I agree with your data / summary of Pew and was following your argument. The question is to what effect are the various 8 groups influenced by fake issues.
Not really. Black voters in California fall heavily into the "disadvantaged voters" category. Those are voters that view themselves as voting an economic ticket for their advantage. They aren't however liberals, so they tend to support social programs that benefit them or people they care about and on social issues are moderate to conservative. They consider economic issues more important and so elect white liberals, but they themselves aren't liberal.
Take a look at the data. All those issues correlate strongly with others and opinions end up being rather consistent for overwhelming number of voters.
I'm not saying they have the right opinions, I'm saying they aren't easily manipulated by wedge issues. People who have strong hard right opinions on some issues generally have them on almost all issues, etc...
That's my thinking too. Though of course they still have electronic access to the data. Its easy enough to pull the information with access and knowledgeable staff. Could be good for IT workers.
Actually you look at Pew surveys the American population has gotten decidedly more idealogical in the last generation and a half about what they consider "good government". Pretty much.... people are voting the issues, and in a reasonably well thought out way. Huge blocks of easily manipulated independents deciding elections are disappearing from the US landscape.
Yeah I think that's great. Indian outsourcing companies are basically making it hard for companies to ever get their data back. So either they will need knowledgeable staff in the USA to pull all their data off the Indian systems or it stays in India forever.
Good. About time US companies realize, make India your IT center you are subject to Indian IT law.
Absolutely we elect officials who are strong advocates of free speech, and slowly roll back the laws. Bill Clinton's administration was a good example of that, so is Barack Obama's. George Bush-43 did do some minor obscenity prosecution and Reagan did quite a few. In terms of states we used to have a lot more in state courts.
Child porn laws however have gotten much stricter in the last generation and a half not loser. It is looking like there is going to be a very strong line where everything is pretty much legal as long as it stays well clear of children. And that censorship has a broad consensus.
You can buy kindle format books from multiple publishers. For example http://www.adultebookshop.com/ carries stuff that Amazon won't and Kindle is their preferred format.
And then so what? Apple just does what it does on iOS and you need a device specific provisioning file to run a binary executable. Scripts run in sandboxes or need to be enabled with chmod +x.
It sounds like you don't want end users to have the ability to mount drives. So don't grant them that permission. The default on Unixes is that end users can't mount a drive.
They've no need for large scale management tools and so don't see the value. They don't realize how their methods for handling things would not scale well to thousands of users and systems.
Change that to. Window administrations aren't familiar with a wide range of strategies for large scale management tools since they have only been exposed to one OS, and so don't see that there are lots of alternatives. They don't realize how the the large scale management tools that exist on Unix (as well as other OS) would easily scale well to thousands of users and systems but are vastly different from how windows machines are administrated.
Apple does provide legit tools. They've done a lot of work building infrastructure for application isolation and capability based security. Unlike Windows Mac developers are used to Apple changing the rules and understand that OS upgrades can require another release of the software.
Apple can jack the security up fairly high quickly.
[quote] It was claimed that Stallman is instigating societal change, not a change merely within the software industry. Most people I know have never even heard of him. [/quote]
Changing a feeder industry is changing the society. And most people never know who instituted changes. How many drivers today know the names of the people involved in building steam engines that could handle larger explosive forces? How many drive cars based on internal combustine engines?
RMS has done nothing for the last 20 years. Oh lets see, found the Gnome project, get Debian off the ground, lead the fight to make the GPL the most common license in existence.....
You aren't talking about some tiny minority. If you select for "substantial project" among 22 year olds you are likely selecting for "schools that require a substantial project" which means you are selecting an educational philosophy (senior project) rather than what I think you are going for.
I agree with you on the board. The board wanted to shift the company away from being an engineer's company.
As far as calculators.... yes and no. The idea of powerful handheld devices which people could easily carry, and offered programability i.e. customization: PIMs like Palm were based on that concept and now cell phones OSes / devices. I'd love to have the kind of programmability that RPL offered me with the features of a cell phone. I'd love to able to write simple programs which check my address book for missing cell phone numbers of check for duplicate entries by matching home phone numbers.
I have no idea about the blender problem either. But that sounds like a typical IQ test problem. You are testing for IQ.
As for how to implement multiplication, i.e. that's testing an understand of low level code. Basically "have you ever done assembly, C, implemented eval for LISP..." in a language non specific way. Me I'd get obsessed with accuracy issues, like are we talking floating point or integer, what size.... Which are the sorts of questions about the question that indicate experience dealing with hardware / driver issues.
. Like some code I recently worked with where the developers didn't "trust" SQL so instead of writing joins in SQL,
Assuming the tables are in a relational database that's just being an idiot. If the tables aren't in a relational database, for example the underlying database is Codasyl and has a relational front end... that could be orders of magnitude faster. You could be looking at someone who has experience with COBOL over VSAM rather than just relational experience. Whether you want people who know about different types of non relational database management systems and how the engines work depends on type of application.
Then you are very heavily biased based on class selection and what school they went to. Some schools have large projects particularly for juniors and seniors. You'll end up selecting for that.
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I agree with your data / summary of Pew and was following your argument. The question is to what effect are the various 8 groups influenced by fake issues.
Not really. Black voters in California fall heavily into the "disadvantaged voters" category. Those are voters that view themselves as voting an economic ticket for their advantage. They aren't however liberals, so they tend to support social programs that benefit them or people they care about and on social issues are moderate to conservative. They consider economic issues more important and so elect white liberals, but they themselves aren't liberal.
