ok, about 1, do you see that lane to your right ? it is for going slower:) you won't get run over for going 60, even if you have to drive on the highway (and many many people don't HAVE to go on a HW). 2, if 'most people' drive 40-70 miles per day, then 112 seems OK, don't you think ? Of course, if you need to drive 100+ then you won't use this car, but I think the vast majority of people would be ok. For me the real problem is price. You're paying a lot more than for a 'normal' car, and getting less; I wouldn't consider it unless it was way cheaper (or the environment got a lot worse:)
I agree with you that the list is completely arbitrary (starting from the number 7:), but I the Jesus statue amazes me more since it was completely man-made, whereas the budha was carved (the mountain was already made, if you wish:).
sorry for replying to my own post:) I re-read it and it can be construed to mean ALL anti-immigration are racists and/or xenophobes. That is not true and is not what I meant.
However, I do think *many* of the anti-immigration people are racists who are hiding behind the 'they're illegal' issue. Of course, many are not:)
You stood in line to get her papers, so it is/was not for nothing. We Americans have a right to say who we want in or not, and which hoops they have to jump (or not jump) through. It is NOT against you or anybody if we want to let other people in; in fact, we let Cubans in with very little fuss, why should it be different if we decide to do the same with any other group of people ?
Also, illegals DO pay many taxes, the only ones they *may* avoid is FICA (of which they don't get the benefits) and income taxes (which, usually would be very low or zero if they were legal due to their levels of income). If they use a fake SSN, they usually pay all the taxes, and if they work under the table for a business, then the business pays income tax on that money since they can't deduct it; they only avoid taxes if they work under the table for another person, but many other people do to (including computer geeks who get a little money or food for fixing somebody else's computer)
One of the problems of discussing immigration is that there *is* a big element of racism and xenophobia in the anti-immigrant camp. This of course does not make the ideas any less true, but makes it hard to discuss rationally. Of course, most Latinos can't discuss the issue rationally either:)
I didn't like the way they tried to pass this law this time, but I think the law made sense in the general (of course the devil is in the details). I do not think any of the yes votes (or the noes for that matter) mark anybody as a traitor. Certainly not traitors to America. Maybe to the KKK ?
Of course, you get into a lot of problems: 1. While they go back home, they produce more social problems (what do you think their kids will be doing while not being in school, how can they get the money to go back home if they can't get a job? stealing ?, etc)
2. They are mixed with Americans, so that will severely hurt many Americans (in many families, some kids will be American while their parents or siblings may not, plus all the economic ties etc)
3. Most of the people who are here illegally stand no chance to be able to come legally, that's why they came illegally; many know America better than their original country and would rather go deeper 'underground' and stay here, increasing the social problems
Are you implying that most Americans will be offended by legalizing the illegal workers ? most polls say a path to legalization is one of the things Americans want. Of course, there is a relatively small (but significant, probably close to 20%) minority of Americans for which this is offensive, but it is by no means a majority.
You're either better at programming that you think, or your experience was bigger than you're saying:)
From what I've seen, the first exposure to programming is hard. If you did Basic at 15, or Logo at 10, then it probably was OK. If your first programming experience is Java at 18 (competing with those who already know) it can be pretty discouraging.
Your first programming class you're probably too worried about syntax to really understand semantics. Much more if you're also learning how to use the computer. It sounds weird, but many people still come into a CS degree without really knowing how to use a computer.
That is a very comfortable position to take, but have you realized how the bottom 10% lives ? Have you worked at, say, a poultry plant ? That's what a friend of mine was doing, moving poultry on an assembly line, with sickening odors and getting RSI's on the first week of work (and having to keep working after that).
I'm well-off so (thank God) haven't experienced that, and I grew up in Mexico, and have seen much worse poverty, but to say that the bottom 10% is the 'idle-rich' is idiotic.
I am sure there are abuses in the welfare system, but, for the most part, it sucks to be in it. The vast majority of people on welfare are neither idle not rich.
