You're spot on, but then in reality your OSHA comment rarely occurs by having the proper amount of funding for Inspectors to visit businesses.
Take the Construction Industry in the US. Rarely is residential housing actually built to code; and I mean rarely. Frost lines aren't at least or greater than the codes demand, often the span between 2x6 are wrong thus compromising load distribution and much more.
TFA indicates that she didn't have Ph.D., just a bachelor's degree. It's not clear from the article that anyone ever told her she ought to be wearing protective gear; in fact, a previous inspection (before she worked there) noted the failure of employees to wear lab coats.
I point this failing right at the Secondary Level in High schools with Chemistry labs being removed after those idiots in Colorado. In Washington State they removed most school districts chem labs, bio labs and more. You get shown basic lab safety at that level, long before you enter a University. There is a serious disconnect that they removed the trades from High School, handcuffed the Hard Science labs and created integrated mathematics to shuffle through the herds of lowest common denominator. Challenge the kids and show them the beauty and dangers of Hard Science so they have a respect for it.
I spent 2 and half years (I graduated early) studying Computer science in University. What surprised me when I got out was that the things I stressed over every day in school were only the thinnest onion skin of what was required of me in the industry. If I were to retake an exam after a couple years in the industry, I wouldn't have any problem with it.
The difference is that industry requires so much more focus and professionalism than schooling does. So it's no surprise that students would fuck up in a laboratory much more than a junior clinician with a month of on the job training.
It isn't about lack of OSHA oversight, it's about how academia considers safety as an afterthought.
Don't compare Computer Science to Chemistry. Having Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science on my c.v., M.E. stomped all over CS for professional standards, strict materials and manufacturing lab rules and much more. Why? Because you don't work with Milling Machines in CS or Oxy-Acetylene/Arc Welders while machining and assembling a CAR versus writing test cases in software. The fact this University doesn't have strict standards falls square on the shoulders of their full time professional staff who manage the labs and should be drilling into these kids Factors of Safety. If we ever mishandled metal lathes we got our asses chewed by the machinists. The manufacturing lab, strengths and materials labs and metallurgy labs were brutal on idiots who were not cautious about what they did in a building with plenty of options available to cause an explosion.
Electrical Science degree in 1968 from the Naval Academy--think Electrical Engineering with intense quantities of hands on design experience for products that have to deploy in war times.
According to Microsoft, this solves a 'problem inherent in open architecture systems,' i.e., 'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system purchaser.'
I'm so happy they finally read my mind!
Whoever the hell calls them a professional at Microsoft truly needs to have that term revoked, by this arrogance alone.
I believe we were created by god, to evolve.
Obviously, thousands of years ago, we were different, but evolved to what we are today.
What's interesting, is when I say that, depending on which side of the creationism/evolution debate you are on, sparks controversy from both sides;)
What makes our evolution the highest priority and not Birds, reptiles, etc., to have self-awareness?
Yes, Apple is free to do what they wish with their store, and we are free not to pay for their overpriced and overhyped products when saddled in this manner.
Don't bother replying Apple fanbois, I'm not interested. It's just another corporation acting in its own best interest.
You're a consumer proclaiming that Apple's best interest must coincide with your personal interests. Keep moving to other platforms until you run in a circle and cry that no one thinks your interests are superior to all.
Looking at the Transmission control interface through Safari on my iPhone right now. I guess now that Safari might be used to facilitate "this category of application" Apple will be pulling it from the OS?
I'm as much of a fanboy as the next guy, but Apple really need to get the house in order over the app store.
Truly think for a second. By forcing WebUI only interfaces Apple absolves itself from any future lawsuits. Do you get it, yet?
The purpose of these stories, involving Apple refusing to sell apps, is not to debate the rights of Apple to do so. Everyone recognizes that Apple has a right to sell or not sell anything it so desires.
The purpose of these stories is to warn people to stay away from Apple, because Apple does not have your best interests in mind, only its bottom line.
Please define how valuable you are to me. I'd truly love to see what you consider so valuable that I need you to be free to have a torrent client on your phone so I won't be deprived of all that value I'd be otherwise missing.
Please, show me the way! Show me the righteousness of your worth and the unworthy nature of my own for being so non-dogmatic to think that Apple is reasonable to determine their own self interests.
True. At least three of the most widely used (Deluge, KTorrent and Transmission) already have web UIs. No links, this can be easily checked on their official websites. rTorrent doesn't have web interface, AFAIK.
Apple will need to ban http to pull this off.
