Ah, a product of the Russian educational system - the article specifically mentioned 65 countries in the study. Not to mention you're making assumptions on how the math was scored that cannot be inferred from the article or data. Or bringing up the favorite boogeyman in Russian media - America - to deflect blame in Russia's shortcomings. Lets face it, in Soviet times, Russia was a powerhouse of scientific innovation and scientists were treated as national heroes. Now science has gone down the shitter, anti-science runs strong and is growing daily. The government's taking over the RAS bodes ill.
BTW students do learn calculus, physics, chemistry, etc. in US schools. And you can read some of the results of the UN study - in which 470,000 students took part in - and some of the reasoning why countries like Finland and South Korea are so much better than Russia. The superior educational systems teach how to apply knowledge while Russia teaches by rote and memorization. In fact I do know people currently enrolled in Russian schools, where they literally have to memorize hundreds of poems when they are 6 or 7 years old.
Sorry if I sound bitter. I really had hope that after the Soviet Union fell, Russia would become a free country with all the legacy of Russia's rich cultural history. I was proven wrong on both cases, and every day I get more evidence that the country is going down as a neanderthal fascist state.
I would assume the risk of catastrophic failure would preclude it's use as an on-site office. However, keeping it up would yield invaluable data as to what components do fail and how, as well as what parts and systems do hold up very well.
I could either mod you down, or stay on to say you are a major asshole. You really advocate Iran getting nuclear weapons in hopes that a nuclear war gets started? Fuck you.
There is a big difference between the negative portrayals of Russia in Western media and the hysterical anti-Western portrayal in Russia, where the US and NATO are regularly depicted as the biggest threats to Mother Russia since Hitler's Germany. The Fox News story was, of course widely reported in the Russian media, and milked for all it was worth as a portrayal of Western - particularly American - media bias, but I'd be more inclined to believe it was journalistic incompetence than a need to falsify reports to get an angle - there were literally tens of thousands of them - unless the Russian authorities really had the region so tightly locked down that no journalist would have had access to Georgian refugees. Which brings up the point of Russian media bias- the cheerleading for the Russian invasion of Georgia put anything Fox News did for the US invasion of Iraq to shame. Instead of bringing WMD, the Russians inflated the number of civilian casualties when Georgia moved to retake South Ossetia by orders of magnitude.
You just hit the nail on the head. They have the USA (and by extension, NATO, and the EU) depicted as the fountain head of all the world's ills. Sort of like the constant fear of "terrorism" kept alive in the USA, only it is applied to literally everything.
There are a number of reasons already mentioned in response, including the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. One more is that if you have proof of some wrongdoing by the government, the government can take action to ensure no one else sees said proof.
Care to provide a citation? Actually there is a very good economic reason why carnivore meat is not widely consumed: you will need to grow, say, 1,000 kg of grain to raise 100 kg of herbivore meat; for 100 kg carnivore meat, you will need to grow 10,000 kg of grain to feed 1,000 kg of herbivore to raise 100 kg of carnivore. Jared Diamond - whom I am paraphrasing here - claims to have tried lion meat and found it delicious.
The paper ballots introduced a few years ago really left a lot to be desired. You filled the things out at a desk with a visor that just about anyone can look over, and would be in plain sight to anyone who happened to be walking behind you. You put the ballot in a manilla envelope that would only partially cover it and walked across the room and fed into a reader, that was out in the open. Not one iota of privacy. With the voting booths, you pulled a lever and a curtain closed around you. You could probably change your clothes in the thing without anyone noticing.
Elite hackers from North Korea? Pull the other one. Most people in NK don't even have access to computers. Those who do are stuck with Red Star OS and a BBS. No, something like this malware would have to come from an very advanced country. USA or South Korea maybe? It's all part of the propaganda war.
Just don't got to any of the kids sites, and problem solved. Mine (pre-K and K aged) spend no time whatsoever interacting with a computer, and are the better for it IMHO.
Also, time travel as used in sf (though I really don't have a broad survey of the literature to make a general pronouncement) never goes beyond the most simplistic assumptions, that time is a linear, deterministic process; i.e. you go back in time you better make sure your parents fall in love or else you will cease to exist, or you accidentally step on a butterfly, which causes through the compounding of changes ultimately leading to a fascist winning an election. The idea that the act of time travel induces a fork in reality or that the changes need time to propagate up towards the present, or any of the other possible implications seems never to be explored.
