depends really... if there never was a windows... jobs might never have left apple... perhaps next step would have been developed by apple and we all would have been using next style machines since the early to mid 90s
who knows really... the world would have been a very different place.
I spoke with a guy who works at one of those huge industrial kitchens that makes this food (along with food for many many many other fast food chains). He said that Taco bell had far and away the best quality of food and the highest standards of preparation... and that everything went out sealed and ready to go...
he was very supportive of taco bell... said wendys was pretty darn good too... but would not eat at Mcdonalds.
humm... cant find a good online source so I asked my girlfriend (who works with PEs)
apparently I was a little mistaken on the details. PEs do have to have personal liability insurance (I suppose you could go without but if you ever built a bridge and it fell down you would be personally liable and would probably loose everything you owned... Its not that different from homeowners liability insurance in that way... or medical malpractice)
However, apparently larger firms often do pay for the insurance for their PEs so its not always your direct concern. Of course I assume that you wouldnt get paid as much if you were not covering your own insurance costs.
Like I said, I have no concrete source... and I suppose you could operate without insurance, but you would do so at your own risk.
as much as this is technically true.. its not very practical.
computer science isnt about coding... its about what a computer can do... Its theory.
software engineering (and you can not only take a corse in that, you can get a masters in it from many universities) is about software... how to design it... how to implement it... how to test it and how to run that process.
there may not be accredited professional software engineers out there (as any EE or ME or CE will be happy to tell you for hours and hours and hours) but that doesn't mean that software engineering isn't a discipline and that it isn't different from computer science.
Not only that, but not every engineer has taken the PE exam. My girlfriend is a mechanical engineer... she has not take the PE... she has taken the precursor... the EIT... after a few more years of work (under a PE) she can then choose to take the exam and become a PE herself...
many engineers (and they are engineers... even if they are not Professional Engineers) choose not to become PEs because of the increased burden of insurance that you must cary privately to protect yourself... even if you work for a larger company.
even given that... it is not necessary for every company to even HAVE a PE... while it is necessary for defense or civil contracting, it is not necessary to be a PE if you design say... the packaging for that new razor (who do you think designs those... are they not engineers?)
I realize the parent poster wasnt disagreeing with me... but this comes up a few times a year on slashdot and Ive been over this too many times.
what happens when the quality of work turns out not to be the same and you have no legal recourse but to flush that money you spent down a toilet? Is it cheeper then? Is it "better"?
first rule of life... you get what you pay for... and one of the things that you are NOT paying for if you offshore something is having legal recourse when something goes wrong.
yea... but who sets the limits... the limits for you, that might help you from screwing yourself... might stop me from being successful.... Im young, so I want to invest in high risk stocks since a loss now wont wipe me out.
also this would make this kind of investment much less agile than investing your money normally... especially if you are limited to a certain number of trades per year.
and there is no denying that when all of that money hits the market prices are going to go up and anyone waiting for it (who invested with private funds) will take advantage and profits.
Its a complex problem, and I dont claim to have all the answers... but im not sure we should be jumping at privatization without looking at it from all possible sides...
but hey, this is america... we will be lucky if we look at one side before we jump:-)
the stock market is really like one big poker table though... and privitizing social security is like inviting the idiots club of america to sit down at that table.... Its more suckers for the sharks to milk.... more money in the market means more of it will be unwisely invested... which gives more opportunity to big players to take profit at the expense of the little players...
except this time, the little players stand to loose their retirement benefits.
there are plenty of way for big time stockbrokers to make an unbelievable amount of money on the privatization of Social Security.
WOW... if 2 professors leaving the "Top" black studies program, at a school that size, decimates it than that really tells you something about the quality of Black Studies programs doesnt it.
given the context im not sure I agree... by the sounds of it... one of the people was upset that he said something that was contrary to what they had been discussing all day.
