That's a little unfair to women and minorities, at least a significant portion of whom are more intelligent than some of the white males who manage to clog up the corporate ladder.
However, only half of the students ever complete their PhD programs. Half will drop out. So while the crisis of required positions still exists, its only about half as dire as your explanation predicts.
Taxes are what you complain about when you have a house, enough food, good health insurance, the nicest car, the biggest TV, and a six figure income. It's the only thing you have left to complain about, actually....
I recently had to reformat a complex 100 page technical document in Word 2010 and within 4 hours I had a smooth navigable thing in place with drag and drop section rearrangement, automatic indexing, instantly update-able sub-tables-of-contents for each section, and a lot of other fun toys I managed to create because of field switches. I use OpenOffice at home, but I'm honestly not sure I could have pulled it off in such a manner on Writer that if we decide to add a section in a month, the entire thing can have updated pagination and indices in under a minute.
Giant data warehouses, in addition to all the fans for their individual servers, also have enormous air conditioners trying to keep the ambient temperature from hitting 40C. All the hot air that is blow OUT of servers has to go somewhere, and if that somewhere is an enclosed warehouse, things would get hot pretty quickly if the room was not originally designed as a data center. I recall hearing something about "chicken coop" style data centers which have windows to allow for air flow and breezes outside, but that means a custom built building which isn't always an option in a world that likes to retrofit when possible. This setup would eliminate the need for anything more than a standard office air conditioner to keep the humans from sweating.
The article asserts that smart phones recorded just as well, making the Flip redundant. I go a step further and postulate that smartphones are frankly more convenient. I don't always grab my camcorder when I'm heading out the door just in case I see something awesome and film worthy on my way to work. But I absolutely have to have my cell phone. I do not leave home without it. And hey, if I happen to need to capture a few minutes of video on my phone, I have a 16 gig SSID chip in it AND I can just email the darn thing to myself and have it posted on YouTube or Twitter within ten minutes because of my data plan (something that even a wi-fi connected Flip phone couldn't do most places.)
I see Magic Eyes backwards - the image sinks in instead of popping out. So disappointing. Not that I'll ever be able to see a 3D movie for other reasons - extra loud stereo sound gives me a migraine within an hour. I haven't seen a movie in an actual theater in about six years after I figured why I always left with a pounding headache.
I keep documents I want to access from multiple computers in the cloud. But I see no reason to store 30 gigabytes of music on a pay service when I have a perfectly serviceable 2TB drive and a 30 gig iPod.
No. There is no organization behind Anonymous, there is only/b/ and really bored dudes who really can't stand Tom Cruise, and these days, who watch My Little Pony every Friday.
If you piss off Anonymous, it doesn't matter if you're a religious cult or a megacorporation. They'll break out the Guy Fawkes masks and throw a party either way.
Lack of fine motor control isn't totally limited to the elderly and the disabled. As a healthy thirty year old, I had issues using a mouse with my wrist splint on last month. Something like this would have probably been perfect.
It's used for company expansion in theory. If there is no more business to be had immediately, which is the case in my office, it's used to buy the president of the company a new vacation house in the mountains. That's how it goes at many small businesses. If your current employees can handle your workload, why hire more? As it is, I spend at least half my shift on/.
That relies on third parties to provide evidence, however. A science can go out and run experiments to prove a point instead of sitting around waiting for those archeologists to dig it up. I have to say, as part of my broader education, I took a very difficult Bible class and learned a lot about hermenuetics and other theological debates. My professor, in his wisdom, was fond of saying, "You don't have to believe anything. But you have to KNOW everything." That attitude allowed me to learn without the inherant skeptical prejudices I would have otherwise brought with me. I learned, if not everything, a great deal in that class. I still don't believe anything, however - there is no evidence, only superstition that arose to explain otherwise unexplainable (at the time) natural phenomena.
He's a super genius engineer, and also technically a supervillain. Right now he is building a giant underground lair under Greg Dean's apartment. Other inventions have been time machines, spacecraft, supercomputers, you name it.
