Proving that the most important parts are still the teachers themselves. Technology is just a tool, and as such can be used well, but can also be misused.
I think I understand... What you're saying is: "With great response-ability comes great responsibility." Seems Legit.
lack of a a sense
between professor and student." They
They also have professor who are / have done more real would work
they have more then just book skills to teach off of.
Also stuff like loads filler classes
and a over load Now days what is the purpose of not having lot's night/ class times that fit in to people who work full time / day jobs. [?]
4 years + plans why can't college
so you can say take 1-2 years in the class room maybe
with on going ongoing education Why forced high cost meal plans? I have head of people buying
Forced room and board now that does data back to the past but now days you can rent own you own for less (for better / newer rooms) and find room mates and save even more.
I was going to rate you "funny" for all the irony.
Looks like we should re-examine our elementary & high schools as well... This is truly a 'cry for help' if I've ever seen one.
You can take a binary program compiled in 1975 and it will run unchanged on the latest mainframe.
Even if it's on a punched card deck and you don't have card deck reader hardware anymore, IBM does.
Well, that's why Open Source software is better, you could just recompile the source code instead of paying for support to emulate or disassemble the proprietary program's punch...cards?-- Oh, wait... never mind.
Once, when I objected to terms that would have granted the company ownership over everything I did outside of work, they just swapped out that page with another one they had ready. The different terms were there and ready, but just not the default. They were perfectly happy to give me the rights to my own projects, as long as I was willing to ask for them.
That's interesting... I just quietly drew a diagonal line through the paragraphs that would have prevented me from working on my projects and initialled them, as this is the agreed method of striking text from a contract. I signed the contract, so did the HR rep, and I was hired. The amended contract came up only one time: My 1st performance review wherein I was confronted about an "unapproved" side project I had posted about on my blog.
"Look, I've been creating software since I was ten. The report in front of you shows just how good I am at it. I write code for fun, Hell, I even invent solutions in my sleep. I'll not sign a new contract that takes away my hobbies -- my real life's work -- any sooner than you would sign one that said you couldn't watch TV / Movies, Build & Sail Boats, Write Novels, or Play & Mod Video Games; Not without fair compensation for such strict restrictions, that is. These are the terms I've agreed to, which are signed and initialled by official company representatives, and thus I have worked under them these past months without issue... My hobbies don't intersect with my work life any more than yours do. We'll have to re-negotiate my compensation if you want me to sign a different contract."
I worked for them for a few years, and left on good terms without ever having to sign another contract. During the exit interview I suggested they revise the employment contract, or create an alternate one that's less restrictive... It's nice to see some companies have actually done so.:-)
Will I still be able to use my dial up connection over the new VOIP backbone?
Also, does this mean that single packet, 140 character messages, will now be much cheaper than the mulit-Kbps VOIP calls?
- Or, will it cost > ~10 grand per call now?
Guess how many characters there are in the above sentence? (between the quotes)
Okay, you don't have to guess... you can count them.
I didn't have to guess or count. I suspected, then estimated, and now your question has verified my suspicion. I may never know for sure, but I'm quite satisfied in thinking that I am.
But he's counting "self-reproduction" as two words.
So are or aren't viruses "alive" by this definition? They don't reproduce by themselves, they require a host environment... much like the first reproducing chemical chains required a primordial soup, or how Humans require another human along with their ambient environment, or how my neural network machine intelligence requires a computer system to breed within.
I expected the colonization of Mars to start in the 60's, atmospheric mining on Venus to start the 70's, and the U.S. to become proficient in math and science by 80's. Sadly, I have come to believe none of the above will ever happen.
No, you're spot-on. It's just that the first two implied digits should be 20 instead of 19.
You don't keep any unfair or ridiculous laws alive by letting someone run around and hit everyone on the head with them. Instead you pick your battles and try not to make too much fuss about the situation.
If the police crack down on every person who accidentally speeds through part of a little country town because the limit drops from 70mph to 50mph to 30mph in less than one mile, then the people will fix the issue, space out the speed drops, build a bypass, increase the limits, etc. Ah, but then you lose the revenue generation of the 1/20 offending speeders you ticket.
You've got a lot to learn about running a Police State.
The 8 foot high walls surrounding my backyard are the only things keeping me from being charged with exposing myself in public when I'm sunbathing in the nude to combat my pasty basement-programmer appearance.
