This is a total bullshit. Czech Republic for instance has a compulsory education for all childern since Maria Terezia made that law way back in 18th century. At that time half of US kids were still educated only as the farm duties allowed. Stop making excuses, start listening in school.
No they don't:(( If they are lucky they can share the facilities of local sports clubs. Its worse in the cities, because there is not much space where to build soccer field, but then there are more sports clubs in cities.
I don't think it depends on how much money you spend on the education, really. It all depends on the curriculum and how socially acceptable it is to fail at math. The main difference I see is that in czech schools its not really socially acceptable to fail any subject. Being good at math does not make you a nerd, it help you avoid being called stupid.
I am from Czech Republic and live in US and there was a lot of news about this survey too on czech web sites. Mostly they take it as "we are only good in math, while US prepares kids for life". So it seems every country takes the negative part out of it.
BTW Trust me that all the schools are tested, not just the top rated. I am product of one of the special math school in Czech Republic and what we had in math in high school is more than you get from frist two years of community college here in US. If they took survey in just the elite math schools, it would leave everyone trailing way behind.
Even with Mathematica on my computer, which is btw the first thing we equip new students at math dept. with, it won't help you much, unless you understand what the programm will output. And unless you have some clue as of what to feed it to. Its like with calculator, just on a higher level. Just instead of calculations over sets of numbers you do calculations over sets of functions. Or more. Having a calculator in your brain will only make you multiply really really fast, but it won't help you to understand you need to multiply the rectangle's egde lengths to get its area size. The day any computer will help you with a thought process and comprehension, we should be scared as hell.
This is bullshit. 85% of spammers are based in US. They might have purchased domains and other resources in other countries, but these are the americans spamming the world. Just look at the spam. Most of it flatly assumes american audience.
I would love if they'd just exclude addresses that are really not gonna bring them any business. Now tell me why would you try to sell viagra to anybody at mff.cuni.cz domain. Its math and physics department for gods sake!
Its in eastern europe, no credit cards until recently.
We talk students here, most of them are 20 years younger than their target audience.
No money here, it's all gone to nvidia.
Viagra for math geeks? Erectal disfunction is the last of their problems!
I was thinking about a spam assassin filter. Parse the identified spam emails for all valid URLs and send modified GET requests to these servers every minute for few days. Just add all new URLs to the queue and remove them in a few days. If you get a new spam, they will get back.
It would get rid of all these mail-bugs that track working email addresses and also DDoS the phishing sites that collect your bank info. I think it should be done and I might do just that if I get a spare hour. I already have script to gather and DNS/ICMP validate the URLs from my spam folder.
I had drawn a line, anyone who sends me something unsolicited should expect me to send him something back, which is very much solicited in my opinion.
I wish that spamassassin would parse the mails it identifies as spams (10+) for urls and then try to send several modified GET requests to them every few minutes, for a day. I might even write a perl script to do just that. If everybody installs such add-on we are done with mail-id-bugs and all the phishing sites.
So what is the problem with the cable? Just drill a hole, its just wood. Or better yet, buy one that already has a hole and maybe also rails for sliding the computer in and out. Computers are with us for a while, the furniture manufacturers managed to notice already, take advantage of that:)
You have no idea about the requirements of H1b visa. I am here on one and have to tell you that the employer has to prove to US DOL, prior to hiring H1b, that they were not able to hire a qualified employee locally. They have to either submit all their HR data about hiring in the given area or have the position application for some 3 months without getting any qualified applicants. Its not that easy to get the approval and most of the companies in Sillicon Valley were not able to hire any H1b for most of 01-03 period. Even now there are still problems with the new applications.
There are so many people talking about H1b visa without having a clue that I would almost assume I am reading Slashdot...
Maybe because he had no friends? Seriously though, plenty of other conquering peoples aren't in my nation-states' direct lineage, like the Ottoman Turks, and while they did plenty of nasty things too, I don't think they were on the level of Genghis Khan.
