Though clearly he's right, because racism and nationalism are always the answer.
The truth is America isn't producing enough qualified programmers. The alternative to off-shoring? Is not having things made. Attracting more programmers has nothing to do with protecting them from foreign competition. It would require better work conditions (and I don't mean free soda and bags of chips), a clearer path into the field (let's be honest: a CS degree does not prepare one to code and spending 4 years on a signaling mechanism sucks) and a less hostile, defensive atmosphere. It's hard to find quality people overseas too; the problem isn't that we're letting to many skilled people in, it's that no one wants these jobs. "If you are smart enough to do the work, you're smart enough not to work here."
People like Code For America are doing something about these problems; this guy isn't. Trying to impose more barriers to trade is not useful. Not to mention that we have the internet now; not letting programmers into the US only drives whole projects off-shore and keeps immigrants from contributing to our vibrant, diverse entrepreneurial culture. Which, it turns out, was in large part built by immigrants in the first place. If you want more Americans hired, you should increase the ease of immigration, not make it harder; it would bring more entrepreneurs to our country, who in turn would employ more Americans. Some of them would become Americans themselves, thus strengthening our nation and increasing the number of skilled American programmers, which I think was the original point.
I bet you their bosses at the NSA are already calling senators suggesting how Inconvenient it would be if Certain Things came to light and the whole matter will go poof inside of a week.
Lenovo doesn't make anything comparable to a MacBook Pro. They don't offer recent hardware and only have business-optimized ancient video cards, which run games very poorly since they are optimized for CAD design.
Really? I went laptop shopping recently. The Dell XPS was just as expensive for the same machine, the Alienware was more expensive and has the batter life of a mayfly, and non-name brand companies that were just as expensive and have no track record. HP didn't seem to even be bothering, Sony was expensive, fragile-looking and out of date, and no one except Alienware seemed to be offering recent video cards. I couldn't get more, much for less money.
I ended up settling on less for less and buying a Lenovo. At least they offer a real warranty, unlike Apple, and I know that I'll still be using it four years from now, so it doesn't matter much that the hardware is at least six months old.
Like abusive parents, the inability to get accurate information at school or the library about specific topics, and laws designed to remove their privacy everywhere else in the world. When a kid beat up by their parents, fellow school children, ignored by teachers afraid of loosing their own jobs or who simply feel helpless when faced with a broken system, the internet browsed in anonymous mode with all cookies rejected may be the best possible way to find support, or at least hope.
Our society goes out of its way to make children the property of their parents in all but the most extreme cases. The internet has provided a small chink in that total ownership. No wonder law enforcement is now encouraging parents to remove that outlet as well.
I like Tom Holt's Expecting Someone Taller and Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahoy, Ms.!. I've long thought The Time Machine was ripe for retelling too; I kept waiting for the turn where we discover that the Morlocks were not cannibalistic trying to eat him, they were just talking to him and he was too racist to entertain the notion that they might have an underground technological society. The Eloi are clearly just genetically engineered sheep anyway;-)
I wasn't particularly happy with how the rape plot line was handled. In the book it seems more important, more an integral part of the main plot, probably because you are busy being bombarded with even more trivial, unrelated things, like comic books and squid.
Besides which, even if you have training the right thing to do when a guy tries to rob you is to hand over your wallet. Staying alive is vital, and I will never ever condemn someone for not risking their live in order to fight back when someone is committing a crime against them. The right thing is to hand over your wallet, get a good look at the guy and then go to the police/cancel your credit cards. The key to reducing crime is to make crime not pay.
In performance-per-dollar the i7-2500 is the best thing until you get sub-$90, with the other new i7s close behind. There are some consumers who look at marginal value and not just total cost.
Except that there is an inverse correlation between political engagement and terrorism. Additionally, war crimes frequently allow access to weaponry, giving some people the opportunity to use those weapons against you or your civilians. Even if your response to every terrorist action is to track down and kill every member of the terrorist's family, you're just going to inspire siblingless orphans to come after you, or people who hate their families anyway.
The only thing that deters terrorism is at least the illusion of political agency. As long as people feel like they are doing something by participating in political rituals, whether or not they are effective, they don't radicalize. It's like the "door close" button on elevators.
In addition, one newer study suggests a U-shaped relation between paternal age and autism. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02223.x/full)
Older fathers also appear to change the gender balance of the disorder, which supports the idea that a separate mechanism might be at play.
