That's a cop out, saying that peers are the reason some kids lack social skills. I tested (IQ) at a very high level as a child, and still do to this day, and through sports and non-intellectual interaction came to interact just fine with other, "normal," children. How did this come about? My parents didn't let me sit around and futz with the Commodore 64 all day, but instead made me go out and do things with other kids that I wasn't necessarily gifted at, such as baseball, basketball, birthday parties, skating at the rink with other people.
If you let kids live entirely within their own small world where they're the king thanks to their innate abilities then it seems perfectly reasonable that they'll turn out a bit stunted. If you show them that you need to be both smart and personable to get by in the real world, and that not _everything_ comes naturally even to "smaht kids" (insert fake boston accent here), then the kids might just turn out to be well-rounded adults.
As I wrote, my father is not a neurosurgeon. He's a radiologist, another highly paid specialty, sure, but not quite at the same level. Then again, radiology _only_ requires a four year residency (on top of the four years of college, four years of medical school, and perhaps a one year fellowship in there too) as opposed to the 6+ year residency that neurosurgeons must undergo. And, yes, my family paid for college for me and my elder sibling, and will help out as they can for medical school as well.
When you take into account the many years of schooling -- a typical neurosurgeon will be in his 30s before even starting to practice -- the fact that residents are worked like slaves, and the arduous call schedule of surgeons in general, then their pay is quite reasonable imo. Of course I'm biased, as I should be since I'm going to med school myself. And possibly going into neurosurgery, to tell the truth.
This article, on how some doctors are dropping malpractice insurance, is also a good read. A key fact to glean from that article is that for one physician it would have cost $60k/yr for $250k of coverage. That's ridiculous.
I can verify that the parent is correct: my father is a doctor, and he's never run MD license plates expressly to avoid the situation above. As an aside, he's not a brain surgeon, but he tells me that the malpractice insurance alone for a practicing neurosurgeon is 150k a year. Put _that_ in your pipe and smoke it next time you want to complain about overpaid doctors... it's the price of doing business.
For those interested, David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" has a discourse on this very topic. It's fiction, of course, but in it he tells of the transition to videophones, the subsequent embarassment, the fake backgrounds, the fake faces and bodies (like that of a supermodel instead of you, but still sort of like you), then the cardboard pictures of sweeping vistas hung over the video cameras' lenses, and finally the revolt and return to voice only phones.
My parents lived until recently in Grant County, Washington, which is about 2/3 of the way to Spokane from Seattle. Translation: out in the boonies. The county took the initiative to run fiber to the driveway, and cat5 into houses, and I was quite happy with the service. No port restrictions, no problems running my Macs with OS 9 or 10 (DHCP is pretty universal, eh), multiple IPs free for the taking, great downstream bandwidth (listed as 500 kbps but easily outpacing my "2000 kbps" downstream Comcast cable), passable upstream bandwidth (30 kB/sec), and no downtime over the half a year they used it. All for $25/month, iirc. Certainly a better deal and a better service than cable.
The grandparent post is a bit misleading. As the parent notes OS X does indeed come with telnetd. The interesting part, which shows good judgement on Apple's part, is that enabling Remote Login (through System Prefs->Sharing->Services or some variant) turns on sshd instead. In early versions of OS X telnet was the protocol of choice, but now ssh has rightly superceded it.
My car is the opposite: reach in and open the door without a key and the alarm will go off. Turning the car on won't stop it, but shutting the car off and opening the door with the key will. Why in the world should the car alarm go off when you open the door with a key? That behavior makes no sense.
Additionally, and perhaps morbidly so, they had built technology to help identify if the eye was live or not, so not only could you not just hold up a picture of an eye, but you couldn't take someone else's eye (a la Demolition Man, I believe) and hold it up to the scanner.
Perhaps there was a dead eye reference in Demolition Man as well, but the one I remember is from Minority Report.
