Sure SOAP is complex, but that complexity can be encapsulated away. Really, the alternative is what? Everyone coming up with completely incompatible data transmission formats, reinventing the wheel and making the same mistakes over and over?
Exactly. When you proceed despite an SSL error, you most likely are falling victim to a screw-up on the bank's end, but you are possible falling victim to a MITM attack. There is no way for you to know conclusively.
This is so true. We should get right on that as soon as we have one world government.
But today, if one country imposes such a tax on its own citizens, it amounts to simply shipping that country's jobs and wealth overseas to a country which does not have such a tax.
Government can be a solution to the tragedy of the commons only when that government has complete authority over the commons in question.
Starving the third world? By increasing the demand for food? I hate to break it to you, but the demand for food will continue to increase, biofuels or not. It's the third world parents who starve their children. If you can't reasonably expect to support your kids, don't breed! Break this rule and you're responsible for starving your own kids.
The software engineering team is absolutely certain they don't want corporate IT security anywhere near their precious development process. We would just slow things down. So they all put "security expert" on their resumes and said they don't need us, they know what they're doing, etc..
Yeah, every app they use has totally botch authentication--plaintext password storage, unsalted hashes--you name the security mistake, these "expert" developers ship it in our top-dollar "enterprise" software.
While Time Warner, the local cable company, has never tried to force me to install their crapware; if they tried, I would have no trouble handing them my netbook (which lacks an optical drive).
Many people in the tech world only know Kasparov's name because of his battle with Deep Blue. His name will likely be in history books for this reason. I would say he did indeed have something to gain by competing with the machine.
That's actually a fairly clever design. I would not want to even begin implementing UI-embedded video on a microcontroller-based ATM. But so long as the user's input capabilities are severely limited, it really would be possible to use the capabilities of a web app without sacrificing too much security.
How is paying extra for your car (interest) any handier than buying a new car only after you have enough saved? If you use that "handy" financial service, you end up driving poorer quality cars, and paying more for the privilege (with the exception of your very first car, perhaps).
An engineer not having the P.E. is like somebody with a Juris Doctorate who never passed the Bar exam.
Whoever told you that was selling you something. Specifically, he was selling you the P.E.. In the real world, the P.E. is just another certification, along the lines of the MCSE.
You have some other rather sorry misconceptions, as well. You likely have a math prof turned CS prof who has been misleading you. In your real job, you will be well served to have a sense of scalability, but you will never write proofs. You will rely on load testing above all. Math-turned-CS-profs are particularly horrified by that reality.
Who said anything about math? Scientific computing, including math-related stuff, is not what's driving software engineering employment. It's the ability to produce software which helps business that's driving the hiring. This means "pure" programming, yes, but also HCI, communication, design, testing methodology... there's a lot more to producing software than just programming.
True, but long term, if someone were to simplify the tax code (as has been proposed a few times in the past), all those CPA jobs vanish in a puff of logic.
And honestly, even with today's insane tax code, accounting seems like the sort of thing that will be increasingly automated by computer technology.
Now that the financial industry is in shambles (what do they produce, again?) the only way to make bank without sacrificing the 8 to 12 years of your youth to med school or law school is engineering. And since most people are now familiar with computers, software engineering seems more accessible.
This makes perfect sense. Engineers make more money than any other Bachelors degrees can get you. Many students don't realize that it is damn hard to get an engineering degree compared to other degrees, though. At least, that's true of good colleges.
All this work you seem to think is impossible (getting stem cells to specialize) happens all the time, everywhere. It is clearly physically possible. The process is observable. We can already cause it to happen. We just need to make it happen more/longer/on cue. Not flying cars. Not transporter beams.
I'm sure you would have thought vaccination impossible, had you been alive during the early years of vaccine research.
The fact that stem cells grow brain cells is most certainly not "extrapolating." That's very ancient technology widely in use today. We are just going to apply it a little differently.
This is not a "flying cars" scenario in the least.
I expect stem cell technology will allow us to replenish the abilities of our brains some time before most of us are too much older and dumber. Fear not, fellow 28-year-olds.
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The primary difference between a liberal and a libertarian is a sense of pragmatism.
Sure SOAP is complex, but that complexity can be encapsulated away. Really, the alternative is what? Everyone coming up with completely incompatible data transmission formats, reinventing the wheel and making the same mistakes over and over?
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Exactly. When you proceed despite an SSL error, you most likely are falling victim to a screw-up on the bank's end, but you are possible falling victim to a MITM attack. There is no way for you to know conclusively.
That's really the end of the discussion.