Ultimately, I believe we will discover the causes of autism, not a single cause.
It could also be the product of people having children at older ages. Older fathers are associated with a higher risk of autism. Of course, that doesn't leave you anyone to sue, so it's not nearly so popular.
For people like me, who's parents were caught up in it, it is possible to get vaccinations later and help undo the harm that's been done, as well as protect yourself against these diseases. Get your vaccination records and talk to your doctor.
Where I live money for schools plummeted after support from the federal government dried up. Property values are very nearly non-existent; it's cheaper to buy a house than a car. No wonder it's easier for them to introduce spell check than actually support education. More than that, school consolidations have driven administrative and transportation costs so high that only half the school budget actually supports classroom learning. It's pretty much a mess.
It would never have been an issue if he hadn't publicized the proceedings, spreading conspiracy theories and his accusers names far and wide. He was the one who turned it into a circus; it's hypocritical for him to complain about it now.
Except that Assange has made it clear that he doesn't believe this is about him, but rather is a government dealing. So it should be fair game; I hope to see it hosted on WikiLeaks tomorrow.
That doesn't mean you don't have to stand trial, dumbass. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. No matter how famous you are, you can't skip the "court of law" part.
How is encouraging women to enter computer science become a "wrong"? Clearly right now there are things that make it easier for men to go into computer science than women, as the data clearly shows. Most programs attempting to encourage women ignore men all together, thus they can not possibly do men any harm.
Personally I think the only programs that will ultimately succeed in getting women into computer science and retaining them once they are there are the ones that do deal with men. There need to be programs to force men to stop preferentially hiring and promoting men because of "cultural fit", to stop objectifying their female coworkers, to police college classrooms and not tolerate chauvinistic or misogynistic behavior. Men need to be taught a history of computer science that includes Ada Lovelace as prominently as Alan Turing (and makes sure to mention the latter's homosexuality.) That teaches Grace Hooper along with Donald Knuth, and Adel Goldberg next to Alan Kay. Men need to know and respect the contributions of women, then and now, to the field.
Only then will men stop tolerating a homogeneous, gender-policing work culture. Only then will men stop coming back to work the day after their child is born. Only then will women feel like welcome participants instead of either potential sex partners or an unwelcome intruder into a masculine world.
Programming was never a masculine pursuit. It was invented by women to automate jobs women already did. It is that very history that led male programmers to backlash so fast your head spun as they were hired by the all-male managers from mostly or exclusively male colleges programs (as MIT and CalTech were when computer science was coming to the fore) for the new, highly-paid positions being created.
Two wrongs would be women at colleges like CalTech now demanding that no men be admitted to computer science departments for the next 15 years, to make up for the years when only men were allowed in. Asking for equal participation isn't a "wrong" by any reasonable definition of the word.
Are there a large number of men who skip computer programming for theoretical math yet? How about biochemistry? Then it's not the same problem.
The evidence says that men and women are having different experiences of computer science before they reach college. Men going into computer science are more likely to have encountered computer science casually and in social situations, whereas women are likely to only have encountered computer science, if at all, in formal settings such as school. Thus, the state of Computer Science in formal settings, such as schools, will have a greater impact on women than on men.
Just because gender might be mostly an imaginary social construct doesn't mean those shared delusions don't have a real effect. Trying to erase those effects by ignoring the existence of the real and current differences is counter-productive.
A single-source quote-based article that gets someone free publicity is always accurate. (They don't even make it clear whether the ellipses in the quote are supposed to be pauses or were selective editing. It seems especially fishy in light of the other quote from the same fellow, buried at the bottom of the article cited by this article: "I suspect it is because we have a "babe" on the front page."
I'm not an Apple lover (Google Voice only took how long to get approved?), but giving this guy the publicity he's clearly craving without anyone appearing to have fact-checked his story seems poor form to me.
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Though clearly he's right, because racism and nationalism are always the answer.
The truth is America isn't producing enough qualified programmers. The alternative to off-shoring? Is not having things made. Attracting more programmers has nothing to do with protecting them from foreign competition. It would require better work conditions (and I don't mean free soda and bags of chips), a clearer path into the field (let's be honest: a CS degree does not prepare one to code and spending 4 years on a signaling mechanism sucks) and a less hostile, defensive atmosphere. It's hard to find quality people overseas too; the problem isn't that we're letting to many skilled people in, it's that no one wants these jobs. "If you are smart enough to do the work, you're smart enough not to work here."
