America is a corporate-driven economy, which needs results this quarter and the next. Any strategy that last for longer than 5 years is just not worth the investment. China is still partially a plan-driven economy, which does not need to have a result this quarter or the next. Pay back times can be longer.
It is incredibly painful to an economy to move away from short term gains to longer term. At first, you only pay, and nothing comes back yet. But after a couple of years, you start to gain from this. Nobody in the USA seems willing to take that first step.
Totally agree. Luckily, Linux Mint still gives me that same feeling. It is just that ordinary desktop.
It's sad that companies (and governments) need to break what was perfect. The problem is that occasionally they re-evaluate whether change is needed. And they they install a committee to investigate. This committee just cannot return with the solution that no change is the best... because then the committee would be a waste of money. So, they suggest change.
The most harmless committees propose a new "look" or logo. The worst will propose a change from a perfect desktop (old-fashioned Gnome) to Unity.
It is not about sacrificing... it's just casting your vote. There are already 3rd party options... just vote for them.
As for the cesspool... I am pretty pleased with my west-European country and my government. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty good. You're welcome to have a look, and we don't even ask you get a visa for that. Just hop on a plane.
True. And it is happening right under all your noses, and the press is still able to report on it, so it's not like you are all caught by surprise... and despite the fact that you can all vote in a democratic system, this has been going on for well over a decade now.
Americans, you've got nobody to blame but yourselves.
But there IS evidence that students are able to graduate quicker from universities, because the curriculum became easier.
Average students in the Netherlands (at a polytech university) used to need about 6-7 years to graduate. This was fine, since studying wasn't expensive. Now, our government doesn't want to pay for those "lazy" students anymore, and they need to graduate in 5 years. Also, the universities are paid for each diploma they hand out, so they have an incentive to make sure everybody graduates. Finally, it is also financially interesting to attract Asian students, but these want to be able to graduate from their Masters in 2 years, which only 10 years ago was practically impossible. The masters was officially 2 years, but almost always took longer to finish.
The result is really that it became easier to get a technical diploma. People enter the job market with less experience. Companies need to invest more to train their technical people.
Do you really think students will struggle to get used to touching the 'next page' button about every 1-5 minutes, while playing their computer games? Teachers will only catch the odd unprepared student who honestly did not have time to study. The professional slackers however will walk free.
We should give students the responsibility. It is their life, their responsibility. Takes about 18-25 years on average to grow up. And this kind of thing just is not helping to achieve becoming an adult.
Cramming some stupid facts into their heads is only one of the task of schools. Making adults out of them is another. Sometimes those conflict. Deal with it.
What is this? The Kansas local newspaper? I'm not normally one to criticize Slashdot editors for their choice of articles, but this seems just a little bit too local. High speed internet is being rolled out across the globe. In the Netherlands, you can just order it built to your home or office, and if you're lucky, the laying of the actual cable itself doesn't cost any money, so you just pay your local internet provider.
Or is this just the 1st place in the USA that has entered the 21st century? Welcome.
p.s. For the skeptics, here's a random link of fibreoptic internet in Veendam, which is the Dutch equivalent of a prairie town in Kansas. http://www.veendamkrijgtglasvezel.nl/
It's weird that Texans seem to think it is easier to build guns and other elaborate schemes to destroy their own count(r)y's property than to just vote for a different politician.
If you take a population of poodles, and breed them selectively for long enough, they would become a separate species. It just hasn't gotten that far yet. These swallows can just mix with the general population too, but given enough time, would become a separate species.
Exactly. I just thought that your first post was sarcastic. Reading your 2nd post, I see that I was mistaken. It should indeed be entertaining and informative.
ESA might even mod the project with new software on a cubesat as "insightful" when it's all done.
You don't need unprecedented power for the basics.
Still, if you give unprecedented power to nerds, they always come up with something cooler than you ever thought possible. This is why they don't really make a huge list of demands... but instead just say: This is the hardware. Make us something nice.
The goal is not to just take a couple of pictures of the planet. The goal is to develop technology.
I think that they just try to overcome the "lock in" situation they are in right now. It goes something like this: We cannot change the software because we have been using the same software all the time. Changing it would mean we get loads of bugs and problems and drama. Also, you could just read TFA, 2nd paragraph.
It means you end up building system after system on an ancient foundation. And now they want to overcome this issue cheaply by giving all nerds of the European Union the option to build something cool. ESA themselves say they haven't really updated some software for 20 years.
We have the EU to give our politicians something meaningless to do. It is wonderful that our politicians talk about not too important things, and then decide to do nothing. It may not be perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than what they used to do in the last two millennia, which was to talk, then get angry, and start a war.
