The idea is that as they speed it up, it doesnt have time to "relax" from its curvature from conforming to the drum. They should try it with larger diameter drums.
So called "visco-elastic" materials (e.g. polymers) are extremely interesting. Basically, you can clearly see the (mechanical) molecular properties manifesting themselves at the mechanically at the macroscopic scale. If I am write about this one, that would be mainly due to the viscosity.
This article isn't really worth much without explaining where that "light implies death" business is coming from.
Back when ~~I~~ was a marine biologist, the not terribly closely related invertebrate barnacles I studied exhibited a (first observed by Darwin) "shadow response", in which casting a shadow over the barnacle (signfies a predator), caused it to retract. That seems much more plausible to me than this business. Sounds like this guy might've been smoking his sheep skin!
Only a 4????? That is a damn nice synopsis. Only part you left out is the hard core Orwellian environments intent on making IT Professionals out of Software Engineers JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN.
Ireland is not strictly speaking a Catholic country. Ireland (to its credit) is essentially a pagan country, that was co-opted by the Catholics. The instability and fanaticism surrounding Irish Catholicism is a direct result of Catholicism's essential incompatibility with Ireland (again to Ireland's credit).
Simple and gentle aren't bad, but are certainly prone to being taken advantage of.
Or better still, have a good long think about what you're doing wrong. Over the course of my life, I've come across any number of people who have a tendency towards sequential fallings-out with one person after another, who project the "fault" as being the other's.
For the vast majority of the natural world, Ockam's razor does hold: "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one."
For man's world, this (essentially corolaric) one (Heraclitus) frequently does: "Latent structure is master of obvious structure."
Of course this will get modded down, but 5 will get you 10 these "researchers" don't know doodly squat. Huge portions of human behavior (ie. that which is evolutionarily adaptive) are hard-wired, but 99+% of psychopathologies are "nurture" (ie. experiential) as opposed to "nature" (ie. hard-wired).
There were strivings made for this understanding in the past (eg. Freud/psychoanalysis), and one day they will return again, but for now people will just continue to eat all of the garbage that pharmaceutics industry continue to feed them.
Note: Chronic insomnia is an interesting example of what appears to be a psychopathology (according to the true, not traditional, definition of that term), but which is actually evolutionarily adaptive. Chronic insomnia is actually the selective retention of sleep neurotransmitters, similar to the form of clinical depression which is effectively treated by SSRIs. (Note: there are some good meds out there.) Interestingly, it is evolutionarily adaptive because (counterintuitively) over time it weakens the ~~individual's~~ resolve, turning him towards the comforts of hearth and home. That is, makes him a more willing breeder. Interestingly, too, this (insomnia) can be effectively "treated" with elavil.
Again, there are some excellent drugs out there, but sadly they are the exception, not the rule. Fortunately, though, the rule is the amazing elasticity and regenerative powers of the psyche when it is medicated with understanding. Understanding filters the world's garbage.
Ideally you should go to a place where they are really teaching programming. In my experience, first rung higher ed. (ie. 4(+) year programs) is more of a mill, where they need to keep their students base. Thus, they will lower their standards some. I was fortunate to attend junior college courses in an urban center, largely taught part time by professional developers. No one was there for the paper. Everyone was there to hone their skills, and the labs were demanding. I think you could do a lot of this stuff on your own, too, though that requires considerable legwork (and ideally someone to advise you) in addition to the programming. If you can take a couple of years off to go to school, great. Otherwise, continue to toil (helps develop character!) and take one class part time. A home webserver install is a must (windows: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html), and ideally a (Fedora or debian) linux install. Btw, I came to this field from science and have no CS degree. DIG IT AND HAVE FUN!!!!!!:D
Well, heck, there's some useful info to explain why that annoying site always comes up first on google searches, and also why the google groups has "fallen into disrepair". Google is in bed with them and trying to drive traffic that way. Great to learn where they got the answers from, too, ie. they stole them.
"Don't buy books by crooks!"