People like Code For America are doing something about these problems; this guy isn't. Trying to impose more barriers to trade is not useful. Not to mention that we have the internet now; not letting programmers into the US only drives whole projects off-shore and keeps immigrants from contributing to our vibrant, diverse entrepreneurial culture. Which, it turns out, was in large part built by immigrants in the first place. If you want more Americans hired, you should increase the ease of immigration, not make it harder; it would bring more entrepreneurs to our country, who in turn would employ more Americans. Some of them would become Americans themselves, thus strengthening our nation and increasing the number of skilled American programmers, which I think was the original point.
I bet you their bosses at the NSA are already calling senators suggesting how Inconvenient it would be if Certain Things came to light and the whole matter will go poof inside of a week.
That''s an insult to his testicles; I am sure they are significantly smarter than he is.
Lenovo doesn't make anything comparable to a MacBook Pro. They don't offer recent hardware and only have business-optimized ancient video cards, which run games very poorly since they are optimized for CAD design.
Totally different market.
Really? I went laptop shopping recently. The Dell XPS was just as expensive for the same machine, the Alienware was more expensive and has the batter life of a mayfly, and non-name brand companies that were just as expensive and have no track record. HP didn't seem to even be bothering, Sony was expensive, fragile-looking and out of date, and no one except Alienware seemed to be offering recent video cards. I couldn't get more, much for less money.
I ended up settling on less for less and buying a Lenovo. At least they offer a real warranty, unlike Apple, and I know that I'll still be using it four years from now, so it doesn't matter much that the hardware is at least six months old.
Like abusive parents, the inability to get accurate information at school or the library about specific topics, and laws designed to remove their privacy everywhere else in the world. When a kid beat up by their parents, fellow school children, ignored by teachers afraid of loosing their own jobs or who simply feel helpless when faced with a broken system, the internet browsed in anonymous mode with all cookies rejected may be the best possible way to find support, or at least hope.
Our society goes out of its way to make children the property of their parents in all but the most extreme cases. The internet has provided a small chink in that total ownership. No wonder law enforcement is now encouraging parents to remove that outlet as well.
I like Tom Holt's Expecting Someone Taller and Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahoy, Ms.!. I've long thought The Time Machine was ripe for retelling too; I kept waiting for the turn where we discover that the Morlocks were not cannibalistic trying to eat him, they were just talking to him and he was too racist to entertain the notion that they might have an underground technological society. The Eloi are clearly just genetically engineered sheep anyway ;-)
I thought both of those were excellent decisions.
I wasn't particularly happy with how the rape plot line was handled. In the book it seems more important, more an integral part of the main plot, probably because you are busy being bombarded with even more trivial, unrelated things, like comic books and squid.
Besides which, even if you have training the right thing to do when a guy tries to rob you is to hand over your wallet. Staying alive is vital, and I will never ever condemn someone for not risking their live in order to fight back when someone is committing a crime against them. The right thing is to hand over your wallet, get a good look at the guy and then go to the police/cancel your credit cards. The key to reducing crime is to make crime not pay.
This is why I'm a proponent of everyone not raping people and putting anyone who fails in prison.
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/gated?mode=print This was a custom-written Shakespearian comedy larp, designed and run just so this guy could propose to his girlfriend.
In performance-per-dollar the i7-2500 is the best thing until you get sub-$90, with the other new i7s close behind. There are some consumers who look at marginal value and not just total cost.
Except that there is an inverse correlation between political engagement and terrorism. Additionally, war crimes frequently allow access to weaponry, giving some people the opportunity to use those weapons against you or your civilians. Even if your response to every terrorist action is to track down and kill every member of the terrorist's family, you're just going to inspire siblingless orphans to come after you, or people who hate their families anyway.
The only thing that deters terrorism is at least the illusion of political agency. As long as people feel like they are doing something by participating in political rituals, whether or not they are effective, they don't radicalize. It's like the "door close" button on elevators.
The study I saw said only the father's age mattered: http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/mental/articles/2006/09/05/autism_study_finds_fathers_age_a_factor/ but a more recent study, http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/170/9/1118.abstract says that they both contribute. Early studies were complicated by examining maternal age and not controlling for paternal age, which is correlated. It appears to have since shaken out that both contribute.