In other words blacks are democrats not liberals.
Take a look at the data. All those issues correlate strongly with others and opinions end up being rather consistent for overwhelming number of voters.
I'm not saying they have the right opinions, I'm saying they aren't easily manipulated by wedge issues. People who have strong hard right opinions on some issues generally have them on almost all issues, etc...
Another good point. Allows India to keep expanding its tech sector.
That's my thinking too. Though of course they still have electronic access to the data. Its easy enough to pull the information with access and knowledgeable staff. Could be good for IT workers.
Actually you look at Pew surveys the American population has gotten decidedly more idealogical in the last generation and a half about what they consider "good government". Pretty much.... people are voting the issues, and in a reasonably well thought out way. Huge blocks of easily manipulated independents deciding elections are disappearing from the US landscape.
Well India is using this as a way to stop data from being outsourced away from India. The US government loves sending jobs overseas.
The real question when do we get a government that is more concerned about the welfare of the population than corporate profits?
Yeah I think that's great. Indian outsourcing companies are basically making it hard for companies to ever get their data back. So either they will need knowledgeable staff in the USA to pull all their data off the Indian systems or it stays in India forever.
Good. About time US companies realize, make India your IT center you are subject to Indian IT law.
Absolutely we elect officials who are strong advocates of free speech, and slowly roll back the laws. Bill Clinton's administration was a good example of that, so is Barack Obama's. George Bush-43 did do some minor obscenity prosecution and Reagan did quite a few. In terms of states we used to have a lot more in state courts.
Child porn laws however have gotten much stricter in the last generation and a half not loser. It is looking like there is going to be a very strong line where everything is pretty much legal as long as it stays well clear of children. And that censorship has a broad consensus.
What makes you think DRM doesn't have a major uproar? Why do you think non DRM formats like CDs and paper books are still doing as well as they are?
You can buy kindle format books from multiple publishers. For example http://www.adultebookshop.com/ carries stuff that Amazon won't and Kindle is their preferred format.
And then so what? Apple just does what it does on iOS and you need a device specific provisioning file to run a binary executable. Scripts run in sandboxes or need to be enabled with chmod +x.
Apple has already built the infrastructure.
It sounds like you don't want end users to have the ability to mount drives. So don't grant them that permission. The default on Unixes is that end users can't mount a drive.
We've been having this argument for 15 years on /.
Change that to. Window administrations aren't familiar with a wide range of strategies for large scale management tools since they have only been exposed to one OS, and so don't see that there are lots of alternatives. They don't realize how the the large scale management tools that exist on Unix (as well as other OS) would easily scale well to thousands of users and systems but are vastly different from how windows machines are administrated.
The problem is the "legacy crap" is what ties their customers to them. Supporting legacy crap is their key feature.
No one has better "all-in-one" than Linux. That's a huge advantage of the open source / distributions do software distribution model.
Apple does provide legit tools. They've done a lot of work building infrastructure for application isolation and capability based security. Unlike Windows Mac developers are used to Apple changing the rules and understand that OS upgrades can require another release of the software.
Apple can jack the security up fairly high quickly.
You are multiplying not adding so you need to use logs or use a log normal distribution to apply central limit.
[quote] It was claimed that Stallman is instigating societal change, not a change merely within the software industry. Most people I know have never even heard of him. [/quote]
Changing a feeder industry is changing the society. And most people never know who instituted changes. How many drivers today know the names of the people involved in building steam engines that could handle larger explosive forces? How many drive cars based on internal combustine engines?
RMS has done nothing for the last 20 years. Oh lets see, found the Gnome project, get Debian off the ground, lead the fight to make the GPL the most common license in existence.....
You aren't talking about some tiny minority. If you select for "substantial project" among 22 year olds you are likely selecting for "schools that require a substantial project" which means you are selecting an educational philosophy (senior project) rather than what I think you are going for.
A bit of a delay in responding but....
I agree with you on the board. The board wanted to shift the company away from being an engineer's company.
As far as calculators.... yes and no. The idea of powerful handheld devices which people could easily carry, and offered programability i.e. customization: PIMs like Palm were based on that concept and now cell phones OSes / devices. I'd love to have the kind of programmability that RPL offered me with the features of a cell phone. I'd love to able to write simple programs which check my address book for missing cell phone numbers of check for duplicate entries by matching home phone numbers.
Yeah the 50 is a little better. Still isn't a pity that 2 decades later you are talking about slightly better keys?
I have no idea about the blender problem either. But that sounds like a typical IQ test problem. You are testing for IQ.
As for how to implement multiplication, i.e. that's testing an understand of low level code. Basically "have you ever done assembly, C, implemented eval for LISP..." in a language non specific way. Me I'd get obsessed with accuracy issues, like are we talking floating point or integer, what size .... Which are the sorts of questions about the question that indicate experience dealing with hardware / driver issues.
Assuming the tables are in a relational database that's just being an idiot. If the tables aren't in a relational database, for example the underlying database is Codasyl and has a relational front end... that could be orders of magnitude faster. You could be looking at someone who has experience with COBOL over VSAM rather than just relational experience. Whether you want people who know about different types of non relational database management systems and how the engines work depends on type of application.
Then you are very heavily biased based on class selection and what school they went to. Some schools have large projects particularly for juniors and seniors. You'll end up selecting for that.