He's not wrong. Maybe the 14th amendment grants eligibility for citizenship to anybody born in the USA, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily are citizens. They might never take up that citizenship (eg, born to a visiting mother and brought up with her native citizenship) or might give it up when becoming a citizen of another country, especially of one that doesn't permit dual nationality. Place of birth is not a guarantee of citizenship.
They probably all have (or could get) an NHS number. For overseas candidates the travel document number (typically the passport number) would do the job, which I would guess would be what would be used in lieu of SSN in the USA in those cases where visitors are eligible for something that needs SSN.
Actually, contrary to the summary, this article has nothing to do with code comments, and so the amount of comments per code has no effect on the results. The profanity measured in the article is from git commit messages.
The irony of that is probably only noted by British readers ("git" is a mild profanity in British English).
Who says I'm complaining? Although I note that your suggestion that "Logic, reason and "hours of daylight" are of secondary importance to the value of standardisation" hasn't persuaded the USA yet. Maybe because there is a standard in use worldwide. Where it matters -- international aviation, for instance -- they already use UTC.
On the other hand, this change would start to give us a useful overlap with China. Maybe this reflects how the government sees the world economy shifting?
And there's a transition between those two stages. Just like the first time my kids walked to school "on their own" we followed a discreet distance behind, for a couple of months after we started letting the kids online "unsupervised" we ran key logging. Ok, my son turned out to browse to a lot of websites featuring large-breasted women inadequately attired for the local climate, but I figured that was pretty normal and turned off key logging again.
I used to do voluntary work as a youth leader, but wouldn't consider doing so now because the climate of suspicion has got so bad. It would be hard to say how many lost youth programs it would take to balance the cost of one abused child, but I doubt all the suspicion has saved any children from abuse so the equation isn't relevant.
Exactly. Reality for most of us is trying to line up differently shaped falling blocks to form continuous lines across a 2-dimensional box before the box fills up, and we want to escape that reality!
Remember that News Corporation owns 92% of the Planet Network / GameSpy, so if you're playing on a Playstation, Wii, PSP, DS or PC there's a fair chance you're still supporting his bottom line.
More plagiarism from those doing a degree to get a job, and less from those doing a degree to learn, perhaps?
Quite likely. But having done "hard" and "soft" degrees I have to add that it's also nowhere near as easy to cheat in the "soft" disciplines as those who do the "hard" disciplines seem to think. When a bunch of us sat around discussing how to solve a tricky field theory problem we would then go away and submit near-identical solutions; the tutor would find it hard to spot if somebody turned in a solution somebody else had done. When a bunch of us sat around discussing a tricky issue in philosophy we would all go off and write very different essays and the tutor would easily spot if something wasn't written in our own style.
No, their compilers are normal, and they could understand everything as well as anybody else. They just have all warnings on and the compiler set to fail on warnings.
Well, there are different variations on the basic theory of evolution, and scientists can be pretty strident in defending their pet version, so there is scientific controversy even though they all believe "evolution". After all, if the teachers are teaching genuine scientific weaknesses in theories, alongside the theories, they should surely be applauded.
Yes, it's a good book despite the writing style rather than because of it. Some of the chapters I never did work out who the "you" was, but eventually I worked out that it didn't matter much.
The magic words there are "PC hardware manufacturers". What made the difference was the use of generic components and a common operating system, which was IBM's doing, not Microsoft's. Had IBM gone with CP/M rather than MS-DOS I reckon they would have had the same success because it wasn't the OS that made the difference.
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He's not wrong. Maybe the 14th amendment grants eligibility for citizenship to anybody born in the USA, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily are citizens. They might never take up that citizenship (eg, born to a visiting mother and brought up with her native citizenship) or might give it up when becoming a citizen of another country, especially of one that doesn't permit dual nationality. Place of birth is not a guarantee of citizenship.
They probably all have (or could get) an NHS number. For overseas candidates the travel document number (typically the passport number) would do the job, which I would guess would be what would be used in lieu of SSN in the USA in those cases where visitors are eligible for something that needs SSN.
