I'm not seeing it. It should be left to the Parents to decide...
I see and hear this statement quite often, and sometimes I agree. This is one of those times. Most times, however, I disagree, and here is why. I know that this law pertains to SK, and not the USA, but in the USA we have prisons, welfare, and other programs for unproductive members of society, which are funded by taxpayers. That is, we who are responsible members of society have to support those who are not. When the parents are 100% financially responsible for their adult child's behavior, then I will agree that the government shouldn't be involved in how we raise our children. When I have to pay an emotional price because someone else's child shot mine in a psychotic rampage*, or I have to pay for their adult child to live in prison (like my cousins), or collect welfare because they can't keep their legs together or hold down a job due to laziness (like my sister), then no. I will not agree.
I'm not saying that playing MMOs at 4 AM will lead to criminal behavior. In fact, in this instance I agree with the person I quoted. What I am saying is that people often say "let me raise my kids my way, and stay out of it," but they fail to consider all those bad parents, whose failures have a direct emotional and financial impact on everyone else.
*This is not hyperbole, but a real situation that I've experienced. A 14 year old in my former junior HS came to school with a gun and went on a rampage, killing at least one person before killing himself. Another acquaintance of mine was killed at the NIU shooting in 2008.
Our Grand Communist Party of the Great Nation of China plan to get the rest of the world to leave us alone about our glorious firewall, and desire, nay, duty to protect our citizens:
Step 1: Push out Google
Step 2: Muck up their internet
Step 3: They kick us off "their" internet
Step 4: Setup our own, national, internet
Step 5: Be praised by the lesser nations for staying off their internet, rather than chastised for walling ourselves off and keeping their realfacts out
Step 6: Spread propaganda, er... goodfacts about our Grand Communist Party of the Great Nation of China
Step 7: Unlimited, eternal power to do whatever we please
No, he's saying MS makes Windows, and MS sells Windows certifications, which is cyclical. You still need to study for the certification, but the point is who makes the technology, and who sells the certifications for the technology. He's saying independent certification source is preferred.
Unfortunately, most people who are hiring have an HR department that screens resumes, which isn't the most technically savvy. As a result, their IT department gives them MS Office because it's the most familiar to the HR staff, and will result in the least helpdesk calls. Hiring managers are usually bogged down with work (ergo they are hiring). This leads to a situation where hiring managers have to rely on the HR department to screen candidates based on some keyword criteria, which means candidates need to use Word. Ideally, they would accept a PDF, because there are open source PDF writers out there for various platforms, and I know that it will be rendered exactly the same on their screen. That is, if I don't use some crazy fonts, but then I can just embed those into the PDF.
I have to say, I've gotten some pretty (ahem) creative responses, too. And for all you job hunters out there, if you put "C/C++" on your resume, I guarantee my first technical question is going to be, "What's the difference between C and C++?" All the while knowing that there is a >50% chance I'm about to get a "creative" answer.
As someone who is 90% Java, 10% C++, with a CS degree but somewhere between junior and mid level in my career, I would say:
C gives you structs, but C++ gives true objects and all the OO glory that they entail
In our 8-man Document Management department, we use Documentum. Yes, that's 8 people just to support Documentum, and our users. It's been very effective for years, but there are a number of problems with it.
First, it is expensive. In fact, it is so expensive that we are seriously looking at Alfresco as an alternative due to how much ECM wants to charge us for extra seats.
Second, the official ECM support techs and consultants don't know the product very well. We have paid ECM twice to have them send a tech to look at our system and help us troubleshoot it. After we sent the second one back because we knew more than both of them about Documentum and how it runs, we haven't thought about calling them for any support since then. This is a common theme among Documentum shops.
Third, unofficial (community) support is scarce. Finding good information is very difficult, and when you do, it disappears quickly. Nobody wants to host the stuff for some reason.
If you do decide to use Documentum, check out dm_cram for training info, and this excellent book for understanding Documentum.
Might be a good designer, but definitely isn't a good artist. Either that or she thought the astronaut's legs were the same length as the rest of her body.
I noticed the same thing. This is particularly odd considering that women (on average) have proportionally shorter legs than men, and asians (on average) have proportionally shorter legs than non-asians. Maybe this designer suffers from leg envy?
I completely agree with this. When Thomas Edison tried to sell his light bulbs, he needed to get electricity into people's homes. He didn't have in mind all the other wonders that would spawn from this utility, which was a regulated monopoly from its birth. Today we have vacuum cleaners, computers, televisions, heart monitors, etc.
