I was talking to someone about "Freedom". And I ask them what "freedom" do they mean: economic or political.
After looked at me quizzically, I said when it comes to political freedom, Scandinavia tops the World and when it comes to economic "freedom" you have to look towards Asia.
Whenever you look at those lists of political or economic freedom or how easy it is to start a business or whatever other "freedom" benchmark there is, the US is at best in the teens (one being the best).
And it's getting worse. The social conservatives want to regulate how we behave. The social liberals want to regulate how we behave. People and existing businesses want more regulations. Existing businesses love government regulation because it helps keep competition from forming - the big guy has the edge.
That's the thing, the poster didn't say where in China he's going to be. Outside of the major cities, you're in an agrarian Third World country. It's not like he can walk into an internet Cafe and plug in.
I think the poster is going to have to use a "cocktail" of different ways of getting under the firewall - with a prayer: Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.
...that someone who is too stupid to put a battery in the correct way round probably shouldn't be using an electronic device in the first place?
Mea Culpa.
When I was at my PHB seminar the other day, they had a prototype of this this thing. It's not quite up to par. See, I put the batteries in backwards into my camera in it projected the pictures I had in there! What got me into trouble was that the previous night I photographed my exploits with two Albanian Circus dwarfs. Quite embarrassing! I wasn't wearing a rubber! I wasn't sure if one of them was female or not, either.HIs/her name was Chris.
Thank you very much. Science is hard. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't understand it. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't. That's not the scientist's fault.
That's true if you're going to study it but to read about the concepts and have an appreciation of what's being done isn't hard. I don't need to understand molecular biology to appreciate the discoveries of the human genome, for example. I think that's what the GP was referring to.
The public is scientifically illiterate. If the public had a better basic scientific understanding, then they would appreciate and would be able to follow what scientists are explaining. Many scientist write for Discover and Scientific American and do a wonderful job. I've never studied quantum mechanics, but those folks make it understandable.
I could say the exact same things about economics and our political system.
Isaac Asimov was a scientist who changed careers early on to become a very successful writer.
From 1958, this was in a non-teaching capacity, as he turned to writing full-time (his writing income had already exceeded his academic salary). Being tenured meant that he retained the title of associate professor, and in 1979 the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry.
...no deep understanding of algorithms or data structures.
That depends on your job. Realistically, how many folks graduate with a CS degree and actually do CS? Very very very few work on operating systems, database engines, and other really intense CS type of stuff where you really would need datastructures and other CS skills. Embedded systems and device drivers are usually done by engineers from I can see and as far as algorithms are concerned, companies hire the folks with graduate degrees in math for that. Business algorithms? The accountants and business types developed those.
Let's face it. You graduate with a CS or MIS degree you're going to be a code monkey. You need to go on to grad school to get into real computer science. A BS CS makes one no more a computer scientist than a BS Physics makes one a physicist.
Data structures? Please. When was the last time you had to code a linked list or sort an array or any of that second year CS type of stuff? I stopped coding that in the mid nineties when the Standard Template stuff came out. And if you coded any of that in Java, C#, Python, or whatever, you'd just be reinventing the wheel - a wheel that has been thoroughly tested and debugged. All you need to know is the basic difference between them and that's it: there's no reason to know how there implemented.
Programming is becoming more and more of a skilled blue collar job.
That's not true. A degree is a requirement for access to lots of different kinds of high-paying jobs, if only because the HR manager has a degree and decides on wages.
Whether a degree is actually useful in day-to-day work, well there I might agree with you.
and hiring manager....
Two stories:
The first one is about a supervisor I had who felt one must have a college degree to program device drivers. He blew off a really brilliant (I've never worked with a guy since who was that smart - even the PhDs at IBM) guy because he had only a HS diploma.
Second - a bit longer:
There's a company in SE Florida that needed someone to test circuit boards. A two year technical degree was all that was needed: plug board in, read test equipment, note failure.
