Maybe, just maybe, it's not really racism but a dominance of two particular races that apply to jobs within the industry. When I think Engineering and Math, I tend to think of Germany and Japan, two cultures that are known to have a strong work ethic and an aptitude for solving complex problems. Sure, one country may be predominantly white and the other asian, but that's a superficial difference. There's certainly no race-specific barriers preventing Hispanics, Blacks, Women or other minorities from getting the appropriate Math and Science degrees... could it possibly be that those degrees just don't interest them?
My college CS classmates were dominantly Chinese, Middle Eastern and White (in that order), with one or two Indian (eastern) students. This is in New Mexico, where half the phonebook is hispanic last names. Looking at the broader Engineering school, there were a handful of hispanic students, but they were vastly outnumbered by Asian, Middle Eastern, and White students. The hispanic and native american students tended to go toward business, medicine and art.
Don't jump to the assumption that racism is at play when there are many more variables that could account for this perceived slight.
What if the rest of society is really worried over the fact that a sophisticated adversary is meddling into your domestic affairs (via DNCLeak and DCLeaks, incl Wikileaks) and at the same time confronts one of your main intelligence agencies in public, calling it bluff.
We are mostly okay with that because Capitalism. See Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon. This time around it's just a different person looking to make a profit.
Until we as a society actually take a stand on privacy and stop sharing every meal and bowel movement with all of our friends, this kind of crap will always fly under the radar to "ZOMG Zac Efron at the olympics!"
So you went through 4+ years of college to be a pool boy?
I would have thought there would be more exciting work, like in pharmaceuticals, food industry (the next next Coca-Cola), or even defense (materials science and such).
If we really wanted to stop Sunni terrorist organizations we would be relentlessly trying to level places where they are Headquartered like Raqqa.
To what end? Every bomb we drop that happens to harm an innocent person is egg on our face in other countries eyes. It's a deadly game of whack-a-mole that really doesn't have an end.
Hate breeds more hate. The Sunni and Shiites will never be peaceful to one another, and neither will truly accept Western civilizations (e.g. US and UK) as long as we keep going in and ham-handedly killing women and children in the name of peace. Ever wonder what sparked terrorism and revenge on the West? Do you think maybe some of the Cold War proxy conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan may have something to do with it? Maybe the two gulf wars tarnished our image?
It's funny that these terrorist organizations are so hard to track because they use "ancient" technology. Bin Laden used hand-written messages and couriers to plan and coordinate. They hid in caves, not in the backs or basements of bars. They stayed away from cell phones and other devices that could be tracked and monitored. Yet we are led to believe that these "lone wolves" were only able to chat via cell phone?
You forgot Java. Painful to work with (change a page, recompile, redeploy), moderately slow, and hideously bloated (library dependency hell, for a parser?). Yet it seems to be a very capable server side language.
On one hand, you've got a simulation that throws birds through wood planks, bricks, and ice blocks. On the other you've got phones that were once able to withstand over 1000 pounds of force (I once drove over a nokia phone in an attempt to break it) and can survive 40 foot drops onto concrete without issue. This kinda sounds like a match made in heaven.
Now they just need to develop a phone that splits into 5 lesser phones, a homing phone, and a phone that drops lesser bomb phones. Someone said wars will be fought with technology. Bet they didn't see "Angry Birds Munitions" coming.
Sure, Google Fiber has lots of "Fiber cities". But that's much like calling Google an "Irish Company". The claim is "deployed here!", but have actually deployed to a handful of houses and the rest are in perpetual planning and sign-up. This map of Austin, TX hasn't changed much in the past 2 years. Really, only "Other" has been broken into a few more pieces, each with their own sign-up.
Sure, it will take longer than a couple weeks to install new infrastructure over an entire city. But anyone that moves to a "fiber city" just so they can get Google Fiber is going to be greatly disappointed when they find the one house that is hooked up is actually a shed in the slums somewhere.