The internet is still a young technology, and we have no idea what will grow from it. I haven't owned a television in over 5 years because I haven't needed one; not when I have broadband internet access. The same thing for snail mail. I stopped using it several years ago when I stopped paying my bills via check, and started using online payment methods. Of the 5 jobs I've had, the last 4 were found on job boards, or the result of a recruiter contacting me about my resume that they saw on a job board. I also do a lot of research online, using government databases. It's been invaluable in my research for a home to purchase (property values / neighborhood statistics, etc), and when defending myself against a scummy landlord.
To find out what can grow from the internet, we need to recognize it as a utility, and regulate it as such.
It's still funnier than the majority of the 'jokes' posted today. We always hear about the small companies that took a change, started from humble beginnings, and became a smashing success. How often do we hear about the failed ones that never get off the ground? It's comedy worthy of Brits.
At least some of the jokes made me groan in pain as they hurt my funny bone. This one is just so... mundane, and unclever. I just sighed at the stupidity of it.
Or perhaps I have respect for the work of Alonzo Church, and find such comments to be in bad taste. Perhaps my respect for his work even goes so far as to post with my screenname and reputation, rather than post unconstructive comments anonymously.
My understanding is that an endless task is finite at any point in time, but continues to grow for eternity.
An infinite task is one that, at any point in time, has no bounds. An infinite task cannot "grow" since it would need a finite state to then become larger than it.
Nobody in the US is shamed by speeding. In fact, as a nation of automobile enthusiasts, we take pride in how much horsepower we have, how loud our engine is, and how fast we go. That's why there are so many morons weaving in and out of traffic at around 90 mph on my 30 mile commute home every evening. It's also why our automobile race tracks are shaped like long ovals rather than having twists and turns. Ovals allow the cars to go faster.
It was just yesterday that I posted this comment. In short, why don't we install small transmitters on speed limit signs, and receivers in cars? Then our cars will automatically know what the posted speed limit is, and limit how fast we can drive to that speed. I'm not advocating it, but I wonder why we don't do this. The technologies (and patents) are already there.
These companies will always protect their bottom line. It's an arms race of sorts. Increase power to cut down on the need for servers and licenses, and these companies will change their licensing models / costs to ensure that you are still paying the amount in the end. It's the same with HDDs and other hardware. The price/GB may go down, but the size of the drives just keep going up, ensuring that you still pay $100 to replace your parents' dead HDD, no matter the decade.
So we know that certain people have higher risks of developing certain diseases based on genetic factors, such as gender (color-blindness in men) or 'race' (Tay-Sachs in Ashkenazi jews). People are even willing to pay more for eggs or sperm from people with high SAT scores or PhD's. Yet, when a Harvard University President suggests that maybe certain aspects of intelligence are based on genetics, it causes an uproar.
I'm not suggesting that a certain race or sex is inferior to another, but why is the mere suggestion that intelligence is based on genetics (and therefore gives inherent benefits to certain genetic groups) considered so taboo? Can't we at least consider, discuss, and perform rigorous research on the subject?
It sounds a lot like scientology propoganda. Didn't LRon claim that actors, writers, and artists are 'special' because they create worlds? This Adobe employee sounds like a scientologist trying to help creative (i.e. 'special') people become 'clears.'
Since we're on the topic of bad driving behavior and using technology to solve it, I have another question. If we're going to put sensors / software in our cellphones and in our cars to prevent cellphone usage while driving, why don't we put small transmitters on speed limit signs and sensors in cars to detect what the legal speed limit is? That way, our cars can know what the speed limit is, and prevent us from driving faster than that. I'm not advocating the idea, but I wonder why no legal body has tried to legislate it.
we need to take the growing chinese threat to america a lot more seriously than we have in the past. huzzah to google and godaddy for "getting it"
So much of history was driven by fear.
I must ask, what exactly are they threatening? Your life? Your freedom? The food on your child's plate? The TV sitting in your living room? The car sitting in your neighbor's driveway? What are they threatening to take away from you or your neighbor? What are they preventing you from having? Who is really threatening you? Is it the chinese farmer in a small village with no access to a city, or the government of China? It's obvious that you fear something, but what is it, and what do you propose we do about it?
I'm not trying to be combative. I sincerely want to understand what you consider a "growing chinese threat to america," and how you propose that we take it "a lot more seriously".
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I'm not seeing it. It should be left to the Parents to decide...