This really depends on who you ask. For example if you will go to Slovakia, which is a country that was on a border of expansion of both Genghis Khan's and Ottoman's empires, just west of Ukraine, you will find no bad feelings, memories or accounts of Genghis Khan, while you will find plenty of references to attrocities caused by the Turks.
Thats because historic accounts are very subjective, they differ from place to place, the literacy levels of defeated nations at the time and many other factors. As such they make for extremly bad measure for quality of rulers.
I simply have to stick with the numbers. Things like years of peace, percentual comparisons of gross domestic product, literacy levels, monetary stability and others are much better and we have plenty of evidence to compare those.
If you measure your success as a ruler by how you are remembered in the history books after you die
Thats extremly bad measure, since the books you read are mostly written by his enemies. I think that Alexander the Great and Caesar wouldn't look half that good if most of the records about them that survived until today wouldn't come from their respective nations.
I measure the success by how much time of peace and prosperity did the ruler secure for citizens living inside the borders of his influence. By this account the old Rome has over 200 years for a continent at peace (Europe), Genghis Khan almost a centry in Asia and I belive Egypt had quite a few centuries over large parts of Africa and Mideterrean areas. I guess we could more or less give US over a century at North America. Which would put them on par with Genghis Khan:))
Looking in the history, I'd have to say that Genocide worked just fine for many. Genghis Khan burned to ground any city which resisted and killed all men, women and childern. He had surprisingly few enemies. There is a lot of wisdom to these old sayings, but trust me, there is never "only way" to anything.
But I agree with you that if you look at things with "good" and "evil" labels in mind, it just clouds your vision. Lets get back to forementioned Genghis Khan. If he would dwell on problems like is a genocide "evil"? He would have so many enemies all over his borders, that his realm could never enyoj a full century of peace. Come to think of it, he was the last person who managed to keep peace on a whole continent for that long. Its hard to decide, was he "good" or "evil"? ( Or was he damn good at being evil? 0:) ) One thing is for sure, his pragmatic point of view made him a very successful ruler.
Do you know at least one foreign languge? No? You are dumb!
Call it dumb or illiterate, I don't care. The fact is that two centuries ago you didn't have to know as much as you needed to know 2 decades years ago. The standards are raising.
The basic standards of literacy these days definitely start to include the basics of computer operation and at least the minimal know-how of internet.
If you don't know that, I will look at you the same way I look at people who cannot write a letter, cannot count their change back at grocery store or have never learned about anything outside the borders of their county.
Maybe I set my standards for literacy a little bit too high even for today, but trust me that few decades from now they will be even higher.
What really confuses me is how, even with all the grassroots campaigns, like the Rock Against Bush tour, the big names openly speaking out against Bush, and even...
What really confuses me is which of these people were for Kerry?
I am just saying, I might hate Bush, but if I don't get to like Kerry, that sure as hell won't cut it.
I think the methodology of the stanford predicts is at best fishy. The problem is that they go for an immediate state, discarding previous results and this makes their predictions very sure. You can see that most of them are over 90%. Now tell me that Florida is anything further than 10% from draw? I don't think so.
The main problem is that he needs to take in account all the previous data and see how the state numbers vary and how far they swing up and down and take that in account when counting the chance that either candidate will win the election. I think it would reduce the probabilities and make all these numbers more realistic.
Nah, its just that when you are smarter than everybody else, you tend to "talk" with someone who has a potential for being worth "talking" to.... A computer:)
This is totally no shock to me at all. I know ClearCase (from Rational Software which IBM bought) quite intimately. If they use that for AIX, then its quite possible they don't have it anymore.
ClearCase is the only content management product which can get FULL. You hear right. It can get full. To record any more objects, branches and versions, you have to delete something. As incredible as this seams, thats a fact. They have a finite and quite low number of object ids and you cannot go over limit. Thats what I call fine technology.
And don't get me started on a database wide locks for any insert...