Lets say your in a room is full of people who, with no certain evidence (as you say, separating nature and nurture is hard) claim that the only reason women under perform men in math is because of societal issues with the way women are "supposed to be"
now you know that what they are saying has not been proven to be true or false... wouldn't you feel obliged to point out that perhaps there are physiological factors at play and that while one might like to it is inappropriate to ignore this possibility... In fact, ignoring the possibility does a disservice to women everywhere and the species as a whole.
people are looking at this like he made the comment out of the blue... that is clearly not the case.
I dont know... maybe you could try actually doing something productive with the information.... Like try to come up with new ways to teach math and science to young girls... ways that maybe work better for them.
but that cant be... according to most people absolutely no good could ever come from knowing the ways in which men are different from women... knowing these things will only serve to keep women from achieving right? better to just let them suffer in silence.
Exactly. I dont think there are too many people that would dispute that women are not as physically strong as men. that doesnt mean that there arent women out there that are stronger than me.
There are differences between men and women but people dont want to admit to that. so studying the actual differences has become very unpopular.
I think you can understand his meaning better if you tried to imagine what the world would be like if steve had never left apple.
Imagine a newton that wasnt released too early and was crafted by some quality designers... there might not be a plam.
think of the market share they would have if they had moved to a next style os long ago.
Imagine all the other cool gagets that might have been invented.
now you might say that steve jobs had to leave apple and return inorder to mature a little and things wouldnt have been all roses with him around the whole time... but just imagine if in the time in between apple hadnt been run by a bunch of monkeys... they would be an even bigger player... probably in many markets.
what if the WMDs never existed in the first place... how do you prove you destroyed the nukes you never even had... or the biological weapons that were only really an underfunded pipe dream.
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your right... its his fault because he is not savvy...
and its the woman in the haltertop fault because she was asking for it...
depends really... if there never was a windows... jobs might never have left apple... perhaps next step would have been developed by apple and we all would have been using next style machines since the early to mid 90s
who knows really... the world would have been a very different place.
Ah... I see you are married.
I dont think is your physical age that is doing it.
I spoke with a guy who works at one of those huge industrial kitchens that makes this food (along with food for many many many other fast food chains). He said that Taco bell had far and away the best quality of food and the highest standards of preparation... and that everything went out sealed and ready to go...
he was very supportive of taco bell... said wendys was pretty darn good too... but would not eat at Mcdonalds.
or maybe nobody bothered to study the effects of a conversation going on in the car.
would it really surprise you to find out that the people who did this study never considered that?
have you considered... you know... actually subscribing
I like your sig... thats good stuff!
humm... cant find a good online source so I asked my girlfriend (who works with PEs)
apparently I was a little mistaken on the details. PEs do have to have personal liability insurance (I suppose you could go without but if you ever built a bridge and it fell down you would be personally liable and would probably loose everything you owned... Its not that different from homeowners liability insurance in that way... or medical malpractice)
However, apparently larger firms often do pay for the insurance for their PEs so its not always your direct concern. Of course I assume that you wouldnt get paid as much if you were not covering your own insurance costs.
Like I said, I have no concrete source... and I suppose you could operate without insurance, but you would do so at your own risk.
Anyone got any more info to back this up?
as much as this is technically true.. its not very practical.
computer science isnt about coding... its about what a computer can do... Its theory.
software engineering (and you can not only take a corse in that, you can get a masters in it from many universities) is about software... how to design it... how to implement it... how to test it and how to run that process.
there may not be accredited professional software engineers out there (as any EE or ME or CE will be happy to tell you for hours and hours and hours) but that doesn't mean that software engineering isn't a discipline and that it isn't different from computer science.
Not only that, but not every engineer has taken the PE exam. My girlfriend is a mechanical engineer... she has not take the PE... she has taken the precursor... the EIT... after a few more years of work (under a PE) she can then choose to take the exam and become a PE herself...
many engineers (and they are engineers... even if they are not Professional Engineers) choose not to become PEs because of the increased burden of insurance that you must cary privately to protect yourself... even if you work for a larger company.
even given that... it is not necessary for every company to even HAVE a PE... while it is necessary for defense or civil contracting, it is not necessary to be a PE if you design say... the packaging for that new razor (who do you think designs those... are they not engineers?)