I see and hear this statement quite often, and sometimes I agree. This is one of those times. Most times, however, I disagree, and here is why. I know that this law pertains to SK, and not the USA, but in the USA we have prisons, welfare, and other programs for unproductive members of society, which are funded by taxpayers. That is, we who are responsible members of society have to support those who are not. When the parents are 100% financially responsible for their adult child's behavior, then I will agree that the government shouldn't be involved in how we raise our children. When I have to pay an emotional price because someone else's child shot mine in a psychotic rampage*, or I have to pay for their adult child to live in prison (like my cousins), or collect welfare because they can't keep their legs together or hold down a job due to laziness (like my sister), then no. I will not agree.
I'm not saying that playing MMOs at 4 AM will lead to criminal behavior. In fact, in this instance I agree with the person I quoted. What I am saying is that people often say "let me raise my kids my way, and stay out of it," but they fail to consider all those bad parents, whose failures have a direct emotional and financial impact on everyone else.
*This is not hyperbole, but a real situation that I've experienced. A 14 year old in my former junior HS came to school with a gun and went on a rampage, killing at least one person before killing himself. Another acquaintance of mine was killed at the NIU shooting in 2008.
Our Grand Communist Party of the Great Nation of China plan to get the rest of the world to leave us alone about our glorious firewall, and desire, nay, duty to protect our citizens:
Step 1: Push out Google
Step 2: Muck up their internet
Step 3: They kick us off "their" internet
Step 4: Setup our own, national, internet
Step 5: Be praised by the lesser nations for staying off their internet, rather than chastised for walling ourselves off and keeping their realfacts out
Step 6: Spread propaganda, er... goodfacts about our Grand Communist Party of the Great Nation of China
Step 7: Unlimited, eternal power to do whatever we please
No, he's saying MS makes Windows, and MS sells Windows certifications, which is cyclical. You still need to study for the certification, but the point is who makes the technology, and who sells the certifications for the technology. He's saying independent certification source is preferred.
Unfortunately, most people who are hiring have an HR department that screens resumes, which isn't the most technically savvy. As a result, their IT department gives them MS Office because it's the most familiar to the HR staff, and will result in the least helpdesk calls. Hiring managers are usually bogged down with work (ergo they are hiring). This leads to a situation where hiring managers have to rely on the HR department to screen candidates based on some keyword criteria, which means candidates need to use Word. Ideally, they would accept a PDF, because there are open source PDF writers out there for various platforms, and I know that it will be rendered exactly the same on their screen. That is, if I don't use some crazy fonts, but then I can just embed those into the PDF.
I have to say, I've gotten some pretty (ahem) creative responses, too. And for all you job hunters out there, if you put "C/C++" on your resume, I guarantee my first technical question is going to be, "What's the difference between C and C++?" All the while knowing that there is a >50% chance I'm about to get a "creative" answer.
As someone who is 90% Java, 10% C++, with a CS degree but somewhere between junior and mid level in my career, I would say:
C gives you structs, but C++ gives true objects and all the OO glory that they entail
I assume that I failed your test
In our 8-man Document Management department, we use Documentum. Yes, that's 8 people just to support Documentum, and our users. It's been very effective for years, but there are a number of problems with it.
First, it is expensive. In fact, it is so expensive that we are seriously looking at Alfresco as an alternative due to how much ECM wants to charge us for extra seats.
Second, the official ECM support techs and consultants don't know the product very well. We have paid ECM twice to have them send a tech to look at our system and help us troubleshoot it. After we sent the second one back because we knew more than both of them about Documentum and how it runs, we haven't thought about calling them for any support since then. This is a common theme among Documentum shops.
Third, unofficial (community) support is scarce. Finding good information is very difficult, and when you do, it disappears quickly. Nobody wants to host the stuff for some reason.
If you do decide to use Documentum, check out dm_cram for training info, and this excellent book for understanding Documentum.
That reminds me of the anime Grave of Fireflies. Truly depressing, it is.
Might be a good designer, but definitely isn't a good artist. Either that or she thought the astronaut's legs were the same length as the rest of her body.
I noticed the same thing. This is particularly odd considering that women (on average) have proportionally shorter legs than men, and asians (on average) have proportionally shorter legs than non-asians. Maybe this designer suffers from leg envy?
I completely agree with this. When Thomas Edison tried to sell his light bulbs, he needed to get electricity into people's homes. He didn't have in mind all the other wonders that would spawn from this utility, which was a regulated monopoly from its birth. Today we have vacuum cleaners, computers, televisions, heart monitors, etc.
The internet is still a young technology, and we have no idea what will grow from it. I haven't owned a television in over 5 years because I haven't needed one; not when I have broadband internet access. The same thing for snail mail. I stopped using it several years ago when I stopped paying my bills via check, and started using online payment methods. Of the 5 jobs I've had, the last 4 were found on job boards, or the result of a recruiter contacting me about my resume that they saw on a job board. I also do a lot of research online, using government databases. It's been invaluable in my research for a home to purchase (property values / neighborhood statistics, etc), and when defending myself against a scummy landlord.