If you are a healthy, single adult in the US, it is definitely easy to make a living (a crappy living maybe, but a living), but with kids or sick it would be really hard, maybe even impossible.
Here's the deal. The point of the assignment is NOT the end result, but having you produce that. The profs want you to produce a *new* product, so you learn more. The plan calls for you taking 3 writing classes, and writing 5 papers in each one, 'forcing' you to write 15 papers. If you reuse the same 5, you just wrote 5, which means you practiced less writing.
When you're actually publishing research, the *end result* is the important thing. Not so when doing assignments. It would be like saying that since you've done one push-up, you should be able to reuse it and count for the 50 push-ups you are supposed to do:)
Just adding info, the minimum salary in Mexico for 2005 was about.50 per hour. BTW, no high-skilled work pays minimum salary:). A construction worker gets at least 4-5 times that, and an entry level programming job would be around 10 times that (still, around US $1,000 per month)
But yes, salaries are much lower there and even lower in China.
Also, houses can be built for warm or cold weather
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I grew up in Yucatan (in Mexico), where is hot as hell (40-43C is normal for about 6 months) and really humid; but we build our houses so they are cooler inside. It is usually 10 degrees cooler inside your house that outside (which means we are 'freezing' during our terrible winter temperatures of about 10C:)
When I lived in New Orleans (USA:), the houses are build so they are warmer in cold weather, which means they really such in summer:) the houses are about 10 degrees hotter in summer unless you use AC.
> In short, the U.S. CS grads they're interviewing aren't getting experience in the stuff they > need: DBA stuff, systems administration, and commercial development methodologies.
OTOH, none of those things are CS ! I teach CS at Southern Poly (a state university in Georgia), and we have CS, IT and SwEng degrees. DBA and SysAdmin are more IT and commercial development methodologies (whatever that means:) is more of SWE:)
I'm not sure what do employers expect from a CS grad (and probably different people expect different things), but I try to create in my students the ability to *learn* new technologies quickly. So although they don't *know* DBA stuff, they can learn it in a weekend of no sleep.
Actually, that is not completely true. First, this varies by region; and then by university. They can usually communicate, but may have trouble speaking/reading/writing complex and correct sentences.
I'm a prof at a university and I can tell you the command of English of our Indian applicants varies greatly, with many doing great and many poorly (Not that I'm that good myself, since I'm not a native speaker).
The real problem (and this is with all WYSIWYG editors) is when you try to enforce consistency. There are many ways to get the same formatting, that may get very small variations; also any change to formatting (say titles are not bold anymore) will be very hard to apply, unless the document was done by only one person and they always apply formatting the exact same way. With a markup language this is (usually) easier to manage.
Now, when you have a complex document and go from OO to Office or viceversa, this problem multiplies; now you have several different ways to apply formats, that get translated differently, plus whatever you do on the new system. In fact, I'm just working on re-formatting a book, written with a co-author; him in word, me in OO on windows, with the final version needing to be done in word on windows. It sucks really really bad:)
There are many smaller universities (both public and private) with great engineering/CS programs (most university rankings are heavily biased towards size).
For example, I teach CS at Southern Poly (www.spsu.edu), a public university in Georgia, we specialize in tecnology (although to be fair, we don't offer engineering degrees, GaTech has too much clout, so all our engineering degrees are in Engineering Technology), and we do worry about our teaching and our students. We have almost no grad students doing teaching (I don't know of any), and very few adjuncts (this semester, 0 in CS).
I've also taught at a small private liberal arts college (Wofford) and our basic science/math classes were superb (we had a 3+2 plan for engineering, you did 3 yrs at Wofford, then 2 years at an engineering school and got both a liberal arts and an engineering degrees.
