but the notion that we are inherently flawed and need the intercession of some invisible man in the sky goes all the way back to the book of Genesis
It cannot go "all the way back" because in reality Genesis (from its first word in Hebrew, Bereshit) is one of the later books to be added to the canon. It is a convenient reference of creation myths of several Middle Eastern societies, put in by a society that really wasn't that interested in how things started. It was the Catholic Church first, and then the Protestants, that gave it an authority it did not have.
That's why in the "real" Bible, all that original sin and guilt stuff is missing. David goes off and totals a load of Palestinians and they make him king. A couple of spies get into a city with the assistance of a kindly (if dim) prostitute, and nobody thinks to try to get her to mend her ways ("While we're putting this city to the sword, just have a read of this tract about raising fallen women"). The writer of Ecclesiastes is close to pessimistic atheism. Many of the people who get a good Press in the Bible are mass murderers (who had good scriptwriters.)
I'm sorry, you cannot blame the Jews for the idiocies of Christians and Muslims. And Islam postdates the start of the Catholic Church. I, as a one time student of sociology of religion, put the blame squarely on the Romans, and the rules they invented to keep the Plebians under the thumb of the Patricians.
One axis is degrees C, with the temperature rising to 70C (at which you don't get dry steam...) The legend refers to energy. What is it supposed to mean?
One of my kids is a lawyer specialising in IT cases, so this is cutting off nose to spite face time...but you cannot sue people for doing bad work without an agreed concept of what constitutes good work. Some very successful parts of the world (Switzerland, Germany, Northern Italy) have traditionally relied on the concept of overseeing work by properly educated, trained and qualified people. I personally think it is better to pay them than to rely on paying lawyers.
Outsource the armed forces (worked for the Romans - for a while.) And stop requiring the use of licensed and regulated doctors, civil engineers, aircraft designers and the like. Because those professions started off unregulated.
On the other hand, serious attention to regulating software design and deployment might eventually reduce the need for security analysts...
Most people do not care about tracking,add-ons and the like, and Chrome is simply easier to use than IE or Firefox. The minimalistic design is actually a triumph, while IE is a mess - the first time it runs it is simply a PITA, and its home page is an embarrassing barely sfw aesthetic monstrosity.
You can only design register things that have no function and are not needed for compatibility. The German case has to be based on design features that are not a necessary part of a tablet. In fact, Apple will need to prove that their design features add no value beyond aesthetics.
There are different average atomic weights for lead deposits based on the radionucleide sequence that led to them. So which one do you mean? After all, if we're fussing over 60ns in 900km, we obviously need some precision.
People for whom English does not have a long history as a first language - like many Americans of German or Hispanic descent- often are not familiar with long established contractions. English English speakers have long contracted "may have" to may've, with a breathing in the middle a bit like the one often seen in Hebrew. This gets heard by these less experienced speakers as "may of".
IBM make very large, very fast, mainframes. They never got out of that business. And there is only so much consulting.
An example. Around 25 years ago, where I live, a farmer built a golf course on his land.
He made quite a lot of money, quite fast.
A few other farmers thought golf clubs were a good idea, and persuaded people to invest in them
For some reason, they didn't make much money. But other farmers saw the golf clubs and still thought it looked like easy money.
They built golf clubs.
Pretty soon some of the golf clubs were closing, and the early profitable ones didn't make much money any more.
I wonder why? Oh, it turns out that there is only a certain amount of demand for golf. When everyone can afford to play it, it has no social status any more.
I seem to have trodden on a lot of toes there! - obviously people who don't actually know any history.
However, the person you are thinking of is the "modern Major-General". Interestingly, Gilbert got it utterly wrong. It was a satire on the ridiculous (to Gilbert) idea that trainee Army officers needed an education. Yet he mentions mathematics as one of the (to him) useless things now to be learnt, and doesn't realise that gunnery depends heavily on mathematics - which brings me back to Galileo, who of course was investigating dynamics with a view to improving the use of artillery.
Gilbert was amusing, but history has shown that most of his prejudices were quite, quite wrong.
I'm sorry, but all the smart mathematicians and physicists in the world can only derive better models and better algorithms. What the financial sector seems to have failed to do is to employ enough psychologists. Taleb isn't wrong; he has pointed out that the models cannot account for random political events, for psychological forcing, or natural disasters. The probability of these cannot be reliably assessed.
On the other hand, psychology has a lot to say about the arrogance of psychopaths who assume that everybody else is less clever than they are, and how this is usually the factor that leads to their downfall.
Is it just my contrariness, or does "Inspector General" sound remarkably similar to "Holy Inquisition"?