Why use employees, when you can use "external contractor". Much less hassle and much easier to just laundry a bit of cash to pay someone to do the job.
Pardon me, for being sarcastic and a little paranoid, but if would be a anti-virus company creating more work for myself and more dough for my shareholders by letting out occasional virus out, there would be no better diversion than aiming at destroying myself and taunting other virus writters so they write more and better the next time.
I think that as so many people who predict future, including the science fiction writers, he suffers from the "I wish I live to see that" syndrome in his guestimates of dates when these things will happen. I don't think these supplements will be enough for him to live to see it.
Are you out of your mind? Someone who can spend 16 hours in row doing one thing to the exclusion to basic human functions has anything BUT attention deficit disorder.
Tell me how long attention span would regular person has to have if someone with ADD can spend 16h/day 7days/week doing one thing for months at a time?
Damn people who throw around abreviations they don't understand and damn moderators who dare to label it interesting.
He is totally avoiding both questions about comparison with postgres and why should anyone even care anymore about their database when postgres is more advanced already. He didn't put out a single reason or a feature that would attract people from postgres to them.
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This is a total bullshit. Czech Republic for instance has a compulsory education for all childern since Maria Terezia made that law way back in 18th century. At that time half of US kids were still educated only as the farm duties allowed. Stop making excuses, start listening in school.
I don't think it depends on how much money you spend on the education, really. It all depends on the curriculum and how socially acceptable it is to fail at math. The main difference I see is that in czech schools its not really socially acceptable to fail any subject. Being good at math does not make you a nerd, it help you avoid being called stupid.
BTW Trust me that all the schools are tested, not just the top rated. I am product of one of the special math school in Czech Republic and what we had in math in high school is more than you get from frist two years of community college here in US. If they took survey in just the elite math schools, it would leave everyone trailing way behind.
Even with Mathematica on my computer, which is btw the first thing we equip new students at math dept. with, it won't help you much, unless you understand what the programm will output. And unless you have some clue as of what to feed it to. Its like with calculator, just on a higher level. Just instead of calculations over sets of numbers you do calculations over sets of functions. Or more. Having a calculator in your brain will only make you multiply really really fast, but it won't help you to understand you need to multiply the rectangle's egde lengths to get its area size. The day any computer will help you with a thought process and comprehension, we should be scared as hell.
I would love if they'd just exclude addresses that are really not gonna bring them any business. Now tell me why would you try to sell viagra to anybody at mff.cuni.cz domain. Its math and physics department for gods sake!
It would get rid of all these mail-bugs that track working email addresses and also DDoS the phishing sites that collect your bank info. I think it should be done and I might do just that if I get a spare hour. I already have script to gather and DNS/ICMP validate the URLs from my spam folder.
I had drawn a line, anyone who sends me something unsolicited should expect me to send him something back, which is very much solicited in my opinion. I wish that spamassassin would parse the mails it identifies as spams (10+) for urls and then try to send several modified GET requests to them every few minutes, for a day. I might even write a perl script to do just that. If everybody installs such add-on we are done with mail-id-bugs and all the phishing sites.
So what is the problem with the cable? Just drill a hole, its just wood. Or better yet, buy one that already has a hole and maybe also rails for sliding the computer in and out. Computers are with us for a while, the furniture manufacturers managed to notice already, take advantage of that :)
There are so many people talking about H1b visa without having a clue that I would almost assume I am reading Slashdot...
This really depends on who you ask. For example if you will go to Slovakia, which is a country that was on a border of expansion of both Genghis Khan's and Ottoman's empires, just west of Ukraine, you will find no bad feelings, memories or accounts of Genghis Khan, while you will find plenty of references to attrocities caused by the Turks.
Thats because historic accounts are very subjective, they differ from place to place, the literacy levels of defeated nations at the time and many other factors. As such they make for extremly bad measure for quality of rulers.