I did my PhD at Tulane, in New Orleans and I saw a focus on undergraduate teaching (Tulane is under water now:), but should be back next semester:)
There are many really good engineering schools for undergrads, it's just they probably aren't the big ones that are well-known and highly ranked, because the rankings are heavily biased towards size (and the well-known universities are big and with big football teams:)
On a tangent, where have you seen AMD64 MBs that support 64GB of RAM ? I've been thinking about using something like that for getting really good performance for a relatively big DB app, but all MBs I've seen have just 4 banks, and the biggest chips are 4MB. I guess a dual proc would double that:)
Actually, not always:) At least from Mexico you can enter with just your driver's license and/or a birth certificate. Dumb but true:) (actually, may have changed recently, but I don't think it has)
I'm not sure it would be any difficult at all. You can buy 'fake' papers for 1-2K ! This are 'fake' in that they aren't yours, but they belong to some other person (who usually has no clue:).
I'm an American, but raised in Mexico, so I know a few illegal immigrants. I know one person who carries a fake driver's license, and several who have a fake social security card. It's not that hard, and I seriously doubt it can be made much harder without serious inconvenience for everybody else.
I may be doing something (or many things:) wrong, but it sucks to write any big document in word (or OpenOffice.org:) as compared to latex (or I asume docbook or such).
Ensuring consistency is a mess, pagination is a mess and oftentimes there is some little thing that doesn't work as it should.
C# has eliminated some of the things in java that annoy me, like having to define every public class/interface in its own file.
Besides, for me, the fact that Mono is a complete development platform (with GUI libraries etc) and freely distributable make it better.
I wouldn't particularly mind Sun's JVM not being open source, as long as it was freely redistributable. As it is licensed now, it is a pain to distribute for Linux distros etc. And there is no free, complete platform (gcj and classpath work, but lacking many gui stuff)
> Allowing executing code from a purely 'data memory' space. That should never, ever be possible under any circumstances. I'll fight for that cause if I have to.
Actually, although that is a great idea for most programs, JIT compilers need that capability (and there are a few other applications, in the compiler/vm domain that may need it too)
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ok, about 1, do you see that lane to your right ? it is for going slower :) you won't get run over for going 60, even if you have to drive on the highway (and many many people don't HAVE to go on a HW). 2, if 'most people' drive 40-70 miles per day, then 112 seems OK, don't you think ? Of course, if you need to drive 100+ then you won't use this car, but I think the vast majority of people would be ok. For me the real problem is price. You're paying a lot more than for a 'normal' car, and getting less; I wouldn't consider it unless it was way cheaper (or the environment got a lot worse :)
I agree with you that the list is completely arbitrary (starting from the number 7 :), but I the Jesus statue amazes me more since it was completely man-made, whereas the budha was carved (the mountain was already made, if you wish :).
sorry for replying to my own post :) I re-read it and it can be construed to mean ALL anti-immigration are racists and/or xenophobes. That is not true and is not what I meant.
:)
However, I do think *many* of the anti-immigration people are racists who are hiding behind the 'they're illegal' issue. Of course, many are not
You stood in line to get her papers, so it is/was not for nothing. We Americans have a right to say who we want in or not, and which hoops they have to jump (or not jump) through. It is NOT against you or anybody if we want to let other people in; in fact, we let Cubans in with very little fuss, why should it be different if we decide to do the same with any other group of people ?
Also, illegals DO pay many taxes, the only ones they *may* avoid is FICA (of which they don't get the benefits) and income taxes (which, usually would be very low or zero if they were legal due to their levels of income). If they use a fake SSN, they usually pay all the taxes, and if they work under the table for a business, then the business pays income tax on that money since they can't deduct it; they only avoid taxes if they work under the table for another person, but many other people do to (including computer geeks who get a little money or food for fixing somebody else's computer)
One of the problems of discussing immigration is that there *is* a big element of racism and xenophobia in the anti-immigrant camp. This of course does not make the ideas any less true, but makes it hard to discuss rationally. Of course, most Latinos can't discuss the issue rationally either :)
I didn't like the way they tried to pass this law this time, but I think the law made sense in the general (of course the devil is in the details). I do not think any of the yes votes (or the noes for that matter) mark anybody as a traitor. Certainly not traitors to America. Maybe to the KKK ?