Actually, contrary to the summary, this article has nothing to do with code comments, and so the amount of comments per code has no effect on the results. The profanity measured in the article is from git commit messages.
The irony of that is probably only noted by British readers ("git" is a mild profanity in British English).
Who says I'm complaining? Although I note that your suggestion that "Logic, reason and "hours of daylight" are of secondary importance to the value of standardisation" hasn't persuaded the USA yet. Maybe because there is a standard in use worldwide. Where it matters -- international aviation, for instance -- they already use UTC.
The real benefit is that at long last we will be sharing Berlin Time with the rest of Europe.
Except those other parts of Europe that are not on Berlin time.
On the other hand, this change would start to give us a useful overlap with China. Maybe this reflects how the government sees the world economy shifting?
And there's a transition between those two stages. Just like the first time my kids walked to school "on their own" we followed a discreet distance behind, for a couple of months after we started letting the kids online "unsupervised" we ran key logging. Ok, my son turned out to browse to a lot of websites featuring large-breasted women inadequately attired for the local climate, but I figured that was pretty normal and turned off key logging again.
UK too.
I used to do voluntary work as a youth leader, but wouldn't consider doing so now because the climate of suspicion has got so bad. It would be hard to say how many lost youth programs it would take to balance the cost of one abused child, but I doubt all the suspicion has saved any children from abuse so the equation isn't relevant.
That you spend your entire day in an overgrown Email program speaks to your skill set more than anything else.
Oh, emacs is far more than just an email program. It's an editor too, you know. Er, we were talking about emacs, weren't we?
Exactly. Reality for most of us is trying to line up differently shaped falling blocks to form continuous lines across a 2-dimensional box before the box fills up, and we want to escape that reality!
Seems to be. We'll see.
Who's going to want a Nokia phone running Windows?
Er...me?
Remember that News Corporation owns 92% of the Planet Network / GameSpy, so if you're playing on a Playstation, Wii, PSP, DS or PC there's a fair chance you're still supporting his bottom line.
Once you get past grade school, history is no more about memorization than engineering disciplines are.
More plagiarism from those doing a degree to get a job, and less from those doing a degree to learn, perhaps?
Quite likely. But having done "hard" and "soft" degrees I have to add that it's also nowhere near as easy to cheat in the "soft" disciplines as those who do the "hard" disciplines seem to think. When a bunch of us sat around discussing how to solve a tricky field theory problem we would then go away and submit near-identical solutions; the tutor would find it hard to spot if somebody turned in a solution somebody else had done. When a bunch of us sat around discussing a tricky issue in philosophy we would all go off and write very different essays and the tutor would easily spot if something wasn't written in our own style.
In Europe we have hard to fake Government issued IDs for everyone.
No we don't. Lots of Europeans don't have government issued IDs.
Yep...I'd just recently discovered them and didn't really see much difference between them and Pandora.
You would if you lived outside the USA.
No, their compilers are normal, and they could understand everything as well as anybody else. They just have all warnings on and the compiler set to fail on warnings.
Well, there are different variations on the basic theory of evolution, and scientists can be pretty strident in defending their pet version, so there is scientific controversy even though they all believe "evolution". After all, if the teachers are teaching genuine scientific weaknesses in theories, alongside the theories, they should surely be applauded.
It's not what I'm saying, it's what the RA is saying.
Further, he has no basis for his complaint.
There is no law prohibiting doing engineer quality work unless you try to do it for money or pass it off as the work of an engineer.
The executive director of the engineers licensing board disagrees. I suspect it will end up coming down to what a judge thinks.
Yes, it's a good book despite the writing style rather than because of it. Some of the chapters I never did work out who the "you" was, but eventually I worked out that it didn't matter much.
What, you mean the victim is a vegan and you've invited him to a BBQ?
The magic words there are "PC hardware manufacturers". What made the difference was the use of generic components and a common operating system, which was IBM's doing, not Microsoft's. Had IBM gone with CP/M rather than MS-DOS I reckon they would have had the same success because it wasn't the OS that made the difference.