Unfortunately I don't have the points to mod you up for pointing out something that is true, though it seems the majority of slashdotters can't figure that out. But I will say that, although corporations can't buy elections, they can and do buy the politicians.
Wrong comparison. Most programmers don't write for textbooks, and those that do I would think are exceptionally good coders. A more apt comparison would be between the code written for CS students for academic projects and that written by working professionals in the field.
It's been a while since I read _Code Complete_, but I believe it does cite a number of studies suggesting productivity increases with certain coding conventions. But not all conventions are created equal. Having everyone use the same indentation is essential, and does hurt productivity when it isn't adhered to. Naming conventions make code tidy and more predictable, but in my experience does little or nothing for productivity. Others are just nitpicky and useless - for example in a previous job, the expression in all return statements was required to to be enclosed in parentheses - or even just plain stupid, as Hungarian notation in Java code (all objects have an "o" prefix, integers have an "i", and so on), this also in the same company.
Obviously you don't read all the news, AC. The UK refused to hand over Gary McKinnon. Ditto for Switzerland and Roman Polanski. The EU will not hand anyone over to the USA in cases where the death penalty may be sought.
Thanks for making the most sensible post on this entire topic. The US - and even SK - would crush NK militarily, regardless of any nukes the latter possesses. However, the only thing that might come of such an action is a horrendous humanitarian disaster that will be a lot worse to deal with than some uppity dictatorship with delusions of importance.
.As others have pointed out, as soon as a country gets nuclear capability the US stops meddling and takes a more respective stance (viz: India, Pakistan).
Surely they all jest! America stopped meddling and took a more respective stance in Pakistan! *chortle*
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Ah, a product of the Russian educational system - the article specifically mentioned 65 countries in the study. Not to mention you're making assumptions on how the math was scored that cannot be inferred from the article or data. Or bringing up the favorite boogeyman in Russian media - America - to deflect blame in Russia's shortcomings. Lets face it, in Soviet times, Russia was a powerhouse of scientific innovation and scientists were treated as national heroes. Now science has gone down the shitter, anti-science runs strong and is growing daily. The government's taking over the RAS bodes ill.
BTW students do learn calculus, physics, chemistry, etc. in US schools. And you can read some of the results of the UN study - in which 470,000 students took part in - and some of the reasoning why countries like Finland and South Korea are so much better than Russia. The superior educational systems teach how to apply knowledge while Russia teaches by rote and memorization. In fact I do know people currently enrolled in Russian schools, where they literally have to memorize hundreds of poems when they are 6 or 7 years old.
Sorry if I sound bitter. I really had hope that after the Soviet Union fell, Russia would become a free country with all the legacy of Russia's rich cultural history. I was proven wrong on both cases, and every day I get more evidence that the country is going down as a neanderthal fascist state.
Sorry, I don't buy this. The Russian Federation is way below the US in math and science:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading
I would assume the risk of catastrophic failure would preclude it's use as an on-site office. However, keeping it up would yield invaluable data as to what components do fail and how, as well as what parts and systems do hold up very well.
not worth the mod point.
I could either mod you down, or stay on to say you are a major asshole. You really advocate Iran getting nuclear weapons in hopes that a nuclear war gets started? Fuck you.
Why does everyone assume that the rebels are hostile to the US? I mean the FSA, and obviously not al Qaeda or MB franchises like al Nusra.
There is a big difference between the negative portrayals of Russia in Western media and the hysterical anti-Western portrayal in Russia, where the US and NATO are regularly depicted as the biggest threats to Mother Russia since Hitler's Germany. The Fox News story was, of course widely reported in the Russian media, and milked for all it was worth as a portrayal of Western - particularly American - media bias, but I'd be more inclined to believe it was journalistic incompetence than a need to falsify reports to get an angle - there were literally tens of thousands of them - unless the Russian authorities really had the region so tightly locked down that no journalist would have had access to Georgian refugees. Which brings up the point of Russian media bias- the cheerleading for the Russian invasion of Georgia put anything Fox News did for the US invasion of Iraq to shame. Instead of bringing WMD, the Russians inflated the number of civilian casualties when Georgia moved to retake South Ossetia by orders of magnitude.
