But I remember watching Penn & Teller's show "Bullshit" on Showtime last year and they lined up a bunch of scientists that showed that the microwaves created by cellphones are too honking big to create damage at cellular level in our heads.
I don't see why they'd lie about something like that...but then again, I'm not certain about how thorough their research was, so do what you will with their theory.
I don't have much trust in the public school system as it is, and I admit that I am biased against them, but this would have been more than enough for me to remove my kids from the school and to seek alternatives.
Now, however, I do know what the principal would say, and what my wife would say: "This is good because no one could take our kids without us knowing who did it and when. Also, this could prevent another Columbine."
I think that both of those reasons are bunk, and I refuse to give creedence to them, but I do know that many parents believe them. It's a sad sad world we're living in.
Many times I'm inclined to believe that if I instill in my children a love of freedom, liberty, and a hackish spirit, they will either rule the Earth, or be burned at the stake as heretics.
They probably didn't even get a chance to man the Maginot Line this time...
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Actually, my company's aptitude test is in-house. After you make it throught the first round of phone interviews and then face-to-face interviews, we ask you to take a test.
It's not that complex: Write some simple stored procedures to extract data from the database. Use that extracted data to display a list of customers from the Northwind sample database. Use that data to transfer to a second page and display some information about the specific client picked on the first page. We had a few people in the office review the test, both junior and senior, and few other people take the test. We all decided it was a fair test of the skills we need, and those who took it came in around 1.25 hours.
We give the applicants 3 hours to finish it and we haven't had a single one make it yet.
The company that I work for now has a multi-interview process that includes skills testing. It's got nothing to do with hazing. We hate it, but we hate getting people in with very little skill in what they list on their resume, and no interpersonal skills.
Before this process we'd bring in people we'd have to let go after a month or two because they couldn't hack it.
People are too skilled at padding their resume and a new way had to be introduced to weed the truly effective from the truly effective liars. We don't enjoy spending hours at a time in non-productive interviews, but it's the only way we feel we can maintain the integrity of the work.
If you feel it's hazing, you need to sit in on some interviews these days and look at the people who are trying to get jobs.
I think that the only reason that Cuba has a higher standard of living, higher life expentancy and higher rates of literacy is dur to the fact that Cuba was receiving so much aid from the former Soviet Union for so long, and is blessed with having some of the best tobacco on Earth, which provides an influx of hard foreign currency.
I believe that the remarkable rate of aid from the USSR was due to the fact that Cuba was so close to the United States. Many other countries under the Soviet sphere of influence were not gifted with such benevelance.
So they now have a longerBut what good is a long life and high literacy rate without freedom? At what cost are those benefits gained? Freedom is more important than two or three extra years gained at the end of one's life.
Right, so your sarcastic rant gave us what exactly? Other than scoring yourself some karma points you did nothing to add to the conversation...actually, you lowered the quality of the discourse. Your defense? "My sig mentioned I might be sarcastic".
Here's my sig: Your sarcasm sucks. Go away until you have something truly insightful or funny to say.
A year ago I was living in Harrisburg, PA's tiny capital, and the only work there was State work. Only the big national companies like Deloitte and Ajilon had the ability to keep people in work, and all of the laid off programmers (including me) were fighting hard for jobs.
So I picked up and moved to Philadelphia, and the market's completely different. The last two companies I've worked for cannot find enough qualified people to fill the positions they have open. The first company spent 3 months looking for candidates without much luck, and we're a month into our search here.
Philadelphia's no great shakes, in my opinion, but the pay is great (even with the higher taxes) and the companies are on the whole good to their employees.
I'm glad I made the move. I think things are picking up, but this time around, management is more cautious about who they hire and how many people they hire. That's a good thing. And the poster who wants to see the "big" perks like fancy chairs and swedish go-go dancers at every desk needs to get a clue. The work you're doing should have its own intrinsic value to you, which is why you do it. You shouldn't be getting the job just because you like the perks.
I don't think that youre assertion about inventors being more important than the person who commercialized is always true.
Oliver Evans got the first US patent on the automobile, but we celebrate Henry Ford for introducing America to cars. Dick and Maurice McDonald sold hamburgers out of their California burger stand, but it's Ray Kroc that had the vision and the drive to take it to the people. Sure, Gates, Ford, and Kroc wouldn't have had anything to promote if they didn't meet the inventors, but sometimes the person who did commercialize the product IS just as important as the one who created it.