When they were looking for someone, an EE shows up. They hired him. This guy then takes advantage of the tuition reimbursement and gets a MS EE. He leaves for greener pastures and maybe to actually use his education. Now, they list his job. Guess what? Requirements for thejob: MS EE. A test job. All because this guy got one on the job. They're reasoning? Well, because he got one he must have needed one.
It wouldn't have surprised me if they were one of the companies that said "We can't get any qualified Americans" and eventually hired a H1-b.
Remember back then - everyone was making a big deal how there was 15 minutes (IIRC) of computer generated animation? And what a big deal it was back then?
The hype was over the "special" effects and I guess the current filmmakers are trying to capitalize on that.
My inspiration was sleep deprivation and Gene Simmons of KISS.
When Simmons was on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, she asked him about marrying his long time girlfriend. He replied - to paraphrase - Why? There wasn't any marriage in the Bible. There was all this begetting.
He;s right. Folks were just screwing and having kids. And if you consider what it was like back then with women dieing giving birth, general life expectancy, etc... if one wanted to father a child, you had to beget a child with a teen age girl. Pedophile by today's standards.
When I beget my girlfriend, we couldn't get benefits - I had to go and marry her!
The other thing that sucks in this society, you can't beget girls like you could in the Bible - you know, girls who just had their first period - 13 year olds. That's prime childbearing age! What the heck!
Anyway, I don't know why Google just doesn't save money and stone the gays to death just like the Bible tells us to!
For the ethical investor, there are two possible responses to this problem. One is divestment from all ethically challenging situations.
OK, I'll have to pull my money out of all investments because I can find an ethical problem with everything. That doesn't server me. Selfish? Tell me that when I'm older and on government aid - your tax money - because I don't have a pot to piss in.
The other is engagement and advocacy, using financial leverage to work for positive change in industry practices and even government regulation.
Nobody will listen to a nobody with only a few thousand dollars in their mutual funds. They won't even listen to someone with a few million invested. Giant multi-billion dollar multi-national corporations really don't have to listen to anyone.
How much business is Google really losing? China is a Third World country. Most of their population is a bunch of farmers living in poverty. Advertising to most of them is pointless. And the Chinese in the big cities? How much is that business worth.
And in the process of this "protest" they're getting quite a bit of good PR.
The "smartarse adolescent" was right - what does his age have to do with it? Unless you think kids should know their "place".
And it gives this old fart some hope that kids will be sticking up to authority when they overstep their bounds. There's nothing that pisses me off more than when the "law and order" types give cops cart blanche for their actions. Cops are to serve and protect - not walk around like they have absolute power.
Now, shut the fuck up, go back to watching your Dirty Harry movies or "24" reruns. I'm in a very cranky mood - the TV room is closed and there's a Matlock marathon on and to add insult to injury, they've ran out of banana pudding!
On another note: Munsk made his billions by stating Paypal and selling it to eBay; thereby amplifying its evil. I think if Tesla finances these cars and you miss a payment, they will freeze all of you bank accounts and get the locks on the doors on your home changed until they investigate the situation.
When you go out to your car in the morning and it doesn't start, do you say that your car manufacturer is making defective cars, or do you simply get it fixed?
Actually, I check to see if there's a recall at the NTSB or mycarfacts.com and some other sites to see if I can get fixed for free.
But wait, we're talking about software - an industry where standard procedure is to release shit and have the customer find all the bugs and faults that testing didn't.
Slashdot Mirror
But even doing that can cost alot just for the hard where.
The 'hard' is where? And why does it cost so much?
You didn't think you'd walk away from that did ya?
When Grove was CEO of Intel, HE was the one who moved much of their R&D overseas because they were "unable to get qualified Americans."
After looked at me quizzically, I said when it comes to political freedom, Scandinavia tops the World and when it comes to economic "freedom" you have to look towards Asia.
Whenever you look at those lists of political or economic freedom or how easy it is to start a business or whatever other "freedom" benchmark there is, the US is at best in the teens (one being the best).
