Just as conservative side does not die off, neither does the liberal. Debates would just take longer - and perhaps be more fruitful in the end. And politics are easily managed - you have mandates. That is why there are also presidents and not just kings around. And besides, politics is not progress. Politics is maintaining the status quo.
Now, imagine a society that plans ahead for the next 500 years? A society where you could have 100 years of experience in your particular field of work?
Or in other words, approximately every 18 months, artificial vision will double in quality? Not quite.
The artificial retina has an array of electrodes that stimulates optic nerve cells, sending an image to the brain's vision centers. The plasticity of the brain's vision processing capabilities enable it to adapt to the artificially generated signals. You get higher resolution up to a point where your brain input maxes out. But, what you MIGHT get as a bonus are things like infra-red vision, zoom-vision or data input. You are getting a piece of wiring installed in your head - why not make the most of it?
Colleges need to raise their standards. What will you get out of that? Less graduates per year, but boy will they be smart?
Only trouble is... By the time they finish with college their jobs will be taken by those guys from India. Or by guys not as smart, but smart enough to do the job.
"Harder criteria" just means that you will create a bottleneck at certain points - not create better graduates. If anything... it will just mean that in a year or two you will gather couple of hundred more students at those bottlenecks and you will either have no control over them and they will cheat their way through the test or you will have to lower the bar even more just so you could get some breathing room.
If by "raising standards" you mean more and better teachers "per capita" - by increasing the number of teachers, not decreasing the number of students - you might be on to something.
Mind you, this is also a good argument for forcing students to show their intermediate work (design, etc) and to do said intermediate work with pen and paper. It's a lot harder to outsource something that would be in the wrong handwriting and have to be Fedex'd from India. Are we assuming now that those smart enough (which is not a lot) to "outsource" homework don't know how to read and write too? Or that they are incapable of copying the notes by hand?
Oh... and since we are practicing the "practical interview" - why hire college graduates at all? We ARE assuming that their diploma is useless, right? Just get a bunch of kids fresh out of highschool instead. Or... wait a second... I have a brilliant idea coming up here...
How about giving the jobs to those kids in India? They can walk the walk, let them talk the talk too. They will obviously pass the "practical interview", right?
How is it rewarding? With money? You know... those little paper thingies with numbers and pictures of people on them, that you give at the store and they let you take things out of the store?
I wondered why the final name shouldn't be "hot college lesbians". Have you ever worked in marketing? You might want to think about giving it a shot if you haven't already.
I have a feeling you could have a brilliant career in that field.
I'm sure there are some kernels of insight buried in there someplace, but I'm just not clear what they are My thoughts exactly. And since most slashdot readers don't RTFA most comments here have proven useless in trying to figure what those kernels you mention are. But this guy, who has read TFA (and commented on it on the Wired's site) seems to have found them.
Posted by: technophile 20 hours ago1 Point
I think what you have hit on here is the difference between analytical and empirical solutions. Analytical relationships are usually first determined from empirical ones. Once you have the empirical relationships you can determine the missing factors or constants.
They are both necessary and a part of the scientific process. You collect data, generate empirical equations, then try and derive or otherwise model the empirical relationship with an analytical one. Empirical relationships are limited because they are somewhat system dependent. For instance an empirical relationship for the ideal gas law could be generated using methane. This might be accurate for methane, but limited in its use for a gas that deviates from the ideal behavior (i.e. hydrogen fluoride gas). You could generate an empirical relationship for every single molecule in the universe but that would be impractical, which is why analytical relationships can often be more useful. Hopefully the "Petabyte Age" will allow the scientific method to flourish, not replace it.
edit: Rethinking my reply, what the article seems to say is that the Petabyte Age will make determining empirical relationships for everything practical. The scientist who generates loads of empirical relationships and never questions the underlying theory is not a scientist at all, just an observer of scientific processes. I suppose it depends on your goal as to whether this will suit you or not.
If Obama votes to pass this, you know he is compromised.
If he skips the vote, you know he will not stand up for what is right in the face of intimidation by big business etc - which is almost as bad as the first choice.
No... If he is compromising it means that he too is getting something out of the deal. Backscratching. That IS what politicians do. Argue. Debate. Compromise. Agree.
A presidential nominee who (as you put it) "will not stand up for what is right in the face of intimidation by big business etc" - is far worse. That is just incompetent and a puppet. "Look people! Here is your New and Shiny Leader! Wave to him! Now you wave back New and Shiny Leader. Good boy!"
...That there is no mention of Lieutenant JG Wesley Crusher's influence in the making of this oath. After all... It is he who coined that age old maxim "I'm with Starfleet; we don't lie.".
Personally, I find that it would be far more effective if they have just quoted Captain Picard instead.
Gamer.no was the second publication in the world to publish a review, and we also gave it 3 out of 10. The review was based on a retail copy obtained from a store on Tuesday this week. Atari contacted us just minutes after it was published, claiming that our review is probably based on a preview or pirated copy, and requested it to be removed. We never removed it, of course.