"Nah, your real problem is with the movie studios. Basically, they stopped making plots in, what, '86 or so? With the rare exception of a "Memento" here or a "Requiem For A Dream" there, you can limit your watching to only movies made prior to the late '80s without missing a single thing."
You sound like an old man.
"Back in my day, we had real movies without all this talking crap. And color? You kids don't know how good you've got it!"
While I agree that it seems like there's a high helping of crap out there lately ("Baby Geniuses", "Princess Diaries 8" or whatever it is), the 80's made it's own gigantic load of dumb movies.
If you don't watch out, pretty soon you're going to start talking about how the last real band was Tears for Fears, and the Commodore 64 was the last true computing platform.
Word is fine for what it does: Desktop Publishing. I believe that's what Word is supposed to be used for primarily. It's just that the majority are just using it for writing papers and memos, etc.
For actual writing, I use Emacs (turn off your flamethrowers, zealots). It stays out of my way and lets me write, which is what I'm there for.
There's not going to be a decent alternative to Word until someone looks at the normal tasks people are doing with Word, and determines a new way for them to do that work. Clones of Word, near-copies of Word, etc, they all buy into the same paradigm and no one's going to see a compelling reason to switch.
You say you did RTFA, but your recollection seems a bit spotty. The majority of his article did not revolve around advocating *nix over Windows, but instead talking about the qualities that attract good hackers as opposed to those that deter them.
So he discussed the atmosphere and furniture of the office, the attitudes of management, the tools they would use (including the OS), and centrally the programming languages used by great hackers.
He never said that they don't want to deal with practical problems. He said that they don't deal well when not challenged. And let's be honest here, is it a good thing to take someone who's a wizard at development and ask them to maintain code? That seems like a horrible waste of productivity. At many companies though, you see it happen that someone codes something approaching brilliance, and then his managers want to farm him out and have him spend time fixing bugs, maintaining the code, writing documentation. That's not challenging enough.
Graham even made the point that one company he worked at had MIT trained hacker Robert Morris as their network admin. To point to Feynman and imply what Paul Graham's opinion of him would be is a strawman argument. Let's keep the logical fallicies to ourselves, and keep our gloves above the belt.
I think you need to go back and RTF Paul Graham A again before you continue to malign it here.
What a steaming pile of horseshit. What, "I can't help who I vote for, it's my brain's fault"? Did my tax dollars go to pay for that tripe? Can I ask for a refund?
And it's further horseshit because it only focuses on two parties. Does this mean that the Socialist and Communist parties in the USA have very active amygdala? Do the Libertarians not have an amygdala at all?
And since when is fear only a "democratic emotion"? Is it really "I'm a Republican, I don't know fear!" I'm sorry, but is any real science going on anymore?
Just move along folks, there's nothing to see here, just more bunk.
I installed it as Beta on my work machine and haven't had any issues with it affecting my access to critical applications. Anytime something new attempts to access the net a dialog pops up and asks what it should do. This is the same behavior that Zone Alarm does, and that's what I would hope to see.
I can still work, I'm able to use Remote Desktop and VPN into work from home.
Either you want Microsoft to be security minded and patch holes, or you want it to be easier to use and less secure. Pick one, you can't have both.
Seriously, how many times are we going to have to hear someone bitch about Sun asking Taco to change the name of his Space Invader's clone?
They didn't want you to yank the game Taco, they wanted you to change the name. Quit whining like a 3-year-old and get over it. It was how many years ago? It was about branding and their worries about people affiliating your game with their product. Get over yourself.
is to allow all unknown mail to bounce to a default account for my domain, and then everytime I go to a site that requires a registration or an email, I just create a new email address for that registration:
Register for the Washington Post? washingtonpost@mydomain.com, etc.
I feel it serves several benefits for me: 1. I'm not falsifying my registration 2. I'm keeping my inbox free 3. I know who's harvesting and who isn't, and if they are, I can then bounce anything to that email address completely and yell at the company harvesting.
Your sig says "Closed Track", perhaps it should say "Closed Mind" instead.
Here's a link from O'Reilly on how to write an FTP Client in.Net:
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/05/10/ ft pdotnet.htm.Net is probably one of the best things that Microsoft has ever done, all the more so, considering the runtime is free and most clients will have it.