To find out what can grow from the internet, we need to recognize it as a utility, and regulate it as such.
It's still funnier than the majority of the 'jokes' posted today. We always hear about the small companies that took a change, started from humble beginnings, and became a smashing success. How often do we hear about the failed ones that never get off the ground? It's comedy worthy of Brits.
At least some of the jokes made me groan in pain as they hurt my funny bone. This one is just so... mundane, and unclever. I just sighed at the stupidity of it.
[jest]I hope it torched the fruits and nuts in California. That place is full of weird people.[/jest] Love the weather though.
Ah, yes. I remember that from calculus now. infinity/2 != infinity. I remember that now.
Or perhaps I have respect for the work of Alonzo Church, and find such comments to be in bad taste. Perhaps my respect for his work even goes so far as to post with my screenname and reputation, rather than post unconstructive comments anonymously.
From the article:
As a research tool, Goodman has developed a computer programming language called Church — after the great American logician Alonzo Church
Your comment fits the criteria of Flamebait and Offtopic, but definitely NOT Funny.
My understanding is that an endless task is finite at any point in time, but continues to grow for eternity.
An infinite task is one that, at any point in time, has no bounds. An infinite task cannot "grow" since it would need a finite state to then become larger than it.
Moderation run amok again. Troll? Really? What for?
Nobody in the US is shamed by speeding. In fact, as a nation of automobile enthusiasts, we take pride in how much horsepower we have, how loud our engine is, and how fast we go. That's why there are so many morons weaving in and out of traffic at around 90 mph on my 30 mile commute home every evening. It's also why our automobile race tracks are shaped like long ovals rather than having twists and turns. Ovals allow the cars to go faster.
That depends on the car. Mine has an optimal fuel-effiency speed of 55 mph.
It was just yesterday that I posted this comment. In short, why don't we install small transmitters on speed limit signs, and receivers in cars? Then our cars will automatically know what the posted speed limit is, and limit how fast we can drive to that speed. I'm not advocating it, but I wonder why we don't do this. The technologies (and patents) are already there.
These companies will always protect their bottom line. It's an arms race of sorts. Increase power to cut down on the need for servers and licenses, and these companies will change their licensing models / costs to ensure that you are still paying the amount in the end. It's the same with HDDs and other hardware. The price/GB may go down, but the size of the drives just keep going up, ensuring that you still pay $100 to replace your parents' dead HDD, no matter the decade.
So we know that certain people have higher risks of developing certain diseases based on genetic factors, such as gender (color-blindness in men) or 'race' (Tay-Sachs in Ashkenazi jews). People are even willing to pay more for eggs or sperm from people with high SAT scores or PhD's. Yet, when a Harvard University President suggests that maybe certain aspects of intelligence are based on genetics, it causes an uproar.
I'm not suggesting that a certain race or sex is inferior to another, but why is the mere suggestion that intelligence is based on genetics (and therefore gives inherent benefits to certain genetic groups) considered so taboo? Can't we at least consider, discuss, and perform rigorous research on the subject?
It sounds a lot like scientology propoganda. Didn't LRon claim that actors, writers, and artists are 'special' because they create worlds? This Adobe employee sounds like a scientologist trying to help creative (i.e. 'special') people become 'clears.'
Since we're on the topic of bad driving behavior and using technology to solve it, I have another question. If we're going to put sensors / software in our cellphones and in our cars to prevent cellphone usage while driving, why don't we put small transmitters on speed limit signs and sensors in cars to detect what the legal speed limit is? That way, our cars can know what the speed limit is, and prevent us from driving faster than that. I'm not advocating the idea, but I wonder why no legal body has tried to legislate it.
we need to take the growing chinese threat to america a lot more seriously than we have in the past. huzzah to google and godaddy for "getting it"
So much of history was driven by fear.
I must ask, what exactly are they threatening? Your life? Your freedom? The food on your child's plate? The TV sitting in your living room? The car sitting in your neighbor's driveway? What are they threatening to take away from you or your neighbor? What are they preventing you from having? Who is really threatening you? Is it the chinese farmer in a small village with no access to a city, or the government of China? It's obvious that you fear something, but what is it, and what do you propose we do about it?
I'm not trying to be combative. I sincerely want to understand what you consider a "growing chinese threat to america," and how you propose that we take it "a lot more seriously".