Such a bizarre scenario has actually been envisioned by David Foster Wallace in his "Infinite Jest". (For those tracking my other comments, yes, I read a lot.) In the novel there exist a group of Wheelchair Assassins, Les Assassins des Fauteuils Roulants, who all lack legs as a common characteristic. Of course, they lack it because of playing chicken with trains as a test of bravery, not to foil an anti-terrorist leg-measuring machine, but the similarity is there nonetheless.
It's not always who you know. I got my first part time job, at school, without knowing anyone. My internship pretty much fell in my lap without knowing anyone, and this after the tech devaluation. (Of course it did help that the company in question recruited actively from my school.) And then I landed my current job after blindly applying to jobs on monstertrak and the local paper. The job I ended up taking was from the local paper's online job posting, incidentally, but I also got a few bites from monstertrak as well. Overall hit rate of interview requests/resumes blindly sent was 4/63, I believe...
My point: even if you don't have an "in" at the company you're applying to, you're not necessarily screwed.
I also agree with the (grand)parent, and have been pimping "Foucalt's Pendulum" to all my friends who ask me about my thoughts on "The DaVinci Code". Umberto Eco's other major work, "Name of the Rose", is also an excellent book.
Ever since I've convinced people to go mac they've been more functional (making dvd's, photo albums, burning CD's, No Email viruses) and I get almost no calls from friends asking for help.
Maybe that's because your friends all deserted you when you started evangelizing for Apple?
On a more serious note, I agree with the parent post: I'm happy as long as Apple cranks out a sufficient number of machines to satisfy the computing needs of my family and friends. And with their healthy pile of cash and consistent profits I have no fears for the immediate future.
In fact I helped code part of this functionality when I interned at Palm, on the Pose project. There was already a Gremlins functionality (along with GremlinHordes, which were Gremlins with different seed conditions) that would send bits of Shakespeare to text entry boxes, click randomly (weighted for actual button locations) and generally wreak havoc for a predetermined number of events. What I helped add was a logging, playback-from-log and minimization routine that would find the minimal subset of the events that would crash the Palm app being tested at the time. Fun stuff, that was. Since Pose/Poser is open source, you can now see my handiwork in file EmMinimize.cpp (or was it EmMinimization.cpp?) in the source distribution. http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/#source
My friend and former roommate, Ken Ferry, wrote an application that greatly aids in adding metadata in the form of keywords to iPhoto. Keywording has been part of iPhoto for many revisions now but the interface has always sucked: a panel in a disparate GUI style with a list of keywords in the order they were created. What his app, Keyword Assistant, does is to provide an autocomplete for finding and assigning already created keywords, an easy mechanism for creating new keywords, and a way of alphabetizing existing keywords. And it's free (gratis) to boot.
While I agree with your general point, your example of IQ testing is unfortunate. As explained to some length in Steven J Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" IQ tests were actually calibrated from the start the other way: people in "high" professions score high on the test because the test was calibrated such that they are scored highly. While I am certainly no anti-intellectual (and have benefitted greatly from such testing), I still feel that holding forth the example of the inception of IQ testing as good science is flat-out wrong.
Your EEG setup hardly looks conventional. At the lab where I work, the electrodes are placed by hand, with liberal application of conducting gel. Having dry electrodes in a nylon cap doesn't seem ideal by a long shot.
Now that everyone and their grandpa has a "hi-fi" in their living room the marketers must have been running out of incentives to get people to upgrade their stereos. This product seems to be the perfect opportunity to get people in on the next wave: Lo-fi. Maybe people will be inspired to downgrade their speakers to miniature computer models and ditch those pesky Monster Cables once and for all, once they hear the lo-fi results that you can get from mp3s played over a proper audio system.
The silent redirect is clearly not what's intended. As posted elsewhere in this thread, www.listen4ever.com/software.htm is not redirected, although the "Home" link on that page just kicks one back to the substituted page. Fishy.
Actually, in paintball, it's not uncommon to go through 500 rounds in a day, especially when in large groups.
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Your characterization of him as a "world-class sleazeball" seems to be unwarranted. In response to point #1, did you not read the explanation that immediate publication of his countermeasures would cause harm to Yahoo? Security through obscurity is not a permanent fix to any problem, but in the short term it is preferable to openness if there are no better alternatives available.
