I have watched shows on SyFy. I'm not willing to pay $1 extra for SyFy. In fact if my cable subscription wasn't subsidizing a substantial chunk of my internet subscription I'd probably find that it wasn't worth paying what I do for television at all.
I agree. Even at the level of a Bachelors degree at a University there is a culture of hatred to work. That is why this will never just be a problem of better funding for education.
Many specializations are cross-disciplinary in nature. I'm in a cross-disciplinary PhD program in Modeling and Simulation, I'm required to take courses across four departments. In a traditional departmental PhD program I would be required to take courses in perhaps two departments at most and I'd need to fight the dean of my department to get something else (because his department gets a cut of my tuition for courses in his department.)
So it is ok to subject someone to abuse that will probably interfere with the rest of their life, when they are entering into a situation unlikely to fully know the reprocussions of their actions? Doesn't really sound that far afield to me.
A coworker of mine once said that education should be absolutely free but radically more difficult than it is. A country should pay to educate citizens to the level they are willing and capable of.
The reward of solving a problem through hard work and proper application of knowledge is the feeling at the end. That is why young American's still choose to do it. There are a number of hurdles to get addicted to that feeling, not the least of which is that I can probably make more money doing something else.
"Also WPA and WPA2 take about an hour to crack tops if you use a cloud based solution for most normal people passwords..." A cloud-based solution to steal internet access? Seems a bit difficult...
Disgusting show. My wife and I watched one episode. Hansen berated an obviously mentally handicapped man on national television. To me, the confrontation of that man was far more disgusting than the thing the show was attempting to stop.
I've never been able to get my laptop to play well with my router when I set up security. Since none of my other networked hardware moves, the laptop is the only reason I have a wireless router. I spent quite some time trying to set up things securely, but there is only so much you can do when you enable security on a router and one or more devices just don't detect the network anymore.
The pacing is different between IW and Treyarch games. Not Counterstrike vs Team Fortress different, but definitely different. CoD:BO has some action delays that make it a slower multiplayer experience than MW or MW2.
Maybe in disease research. Imagine what would happen to the cost of cancer drugs if the company didn't have to "make up for" its R&D money and the government could hand the process to whoever to promote true competition. But God forbid we interfere with the free-market or undermine the political contributer's profits.
Sorry, you misunderstood. Your product is technically a hard product, but you started with a refined product, added what your customers perceive as value, and sold a more refined product. If buy a threaded rod from you, does the removal of metal to form the threads add value? You started with 2 lbs of metal and give me 1.8. Now say I'm making a jet, I need a threaded rod. You sell it to a company that then sells it to me with the addition that it insures it to a certain strength. If it fails then they take some of my risk. The value you added is no different than the value they added. Your product is a phsical change, but other than that a process that makes something more useful to me is worth extra cost and the form of that value does not make either job less important.
There is a content issue here and a quality issue here. As a nation we are fighting petty battles over content in school, while ignoring the fact that we have stripped the quality from the courses long before. Without critical thinking and experimentation, it doesn't matter if you can teach a child the state of the universe with perfect accuracy even far beyond our current understanding. With critical thinking and experimentation, it doesn't matter nearly as much what crap gets fed to them because the crap will fall away with study and experimentation. Not saying that accuracy doesn't matter, but there will always be a new topic where the facts are ignored if we don't focus on teaching important skills first.
Are you doing poorly because you aren't mining the metal and refining it before machining parts? Aren't you buying someone else's product, performing a service, and passing on extra costs and additional value to your customers? Just because someone produces a soft product, doesn't mean that there is no value to it. Craftsman tools are popular because of the soft product, warrantee. By all accounts they are no better than any other tool, but a generation of men will swear by them because if it breaks I can take it back.
Despite the negative financial impact regulation in and of itself isn't necessarily bad. I don't want to say drop the heavy metal regulations on toys just so I spend $50 rather than $100 on my child's next birthday. I think in many cases the populations of these growing nations will impose stricter regulations on their industries as they begin to approach our level of wealth. Not that all regulation benefits the consumer but things like public health, enviromental stewardship, and anti-trust protections are handled poorly by the free market.
There are several products out there that act to boost cellphone reception in a building that inhibits reception. I haven't tried them but they seem to get decent reviews. I have poor reception in my current house and was tempted to try one but I don't want to drop the money on one and find out that it was just because I'm too far from the tower at the house.
You say it as a joke but plenty of companies do that. Here programmer fix this; there can't be that much difference between GUI design and embedded systems or you would need a different degree to do one or the other.
I live in Huntsville too. There are plenty of companies here that are/were innovative in computer hardware/networking/telecom separate from government business. I'd like to see more diversity in what the city does, but being in the south it carries such a stigma for the residents being stupid it is hard to attract other industries. Hence my sarcastic comment as GP to stir up discussion.
BTW there is plenty of technical expertise around the South, Huntsville just shines so bright because of the government funding. Birmingham and Nashville both have strong but smaller technical businesses. TVA has scattered electrical and structural engineers all through the Tennessee Valley.
Buying something with a technology != Buying because of a technology
(Assuming that I didn't have them) I'd buy Babylon 5 in black and white because the underlying entertainment quality overrides the shortcomings of the entertainment technology. I'd be getting what I want (Babylon 5), not getting what I want (black and white videos).
15 scovilles is approximately 1 ppm capsaicin. A library of congress is approximately 0.001 ppm of the data universe. This pepper should be about 1000 LoCs. Admittedly, there are significant roundoff errors in that calculation, but it should be good enough for the layman.
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I have watched shows on SyFy. I'm not willing to pay $1 extra for SyFy. In fact if my cable subscription wasn't subsidizing a substantial chunk of my internet subscription I'd probably find that it wasn't worth paying what I do for television at all.
when you can just troll for all the information on facebook...