They have no interest in banning it via http. They don't want bittorrent clients [non-WebUI] on their systems, via direct client software people install for the specific purpose of torrent transmissions. I commented earlier on it being up to the dev to use a WebUI to end-around if they feel their life will not be complete without bittorrent on their phone of all f'n tools.
Just can't get enough traffic about your latest candid shots that you need a torrent client to upload all those "VIP club scenes", eh?
You think that's bad? Sixty-one percent of Math and Science teachers in Washington State don't even have the degree matching the course(s) they teach. If I had to learn Chemistry by someone other than the guy I had who held a MS Physical Chemistry I'd have never become an Engineer. The same goes for Physics, Biology, Trigonometry, Calculus, et.al.
Hell, they stopped American Government as a required class, along with intense study of Vietnam, WWI/WWII, 1800s/1900s US Constitutional landmark changes, and much more.
No offense, but if a person holding an Education Degree with an emphasis in Social Studies taught my child the rise and Fall of the Roman Empire I'd find a school that hired someone with the credentials worth giving my taxes money towards their paycheck.
How math is taught IS important. I've been doing research into how to teach math and I've learned over the years that the math most schools teach is ONE GROUP OF MEN's way of how to frame mathematics and numbers.
When it comes down to it math is a language to systematize form and structure.
There are numerous angles to teach concepts that are much better then traditional methods. One of the reasons kids find math hard is that they are not taught to DERIVE concepts from things everyone understands: Size, difference, distinction, ratio, motion. i.e. before you even open a textbook and start crunching numbers, you need to be taught how to observe and think conceptually, otherwise the symbols will just seem like jargon disconnected from why mathematical systems were 'invented' in the first place.
What math heads who are good with symbolic computation and manipulation don't understand is that mathematics for most people is difficult without a conceptual framework that they can relate to. Just seeing a bunch of symbols and equations doesn't tell you HOW to think about a general framework and interpretation of concepts that come before "math".
There's also a real cult around mathematics that turns a lot of people off math, since many people around mathematics tend to be rigid. One only has to look at how contemporaries of George Cantor in mathematics treated him when he came up with different ways of viewing numbers and mathematical concepts.
The best Mathematicians I found always became Engineers and some who dropped out of Engineering [EE/ME/ChemE/Materials] became Physicists. I found the guys who were "math nerds" truly had a void in Imagination [a requirement in Engineering in order to advance yourself in the degree and to understanding the boundless areas of application], were big on a niche in theoretical proofs and were horrific at application and explanation--two requirements to be a valuable Engineer.
As a Mechanical Engineer I always had an aptitude for Mathematics. University Calculus to Differential Equations taught me bad habits of attendance. I didn't need the Professor to understand it. I only showed up for core assignments, exams and project returns. Schaums Outlines filled in any gaps with lecture notes. The lectures were often boring as hell and detracted more than they added to the subject. Probability & Statistics for Engineering was a snooze. The professor was abysmal at conception so I slept in. Tensor Calculus [Vector Analysis] turned out to be an experiment in frustration having to correct the professor and eventually call him out on his inability to resolve the steps he skipped before the 30 other students who decided to take this elective. The man lost his spot in IEEE due to his lack of research. That should have been my first clue this class was going to be a disaster.
What do I think would improve Mathematics? You should be exposed to the Mathematicians who are the Giants in their fields early on as Human Beings. One shouldn't first learn about Newton in Physics Class just because of his 3 Laws of Classical Mechanics. You should learn about the personality and the history that culminated into his "intuitive" and empirical approach to making such leaps of intuition later rewarded by quantifiable verification. Same for Leibniz, Greene, Hamilton, Hilbert, etc.
Matrices can be a pleasure or a complete snoozer depending on the area of application. Groups of Linear Programming problems are a complete bore. The only reward was seeing how badly a professor could butcher Matrices while teaching business majors about Dijkstra's Method, the Simplex Method, et al.
Using Matrices for Dynamic Systems that need to resolve issues of Force, acceleration, angular momentum, vibration et.al makes learning Matrices interesting.
I would however say that people have such a cold approach to Mathematics because it's so impersonal and the history behind the individuals who have added such change to the World is never explored.
I don't think that spending $99 is going to force someone to produce a paid application instead of a free one.
And actually, I suspect instead that the real motivation is the somewhat heretical idea (stay with me here) that you can make MONEY writing applications for the iPhone. Get enough people to give you a buck an app, and in some cases you can make a LOT of money doing so.
Writing iPhone applications is a difficult, skilled process that can take a lot of time. Supporting and improving said application can also burn the hours. So if someone wants a buck or two in compensation, I, for one, am not going to cry over it. Especially if it means a steady supply of cheap and useful applications, games, and utilities.