Our client, pecosdave, suffers from the debilitating disease of Laziness wherein he cannot be bothered to use a mouse or mouse-like interface to use your service, "Netflix". Our client has sent not zero, but exactly 1 (one) email to your customer support asking for proper keyboard support for your services web browser client. As described in his email, he is able to use arrow keys and the space bar without problem, and mashing his hand down on a keyboard as a response to your "Are you still watching?" prompt. However, anything that requires our client to sit up and move his arm around causes him considerable pain and mental anguish. We politely ask for your assistance in aiding our client and others stricken with Laziness in providing proper keyboard support for your platform.
What's with the clickbait listicle title? Is/. trying to become the new foxnews.com/microsoft.com/facebook.com/oracle.com?
I got nothing.
This is really the first step (pun!) towards the creation of human tanks, the next VR program will end up with people being able to control wheels, then tracks, then turrets, then the brains will be removed and added to machines....
Wait, you mean I can roll around on tank treads instead of using my own two legs like a sucker? Sign me up! Being one of the bosses from Super Smash T.V. is step #435 on my plan for world domination.
VR is about control of the populace, they will improve it to the point that we don't know whether we are in it or not and then they can start making us do what they want.
There is no spoon. Just keep taking that blue pill.
Exoskeletons are the first step towards Terminator robots - SkyNet is here, something something Singularity.
We're in luck. Stephen Colbert is already on the case there. Though I say I have to agree with one of this threatdowns. #5 is robots, #4 is bears, #3 is robots, #2 is bears and the number one threat to our nation is robot bears.
Don't get me wrong, if it weren't for math and technology my career wouldn't exist, but why exactly do we need entire generations of programmers? Shouldn't we be teaching kids to pursue their interests instead of forcing some ideal on them?
Okay, sure, computers are everywhere and its helpful to know how to use them. Math is helpful in most everything from following a recipe in the kitchen to designing space aircraft. Lets face it folks, not everybody gets to be (or even wants to be) an astronaut. Enable the kids to pursue stuff on computers to their little hearts content, but don't force a kid to program if they have no desire to. Let them find their own way through life.
Mike Rowe has what I think is a great outlook here. There's dozens or even hundreds of jobs out there that go unfilled because they aren't sexy. Many of which can pay more than your typically bachelors in CS or Engineering after a couple years in the trade.
In (old) related news: A best man took matters into his own hands by installing a device that live tweets newlyweds activities in bed. Including duration, end time, and "Frenzy Index".
Coming from personal experience, it depends on the parents. If they value cooking and eating as a family, so will the kid. If they value McDonalds, so will the kid.
I always had meals with my folks and they taught me how to cook early on. "If you like to eat, you need to learn to cook."
Later on in bachelor life I started having Soylent as a cheap breakfast substitute. Partially since it's fast and easy, partially since I can make it in a blender and have a weeks worth of breakfast, and since cereal or oatmeal would have me hungry by 10. At least I could survive until lunch with a soylent breakfast.
Now married life means I'm not doing that nearly as often as before and I'm right back to cooking and eating with the family.
Then you've never met the typical Fat Dumb American. I'd imagine a Discovery documentary would be something like the following:
"We're on a hunt for the Southern Fat Dumb American. Today we will spend the early afternoon at a Wal-Mart in rural Kentucky, a favored meetings grounds for this elusive creature. Pardon the poor quality footage, we are using our phones discreetly as the Southern Fat Dumb American is easily startled, values privacy, and may be armed. We also know they are protective of their young, when they are not beating them for grabbing candy when the children were told to behave. ...five minutes later...
And now we have a beautiful specimen. Marvel at the torn XXL Hello Kitty pajamas, his stout 5'6 250 pound physique makes him one of the average males, and his hairstyle is what the locals call a 'Sweet Mullet'. If you listen closely, you can hear his mating call of 'Beer', 'Murrica', and 'NASCAR'. It is thought that these three phrases work to attract the female further down the aisle with the purple curlers in her hair. She too is wearing Hello Kitty pajama pants, perhaps she will accept the males advances... lets watch as the male wipes the remnants of KFC from his half-beard to slick back his hair."
