People actually do that? Legend has it that some folks still fill out meatspace paper rebate forms so that they could wait 60 days to receive a 65-cent check in the mail.
From the perspective of companies, they consider that your eyeballs on their ads is a fair trade for giving you access to their content. If they provided you with an opt-in model for advertising, we agree, their revenue stream would collapse and they'd cry. Then their content would disappear, and you (average population) would cry.
It's silly to expect them to give you content and get nothing in return. If your view was purely principled, you wouldn't go to their sites, and then you don't have to worry about it.
Over the last couple of years, my roommate has participated in several astronomical observations (in connection with NASA) of meteor showers using the google plane. The jet is used to get them high enough up that they can avoid light pollution.
Now, whether Google get's their money's worth out of it, I don't know.
It's like cell phones in Japan, my Japanese friend told me. They love to have the latest gadget and feature, so they're willing to shell out lots of money to get it. A typical Japanese person would be willing to pay 100$/mo.
Many Americans, like me, don't really care. I don't even own a cell phone because I don't like talking on the phone, and if I were to buy a cell phone, I'm not willing to pay for fancy tricks it can do that I'll never use. I'll pay big bucks for devices I'll use, like my ipod.
So yea, I'm unwilling to pay for something I'm not going to use.
Anyway, what's wrong with email? When people call me, I rarely have an answer for them right away anyway. I prefer them to email me so that I can think about it and respond when I'm ready. And email is cheap!
I would recommend a class. For myself, and probably others, it really helped to have a teacher who know which bad habits to discourage, and who be able to set up the details (compiler, header files, etc) so that all you need to worry about is writing your program. I tried to learn things by "reading a book", but that never worked.
I felt like Java was a good place to start. I was a TA for some summer school Java at the U of Minnesota, and we had several middle school age kids. Java is nice because you can do all the regular learning-to-program stuff, but it also has a lot of simple graphics capabilities, which was the only thing the kids were really interested in. The goal was not to teach the language, but to provide a constructive play environment. Like Legos.
Anyway, I would investigate your local universities and community colleges to see what kinds of summer programs they have.
Sometimes security that attracts attention can work against you, since a "perfect system" is probably too costly.
1) Maybe your coworkers will try to steal your stuff as a practical joke or as a challenge. 2) A real thief might think you're protecting something particularly valuable, so you don't really want to stand out.
Actually, I worry about this too since my office at school is a group office, so the door is usually unlocked. There are occasionally reports of theft, probably the janitors. The vast majority of office related thefts are, I believe, opportunistic, so I just make sure that it's inconvenient to take my stuff. Nothing of mine has been stolen yet.
Why doesn't AFCYBER fit at one of the national labs (e.g. LANL, or LLNL) or NSA?
I thought those were the popular destinations for educated people who want to serve their country, they're already technically oriented, and they already have a lot of really smart people, so it would have seemed to me a good fit. When I'm looking at my employment possibilities, I need a way to differentiate you.
Although I'm an American, I grew up in a 3rd world country, where chemicals were more readily available. I had my share of excitement blowing things up, making NI3, playing with calcium carbide, etc. I pity all the people in the US who can't do this. Since my experiments were on the other side of 9/11, maybe that country has tightened security now too.
My opportunities playing around with chemistry sets are a big part of the reason why i'm a chemistry phd student today.
i don't think that these people would knowingly commit plagiarism, and i just want to warn people from jumping to this improbable conclusion in their anti establishment frenzy.
they probably don't see it as a question of morality.
i would guess they see this as an issue of maintaining their ability to hire quality employees. cheating makes it harder to identify the smart ones.
i was reading somewhere recently, i can't remember where, this is an issue that a lot of US companies are facing. Americans entering the employment pool are lower quality on average. the troubles in the US education system are masked by the fact that we are currently able to cherry pick talent from the rest of the world. we won't always have this luxury.
google is a business. i think they're just looking out for their future profitability, albeit in a small, but easy, manipulation.
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lol. it doesn't really matter. it was my mistake not to package the joke better in the first place.
i was just sort of hoping that my new comment would get some points by feigning comical outrage. :-)
hey why didn't i get the +5 funny???? :-( that was MY joke! you just repackaged it, and added your sig.
sigh. now i need to go eat another nutty bar to regain my self esteem.
I'm curious as to why people are still interviewing Mr. Hertzfeld
As indicated as your curiosity, even you agree that he has name recognition.
Assuming the bits don't decide to align on the north-south axis!!
Participation may have quadrupled, but what about productivity or tangible results?
Well, it quadrupled from 1 to 4, so there were negligible effects on productivity.
People actually do that? Legend has it that some folks still fill out meatspace paper rebate forms so that they could wait 60 days to receive a 65-cent check in the mail.
Hey, I need those 65c to do my laundry!!
Or you could watch this TED lecture for a nice explanation:
From the perspective of companies, they consider that your eyeballs on their ads is a fair trade for giving you access to their content. If they provided you with an opt-in model for advertising, we agree, their revenue stream would collapse and they'd cry. Then their content would disappear, and you (average population) would cry.
It's silly to expect them to give you content and get nothing in return. If your view was purely principled, you wouldn't go to their sites, and then you don't have to worry about it.
... the only direction is down.
unless it's actually a saddlepoint, in which case you just have to rotate, and then you can start climbing again.
When they bought that stupid 767 jet.
Hey -- they use that jet for charity!