As for point 2, I'm quite certain that his quip about distributed computing was in jest.
Finally, regarding your third point, why shouldn't he attempt to protect Yahoo's content? I'm certainly not going to give you root access to my server; does this mean I'm attempting to "Balkanize the web"?
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That's a cop out, saying that peers are the reason some kids lack social skills. I tested (IQ) at a very high level as a child, and still do to this day, and through sports and non-intellectual interaction came to interact just fine with other, "normal," children. How did this come about? My parents didn't let me sit around and futz with the Commodore 64 all day, but instead made me go out and do things with other kids that I wasn't necessarily gifted at, such as baseball, basketball, birthday parties, skating at the rink with other people.
If you let kids live entirely within their own small world where they're the king thanks to their innate abilities then it seems perfectly reasonable that they'll turn out a bit stunted. If you show them that you need to be both smart and personable to get by in the real world, and that not _everything_ comes naturally even to "smaht kids" (insert fake boston accent here), then the kids might just turn out to be well-rounded adults.
When you take into account the many years of schooling -- a typical neurosurgeon will be in his 30s before even starting to practice -- the fact that residents are worked like slaves, and the arduous call schedule of surgeons in general, then their pay is quite reasonable imo. Of course I'm biased, as I should be since I'm going to med school myself. And possibly going into neurosurgery, to tell the truth.
This article, on how some doctors are dropping malpractice insurance, is also a good read. A key fact to glean from that article is that for one physician it would have cost $60k/yr for $250k of coverage. That's ridiculous.
I can verify that the parent is correct: my father is a doctor, and he's never run MD license plates expressly to avoid the situation above. As an aside, he's not a brain surgeon, but he tells me that the malpractice insurance alone for a practicing neurosurgeon is 150k a year. Put _that_ in your pipe and smoke it next time you want to complain about overpaid doctors... it's the price of doing business.
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My parents lived until recently in Grant County, Washington, which is about 2/3 of the way to Spokane from Seattle. Translation: out in the boonies. The county took the initiative to run fiber to the driveway, and cat5 into houses, and I was quite happy with the service. No port restrictions, no problems running my Macs with OS 9 or 10 (DHCP is pretty universal, eh), multiple IPs free for the taking, great downstream bandwidth (listed as 500 kbps but easily outpacing my "2000 kbps" downstream Comcast cable), passable upstream bandwidth (30 kB/sec), and no downtime over the half a year they used it. All for $25/month, iirc. Certainly a better deal and a better service than cable.
http://www.gcpud.org/Zipp/default.htm
The grandparent post is a bit misleading. As the parent notes OS X does indeed come with telnetd. The interesting part, which shows good judgement on Apple's part, is that enabling Remote Login (through System Prefs->Sharing->Services or some variant) turns on sshd instead. In early versions of OS X telnet was the protocol of choice, but now ssh has rightly superceded it.
My car is the opposite: reach in and open the door without a key and the alarm will go off. Turning the car on won't stop it, but shutting the car off and opening the door with the key will. Why in the world should the car alarm go off when you open the door with a key? That behavior makes no sense.
Such a bizarre scenario has actually been envisioned by David Foster Wallace in his "Infinite Jest". (For those tracking my other comments, yes, I read a lot.) In the novel there exist a group of Wheelchair Assassins, Les Assassins des Fauteuils Roulants, who all lack legs as a common characteristic. Of course, they lack it because of playing chicken with trains as a test of bravery, not to foil an anti-terrorist leg-measuring machine, but the similarity is there nonetheless.
It's not always who you know. I got my first part time job, at school, without knowing anyone. My internship pretty much fell in my lap without knowing anyone, and this after the tech devaluation. (Of course it did help that the company in question recruited actively from my school.) And then I landed my current job after blindly applying to jobs on monstertrak and the local paper. The job I ended up taking was from the local paper's online job posting, incidentally, but I also got a few bites from monstertrak as well. Overall hit rate of interview requests/resumes blindly sent was 4/63, I believe...
My point: even if you don't have an "in" at the company you're applying to, you're not necessarily screwed.
