I guarantee you this has nothing to do with any "medical benefits" of alcohol, and everything to do with who knows when to stop drinking and who doesn't.
Think about it. You've had your fourth beer, you're feeling good, what do you do? Go for more pleasure at the risk of being sick, or stop where you're at?
If you're the kind of person who will keep going, you're more likely to drive too fast off a cliff, skydive every weekend, do as many kinds of drugs as you can find, put yourself into fights,... whereas if you stop at that 4th beer, it shows some measure of self-control.
Self-control will keep you alive a lot better than 4 beers a day. I promise.
IMO, basically, yeah, screw those people! Given, I think any real artist should be composing their own music and writing their own lyrics, or that that part should at least be kept within the "band". But all that other nonsense that the spoiled, whiny, drug-addicted, self-centered, egotistical record producers do, which they (and apparently you, for some "odd" reason) think is important, I could really care less about.
Not to mention the fact that they're evil scumbags who're using intimidation and litigation to try to get their way. Does that make you want to go out and buy a bunch of crappy "packaging" for the songs you love? Not me.
I'm not going to pay for your bullshit advertising (I prefer word of mouth, which actually tells me about songs I like), your crappy "cover art" (woo, you drew a picture, thx, here's $20? I don't think so!) I'm not paying you because you put 10 songs in order, or suggested modifications to make them "flow better in the album." I don't want any compositions or albums. All I want is just this one song, see? Or maybe several songs, but I'll listen to them WHEN I LIKE, ONE AT A TIME, not be forced to listen to a single artist for 10 songs from some crappy CD. And when you put that ONE SONG that I want to hear with 5 other songs which I -don't- like...
Let's just say the record producers don't have much of a vote for my money. And I think the numbers suggest most people agree.
You can make two things in SL: graphics and code. People have been able to steal graphics on the internet since it began. And you still can't steal someone else's code in SL. So who cares? The shopkeepers who are leaving are just protesters. LL should ignore them entirely, but they didn't, and Copybot is already out of circulation. (hehe actually it's not, but it's out of PUBLIC circulation!)
You can, in fact, exchange SL currency (legally, via linden labs, the owning company) for US currency, and then for gold. SL -items- cannot be exchanged for money (except by selling them to some poor schmuck who's using SL currency, purchased with USD or other currency)
The software development cycle is important, but pretty easy to pick up. You've been learning to meet deadlines for how many years now? And deadlines in school are much more restrictive than deadlines at work (depending on your professor/employer of course!)...
What I think most CS students would benefit from most, from my time spent in the industry, is a few business classes. It's important to know what the business people are thinking, if you want to work for them. You can't just ignore your manager, hope s/he will go away as soon as they start talking, etc. You have to learn how to interact and exploit your manager!
Going into the real workforce after leaving school was quite a shock. It's the politics I was unprepared for. I'd focus on that if I was you. But I'm not, good luck!
It's really important to note that the survey compares countries and not students, and that it's 4th and 8th grade only that are measured. This is indicative to me (as an ex-psych major) of statistics fudging for funding.
Similarly it was pointed out to me when I complained about the heading that Slashdot may also be vulnerable to the inclination to write for money and not for truth. So now we see a correlation between the people who did the study and the person who submitted the article. Maybe that means that making misleading studies will generate misleading articles! After all, correlation ALWAYS implies causation!;)
I'd mod you up but unfortunately I already posted;)
Actually, the article is pretty good. I have some complaints about the validity of their study because of these statements:
"Nations that try to teach math in terms of daily life have the lowest test scores." "Countries reporting higher levels of enjoyment and confidence among math students don't do as well in the subject"
Which seem to indicate a broad-level study ignoring individual people - in fact they are studying the entire country, and saying, "Okay well US students have high levels of confidence and enjoyment, and they do badly at Math. Chinese kids are less confident and happy, and they do well at math." Well okay yes, perhaps, but maybe US kids are just more confident because they don't get lambasted so often. And maybe Chinese kids are good at math because of the high pressure. At least, that's the explanation I've been given to understand. As another reply to my original comment says, there's not even necessarily a correlation here. Statistics lie, especially when you use such broad brush strokes, and ignore the statistics of individual people. For instance, in the US alone, do students with higher math skills correlate to lower confidence? The study does not say.
