I think art and science/math are different kinds of "hard". I lived with a guy who basically got a degree in playing the guitar (music performance). He played the guitar more than I studied. But as a amature guitar player and a engineer myself I can tell you that I would rather play scales for 2 hours than do differential equations for 2 hours. There is a difference.
I didn't chose guitar over engineering because he had immense talent in music and I don't, my talent is in engineering.
I'm not sure where you live and if the culture is different but in the US, drop the whole "with honours thing"; no employer cares about your grades or what honors you achieved (not that it isn't personally valuable to be at the top of the academic game). They are taking a risk and want to see material evidence that you are competent as a professional, not as an academic. I hope you interned or did a CoOp somewhere because that is almost a golden ticket to a job.
You may also have to lower your expectations. You may not be able to work in the most desirable location, you might have better luck looking in a more rural or less desirable location. In the US midwest, getting a job in suburban Chicago is far easier than getting a job in Chicago proper. Getting a job in Milwaukee is even easier and getting a job in Sheboygan is like shooting fish in a barrel, something they do often in Sheboygan. You may also have to get the experience by doing something related to what you want to do. I know a EE who want's to design electronics but couldn't find a job so he got a Electronics Test Engineer position and after a year and a half of that could have moved within the company to hardware design ( instead he went back for his masters).
Source: graduated with a CompE degree in 2011 and have worked in suburban chicago, sheboygan, and milwaukee as a firmware engineer.
Our outsourcing "partners" in India cost about.25 of what an average American developer would cost. They earn far less as the outsourcing pimp takes their cut. I don't predict that the amount of developer jobs will grow at the same pace as the amount of developers. Therefore I predict the affect will be that wages are suppressed further, probably resulting in poorer quality of developers.
After the story about the Govt. department smashing mice and keyboards because of malware and now this story I really think independent audits of technology vendors should be required in government. Obviously the auditors could be just as crooked as the contractor who suggested smashing mice with a hammer but I would hope if we got some real oversight the quality of technology products in the government would increase.
As a software engineer, this bug seems like it should have been caught early. I also don't really believe it would take a year to fix (imagine how many man hours that is). If there was a competitive company reviewing the code (or if it was open source), hopefully someone competent would be able to call B.S. on the "It will take a year to fix" statement. Without that oversight it is just speculation.
After a pointed discussion with the superintendant, they 'managed' to find a spot for her, but I'm sure none of the students who DIDN'T complain/fight got in, as she said there's only about 4 juniors in calculus this year.
i.e. "STEM initiative!" = really nothing.)
I think you meant poignant instead of pointed.
This leads me to my first thought: Are we over compensating by focusing on STEM education over other subjects? Most universities don't make their STEM students take any rigorous retrotic, literature, philosophy, sociology, or arts classes. Why can't we encourage everyone (both boys and girls) to be truly knowledgeable by having a well rounded education? I feel like so many people are missing the point of higher education by trying to encourage everyone to look at college as a training program for your job instead of an opportunity to become educated and informed. Didn't anyone read Pirsig?
Aside from that, I pretty much agree that most of these goofy named initiatives are just gimmicks to make it look like some corporation actually gives a shit.
If someone were to ask me how to encourage everyone ( not just girls) to get into STEM and take science and math seriously in middle and high school (where it really matters for getting on the STEM track) I would say that they need to get some truly talented and knowledgeable math and science teachers in middle and high school. From what I remember about high school, everyone would rather take drama or english lit because the teachers were cool and passionate and it wasn't "boring or dry". None of the science or math teachers could convey why science and math skills and knowledge are actually valuable, that's why every sophomore feels like "I'll never use this stuff" and they zone out and don't take any science or math beyond the minimum to graduate. How do you get talented science and math teachers? Pay them what they would make in the private/government(contractor) sector. I make $70K+ a few years out of college and I have a pretty sweet job that I enjoy. Why would I choose secondary education over engineering? Being a good teacher takes a lot of work, a lot of time outside of the normal work hours is spent planning and preparing. The salary is pathetic compared to what you could make as a software engineer (just picking that because that's what I do). I understand people do it because they have a passion for teaching but they also have to pay the bills. Science and math minds are going to analyze jobs based on objective measurements like quality of life and ability to support themselves and their family. Not surprising that they pick engineering over education which has an even lower level of job security./rant
This will be abused. Either the autistic employees will be abused or the non autistic employees will be abused because they are not performing as well as the autistic employees. I think it's a really good thing that these people are being given opportunities, I just don't know how their "talents" won't be exploited by management. Low social functions could also mean not really speaking out when asked (forced) to work 12 hour days.