I also agree with the (grand)parent, and have been pimping "Foucalt's Pendulum" to all my friends who ask me about my thoughts on "The DaVinci Code". Umberto Eco's other major work, "Name of the Rose", is also an excellent book.
Maybe that's because your friends all deserted you when you started evangelizing for Apple?
On a more serious note, I agree with the parent post: I'm happy as long as Apple cranks out a sufficient number of machines to satisfy the computing needs of my family and friends. And with their healthy pile of cash and consistent profits I have no fears for the immediate future.
In fact I helped code part of this functionality when I interned at Palm, on the Pose project. There was already a Gremlins functionality (along with GremlinHordes, which were Gremlins with different seed conditions) that would send bits of Shakespeare to text entry boxes, click randomly (weighted for actual button locations) and generally wreak havoc for a predetermined number of events. What I helped add was a logging, playback-from-log and minimization routine that would find the minimal subset of the events that would crash the Palm app being tested at the time. Fun stuff, that was. Since Pose/Poser is open source, you can now see my handiwork in file EmMinimize.cpp (or was it EmMinimization.cpp?) in the source distribution. http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/#source
I wouldn't characterize porn is "often overlooked"... er, maybe I've said too much already about myself.
My friend and former roommate, Ken Ferry, wrote an application that greatly aids in adding metadata in the form of keywords to iPhoto. Keywording has been part of iPhoto for many revisions now but the interface has always sucked: a panel in a disparate GUI style with a list of keywords in the order they were created. What his app, Keyword Assistant, does is to provide an autocomplete for finding and assigning already created keywords, an easy mechanism for creating new keywords, and a way of alphabetizing existing keywords. And it's free (gratis) to boot.
Keyword Assistant for iPhoto page or the MacUpdate page for KA
My connection with the project is in that of tester, and, lately, Japanese localizer.
While I agree with your general point, your example of IQ testing is unfortunate. As explained to some length in Steven J Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" IQ tests were actually calibrated from the start the other way: people in "high" professions score high on the test because the test was calibrated such that they are scored highly. While I am certainly no anti-intellectual (and have benefitted greatly from such testing), I still feel that holding forth the example of the inception of IQ testing as good science is flat-out wrong.
Your EEG setup hardly looks conventional. At the lab where I work, the electrodes are placed by hand, with liberal application of conducting gel. Having dry electrodes in a nylon cap doesn't seem ideal by a long shot.
Now that everyone and their grandpa has a "hi-fi" in their living room the marketers must have been running out of incentives to get people to upgrade their stereos. This product seems to be the perfect opportunity to get people in on the next wave: Lo-fi. Maybe people will be inspired to downgrade their speakers to miniature computer models and ditch those pesky Monster Cables once and for all, once they hear the lo-fi results that you can get from mp3s played over a proper audio system.
The silent redirect is clearly not what's intended. As posted elsewhere in this thread, www.listen4ever.com/software.htm is not redirected, although the "Home" link on that page just kicks one back to the substituted page. Fishy.
Or "Lombard." The official name was Bronze, tho.
Here's a nice link: http://www.apple-history.com/pg3sbronze.html
... may act like 800-lb. gorillas but it's highly unlikely that they act like
"800-lb. guerrillas" as the article states...
This nitpick may be minor, but it really does make a world of difference in the semantics.
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It was if you had spaces in your volume names, and if one of your volume's names was a prefix (up to the space) of another's, iirc.
Actually, in paintball, it's not uncommon to go through 500 rounds in a day, especially when in large groups.
Your characterization of him as a "world-class sleazeball" seems to be unwarranted. In response to point #1, did you not read the explanation that immediate publication of his countermeasures would cause harm to Yahoo? Security through obscurity is not a permanent fix to any problem, but in the short term it is preferable to openness if there are no better alternatives available.
As for point 2, I'm quite certain that his quip about distributed computing was in jest.
Finally, regarding your third point, why shouldn't he attempt to protect Yahoo's content? I'm certainly not going to give you root access to my server; does this mean I'm attempting to "Balkanize the web"?