And it's getting worse. The social conservatives want to regulate how we behave. The social liberals want to regulate how we behave. People and existing businesses want more regulations. Existing businesses love government regulation because it helps keep competition from forming - the big guy has the edge.
...if you have a good bandwidth.
That's the thing, the poster didn't say where in China he's going to be. Outside of the major cities, you're in an agrarian Third World country. It's not like he can walk into an internet Cafe and plug in.
I think the poster is going to have to use a "cocktail" of different ways of getting under the firewall - with a prayer: Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.
...that someone who is too stupid to put a battery in the correct way round probably shouldn't be using an electronic device in the first place?
Mea Culpa.
When I was at my PHB seminar the other day, they had a prototype of this this thing. It's not quite up to par. See, I put the batteries in backwards into my camera in it projected the pictures I had in there! What got me into trouble was that the previous night I photographed my exploits with two Albanian Circus dwarfs. Quite embarrassing! I wasn't wearing a rubber! I wasn't sure if one of them was female or not, either.HIs/her name was Chris.
Now compare it with Newegg
Dell has a lot of problems with their machines and customer service.
Thank you very much. Science is hard. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't understand it. If you're not willing to work at it, you won't. That's not the scientist's fault.
That's true if you're going to study it but to read about the concepts and have an appreciation of what's being done isn't hard. I don't need to understand molecular biology to appreciate the discoveries of the human genome, for example. I think that's what the GP was referring to.
The public is scientifically illiterate. If the public had a better basic scientific understanding, then they would appreciate and would be able to follow what scientists are explaining. Many scientist write for Discover and Scientific American and do a wonderful job. I've never studied quantum mechanics, but those folks make it understandable.
I could say the exact same things about economics and our political system.
From 1958, this was in a non-teaching capacity, as he turned to writing full-time (his writing income had already exceeded his academic salary). Being tenured meant that he retained the title of associate professor, and in 1979 the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry.
there's going to be some real interesting times in the software industry. Because, all the MBA types will look at him and will want to repeat it.
The pace at which you have to learn material in any college is so much higher than any public high school it's not even funny.
I knew a kid who went to a private Catholic High School. He found college easier. Which says something about our public schools.
...no deep understanding of algorithms or data structures.
That depends on your job. Realistically, how many folks graduate with a CS degree and actually do CS? Very very very few work on operating systems, database engines, and other really intense CS type of stuff where you really would need datastructures and other CS skills. Embedded systems and device drivers are usually done by engineers from I can see and as far as algorithms are concerned, companies hire the folks with graduate degrees in math for that. Business algorithms? The accountants and business types developed those.
Let's face it. You graduate with a CS or MIS degree you're going to be a code monkey. You need to go on to grad school to get into real computer science. A BS CS makes one no more a computer scientist than a BS Physics makes one a physicist.
Data structures? Please. When was the last time you had to code a linked list or sort an array or any of that second year CS type of stuff? I stopped coding that in the mid nineties when the Standard Template stuff came out. And if you coded any of that in Java, C#, Python, or whatever, you'd just be reinventing the wheel - a wheel that has been thoroughly tested and debugged. All you need to know is the basic difference between them and that's it: there's no reason to know how there implemented.
Programming is becoming more and more of a skilled blue collar job.
That's not true. A degree is a requirement for access to lots of different kinds of high-paying jobs, if only because the HR manager has a degree and decides on wages.
Whether a degree is actually useful in day-to-day work, well there I might agree with you.
and hiring manager....
Two stories:
The first one is about a supervisor I had who felt one must have a college degree to program device drivers. He blew off a really brilliant (I've never worked with a guy since who was that smart - even the PhDs at IBM) guy because he had only a HS diploma.
Second - a bit longer:
There's a company in SE Florida that needed someone to test circuit boards. A two year technical degree was all that was needed: plug board in, read test equipment, note failure.