Maybe I jump to cynical conclusions but it seems generalizing autistic people as some kind of software super people and then seeking to hire them is a bit like generalizing asians as good at math and seeking to hire them into math intensive positions.
This is probably really cool for a lot of the worlds people that may not have access to the technology required to preserve food.
But I like cooking. Its one of the last things that I do that is kind of not actively involved with technology. Of course technology is involved in every process of growing/producing food but theres something cool about taking a bunch of raw ingredients and using basic tools (cast iron, fire) to create delicious food. I don't want that to go away.
I don't advocate that we cheer anything, just pointing out that it's just MS being a sore loser. If MS could do what google does, they would be doing it. Business isnt about morals, its about money. If MS or Google could make money from killing kittens and tripping grandmas they would.
It's disingenuous for MS to criticize Google for doing something that MS is also currently doing, just not as well.
It just seems like MS is jealous that Google is making money hand over fist. Microsoft tried to do the same thing Google did. They have a search engine and advertising business. They just aren't as good at it as Google. Tracking is pretty independent of what browser you use anyways.
Besides, people don't give a shit that they are being monetized. People still use facebook don't they? And people do realize, to some probably limited extent, that facebook is all about monetizing them.
The comments cited by TFA weren't the problem in my opinion. He has a unpopular viewpoint on a subject that a lot of his former employer's customer base feels strongly about but the other comments basically insulting people who don't live in large metro areas are the firing offence to me.
I can't find the quotation so this is from memory but someone responded to his tweet by saying "sometimes the internet is spotty in other areas of the country like Kansas and that's why always on would suck" and Orth responded "why would anyone live there". That's pretty much a big fuck you to a large part of the country. Not a wise move to disparage millions of potential customers. I think that comment and the attitude it conveys is a bigger problem than him stating his opinion about "always on".
If they actually did the study then Chertoff and Rapiscan would have to mount another FUD campaign to create a need for some other product that Rapiscan would make and Chertoff would convince all his friends in the government to buy.
Big pharma is behind get flu shot PSAs
Big Dairy is behind the Got Milk PSAs
The government is an arm of the corporations... oblig. news at 11 or whatever I don't even care anymore.
What is going to be different about this software layer?
Is it going to be written in some new magical language that prevents programmers from fucking up and having buffer overflow/underflow or other common problems that you see in C and C++, the most likely languages that this kind of software would be written in?
Just today there was an article on./ about BIOS infections. Isn't the BIOS a layer between the OS and "silicon". Sure, the BIOS wasn't written to be a security layer but just because a software layer is below the OS doesn't mean that is is immune to being exploited.
From TFA:
Provides real time CPU event monitoring with minimal performance impact.
(bold tags added by me)
Bullshit. Just like normal AV has minimal performance impact now.
Besides all of the obvious reasons that this is just another gimmick by McAfee to get more $$ from corporate IT departments with MBA directors that don't even know what the "silicon" in the marketing press release, sorry "article" means, when this gets exploited and there are viri for this layer I bet McAfee will have a AV for this layer to sell.
HTML5 is attempting to fix that issue with the canvas element and web workers (i know its a stupid name) . You still need JavaScript but not Flash, and Google has been optimizing Chrome for JavaScript because they already knew the browser as a platform is the future.
A lot of the content and interactiveness coded in Flash can now be done in HTML5 which should be more efficient. Look at the Chrome store, there are very infantile implementations of HTML5 apps available now, and HTML5 isn't going to be ratified until 2014 or something like that. I hate Flash and JavaScript as much as the next guy but I don't think Flash and JavaScript sucking are reasons not to take the browser seriously as a platform.
please dont talk on matters on which you do not have sufficient information, like this assumption of yours regarding 'legal' nonviolent methods of mlk.
Thats your assumption not his. The person you are quoting and then trying desperately to prove incorrect explicitly said:
Like the non-violent methods of MLK, who broke the law in a way that brought attention and public opinion over to their side.
You claim to know a lot about history (or at least that GP doesn't know a lot about history). Perhaps you should read about Thoreau. He advocates the style of disobedience that the GP is advocating. Gandhi and MLK subscribe to this way of thought as well.
It's about limiting it to as small an amount as possible, to ensure that as many kids grow up to be productive members of society as possible.