But if YOU want to spend a week or month or more writing an iPhone application and then give it away for free, more power to you.
Your lack of ObjC/Cocoa experience is showing if it's an arduous task.
Six weeks. Samsung and Moto have product releases scheduled, as does HTC.
In other words, after WWDC 2009, they are planning to release hardware to try and take away some attention from the iPhone 3.0 OS, new hardware and Snow Leopard 10.6.
You don't develop in Java on the iPhone. Why the hell would you need to throw out your C++ let alone a single line of C when ObjC is a superset of C and ObjC++ is there to help in in several areas.
Anyone expecting Apple to abandon ObjC in favor of C++ is mentally stunted.
I'm an American. Most of us are unaware that there is more than one stanza to the anthem, and I don't think I've ever heard any stanza past the second sung. Francis Scott Key's poetry kinda falls off in quality, and it's hard enough to sing one stanza.
I wouldn't worry about the national anthem. It's the Pledge of Allegiance that bothers me. People actually say that.
STFU, you dumbass liberal wacko. It is those guns, bombers and soon particle weapons that allow you to be able to freely post things on sites like this. Every one LESS of those things is one more step towards a fascist, socialist slave future for all of us.
[snicker]
GPP was a take-off on a well-known quote:
"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Who said that? Well, that would be that well-known dumbass liberal socialist fascist wacko, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The same wacko who spit on the US Constitution and put In God We Trust and Under God on our currency and national anthem. Yea! That wacko is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
Then again the Christian Socialist who spit on the Constitution by having a Pledge of Allegiance made it clear the country was too ignorant to grasp the reasons the Founders insisted on a nation of Secular Law and how blind allegiance of many former nations eventually accelerated their demise.
Oh my god! Not 1 whole megabyte! How will our modern computers with gigabytes of HDD space and 100s of megs of ram ever be able to handle a 1+ megabyte binary!
I have hundreds of multi-byte binaries that could sure use the trimming.
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Very true observations. Kids need that exposure and respect at an early age.
You're spot on, but then in reality your OSHA comment rarely occurs by having the proper amount of funding for Inspectors to visit businesses.
Take the Construction Industry in the US. Rarely is residential housing actually built to code; and I mean rarely. Frost lines aren't at least or greater than the codes demand, often the span between 2x6 are wrong thus compromising load distribution and much more.
TFA indicates that she didn't have Ph.D., just a bachelor's degree. It's not clear from the article that anyone ever told her she ought to be wearing protective gear; in fact, a previous inspection (before she worked there) noted the failure of employees to wear lab coats.
I point this failing right at the Secondary Level in High schools with Chemistry labs being removed after those idiots in Colorado. In Washington State they removed most school districts chem labs, bio labs and more. You get shown basic lab safety at that level, long before you enter a University. There is a serious disconnect that they removed the trades from High School, handcuffed the Hard Science labs and created integrated mathematics to shuffle through the herds of lowest common denominator. Challenge the kids and show them the beauty and dangers of Hard Science so they have a respect for it.
I spent 2 and half years (I graduated early) studying Computer science in University. What surprised me when I got out was that the things I stressed over every day in school were only the thinnest onion skin of what was required of me in the industry. If I were to retake an exam after a couple years in the industry, I wouldn't have any problem with it.
The difference is that industry requires so much more focus and professionalism than schooling does. So it's no surprise that students would fuck up in a laboratory much more than a junior clinician with a month of on the job training.
It isn't about lack of OSHA oversight, it's about how academia considers safety as an afterthought.
Don't compare Computer Science to Chemistry. Having Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science on my c.v., M.E. stomped all over CS for professional standards, strict materials and manufacturing lab rules and much more. Why? Because you don't work with Milling Machines in CS or Oxy-Acetylene/Arc Welders while machining and assembling a CAR versus writing test cases in software. The fact this University doesn't have strict standards falls square on the shoulders of their full time professional staff who manage the labs and should be drilling into these kids Factors of Safety. If we ever mishandled metal lathes we got our asses chewed by the machinists. The manufacturing lab, strengths and materials labs and metallurgy labs were brutal on idiots who were not cautious about what they did in a building with plenty of options available to cause an explosion.
Electrical Science degree in 1968 from the Naval Academy--think Electrical Engineering with intense quantities of hands on design experience for products that have to deploy in war times.
Not to forget he has two degrees, listed at the bottom of his page, instead of the top.
I'm so happy they finally read my mind!
Whoever the hell calls them a professional at Microsoft truly needs to have that term revoked, by this arrogance alone.
