How much can education do for the half of the population with below average intelligence? Is it cheaper to put these people on welfare than to provide them with decent labor/manufacturing jobs?
If you RTA in this case it is mobile technology, a much smaller world than the desktop... there is nothing special about this skill. Of course the PHB overcharging customers doesn't want anyone to know this.
Nobody is going to just learn random API's and COTS packages- management could have provided training or financial incentive for the Senior Guy to teach himself.
If you read the article, it had to do with mobile technology- which for the most part is just a subset of web or client server technology. Any developer that has done these types of development can quickly switch to mobile applications.
What if the employer asked the senior coder to pick up XYZ skill in exchange for a really good raise? I bet you they would have become a subject matter expert in a short amount of time.
The killer app would be a docking station for an android phone that would allow you to do full capability computing when you need it. (it should also have a head set so you can 'answer the phone')
Yes, I think it does matter, because eventually the law will 'fail'. I have no idea at what point that will come but it will certainly be an important inflection point for technology.
Funny how computers and CGI are taken for granted... as a young person in the 80s stuff like the first Macintosh and laser printer were mind blowing when they came out. For some perspective in 8th grade I learned to type on IBM Selectric.
Republican preference has been consistently underrepresented in polls for as long as I remember- and cellphones didn't suddenly appear in the last year.
Sorry, I got the description wrong (senior moment)
Just pinch your starting point in one hand and let the rest of the items hang below- the knots will be ordered correctly top to bottom solving the traveling salesman problem.
Yes, it's easy to solve outside of a computer- tie a bunch of strings together representing your routes. Any two points are easily resolved by picking holding the points in each hand and pulling it taught. The taught strings are your route.
No idea how this was marked Insightful. Maybe they microprocessor manufacturers should have just waited 20 years so they wouldn't have to make all those slow old cpus...
Obviously the experience developing the lessor systems helps in the development of the greater systems.
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That's cute, but what is the more tyrannical, welfare or maintaining a manufacturing base in the US?
How much can education do for the half of the population with below average intelligence? Is it cheaper to put these people on welfare than to provide them with decent labor/manufacturing jobs?
Not necessary blaming it on the manager, it is a case of rotten collusion between HR and PHBs
If you RTA in this case it is mobile technology, a much smaller world than the desktop... there is nothing special about this skill. Of course the PHB overcharging customers doesn't want anyone to know this.
Nobody is going to just learn random API's and COTS packages- management could have provided training or financial incentive for the Senior Guy to teach himself.
If you read the article, it had to do with mobile technology- which for the most part is just a subset of web or client server technology. Any developer that has done these types of development can quickly switch to mobile applications.
What if the employer asked the senior coder to pick up XYZ skill in exchange for a really good raise? I bet you they would have become a subject matter expert in a short amount of time.
The killer app would be a docking station for an android phone that would allow you to do full capability computing when you need it.
(it should also have a head set so you can 'answer the phone')
Why would you then bother with a desktop?
Most dairy cows raised in the US never venture outside of the building.
Yes, I think it does matter, because eventually the law will 'fail'.
I have no idea at what point that will come but it will certainly be an important inflection point for technology.
More importantly, what episode(s) did Dr. Who use the sonic screwdriver to detect radiation?
I don't remember any...
The lesson that knowledge of a language can be discarded and replaced by better things is a good one too.
Funny how computers and CGI are taken for granted... as a young person in the 80s stuff like the first Macintosh and laser printer were mind blowing when they came out. For some perspective in 8th grade I learned to type on IBM Selectric.
265$ is more than I have spent on an entire system in the last ten years.
With a 3 week stand-by battery life, I think that a considerable amount of custom engineering went into the phone.
How about figuring out a way to gather up the trash in the pacific and to aggregate it into a floating island?
Yes you should.
Republican preference has been consistently underrepresented in polls for as long as I remember- and cellphones didn't suddenly appear in the last year.
Please name a major proprietary software company that doesn't operate this way.
Sorry, I got the description wrong (senior moment)
Just pinch your starting point in one hand and let the rest of the items hang below- the knots will be ordered correctly top to bottom solving the traveling salesman problem.
Yes, it's easy to solve outside of a computer- tie a bunch of strings together representing your routes.
Any two points are easily resolved by picking holding the points in each hand and pulling it taught.
The taught strings are your route.
Post was meant for the parent, not yours.
There is already a good candidate for this it is called the 'Vasimr Engine'
No idea how this was marked Insightful.
Maybe they microprocessor manufacturers should have just waited 20 years so they wouldn't have to make all those slow old cpus...
Obviously the experience developing the lessor systems helps in the development of the greater systems.
Buying a child an expensive unnecessary useless gadget to improve their peer status is bad parenting.
The people most likely to get an infection are exactly the ones that need a blunt warning like this.