I realize the parent poster wasnt disagreeing with me... but this comes up a few times a year on slashdot and Ive been over this too many times.
It might be math... but its not business!
what happens when the quality of work turns out not to be the same and you have no legal recourse but to flush that money you spent down a toilet? Is it cheeper then? Is it "better"?
first rule of life... you get what you pay for... and one of the things that you are NOT paying for if you offshore something is having legal recourse when something goes wrong.
"Report me to Homeland Security for terrorist links because i disagree with you?"
you joke... but how long until that becomes a viable way of dealing with undesirable people... the same way it is in China.
yea... but who sets the limits... the limits for you, that might help you from screwing yourself... might stop me from being successful.... Im young, so I want to invest in high risk stocks since a loss now wont wipe me out.
also this would make this kind of investment much less agile than investing your money normally... especially if you are limited to a certain number of trades per year.
and there is no denying that when all of that money hits the market prices are going to go up and anyone waiting for it (who invested with private funds) will take advantage and profits.
Its a complex problem, and I dont claim to have all the answers... but im not sure we should be jumping at privatization without looking at it from all possible sides...
but hey, this is america... we will be lucky if we look at one side before we jump
the stock market is really like one big poker table though... and privitizing social security is like inviting the idiots club of america to sit down at that table.... Its more suckers for the sharks to milk.... more money in the market means more of it will be unwisely invested... which gives more opportunity to big players to take profit at the expense of the little players...
except this time, the little players stand to loose their retirement benefits.
there are plenty of way for big time stockbrokers to make an unbelievable amount of money on the privatization of Social Security.
WOW... if 2 professors leaving the "Top" black studies program, at a school that size, decimates it than that really tells you something about the quality of Black Studies programs doesnt it.
given the context im not sure I agree... by the sounds of it... one of the people was upset that he said something that was contrary to what they had been discussing all day.
Lets say your in a room is full of people who, with no certain evidence (as you say, separating nature and nurture is hard) claim that the only reason women under perform men in math is because of societal issues with the way women are "supposed to be"
now you know that what they are saying has not been proven to be true or false... wouldn't you feel obliged to point out that perhaps there are physiological factors at play and that while one might like to it is inappropriate to ignore this possibility... In fact, ignoring the possibility does a disservice to women everywhere and the species as a whole.
people are looking at this like he made the comment out of the blue... that is clearly not the case.
I dont know... maybe you could try actually doing something productive with the information.... Like try to come up with new ways to teach math and science to young girls... ways that maybe work better for them.
but that cant be... according to most people absolutely no good could ever come from knowing the ways in which men are different from women... knowing these things will only serve to keep women from achieving right? better to just let them suffer in silence.
Exactly. I dont think there are too many people that would dispute that women are not as physically strong as men. that doesnt mean that there arent women out there that are stronger than me.
There are differences between men and women but people dont want to admit to that. so studying the actual differences has become very unpopular.
I think you can understand his meaning better if you tried to imagine what the world would be like if steve had never left apple.
Imagine a newton that wasnt released too early and was crafted by some quality designers... there might not be a plam.
think of the market share they would have if they had moved to a next style os long ago.
Imagine all the other cool gagets that might have been invented.
now you might say that steve jobs had to leave apple and return inorder to mature a little and things wouldnt have been all roses with him around the whole time... but just imagine if in the time in between apple hadnt been run by a bunch of monkeys... they would be an even bigger player... probably in many markets.
Galactica 1980 NEVER HAPPENED!
and I will listen to absolutely no argument to the contrary...
LA LA LA IM NOT LISTENING!!!
that said... the new show kicks ass.
No.... the prefer to measure in Smoots.
87% of people know that!
hes not insulting your intelligence... he believes it... like many americans I am afraid.
just saying it doesnt make its so.
what if the WMDs never existed in the first place... how do you prove you destroyed the nukes you never even had... or the biological weapons that were only really an underfunded pipe dream.