BTW, my love of complex systems came from looking at engineering and architectural feats of mankind, like the Cathedrals, Roman Aqueducts and buildings.
Not to mention the art of Escher, and the surrealists.
Oh, and the philosophical aspects too. My greatest tool is Socrates/Plato's Dichotomy: A thing cannot be true and untrue at the same time (If A, then not B), for eliminating factors causing problems. And Occam Razor. And more besides... a lot of our IT ideals come from the philosophers. Even Nietzsche can come in handy at 2AM. "Screw it. Screw EVERYTHING! I AM GOING HOME!"
I used pointers early in the into C class I had to take. We worked in groups which then did "peer" reviews. One of my "peers" gave me a "0" because my code was "too complicated, we haven't covered this stuff"
The teacher adjusted his grade down for participation, and mine up for using pointers.
2 semesters of Physics 2 of Chem 1 of a "General sciences" 2 of Calc. Granted, the physics was not actually required, but I took them at the end of HS as part of a Uni summer program.
If I took O-Chem or another physics class, I could have gotten a Chem minor. The cutbacks in 91-92 meant I could not get into the classes unless I was a chem/physics major.
The HUM degree was HARD. I was 18-23, and working + school was tough.
I actually found the BSIS comically easy, and watched people flounder.
But then I was 37, not 21, and I had 12 years of IT experience. Even adding in being a new Dad, it was just a few hours every night, and some time on the weekend. Easy peasey, I found the Online experience much better suited to my INTJ personality.
I took humanities as a degree because I am a "Renaissance Man" and have a huge span of interest and a good sense of long term trends and a long view on how things should be done now.
Humanities let me play to that strength, more so than a CIS degree.
To eat, I took a job selling parts over the internet in the early 90s in Silicon Valley to pay for my last years at SJSU Being able to explain the technology in terms non-techs could understand. I was also good at understanding their requirements, so I had better return ratios than my peers, less than 5% of my sales came back, although I was not the top salesman. (Who had 25%, so technically I won if you subtracted returns)
I often read the manuals of open box products so I could understand them. I got put on tech support, and revamped the return system, saving more money and time. (Simple labelling system for the Return Auth Code, let us know when it was issued, and what the product inside was. More valuable items like CPU, Mem, HDs got priority over mice or keyboards)
Then the IT "manager" dropped a box of parts on my desk and a copy of a Novell 4 manual and said: "You like reading manuals? Read this, get it working, and you are out of tech support and you are my IT guy. And yes, you get a raise."
I had the foresight to include drivers for both 80X frame types, so when we acquired a new company, it was able to make it the bridge between their older system and our newer one.
Moved to Sac to run the store they opened there, then they folded, but I landed a job at a small development house where I was responsible for "anything that had a wire". I never looked back. I loved IT. I loved understanding, designing and building complex solutions that made sense and stood the test of time. One is 12 years old, and while upgraded and expanded, the architecture is the same. (Informatica/Bussiness Objects cluster)
I started being targeted to come in and fix complex problems in complex environments that were stumping everyone. I am pretty good at it, from what I am told. Jobs and years later, I am an Executive Solution Architect, and I have 25 years or more of adventures left. =) I am working to be a Distinguished Engineer and perhaps even an IBM Fellow at the end of my career.
"The problem with humanities majors is not that they can't communicate, but that they have nothing interesting to say."
My colleagues disagree, my technology presentations are well attended inside IBM. In part because I throw in little history tidbits or even where some words come from, both technical and non-technical.
A good example is when I talk about archaic standards preventing progress, like the size of a Roman wheel cart setting the size of train tracks and roads. (Not strictly true, but it is a good story) Or how market momentum creates atrocities like the QWERTY keyboard. (or the IBM PC....) Both illustrate the need to work from a clean board to ensure we are not architect-ing solutions because "that is the way we do it here at IBM". And we do a lot of that, because template reuse is so efficient, but hinders innovation.
And the humanities is a broad subject, covering but not limited to: art, philosophy, history, and literature. If they have nothing you find interesting to listen to in those subjects, you may be the close minded one.
Somehow, I doubt that, what they mean is PACs they don't like.
Meanwhile OFA 401(c) which should endorse no political candidate, can post from Obama's personal Twitter account... but they don't get their tax status pulled. (Who Lawrence supported in both elections)
Just another endrun around the 1st amendment to shut down the opposition.