The causation problem I have is this: "Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People"
Which indicates causality. It's not a problem with the article, but a problem with slashdot. Unfortunately, slashdot postings do not imply editor comprehension. There is absolutely NO sense of journalistic integrity on slashdot. Sure, it's a news re-posting site, but the blurbs are very important, since most people don't RTFA. I admit, I didn't until you complained at me;)
How many times do I have to say this? Slashdot keeps making this mistake. Just because two things happen at the same time doesn't mean that one causes the other.
I think it may have to do with the fundamental attribution error. Basically, when things go wrong for someone, you blame them. When things go wrong for you, you blame the environment. So, the winning party thinks it is the losing party's fault they lost. And the winning party thinks it must be something else - anything EXCEPT that the people really wanted the winning party to win. (Which is the most likely reason, conspiracy theories notwithstanding.)
It seems like people call any information they post a "privacy violation." Well you posted it, you put it in the public view. You have a right to do that.
It's important to remember that originally privacy was just about information that you meant to have private that gets put in the public... but web 2.0 has nothing to do with that.
This is very old news, chosen to be dropped right now because of Google's recent refusal to properly respond to the US government in favor of the people. It's an interesting double standard.
1 - interest groups Type in a list of interests and find a group of people to talk to. In a way you can already do this with IRC, but you have to do the search yourself. What if you just want to randomly talk to people in a city? It seems like -everybody- is using instant messengers these days, but everybody still isn't as connected as we can be.
2 - complete feature support for all IM networks Of course, with the syndication of various IM networks seeming fairly inevitable these days, IM clients must support multiple protocols, preferably modularly. The client should provide full audio/video/file transfer/embedded image support as well.
3 - security Direct peer-to-peer secure communications. Need I say any more?
4 - customizable user interface and backend Geeks use instant messengers. Geeks like scripting and modding. Geeks make instant messengers. Besides, what would any successor of IRC be without scripting?:D
Google makes big noises about not being evil. It starts to make you think about Google's Evil Index.
Back when they made their IPO, they even specifically structured it so as to avoid reliance on stock prices (nobody can own more of Google than they do). This means they cannot be -forced- to become evil by someone who buys up a lot of the stock. It also (cleverly) means nobody can do a takeover of their company - gee, I wonder why they did that:)
Anyway, being a business does -not- mean you have to focus on ROI. There's nothing in the manual that says that. ROI is only important if you care about making money. I'm still hanging on to the hope that not every business owner is JUST about making money. The guys at Google do seem to have some really interesting things to say about Information Availability, and they have zeal that borders on jihad.
Hey, there's an idea - let's make big-business takeover into a jihad:)
It's worse than that. It's the world's most expensive computer, paid for by a company who isn't spending their own money. Whose money are they spending? Why, yours of course! (If you live in the US.)
It's not about the pissing contest, and they're definitely making money off of US Government contracting - which is a particularly nice way to waste money, since it's someone else's money, it makes you tons of extra money, and you don't have to worry about competition! Woohoo, go US!
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is such a troll. *sighs*
... whereas if you stop at that 4th beer, it shows some measure of self-control.
I guarantee you this has nothing to do with any "medical benefits" of alcohol, and everything to do with who knows when to stop drinking and who doesn't.
Think about it. You've had your fourth beer, you're feeling good, what do you do? Go for more pleasure at the risk of being sick, or stop where you're at?
If you're the kind of person who will keep going, you're more likely to drive too fast off a cliff, skydive every weekend, do as many kinds of drugs as you can find, put yourself into fights,
Self-control will keep you alive a lot better than 4 beers a day. I promise.