When they were looking for someone, an EE shows up. They hired him. This guy then takes advantage of the tuition reimbursement and gets a MS EE. He leaves for greener pastures and maybe to actually use his education. Now, they list his job. Guess what? Requirements for thejob: MS EE. A test job. All because this guy got one on the job. They're reasoning? Well, because he got one he must have needed one.
It wouldn't have surprised me if they were one of the companies that said "We can't get any qualified Americans" and eventually hired a H1-b.
The hype was over the "special" effects and I guess the current filmmakers are trying to capitalize on that.
It does pack a wallop!
Got a friend? Want more money?
If need be, you can use half the money to rent a friend.
After the expenses of Lady Gaga mp3s or Cher (for older partners) of course.
Gotta have the image.
I get the impression that there's a Civil Union and then a Church union in the UK.
When Simmons was on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, she asked him about marrying his long time girlfriend. He replied - to paraphrase - Why? There wasn't any marriage in the Bible. There was all this begetting.
He;s right. Folks were just screwing and having kids. And if you consider what it was like back then with women dieing giving birth, general life expectancy, etc... if one wanted to father a child, you had to beget a child with a teen age girl. Pedophile by today's standards.
When I beget my girlfriend, we couldn't get benefits - I had to go and marry her!
The other thing that sucks in this society, you can't beget girls like you could in the Bible - you know, girls who just had their first period - 13 year olds. That's prime childbearing age! What the heck!
Anyway, I don't know why Google just doesn't save money and stone the gays to death just like the Bible tells us to!
brilliant individuals don't really pan out in the long term, other than how their gross failures help foster new democracies.
Yes! I'm a failure because I'm brilliant!
For the ethical investor, there are two possible responses to this problem. One is divestment from all ethically challenging situations.
OK, I'll have to pull my money out of all investments because I can find an ethical problem with everything. That doesn't server me. Selfish? Tell me that when I'm older and on government aid - your tax money - because I don't have a pot to piss in.
The other is engagement and advocacy, using financial leverage to work for positive change in industry practices and even government regulation.
Nobody will listen to a nobody with only a few thousand dollars in their mutual funds. They won't even listen to someone with a few million invested. Giant multi-billion dollar multi-national corporations really don't have to listen to anyone.
How much business is Google really losing? China is a Third World country. Most of their population is a bunch of farmers living in poverty. Advertising to most of them is pointless. And the Chinese in the big cities? How much is that business worth.
And in the process of this "protest" they're getting quite a bit of good PR.
Wait a second.
I can see venus at night - I can take a photo my with my camera.
Is there some weird definition of "Alien" that I dont know of?
Yes. The planet is claimed by either the Mexicans or the Canadians.
He's an adolescent smartarse, though.
The "smartarse adolescent" was right - what does his age have to do with it? Unless you think kids should know their "place".
And it gives this old fart some hope that kids will be sticking up to authority when they overstep their bounds. There's nothing that pisses me off more than when the "law and order" types give cops cart blanche for their actions. Cops are to serve and protect - not walk around like they have absolute power.
Now, shut the fuck up, go back to watching your Dirty Harry movies or "24" reruns. I'm in a very cranky mood - the TV room is closed and there's a Matlock marathon on and to add insult to injury, they've ran out of banana pudding!
So you pay 9.99, and then still have ads on top of it? Absurd.
Worked for cable.
You're not one to troll, eldavojohn. Why now?
Afternoon drinks?
In this economy, who could blame him.
On another note: Munsk made his billions by stating Paypal and selling it to eBay; thereby amplifying its evil. I think if Tesla finances these cars and you miss a payment, they will freeze all of you bank accounts and get the locks on the doors on your home changed until they investigate the situation.
When you go out to your car in the morning and it doesn't start, do you say that your car manufacturer is making defective cars, or do you simply get it fixed?
Actually, I check to see if there's a recall at the NTSB or mycarfacts.com and some other sites to see if I can get fixed for free.
But wait, we're talking about software - an industry where standard procedure is to release shit and have the customer find all the bugs and faults that testing didn't.
And I have a Toyota you insensitive clod!