In addition, one newer study suggests a U-shaped relation between paternal age and autism. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02223.x/full) Older fathers also appear to change the gender balance of the disorder, which supports the idea that a separate mechanism might be at play.
Ultimately, I believe we will discover the causes of autism, not a single cause.
It could also be the product of people having children at older ages. Older fathers are associated with a higher risk of autism. Of course, that doesn't leave you anyone to sue, so it's not nearly so popular.
For people like me, who's parents were caught up in it, it is possible to get vaccinations later and help undo the harm that's been done, as well as protect yourself against these diseases. Get your vaccination records and talk to your doctor.
Where I live money for schools plummeted after support from the federal government dried up. Property values are very nearly non-existent; it's cheaper to buy a house than a car. No wonder it's easier for them to introduce spell check than actually support education. More than that, school consolidations have driven administrative and transportation costs so high that only half the school budget actually supports classroom learning. It's pretty much a mess.
It would never have been an issue if he hadn't publicized the proceedings, spreading conspiracy theories and his accusers names far and wide. He was the one who turned it into a circus; it's hypocritical for him to complain about it now.
Except that Assange has made it clear that he doesn't believe this is about him, but rather is a government dealing. So it should be fair game; I hope to see it hosted on WikiLeaks tomorrow.
That doesn't mean you don't have to stand trial, dumbass. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. No matter how famous you are, you can't skip the "court of law" part.
How is encouraging women to enter computer science become a "wrong"? Clearly right now there are things that make it easier for men to go into computer science than women, as the data clearly shows. Most programs attempting to encourage women ignore men all together, thus they can not possibly do men any harm.
Personally I think the only programs that will ultimately succeed in getting women into computer science and retaining them once they are there are the ones that do deal with men. There need to be programs to force men to stop preferentially hiring and promoting men because of "cultural fit", to stop objectifying their female coworkers, to police college classrooms and not tolerate chauvinistic or misogynistic behavior. Men need to be taught a history of computer science that includes Ada Lovelace as prominently as Alan Turing (and makes sure to mention the latter's homosexuality.) That teaches Grace Hooper along with Donald Knuth, and Adel Goldberg next to Alan Kay. Men need to know and respect the contributions of women, then and now, to the field.
Only then will men stop tolerating a homogeneous, gender-policing work culture. Only then will men stop coming back to work the day after their child is born. Only then will women feel like welcome participants instead of either potential sex partners or an unwelcome intruder into a masculine world.
Programming was never a masculine pursuit. It was invented by women to automate jobs women already did. It is that very history that led male programmers to backlash so fast your head spun as they were hired by the all-male managers from mostly or exclusively male colleges programs (as MIT and CalTech were when computer science was coming to the fore) for the new, highly-paid positions being created.
Two wrongs would be women at colleges like CalTech now demanding that no men be admitted to computer science departments for the next 15 years, to make up for the years when only men were allowed in. Asking for equal participation isn't a "wrong" by any reasonable definition of the word.
Don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of your http://www.derailingfordummies.com/
Are there a large number of men who skip computer programming for theoretical math yet? How about biochemistry? Then it's not the same problem.
The evidence says that men and women are having different experiences of computer science before they reach college. Men going into computer science are more likely to have encountered computer science casually and in social situations, whereas women are likely to only have encountered computer science, if at all, in formal settings such as school. Thus, the state of Computer Science in formal settings, such as schools, will have a greater impact on women than on men.
Just because gender might be mostly an imaginary social construct doesn't mean those shared delusions don't have a real effect. Trying to erase those effects by ignoring the existence of the real and current differences is counter-productive.
* Unlikely. They aren't actually discriminating on the basis of content, but charging for quantity of content.
* Again, they aren't prohibiting access to anything, they are charging for traffic carried.
* Not applicable for this. Good argument against deep packet inspection.
* Well, this instance isn't about other areas of commerce, it is about total traffic. So again, not applicable here.
A single-source quote-based article that gets someone free publicity is always accurate. (They don't even make it clear whether the ellipses in the quote are supposed to be pauses or were selective editing. It seems especially fishy in light of the other quote from the same fellow, buried at the bottom of the article cited by this article: "I suspect it is because we have a "babe" on the front page."
I'm not an Apple lover (Google Voice only took how long to get approved?), but giving this guy the publicity he's clearly craving without anyone appearing to have fact-checked his story seems poor form to me.