I've known intelligent people with every belt size, every race, every gender (if we want to be PC about it), and every activity level. Many of the brightest ran at least 5 miles a day and were the furthest from lazy I could imagine. Others were a bit wider, but would read higher math textbooks during lunch. I would argue that this particular study found a correlation for their local population and they should be careful about creating any generalizations.
For a company that makes billions each year. Guess rates are gonna go up a little bit to cover the fine and so the CEOs can pad their wallets for a job well done. After all, they took 5 minutes to fix a problem the gov found.
Netflix started out as a replacement for blockbuster and gained a lot of popularity by showing people are willing to wait a few months for cheaper prices and convenience. They proved that people were willing to pay a reasonable price for content, and were willing to wait until it was out on DVD/BD to watch it.
The MAFIAA has already done some strong-arming of Netflix to get their way and push their own products. STARZ keeps going back and forth about having content on Netflix, Showtime has slowly removed all their stuff, as has HBO. What the MAFIAA doesn't realize is that each individual provider just doesn't have enough content to command the price they want over the timespan they desire. Other posts mention HBO only during GoT and it's otherwise not worth it.
What Cable TV and Netflix both have is variety in their offerings. I'd wager Yahoo's stock increases a bit as people flock to the free stuff. My own uneducated/unresearched opinion of Hulu is that it's bleeding out slowly. What little I do want to watch seems to disappear after a couple weeks, and the selection I find interesting is getting smaller and smaller. Either they are going downhill, or their customer base cares about the Khardashians.
Then they'll have to make up for those losses in other ways. They'll start adding frivolous fees to legitimate users bills. They'll start charging for text messaging!
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Maybe, just maybe, it's not really racism but a dominance of two particular races that apply to jobs within the industry. When I think Engineering and Math, I tend to think of Germany and Japan, two cultures that are known to have a strong work ethic and an aptitude for solving complex problems. Sure, one country may be predominantly white and the other asian, but that's a superficial difference. There's certainly no race-specific barriers preventing Hispanics, Blacks, Women or other minorities from getting the appropriate Math and Science degrees... could it possibly be that those degrees just don't interest them?
My college CS classmates were dominantly Chinese, Middle Eastern and White (in that order), with one or two Indian (eastern) students. This is in New Mexico, where half the phonebook is hispanic last names. Looking at the broader Engineering school, there were a handful of hispanic students, but they were vastly outnumbered by Asian, Middle Eastern, and White students. The hispanic and native american students tended to go toward business, medicine and art.
Don't jump to the assumption that racism is at play when there are many more variables that could account for this perceived slight.
What if the rest of society is really worried over the fact that a sophisticated adversary is meddling into your domestic affairs (via DNCLeak and DCLeaks, incl Wikileaks) and at the same time confronts one of your main intelligence agencies in public, calling it bluff.
We are mostly okay with that because Capitalism. See Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon. This time around it's just a different person looking to make a profit.
Until we as a society actually take a stand on privacy and stop sharing every meal and bowel movement with all of our friends, this kind of crap will always fly under the radar to "ZOMG Zac Efron at the olympics!"
* VW emissions and mileage tests as reported during in-place testing and may not accurately represent real-world driving results.
Thank you, VW. I'll expect my $10 million check in the mail.
So you went through 4+ years of college to be a pool boy?
I would have thought there would be more exciting work, like in pharmaceuticals, food industry (the next next Coca-Cola), or even defense (materials science and such).
If we really wanted to stop Sunni terrorist organizations we would be relentlessly trying to level places where they are Headquartered like Raqqa.
To what end? Every bomb we drop that happens to harm an innocent person is egg on our face in other countries eyes. It's a deadly game of whack-a-mole that really doesn't have an end.
Hate breeds more hate. The Sunni and Shiites will never be peaceful to one another, and neither will truly accept Western civilizations (e.g. US and UK) as long as we keep going in and ham-handedly killing women and children in the name of peace. Ever wonder what sparked terrorism and revenge on the West? Do you think maybe some of the Cold War proxy conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan may have something to do with it? Maybe the two gulf wars tarnished our image?