I agree. Even at the level of a Bachelors degree at a University there is a culture of hatred to work. That is why this will never just be a problem of better funding for education.
Many specializations are cross-disciplinary in nature. I'm in a cross-disciplinary PhD program in Modeling and Simulation, I'm required to take courses across four departments. In a traditional departmental PhD program I would be required to take courses in perhaps two departments at most and I'd need to fight the dean of my department to get something else (because his department gets a cut of my tuition for courses in his department.)
So it is ok to subject someone to abuse that will probably interfere with the rest of their life, when they are entering into a situation unlikely to fully know the reprocussions of their actions? Doesn't really sound that far afield to me.
A coworker of mine once said that education should be absolutely free but radically more difficult than it is. A country should pay to educate citizens to the level they are willing and capable of.
The reward of solving a problem through hard work and proper application of knowledge is the feeling at the end. That is why young American's still choose to do it. There are a number of hurdles to get addicted to that feeling, not the least of which is that I can probably make more money doing something else.
"Also WPA and WPA2 take about an hour to crack tops if you use a cloud based solution for most normal people passwords..." A cloud-based solution to steal internet access? Seems a bit difficult...
Disgusting show. My wife and I watched one episode. Hansen berated an obviously mentally handicapped man on national television. To me, the confrontation of that man was far more disgusting than the thing the show was attempting to stop.
I've never been able to get my laptop to play well with my router when I set up security. Since none of my other networked hardware moves, the laptop is the only reason I have a wireless router. I spent quite some time trying to set up things securely, but there is only so much you can do when you enable security on a router and one or more devices just don't detect the network anymore.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21836088/ns/technology_and_science-space Just because some of the issues can't be solved by a smaller step, doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile.
The pacing is different between IW and Treyarch games. Not Counterstrike vs Team Fortress different, but definitely different. CoD:BO has some action delays that make it a slower multiplayer experience than MW or MW2.
Obviously not available for everyone but: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/green_resid.htm
Maybe in disease research. Imagine what would happen to the cost of cancer drugs if the company didn't have to "make up for" its R&D money and the government could hand the process to whoever to promote true competition. But God forbid we interfere with the free-market or undermine the political contributer's profits.
Sorry, you misunderstood. Your product is technically a hard product, but you started with a refined product, added what your customers perceive as value, and sold a more refined product. If buy a threaded rod from you, does the removal of metal to form the threads add value? You started with 2 lbs of metal and give me 1.8. Now say I'm making a jet, I need a threaded rod. You sell it to a company that then sells it to me with the addition that it insures it to a certain strength. If it fails then they take some of my risk. The value you added is no different than the value they added. Your product is a phsical change, but other than that a process that makes something more useful to me is worth extra cost and the form of that value does not make either job less important.
There is a content issue here and a quality issue here. As a nation we are fighting petty battles over content in school, while ignoring the fact that we have stripped the quality from the courses long before. Without critical thinking and experimentation, it doesn't matter if you can teach a child the state of the universe with perfect accuracy even far beyond our current understanding. With critical thinking and experimentation, it doesn't matter nearly as much what crap gets fed to them because the crap will fall away with study and experimentation. Not saying that accuracy doesn't matter, but there will always be a new topic where the facts are ignored if we don't focus on teaching important skills first.
Are you doing poorly because you aren't mining the metal and refining it before machining parts? Aren't you buying someone else's product, performing a service, and passing on extra costs and additional value to your customers? Just because someone produces a soft product, doesn't mean that there is no value to it. Craftsman tools are popular because of the soft product, warrantee. By all accounts they are no better than any other tool, but a generation of men will swear by them because if it breaks I can take it back.
Despite the negative financial impact regulation in and of itself isn't necessarily bad. I don't want to say drop the heavy metal regulations on toys just so I spend $50 rather than $100 on my child's next birthday. I think in many cases the populations of these growing nations will impose stricter regulations on their industries as they begin to approach our level of wealth. Not that all regulation benefits the consumer but things like public health, enviromental stewardship, and anti-trust protections are handled poorly by the free market.
There are several products out there that act to boost cellphone reception in a building that inhibits reception. I haven't tried them but they seem to get decent reviews. I have poor reception in my current house and was tempted to try one but I don't want to drop the money on one and find out that it was just because I'm too far from the tower at the house.
You say it as a joke but plenty of companies do that. Here programmer fix this; there can't be that much difference between GUI design and embedded systems or you would need a different degree to do one or the other.
I live in Huntsville too. There are plenty of companies here that are/were innovative in computer hardware/networking/telecom separate from government business. I'd like to see more diversity in what the city does, but being in the south it carries such a stigma for the residents being stupid it is hard to attract other industries. Hence my sarcastic comment as GP to stir up discussion. BTW there is plenty of technical expertise around the South, Huntsville just shines so bright because of the government funding. Birmingham and Nashville both have strong but smaller technical businesses. TVA has scattered electrical and structural engineers all through the Tennessee Valley.
"Ousama Abushagur, a 31-year-old Libyan telecom executive raised in Huntsville, Ala., masterminded the operation from his home in Abu Dhabi."
Buying something with a technology != Buying because of a technology (Assuming that I didn't have them) I'd buy Babylon 5 in black and white because the underlying entertainment quality overrides the shortcomings of the entertainment technology. I'd be getting what I want (Babylon 5), not getting what I want (black and white videos).
Don't you watch the news? Every time the FCC listens to Slashdot, Congress takes away a piece of their power...
15 scovilles is approximately 1 ppm capsaicin. A library of congress is approximately 0.001 ppm of the data universe. This pepper should be about 1000 LoCs. Admittedly, there are significant roundoff errors in that calculation, but it should be good enough for the layman.