May Day in Red Square is a SOVIET holiday, traditionally showing off the latest military hardware, like ICBMs, tanks, cruise missles, huge formations of men, jet fighter flyovers.
Not much there for the "common man" except to intimidate them into towing the line.
No, it is not. Unless you include tanks, AA missiles, ICBMs and giant formations of soldiers as "festive"
I suggest you do a little Googling to understand what May Day in Red Square is specifically about.
And btw, May Day was not celebrated, it was banned by the Czars, until Lenin overthrew the Government:
May Day was celebrated illegally in Russia until the February Revolution enabled the first legal celebration in 1917. The following year, after the Bolshevik seizure of power, the May Day celebrations were boycotted by Mensheviks, Left Socialist Revolutionaries and anarchists. It became an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the centre of the major cities. The biggest celebration was traditionally organized on the Red Square, where the General Secretary of the CPSU and other party and government leaders stood atop Lenin's Mausoleum and waved to the crowds. -WIkipedia
I was trying to induce a little cognitive dissonance.
you see the same thing playing out with that idiot from the Clippers and his racists comments. The NAACP is defending him, others are saying it was ripped right from the Republican/Tea Party playbook.
Liberals seem to be able to justify anything to themselves.
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BTW, my love of complex systems came from looking at engineering and architectural feats of mankind, like the Cathedrals, Roman Aqueducts and buildings.
Not to mention the art of Escher, and the surrealists.
Oh, and the philosophical aspects too. My greatest tool is Socrates/Plato's Dichotomy: A thing cannot be true and untrue at the same time (If A, then not B), for eliminating factors causing problems. And Occam Razor. And more besides... a lot of our IT ideals come from the philosophers. Even Nietzsche can come in handy at 2AM. "Screw it. Screw EVERYTHING! I AM GOING HOME!"
I used pointers early in the into C class I had to take. We worked in groups which then did "peer" reviews. One of my "peers" gave me a "0" because my code was "too complicated, we haven't covered this stuff"
The teacher adjusted his grade down for participation, and mine up for using pointers.
I took:
2 semesters of Physics
2 of Chem
1 of a "General sciences"
2 of Calc.
Granted, the physics was not actually required, but I took them at the end of HS as part of a Uni summer program.
If I took O-Chem or another physics class, I could have gotten a Chem minor. The cutbacks in 91-92 meant I could not get into the classes unless I was a chem/physics major.
In IT, I get to do both, Doofus,
I get to do BOTH.
No, just wasted on ShanghaiBill.
The HUM degree was HARD. I was 18-23, and working + school was tough.
I actually found the BSIS comically easy, and watched people flounder.
But then I was 37, not 21, and I had 12 years of IT experience. Even adding in being a new Dad, it was just a few hours every night, and some time on the weekend. Easy peasey, I found the Online experience much better suited to my INTJ personality.
I took humanities as a degree because I am a "Renaissance Man" and have a huge span of interest and a good sense of long term trends and a long view on how things should be done now.
Humanities let me play to that strength, more so than a CIS degree.
To eat, I took a job selling parts over the internet in the early 90s in Silicon Valley to pay for my last years at SJSU
Being able to explain the technology in terms non-techs could understand. I was also good at understanding their requirements, so I had better return ratios than my peers, less than 5% of my sales came back, although I was not the top salesman. (Who had 25%, so technically I won if you subtracted returns)
I often read the manuals of open box products so I could understand them. I got put on tech support, and revamped the return system, saving more money and time. (Simple labelling system for the Return Auth Code, let us know when it was issued, and what the product inside was. More valuable items like CPU, Mem, HDs got priority over mice or keyboards)
Then the IT "manager" dropped a box of parts on my desk and a copy of a Novell 4 manual and said: "You like reading manuals? Read this, get it working, and you are out of tech support and you are my IT guy. And yes, you get a raise."
I had the foresight to include drivers for both 80X frame types, so when we acquired a new company, it was able to make it the bridge between their older system and our newer one.
Moved to Sac to run the store they opened there, then they folded, but I landed a job at a small development house where I was responsible for "anything that had a wire".