Go sign up, then, and stop with the yakking and get to the hell-payments. We're clearly under attack, neh?
IMO, basically, yeah, screw those people! Given, I think any real artist should be composing their own music and writing their own lyrics, or that that part should at least be kept within the "band". But all that other nonsense that the spoiled, whiny, drug-addicted, self-centered, egotistical record producers do, which they (and apparently you, for some "odd" reason) think is important, I could really care less about.
Not to mention the fact that they're evil scumbags who're using intimidation and litigation to try to get their way. Does that make you want to go out and buy a bunch of crappy "packaging" for the songs you love? Not me.
I'm not going to pay for your bullshit advertising (I prefer word of mouth, which actually tells me about songs I like), your crappy "cover art" (woo, you drew a picture, thx, here's $20? I don't think so!) I'm not paying you because you put 10 songs in order, or suggested modifications to make them "flow better in the album." I don't want any compositions or albums. All I want is just this one song, see? Or maybe several songs, but I'll listen to them WHEN I LIKE, ONE AT A TIME, not be forced to listen to a single artist for 10 songs from some crappy CD. And when you put that ONE SONG that I want to hear with 5 other songs which I -don't- like...
Let's just say the record producers don't have much of a vote for my money. And I think the numbers suggest most people agree.
Sure, that's his point. But there are plenty of secondlife consumers. Supposedly 1.5 million (up .75 million in three weeks, kinda fishy)
You can make two things in SL: graphics and code. People have been able to steal graphics on the internet since it began. And you still can't steal someone else's code in SL. So who cares? The shopkeepers who are leaving are just protesters. LL should ignore them entirely, but they didn't, and Copybot is already out of circulation. (hehe actually it's not, but it's out of PUBLIC circulation!)
You can, in fact, exchange SL currency (legally, via linden labs, the owning company) for US currency, and then for gold. SL -items- cannot be exchanged for money (except by selling them to some poor schmuck who's using SL currency, purchased with USD or other currency)
Yeah, lots of companies use fucked up systems. The should download upgrades to their central management policies.
The software development cycle is important, but pretty easy to pick up. You've been learning to meet deadlines for how many years now? And deadlines in school are much more restrictive than deadlines at work (depending on your professor/employer of course!)...
What I think most CS students would benefit from most, from my time spent in the industry, is a few business classes. It's important to know what the business people are thinking, if you want to work for them. You can't just ignore your manager, hope s/he will go away as soon as they start talking, etc. You have to learn how to interact and exploit your manager!
Going into the real workforce after leaving school was quite a shock. It's the politics I was unprepared for. I'd focus on that if I was you. But I'm not, good luck!
use brainencryption;
use encrypted_brain_firmware;
It's really important to note that the survey compares countries and not students, and that it's 4th and 8th grade only that are measured. This is indicative to me (as an ex-psych major) of statistics fudging for funding.
;)
;)
Similarly it was pointed out to me when I complained about the heading that Slashdot may also be vulnerable to the inclination to write for money and not for truth. So now we see a correlation between the people who did the study and the person who submitted the article. Maybe that means that making misleading studies will generate misleading articles! After all, correlation ALWAYS implies causation!
I'd mod you up but unfortunately I already posted
(mod parent up!)
LOL good point. :) Guess they managed to push a button with that one.
Actually, the article is pretty good. I have some complaints about the validity of their study because of these statements:
;)
"Nations that try to teach math in terms of daily life have the lowest test scores."
"Countries reporting higher levels of enjoyment and confidence among math students don't do as well in the subject"
Which seem to indicate a broad-level study ignoring individual people - in fact they are studying the entire country, and saying, "Okay well US students have high levels of confidence and enjoyment, and they do badly at Math. Chinese kids are less confident and happy, and they do well at math." Well okay yes, perhaps, but maybe US kids are just more confident because they don't get lambasted so often. And maybe Chinese kids are good at math because of the high pressure. At least, that's the explanation I've been given to understand. As another reply to my original comment says, there's not even necessarily a correlation here. Statistics lie, especially when you use such broad brush strokes, and ignore the statistics of individual people. For instance, in the US alone, do students with higher math skills correlate to lower confidence? The study does not say.
