot of the skills are similar to art, a lot of touchy feely stuff learned thru skill and practice. We can learn the skills but it takes real practice to be good at it.
Unions have a lot of money and political pull too.
In many ways they have more political pull per dollar. Because the Unions in the US need just as much reform as the business system does.
Why am I paying out of my paycheck to something that will use for political campaigning for a party I may or may not believe in.
That money should be used to pay for a small staff of legal experts, and for operations. The rest of the money should be held to pay for strikers pay during a strike.
I mean really? Every time there is a patent dispute it is a patent troll.
Ok fine you don't like patents, I can respect that opinion, but there are here and they were there to protect the inventors. This could be a legitimate dispute.
Oh wait I am sorry Red Hat is the Open Source company so by default they are the good guy and everyone else must be evil.
It depends if they win or not.
Normally with these patent cases both sides own patents and what normally ends up is an agreement to share each other patents. the GNU Forbids Patents, so copyright is the next best thing, perhaps it is even bigger then the patent because it is even more blatant misuse.
A something happened that to a group that I believed in. There must be some dark reasoning behind it. But if the same thing happened to a group I hated they deserved it.
for example...
"Legal pressure has forced Twitter to handed over messages sent by an Tea Party protester. Twitter spent months resisting the call to release the messages, saying to do so would undermine privacy laws. The DC district attorney's office wanted the tweets to help its case against protester Joe Redeck. It believes the messages undermine Mr. Redeck' claim that DC police led protesters on to the Washington Monument to make it easier to arrest them. It claims the messages will show Mr. Redeck was aware of police orders that he then disregarded."
How dare tweeter hold onto an avoid hinder the investigation against Joe Redeck!!!
Usually the cutoff is where the companies assets + shareholder equity > Liability.
In cases if you sell the company you can pay off your debts.
However if the individual even under a corporation put his home as collateral he will loose it. However if he didn't and say got sued for everything, he would loose his home, the company would just go out of business.
AMD, VIA and ARM may also take Intels lead on this too.
Linux for the desktop has such a small market share, however it is a vocal, demanding, and very diverse minority. That they figure that they will loose more supporting Linux for this chip then adding support.
Dealing with smaller low volume vendors, Distributions that are made that really put the chips features at a disadvantage, or just loud and obnoxious support calls.
There is a big difference here.
Microsoft took steps to make sure the DR DOS wouldn't run windows, where it could.
Intel is just not going the extra step to allow Linux compatibility. If the Open Source guys are as smart as they think they are there should be an open source patch shortly to allow Linux to run with that chip. Now if Intel has a fit over this, then they may be crossing the line, if they just let it continue and if there is an issue the help desk goes sorry we do not support Linux on this chip. That is just keeping the status quo.
Their replacement energy sources doesn't seem like a good alternative.
A job is a job.
Hey he may be working on the Hello Kitty mega super computer. Or the Hello Kitty surface to air missile system.
Come on just think about it. a perfect movie death scene of the villains last words Oh now it's Hello Kitty!
We need to really diversify our energy.
That included using Wind, Solar, Tidal, Hydro, Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear...
We need to stop focusing on Green Energy but focus on diverse energy, so we can hedge the trade-offs each offer.
Even coal. While coal has the biggest environmental impact. It is currently the most plentiful in the United States, and shouldn't be discounted.
For the economy to grow we need people to take risks. Having a business requires you to put up a lot of risk. However if it fails (lets say you broke an Apple Pattent and got sued by them.) Your business and your effort would be tossed out, but your personal home and what not wouldn't be effected.
Well I would blame society on a whole.
But it is important to try to get groups to realize that they are part of the problem.
Whenever you think you are part of a group that is some how immune to being part of the problem, then you open yourself up to be a bigger part of the problem.
For example...
The Catholic Priest Scandal: Priests for generations, heck for thousands of years, have been considered by the public to better people then the rest of us. So claims against them will suffer punishment from the victim as they seem that much better of a person that it couldn't happen.
Pen State: These figures were so popular and idolized as hero's that they got corrupt because no one was willing to draw the line on them.
Politics: Well that is too easy. Most recent I know of is the New Jersey mayor. ...
We as a society want a real life Superman, who has massive power and incorruptible. But that is fiction. It takes a lot of work to keep yourself following your morals, especially as you gain more power in life. Usually the stumbling block is the phrase "I Deserve this" which is either a slip in your diet, or taking a bribe for a Hawaii vacation in turn of not putting an investigation to a companies practices.
Business when done properly will have a profitable result.
Science when done properly will have either a positive or negative result.
The scientific process for the Facebook Generation...
I have this crazy idea.
How to measure if my crazy idea works.
Lets run tests that measure my crazy idea.
Does the tests match my expected results?
If (Not even close) { Your idea was really crazy, try an other one }
If (close) { Your idea may have some backing but will need to be tweaked }
if (spot on) { These results may be a fluke, try again and by different people, preferably by people who think your idea is insane }
Science is about being open to everything, only to find ways to shoot the bad idea out.
Knowing real life, the maker of the product would probably prohibit porn.
If Jobs did the presentation it would be amazing.