The documentation is profuse, clear, and comprehensive. There are very few things that don't exist that probably should when you go looking for them, but enough people have hunted for the same thing and have already crossed those hurdles for you. This means you get to spend more time focusing on getting the app to solve the real business problems you should be focusing on and less trying to mold it to do the basics of what you need.
Of course, that begs the question of what to do when what you're asked to do contravenes the Constitution, but it's done in the name of protecting America. We have some over-arching privacy concerns, particularly against unreasonable search, and the police, seeking a line of questioning are required to obtain a warrant and identify themselves.
The Posse Comitatus law that is intended to prevent using the military as an internal police force but, we are still allowed to use the National Guard as military forces in a law-enforcement role within our borders. That is, in fact, one of their purposes.
Yes, I think it was heinous of Eisenhower to use the 101 Airborne in such a role, and Janet Reno's actions were monstrous.
And for the record, yes Gorelick sent out the memo requesting less cooperation between foreign-based intel and domestic law enforcement agencies, but it certainly doesn't help that once Bush took office he just cut the budget (recently expanded and growing) of the FBI's counter-terrorism division.
That's funny, because I just read in National Geographic not that long ago that crime is rampant in South African cities, and that many stores have hired private security guards to prevent theft. It even had a picture of surly-looking individual holding a shotgun in front of a store, and explained how the city and their police department haven't been able to keep up.
I'm suspicious of your source, given as it is a site that is dedicated to promoting the use of technology in government, especially digital technologies like cameras.
Go back and find an independent third-party source that backs up your claim!
If you were to read "More Guns, Less Crime" by John Lott Jr. you would see that areas with CCW permits have a lower crime rate, at least as it pertains to person-on-person crimes (murder, rape, assault, muggings, etc).
Cities, where the majority of muggings do occur have, typically the strictist controls on handguns in the United States. This includes DC, Philadelphia, NYC, Detroit, etc.
If you're still not convinced by Lott's impressively documented and detailed statistical analysis, I suggest you pick up some of the work of Massad Ayoob and read the massive pile of anecdotal evidence he's collected. Me, I prefer science and empirical numbers, which is why I like Lott's work.
Are you serious? You would say that in the situation where a criminal has made the decision that it is acceptable to take my personal belongings and at the least threaten me, if not harm or kill me, I don't have the moral right to say "This man is willing to shed blood for this crime, it might as well be his"?
Any person that has bought into the moral code that just taking something from someone by force is an acceptable means of getting something is expendable. That is the moral code of thieves, rapists, and murderers. Are you telling me that they have a greater right to live and act than I do?
Spammers haven't learned how to defeat Bayesian filtering. That's honestly a myth, and that's something that Paul Graham already discussed when he talked about Bayesian filtering. This is of course with the caveat that you're using a good algorithm for your filtering.
Thunderbird's Bayesian filtering is poor. Very poor. It needs a lot of work. Despite the increased presence of words, and even whole paragraphs at the bottom my emails at work, SpamBayes detects and destroys them without fail. I've yet to have a spam end up in my Inbox, and only a handful false positives.
As the spammers try to beat it, the filters will adapt.
When I was in college, two of my fraternity brothers made it a game to try and walk out of stores with ANYTHING. The bigger the better.
So one day they decided that they needed to snag a canoe from Sears. They walked in and waited until no one was looking and grabbed a canoe and headed for the door.
As they got near the door, a clerk stopped them and said "Excuse me, did you pay for that canoe?" "No, we're just walking out the door with it!" they responded sarcastically. The clerk backed off and held the door open for them as they left.
So you have to pay more to get the thing initially. Boo hoo. You can fly at 326mph to your destination and get better gas mileage. So you have save time and cash on your commute, or going wherever. Is it really that hard to see the long-term economic benefits?
At 326mph I could get to work in 9 minutes. That alone is worth the price of admission.
And, btw, intelligence is absolutely no indicator of someone's ability to pilot or steer or drive a machine. I've seen plenty of supposedly smart people (think of some professors you've had) that can't drive a car to save their life. And I don't think any of us are going to nominate Dale Earnhardt Jr for a Nobel Prize, but I don't question his driving skills.
