Since it's my understanding they don't have distribution requirements, IE you could theoretically avoid algebra or any other class if you really wanted to do so.
I found what I originally saw last week
http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns
Apparently the ruling was in 2001 and covered a conviction of Michael Hyde. Guess since then they actually figured out the correct ruling.
The SJC has ruled we don't have the right to record the cops.(But apparently one of the federal court of appeals decide why yes, we do actually.) Look up Simon Glik if you care to read more.
Since we did that officially at one place we worked.(Agile/Scrum to be specific) So I've ranted before how I think the second dogma is just wrong. (You don't need to encourage developers to not document, they'll do that quite happily.) There are other issues however. So for one we had an issue where our "Scrum Master" basically just took over the group and started having us report to him, giving us tasks, etc. We did complain to management but they did the whole "You're doing Agile, you manage yourselves, work it out for yourselves." Then of course there's this whole agile thing that you have to produce software every day that shows visible changes. The problem that those of us in dev have with that are 2 fold. For one depending on what you're working on it might be weeks before you can shows anything that works at all. Also some bug fixes arn't really visible. (For example I fixed a race condition that in production only happened once every 6 months. It took QA and myself basically a week to write up a "test" to get this accepted since Agile is "Visiblity-Crazy")
Actually more recently i was doing agile which would have been nice since the product manager could tell me how it's supposed to work. The problem? He didn't actually know how the product is supposed to work (I mean basic functionality) so I'd work on it and put some functionality and then we'd find out oh wait, nobody asked for that and nobody wanted it.(Which was annoying since I kind of mentioned I didn't think it'd be that useful.)
Of course the big bad thing about agile is since you work daily with the product manager(who is simply my manager in this case) it ends up just being an excuse to micromanage me. (So that's twice I ended up getting micromanaged under Agile.)
The one that goes something "The difference between the education at an elite school and a non elite school isn't the education, it's the other stuff." (IE Like you say, access to research equipment, chance to network with elite professors and other elite students, etc. The classes are pretty much the same.)
If there really were 160k and he finished 401 then he finished in the top 0.25%. BTW, what's this about "Stanford-Caliber" courses? I mean I went to a fairly well regarded private university and lets say the quality of their courses was rather underwhelming. (I later took classes at a public university that is supposedly not in the private's league and the education they offered was as good if not better. Then again they didn't have loads of top researchers which is what those rankings are about anyway. Yes, I'm jaded.)
Only it doesn't work, because this type of system ensures that only the top percentile remain in the team in the long run, meaning that last year's top performances become this year's average target.
In short, if you're an overachiever, you'll raise the bar for everyone else, including yourself. It's a self-defeating system.
On top of that then there's the issue of actually measuring who the top performers actually are. Ok, with some jobs that might be fairly straight forward. However most of us here are techies, how do you measure the performance of a software engineer or quality assurance. (I ask because I know some of the people in the company get rated highly because their managers talk them up and the company gets this fantasy about how great they are. Should I mention I have a QA person now that basically had me waste months of company time "fixing" stuff that wasn't actually broken? But since this ones a top performer there's no way I was allowed to not fix it.)
Well one issue is a hacker could get into the electric(or water) companies' database and get the data. Then all they'd have to do is find out who hasn't been using their electricty in the last day or so and look up that address because that person is probably away on vacation. (That's not something you could do if the electric company is reading the meter once a month. If the smart meter lets them do it multiple times per day then they definitely can.)
I live near a couple of rotaries. (Which is what we call them.) I keep seeing people do insane shit in them, like stopping while they're in the rotary because they can't get off where they want.(Just go around, keep fucking moving.) Then again this is massachusetts where people will be in the right most lane of a 3 lane road and take a left. (Yes, really.)
I mean how a cell (like bacteria) have a bit of DNA, mechanism to transcribe that to RNA and use rhibosomes to translate that into a protein. This thing does similar stuff except it isn't designed to replicate itself. Hmm, I don't have access to the original though, what does it use for energy to do all of this? (Since a cell might use a mitochondria to do cellular respiration. Ok, a bacteria doesn't have those but it can do something similar.)
I mean basically you could cure Type 1 diabetes mellitus(Yes, there's other kinds of diabetes like diabetes insipidus) by just giving the person a pancreas transplant. Hmm, wonder if they could do theraputic cloning to get around. (Yes, I know that kind of blows a hole in that talking point "Oh, we're only going to use ESC we were going to throw away anyway." But basically if the immune system is targeting a non-essential protein just change it and ta-da all of a sudden it looks like a new kind of cell.)
I always like to point out that
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if you took all the ram used in every 2600 that was ever made you'd have less than 4GB of space. (128 bytes per system and about 30 million systems were made. Pretty much 4gb is standard on a laptop these days.)
