Dr Kanazawa suggests "a single psychological mechanism" is responsible for this: the competitive edge among young men to fight for glory and gain the attention of women.
That craving drives the all-important male hormone, testosterone.
Dr Kanazawa theorises after a man settles down, the testosterone level falls, as does his creative output.
I don't agree with this. Has Dr. K considered the fact that choosing to get married means that you also choose to give time to your spouse, and therefore you choose to not give as much time to your scientific endeavors?
I've experienced this personally. Everytime I've been in a relationship in my life, especially now that I'm married, my individual projects suffered because I chose to put them on the backburner. I hardly think I have less testosterone than the average geek who instead spends his time hacking on Linux. In fact, IMHO, I'd venture to say that an unmarried scientist has quite a bit less testosterone than a married male because he has less of an urge to seek relationships than to continue working.
Although I understand the merits of looking at everything from a top-level, big picture point of view, I don't know if this is the best way to teach new students.
I completely believe that the reason why I absorbed computer science in college, especially software engineering principles, is that I wrote a 30,000 line game in C when I was in high school. I learned *all* the wrong things to do by experience, and could apply all the material in college directly to my game.
I've always wanted to teach a programming class where you would keep building on an project through-out the semester, until it totally blows up in everyone's faces because of their bad programming practices. The next phase of the class (maybe the next semester?) would be analyzing the project and how SW design principles could have been applied and how they would have helped!
Hi, I'm Adobe, and watch me shoot myself in the foot!
By eliminating their products from Asian markets, they will be increasing demand for such a product in that region and removing themselves from the list of competitors!
Now some entrepreneurial code wizards from Asia have the perfect opportunity to introduce new software to that region. Don't forget the Asia is one of the fastest growing technology markets in the world and an up-and-coming tech powerhouse. Maybe it won't be long before they turn around and sell their software to the US?
It won't be successful because of the technology it's based on. SMS, IMHO, is a hack to send messages over technologies that were designed for voice. 3rd generation wireless technology (including high-speed IP over the air, people) will be available in a few years which will completely wipe out SMS and these types of specialized APIs.
I'd like to see a better picture of the device and how it's used. I don't understand how you would actually mount one of these motors as a joint in a robotic arm. What's the range of motion before the arm collides with whatever it is anchored to?
I think Rational's ClearCase is an awesome configuration management tool. Very powerful for branching and merging. Qualcomm and Ericsson (both companies I've worked for) use ClearCase quite extensively.
I get sick of the short-term, short-sighted view of the US government towards these foriegn workers in the United States. I work with a bunch of people on H-1 visas, and all are very intelligent, outstanding people. It would only strenghten our country to accept these highly-trained people as permanent citizens.
Sending these people back to their countries only increases America's competition in the long-term when we could be strengthening ourselves. Save all the "stealing our jobs" rhetoric for untrained, illegal immigrants.
I love OO programming, and I've heard many things about Smalltalk. But I didn't get exposed to it in school (like I did to C, C++, Java, Lisp, Prolog, SML, Fortran, and assembly). Maybe there's just a lot of people out there like me who would like to learn about it, but have never found the time or was never taught about it in school.
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Dr Kanazawa suggests "a single psychological mechanism" is responsible for this: the competitive edge among young men to fight for glory and gain the attention of women.
That craving drives the all-important male hormone, testosterone.
Dr Kanazawa theorises after a man settles down, the testosterone level falls, as does his creative output.
I don't agree with this. Has Dr. K considered the fact that choosing to get married means that you also choose to give time to your spouse, and therefore you choose to not give as much time to your scientific endeavors?
I've experienced this personally. Everytime I've been in a relationship in my life, especially now that I'm married, my individual projects suffered because I chose to put them on the backburner. I hardly think I have less testosterone than the average geek who instead spends his time hacking on Linux. In fact, IMHO, I'd venture to say that an unmarried scientist has quite a bit less testosterone than a married male because he has less of an urge to seek relationships than to continue working.
Although I understand the merits of looking at everything from a top-level, big picture point of view, I don't know if this is the best way to teach new students.
I completely believe that the reason why I absorbed computer science in college, especially software engineering principles, is that I wrote a 30,000 line game in C when I was in high school. I learned *all* the wrong things to do by experience, and could apply all the material in college directly to my game.
I've always wanted to teach a programming class where you would keep building on an project through-out the semester, until it totally blows up in everyone's faces because of their bad programming practices. The next phase of the class (maybe the next semester?) would be analyzing the project and how SW design principles could have been applied and how they would have helped!
Hi, I'm Adobe, and watch me shoot myself in the foot!
By eliminating their products from Asian markets, they will be increasing demand for such a product in that region and removing themselves from the list of competitors!
Now some entrepreneurial code wizards from Asia have the perfect opportunity to introduce new software to that region. Don't forget the Asia is one of the fastest growing technology markets in the world and an up-and-coming tech powerhouse. Maybe it won't be long before they turn around and sell their software to the US?
It won't be successful because of the technology it's based on. SMS, IMHO, is a hack to send messages over technologies that were designed for voice. 3rd generation wireless technology (including high-speed IP over the air, people) will be available in a few years which will completely wipe out SMS and these types of specialized APIs.
I'd like to see a better picture of the device and how it's used. I don't understand how you would actually mount one of these motors as a joint in a robotic arm. What's the range of motion before the arm collides with whatever it is anchored to?
I think Rational's ClearCase is an awesome configuration management tool. Very powerful for branching and merging. Qualcomm and Ericsson (both companies I've worked for) use ClearCase quite extensively.
I get sick of the short-term, short-sighted view of the US government towards these foriegn workers in the United States. I work with a bunch of people on H-1 visas, and all are very intelligent, outstanding people. It would only strenghten our country to accept these highly-trained people as permanent citizens. Sending these people back to their countries only increases America's competition in the long-term when we could be strengthening ourselves. Save all the "stealing our jobs" rhetoric for untrained, illegal immigrants.
I love OO programming, and I've heard many things about Smalltalk. But I didn't get exposed to it in school (like I did to C, C++, Java, Lisp, Prolog, SML, Fortran, and assembly). Maybe there's just a lot of people out there like me who would like to learn about it, but have never found the time or was never taught about it in school.