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Kraft Deutschland owns the Milka brand, which is one of the finest varieties of chocolate in Germany.
I believe they purchased the brand after it was well-establishee but that doesn't matter at this point, as Kraft's name is on the letterhead.
But I remember watching Penn & Teller's show "Bullshit" on Showtime last year and they lined up a bunch of scientists that showed that the microwaves created by cellphones are too honking big to create damage at cellular level in our heads.
I don't see why they'd lie about something like that...but then again, I'm not certain about how thorough their research was, so do what you will with their theory.
I don't have much trust in the public school system as it is, and I admit that I am biased against them, but this would have been more than enough for me to remove my kids from the school and to seek alternatives.
Now, however, I do know what the principal would say, and what my wife would say: "This is good because no one could take our kids without us knowing who did it and when. Also, this could prevent another Columbine."
I think that both of those reasons are bunk, and I refuse to give creedence to them, but I do know that many parents believe them. It's a sad sad world we're living in.
Many times I'm inclined to believe that if I instill in my children a love of freedom, liberty, and a hackish spirit, they will either rule the Earth, or be burned at the stake as heretics.
All I could think was "Oh not again."
They probably didn't even get a chance to man the Maginot Line this time...
Actually, my company's aptitude test is in-house. After you make it throught the first round of phone interviews and then face-to-face interviews, we ask you to take a test.
It's not that complex: Write some simple stored procedures to extract data from the database. Use that extracted data to display a list of customers from the Northwind sample database. Use that data to transfer to a second page and display some information about the specific client picked on the first page. We had a few people in the office review the test, both junior and senior, and few other people take the test. We all decided it was a fair test of the skills we need, and those who took it came in around 1.25 hours.
We give the applicants 3 hours to finish it and we haven't had a single one make it yet.
Not a one.
It's been a bit disheartening.
The company that I work for now has a multi-interview process that includes skills testing. It's got nothing to do with hazing. We hate it, but we hate getting people in with very little skill in what they list on their resume, and no interpersonal skills.
Before this process we'd bring in people we'd have to let go after a month or two because they couldn't hack it.
People are too skilled at padding their resume and a new way had to be introduced to weed the truly effective from the truly effective liars. We don't enjoy spending hours at a time in non-productive interviews, but it's the only way we feel we can maintain the integrity of the work.
If you feel it's hazing, you need to sit in on some interviews these days and look at the people who are trying to get jobs.
I think that the only reason that Cuba has a higher standard of living, higher life expentancy and higher rates of literacy is dur to the fact that Cuba was receiving so much aid from the former Soviet Union for so long, and is blessed with having some of the best tobacco on Earth, which provides an influx of hard foreign currency.
I believe that the remarkable rate of aid from the USSR was due to the fact that Cuba was so close to the United States. Many other countries under the Soviet sphere of influence were not gifted with such benevelance.
So they now have a longerBut what good is a long life and high literacy rate without freedom? At what cost are those benefits gained? Freedom is more important than two or three extra years gained at the end of one's life.
Right, so your sarcastic rant gave us what exactly? Other than scoring yourself some karma points you did nothing to add to the conversation...actually, you lowered the quality of the discourse. Your defense? "My sig mentioned I might be sarcastic".
Here's my sig:
Your sarcasm sucks. Go away until you have something truly insightful or funny to say.
A year ago I was living in Harrisburg, PA's tiny capital, and the only work there was State work. Only the big national companies like Deloitte and Ajilon had the ability to keep people in work, and all of the laid off programmers (including me) were fighting hard for jobs.
So I picked up and moved to Philadelphia, and the market's completely different. The last two companies I've worked for cannot find enough qualified people to fill the positions they have open. The first company spent 3 months looking for candidates without much luck, and we're a month into our search here.
Philadelphia's no great shakes, in my opinion, but the pay is great (even with the higher taxes) and the companies are on the whole good to their employees.
I'm glad I made the move. I think things are picking up, but this time around, management is more cautious about who they hire and how many people they hire. That's a good thing. And the poster who wants to see the "big" perks like fancy chairs and swedish go-go dancers at every desk needs to get a clue. The work you're doing should have its own intrinsic value to you, which is why you do it. You shouldn't be getting the job just because you like the perks.
I don't think that youre assertion about inventors being more important than the person who commercialized is always true.