I believe we were created by god, to evolve. Obviously, thousands of years ago, we were different, but evolved to what we are today. What's interesting, is when I say that, depending on which side of the creationism/evolution debate you are on, sparks controversy from both sides ;)
What makes our evolution the highest priority and not Birds, reptiles, etc., to have self-awareness?
I love it.
I'll leave it up to the author to see how it's incorrect.
Yes, Apple is free to do what they wish with their store, and we are free not to pay for their overpriced and overhyped products when saddled in this manner.
Don't bother replying Apple fanbois, I'm not interested. It's just another corporation acting in its own best interest.
You're a consumer proclaiming that Apple's best interest must coincide with your personal interests. Keep moving to other platforms until you run in a circle and cry that no one thinks your interests are superior to all.
Looking at the Transmission control interface through Safari on my iPhone right now. I guess now that Safari might be used to facilitate "this category of application" Apple will be pulling it from the OS?
I'm as much of a fanboy as the next guy, but Apple really need to get the house in order over the app store.
Truly think for a second. By forcing WebUI only interfaces Apple absolves itself from any future lawsuits. Do you get it, yet?
The purpose of these stories, involving Apple refusing to sell apps, is not to debate the rights of Apple to do so. Everyone recognizes that Apple has a right to sell or not sell anything it so desires.
The purpose of these stories is to warn people to stay away from Apple, because Apple does not have your best interests in mind, only its bottom line.
Please define how valuable you are to me. I'd truly love to see what you consider so valuable that I need you to be free to have a torrent client on your phone so I won't be deprived of all that value I'd be otherwise missing.
Please, show me the way! Show me the righteousness of your worth and the unworthy nature of my own for being so non-dogmatic to think that Apple is reasonable to determine their own self interests.
True. At least three of the most widely used (Deluge, KTorrent and Transmission) already have web UIs. No links, this can be easily checked on their official websites. rTorrent doesn't have web interface, AFAIK. Apple will need to ban http to pull this off.
They have no interest in banning it via http. They don't want bittorrent clients [non-WebUI] on their systems, via direct client software people install for the specific purpose of torrent transmissions. I commented earlier on it being up to the dev to use a WebUI to end-around if they feel their life will not be complete without bittorrent on their phone of all f'n tools.
Just can't get enough traffic about your latest candid shots that you need a torrent client to upload all those "VIP club scenes", eh?
And if they have a de-facto monopoly situation, other rules come into play.
Point me to a competing service that delivers software for the iPhone, and i'll grant that it's not a monopoly.
Go live with Android. Or pine over the Pre. How about BlackBerry? They'll all have their own sandboxes for you to complain in.
You think that's bad? Sixty-one percent of Math and Science teachers in Washington State don't even have the degree matching the course(s) they teach. If I had to learn Chemistry by someone other than the guy I had who held a MS Physical Chemistry I'd have never become an Engineer. The same goes for Physics, Biology, Trigonometry, Calculus, et.al.
Hell, they stopped American Government as a required class, along with intense study of Vietnam, WWI/WWII, 1800s/1900s US Constitutional landmark changes, and much more.
No offense, but if a person holding an Education Degree with an emphasis in Social Studies taught my child the rise and Fall of the Roman Empire I'd find a school that hired someone with the credentials worth giving my taxes money towards their paycheck.
Dover Publications eliminates the concern that your "scrawny" body can't handle such manly books.
How math is taught IS important. I've been doing research into how to teach math and I've learned over the years that the math most schools teach is ONE GROUP OF MEN's way of how to frame mathematics and numbers.
When it comes down to it math is a language to systematize form and structure.
There are numerous angles to teach concepts that are much better then traditional methods. One of the reasons kids find math hard is that they are not taught to DERIVE concepts from things everyone understands: Size, difference, distinction, ratio, motion. i.e. before you even open a textbook and start crunching numbers, you need to be taught how to observe and think conceptually, otherwise the symbols will just seem like jargon disconnected from why mathematical systems were 'invented' in the first place.
What math heads who are good with symbolic computation and manipulation don't understand is that mathematics for most people is difficult without a conceptual framework that they can relate to. Just seeing a bunch of symbols and equations doesn't tell you HOW to think about a general framework and interpretation of concepts that come before "math".
There's also a real cult around mathematics that turns a lot of people off math, since many people around mathematics tend to be rigid. One only has to look at how contemporaries of George Cantor in mathematics treated him when he came up with different ways of viewing numbers and mathematical concepts.