I'm glad you brought this up. My original post was going to mention that at 15 I had access to almost anything I wanted to get my hands on. However, I (in my own opinion of course) am a productive member of society.
How did this happen? My parents thought me that drinking too much is bad, smoking too much is going to get me cancer, driving drunk is going to get me killed ect... So, when presented with drugs and alcohol I knew moderation and control. When all my friends were puking their guts out because they had no experience drinking, I was enjoying myself responsibly.
You know that saying: Catch a man a fish, feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Well, I think that if you watch your kid and stop him/her from doing something stupid, their safe for that day. But when you teach your kid not to be a pisshead, you are protecting them for life.
It's a LOT easier to control distribution at the point of sale.
Right on! Teen's never get alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, porn, cold medicine, spray paint, duster, (keep naming things that are age restricted because we're thinking of the children)
Whats with the dig at McDonald's customers?
Wanting a burger and fries in less than 5 min for less than 5$ != ignorant.
Wanting a website for less than 9$/month != ignorant.
Characterizing people that go to McDonald's as ignorant == ignorant.
Everyone knows fast food isn't fine dining, and that godaddy isn't business-grade web hosting. That doesn't mean there is no reason besides ignorance for using McDonalds and godaddy.
BTW, I have seen some very serious eaters at McDonalds.
I agree.
However, when you have 200,000+ POS machines, management wants an AV.
I hate McAfee, I hate using a AV instead of isolating a machine from removable media and the Internet. I hate spending money on AV when we could use it on something else. But when a franchise manager on the other side of the world lets one of his employees use the wifi or a printer or something, I'm glad there's an AV to protect my ass. Even though there shouldn't be a way the POS machines get a virus, the AV is kind of like car insurance: It protects you from accidents, costs too much money per year, someone else forced you to get it, and in the end when something shitty happens it kind of saves your ass.
Just because it can run flash doesn't mean it should run flash. Or java for that matter. Also, how much RAM is in it? I'm assuming that in the PDF they mean storage when they say memory. Is there a gpu? If not, do you want to waste all of your battery life having your cpu process that flash video?
Completely off topic: but where is Wireless USB? Aren't tablets a perfect platform for using wireless usb?
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I think art and science/math are different kinds of "hard". I lived with a guy who basically got a degree in playing the guitar (music performance). He played the guitar more than I studied. But as a amature guitar player and a engineer myself I can tell you that I would rather play scales for 2 hours than do differential equations for 2 hours. There is a difference.
I didn't chose guitar over engineering because he had immense talent in music and I don't, my talent is in engineering.
I'm not sure where you live and if the culture is different but in the US, drop the whole "with honours thing"; no employer cares about your grades or what honors you achieved (not that it isn't personally valuable to be at the top of the academic game). They are taking a risk and want to see material evidence that you are competent as a professional, not as an academic. I hope you interned or did a CoOp somewhere because that is almost a golden ticket to a job.
You may also have to lower your expectations. You may not be able to work in the most desirable location, you might have better luck looking in a more rural or less desirable location. In the US midwest, getting a job in suburban Chicago is far easier than getting a job in Chicago proper. Getting a job in Milwaukee is even easier and getting a job in Sheboygan is like shooting fish in a barrel, something they do often in Sheboygan. You may also have to get the experience by doing something related to what you want to do. I know a EE who want's to design electronics but couldn't find a job so he got a Electronics Test Engineer position and after a year and a half of that could have moved within the company to hardware design ( instead he went back for his masters).
Source: graduated with a CompE degree in 2011 and have worked in suburban chicago, sheboygan, and milwaukee as a firmware engineer.
Our outsourcing "partners" in India cost about .25 of what an average American developer would cost. They earn far less as the outsourcing pimp takes their cut. I don't predict that the amount of developer jobs will grow at the same pace as the amount of developers. Therefore I predict the affect will be that wages are suppressed further, probably resulting in poorer quality of developers.
After the story about the Govt. department smashing mice and keyboards because of malware and now this story I really think independent audits of technology vendors should be required in government. Obviously the auditors could be just as crooked as the contractor who suggested smashing mice with a hammer but I would hope if we got some real oversight the quality of technology products in the government would increase.
As a software engineer, this bug seems like it should have been caught early. I also don't really believe it would take a year to fix (imagine how many man hours that is). If there was a competitive company reviewing the code (or if it was open source), hopefully someone competent would be able to call B.S. on the "It will take a year to fix" statement. Without that oversight it is just speculation.