"Signore Galilei, you have been accused of publishing your hypotheses despite the prohibition of Mother Church. This Consistory of learned fathers find you guilty. (Unfortunately you have some powerful protectors so we can't cook you.) You are sentenced to house arrest for the rest of your life."
"Signore Monnett, you have been accused of publishing your hypotheses despite the prohibition of Mother Exxon. This committee of lobbyists finds you guilty. Since that wackjob is in the White House we can't have you burned at the stake but we can shut you up."
(Well, the "no formal training in science" bit certainly seems to apply in both cases.)
I don't totally agree. Although a bit more help is needed in the early stages, it is quite remarkable how quickly a simple one-file based app can be created in Javascript. And any school that really wants to can set up a sandbox web server and deploy kids' own war files for others to try out. All the classical intro programs - like calculating factorials or finding primes, even drawing simple graphs and calculating crossing points - can be done quite easily. It's fashionable to knock Javascript - I used to, right up to about 2009 - but it is very easy to get results.
As someone who came up from machine code through assembler, C, and a variety of high level languages, I used to be a bit snooty about this approach, but now I tend to think "if it is Turing-complete, functional and has the ability to do basic graphics, who cares?"
In fact they tell you to be sure to do a calibration run after changing front tires as the inertial navigation also needs a distance signal from the wheels. People seem to be failing to notice that this is a bit more of a problem with aircraft.
Scientific American examined the argument a year or so ago. It is an engineering challenge even worse than magnetic containment in a Tokamak-style approach.
I am interested in your suggestion. Unfortunately, the only parts of the United States that I consider remotely civilised are New England and the Bay Area, and the standard of living there is approximately the same as I have here. Plus, here I have a trustworthy dentist with reasonable rates, a working and free health service, and a redneck-free environment.
Please, if by mistake you ever visit our country, don't go anywhere with a BA postcode as I wouldn't want our average IQ reduced.
You have a CS degree and cannot get an IT related job? I am an engineer who has designed, built and deployed high voltage and high current systems, and represented the UK on technical committees. I have retrained as a systems designer and I now run the design and development of a commercial software suite. But I can't practise as an electrician and I know nothing about IT infrastructure. I have people who do that.
:A computer scientist should not be maintaining AD or playing with VMs for a day job.
Building PCs does not qualify you for IT work any more than replacing the water pump on a car qualifies you as a fleet manager. Writing programs in Symbian is not evidence that you could work in a development environment. I think you may have gone about things the wrong way.
I am currently looking for HTML5 programmers - not web front end designers - people who can work with my specifications and POC and turn out working applications. I have recently had to replace a support person (who we trained from scratch) with ECDL 3 with a graduate; the support person is already working in a new job at a major software house. There are plenty of vacancies out there but (a) you have to seek them out - agencies are good at placing people who really don't need agencies, and that's about it - and (b) you need to demonstrate relevant skills. If you want a job with a web design firm, design something that works, deploy it on a cheap server and send them a link.
....and ignorant. Ever heard of Papal bulls? The Pope's letters on doctrine have the first words as the title. The use of the first few words of something as the title has, in fact, a very long history; far longer than email. You are just demonstrating your lack of education and narrow cultural prejudices
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and she gets really annoyed if she's called "it".
It cannot go "all the way back" because in reality Genesis (from its first word in Hebrew, Bereshit) is one of the later books to be added to the canon. It is a convenient reference of creation myths of several Middle Eastern societies, put in by a society that really wasn't that interested in how things started. It was the Catholic Church first, and then the Protestants, that gave it an authority it did not have.
That's why in the "real" Bible, all that original sin and guilt stuff is missing. David goes off and totals a load of Palestinians and they make him king. A couple of spies get into a city with the assistance of a kindly (if dim) prostitute, and nobody thinks to try to get her to mend her ways ("While we're putting this city to the sword, just have a read of this tract about raising fallen women"). The writer of Ecclesiastes is close to pessimistic atheism. Many of the people who get a good Press in the Bible are mass murderers (who had good scriptwriters.)
I'm sorry, you cannot blame the Jews for the idiocies of Christians and Muslims. And Islam postdates the start of the Catholic Church. I, as a one time student of sociology of religion, put the blame squarely on the Romans, and the rules they invented to keep the Plebians under the thumb of the Patricians.
One axis is degrees C, with the temperature rising to 70C (at which you don't get dry steam...) The legend refers to energy. What is it supposed to mean?
One of my kids is a lawyer specialising in IT cases, so this is cutting off nose to spite face time...but you cannot sue people for doing bad work without an agreed concept of what constitutes good work. Some very successful parts of the world (Switzerland, Germany, Northern Italy) have traditionally relied on the concept of overseeing work by properly educated, trained and qualified people. I personally think it is better to pay them than to rely on paying lawyers.