There are a lot of American Colleges that require a year or a semester of internship. Fail do do so means you cannot graduate from college, thus you will normally go back home and work a minimum wage job.
Ob. Simpson Quote.
Stanley, Standly,
No Degree,
2 credits short at
M I T
If you look at it, the internship program is basically free labor.
I was self taught, and then I went and got a degree. I was glad I did.
Being self taught your skills are distributed rather oddly. You learn some very complicated ideas that they may not even cover in school, but at the same time miss a very important element that is taught in the first few days. Every self taught programmer has a different distribution of these skills.
Being self taught really does enhance the education that you get out of school. For many of my peers in school taking computer science. In the early classes they were stressing over getting the damn code to compile, while I was focusing more on following good form, and practicing the general idea being taught. (My professors knew I was advanced so they graded me harder based on my form and less on the fact if the program worked or not) There were a lot of students especially in the beginning they thought their assignment was done once the code compiles.
I found myself having to deal with concepts that I wouldn't have picked up myself in my professional life. For example some simple things...
Two's Complement Binary: I get why is this legacy program failing now, it worked fine for 20 years... Then I did a count and found that there is now over 2 billion records, and the new ID being generated are huge negative numbers (that happens to be 1 number larger of the absolute value).
Endianness: Oh I am working on an old mainframe and trying to move over an old save data file that is in essence a memory dump, to an Intel Platform. Well it looks like I am going to need to flip some grouping of bits around.
Numeric Base: We had a Dos .BAT file that took the current month and subtracted it by one. The program worked great until August? Well duh the date had a leading 0 so it meant it was base 8. so there isn't an octal 8 or octal 9. Those two months would cause a problem.
Floating Point errors: why after the all the calculations the value is off by 0.000001293 Simple base 2 has new set of irrational numbers compared to base 10. Lets round those values or use a different decimal data type if the language supports it. It will be slower but it will be more accurate.
Things like that you tend not to learn by do it yourself but by proper instructions.
When you go to work in the real world. Your skills are based on how flexible you are. If you are just a C#.NET or a C++ Developer. You may get hired and do a good job, but you are not going to be the guy who can deal with the issues when things get tough, just because your self learning for most people is too narrow focused.
You have a sales team, you are trying to sell your product. That is hard enough. Now you need to push Linux too on their existing Windows infrastructure too...
Companies like consistency. Linux is a perfectly good OS. However we are a windows shop here, and don't want to support two platforms.
Companies will pay more money to keep a consistent environment. Those Linux servers will need to cost $500 less then their windows counterparts. You need to be less then the OS cost and less then the Its different cost, then you will need to deal with people who will just get the lesser cost system and put their own OS on it (legal/illegal/let the courts decide if they find out)
You confuse explaining a rational for doing sometime, with an endorsement for the practice.
The gaming company know that cheaters are a problem, then they need to figure out where to draw the line.
That and what we call and OS has became far more complex.
We have the Kernel, but the Kernel isn't the OS, We have the Boot Loader, but that isn't the full OS too. We have the default User Interface but that isn't an OS too....
It is a whole collection of stuff combined to make a full OS.
Now sometimes there is a redesign of the User Interface. But the kernel is left untouched, other times the kernel is greatly improved however the UI is near the same. There isn't really a good standard to say what count as a version change vs a minor number change.
Lets use Solaris. ...
They have been on Version 5 for a long time but they kept changing the name because they got stuck in minor numbers that wasn't that impressive.
5.2.6
5.2.7 (Became Solaris 7)
5.2.8 (Became Solaris 8)
5.2.9
What happens with paper if there are problems with the cockpit light? There is an error in the documentation, or you just didn't get the latest greatest yet, someone takes your document and prints out an other page that is incorrect.
Paper isn't fool proof. Think about all the warehouses of paper backup of digital data we have. One fire and it is all gone. Vs. Digital Data synced on Remote Location servers with proper raid and backup power.
Paper rips gets smudgy, near impossible to clean....
Should they have a paper copy sure. But they don't need it in their planes, they can just hold onto it in their lockers if they forgot to charge their iPad that day.
Online Games, it is the game makers best interests to be hard against cheater. Because if left uncontrolled they will ruin the game for everyone.
So if you are going to be taking screen shots of your cheating. Might as well get tracked down and banned because of it.
I remember back in them olden days of Lan Parties. A professor in my college actually hosted a WarCraft II Lan Party. So we were on two teams, One side had the professors 8th grade kid. He found a cheat that worked online. Once we found out both sides of the players (including his own team) in general told him that he cant play anymore. We wanted to play using our own skills if we won we won, if we loss we loss no big deal, not cheat, just to win.
That is what I was figuring. You are a science teacher. You have a supply of calculators that you can loan, what else do you need to do with them.
I mean if you have a huge inventory of them you can share them with other science teachers to share too.
Ti-83's while useful they are only really good for 11th grade-12th grade students. Once you go to college they normally require the higher end calculators (If they still do so, I would except they may be using Matlab or Maple)
In theory they could go to an unprivileged school however the idea of giving stuff to a school sometimes causes more political problems then it is worth.
So just share them with your peers who may have a student forget or loose their calculator.