In order for a physics model to be accepted it must predict something different from the standard model. If this difference is experimentally verified then the new model is adapter. That doesn't seem to be the way religion works.
My unversity signed a 10-year, $5 million contract with coke, they have a monopoly on all sodas sold on campus. Most of the money is going to athletic scholarship. Yet another reason our administration sucks.
Speaking of "senior java programmers", what I thought was a riot was 2 years ago, when I was applying for jobs, I noticed one that said "5+ years of Java experience required". Now Java did not come out until '94 or '95, and so the _only_ way you could have that much experience with Java was if you were working on the original Sun Java development team. I'll bet the company did that so that no one would meet the requirements and they could either hire their friend, saying "no one was qualified anyways", or so they could bitch and moan about shortage of workers to get those H1 quotas raised again.
I had done 10,000 lines of code as a hobby. I wasn't about to write more for the sole pourpose of impressing companies that didn't give a shit. They never even asked to look at my projects I put on my resume. I have incredibly low opionions of people hiring in the computer field as a result. All these jobs are rigged, they already know who they're going to hire, they just like jerking your chain. I think that should be a felony.
Well I guess another thing going against me getting a job was the catch-22 of lack of prev. job experience. This summer I'm writing java applets demostrating basic quantum for my physics dept., maybe this would look good on a resume, I don't know (I got the job because I'm a physics major, not because I can program).
And you proved my point, they obvious weren't looking for the person with the most skills. When applying for a job, the most important thing is, does the person hiring already know and like you?
Tell their sorry asses spread out around the country then. Like Ithaca, NY. I was applying for a full-time programming job, when they asked me what sort of salary I wanted I said $15k. End of that interview. $15k is high pay for Ithaca.
Ok, in HS I wrote my own BBS software, a simple stand alone OS, and some other stuff. I knew C, Assembly, Basic, and Pascal. I had good AP scores, most relevant being my 5s on AP CS AB and Calc BC exams. So I think I am justified in calling myself a skilled programmer. There are lots of people with a BS in CS who have done much less programming that I had as of then. After HS I applied to over 30 computer jobs, some paying only minimum wage and didn't get hired. This was summer 1998, not during any "recession".
You don't get it. The companies know that they can pay foreign workers less so they claim there's a shortage when there's not. If there really is a shortage, they need to start hiring in places like Ithaca, NY.
There are plenty of American citizens skilled in programming looking for jobs. The software companies would like you to believe that there is a shortage of workers. Yeah right.
It makes a lot of sense to have a practice AP about a week before the actual AP that is an old AP exam. You also have to have had a rigourous course with a good teacher the whole year. I'd hate to be advocating Pascal over C, but perhaps AP CS was better with Pascal, those header files sound pretty stupid.
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron.:)
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron.:)
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron.:)
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron.:)
They actually changed to C++ in 1999. They were _supposed_ to change in 1998 (as of 1996). You really don't need new computers to learn how to program.
Ok, maybe I'm not speaking for most people, but I knew Pascal, C, and assembly, and had written some large multi-thousand-lines-of-code projects before I took AP CS in 10th grade. The largest program I wrote as a hobby was a complete BBS (remember those, before the internet killed them all) software that could do everything all the other BBS softwares could. It's pretty sad that many CS graduates still don't know how to program. For the record, I'm majoring in math and physics.
>> Think about the virtues of crypto, and how you can make your students enjoy it. Make it a point to teach the real stuff, not something watered-down. Emphasize that this is "military-grade" stuff [*], and that nobody--not the NSA, not the CIA, not anyone--can break these ciphers [**].
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I take the view that if there is no evidence of existence or reason for soemthing to exist the odds of it existing are neglible.
In order for a physics model to be accepted it must predict something different from the standard model. If this difference is experimentally verified then the new model is adapter. That doesn't seem to be the way religion works.
My unversity signed a 10-year, $5 million contract with coke, they have a monopoly on all sodas sold on campus. Most of the money is going to athletic scholarship. Yet another reason our administration sucks.
On one of my interviews I was better dressed than anyone working at the company. Oh yeah, I wasn't really dressed that well.
And the number #1 question is: Where's the good job?
Speaking of "senior java programmers", what I thought was a riot was 2 years ago, when I was applying for jobs, I noticed one that said "5+ years of Java experience required". Now Java did not come out until '94 or '95, and so the _only_ way you could have that much experience with Java was if you were working on the original Sun Java development team. I'll bet the company did that so that no one would meet the requirements and they could either hire their friend, saying "no one was qualified anyways", or so they could bitch and moan about shortage of workers to get those H1 quotas raised again.
I had done 10,000 lines of code as a hobby. I wasn't about to write more for the sole pourpose of impressing companies that didn't give a shit. They never even asked to look at my projects I put on my resume. I have incredibly low opionions of people hiring in the computer field as a result. All these jobs are rigged, they already know who they're going to hire, they just like jerking your chain. I think that should be a felony.
Well I guess another thing going against me getting a job was the catch-22 of lack of prev. job experience. This summer I'm writing java applets demostrating basic quantum for my physics dept., maybe this would look good on a resume, I don't know (I got the job because I'm a physics major, not because I can program).
And you proved my point, they obvious weren't looking for the person with the most skills. When applying for a job, the most important thing is, does the person hiring already know and like you?
And check out Table 2.
There's more important stuff in there too...
Tell their sorry asses spread out around the country then. Like Ithaca, NY. I was applying for a full-time programming job, when they asked me what sort of salary I wanted I said $15k. End of that interview. $15k is high pay for Ithaca.
Oh yeah, one more thing. I don't think you read the link already. :)
Ok, in HS I wrote my own BBS software, a simple stand alone OS, and some other stuff. I knew C, Assembly, Basic, and Pascal. I had good AP scores, most relevant being my 5s on AP CS AB and Calc BC exams. So I think I am justified in calling myself a skilled programmer. There are lots of people with a BS in CS who have done much less programming that I had as of then. After HS I applied to over 30 computer jobs, some paying only minimum wage and didn't get hired. This was summer 1998, not during any "recession".
You don't get it. The companies know that they can pay foreign workers less so they claim there's a shortage when there's not. If there really is a shortage, they need to start hiring in places like Ithaca, NY.
Simply not correct, the people hiring are ususually only hiring people that they personally know. At least that's been my experience.
There are plenty of American citizens skilled in programming looking for jobs. The software companies would like you to believe that there is a shortage of workers. Yeah right.
It makes a lot of sense to have a practice AP about a week before the actual AP that is an old AP exam. You also have to have had a rigourous course with a good teacher the whole year. I'd hate to be advocating Pascal over C, but perhaps AP CS was better with Pascal, those header files sound pretty stupid.
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron. :)
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron. :)
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron. :)
I'm sort of thinking of studying quantum computing in grad school, but "no such agency" might make me "disappear". For those who don't know, quantum computing is probabilistic, and is supposed to have much lower big O than conventional computers for finding something with 1-10^-12 certianity. All the wrong solutions get discarded. And if that doesn't make any sense, I never said that "quantum logic" wasn't an oxymoron. :)
They actually changed to C++ in 1999. They were _supposed_ to change in 1998 (as of 1996). You really don't need new computers to learn how to program.
Ok, maybe I'm not speaking for most people, but I knew Pascal, C, and assembly, and had written some large multi-thousand-lines-of-code projects before I took AP CS in 10th grade. The largest program I wrote as a hobby was a complete BBS (remember those, before the internet killed them all) software that could do everything all the other BBS softwares could. It's pretty sad that many CS graduates still don't know how to program. For the record, I'm majoring in math and physics.
Just until they all get quantum computers.