Yep. Fewer going into i-banking and consulting means more into medicine and laws, not CS or other engineering. Very few goes into science/engineering for good-paying career, and finance implosion won't change that - cost/benefit just doesn't work out in the US.
Science/engineering career used to make up for the lower pay with better stability, but that was a generation ago.
That's one of the intended results of the "liberal arts" education argument, and not necessarily a bad thing. There are grad and professional schools for more focused education.
But it's also the burden of high-wage country in the globalized economy. Better education and skills are the only way to sustain high wage - milking natural resources and infrastructure/institutions built by previous generations can only last so long. Plumbers can't make 5 times what they make in Peru just because they live in the US.
We need to stop thinking that we are owed a good living by the virtue of being born in the US, and we should also think more collectively as a country, instead of everyone being for themselves.
Cuz we are jealous. What, we have to spell everything out for you?!
But that's ok. We are about to send a mission with the mother of all spacewalk - gonna upgrade the baddest space telescope, the Hubble itself, IN SPACE! Read that one task requires removal of panel with 111 screws IN SPACE!!:-)
See, we've got Hubble, and what have you got? NOTHING!!!:-)
But piracy is distorting what should have been an interaction between two parties: creator and consumer.
Gov't was already "distorting" it by introducing copyrights in the first place. Since it is used in suits that do not further the original aim of copyrights laws, gov't need to amended it to suit its purpose better, rather than enforcing it in counterproductive manners.
Ad- and marketing-driven economy is a big part of the problem, I think. It makes us lie to ourselves things are "free". Ain't nothing free, like all the wisemen and assholes alike say. one of the prices we pay is slow erosion in the culture.
European loss due to US MBS is nothing comparable to the historical benefits the US brought by 1) keeping the Russians in check and 2) keeping the Persian oil flowing. Without these, Europe would have had to adopt much more hawkish politics, and devote much greater economic resources for defense and energy supply.
It just grates me when I hear this Europe worshiping, and you hear plenty if you live on the coasts (and perhaps on slashdot, too). But I'm not arguing which system is right or wrong, and my original post is an off-topic rant.
Europeans can have such quality of life because the US has been carrying the Europe for decades, doing most of the tough and dirty works. It's not easy being a super power.
I like many things European, but I find some of the blind Euro-worship nauseating.
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Damn, I made the same post as GP.
That's what GP meant. Make them pay high enough a price to make it worth the NDA nonsense. Otherwise it's a lousy bargain.
You gotta ask yourself how much is the price of your soul. I mean the NDA nonsense. Make them pay at least as much as you value it.
Summary mentions Mellon Foundation, not CMU, and apparently the project was hosted at USC.
Just as porn ushered in VCR age, spam advances AI.
"if sentient life requires unusual circumstances, then we will find ourselves in unusual circumstances."
This is a tautology. Equivalent to:
"If shit happens to you, you'll find shit happening."
The problem with the first tautology, though, is that the "if" part doesn't even make sense for the reasons I noted in previous post.
The signature is a forgery.
I really wish more such news came out of American industries...
Sorry to play nationalist card here. Anyway, it is what it's cracked up to be, kudos to Toshiba.
Sounds like twisted tautology to me. Do we actually have enough information
1. to define "life" outside the ones on Earth
2. to specify how "unusual" our circumstances are, in cosmic scale
??
Yeah, Apple is like the soup nazi, and IBM is like Elaine with stolen recipe.
"NEXT!!"
Aha, that's why they are relinquishing *OTHER PEOPLE's* data. Indirection, my friend.
Please, everyone, please, don't bring politics into this. I lost my lawn doing that.
"We're scientists, trust us."
Well... do you have a cat? Is she white with furry coat?
Yeah, but if your country as whole lack talent, there won't be industry, even for the talented ones.
I apologize for this dumb excuse of joke. I repent. And I hereby renounce my lawn.
And you can see McCain's shadow stacking the layers...
Yep. Fewer going into i-banking and consulting means more into medicine and laws, not CS or other engineering. Very few goes into science/engineering for good-paying career, and finance implosion won't change that - cost/benefit just doesn't work out in the US.
Science/engineering career used to make up for the lower pay with better stability, but that was a generation ago.
That's one of the intended results of the "liberal arts" education argument, and not necessarily a bad thing. There are grad and professional schools for more focused education.
But it's also the burden of high-wage country in the globalized economy. Better education and skills are the only way to sustain high wage - milking natural resources and infrastructure/institutions built by previous generations can only last so long. Plumbers can't make 5 times what they make in Peru just because they live in the US.
We need to stop thinking that we are owed a good living by the virtue of being born in the US, and we should also think more collectively as a country, instead of everyone being for themselves.
Cuz we are jealous. What, we have to spell everything out for you?!
But that's ok. We are about to send a mission with the mother of all spacewalk - gonna upgrade the baddest space telescope, the Hubble itself, IN SPACE! Read that one task requires removal of panel with 111 screws IN SPACE!! :-)
See, we've got Hubble, and what have you got? NOTHING!!! :-)
Dude, you're full of shit.
Gov't was already "distorting" it by introducing copyrights in the first place. Since it is used in suits that do not further the original aim of copyrights laws, gov't need to amended it to suit its purpose better, rather than enforcing it in counterproductive manners.
Ad- and marketing-driven economy is a big part of the problem, I think. It makes us lie to ourselves things are "free". Ain't nothing free, like all the wisemen and assholes alike say. one of the prices we pay is slow erosion in the culture.
But they seem to have brains. Makes you jealous, don't they?
"Hollywood, send more money to GOP."
European loss due to US MBS is nothing comparable to the historical benefits the US brought by 1) keeping the Russians in check and 2) keeping the Persian oil flowing. Without these, Europe would have had to adopt much more hawkish politics, and devote much greater economic resources for defense and energy supply.
It just grates me when I hear this Europe worshiping, and you hear plenty if you live on the coasts (and perhaps on slashdot, too). But I'm not arguing which system is right or wrong, and my original post is an off-topic rant.
Europeans can have such quality of life because the US has been carrying the Europe for decades, doing most of the tough and dirty works. It's not easy being a super power.
I like many things European, but I find some of the blind Euro-worship nauseating.