I have CDs from back in 1998, when I've coaxed my boss to buy a 4x TraxData burner. They still mount better and copy and open easier than some printed ones I got with various magazines over the years. Aaah... but back then - a writable CD was about 5$ apiece and they only did up to 4x as did the writers.
I've also had (and still have) a large number of silverbacks burned by various people over the years. Some of them were unreadable or had problems mounting the moment I've put them in the drive. Just because it says somewhere on the sticker that it is 52X compatible or capable - it does not mean that it is. That rule works for both disks and drives.
Also, whether it is cutting costs in manufacturing, packaging (I've found fingerprints on some "fresh" disks), quality control, transport or just plain lying about the performance - the ultra-cheap ones are cheap for a reason.
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Just as conservative side does not die off, neither does the liberal. Debates would just take longer - and perhaps be more fruitful in the end.
And politics are easily managed - you have mandates. That is why there are also presidents and not just kings around.
And besides, politics is not progress. Politics is maintaining the status quo.
Now, imagine a society that plans ahead for the next 500 years?
A society where you could have 100 years of experience in your particular field of work?
With a right dictionary, a rather simple piece of code could do that...
I am guessing it has something to do with steam engines.
Making It Up As I Go Along
But, what you MIGHT get as a bonus are things like infra-red vision, zoom-vision or data input.
You are getting a piece of wiring installed in your head - why not make the most of it?
Just think of the military applications. :D
Nobody mentioned Geordi La Forge yet?
It will all be CG violence in WoW or StarCraft2 or whatever will be the war-game of choice at the time.
Less graduates per year, but boy will they be smart?
Only trouble is... By the time they finish with college their jobs will be taken by those guys from India.
Or by guys not as smart, but smart enough to do the job.
"Harder criteria" just means that you will create a bottleneck at certain points - not create better graduates.
If anything... it will just mean that in a year or two you will gather couple of hundred more students at those bottlenecks and you will either have no control over them and they will cheat their way through the test or you will have to lower the bar even more just so you could get some breathing room.
If by "raising standards" you mean more and better teachers "per capita" - by increasing the number of teachers, not decreasing the number of students - you might be on to something.
Well of course a title like "hot college lesbians" would be all about cli...
Oh... "cliCKS"... well... yes... I guess... it can be about clicks too...
Or that they are incapable of copying the notes by hand?
Oh... and since we are practicing the "practical interview" - why hire college graduates at all? We ARE assuming that their diploma is useless, right?
Just get a bunch of kids fresh out of highschool instead.
Or... wait a second... I have a brilliant idea coming up here...
How about giving the jobs to those kids in India?
They can walk the walk, let them talk the talk too.
They will obviously pass the "practical interview", right?
You know... those little paper thingies with numbers and pictures of people on them, that you give at the store and they let you take things out of the store?
I have a feeling you could have a brilliant career in that field.
Nothing ever is... :(
And since most slashdot readers don't RTFA most comments here have proven useless in trying to figure what those kernels you mention are.
But this guy, who has read TFA (and commented on it on the Wired's site) seems to have found them.
If he skips the vote, you know he will not stand up for what is right in the face of intimidation by big business etc - which is almost as bad as the first choice.
No...If he is compromising it means that he too is getting something out of the deal. Backscratching.
That IS what politicians do. Argue. Debate. Compromise. Agree.
A presidential nominee who (as you put it) "will not stand up for what is right in the face of intimidation by big business etc" - is far worse.
That is just incompetent and a puppet.
"Look people! Here is your New and Shiny Leader! Wave to him! Now you wave back New and Shiny Leader. Good boy!"
I thought it was created just so that you could have all your spam and silly forwards in one place.
iMpossible
You don't watch many Japanese game shows, do you?
...That there is no mention of Lieutenant JG Wesley Crusher's influence in the making of this oath.
After all... It is he who coined that age old maxim "I'm with Starfleet; we don't lie.".
Personally, I find that it would be far more effective if they have just quoted Captain Picard instead.
Is that a hidden Lord of the Rings joke?
Pictures... Please.
Kotaku article has an update:
Gamer.no was the second publication in the world to publish a review, and we also gave it 3 out of 10. The review was based on a retail copy obtained from a store on Tuesday this week. Atari contacted us just minutes after it was published, claiming that our review is probably based on a preview or pirated copy, and requested it to be removed. We never removed it, of course.Yes... it is an old and basic skill but often useful.
I have CDs from back in 1998, when I've coaxed my boss to buy a 4x TraxData burner.
They still mount better and copy and open easier than some printed ones I got with various magazines over the years.
Aaah... but back then - a writable CD was about 5$ apiece and they only did up to 4x as did the writers.
I've also had (and still have) a large number of silverbacks burned by various people over the years.
Some of them were unreadable or had problems mounting the moment I've put them in the drive.
Just because it says somewhere on the sticker that it is 52X compatible or capable - it does not mean that it is.
That rule works for both disks and drives.
Also, whether it is cutting costs in manufacturing, packaging (I've found fingerprints on some "fresh" disks), quality control, transport or just plain lying about the performance - the ultra-cheap ones are cheap for a reason.