This is not funny at all, nor do you need to be outsourced. According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Bureau, the US admitted 370,490 H1B applicants in FY 2002. The same year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the annual average number of unemployed workers classified under "computer and mathematical occupations" as 160,000.
Does this make sense to you? It sure doesn't to me.
Good grief, another brilliant invention from the self-absorbed folks at the MIT AI Lab. Minsky was quite right with his comments. In fact, all the hard work of real engineering in this "door-opening robot" was done by the Segway people in designing the inertial feedback control systems that stabilize the thing. The Hackers seem to have used this as the basis for a glorified Lego MindStorms project. Even the referenced article in MIT's Tech Review concedes that the really clever bit is in the Segway's "dynamic balancing abilities."
Maybe if MIT would spend less time developing the egos of its students and more time on real engineering topics like control systems then they might actually turn out some useful engineers instead of self-serving, thin-skinned, xenophobic geeks incapable of working with management or peers.
Maybe we should give them a break since this is the AI Lab, and therefore a bunch of "computer scientists"--as distinct from engineers--so they probably have never solved any differential equations in their lives.
Founders of AI fundamentals like Norbert Wiener and Herbert Simon, were they alive today, would be sad to see that their brilliant initial insights have been reduced to the commercialization of substandard "robot" vacuum cleaners--that is, if their contributions were even part of the MIT AI curriculum, which they clearly are not when the department consists of mathematically-challenged, system-engineering-free computer scientists. But then, neither Wiener nor Simon were graduates of the over-hyped Institute...
Anyone worried about trivial things like taxes is missing the point here. This is clearly a Fourth Amendment workaround--an attempt to evade the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
The last time the government tried to pull this with wiretapping even Louis Brandeis couldn't save us and the precident stood until 1967! Here's a good link about Olmstead vs. the United States.
Looks good! But don't stop here--for anyone really serious about understanding copyright law's foundations I highly recommend Lawerence Lessig's Code as well. This examines the law in detail from a constitutional (and historical) perspective. Further, he explains how the actual structure of this law has influenced software development in the past and how it may continue in the future. This includes many excellent discussions about the oft forgotten concept of "fair use," and how commercial closed-source interests threaten our existing rights w.r.t. software and even more.
The 'sausage factory' is one thing--you can always stop eating sausage. If we give away our rights to fair use, though, it seems we could easily lose such common institutions as free libraries--an unarguably Bad prospect...
Oh no it's finally happened... Software literature has become facile and meaningless as management pulp. The central tenets here are tautological: the central tenet of making good soup is to to find the essential elements of good soup and use them.
Well, duh.
For anyone who learned something from the advice about programmers programming, managers managing and customers choosing, I have this amazing revelation: it gets dark at night.
Trouble doesn't come when organizations don't do this (obvious) stuff. The problems are the boundary cases... Clearly program scheduling and product positioning are 'business decisions,' but where are the lines between these and task estimates and customer feature priorities?
And all this promoted by O'Reilly... Maybe they intend to start up a self-help line of books: "12 Steps to Programming Your Way to a Slimmer Healthier You For Dummies."
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Does this make sense to you? It sure doesn't to me.
comments. In fact, all the hard work of real engineering in this "door-opening robot" was done by the Segway people in designing the inertial feedback control systems that stabilize the thing. The Hackers seem to have used this as the basis for a glorified Lego MindStorms project. Even the referenced article in MIT's Tech Review concedes that the really clever bit is in the Segway's "dynamic balancing abilities."
Maybe if MIT would spend less time developing the egos of its students and more time on real engineering topics like control systems then they might actually turn out some useful engineers instead of self-serving, thin-skinned, xenophobic geeks incapable of working with management or peers.
Maybe we should give them a break since this is the AI Lab, and therefore a bunch of "computer scientists"--as distinct from engineers--so they probably have never solved any differential equations in their lives.
Founders of AI fundamentals like Norbert Wiener and Herbert Simon, were they alive today, would be sad to see that their brilliant initial insights have been reduced to the commercialization of substandard "robot" vacuum cleaners--that is, if their contributions were even part of the MIT AI curriculum, which they clearly are not when the department consists of mathematically-challenged, system-engineering-free computer scientists. But then, neither Wiener nor Simon were graduates of the over-hyped Institute...
Really huge-screen David Lean flicks...
Maybe you shouldn't bother, smarty pants--"impart" is a transitive verb and you seem to have forgotten the direct object. ;)
The last time the government tried to pull this with wiretapping even Louis Brandeis couldn't save us and the precident stood until 1967! Here's a good link about Olmstead vs. the United States.
The 'sausage factory' is one thing--you can always stop eating sausage. If we give away our rights to fair use, though, it seems we could easily lose such common institutions as free libraries--an unarguably Bad prospect...
Oh no it's finally happened... Software literature has become facile and meaningless as management pulp. The central tenets here are tautological: the central tenet of making good soup is to to find the essential elements of good soup and use them. Well, duh. For anyone who learned something from the advice about programmers programming, managers managing and customers choosing, I have this amazing revelation: it gets dark at night. Trouble doesn't come when organizations don't do this (obvious) stuff. The problems are the boundary cases... Clearly program scheduling and product positioning are 'business decisions,' but where are the lines between these and task estimates and customer feature priorities? And all this promoted by O'Reilly... Maybe they intend to start up a self-help line of books: "12 Steps to Programming Your Way to a Slimmer Healthier You For Dummies."