I'd go for stretching their minds a bit. Use a simple diagram (boxes connected by wires - either they've got a projector for a PC an overhead/transparency projector) to try to explain how a client/server request works, such as for loading a web page. Explain the concept of program (list of instructions for a machine). Say one runs on the client (on demand) to send a request, which is handled by a server one (continuous listener) to fulfill the request, which response is displayed by the client (waiting since send). You might briefly touch on packet (TCP/IP) transmission. You will probably lose some, but, who knows, you might plant some seeds! 4th grade isn't hopelessly clueless.
I think Behrouz Forouzan's books networking are a fine place to start, first with Data Communications and Networking followed by TCP/IP Protocol Suite. DCN has the basic physics and developmental evolution (incl. hardware) for telephony and networking. TPS breaks down the Internet pretty well. It is a lot of info, but all of it ultimately simplified and accessible.
A time or two I have hallucinated spiders while on the very brink of sleep. Now, I've got brown recluse under my bed, so maybe I wasn't so far off!
One thing's for sure, you never want to commit yourself. Don't surrender your own control to another human. There is nothing worse. I don't care what color coat he/she wears. You're afraid you might do yourself or someone else harm? Go find who/what made you unhappy, and destroy it!
For one thing, Americans generally don't want to work that hard. They just want the money, like you say the doctors or lawyers. Also, I think the foreigners frequently cheat on their GREs. They get over here and it seems like every one you meet is the top.0001 (of course, some of those are lying). But then again, I imagine the state in one country who shall remain nameless startegizes to share out the answers to the tests and so-forth. Seems counter-intuitive that they would want to help the brain drain, unless maybe 1/1000 are spies!
Though I cannot detract from some valid and very compelling things he said, ultimately I think he is a very interesting study in the modern academic culture. For one thing, he's got folks on one side saying he's brilliant, and on the other hand he said he blew his GREs. I have noticed that it isn't always the deserving who win in that game. The culture is self-serving, and likes to retain the ones who basically make them feel good. Honestly, I have to include the drive to increase women and minorities in IT in that camp as well.
I appreciate hearing from the other side on this one. He has a definite animal magnetism, though the conflagratory ego is undeniable. Also, that brick wall metaphor he likes so much is interesting. (Kind of like./'s moderation system!) Reminds me of Charles Bukowski's point about a culture who believes in hiding Easter eggs so you have to search for them. There is always more to the picture than meets the eye. Thanks... (& Cmdr Taco)
So I, for one, would like to know how much time Berners-Lee has been spending recently cranking out code in the trenches. I am currently working at my first major non-American company, and it is disproportionately male there, but I'll say the women there actually work for a change. The company is driven and innovative, not just looking for more ways to dredge up easy money.
I encountered one gal in school who really seemed to have the temperament for hueing out code. I know there must have been others. Perhaps I just didn't notice them. One prevalent thing I seem to notice about female culture is the desire to be entertained. It seems like more women from past generation had the will to dig in and do something, but I'm not seeing it so much anymore. I notice a movement to try to re-structure work as entertainment, though I am skeptical of it ever really gaining traction. I'm glad to be somewhere where work is still valued. It's nice not to feel guilty for threatening the status quo.
I take it you are talking about a bachelor's (4 yr.) program. Take the CS track for your own edification even if you are not interested in a hardware(design)/physical line of work. That is, even if you are mainly interested in software engineering, system admin, etc. The sense of accomplishment for endeavoring to get somewhat "to the bottom" of a structurally complex and rich subject will bolster you later in life. I think more folks should look at college for challenging and enriching their minds, rather than it leading to strictly monetary rewards. However, keep in mind why you are doing it, and note that for your investment, you will be compensated less materially.
Another hard discipline could also be taken, and IT studied on the side or (what I did) later, though the CS degree CAN help you in some IT fields (often not the better of them, IMO), and there is still plenty of rigor and science to marvel at there. Whatever you do, you will still have to run the business gauntlet at the end of it, at which point nothing could serve you better than the resultant internal source of pride and accomplishment.
The higher American educational system has not been in the business of producing and nurturing capable scientists at least since I have been involved with it during the 80's and 90's. They have been interested in serving the pragmatic if not rational purpose of providing (i.e. primarily via psychic cannibalization) corporate drones to meet the perceived need. Though it didn't seem to be the emphasis, I did glean some profound information along the way. Personally, however, I was never able to find anything but systematic hostility and antagonism within several "top rung" educational/research programs, with the striking exception being the CS I studied at junior colleges under primarily part time professional developers, and those notable exceptions to the professional educator rule.