Religious scholars argue vehemently over the interpretations of ancient texts (often haggling over ink blots that could change the meaning of words and translations) and then write books or long essays trying to prove their viewpoints. There is no evidence, no data, only opinion. Scientists argue vehemently over the interpretation of data and then do additional testing to prove their viewpoints. Because of the mentalities (and sometimes egos) of scientists, if someone is clearly wrong about their interpretation of the data, there will be a dogpile of experiments and work from other scientists to prove just how wrong they are.
The Wakefield vaccine study is an example of this: He faked data, made a controversial claim from the results of the faked data, and other medical researchers have proven time and time again that he was wrong. His followers, the anti-vaxxers, are relying on faith when they continue to believe in him even after he was proven to be a fraudster and a liar. However, scientists and interested parties who kept up with the research and came down on Wakefield for his lies are NOT relying on faith. They are relying on evidence. And that is why it is science and not a religion.
I can't say I didn't fantasize about throwing a supermagnet into the data center of an ex-employer I was downsized from, but I knew better and the majority of adults I hope would know better too.
Depending on the programs used, they might just add blanket "domain users" to the admin group on their systems. We do it at our smaller sites (that have no native IT staff) because it's either that or answer emails every 15 minutes about why they can't add in Google toolbar.
Don't piss off network admins or sysadmins. Not saying don't fire them if they screw up, but don't fire them without a justified reason either. Without knowing the whole story I can't really pass judgment, but this sort of action smacks of revenge against pointy haired bosses to me.
The Vatican tends to be a fairly conservative in its approach to technology (remember the fight over the confessional iPhone app a little while back?) and there is no doubt going to be much quibbling over hacktivism and other related activities for the next couple of hundred years. Who knows, maybe in 2300 we'll hear the future Pope say, "Oops, we were wrong when we called the iConfessional sacriligious. Also, we've begun the canonization process for a martyred Anonymous member today for his contributions in the war against false religions. Miracles have been reported near the town of New Clearwater, FL, which was rebuilt in 2220 after Hurricane Michael smited it."
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That's a little unfair to women and minorities, at least a significant portion of whom are more intelligent than some of the white males who manage to clog up the corporate ladder.
However, only half of the students ever complete their PhD programs. Half will drop out. So while the crisis of required positions still exists, its only about half as dire as your explanation predicts.
Taxes are what you complain about when you have a house, enough food, good health insurance, the nicest car, the biggest TV, and a six figure income. It's the only thing you have left to complain about, actually....
Or nobody high enough up has asked them to do it yet.
I recently had to reformat a complex 100 page technical document in Word 2010 and within 4 hours I had a smooth navigable thing in place with drag and drop section rearrangement, automatic indexing, instantly update-able sub-tables-of-contents for each section, and a lot of other fun toys I managed to create because of field switches. I use OpenOffice at home, but I'm honestly not sure I could have pulled it off in such a manner on Writer that if we decide to add a section in a month, the entire thing can have updated pagination and indices in under a minute.
Giant data warehouses, in addition to all the fans for their individual servers, also have enormous air conditioners trying to keep the ambient temperature from hitting 40C. All the hot air that is blow OUT of servers has to go somewhere, and if that somewhere is an enclosed warehouse, things would get hot pretty quickly if the room was not originally designed as a data center. I recall hearing something about "chicken coop" style data centers which have windows to allow for air flow and breezes outside, but that means a custom built building which isn't always an option in a world that likes to retrofit when possible. This setup would eliminate the need for anything more than a standard office air conditioner to keep the humans from sweating.
The article asserts that smart phones recorded just as well, making the Flip redundant. I go a step further and postulate that smartphones are frankly more convenient. I don't always grab my camcorder when I'm heading out the door just in case I see something awesome and film worthy on my way to work. But I absolutely have to have my cell phone. I do not leave home without it. And hey, if I happen to need to capture a few minutes of video on my phone, I have a 16 gig SSID chip in it AND I can just email the darn thing to myself and have it posted on YouTube or Twitter within ten minutes because of my data plan (something that even a wi-fi connected Flip phone couldn't do most places.)
I see Magic Eyes backwards - the image sinks in instead of popping out. So disappointing. Not that I'll ever be able to see a 3D movie for other reasons - extra loud stereo sound gives me a migraine within an hour. I haven't seen a movie in an actual theater in about six years after I figured why I always left with a pounding headache.