After a pointed discussion with the superintendant, they 'managed' to find a spot for her, but I'm sure none of the students who DIDN'T complain/fight got in, as she said there's only about 4 juniors in calculus this year.
i.e. "STEM initiative!" = really nothing.)
I think you meant poignant instead of pointed. This leads me to my first thought: Are we over compensating by focusing on STEM education over other subjects? Most universities don't make their STEM students take any rigorous retrotic, literature, philosophy, sociology, or arts classes. Why can't we encourage everyone (both boys and girls) to be truly knowledgeable by having a well rounded education? I feel like so many people are missing the point of higher education by trying to encourage everyone to look at college as a training program for your job instead of an opportunity to become educated and informed. Didn't anyone read Pirsig?
/rant
Aside from that, I pretty much agree that most of these goofy named initiatives are just gimmicks to make it look like some corporation actually gives a shit.
If someone were to ask me how to encourage everyone ( not just girls) to get into STEM and take science and math seriously in middle and high school (where it really matters for getting on the STEM track) I would say that they need to get some truly talented and knowledgeable math and science teachers in middle and high school. From what I remember about high school, everyone would rather take drama or english lit because the teachers were cool and passionate and it wasn't "boring or dry". None of the science or math teachers could convey why science and math skills and knowledge are actually valuable, that's why every sophomore feels like "I'll never use this stuff" and they zone out and don't take any science or math beyond the minimum to graduate. How do you get talented science and math teachers? Pay them what they would make in the private/government(contractor) sector. I make $70K+ a few years out of college and I have a pretty sweet job that I enjoy. Why would I choose secondary education over engineering? Being a good teacher takes a lot of work, a lot of time outside of the normal work hours is spent planning and preparing. The salary is pathetic compared to what you could make as a software engineer (just picking that because that's what I do). I understand people do it because they have a passion for teaching but they also have to pay the bills. Science and math minds are going to analyze jobs based on objective measurements like quality of life and ability to support themselves and their family. Not surprising that they pick engineering over education which has an even lower level of job security.
This will be abused. Either the autistic employees will be abused or the non autistic employees will be abused because they are not performing as well as the autistic employees. I think it's a really good thing that these people are being given opportunities, I just don't know how their "talents" won't be exploited by management. Low social functions could also mean not really speaking out when asked (forced) to work 12 hour days.
Maybe I jump to cynical conclusions but it seems generalizing autistic people as some kind of software super people and then seeking to hire them is a bit like generalizing asians as good at math and seeking to hire them into math intensive positions.
This is probably really cool for a lot of the worlds people that may not have access to the technology required to preserve food.
But I like cooking. Its one of the last things that I do that is kind of not actively involved with technology. Of course technology is involved in every process of growing/producing food but theres something cool about taking a bunch of raw ingredients and using basic tools (cast iron, fire) to create delicious food. I don't want that to go away.
Who made an excuse? Pointing out that 1 company is being whiny isn't making an excuse for another.
I don't advocate that we cheer anything, just pointing out that it's just MS being a sore loser. If MS could do what google does, they would be doing it. Business isnt about morals, its about money. If MS or Google could make money from killing kittens and tripping grandmas they would.
It's disingenuous for MS to criticize Google for doing something that MS is also currently doing, just not as well.
It just seems like MS is jealous that Google is making money hand over fist. Microsoft tried to do the same thing Google did. They have a search engine and advertising business. They just aren't as good at it as Google. Tracking is pretty independent of what browser you use anyways. Besides, people don't give a shit that they are being monetized. People still use facebook don't they? And people do realize, to some probably limited extent, that facebook is all about monetizing them.
2^32 - 1 != (2^32 -1)*2 - 1
The comments cited by TFA weren't the problem in my opinion. He has a unpopular viewpoint on a subject that a lot of his former employer's customer base feels strongly about but the other comments basically insulting people who don't live in large metro areas are the firing offence to me.
I can't find the quotation so this is from memory but someone responded to his tweet by saying "sometimes the internet is spotty in other areas of the country like Kansas and that's why always on would suck" and Orth responded "why would anyone live there". That's pretty much a big fuck you to a large part of the country. Not a wise move to disparage millions of potential customers. I think that comment and the attitude it conveys is a bigger problem than him stating his opinion about "always on".
If they actually did the study then Chertoff and Rapiscan would have to mount another FUD campaign to create a need for some other product that Rapiscan would make and Chertoff would convince all his friends in the government to buy.