Oliver Evans got the first US patent on the automobile, but we celebrate Henry Ford for introducing America to cars. Dick and Maurice McDonald sold hamburgers out of their California burger stand, but it's Ray Kroc that had the vision and the drive to take it to the people. Sure, Gates, Ford, and Kroc wouldn't have had anything to promote if they didn't meet the inventors, but sometimes the person who did commercialize the product IS just as important as the one who created it.
You sound like an old man.
"Back in my day, we had real movies without all this talking crap. And color? You kids don't know how good you've got it!"
While I agree that it seems like there's a high helping of crap out there lately ("Baby Geniuses", "Princess Diaries 8" or whatever it is), the 80's made it's own gigantic load of dumb movies.
If you don't watch out, pretty soon you're going to start talking about how the last real band was Tears for Fears, and the Commodore 64 was the last true computing platform.
Word is fine for what it does: Desktop Publishing. I believe that's what Word is supposed to be used for primarily. It's just that the majority are just using it for writing papers and memos, etc.
For actual writing, I use Emacs (turn off your flamethrowers, zealots). It stays out of my way and lets me write, which is what I'm there for.
There's not going to be a decent alternative to Word until someone looks at the normal tasks people are doing with Word, and determines a new way for them to do that work. Clones of Word, near-copies of Word, etc, they all buy into the same paradigm and no one's going to see a compelling reason to switch.
You say you did RTFA, but your recollection seems a bit spotty. The majority of his article did not revolve around advocating *nix over Windows, but instead talking about the qualities that attract good hackers as opposed to those that deter them.
So he discussed the atmosphere and furniture of the office, the attitudes of management, the tools they would use (including the OS), and centrally the programming languages used by great hackers.
He never said that they don't want to deal with practical problems. He said that they don't deal well when not challenged. And let's be honest here, is it a good thing to take someone who's a wizard at development and ask them to maintain code? That seems like a horrible waste of productivity. At many companies though, you see it happen that someone codes something approaching brilliance, and then his managers want to farm him out and have him spend time fixing bugs, maintaining the code, writing documentation. That's not challenging enough.
Graham even made the point that one company he worked at had MIT trained hacker Robert Morris as their network admin. To point to Feynman and imply what Paul Graham's opinion of him would be is a strawman argument. Let's keep the logical fallicies to ourselves, and keep our gloves above the belt.
I think you need to go back and RTF Paul Graham A again before you continue to malign it here.
What a steaming pile of horseshit. What, "I can't help who I vote for, it's my brain's fault"? Did my tax dollars go to pay for that tripe? Can I ask for a refund?
And it's further horseshit because it only focuses on two parties. Does this mean that the Socialist and Communist parties in the USA have very active amygdala? Do the Libertarians not have an amygdala at all?
And since when is fear only a "democratic emotion"? Is it really "I'm a Republican, I don't know fear!" I'm sorry, but is any real science going on anymore?
Just move along folks, there's nothing to see here, just more bunk.
Humbug.
I installed it as Beta on my work machine and haven't had any issues with it affecting my access to critical applications. Anytime something new attempts to access the net a dialog pops up and asks what it should do. This is the same behavior that Zone Alarm does, and that's what I would hope to see.
I can still work, I'm able to use Remote Desktop and VPN into work from home.
Either you want Microsoft to be security minded and patch holes, or you want it to be easier to use and less secure. Pick one, you can't have both.
Seriously, how many times are we going to have to hear someone bitch about Sun asking Taco to change the name of his Space Invader's clone? They didn't want you to yank the game Taco, they wanted you to change the name. Quit whining like a 3-year-old and get over it. It was how many years ago? It was about branding and their worries about people affiliating your game with their product. Get over yourself.
is to allow all unknown mail to bounce to a default account for my domain, and then everytime I go to a site that requires a registration or an email, I just create a new email address for that registration:
Register for the Washington Post? washingtonpost@mydomain.com, etc.
I feel it serves several benefits for me:
1. I'm not falsifying my registration
2. I'm keeping my inbox free
3. I know who's harvesting and who isn't, and if they are, I can then bounce anything to that email address completely and yell at the company harvesting.
Your sig says "Closed Track", perhaps it should say "Closed Mind" instead.
.Net:
/ ft pdotnet.htm .Net is probably one of the best things that Microsoft has ever done, all the more so, considering the runtime is free and most clients will have it.