I simply have to stick with the numbers. Things like years of peace, percentual comparisons of gross domestic product, literacy levels, monetary stability and others are much better and we have plenty of evidence to compare those.
Thats extremly bad measure, since the books you read are mostly written by his enemies. I think that Alexander the Great and Caesar wouldn't look half that good if most of the records about them that survived until today wouldn't come from their respective nations.
I measure the success by how much time of peace and prosperity did the ruler secure for citizens living inside the borders of his influence. By this account the old Rome has over 200 years for a continent at peace (Europe), Genghis Khan almost a centry in Asia and I belive Egypt had quite a few centuries over large parts of Africa and Mideterrean areas. I guess we could more or less give US over a century at North America. Which would put them on par with Genghis Khan :))
But I agree with you that if you look at things with "good" and "evil" labels in mind, it just clouds your vision. Lets get back to forementioned Genghis Khan. If he would dwell on problems like is a genocide "evil"? He would have so many enemies all over his borders, that his realm could never enyoj a full century of peace. Come to think of it, he was the last person who managed to keep peace on a whole continent for that long. Its hard to decide, was he "good" or "evil"? ( Or was he damn good at being evil? 0:) ) One thing is for sure, his pragmatic point of view made him a very successful ruler.
Can you do your basic math? No? You are dumb!
Do you know at least one foreign languge? No? You are dumb!
Call it dumb or illiterate, I don't care. The fact is that two centuries ago you didn't have to know as much as you needed to know 2 decades years ago. The standards are raising.
The basic standards of literacy these days definitely start to include the basics of computer operation and at least the minimal know-how of internet.
If you don't know that, I will look at you the same way I look at people who cannot write a letter, cannot count their change back at grocery store or have never learned about anything outside the borders of their county.
Maybe I set my standards for literacy a little bit too high even for today, but trust me that few decades from now they will be even higher.
What really confuses me is which of these people were for Kerry?
I am just saying, I might hate Bush, but if I don't get to like Kerry, that sure as hell won't cut it.
Any less confused now?
Nah, he gets it. He gets several billions of it.
The main problem is that he needs to take in account all the previous data and see how the state numbers vary and how far they swing up and down and take that in account when counting the chance that either candidate will win the election. I think it would reduce the probabilities and make all these numbers more realistic.
Thats how you become a programmer...
ClearCase is the only content management product which can get FULL. You hear right. It can get full. To record any more objects, branches and versions, you have to delete something. As incredible as this seams, thats a fact. They have a finite and quite low number of object ids and you cannot go over limit. Thats what I call fine technology.
And don't get me started on a database wide locks for any insert...
Why use employees, when you can use "external contractor". Much less hassle and much easier to just laundry a bit of cash to pay someone to do the job.
Nah, ... maybe I am too paranoid, this time...
I think that as so many people who predict future, including the science fiction writers, he suffers from the "I wish I live to see that" syndrome in his guestimates of dates when these things will happen. I don't think these supplements will be enough for him to live to see it.
Tell me how long attention span would regular person has to have if someone with ADD can spend 16h/day 7days/week doing one thing for months at a time?
Damn people who throw around abreviations they don't understand and damn moderators who dare to label it interesting.
(Cost of Business) = (Revenue) + (Small Profit)
(Cost of Business) = (Cost of Sales) + (Cost of R&D) + (Cost of Support)
(Revenue) = (Support Contracts) + (New license fees)
(New license) << (Suport Contracts)
(Cost of Support) << (Cost of R&D) << (Cost of Sales)
Now Oracle plans to eliminate the Sales + R&D Cost, which eliminates most of the new license fee revenue.
(Revenue of Support Contracts) - (Cost of Support) = (Huge Profit)
Clear now?
Yeah, something like Tivo. Once you get it working and get used to it, you would feel like losing one hand without it.
Just my 2c
He is totally avoiding both questions about comparison with postgres and why should anyone even care anymore about their database when postgres is more advanced already. He didn't put out a single reason or a feature that would attract people from postgres to them.