Equating earning $100k and working in an air conditioned office longer than you expected with SLAVERY disparages the memories of those who were whipped to near death while working in fields, and paid nothing.
I think the court should order those workers to work on plantations without pay for a while, then reconsider their use of the word "slavery."
Wait... I know CSS, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Perl. I write AJAX-enabled web applications. I have a BS in Computer Science and Engineering. You think I'd have a decent shot of getting work in the SF Bay area even though I've only been out of college three years?
Sure they do. When I do a job search for IT positions, nine out of ten are for "senior" level positions. Nobody is hiring junior or just normal engineers. Seniors only.
Usually "senior" means 5+ years experience with some piece of technology invented six years ago, though.
So to get a job in IT, you can't be old, you can't be young, and you must have started working with every one of the latest technologies professionally on the year it was invented (before most businesses even used such technologies).
I can't believe anyone can find a job with those requirements. Perhaps the mass of positions advertised these days are just a ploy to allow more H1Bs and outsourcing.
I believe the point of teapot examples is that there are an infinite number of improvable supernatural claims, so the the probability that any one is the "right" one is 1/infinity. Therefore, the natural, empirical world view is meaningful, while the supernatural view is impossible.
Empirical observations about the universe directly contradict most of the supernatural claims made in most religions. People can't live in whales, for example.
Ha... what you say is both true and cognitively meaningless. If you don't require empirical basis for your view, an infinite number of mutually exclusive absurdities become equally likely. Since all monotheistic religions are mutually exclusive, the probability of any one of them being true is 1/infinity.
If that's all the computing power they need, they might as well just write an OS for a PIC microcontroller. Those little chips cost about $1.
Though I can't imagine any computer catching on with a nontrivial number of children unless it runs games. Anyone want to port Oregon Trail to PIC? On second thought, starving African children might take the "You have died of dysentery" part of the game the wrong way...
The difference between atheists arguing for their beliefs and religious nutjobs arguing for theirs is that the atheists have empirical evidence to back up their claims.
Like any group, there are crazy ones and there are reasonable people. There are even Jewish atheists. I had a Jewish roommate in college, but nobody would have ever known he was ancestrally Jewish if he didn't put fish on his bagels, heh.
It's somewhat offensive to assume that people with Jewish last names necessarily give a crap for the mythology of their ancestors. For all you know, the guy has never so much as looked at a Torah.
When INTC gloated that they were working on a GPU core for their CPU, NVDA shot back that customers don't really benefit from better CPUs anymore, only from faster GPUs.
NVDA's GPUs are way way way better at parallel tasks than INTC's CPUs. INTC's chips really are only good at serial tasks. Perhaps if NVDA released a massively parallel GPU, INTC really would be in trouble?
He supports manned space explorations. Its one of his only controversial policies I agree with. Having all humans in one biosphere means that life and intelligence (so far as we know) could be wiped from the face of the universe by a single meteor impact. Manned space exploration is a necessary step in humanity's primary raison d'etra: the perpetuation of life.
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That's why adults only play PC games online. Consoles are the realm of pre-teen d-bags.
To French speaking Canadian chicks shave their pits, though?
Strikes and unions would turn Silicon Valley into another Detroit.
You don't have a hidef TV yet? You're not their target audience, because you can't buy BluRay with foodstamps, anyway.
((joking... well, half joking))
HiDef video and audio has no merit? You must be that guy with the huge VHS collection. Do you have a film reel projector, too?
If you think the average small house is worth $700k, you haven't been paying attention to the news. The housing bubble hit California like an ICBM.
In Europe, those fancy benefits packages are provided by the government.
Equating earning $100k and working in an air conditioned office longer than you expected with SLAVERY disparages the memories of those who were whipped to near death while working in fields, and paid nothing.
I think the court should order those workers to work on plantations without pay for a while, then reconsider their use of the word "slavery."
Wait... I know CSS, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Perl. I write AJAX-enabled web applications. I have a BS in Computer Science and Engineering. You think I'd have a decent shot of getting work in the SF Bay area even though I've only been out of college three years?
In the US, hospitals are privately-owned businesses. The state does not pay hospital staff.
Sure they do. When I do a job search for IT positions, nine out of ten are for "senior" level positions. Nobody is hiring junior or just normal engineers. Seniors only.
Usually "senior" means 5+ years experience with some piece of technology invented six years ago, though.
So to get a job in IT, you can't be old, you can't be young, and you must have started working with every one of the latest technologies professionally on the year it was invented (before most businesses even used such technologies).
I can't believe anyone can find a job with those requirements. Perhaps the mass of positions advertised these days are just a ploy to allow more H1Bs and outsourcing.
I believe the point of teapot examples is that there are an infinite number of improvable supernatural claims, so the the probability that any one is the "right" one is 1/infinity. Therefore, the natural, empirical world view is meaningful, while the supernatural view is impossible.
Empirical observations about the universe directly contradict most of the supernatural claims made in most religions. People can't live in whales, for example.
Ha... what you say is both true and cognitively meaningless. If you don't require empirical basis for your view, an infinite number of mutually exclusive absurdities become equally likely. Since all monotheistic religions are mutually exclusive, the probability of any one of them being true is 1/infinity.
If that's all the computing power they need, they might as well just write an OS for a PIC microcontroller. Those little chips cost about $1.
Though I can't imagine any computer catching on with a nontrivial number of children unless it runs games. Anyone want to port Oregon Trail to PIC? On second thought, starving African children might take the "You have died of dysentery" part of the game the wrong way...
The difference between atheists arguing for their beliefs and religious nutjobs arguing for theirs is that the atheists have empirical evidence to back up their claims.
Owning fixed items, like gold, oil, or holy grails is speculation, not investing. As such, it does not pay any interest.
Only debts (bonds) and businesses (stocks) pay interest.
It is absolutely meaningless to refer to the compound interest from an non-interest-bearing item like the grail.
Cloud computing is just a buzzword for rented VMs at someone else's datacenter?
Wouldn't the popularity of such a service destroy the demand for systems administrators at independent datacenters?
If so, where do I go to get a job working on these clouds?
"Jewish" can have ancestral or religions meaning. An ancestral Jew can certainly be an atheist.
Like any group, there are crazy ones and there are reasonable people. There are even Jewish atheists. I had a Jewish roommate in college, but nobody would have ever known he was ancestrally Jewish if he didn't put fish on his bagels, heh.
It's somewhat offensive to assume that people with Jewish last names necessarily give a crap for the mythology of their ancestors. For all you know, the guy has never so much as looked at a Torah.
Have.
Have, damnit.
When INTC gloated that they were working on a GPU core for their CPU, NVDA shot back that customers don't really benefit from better CPUs anymore, only from faster GPUs.
NVDA's GPUs are way way way better at parallel tasks than INTC's CPUs. INTC's chips really are only good at serial tasks. Perhaps if NVDA released a massively parallel GPU, INTC really would be in trouble?
GeForce is a chip. nForce north/south bridges are motherboard chipSETS. No clarification is necessary.
He supports manned space explorations. Its one of his only controversial policies I agree with. Having all humans in one biosphere means that life and intelligence (so far as we know) could be wiped from the face of the universe by a single meteor impact. Manned space exploration is a necessary step in humanity's primary raison d'etra: the perpetuation of life.