Since he was a chain smoking creationist. (Oh, and he looked like he wanted any excuse to start a fight with one of the parishioners which he would probably win, he seemed like a pretty tough bastard.)
jobs in accounting making decisions. You know, oh Jeff makes X money but we can hire jackie for X-Y dollars and then fire Jeff. We don't care that Jeff knows the business inside out and Jackie doesn't. We don't care it'll be a year before Jackie comes up to speed and all the evidence says he won't be as good. We'll save a couple bucks now which is good enough. (Even if it screws us in the end.)
No I was thinking how I read somewhere that polio got trapped in North Africa and that the "final push" would get rid of it but then their anti-vaxers showed up and it got out. (Although I'm not even sure if that's even true because I've since read that the whole time it was still endemic to the Indian subcontinent so even if they eradicated it in North Africa there was at least one more reserve.)
because of Gates there's a reasonable shot we will cure malaria.
I guess I'm just totally jaded at times but I figure this will end up not working once the anti-vax nuts rear their heads. (You know, like how they supposedly had polio on its last legs and oh crap the anti-vaxers showed up and it got back out.)
I'm mostly thinking of the NVidia 640 series (Admittedly OEM) where some of them are kepler and some are fermi. (At least that's what I read on the Wikipedia list of all those units.) I mean they have multiple Geforce 640 that are different cards with different chipsets.
Simply take a course where you were already familiar with the subject matter. (I really suspect a lot of the students in the language classes I took were already fluent in the language. Boy did that suck for me.)
With their constant rebranding of old boards I can never keep straight what the hell I'd be buying. (Is that 600 series a kepler or fermi based board? Who can tell?)
Yup, I'm another one. They had us do Logo when I was in the 6th or 7th grade in the early 80's. Still maybe if they get to the kids early enough they can teach them some good coding habits. (For instance yes, most of your functions should fit on the freaking screen. No, it's not a good idea to have functions that are several hundred if not several thousand lines long. Oh, and my favorite, DON'T CUT AND PASTE CODE THROUGH OUT YOUR PROGRAM! Write a function damn it.)
Buggy whip makers lawyering up and sueing the fuck out of that new fangled car industry. (Wonder how many years behind we would be now if that happened. I'm glad they never had that kind of power.)
Since in real life the first car goes first when the light turns green. Then a split second later the second car would start moving. A moment later the 3rd and so on. So movement at red lights propagates down the line of cars like a wave. With this technology all the cars could move together in a group.
Note - I should point out this was 20 years ago for what it's worth. (But as I point out, the same mentality that would do that in my case I could totally see doing what the OP is complaining about.)
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Since it's my understanding they don't have distribution requirements, IE you could theoretically avoid algebra or any other class if you really wanted to do so.
I found what I originally saw last week http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns Apparently the ruling was in 2001 and covered a conviction of Michael Hyde. Guess since then they actually figured out the correct ruling.
The SJC has ruled we don't have the right to record the cops.(But apparently one of the federal court of appeals decide why yes, we do actually.) Look up Simon Glik if you care to read more.
Since we did that officially at one place we worked.(Agile/Scrum to be specific) So I've ranted before how I think the second dogma is just wrong. (You don't need to encourage developers to not document, they'll do that quite happily.) There are other issues however. So for one we had an issue where our "Scrum Master" basically just took over the group and started having us report to him, giving us tasks, etc. We did complain to management but they did the whole "You're doing Agile, you manage yourselves, work it out for yourselves." Then of course there's this whole agile thing that you have to produce software every day that shows visible changes. The problem that those of us in dev have with that are 2 fold. For one depending on what you're working on it might be weeks before you can shows anything that works at all. Also some bug fixes arn't really visible. (For example I fixed a race condition that in production only happened once every 6 months. It took QA and myself basically a week to write up a "test" to get this accepted since Agile is "Visiblity-Crazy") Actually more recently i was doing agile which would have been nice since the product manager could tell me how it's supposed to work. The problem? He didn't actually know how the product is supposed to work (I mean basic functionality) so I'd work on it and put some functionality and then we'd find out oh wait, nobody asked for that and nobody wanted it.(Which was annoying since I kind of mentioned I didn't think it'd be that useful.) Of course the big bad thing about agile is since you work daily with the product manager(who is simply my manager in this case) it ends up just being an excuse to micromanage me. (So that's twice I ended up getting micromanaged under Agile.)
The one that goes something "The difference between the education at an elite school and a non elite school isn't the education, it's the other stuff." (IE Like you say, access to research equipment, chance to network with elite professors and other elite students, etc. The classes are pretty much the same.)
If there really were 160k and he finished 401 then he finished in the top 0.25%. BTW, what's this about "Stanford-Caliber" courses? I mean I went to a fairly well regarded private university and lets say the quality of their courses was rather underwhelming. (I later took classes at a public university that is supposedly not in the private's league and the education they offered was as good if not better. Then again they didn't have loads of top researchers which is what those rankings are about anyway. Yes, I'm jaded.)
Only it doesn't work, because this type of system ensures that only the top percentile remain in the team in the long run, meaning that last year's top performances become this year's average target. In short, if you're an overachiever, you'll raise the bar for everyone else, including yourself. It's a self-defeating system.