Iran "offshored" the control software of the centrifuges on their uranium enrichment program (i.e. bought it in). Google for what happened next.
On the other hand, serious attention to regulating software design and deployment might eventually reduce the need for security analysts...
Most people do not care about tracking,add-ons and the like, and Chrome is simply easier to use than IE or Firefox. The minimalistic design is actually a triumph, while IE is a mess - the first time it runs it is simply a PITA, and its home page is an embarrassing barely sfw aesthetic monstrosity.
You can only design register things that have no function and are not needed for compatibility. The German case has to be based on design features that are not a necessary part of a tablet. In fact, Apple will need to prove that their design features add no value beyond aesthetics.
There are different average atomic weights for lead deposits based on the radionucleide sequence that led to them. So which one do you mean? After all, if we're fussing over 60ns in 900km, we obviously need some precision.
How long before street gangs set up pseudo-legit businesses to use this service to send people down the wrong part of town where they can be mugged?
Off topic but I hope that explains it.
If it was not for MBAs, there would be little need for corporate lawyers.
I love Apple Computer.
An example. Around 25 years ago, where I live, a farmer built a golf course on his land.
He made quite a lot of money, quite fast.
A few other farmers thought golf clubs were a good idea, and persuaded people to invest in them
For some reason, they didn't make much money. But other farmers saw the golf clubs and still thought it looked like easy money.
They built golf clubs.
Pretty soon some of the golf clubs were closing, and the early profitable ones didn't make much money any more.
I wonder why? Oh, it turns out that there is only a certain amount of demand for golf. When everyone can afford to play it, it has no social status any more.
Where is the Soviet Union now?
However, the person you are thinking of is the "modern Major-General". Interestingly, Gilbert got it utterly wrong. It was a satire on the ridiculous (to Gilbert) idea that trainee Army officers needed an education. Yet he mentions mathematics as one of the (to him) useless things now to be learnt, and doesn't realise that gunnery depends heavily on mathematics - which brings me back to Galileo, who of course was investigating dynamics with a view to improving the use of artillery.
Gilbert was amusing, but history has shown that most of his prejudices were quite, quite wrong.
On the other hand, psychology has a lot to say about the arrogance of psychopaths who assume that everybody else is less clever than they are, and how this is usually the factor that leads to their downfall.
"Signore Galilei, you have been accused of publishing your hypotheses despite the prohibition of Mother Church. This Consistory of learned fathers find you guilty. (Unfortunately you have some powerful protectors so we can't cook you.) You are sentenced to house arrest for the rest of your life."
"Signore Monnett, you have been accused of publishing your hypotheses despite the prohibition of Mother Exxon. This committee of lobbyists finds you guilty. Since that wackjob is in the White House we can't have you burned at the stake but we can shut you up."
(Well, the "no formal training in science" bit certainly seems to apply in both cases.)
As someone who came up from machine code through assembler, C, and a variety of high level languages, I used to be a bit snooty about this approach, but now I tend to think "if it is Turing-complete, functional and has the ability to do basic graphics, who cares?"
In fact they tell you to be sure to do a calibration run after changing front tires as the inertial navigation also needs a distance signal from the wheels. People seem to be failing to notice that this is a bit more of a problem with aircraft.
Scientific American examined the argument a year or so ago. It is an engineering challenge even worse than magnetic containment in a Tokamak-style approach.
Please, if by mistake you ever visit our country, don't go anywhere with a BA postcode as I wouldn't want our average IQ reduced.
:A computer scientist should not be maintaining AD or playing with VMs for a day job. Building PCs does not qualify you for IT work any more than replacing the water pump on a car qualifies you as a fleet manager. Writing programs in Symbian is not evidence that you could work in a development environment. I think you may have gone about things the wrong way.
I am currently looking for HTML5 programmers - not web front end designers - people who can work with my specifications and POC and turn out working applications. I have recently had to replace a support person (who we trained from scratch) with ECDL 3 with a graduate; the support person is already working in a new job at a major software house. There are plenty of vacancies out there but (a) you have to seek them out - agencies are good at placing people who really don't need agencies, and that's about it - and (b) you need to demonstrate relevant skills. If you want a job with a web design firm, design something that works, deploy it on a cheap server and send them a link.
....and ignorant. Ever heard of Papal bulls? The Pope's letters on doctrine have the first words as the title. The use of the first few words of something as the title has, in fact, a very long history; far longer than email. You are just demonstrating your lack of education and narrow cultural prejudices