Maybe...
Or maybe it was right about 4:00 and I needed to waste some time.
Big pharma is behind get flu shot PSAs Big Dairy is behind the Got Milk PSAs The government is an arm of the corporations... oblig. news at 11 or whatever I don't even care anymore.
Is it going to be written in some new magical language that prevents programmers from fucking up and having buffer overflow/underflow or other common problems that you see in C and C++, the most likely languages that this kind of software would be written in?
Just today there was an article on
From TFA:
(bold tags added by me)
Bullshit. Just like normal AV has minimal performance impact now.
Besides all of the obvious reasons that this is just another gimmick by McAfee to get more $$ from corporate IT departments with MBA directors that don't even know what the "silicon" in the marketing press release, sorry "article" means, when this gets exploited and there are viri for this layer I bet McAfee will have a AV for this layer to sell.
+1 cheech and chong reference on ./
HTML5 is attempting to fix that issue with the canvas element and web workers (i know its a stupid name) . You still need JavaScript but not Flash, and Google has been optimizing Chrome for JavaScript because they already knew the browser as a platform is the future.
A lot of the content and interactiveness coded in Flash can now be done in HTML5 which should be more efficient. Look at the Chrome store, there are very infantile implementations of HTML5 apps available now, and HTML5 isn't going to be ratified until 2014 or something like that. I hate Flash and JavaScript as much as the next guy but I don't think Flash and JavaScript sucking are reasons not to take the browser seriously as a platform.
please dont talk on matters on which you do not have sufficient information, like this assumption of yours regarding 'legal' nonviolent methods of mlk.
Thats your assumption not his. The person you are quoting and then trying desperately to prove incorrect explicitly said:
Like the non-violent methods of MLK, who broke the law in a way that brought attention and public opinion over to their side.
You claim to know a lot about history (or at least that GP doesn't know a lot about history). Perhaps you should read about Thoreau. He advocates the style of disobedience that the GP is advocating. Gandhi and MLK subscribe to this way of thought as well.
It's about limiting it to as small an amount as possible, to ensure that as many kids grow up to be productive members of society as possible.
I'm glad you brought this up. My original post was going to mention that at 15 I had access to almost anything I wanted to get my hands on. However, I (in my own opinion of course) am a productive member of society.
How did this happen? My parents thought me that drinking too much is bad, smoking too much is going to get me cancer, driving drunk is going to get me killed ect... So, when presented with drugs and alcohol I knew moderation and control. When all my friends were puking their guts out because they had no experience drinking, I was enjoying myself responsibly.
You know that saying: Catch a man a fish, feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Well, I think that if you watch your kid and stop him/her from doing something stupid, their safe for that day. But when you teach your kid not to be a pisshead, you are protecting them for life.
It's a LOT easier to control distribution at the point of sale.
Right on! Teen's never get alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, porn, cold medicine, spray paint, duster, (keep naming things that are age restricted because we're thinking of the children)
Whats with the dig at McDonald's customers?
Wanting a burger and fries in less than 5 min for less than 5$ != ignorant.
Wanting a website for less than 9$/month != ignorant.
Characterizing people that go to McDonald's as ignorant == ignorant.
Everyone knows fast food isn't fine dining, and that godaddy isn't business-grade web hosting. That doesn't mean there is no reason besides ignorance for using McDonalds and godaddy.
BTW, I have seen some very serious eaters at McDonalds.
I agree.
However, when you have 200,000+ POS machines, management wants an AV.
I hate McAfee, I hate using a AV instead of isolating a machine from removable media and the Internet. I hate spending money on AV when we could use it on something else. But when a franchise manager on the other side of the world lets one of his employees use the wifi or a printer or something, I'm glad there's an AV to protect my ass. Even though there shouldn't be a way the POS machines get a virus, the AV is kind of like car insurance: It protects you from accidents, costs too much money per year, someone else forced you to get it, and in the end when something shitty happens it kind of saves your ass.
Just because it can run flash doesn't mean it should run flash. Or java for that matter. Also, how much RAM is in it? I'm assuming that in the PDF they mean storage when they say memory. Is there a gpu? If not, do you want to waste all of your battery life having your cpu process that flash video? Completely off topic: but where is Wireless USB? Aren't tablets a perfect platform for using wireless usb?
The NoScript plug-in for Firefox.
Or run your browser in a VM and revert to a clean image each time your done browsing.
Or disable javascript in Opera, but the web will act a lot different.