To give that system (i.e. its consistency) its due, however, I never discovered anything different working for American "corporations" (certainly includes universities), with the exception of some temporary hiatuses (though not always) in the research sector. It did seem like things might've begun to improve over the last few years, as I moved decisively into middle age, though my best recent experiences have been working for an Indian casino as a laborer (nothing wrong with that!) and currently for a foreign advanced software/support company. While that latter does follow some of the same corporate personnel formulas, they still seem to value talent and innovation, and have satisfied a/the cardinal need by providing interesting and challenging work. ("All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy. Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify. Can you help me occupy my brain?" Black Sabbath, Paranoid) (How about this one: "I will starve (intellecutally) for food.")
So, to summarize, the 1984esque experience in the US troubled me for a long time, such that I would've jumped at the chance to leave, but lacked the wherewithall. Fortunately, something finally came my way. Thus, to summarize, I would place the problem squarely in the laps (first wrote "labs";) of our educators (bastards!:), though, to be fair, predominant parenting strategies really seem to have set the stage for it. And it is hard to either contemplate or explain that. Perhaps (re. the latter) it is because we are awash in a sea of indigenous blood. Make ammends, I say, MAKE AMMENDS!
"I would gladly take a small pay cut to live and work in a nicer area with a lower cost of living, and be able to lead a better life. After this job, I'm out of the Valley, and not looking to return. There's too much BS in the Valley, and California as a whole."
I fled that area five years ago, with no work prospects, to an area where my open source orientation web orientation was decidedly in the minority. Even though I had to work outside of my field at subsistence level for several years, it was the best thing I ever did. Though I miss the CA countryside dearly, the CAns could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, as far as I'm concerned.
That jackass talking about failing an IQ test, that's nothing but egomaniacal money-grubbing chutzpah. Anyone who falls for that line deserves to have their IT brainchild raped up the ass.
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Yeah, to the AMA a lingering death is money in their pockets.
The idea is that as they speed it up, it doesnt have time to "relax" from its curvature from conforming to the drum. They should try it with larger diameter drums.
So called "visco-elastic" materials (e.g. polymers) are extremely interesting. Basically, you can clearly see the (mechanical) molecular properties manifesting themselves at the mechanically at the macroscopic scale. If I am write about this one, that would be mainly due to the viscosity.
This article isn't really worth much without explaining where that "light implies death" business is coming from.
Back when ~~I~~ was a marine biologist, the not terribly closely related invertebrate barnacles I studied exhibited a (first observed by Darwin) "shadow response", in which casting a shadow over the barnacle (signfies a predator), caused it to retract. That seems much more plausible to me than this business. Sounds like this guy might've been smoking his sheep skin!
Only a 4????? That is a damn nice synopsis. Only part you left out is the hard core Orwellian environments intent on making IT Professionals out of Software Engineers JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN.
Ireland is not strictly speaking a Catholic country. Ireland (to its credit) is essentially a pagan country, that was co-opted by the Catholics. The instability and fanaticism surrounding Irish Catholicism is a direct result of Catholicism's essential incompatibility with Ireland (again to Ireland's credit).
Simple and gentle aren't bad, but are certainly prone to being taken advantage of.
Or better still, have a good long think about what you're doing wrong. Over the course of my life, I've come across any number of people who have a tendency towards sequential fallings-out with one person after another, who project the "fault" as being the other's.
For the vast majority of the natural world, Ockam's razor does hold: "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one."
For man's world, this (essentially corolaric) one (Heraclitus) frequently does: "Latent structure is master of obvious structure."
Think about it.
Of course this will get modded down, but 5 will get you 10 these "researchers" don't know doodly squat. Huge portions of human behavior (ie. that which is evolutionarily adaptive) are hard-wired, but 99+% of psychopathologies are "nurture" (ie. experiential) as opposed to "nature" (ie. hard-wired).
There were strivings made for this understanding in the past (eg. Freud/psychoanalysis), and one day they will return again, but for now people will just continue to eat all of the garbage that pharmaceutics industry continue to feed them.