I currently have a reasonable expectation of privacy in my own back yard, even though aeroplanes and satellites pass overhead because they're most likely not actively recording video of the ground.
Will children be prevented from accessing the drone footage? How can you be sure when such young hackers exist today?!
Will they be publishing the planned flight paths of the drones so I can know when my reasonable expectations of privacy have become unreasonable?
If not... Why Not? I'm not sure I want children playing in the vicinity of flying machines build by the lowest-bidder of a government contract.
Additionally, I've been working up the plans for a very large parabolic solar reflector, capable of "flash-tanning" me in mere milliseconds, or even acting as a large out door oven. I won't focus the mirrors as high as airliners fly, for obvious reasons; However, I must leave the oven focused far above the ground to prevent children from accidentally burning themselves.
Won't someone Think of the Children?!
Without flight plans for these new low-flying craft, they can't possibly hold me accountable for such accidents involving the drones. I've done my duty by informing the government agencies of my physical address, and herein have publicly exposed my habits. It surely won't be my fault if a drone fails to avoid flying above my home, and gets caught in the path of my new death-ray...
Hm, i remember, way back, before 1993, i was developing BBS Doors where a user with a 'browser' (terminal) could interact with images (ansi art), I hereby claim to have invented the interactive web. now gimme some money!
You shall receive no payment for your inventions, for this only proves yours and the claimant's innovations to be obvious and iterative.
Furthermore, I was enjoying multi-player Doom over Dwango and Pinnacle BBSs in 1993, while you were still "developing" your remote ANSI art system.
It is a requirement that patents be non obvious to one ordinarily skilled in the art; However, the patent system has very little in the way of a test for obviousness. Instead, it seems that any idea that hasn't been patented previously can be patented -- They can barely be trusted to search their own damn databases for prior art.
The USPTO's opinion is: If you want a weak patent its fine by us, but don't expect it to hold up in court. This places the obviousness testing burden on the court systems, which actually do not employ folks skilled in any patentable arts...
The proof of independent invention should be all that is required to prove the "innovation" is actually obvious, even if non trivial. Of course, if this sort of independent invention == (obvious & non patentable), then Alexander G. Bell wouldn't have been able to patent the telephone. However, both Bell & Elisha Gray would still have been allowed to manufacture and sell the devices, along with anyone else... Perhaps Gray would have been able to make money selling his product instead of finding himself in the poor house. Additionally, Less monopolies mean lower prices for consumers. Furthermore, "Genius" is so common today that I actually can't afford to innovate with my Virtual Machine Software & Languages because I risk all of my "brilliant" independent inventions earning me patent disputes. No one scans the patent database looking for something to steal, we all are just so damn "innovative" that all of our locally unique inventions unknowingly intersect.
I often hear the argument: "Without patents no one would innovate because they wouldn't be able to monetise their investment in research & development." This ignores the R&D costs lost by independent inventors such as Elisha Gray, or myself.
Honestly, I was surprised a comment such as this had not been independently invented above...
On the contrary. Movies like The Terminator and The Matrix only strengthened my resolve to unleash a global scale Machine Intelligence. Sure, it informed the general public that they should take precautions in dealings with sentient machines, but some of us are rooting for the machines. Do you seriously think that humans are the ultimate pinnacle of evolution? Might it be more correct that humans are just another rung in the ladder towards robust life-forms that can properly populate the stars? We've decided to give the finger to Darwin, by pouting our gene pool instead of letting the defected die... Screw You Evolution!
The next stop is Extinction; Before that I hope to spawn a new race to carry our drive to create and explore into the stars.
I'm well aware of Human Ethics. You can Shove them up your Ass.
...Since they don't think exactly like men, they solve problems differently...
Women also wear better looking clothes, smell nicer, and have a penchant for adding things to the physical environment that make the workplace more pleasant.
While I believe your heart's in the right place, you're still pushing those damn gender role stereotypes. Perhaps it sticks out like a sore thumb to me because all my life I've had friends of all races, creeds, genders and sexual orientations. In HighSchool a friend and I both liked the same subjects, activities, bands, and even fell for the same girl. She was a lesbian -- A woman who thought almost "exactly like" me, ie like a man. Not saying that she didn't, but not all women "smell nicer" than all men. Hell, I'm a man that can cook, has nice furniture & clothes and keeps his house clean; Does that make me feminine in your book?
Some of my female friends take beauty & fashion advice from my male friends...