The causation problem I have is this:
"Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People"
Which indicates causality. It's not a problem with the article, but a problem with slashdot. Unfortunately, slashdot postings do not imply editor comprehension. There is absolutely NO sense of journalistic integrity on slashdot. Sure, it's a news re-posting site, but the blurbs are very important, since most people don't RTFA. I admit, I didn't until you complained at me
Correlation does not equate causation.
How many times do I have to say this? Slashdot keeps making this mistake. Just because two things happen at the same time doesn't mean that one causes the other.
Correllation does not equate causation. That's all that needs to be said about this experiment.
I think it may have to do with the fundamental attribution error. Basically, when things go wrong for someone, you blame them. When things go wrong for you, you blame the environment. So, the winning party thinks it is the losing party's fault they lost. And the winning party thinks it must be something else - anything EXCEPT that the people really wanted the winning party to win. (Which is the most likely reason, conspiracy theories notwithstanding.)
... the first link in the article is to a porn site.
The porn site has now been slashdotted.
Get off my born, bitches!
It seems like people call any information they post a "privacy violation." Well you posted it, you put it in the public view. You have a right to do that.
It's important to remember that originally privacy was just about information that you meant to have private that gets put in the public... but web 2.0 has nothing to do with that.
why not just type FILENAME=`find . -iname comment.txt`;vi ${FILENAME}
This is very old news, chosen to be dropped right now because of Google's recent refusal to properly respond to the US government in favor of the people. It's an interesting double standard.
1 - interest groups
:D
Type in a list of interests and find a group of people to talk to. In a way you can already do this with IRC, but you have to do the search yourself. What if you just want to randomly talk to people in a city? It seems like -everybody- is using instant messengers these days, but everybody still isn't as connected as we can be.
2 - complete feature support for all IM networks
Of course, with the syndication of various IM networks seeming fairly inevitable these days, IM clients must support multiple protocols, preferably modularly. The client should provide full audio/video/file transfer/embedded image support as well.
3 - security
Direct peer-to-peer secure communications. Need I say any more?
4 - customizable user interface and backend
Geeks use instant messengers. Geeks like scripting and modding. Geeks make instant messengers. Besides, what would any successor of IRC be without scripting?
Just another geek gets his story rejected for a conformist(duplicate) article.
That's 6 words more than Google can handle. They have a maximum of 10 words that will actually be used to modify search results.
Once again, one need only refer to the related news: http://www.venganza.org/ Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
Google makes big noises about not being evil. It starts to make you think about Google's Evil Index.
:)
:)
Back when they made their IPO, they even specifically structured it so as to avoid reliance on stock prices (nobody can own more of Google than they do). This means they cannot be -forced- to become evil by someone who buys up a lot of the stock. It also (cleverly) means nobody can do a takeover of their company - gee, I wonder why they did that
Anyway, being a business does -not- mean you have to focus on ROI. There's nothing in the manual that says that. ROI is only important if you care about making money. I'm still hanging on to the hope that not every business owner is JUST about making money. The guys at Google do seem to have some really interesting things to say about Information Availability, and they have zeal that borders on jihad.
Hey, there's an idea - let's make big-business takeover into a jihad
(hello, carnivore)
It's worse than that. It's the world's most expensive computer, paid for by a company who isn't spending their own money. Whose money are they spending? Why, yours of course! (If you live in the US.)
It's not about the pissing contest, and they're definitely making money off of US Government contracting - which is a particularly nice way to waste money, since it's someone else's money, it makes you tons of extra money, and you don't have to worry about competition! Woohoo, go US!
*sigh*