Note: Chronic insomnia is an interesting example of what appears to be a psychopathology (according to the true, not traditional, definition of that term), but which is actually evolutionarily adaptive. Chronic insomnia is actually the selective retention of sleep neurotransmitters, similar to the form of clinical depression which is effectively treated by SSRIs. (Note: there are some good meds out there.) Interestingly, it is evolutionarily adaptive because (counterintuitively) over time it weakens the ~~individual's~~ resolve, turning him towards the comforts of hearth and home. That is, makes him a more willing breeder. Interestingly, too, this (insomnia) can be effectively "treated" with elavil.
Again, there are some excellent drugs out there, but sadly they are the exception, not the rule. Fortunately, though, the rule is the amazing elasticity and regenerative powers of the psyche when it is medicated with understanding. Understanding filters the world's garbage.
Ideally you should go to a place where they are really teaching programming. In my experience, first rung higher ed. (ie. 4(+) year programs) is more of a mill, where they need to keep their students base. Thus, they will lower their standards some. I was fortunate to attend junior college courses in an urban center, largely taught part time by professional developers. No one was there for the paper. Everyone was there to hone their skills, and the labs were demanding. I think you could do a lot of this stuff on your own, too, though that requires considerable legwork (and ideally someone to advise you) in addition to the programming. If you can take a couple of years off to go to school, great. Otherwise, continue to toil (helps develop character!) and take one class part time. A home webserver install is a must (windows: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html), and ideally a (Fedora or debian) linux install. Btw, I came to this field from science and have no CS degree. DIG IT AND HAVE FUN!!!!!! :D
"When Teachers are 'Goon-ads'"
Well, heck, there's some useful info to explain why that annoying site always comes up first on google searches, and also why the google groups has "fallen into disrepair". Google is in bed with them and trying to drive traffic that way. Great to learn where they got the answers from, too, ie. they stole them. "Don't buy books by crooks!"
I'd go for stretching their minds a bit. Use a simple diagram (boxes connected by wires - either they've got a projector for a PC an overhead/transparency projector) to try to explain how a client/server request works, such as for loading a web page. Explain the concept of program (list of instructions for a machine). Say one runs on the client (on demand) to send a request, which is handled by a server one (continuous listener) to fulfill the request, which response is displayed by the client (waiting since send). You might briefly touch on packet (TCP/IP) transmission. You will probably lose some, but, who knows, you might plant some seeds! 4th grade isn't hopelessly clueless.
I think Behrouz Forouzan's books networking are a fine place to start, first with Data Communications and Networking followed by TCP/IP Protocol Suite. DCN has the basic physics and developmental evolution (incl. hardware) for telephony and networking. TPS breaks down the Internet pretty well. It is a lot of info, but all of it ultimately simplified and accessible.
Though they were the logical starting point, I am grateful to be mainly past my reliance on books. However, based on how good his videos (e.g. http://javascript.crockford.com/, http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/24/video-crockford-tjpl/) are, I would consider checking this one out.
A time or two I have hallucinated spiders while on the very brink of sleep. Now, I've got brown recluse under my bed, so maybe I wasn't so far off!
One thing's for sure, you never want to commit yourself. Don't surrender your own control to another human. There is nothing worse. I don't care what color coat he/she wears. You're afraid you might do yourself or someone else harm? Go find who/what made you unhappy, and destroy it!
For one thing, Americans generally don't want to work that hard. They just want the money, like you say the doctors or lawyers. Also, I think the foreigners frequently cheat on their GREs. They get over here and it seems like every one you meet is the top .0001 (of course, some of those are lying). But then again, I imagine the state in one country who shall remain nameless startegizes to share out the answers to the tests and so-forth. Seems counter-intuitive that they would want to help the brain drain, unless maybe 1/1000 are spies!
Though I cannot detract from some valid and very compelling things he said, ultimately I think he is a very interesting study in the modern academic culture. For one thing, he's got folks on one side saying he's brilliant, and on the other hand he said he blew his GREs. I have noticed that it isn't always the deserving who win in that game. The culture is self-serving, and likes to retain the ones who basically make them feel good. Honestly, I have to include the drive to increase women and minorities in IT in that camp as well.