The best Mathematicians I found always became Engineers and some who dropped out of Engineering [EE/ME/ChemE/Materials] became Physicists. I found the guys who were "math nerds" truly had a void in Imagination [a requirement in Engineering in order to advance yourself in the degree and to understanding the boundless areas of application], were big on a niche in theoretical proofs and were horrific at application and explanation--two requirements to be a valuable Engineer.
As a Mechanical Engineer I always had an aptitude for Mathematics. University Calculus to Differential Equations taught me bad habits of attendance. I didn't need the Professor to understand it. I only showed up for core assignments, exams and project returns. Schaums Outlines filled in any gaps with lecture notes. The lectures were often boring as hell and detracted more than they added to the subject. Probability & Statistics for Engineering was a snooze. The professor was abysmal at conception so I slept in. Tensor Calculus [Vector Analysis] turned out to be an experiment in frustration having to correct the professor and eventually call him out on his inability to resolve the steps he skipped before the 30 other students who decided to take this elective. The man lost his spot in IEEE due to his lack of research. That should have been my first clue this class was going to be a disaster.
What do I think would improve Mathematics? You should be exposed to the Mathematicians who are the Giants in their fields early on as Human Beings. One shouldn't first learn about Newton in Physics Class just because of his 3 Laws of Classical Mechanics. You should learn about the personality and the history that culminated into his "intuitive" and empirical approach to making such leaps of intuition later rewarded by quantifiable verification. Same for Leibniz, Greene, Hamilton, Hilbert, etc.
Matrices can be a pleasure or a complete snoozer depending on the area of application. Groups of Linear Programming problems are a complete bore. The only reward was seeing how badly a professor could butcher Matrices while teaching business majors about Dijkstra's Method, the Simplex Method, et al.
Using Matrices for Dynamic Systems that need to resolve issues of Force, acceleration, angular momentum, vibration et.al makes learning Matrices interesting.
I would however say that people have such a cold approach to Mathematics because it's so impersonal and the history behind the individuals who have added such change to the World is never explored.
I'd say your biologists are correct. Everybody rounds pi when calculating a decimal expansion that depends on its value, including yourself.
Whose this everybody you speak of?
I don't think that spending $99 is going to force someone to produce a paid application instead of a free one.
And actually, I suspect instead that the real motivation is the somewhat heretical idea (stay with me here) that you can make MONEY writing applications for the iPhone. Get enough people to give you a buck an app, and in some cases you can make a LOT of money doing so.
Writing iPhone applications is a difficult, skilled process that can take a lot of time. Supporting and improving said application can also burn the hours. So if someone wants a buck or two in compensation, I, for one, am not going to cry over it. Especially if it means a steady supply of cheap and useful applications, games, and utilities.
But if YOU want to spend a week or month or more writing an iPhone application and then give it away for free, more power to you.
Your lack of ObjC/Cocoa experience is showing if it's an arduous task.
Six weeks. Samsung and Moto have product releases scheduled, as does HTC.
In other words, after WWDC 2009, they are planning to release hardware to try and take away some attention from the iPhone 3.0 OS, new hardware and Snow Leopard 10.6.
You don't develop in Java on the iPhone. Why the hell would you need to throw out your C++ let alone a single line of C when ObjC is a superset of C and ObjC++ is there to help in in several areas.
Anyone expecting Apple to abandon ObjC in favor of C++ is mentally stunted.
I'm an American. Most of us are unaware that there is more than one stanza to the anthem, and I don't think I've ever heard any stanza past the second sung. Francis Scott Key's poetry kinda falls off in quality, and it's hard enough to sing one stanza.
I wouldn't worry about the national anthem. It's the Pledge of Allegiance that bothers me. People actually say that.
You need a 3-octave range to sing it correctly.
STFU, you dumbass liberal wacko. It is those guns, bombers and soon particle weapons that allow you to be able to freely post things on sites like this. Every one LESS of those things is one more step towards a fascist, socialist slave future for all of us.
[snicker]
GPP was a take-off on a well-known quote:
"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Who said that? Well, that would be that well-known dumbass liberal socialist fascist wacko, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The same wacko who spit on the US Constitution and put In God We Trust and Under God on our currency and national anthem. Yea! That wacko is correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance Then again the Christian Socialist who spit on the Constitution by having a Pledge of Allegiance made it clear the country was too ignorant to grasp the reasons the Founders insisted on a nation of Secular Law and how blind allegiance of many former nations eventually accelerated their demise.
and have a 1+mb
Oh my god! Not 1 whole megabyte! How will our modern computers with gigabytes of HDD space and 100s of megs of ram ever be able to handle a 1+ megabyte binary!
I have hundreds of multi-byte binaries that could sure use the trimming.