Of course, you get into a lot of problems:
1. While they go back home, they produce more social problems (what do you think their kids will be doing while not being in school, how can they get the money to go back home if they can't get a job? stealing ?, etc)
2. They are mixed with Americans, so that will severely hurt many Americans (in many families, some kids will be American while their parents or siblings may not, plus all the economic ties etc)
3. Most of the people who are here illegally stand no chance to be able to come legally, that's why they came illegally; many know America better than their original country and would rather go deeper 'underground' and stay here, increasing the social problems
Are you implying that most Americans will be offended by legalizing the illegal workers ? most polls say a path to legalization is one of the things Americans want. Of course, there is a relatively small (but significant, probably close to 20%) minority of Americans for which this is offensive, but it is by no means a majority.
You're either better at programming that you think, or your experience was bigger than you're saying :)
From what I've seen, the first exposure to programming is hard. If you did Basic at 15, or Logo at 10, then it probably was OK. If your first programming experience is Java at 18 (competing with those who already know) it can be pretty discouraging.
Your first programming class you're probably too worried about syntax to really understand semantics. Much more if you're also learning how to use the computer. It sounds weird, but many people still come into a CS degree without really knowing how to use a computer.
That is a very comfortable position to take, but have you realized how the bottom 10% lives ? Have you worked at, say, a poultry plant ? That's what a friend of mine was doing, moving poultry on an assembly line, with sickening odors and getting RSI's on the first week of work (and having to keep working after that).
I'm well-off so (thank God) haven't experienced that, and I grew up in Mexico, and have seen much worse poverty, but to say that the bottom 10% is the 'idle-rich' is idiotic.
I am sure there are abuses in the welfare system, but, for the most part, it sucks to be in it. The vast majority of people on welfare are neither idle not rich.
If you are a healthy, single adult in the US, it is definitely easy to make a living (a crappy living maybe, but a living), but with kids or sick it would be really hard, maybe even impossible.
I agree you probably want to buy flash, but if you want to develop for free you can. There are many compilers and tools at http://www.osflash.org/
Here's the deal. The point of the assignment is NOT the end result, but having you produce that. The profs want you to produce a *new* product, so you learn more. The plan calls for you taking 3 writing classes, and writing 5 papers in each one, 'forcing' you to write 15 papers. If you reuse the same 5, you just wrote 5, which means you practiced less writing.
:)
When you're actually publishing research, the *end result* is the important thing. Not so when doing assignments. It would be like saying that since you've done one push-up, you should be able to reuse it and count for the 50 push-ups you are supposed to do
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Just adding info, the minimum salary in Mexico for 2005 was about .50 per hour. BTW, no high-skilled work pays minimum salary :). A construction worker gets at least 4-5 times that, and an entry level programming job would be around 10 times that (still, around US $1,000 per month)
But yes, salaries are much lower there and even lower in China.
I grew up in Yucatan (in Mexico), where is hot as hell (40-43C is normal for about 6 months) and really humid; but we build our houses so they are cooler inside. It is usually 10 degrees cooler inside your house that outside (which means we are 'freezing' during our terrible winter temperatures of about 10C :)
:), the houses are build so they are warmer in cold weather, which means they really such in summer :) the houses are about 10 degrees hotter in summer unless you use AC.
When I lived in New Orleans (USA
> In short, the U.S. CS grads they're interviewing aren't getting experience in the stuff they > need: DBA stuff, systems administration, and commercial development methodologies.
:) is more of SWE :)
OTOH, none of those things are CS ! I teach CS at Southern Poly (a state university in Georgia), and we have CS, IT and SwEng degrees. DBA and SysAdmin are more IT and commercial development methodologies (whatever that means
I'm not sure what do employers expect from a CS grad (and probably different people expect different things), but I try to create in my students the ability to *learn* new technologies quickly. So although they don't *know* DBA stuff, they can learn it in a weekend of no sleep.