I keep documents I want to access from multiple computers in the cloud. But I see no reason to store 30 gigabytes of music on a pay service when I have a perfectly serviceable 2TB drive and a 30 gig iPod.
I didn't get hit with the paywall screen... and I'm certainly not logged in. Hmmmm.
Redact everything yourself. Problem solved. Stick it to those government snoops!
No. There is no organization behind Anonymous, there is only /b/ and really bored dudes who really can't stand Tom Cruise, and these days, who watch My Little Pony every Friday.
If you piss off Anonymous, it doesn't matter if you're a religious cult or a megacorporation. They'll break out the Guy Fawkes masks and throw a party either way.
Considering the variety and scope of blogs out there, methinks you don't get out to the rest of the Internet very much.
Lack of fine motor control isn't totally limited to the elderly and the disabled. As a healthy thirty year old, I had issues using a mouse with my wrist splint on last month. Something like this would have probably been perfect.
It's used for company expansion in theory. If there is no more business to be had immediately, which is the case in my office, it's used to buy the president of the company a new vacation house in the mountains. That's how it goes at many small businesses. If your current employees can handle your workload, why hire more? As it is, I spend at least half my shift on /.
Data that goes in will never come back out again! Except the lucky 128MB that escapes the data event horizon.
That relies on third parties to provide evidence, however. A science can go out and run experiments to prove a point instead of sitting around waiting for those archeologists to dig it up. I have to say, as part of my broader education, I took a very difficult Bible class and learned a lot about hermenuetics and other theological debates. My professor, in his wisdom, was fond of saying, "You don't have to believe anything. But you have to KNOW everything." That attitude allowed me to learn without the inherant skeptical prejudices I would have otherwise brought with me. I learned, if not everything, a great deal in that class. I still don't believe anything, however - there is no evidence, only superstition that arose to explain otherwise unexplainable (at the time) natural phenomena.
He's a super genius engineer, and also technically a supervillain. Right now he is building a giant underground lair under Greg Dean's apartment. Other inventions have been time machines, spacecraft, supercomputers, you name it.
Religious scholars argue vehemently over the interpretations of ancient texts (often haggling over ink blots that could change the meaning of words and translations) and then write books or long essays trying to prove their viewpoints. There is no evidence, no data, only opinion. Scientists argue vehemently over the interpretation of data and then do additional testing to prove their viewpoints. Because of the mentalities (and sometimes egos) of scientists, if someone is clearly wrong about their interpretation of the data, there will be a dogpile of experiments and work from other scientists to prove just how wrong they are.
The Wakefield vaccine study is an example of this: He faked data, made a controversial claim from the results of the faked data, and other medical researchers have proven time and time again that he was wrong. His followers, the anti-vaxxers, are relying on faith when they continue to believe in him even after he was proven to be a fraudster and a liar. However, scientists and interested parties who kept up with the research and came down on Wakefield for his lies are NOT relying on faith. They are relying on evidence. And that is why it is science and not a religion.
I can't say I didn't fantasize about throwing a supermagnet into the data center of an ex-employer I was downsized from, but I knew better and the majority of adults I hope would know better too.
Depending on the programs used, they might just add blanket "domain users" to the admin group on their systems. We do it at our smaller sites (that have no native IT staff) because it's either that or answer emails every 15 minutes about why they can't add in Google toolbar.
Don't piss off network admins or sysadmins. Not saying don't fire them if they screw up, but don't fire them without a justified reason either. Without knowing the whole story I can't really pass judgment, but this sort of action smacks of revenge against pointy haired bosses to me.
Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right - or legal.
The Vatican tends to be a fairly conservative in its approach to technology (remember the fight over the confessional iPhone app a little while back?) and there is no doubt going to be much quibbling over hacktivism and other related activities for the next couple of hundred years. Who knows, maybe in 2300 we'll hear the future Pope say, "Oops, we were wrong when we called the iConfessional sacriligious. Also, we've begun the canonization process for a martyred Anonymous member today for his contributions in the war against false religions. Miracles have been reported near the town of New Clearwater, FL, which was rebuilt in 2220 after Hurricane Michael smited it."