The real issue is the fact that the company who placed the cameras got 40% of the revenues, which means that the primary incentive is to catch as many people as possible, not to make the roads safer.
You can place as many street signs and cameras as you like - and it is true that the motorists must (by law) follow all those signs and rules - but it won't make the roads safer.
It is a TV show. They fake lots of stuff. They test cars, then report on that in a very subjective way. Anyone can see that. All Tesla are essentially claiming is that it is the wrong subjective way. It's a stupid and empty claim. You might as well sue Sesame street for portraying people as having spherical orange and yellow heads.
The show is from the UK, which is in Europe, which means you do not get a disclaimer or a warning with every little detail. The show pretends to be objective, but is completely fake. And also, it is not a free advertisement for the cars they borrow (they will borrow cars from private owners of the cars, not necessarily from the manufacturers). Deal with it.
The fact that politicians are allowed to lie in an election is just insane. Politicians present a budget that just is not balanced. If a detergent commercial would include lies of such magnitude, they'd be banned from tv. And the politicians wonder why people do not feel connected to politics.
They still don't get it. Politicians shouldn't be using simple marketing at all. But because one is doing it, they're all doing it. They can only solve it together.
- Some form of slavery; to our credit, we did get rid of outright slavery, but migrant workers are far more politically correct, hey?
Even better: the real slaves and/or low income jobs now don't even live in our Western countries anymore. Much cheaper to ship products in bulk or in containers to us, and leave the people in far away countries where different rules apply. Whatever way you twist that, the reality is still that there are different sets of rules for different groups of people. And the poorest work for the richest. If it is not exactly the same as slavery, then at least it's pretty damned close to it.
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America is a corporate-driven economy, which needs results this quarter and the next. Any strategy that last for longer than 5 years is just not worth the investment.
China is still partially a plan-driven economy, which does not need to have a result this quarter or the next. Pay back times can be longer.
It is incredibly painful to an economy to move away from short term gains to longer term. At first, you only pay, and nothing comes back yet. But after a couple of years, you start to gain from this. Nobody in the USA seems willing to take that first step.
Totally agree. Luckily, Linux Mint still gives me that same feeling. It is just that ordinary desktop.
It's sad that companies (and governments) need to break what was perfect. The problem is that occasionally they re-evaluate whether change is needed. And they they install a committee to investigate. This committee just cannot return with the solution that no change is the best... because then the committee would be a waste of money. So, they suggest change.
The most harmless committees propose a new "look" or logo. The worst will propose a change from a perfect desktop (old-fashioned Gnome) to Unity.
It is not about sacrificing... it's just casting your vote. There are already 3rd party options... just vote for them.
As for the cesspool... I am pretty pleased with my west-European country and my government. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty good. You're welcome to have a look, and we don't even ask you get a visa for that. Just hop on a plane.
True. And it is happening right under all your noses, and the press is still able to report on it, so it's not like you are all caught by surprise... and despite the fact that you can all vote in a democratic system, this has been going on for well over a decade now.
Americans, you've got nobody to blame but yourselves.
Security through obscurity: My data is safe, even if the thieves break in. No way they can find anything in the mess that I call home. :)
But there IS evidence that students are able to graduate quicker from universities, because the curriculum became easier.
Average students in the Netherlands (at a polytech university) used to need about 6-7 years to graduate. This was fine, since studying wasn't expensive. Now, our government doesn't want to pay for those "lazy" students anymore, and they need to graduate in 5 years. Also, the universities are paid for each diploma they hand out, so they have an incentive to make sure everybody graduates. Finally, it is also financially interesting to attract Asian students, but these want to be able to graduate from their Masters in 2 years, which only 10 years ago was practically impossible. The masters was officially 2 years, but almost always took longer to finish.
The result is really that it became easier to get a technical diploma. People enter the job market with less experience. Companies need to invest more to train their technical people.
Do you really think students will struggle to get used to touching the 'next page' button about every 1-5 minutes, while playing their computer games?
Teachers will only catch the odd unprepared student who honestly did not have time to study. The professional slackers however will walk free.
We should give students the responsibility. It is their life, their responsibility. Takes about 18-25 years on average to grow up. And this kind of thing just is not helping to achieve becoming an adult.
Cramming some stupid facts into their heads is only one of the task of schools. Making adults out of them is another. Sometimes those conflict. Deal with it.
What is this? The Kansas local newspaper?