It's funny that these terrorist organizations are so hard to track because they use "ancient" technology. Bin Laden used hand-written messages and couriers to plan and coordinate. They hid in caves, not in the backs or basements of bars. They stayed away from cell phones and other devices that could be tracked and monitored. Yet we are led to believe that these "lone wolves" were only able to chat via cell phone?
You forgot Java. Painful to work with (change a page, recompile, redeploy), moderately slow, and hideously bloated (library dependency hell, for a parser?). Yet it seems to be a very capable server side language.
On one hand, you've got a simulation that throws birds through wood planks, bricks, and ice blocks. On the other you've got phones that were once able to withstand over 1000 pounds of force (I once drove over a nokia phone in an attempt to break it) and can survive 40 foot drops onto concrete without issue. This kinda sounds like a match made in heaven.
Now they just need to develop a phone that splits into 5 lesser phones, a homing phone, and a phone that drops lesser bomb phones. Someone said wars will be fought with technology. Bet they didn't see "Angry Birds Munitions" coming.
Sure, Google Fiber has lots of "Fiber cities". But that's much like calling Google an "Irish Company". The claim is "deployed here!", but have actually deployed to a handful of houses and the rest are in perpetual planning and sign-up. This map of Austin, TX hasn't changed much in the past 2 years. Really, only "Other" has been broken into a few more pieces, each with their own sign-up.
Sure, it will take longer than a couple weeks to install new infrastructure over an entire city. But anyone that moves to a "fiber city" just so they can get Google Fiber is going to be greatly disappointed when they find the one house that is hooked up is actually a shed in the slums somewhere.
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
Our client, pecosdave, suffers from the debilitating disease of Laziness wherein he cannot be bothered to use a mouse or mouse-like interface to use your service, "Netflix". Our client has sent not zero, but exactly 1 (one) email to your customer support asking for proper keyboard support for your services web browser client. As described in his email, he is able to use arrow keys and the space bar without problem, and mashing his hand down on a keyboard as a response to your "Are you still watching?" prompt. However, anything that requires our client to sit up and move his arm around causes him considerable pain and mental anguish. We politely ask for your assistance in aiding our client and others stricken with Laziness in providing proper keyboard support for your platform.
Sincerely,
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Association of Lazy People
What's with the clickbait listicle title? Is /. trying to become the new foxnews.com/microsoft.com/facebook.com/oracle.com?
I got nothing.
This is really the first step (pun!) towards the creation of human tanks, the next VR program will end up with people being able to control wheels, then tracks, then turrets, then the brains will be removed and added to machines....
Wait, you mean I can roll around on tank treads instead of using my own two legs like a sucker? Sign me up! Being one of the bosses from Super Smash T.V. is step #435 on my plan for world domination.
VR is about control of the populace, they will improve it to the point that we don't know whether we are in it or not and then they can start making us do what they want.
There is no spoon. Just keep taking that blue pill.
Exoskeletons are the first step towards Terminator robots - SkyNet is here, something something Singularity.
We're in luck. Stephen Colbert is already on the case there. Though I say I have to agree with one of this threatdowns. #5 is robots, #4 is bears, #3 is robots, #2 is bears and the number one threat to our nation is robot bears.
I dunno about that... When Trump quotes are read by Zapp Brannigan, they somehow don't seem quite so bad.
Don't get me wrong, if it weren't for math and technology my career wouldn't exist, but why exactly do we need entire generations of programmers? Shouldn't we be teaching kids to pursue their interests instead of forcing some ideal on them?
Okay, sure, computers are everywhere and its helpful to know how to use them. Math is helpful in most everything from following a recipe in the kitchen to designing space aircraft. Lets face it folks, not everybody gets to be (or even wants to be) an astronaut. Enable the kids to pursue stuff on computers to their little hearts content, but don't force a kid to program if they have no desire to. Let them find their own way through life.
Mike Rowe has what I think is a great outlook here. There's dozens or even hundreds of jobs out there that go unfilled because they aren't sexy. Many of which can pay more than your typically bachelors in CS or Engineering after a couple years in the trade.
600TB isn't enough for your pr0n folder? Now that's a collection.
In (old) related news: A best man took matters into his own hands by installing a device that live tweets newlyweds activities in bed. Including duration, end time, and "Frenzy Index".