Here's a link from O'Reilly on how to write an FTP Client in
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/05/10
The documentation is profuse, clear, and comprehensive. There are very few things that don't exist that probably should when you go looking for them, but enough people have hunted for the same thing and have already crossed those hurdles for you. This means you get to spend more time focusing on getting the app to solve the real business problems you should be focusing on and less trying to mold it to do the basics of what you need.
Of course, that begs the question of what to do when what you're asked to do contravenes the Constitution, but it's done in the name of protecting America. We have some over-arching privacy concerns, particularly against unreasonable search, and the police, seeking a line of questioning are required to obtain a warrant and identify themselves.
The Posse Comitatus law that is intended to prevent using the military as an internal police force but, we are still allowed to use the National Guard as military forces in a law-enforcement role within our borders. That is, in fact, one of their purposes.
Yes, I think it was heinous of Eisenhower to use the 101 Airborne in such a role, and Janet Reno's actions were monstrous.
And for the record, yes Gorelick sent out the memo requesting less cooperation between foreign-based intel and domestic law enforcement agencies, but it certainly doesn't help that once Bush took office he just cut the budget (recently expanded and growing) of the FBI's counter-terrorism division.
That's funny, because I just read in National Geographic not that long ago that crime is rampant in South African cities, and that many stores have hired private security guards to prevent theft. It even had a picture of surly-looking individual holding a shotgun in front of a store, and explained how the city and their police department haven't been able to keep up.
I'm suspicious of your source, given as it is a site that is dedicated to promoting the use of technology in government, especially digital technologies like cameras.
Go back and find an independent third-party source that backs up your claim!
If you were to read "More Guns, Less Crime" by John Lott Jr. you would see that areas with CCW permits have a lower crime rate, at least as it pertains to person-on-person crimes (murder, rape, assault, muggings, etc).
Cities, where the majority of muggings do occur have, typically the strictist controls on handguns in the United States. This includes DC, Philadelphia, NYC, Detroit, etc.
If you're still not convinced by Lott's impressively documented and detailed statistical analysis, I suggest you pick up some of the work of Massad Ayoob and read the massive pile of anecdotal evidence he's collected. Me, I prefer science and empirical numbers, which is why I like Lott's work.
Are you serious? You would say that in the situation where a criminal has made the decision that it is acceptable to take my personal belongings and at the least threaten me, if not harm or kill me, I don't have the moral right to say "This man is willing to shed blood for this crime, it might as well be his"?
Any person that has bought into the moral code that just taking something from someone by force is an acceptable means of getting something is expendable. That is the moral code of thieves, rapists, and murderers. Are you telling me that they have a greater right to live and act than I do?
Spammers haven't learned how to defeat Bayesian filtering. That's honestly a myth, and that's something that Paul Graham already discussed when he talked about Bayesian filtering. This is of course with the caveat that you're using a good algorithm for your filtering.
Thunderbird's Bayesian filtering is poor. Very poor. It needs a lot of work. Despite the increased presence of words, and even whole paragraphs at the bottom my emails at work, SpamBayes detects and destroys them without fail. I've yet to have a spam end up in my Inbox, and only a handful false positives.
As the spammers try to beat it, the filters will adapt.
When I was in college, two of my fraternity brothers made it a game to try and walk out of stores with ANYTHING. The bigger the better.
So one day they decided that they needed to snag a canoe from Sears. They walked in and waited until no one was looking and grabbed a canoe and headed for the door.
As they got near the door, a clerk stopped them and said "Excuse me, did you pay for that canoe?"
"No, we're just walking out the door with it!" they responded sarcastically. The clerk backed off and held the door open for them as they left.
So you have to pay more to get the thing initially. Boo hoo. You can fly at 326mph to your destination and get better gas mileage. So you have save time and cash on your commute, or going wherever. Is it really that hard to see the long-term economic benefits?
At 326mph I could get to work in 9 minutes. That alone is worth the price of admission.
And, btw, intelligence is absolutely no indicator of someone's ability to pilot or steer or drive a machine. I've seen plenty of supposedly smart people (think of some professors you've had) that can't drive a car to save their life. And I don't think any of us are going to nominate Dale Earnhardt Jr for a Nobel Prize, but I don't question his driving skills.
Stop being so damn elitist.