I appreciate hearing from the other side on this one. He has a definite animal magnetism, though the conflagratory ego is undeniable. Also, that brick wall metaphor he likes so much is interesting. (Kind of like ./'s moderation system!) Reminds me of Charles Bukowski's point about a culture who believes in hiding Easter eggs so you have to search for them. There is always more to the picture than meets the eye. Thanks... (& Cmdr Taco)
So I, for one, would like to know how much time Berners-Lee has been spending recently cranking out code in the trenches. I am currently working at my first major non-American company, and it is disproportionately male there, but I'll say the women there actually work for a change. The company is driven and innovative, not just looking for more ways to dredge up easy money.
I encountered one gal in school who really seemed to have the temperament for hueing out code. I know there must have been others. Perhaps I just didn't notice them. One prevalent thing I seem to notice about female culture is the desire to be entertained. It seems like more women from past generation had the will to dig in and do something, but I'm not seeing it so much anymore. I notice a movement to try to re-structure work as entertainment, though I am skeptical of it ever really gaining traction. I'm glad to be somewhere where work is still valued. It's nice not to feel guilty for threatening the status quo.
I take it you are talking about a bachelor's (4 yr.) program. Take the CS track for your own edification even if you are not interested in a hardware(design)/physical line of work. That is, even if you are mainly interested in software engineering, system admin, etc. The sense of accomplishment for endeavoring to get somewhat "to the bottom" of a structurally complex and rich subject will bolster you later in life. I think more folks should look at college for challenging and enriching their minds, rather than it leading to strictly monetary rewards. However, keep in mind why you are doing it, and note that for your investment, you will be compensated less materially.
Another hard discipline could also be taken, and IT studied on the side or (what I did) later, though the CS degree CAN help you in some IT fields (often not the better of them, IMO), and there is still plenty of rigor and science to marvel at there. Whatever you do, you will still have to run the business gauntlet at the end of it, at which point nothing could serve you better than the resultant internal source of pride and accomplishment.
The higher American educational system has not been in the business of producing and nurturing capable scientists at least since I have been involved with it during the 80's and 90's. They have been interested in serving the pragmatic if not rational purpose of providing (i.e. primarily via psychic cannibalization) corporate drones to meet the perceived need. Though it didn't seem to be the emphasis, I did glean some profound information along the way. Personally, however, I was never able to find anything but systematic hostility and antagonism within several "top rung" educational/research programs, with the striking exception being the CS I studied at junior colleges under primarily part time professional developers, and those notable exceptions to the professional educator rule. To give that system (i.e. its consistency) its due, however, I never discovered anything different working for American "corporations" (certainly includes universities), with the exception of some temporary hiatuses (though not always) in the research sector. It did seem like things might've begun to improve over the last few years, as I moved decisively into middle age, though my best recent experiences have been working for an Indian casino as a laborer (nothing wrong with that!) and currently for a foreign advanced software/support company. While that latter does follow some of the same corporate personnel formulas, they still seem to value talent and innovation, and have satisfied a/the cardinal need by providing interesting and challenging work. ("All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy. Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify. Can you help me occupy my brain?" Black Sabbath, Paranoid) (How about this one: "I will starve (intellecutally) for food.") So, to summarize, the 1984esque experience in the US troubled me for a long time, such that I would've jumped at the chance to leave, but lacked the wherewithall. Fortunately, something finally came my way. Thus, to summarize, I would place the problem squarely in the laps (first wrote "labs" ;) of our educators (bastards! :), though, to be fair, predominant parenting strategies really seem to have set the stage for it. And it is hard to either contemplate or explain that. Perhaps (re. the latter) it is because we are awash in a sea of indigenous blood. Make ammends, I say, MAKE AMMENDS!
"I would gladly take a small pay cut to live and work in a nicer area with a lower cost of living, and be able to lead a better life. After this job, I'm out of the Valley, and not looking to return. There's too much BS in the Valley, and California as a whole." I fled that area five years ago, with no work prospects, to an area where my open source orientation web orientation was decidedly in the minority. Even though I had to work outside of my field at subsistence level for several years, it was the best thing I ever did. Though I miss the CA countryside dearly, the CAns could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, as far as I'm concerned. That jackass talking about failing an IQ test, that's nothing but egomaniacal money-grubbing chutzpah. Anyone who falls for that line deserves to have their IT brainchild raped up the ass.