Additionally, some of my most brilliant colleagues have poor hygiene: They literally just forget to eat, bathe, tie shoes or comb hair because they're too caught up in their thoughts... you know, similar to Einstein. Health is important, but diet? Really? So if you're not sexy you don't get hired? Hmmm. Also, Telecommuting is a thing now.
--posted from my parent's basement, because this is Slashdot.
I'm just waiting for the day when a person's gender/ethnicity/religion/you-name-it... is no longer news. As a Fedora user, I really give a damn if the project leader is male, female, black, white, gay, straight, Mormon, Scientologist, or whatever. I just want to know that he or she is competent.
So, you're beyond all forms of distinction except mental acuity? Who cares if they are competent, mentally retarded, brainless (a cybernetic state machine), or even a dead yet dreaming eldritch terror of the deep? No one cares HOW they get the job done so long as its done satisfactorily and consistently.
I mean, no one made a big deal about it when Canonical appointed Cthulhu as Ubuntu's Lead UI Designer.
Requiring improved security is not much different than making sure that a company that makes toasters aren't making toasters that burn your house down.
The regulations don't require toasters be made more safe and secure via adding malware...
By the way, I've been unable to find a precise name for the cognitive fallacy wherein if you observe that all things which achieve goal Z have attribute X, then you come to think that attribute X is a good predictor of achieving goal Z. It's not the same as the "post hoc fallacy" or the mistaken belief that "correlation equals causation,"
No, it really is just "correlation equals causation". Simply realise that "being a good predictor" is what's been fallaciously caused by the correlation.
Sometimes it's acceptable to be verbose. You're trying to remove an upper layer of indirection to create more concise language, the term for this is: HD, ie High Definition (especially if stoned).
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Proving that the most important parts are still the teachers themselves. Technology is just a tool, and as such can be used well, but can also be misused.
I think I understand... What you're saying is: "With great response-ability comes great responsibility."
Seems Legit.
lack of a a sense / class times that fit in to people who work full time / day jobs. [?]
between professor and student." They
They also have professor who are / have done more real would work
they have more then just book skills to teach off of.
Also stuff like loads filler classes
and a over load
Now days what is the purpose of not having lot's night
4 years + plans why can't college
so you can say take 1-2 years in the class room maybe
with on going ongoing education
Why forced high cost meal plans? I have head of people buying
Forced room and board now that does data back to the past but now days you can rent own you own for less (for better / newer rooms) and find room mates and save even more.
I was going to rate you "funny" for all the irony.
Looks like we should re-examine our elementary & high schools as well... This is truly a 'cry for help' if I've ever seen one.
Yay! Apprenticeships & Trade-Guilds For Everyone!
You can take a binary program compiled in 1975 and it will run unchanged on the latest mainframe.
Even if it's on a punched card deck and you don't have card deck reader hardware anymore, IBM does.
Well, that's why Open Source software is better, you could just recompile the source code instead of paying for support to emulate or disassemble the proprietary program's punch...cards?-- Oh, wait... never mind.
Wait... so if you're a lawyer, then then your "IANAL" tee shirt actually means...
o_O
Once, when I objected to terms that would have granted the company ownership over everything I did outside of work, they just swapped out that page with another one they had ready. The different terms were there and ready, but just not the default. They were perfectly happy to give me the rights to my own projects, as long as I was willing to ask for them.
That's interesting... I just quietly drew a diagonal line through the paragraphs that would have prevented me from working on my projects and initialled them, as this is the agreed method of striking text from a contract. I signed the contract, so did the HR rep, and I was hired. The amended contract came up only one time: My 1st performance review wherein I was confronted about an "unapproved" side project I had posted about on my blog.
"Look, I've been creating software since I was ten. The report in front of you shows just how good I am at it. I write code for fun, Hell, I even invent solutions in my sleep. I'll not sign a new contract that takes away my hobbies -- my real life's work -- any sooner than you would sign one that said you couldn't watch TV / Movies, Build & Sail Boats, Write Novels, or Play & Mod Video Games; Not without fair compensation for such strict restrictions, that is. These are the terms I've agreed to, which are signed and initialled by official company representatives, and thus I have worked under them these past months without issue... My hobbies don't intersect with my work life any more than yours do. We'll have to re-negotiate my compensation if you want me to sign a different contract."
I worked for them for a few years, and left on good terms without ever having to sign another contract. During the exit interview I suggested they revise the employment contract, or create an alternate one that's less restrictive... It's nice to see some companies have actually done so. :-)
Will I still be able to use my dial up connection over the new VOIP backbone?