I'm not normally one to criticize Slashdot editors for their choice of articles, but this seems just a little bit too local. High speed internet is being rolled out across the globe. In the Netherlands, you can just order it built to your home or office, and if you're lucky, the laying of the actual cable itself doesn't cost any money, so you just pay your local internet provider.
Or is this just the 1st place in the USA that has entered the 21st century? Welcome.
p.s. For the skeptics, here's a random link of fibreoptic internet in Veendam, which is the Dutch equivalent of a prairie town in Kansas.
http://www.veendamkrijgtglasvezel.nl/
It's weird that Texans seem to think it is easier to build guns and other elaborate schemes to destroy their own count(r)y's property than to just vote for a different politician.
I am fine with them flying a drone. ... Until they couple of to a face recognition database, and store my walk of life in another database.
It's not that I don't trust the cops. I do. I just don't trust that all my private data is safe on some database.
Sssssssshhhht!!! Don't tell the Americans! :)
If you take a population of poodles, and breed them selectively for long enough, they would become a separate species. It just hasn't gotten that far yet.
These swallows can just mix with the general population too, but given enough time, would become a separate species.
Exactly. I just thought that your first post was sarcastic. Reading your 2nd post, I see that I was mistaken. It should indeed be entertaining and informative.
ESA might even mod the project with new software on a cubesat as "insightful" when it's all done.
You don't need unprecedented power for the basics.
Still, if you give unprecedented power to nerds, they always come up with something cooler than you ever thought possible. This is why they don't really make a huge list of demands... but instead just say: This is the hardware. Make us something nice.
The goal is not to just take a couple of pictures of the planet. The goal is to develop technology.
I think that they just try to overcome the "lock in" situation they are in right now. It goes something like this: We cannot change the software because we have been using the same software all the time. Changing it would mean we get loads of bugs and problems and drama. Also, you could just read TFA, 2nd paragraph.
It means you end up building system after system on an ancient foundation. And now they want to overcome this issue cheaply by giving all nerds of the European Union the option to build something cool. ESA themselves say they haven't really updated some software for 20 years.
Personally, I think it's a good idea.
A space station is bigger than most basements.
We have the EU to give our politicians something meaningless to do. It is wonderful that our politicians talk about not too important things, and then decide to do nothing.
It may not be perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than what they used to do in the last two millennia, which was to talk, then get angry, and start a war.
The real issue is the fact that the company who placed the cameras got 40% of the revenues, which means that the primary incentive is to catch as many people as possible, not to make the roads safer.
You can place as many street signs and cameras as you like - and it is true that the motorists must (by law) follow all those signs and rules - but it won't make the roads safer.
It might work, but there may be a bit of collateral damage.
Firefox is still popular amongst developers (but practically no-one else).
Then either 23.18% of people browsing the interwebs are developers, or you are wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
It is a TV show. They fake lots of stuff. They test cars, then report on that in a very subjective way. Anyone can see that.
All Tesla are essentially claiming is that it is the wrong subjective way. It's a stupid and empty claim. You might as well sue Sesame street for portraying people as having spherical orange and yellow heads.
The show is from the UK, which is in Europe, which means you do not get a disclaimer or a warning with every little detail. The show pretends to be objective, but is completely fake. And also, it is not a free advertisement for the cars they borrow (they will borrow cars from private owners of the cars, not necessarily from the manufacturers). Deal with it.
They still don't get it.
The fact that politicians are allowed to lie in an election is just insane. Politicians present a budget that just is not balanced. If a detergent commercial would include lies of such magnitude, they'd be banned from tv. And the politicians wonder why people do not feel connected to politics.
They still don't get it. Politicians shouldn't be using simple marketing at all. But because one is doing it, they're all doing it. They can only solve it together.
However, it IS illegal for US banks to do business with online casinos under a law passed nearly ten years ago.
Ironic that the biggest gamblers are not allowed to do business with legalized gambling institutions.
Cowboys? No. Emancipation demands you make it gender neutral: Cowperson.
Indians? No. Native Americans.
Cowpersons and Native Americans. And you cannot pretend to shoot with a wooden stick anymore. Welcome to the land of the free :-)
- Some form of slavery; to our credit, we did get rid of outright slavery, but migrant workers are far more politically correct, hey?
Even better: the real slaves and/or low income jobs now don't even live in our Western countries anymore. Much cheaper to ship products in bulk or in containers to us, and leave the people in far away countries where different rules apply. Whatever way you twist that, the reality is still that there are different sets of rules for different groups of people. And the poorest work for the richest. If it is not exactly the same as slavery, then at least it's pretty damned close to it.