Actually, that is not completely true. First, this varies by region; and then by university. They can usually communicate, but may have trouble speaking/reading/writing complex and correct sentences.
I'm a prof at a university and I can tell you the command of English of our Indian applicants varies greatly, with many doing great and many poorly (Not that I'm that good myself, since I'm not a native speaker).
The real problem (and this is with all WYSIWYG editors) is when you try to enforce consistency. There are many ways to get the same formatting, that may get very small variations; also any change to formatting (say titles are not bold anymore) will be very hard to apply, unless the document was done by only one person and they always apply formatting the exact same way. With a markup language this is (usually) easier to manage.
:)
Now, when you have a complex document and go from OO to Office or viceversa, this problem multiplies; now you have several different ways to apply formats, that get translated differently, plus whatever you do on the new system. In fact, I'm just working on re-formatting a book, written with a co-author; him in word, me in OO on windows, with the final version needing to be done in word on windows. It sucks really really bad
There are many smaller universities (both public and private) with great engineering/CS programs (most university rankings are heavily biased towards size).
:), but should be back next semester :)
:)
For example, I teach CS at Southern Poly (www.spsu.edu), a public university in Georgia, we specialize in tecnology (although to be fair, we don't offer engineering degrees, GaTech has too much clout, so all our engineering degrees are in Engineering Technology), and we do worry about our teaching and our students. We have almost no grad students doing teaching (I don't know of any), and very few adjuncts (this semester, 0 in CS).
I've also taught at a small private liberal arts college (Wofford) and our basic science/math classes were superb (we had a 3+2 plan for engineering, you did 3 yrs at Wofford, then 2 years at an engineering school and got both a liberal arts and an engineering degrees.
I did my PhD at Tulane, in New Orleans and I saw a focus on undergraduate teaching (Tulane is under water now
There are many really good engineering schools for undergrads, it's just they probably aren't the big ones that are well-known and highly ranked, because the rankings are heavily biased towards size (and the well-known universities are big and with big football teams
On a tangent, where have you seen AMD64 MBs that support 64GB of RAM ? I've been thinking about using something like that for getting really good performance for a relatively big DB app, but all MBs I've seen have just 4 banks, and the biggest chips are 4MB. I guess a dual proc would double that :)
Actually, not always :) At least from Mexico you can enter with just your driver's license and/or a birth certificate. Dumb but true :) (actually, may have changed recently, but I don't think it has)
I'm not sure it would be any difficult at all. You can buy 'fake' papers for 1-2K ! This are 'fake' in that they aren't yours, but they belong to some other person (who usually has no clue :).
I'm an American, but raised in Mexico, so I know a few illegal immigrants. I know one person who carries a fake driver's license, and several who have a fake social security card. It's not that hard, and I seriously doubt it can be made much harder without serious inconvenience for everybody else.
I may be doing something (or many things :) wrong, but it sucks to write any big document in word (or OpenOffice.org :) as compared to latex (or I asume docbook or such).
Ensuring consistency is a mess, pagination is a mess and oftentimes there is some little thing that doesn't work as it should.
Actually, the languages are pretty similar.
C# has eliminated some of the things in java that annoy me, like having to define every public class/interface in its own file.
Besides, for me, the fact that Mono is a complete development platform (with GUI libraries etc) and freely distributable make it better.
I wouldn't particularly mind Sun's JVM not being open source, as long as it was freely redistributable. As it is licensed now, it is a pain to distribute for Linux distros etc. And there is no free, complete platform (gcj and classpath work, but lacking many gui stuff)
> Allowing executing code from a purely 'data memory' space. That should never, ever be possible under any circumstances. I'll fight for that cause if I have to.
Actually, although that is a great idea for most programs, JIT compilers need that capability (and there are a few other applications, in the compiler/vm domain that may need it too)
Actually, even now C# does not support inner classes (just to cite a java feature that I like; there *may* be many others :)