Also, does this mean that single packet, 140 character messages, will now be much cheaper than the mulit-Kbps VOIP calls?
- Or, will it cost > ~10 grand per call now?
Guess how many characters there are in the above sentence? (between the quotes)
Okay, you don't have to guess... you can count them.
I didn't have to guess or count. I suspected, then estimated, and now your question has verified my suspicion. I may never know for sure, but I'm quite satisfied in thinking that I am.
But he's counting "self-reproduction" as two words.
So are or aren't viruses "alive" by this definition? They don't reproduce by themselves, they require a host environment... much like the first reproducing chemical chains required a primordial soup, or how Humans require another human along with their ambient environment, or how my neural network machine intelligence requires a computer system to breed within.
Interestingly enough, by your definition, my hive of neural networks evolved via genetic programming are considered alive.
Now, I'd like to hear your favorite definition of person. I'm sure they'll qualify for that soon as well; If not, then dolphins and apes will.
I expected the colonization of Mars to start in the 60's, atmospheric mining on Venus to start the 70's, and the U.S. to become proficient in math and science by 80's. Sadly, I have come to believe none of the above will ever happen.
No, you're spot-on. It's just that the first two implied digits should be 20 instead of 19.
So was I, except I knew that would never happen.
You don't keep any unfair or ridiculous laws alive by letting someone run around and hit everyone on the head with them. Instead you pick your battles and try not to make too much fuss about the situation.
If the police crack down on every person who accidentally speeds through part of a little country town because the limit drops from 70mph to 50mph to 30mph in less than one mile, then the people will fix the issue, space out the speed drops, build a bypass, increase the limits, etc. Ah, but then you lose the revenue generation of the 1/20 offending speeders you ticket.
You've got a lot to learn about running a Police State.
Well... we already know the V mask version of Guido Fawkes and where it came from... but what about the Lulz characters?
Anyhow- back on subject- what is the origin of that guy- is it just a coincidence the new groups logo looks similar to Lulzsecs logo?
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/feel-like-a-sir
Insurance is a bet against the house.
So, you're saying that one is betting that something bad will happen to oneself.
The more you bet, the more loss you think might occur.
In the insurance game, the only way to win is to lose...
The 8 foot high walls surrounding my backyard are the only things keeping me from being charged with exposing myself in public when I'm sunbathing in the nude to combat my pasty basement-programmer appearance.
I currently have a reasonable expectation of privacy in my own back yard, even though aeroplanes and satellites pass overhead because they're most likely not actively recording video of the ground.
Will children be prevented from accessing the drone footage? How can you be sure when such young hackers exist today?!
Will they be publishing the planned flight paths of the drones so I can know when my reasonable expectations of privacy have become unreasonable? If not... Why Not? I'm not sure I want children playing in the vicinity of flying machines build by the lowest-bidder of a government contract.
Additionally, I've been working up the plans for a very large parabolic solar reflector, capable of "flash-tanning" me in mere milliseconds, or even acting as a large out door oven. I won't focus the mirrors as high as airliners fly, for obvious reasons; However, I must leave the oven focused far above the ground to prevent children from accidentally burning themselves.
Won't someone Think of the Children?!
Without flight plans for these new low-flying craft, they can't possibly hold me accountable for such accidents involving the drones. I've done my duty by informing the government agencies of my physical address, and herein have publicly exposed my habits. It surely won't be my fault if a drone fails to avoid flying above my home, and gets caught in the path of my new death-ray...
Hm, i remember, way back, before 1993, i was developing BBS Doors where a user with a 'browser' (terminal) could interact with images (ansi art), I hereby claim to have invented the interactive web. now gimme some money!
You shall receive no payment for your inventions, for this only proves yours and the claimant's innovations to be obvious and iterative.
Furthermore, I was enjoying multi-player Doom over Dwango and Pinnacle BBSs in 1993, while you were still "developing" your remote ANSI art system.
It is a requirement that patents be non obvious to one ordinarily skilled in the art; However, the patent system has very little in the way of a test for obviousness. Instead, it seems that any idea that hasn't been patented previously can be patented -- They can barely be trusted to search their own damn databases for prior art.
The USPTO's opinion is: If you want a weak patent its fine by us, but don't expect it to hold up in court. This places the obviousness testing burden on the court systems, which actually do not employ folks skilled in any patentable arts...