I never looked back. I loved IT. I loved understanding, designing and building complex solutions that made sense and stood the test of time. One is 12 years old, and while upgraded and expanded, the architecture is the same. (Informatica/Bussiness Objects cluster)
I started being targeted to come in and fix complex problems in complex environments that were stumping everyone. I am pretty good at it, from what I am told.
Jobs and years later, I am an Executive Solution Architect, and I have 25 years or more of adventures left. =) I am working to be a Distinguished Engineer and perhaps even an IBM Fellow at the end of my career.
"The problem with humanities majors is not that they can't communicate, but that they have nothing interesting to say."
My colleagues disagree, my technology presentations are well attended inside IBM. In part because I throw in little history tidbits or even where some words come from, both technical and non-technical.
A good example is when I talk about archaic standards preventing progress, like the size of a Roman wheel cart setting the size of train tracks and roads. (Not strictly true, but it is a good story) Or how market momentum creates atrocities like the QWERTY keyboard. (or the IBM PC....)
Both illustrate the need to work from a clean board to ensure we are not architect-ing solutions because "that is the way we do it here at IBM". And we do a lot of that, because template reuse is so efficient, but hinders innovation.
And the humanities is a broad subject, covering but not limited to: art, philosophy, history, and literature. If they have nothing you find interesting to listen to in those subjects, you may be the close minded one.
To kill off PACs?
Somehow, I doubt that, what they mean is PACs they don't like.
Meanwhile OFA 401(c) which should endorse no political candidate, can post from Obama's personal Twitter account... but they don't get their tax status pulled. (Who Lawrence supported in both elections)
Just another endrun around the 1st amendment to shut down the opposition.
Then earned my IT degree later in life. Hard to eat on a Humanities degree salary.
Still, I can communicate and write better than 90% of my peers, and that gives me a major advantage over them.
Being able to communicate between people is as important as being able to enable communication between two machines.
I swear, they teach you kids nothing in school.
May Day in Red Square is a SOVIET holiday, traditionally showing off the latest military hardware, like ICBMs, tanks, cruise missles, huge formations of men, jet fighter flyovers.
Not much there for the "common man" except to intimidate them into towing the line.
No, it is not. Unless you include tanks, AA missiles, ICBMs and giant formations of soldiers as "festive"
I suggest you do a little Googling to understand what May Day in Red Square is specifically about.
And btw, May Day was not celebrated, it was banned by the Czars, until Lenin overthrew the Government:
May Day was celebrated illegally in Russia until the February Revolution enabled the first legal celebration in 1917. The following year, after the Bolshevik seizure of power, the May Day celebrations were boycotted by Mensheviks, Left Socialist Revolutionaries and anarchists. It became an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the centre of the major cities. The biggest celebration was traditionally organized on the Red Square, where the General Secretary of the CPSU and other party and government leaders stood atop Lenin's Mausoleum and waved to the crowds.
-WIkipedia
Apparently you did not live through the cold war. It is traditionally the Workers Day, yes, but the parade was of a military nature as well.
Not a good sign they are returning to the USSR ways.
Next the Gulags will reopen, and maybe a good old fasioned Stalinist purge too?
Just as Russia resurrects the Solvet holiday of May Day
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
How many non-monarchies do you think existed in Shakespeare's time?
They were clearing out lawyers so the could remove a bad king, and put a "good king" in.
The system I administered did overnight compiles.
It was just not grunty enough to compile during the day and do development.
Worldwide.
Not in the US, where the discussion is occurring about dismantling.
In the US, coal is being replaced by cleaner and cheaper Natural Gas.
It says you cannot use encrypted transmission techniques, like hiding the CW in a modulation of some sort.
The message itself can be "encrypted" even if you just do a ROT13. Nothing says it has to be human readable.
I know.
I was trying to induce a little cognitive dissonance.
you see the same thing playing out with that idiot from the Clippers and his racists comments. The NAACP is defending him, others are saying it was ripped right from the Republican/Tea Party playbook.
Liberals seem to be able to justify anything to themselves.
Kill all the lawyers.
They are going to need a bigger bikini.
Cray Cray.
The day I have no mod points...
Yeah, there is also Sex, and Rock n' Roll.
Embarrassing if alien life was checking Slashdot. The editors would convince them there is no intelligent life on Earth.
"of of" indeed.