This is so true. We should get right on that as soon as we have one world government.
But today, if one country imposes such a tax on its own citizens, it amounts to simply shipping that country's jobs and wealth overseas to a country which does not have such a tax.
Government can be a solution to the tragedy of the commons only when that government has complete authority over the commons in question.
Starving the third world? By increasing the demand for food? I hate to break it to you, but the demand for food will continue to increase, biofuels or not. It's the third world parents who starve their children. If you can't reasonably expect to support your kids, don't breed! Break this rule and you're responsible for starving your own kids.
Well the in-flight entertainment system is down, so you have no choice but to read the damn thing anyway!
Muhahahaha!
I work at a software company. In security.
The software engineering team is absolutely certain they don't want corporate IT security anywhere near their precious development process. We would just slow things down. So they all put "security expert" on their resumes and said they don't need us, they know what they're doing, etc..
Yeah, every app they use has totally botch authentication--plaintext password storage, unsalted hashes--you name the security mistake, these "expert" developers ship it in our top-dollar "enterprise" software.
While Time Warner, the local cable company, has never tried to force me to install their crapware; if they tried, I would have no trouble handing them my netbook (which lacks an optical drive).
If you want to motivate kids to learn computer science, show them that the computer can locate porn.
If you want to motivate kids to learn chemistry, show them how to make meth.
By the way, I am willing to consult for your educational system. My rates are quite reasonable.
No, the real answer is that people who are naturally terrified of death gravitate toward religion.
People who are more comfortable with death have less motivation to adopt religion in the first place.
The write-up confuses cause and effect.
The only people who liked Halo were those who had never played any FPS on a PC. Nooblets.
Many people in the tech world only know Kasparov's name because of his battle with Deep Blue. His name will likely be in history books for this reason. I would say he did indeed have something to gain by competing with the machine.
That's actually a fairly clever design. I would not want to even begin implementing UI-embedded video on a microcontroller-based ATM. But so long as the user's input capabilities are severely limited, it really would be possible to use the capabilities of a web app without sacrificing too much security.
The irony of your continued use of the word "ignorant" is quite amusing.
How is paying extra for your car (interest) any handier than buying a new car only after you have enough saved? If you use that "handy" financial service, you end up driving poorer quality cars, and paying more for the privilege (with the exception of your very first car, perhaps).
Whoever told you that was selling you something. Specifically, he was selling you the P.E.. In the real world, the P.E. is just another certification, along the lines of the MCSE.
You have some other rather sorry misconceptions, as well. You likely have a math prof turned CS prof who has been misleading you. In your real job, you will be well served to have a sense of scalability, but you will never write proofs. You will rely on load testing above all. Math-turned-CS-profs are particularly horrified by that reality.
I know plenty of professional EEs who aren't P.E.s. It'ss just silly to assume P.E. defines what an engineer is.
And there is plenty to electrical engineering that isn't applied math.
I can't speak to other disciplines of engineering, but I suspect it is similar.
I take it you've never left academia?
Who said anything about math? Scientific computing, including math-related stuff, is not what's driving software engineering employment. It's the ability to produce software which helps business that's driving the hiring. This means "pure" programming, yes, but also HCI, communication, design, testing methodology... there's a lot more to producing software than just programming.
True, but long term, if someone were to simplify the tax code (as has been proposed a few times in the past), all those CPA jobs vanish in a puff of logic.
And honestly, even with today's insane tax code, accounting seems like the sort of thing that will be increasingly automated by computer technology.
Now that the financial industry is in shambles (what do they produce, again?) the only way to make bank without sacrificing the 8 to 12 years of your youth to med school or law school is engineering. And since most people are now familiar with computers, software engineering seems more accessible.
This makes perfect sense. Engineers make more money than any other Bachelors degrees can get you. Many students don't realize that it is damn hard to get an engineering degree compared to other degrees, though. At least, that's true of good colleges.
All this work you seem to think is impossible (getting stem cells to specialize) happens all the time, everywhere. It is clearly physically possible. The process is observable. We can already cause it to happen. We just need to make it happen more/longer/on cue. Not flying cars. Not transporter beams.
I'm sure you would have thought vaccination impossible, had you been alive during the early years of vaccine research.
Every American should own a tank, with bright orange safety switch in front, you know, for safety.
The fact that stem cells grow brain cells is most certainly not "extrapolating." That's very ancient technology widely in use today. We are just going to apply it a little differently.
This is not a "flying cars" scenario in the least.
I expect stem cell technology will allow us to replenish the abilities of our brains some time before most of us are too much older and dumber. Fear not, fellow 28-year-olds.