Over the last couple of years, my roommate has participated in several astronomical observations (in connection with NASA) of meteor showers using the google plane. The jet is used to get them high enough up that they can avoid light pollution.
Now, whether Google get's their money's worth out of it, I don't know.
It's like cell phones in Japan, my Japanese friend told me. They love to have the latest gadget and feature, so they're willing to shell out lots of money to get it. A typical Japanese person would be willing to pay 100$/mo.
Many Americans, like me, don't really care. I don't even own a cell phone because I don't like talking on the phone, and if I were to buy a cell phone, I'm not willing to pay for fancy tricks it can do that I'll never use. I'll pay big bucks for devices I'll use, like my ipod.
So yea, I'm unwilling to pay for something I'm not going to use.
Anyway, what's wrong with email? When people call me, I rarely have an answer for them right away anyway. I prefer them to email me so that I can think about it and respond when I'm ready. And email is cheap!
I would recommend a class. For myself, and probably others, it really helped to have a teacher who know which bad habits to discourage, and who be able to set up the details (compiler, header files, etc) so that all you need to worry about is writing your program. I tried to learn things by "reading a book", but that never worked.
I felt like Java was a good place to start. I was a TA for some summer school Java at the U of Minnesota, and we had several middle school age kids. Java is nice because you can do all the regular learning-to-program stuff, but it also has a lot of simple graphics capabilities, which was the only thing the kids were really interested in. The goal was not to teach the language, but to provide a constructive play environment. Like Legos.
Anyway, I would investigate your local universities and community colleges to see what kinds of summer programs they have.
I realize you are looking specifically for sci-fi, but since people who like that typically also like fantasy, here were some of my favorites.
* When I was a pre-teen, I really enjoyed Sword of Shannara, and then I followed the series as more came out. Other Terry Brooks books are also great.
* Almost all of Isaac Asimov's stuff. Foundation series, the spacer books, etc.
* Chronicles of Narnia. These were the popular books for elementary kids where I was.
* Some of the Star Wars books were good, but not all. Most were "unoriginal".
* I read the Dune series when I was in middle school, and loved it. But I suspect only the 1st would hold the attention of a pre-teen.
* Michael Crighton books scared me to death when I was a kid. Maybe I was too young when I read those.
* Flatland. Helps you imagine what higher dimensions would "look" like.
* Obviously LOTR + The Hobbit. Non-negotiable.
* I read a lot of books by Steven Lawhead, many of them fit better in the fantasy category, but some were sci-fi like. I *really* enjoyed Empyrion.
* Also, I really enjoyed sci-fi short stories. I felt they worked really well, but you'd have to find a collection.
* Others: Madeline L'Engle, Ray Bradbury. I know he's not sci-fi or fantasy, but I really liked Shogun by Clavell. Hey, Japanese dress like aliens...
I'm currently reading the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, and I love it, but it's not for pre-teens. Save it for later.
Sometimes security that attracts attention can work against you, since a "perfect system" is probably too costly.
1) Maybe your coworkers will try to steal your stuff as a practical joke or as a challenge.
2) A real thief might think you're protecting something particularly valuable, so you don't really want to stand out.
Actually, I worry about this too since my office at school is a group office, so the door is usually unlocked. There are occasionally reports of theft, probably the janitors. The vast majority of office related thefts are, I believe, opportunistic, so I just make sure that it's inconvenient to take my stuff. Nothing of mine has been stolen yet.
Why doesn't AFCYBER fit at one of the national labs (e.g. LANL, or LLNL) or NSA?
I thought those were the popular destinations for educated people who want to serve their country, they're already technically oriented, and they already have a lot of really smart people, so it would have seemed to me a good fit. When I'm looking at my employment possibilities, I need a way to differentiate you.
I have a similar biography.
Although I'm an American, I grew up in a 3rd world country, where chemicals were more readily available. I had my share of excitement blowing things up, making NI3, playing with calcium carbide, etc. I pity all the people in the US who can't do this. Since my experiments were on the other side of 9/11, maybe that country has tightened security now too.
My opportunities playing around with chemistry sets are a big part of the reason why i'm a chemistry phd student today.
To be technical, 1,000,000 Americans weigh infinitely times as much, since non-Americans don't get a vote.
If by "weigh" you meant "mass", then you're probably right.
This isn't the first time computer scientists have pointed out that Excel is wrong, or at the best, misleading.
Well, I'm sure the normalization is at the national level, so there is meaning for some level of locality to say that it's scores have dropped.
didja try wikipedia? :-)
i don't think that these people would knowingly commit plagiarism, and i just want to warn people from jumping to this improbable conclusion in their anti establishment frenzy.
thanks for playing along.
well, you're going to have to tell BBC that they're stupid too.
by "generous" (and to be consistent with your sig), you conclude that they're stupid?
i think the question was not why a watermark would exist...
but just because it still has the watermark does not mean that it was not paid for...
they probably don't see it as a question of morality.
i would guess they see this as an issue of maintaining their ability to hire quality employees. cheating makes it harder to identify the smart ones.
i was reading somewhere recently, i can't remember where, this is an issue that a lot of US companies are facing. Americans entering the employment pool are lower quality on average. the troubles in the US education system are masked by the fact that we are currently able to cherry pick talent from the rest of the world. we won't always have this luxury.
google is a business. i think they're just looking out for their future profitability, albeit in a small, but easy, manipulation.