You just hit the nail on the head. They have the USA (and by extension, NATO, and the EU) depicted as the fountain head of all the world's ills. Sort of like the constant fear of "terrorism" kept alive in the USA, only it is applied to literally everything.
Exactly. Most Russians probably have never even heard of RT.
It's been my experience that Russians do not trust Western media at all, and consider it to have a strong anti-Russian bias.
There are a number of reasons already mentioned in response, including the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. One more is that if you have proof of some wrongdoing by the government, the government can take action to ensure no one else sees said proof.
Care to provide a citation? Actually there is a very good economic reason why carnivore meat is not widely consumed: you will need to grow, say, 1,000 kg of grain to raise 100 kg of herbivore meat; for 100 kg carnivore meat, you will need to grow 10,000 kg of grain to feed 1,000 kg of herbivore to raise 100 kg of carnivore. Jared Diamond - whom I am paraphrasing here - claims to have tried lion meat and found it delicious.
The paper ballots introduced a few years ago really left a lot to be desired. You filled the things out at a desk with a visor that just about anyone can look over, and would be in plain sight to anyone who happened to be walking behind you. You put the ballot in a manilla envelope that would only partially cover it and walked across the room and fed into a reader, that was out in the open. Not one iota of privacy. With the voting booths, you pulled a lever and a curtain closed around you. You could probably change your clothes in the thing without anyone noticing.
you don't eat softshell crab?
Elite hackers from North Korea? Pull the other one. Most people in NK don't even have access to computers. Those who do are stuck with Red Star OS and a BBS. No, something like this malware would have to come from an very advanced country. USA or South Korea maybe? It's all part of the propaganda war.
NK has a very strong IT sector - http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/tech-careers/for-outsourcing-it-have-you-considered-north-korea
Just don't got to any of the kids sites, and problem solved. Mine (pre-K and K aged) spend no time whatsoever interacting with a computer, and are the better for it IMHO.
Also, time travel as used in sf (though I really don't have a broad survey of the literature to make a general pronouncement) never goes beyond the most simplistic assumptions, that time is a linear, deterministic process; i.e. you go back in time you better make sure your parents fall in love or else you will cease to exist, or you accidentally step on a butterfly, which causes through the compounding of changes ultimately leading to a fascist winning an election. The idea that the act of time travel induces a fork in reality or that the changes need time to propagate up towards the present, or any of the other possible implications seems never to be explored.
My wife *knows* it is caused by exposure to cold weather :)
Unfortunately I don't have the points to mod you up for pointing out something that is true, though it seems the majority of slashdotters can't figure that out. But I will say that, although corporations can't buy elections, they can and do buy the politicians.
Wrong comparison. Most programmers don't write for textbooks, and those that do I would think are exceptionally good coders. A more apt comparison would be between the code written for CS students for academic projects and that written by working professionals in the field.
It's been a while since I read _Code Complete_, but I believe it does cite a number of studies suggesting productivity increases with certain coding conventions. But not all conventions are created equal. Having everyone use the same indentation is essential, and does hurt productivity when it isn't adhered to. Naming conventions make code tidy and more predictable, but in my experience does little or nothing for productivity. Others are just nitpicky and useless - for example in a previous job, the expression in all return statements was required to to be enclosed in parentheses - or even just plain stupid, as Hungarian notation in Java code (all objects have an "o" prefix, integers have an "i", and so on), this also in the same company.
Obviously you don't read all the news, AC. The UK refused to hand over Gary McKinnon. Ditto for Switzerland and Roman Polanski. The EU will not hand anyone over to the USA in cases where the death penalty may be sought.
"Oliver Stone" and "Documentary" do not belong in the same sentence.
Thanks for making the most sensible post on this entire topic. The US - and even SK - would crush NK militarily, regardless of any nukes the latter possesses. However, the only thing that might come of such an action is a horrendous humanitarian disaster that will be a lot worse to deal with than some uppity dictatorship with delusions of importance.
.As others have pointed out, as soon as a country gets nuclear capability the US stops meddling and takes a more respective stance (viz: India, Pakistan).
Surely they all jest! America stopped meddling and took a more respective stance in Pakistan! *chortle*