On top of that then there's the issue of actually measuring who the top performers actually are. Ok, with some jobs that might be fairly straight forward. However most of us here are techies, how do you measure the performance of a software engineer or quality assurance. (I ask because I know some of the people in the company get rated highly because their managers talk them up and the company gets this fantasy about how great they are. Should I mention I have a QA person now that basically had me waste months of company time "fixing" stuff that wasn't actually broken? But since this ones a top performer there's no way I was allowed to not fix it.)
Well one issue is a hacker could get into the electric(or water) companies' database and get the data. Then all they'd have to do is find out who hasn't been using their electricty in the last day or so and look up that address because that person is probably away on vacation. (That's not something you could do if the electric company is reading the meter once a month. If the smart meter lets them do it multiple times per day then they definitely can.)
I live near a couple of rotaries. (Which is what we call them.) I keep seeing people do insane shit in them, like stopping while they're in the rotary because they can't get off where they want.(Just go around, keep fucking moving.) Then again this is massachusetts where people will be in the right most lane of a 3 lane road and take a left. (Yes, really.)
I mean how a cell (like bacteria) have a bit of DNA, mechanism to transcribe that to RNA and use rhibosomes to translate that into a protein. This thing does similar stuff except it isn't designed to replicate itself. Hmm, I don't have access to the original though, what does it use for energy to do all of this? (Since a cell might use a mitochondria to do cellular respiration. Ok, a bacteria doesn't have those but it can do something similar.)
Hey, doesn't that mean that there's another way to produce 100% pure ethanol? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_purification#Molecular_sieves
I mean basically you could cure Type 1 diabetes mellitus(Yes, there's other kinds of diabetes like diabetes insipidus) by just giving the person a pancreas transplant. Hmm, wonder if they could do theraputic cloning to get around. (Yes, I know that kind of blows a hole in that talking point "Oh, we're only going to use ESC we were going to throw away anyway." But basically if the immune system is targeting a non-essential protein just change it and ta-da all of a sudden it looks like a new kind of cell.)
if you took all the ram used in every 2600 that was ever made you'd have less than 4GB of space. (128 bytes per system and about 30 million systems were made. Pretty much 4gb is standard on a laptop these days.)
I mean the first Cosmos did have some new age stuff in it. (You know, where Sagan plays a little drum. I forget why he was doing that though.)
Since he was a chain smoking creationist. (Oh, and he looked like he wanted any excuse to start a fight with one of the parishioners which he would probably win, he seemed like a pretty tough bastard.)
jobs in accounting making decisions. You know, oh Jeff makes X money but we can hire jackie for X-Y dollars and then fire Jeff. We don't care that Jeff knows the business inside out and Jackie doesn't. We don't care it'll be a year before Jackie comes up to speed and all the evidence says he won't be as good. We'll save a couple bucks now which is good enough. (Even if it screws us in the end.)
No I was thinking how I read somewhere that polio got trapped in North Africa and that the "final push" would get rid of it but then their anti-vaxers showed up and it got out. (Although I'm not even sure if that's even true because I've since read that the whole time it was still endemic to the Indian subcontinent so even if they eradicated it in North Africa there was at least one more reserve.)
because of Gates there's a reasonable shot we will cure malaria.
I guess I'm just totally jaded at times but I figure this will end up not working once the anti-vax nuts rear their heads. (You know, like how they supposedly had polio on its last legs and oh crap the anti-vaxers showed up and it got back out.)
I'm mostly thinking of the NVidia 640 series (Admittedly OEM) where some of them are kepler and some are fermi. (At least that's what I read on the Wikipedia list of all those units.) I mean they have multiple Geforce 640 that are different cards with different chipsets.
Simply take a course where you were already familiar with the subject matter. (I really suspect a lot of the students in the language classes I took were already fluent in the language. Boy did that suck for me.)
With their constant rebranding of old boards I can never keep straight what the hell I'd be buying. (Is that 600 series a kepler or fermi based board? Who can tell?)
Yup, I'm another one. They had us do Logo when I was in the 6th or 7th grade in the early 80's. Still maybe if they get to the kids early enough they can teach them some good coding habits. (For instance yes, most of your functions should fit on the freaking screen. No, it's not a good idea to have functions that are several hundred if not several thousand lines long. Oh, and my favorite, DON'T CUT AND PASTE CODE THROUGH OUT YOUR PROGRAM! Write a function damn it.)
Buggy whip makers lawyering up and sueing the fuck out of that new fangled car industry. (Wonder how many years behind we would be now if that happened. I'm glad they never had that kind of power.)
Since in real life the first car goes first when the light turns green. Then a split second later the second car would start moving. A moment later the 3rd and so on. So movement at red lights propagates down the line of cars like a wave. With this technology all the cars could move together in a group.
Note - I should point out this was 20 years ago for what it's worth. (But as I point out, the same mentality that would do that in my case I could totally see doing what the OP is complaining about.)