Coming from personal experience, it depends on the parents. If they value cooking and eating as a family, so will the kid. If they value McDonalds, so will the kid.
I always had meals with my folks and they taught me how to cook early on. "If you like to eat, you need to learn to cook."
Later on in bachelor life I started having Soylent as a cheap breakfast substitute. Partially since it's fast and easy, partially since I can make it in a blender and have a weeks worth of breakfast, and since cereal or oatmeal would have me hungry by 10. At least I could survive until lunch with a soylent breakfast.
Now married life means I'm not doing that nearly as often as before and I'm right back to cooking and eating with the family.
You mean there's something more than random SJW posts, cat pictures, bathroom updates, and fake news updates about the Rock getting arrested?
Then you've never met the typical Fat Dumb American. I'd imagine a Discovery documentary would be something like the following: "We're on a hunt for the Southern Fat Dumb American. Today we will spend the early afternoon at a Wal-Mart in rural Kentucky, a favored meetings grounds for this elusive creature. Pardon the poor quality footage, we are using our phones discreetly as the Southern Fat Dumb American is easily startled, values privacy, and may be armed. We also know they are protective of their young, when they are not beating them for grabbing candy when the children were told to behave.
...five minutes later...
And now we have a beautiful specimen. Marvel at the torn XXL Hello Kitty pajamas, his stout 5'6 250 pound physique makes him one of the average males, and his hairstyle is what the locals call a 'Sweet Mullet'. If you listen closely, you can hear his mating call of 'Beer', 'Murrica', and 'NASCAR'. It is thought that these three phrases work to attract the female further down the aisle with the purple curlers in her hair. She too is wearing Hello Kitty pajama pants, perhaps she will accept the males advances... lets watch as the male wipes the remnants of KFC from his half-beard to slick back his hair."
I've known intelligent people with every belt size, every race, every gender (if we want to be PC about it), and every activity level. Many of the brightest ran at least 5 miles a day and were the furthest from lazy I could imagine. Others were a bit wider, but would read higher math textbooks during lunch. I would argue that this particular study found a correlation for their local population and they should be careful about creating any generalizations.
For a company that makes billions each year. Guess rates are gonna go up a little bit to cover the fine and so the CEOs can pad their wallets for a job well done. After all, they took 5 minutes to fix a problem the gov found.
Netflix started out as a replacement for blockbuster and gained a lot of popularity by showing people are willing to wait a few months for cheaper prices and convenience. They proved that people were willing to pay a reasonable price for content, and were willing to wait until it was out on DVD/BD to watch it.
The MAFIAA has already done some strong-arming of Netflix to get their way and push their own products. STARZ keeps going back and forth about having content on Netflix, Showtime has slowly removed all their stuff, as has HBO. What the MAFIAA doesn't realize is that each individual provider just doesn't have enough content to command the price they want over the timespan they desire. Other posts mention HBO only during GoT and it's otherwise not worth it.
What Cable TV and Netflix both have is variety in their offerings. I'd wager Yahoo's stock increases a bit as people flock to the free stuff. My own uneducated/unresearched opinion of Hulu is that it's bleeding out slowly. What little I do want to watch seems to disappear after a couple weeks, and the selection I find interesting is getting smaller and smaller. Either they are going downhill, or their customer base cares about the Khardashians.
I for one can't wait to see how our language evolves with emojis. Smiley face, wink, smiling turd.
In the meantime the uninvited enjoy much greater rewards selling the bugs to the highest bidder
FTFY
Did they control for the basement gamers that survive on doritos, ramen and mountain dew?
Then they'll have to make up for those losses in other ways. They'll start adding frivolous fees to legitimate users bills. They'll start charging for text messaging!
oh, wait...
Can I suggest removing the "tinfoil hat me" plugin and replacing the "They are always watching me" plugin with "Lets watch cat videos"?
The combination of tinfoil hat and watching me plugins overadvertises the "building a doomsday bunker in your backyard".
And here I thought that everybody that used that acronym had already taken their only selfies with the front bumper of speeding trains.