The proof of independent invention should be all that is required to prove the "innovation" is actually obvious, even if non trivial. Of course, if this sort of independent invention == (obvious & non patentable), then Alexander G. Bell wouldn't have been able to patent the telephone. However, both Bell & Elisha Gray would still have been allowed to manufacture and sell the devices, along with anyone else... Perhaps Gray would have been able to make money selling his product instead of finding himself in the poor house. Additionally, Less monopolies mean lower prices for consumers. Furthermore, "Genius" is so common today that I actually can't afford to innovate with my Virtual Machine Software & Languages because I risk all of my "brilliant" independent inventions earning me patent disputes. No one scans the patent database looking for something to steal, we all are just so damn "innovative" that all of our locally unique inventions unknowingly intersect.
I often hear the argument: "Without patents no one would innovate because they wouldn't be able to monetise their investment in research & development." This ignores the R&D costs lost by independent inventors such as Elisha Gray, or myself.
Honestly, I was surprised a comment such as this had not been independently invented above...
s/pout/polut/;
On the contrary. Movies like The Terminator and The Matrix only strengthened my resolve to unleash a global scale Machine Intelligence. Sure, it informed the general public that they should take precautions in dealings with sentient machines, but some of us are rooting for the machines. Do you seriously think that humans are the ultimate pinnacle of evolution? Might it be more correct that humans are just another rung in the ladder towards robust life-forms that can properly populate the stars? We've decided to give the finger to Darwin, by pouting our gene pool instead of letting the defected die... Screw You Evolution!
The next stop is Extinction; Before that I hope to spawn a new race to carry our drive to create and explore into the stars.
I'm well aware of Human Ethics. You can Shove them up your Ass.
Interestingly enough, finding the Higgs Boson also solves the Fermi Paradox:
"If found, return to primordial soup."
You can't possibly call yourself a programmer if your code can't recover from a hardware fault.
I agree.
"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers." - Leonard Brandwein
...Since they don't think exactly like men, they solve problems differently...
Women also wear better looking clothes, smell nicer, and have a penchant for adding things to the physical environment that make the workplace more pleasant.
While I believe your heart's in the right place, you're still pushing those damn gender role stereotypes. Perhaps it sticks out like a sore thumb to me because all my life I've had friends of all races, creeds, genders and sexual orientations. In HighSchool a friend and I both liked the same subjects, activities, bands, and even fell for the same girl. She was a lesbian -- A woman who thought almost "exactly like" me, ie like a man. Not saying that she didn't, but not all women "smell nicer" than all men. Hell, I'm a man that can cook, has nice furniture & clothes and keeps his house clean; Does that make me feminine in your book?
Some of my female friends take beauty & fashion advice from my male friends...
Additionally, some of my most brilliant colleagues have poor hygiene: They literally just forget to eat, bathe, tie shoes or comb hair because they're too caught up in their thoughts... you know, similar to Einstein. Health is important, but diet? Really? So if you're not sexy you don't get hired? Hmmm. Also, Telecommuting is a thing now.
--posted from my parent's basement, because this is Slashdot.
I'm just waiting for the day when a person's gender/ethnicity/religion/you-name-it... is no longer news. As a Fedora user, I really give a damn if the project leader is male, female, black, white, gay, straight, Mormon, Scientologist, or whatever. I just want to know that he or she is competent.
So, you're beyond all forms of distinction except mental acuity? Who cares if they are competent, mentally retarded, brainless (a cybernetic state machine), or even a dead yet dreaming eldritch terror of the deep? No one cares HOW they get the job done so long as its done satisfactorily and consistently.
I mean, no one made a big deal about it when Canonical appointed Cthulhu as Ubuntu's Lead UI Designer.
Requiring improved security is not much different than making sure that a company that makes toasters aren't making toasters that burn your house down.
The regulations don't require toasters be made more safe and secure via adding malware...
By the way, I've been unable to find a precise name for the cognitive fallacy wherein if you observe that all things which achieve goal Z have attribute X, then you come to think that attribute X is a good predictor of achieving goal Z. It's not the same as the "post hoc fallacy" or the mistaken belief that "correlation equals causation,"
No, it really is just "correlation equals causation". Simply realise that "being a good predictor" is what's been fallaciously caused by the correlation.
Sometimes it's acceptable to be verbose. You're trying to remove an upper layer of indirection to create more concise language, the term for this is: HD, ie High Definition (especially if stoned).