Learning Science/Engineering **should** teach logic and an understanding of fallacies. These are the most subversive skills one can have because few things in society measure up when you can see why they are incomplete or just plain wrong.
No, Heck no. There are just far to many important steps being taken in quantum mechanics, field theory, general relativity etc etc. Just a few months ago I read a paper describing the experimental verification of quantum state correlation occurring backwards in time! What ever the heck is actually going in the world around us, it is most definitely NOT what we think we see. There is much more to do.
If the vendors got together and coordinated I'm sure they could devise a nice premium service type arrangement. However this does sound like the sort of thing that regulators jump on quickly as being anti-competitive.
for him if more people are using more traffic. Also the bandwidth in NZ is so awful that it will make it easier for him to do what he does. It looks to me like a matter of if you want something done properly do it your self.
I suspect that anything open source is going to start as indie, small, and messy, and from there might grow in to a viable open source alternative.
I think that it would not necessarily be better for something to kill facebook because it would then replace it, and most likely be just as 'bad.' It would be better perhaps to have viable alternative, the competition between them would then force each to maximise the quality of what they offer.
I guess in principle that is what g+ could be considered to be, what ever you think of google. I've managed to avoid g+ so I can't comment.
The possibility of losing this is a huge worry. From a US drig company PoV Pharmac is a drug monopoly. From a NZ PoV it is literally a life saver and what we pay taxes to have.
Reading Marx for the first time this year was a real eye opener. The rhetoric maybe toned down but the ideology is certainly there. Rod Donald and many other Green leaders are/were members of the old Communist party and Values party. The Greens are as far left as Act is far right. I support neither of them.
I've been using mac laptops since 05 and I have, *every time*, had problems with the battery and needed to upgrade the ram. With the new design I've just said no more. For less money I'm going to get a tablet (not an ipad) and a tower.
On a final note, does no one else realise that Apple is doing what Microsoft has been so heavily criticised for, but no one is mad at Apple for it?
There are two reasons for doing graduate study, you love academic research just so much or the money. I'm in the first camp and I wish that I'd spent more time in the early days aiming for industry related skills as I'm having to learn them now, often in my own time.
From what you wrote I'd say we are about the same age, assuming that you came straight out of tertiary study and into work - and I'm considered early career and definitely NOT mid career.
It's allot of time and work and $$$$$$$ to become PhD qualified and the recognition of all that is not guaranteed. So please, check your motives and aim to fill them, and make sure there is work at the end of it. I'm working at the University that I studied at and I love my job, but I realise that many people would go crazy doing what I do in the environment that I am in.
"There's a very common belief that if someone pirates your Wi-Fi connection or uses your computer without your permission, you are responsible for illegal downloads of copyrighted material." Thanks to the NZ government bending over for special interests, you are responsible in NZ. The punishment for being **alleged** to having your WiFi security violated three times is disconnection.
There was a great dilbert comic on this not long ago http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-06-26/?CmtOrder=Rating&CmtDir=DESC. Me, I'm so sick of apple AND android fanboy new items. The ipad is nice to use... until you actually want to use it like a computer, most people don't and that makes me sad.
This law was introduced as a one strike(!) law with no fees(!!!!!!!) by the major left wing party government of the day. The same politicians tried to undermine the (now in government) major right wing party by accusing them of implementing laws at the directive of American interests. Of course that right wing party eventually passed the watered down version that we now have in place. You just can't win with politics.
I'm sorry but as a NZer, the whole thing to me just stinks. The appropriate insult in the local vernacular: the bloody mongrels!
Honestly, I'm not a protester. There are many of those and I don't identify at all. However, this issue is nearly enough for me to vocalise my feelings. Defend your content rights by all means, but do it honestly. You wont convince me that the NZ film and TV industry is not worth the amount claimed: nearly the size of the NZ economy, as I've seen on posters in video shops. When I see that sort of thing, I just don't go in to spend my money.
Good on Sky TV for making content available online ASAP after initial screenings overseas. I hope they expand this and others follow suit.
If you have java installed then you could try Clojure, it's a dialect of a family of languages called lisp. You will probably need access to the command line. It's perhaps a little mind bending but I really like it.
I wonder if this is skewed by certain Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, where the punishments for even minor crimes are so severe that people really are deterred. That would account for a third variable with a causal relationship to the two correlated variables mentioned. Just a thought.
Based on this report, I'm glad they are removing the glass. I always turn it off at first opportunity. As for the screen shots I keep thinking of the "rainbow spew" that I remember from when my old 8bit Sega master system threw a sloppy floppy.
I was going to say something like Ralph above me but without the socialism. Basically if you treat your employees like they matter and have some degree of human value (that is, personnel, NOT HR, massive Freudian slip there), then people behave like they have a stake in what they do.
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On the other hand I see allot of so called engineers here in /. that really need to realise they are deluding themselves.
Learning Science/Engineering **should** teach logic and an understanding of fallacies. These are the most subversive skills one can have because few things in society measure up when you can see why they are incomplete or just plain wrong.
No, Heck no. There are just far to many important steps being taken in quantum mechanics, field theory, general relativity etc etc. Just a few months ago I read a paper describing the experimental verification of quantum state correlation occurring backwards in time! What ever the heck is actually going in the world around us, it is most definitely NOT what we think we see. There is much more to do.
If the vendors got together and coordinated I'm sure they could devise a nice premium service type arrangement. However this does sound like the sort of thing that regulators jump on quickly as being anti-competitive.
Speaking for myself, I'm waiting with baited breath for the Mozilla phone to come out. The walled gardens are becoming tiresome.
for him if more people are using more traffic. Also the bandwidth in NZ is so awful that it will make it easier for him to do what he does. It looks to me like a matter of if you want something done properly do it your self.
Some good points.
I suspect that anything open source is going to start as indie, small, and messy, and from there might grow in to a viable open source alternative.
I think that it would not necessarily be better for something to kill facebook because it would then replace it, and most likely be just as 'bad.' It would be better perhaps to have viable alternative, the competition between them would then force each to maximise the quality of what they offer.
I guess in principle that is what g+ could be considered to be, what ever you think of google. I've managed to avoid g+ so I can't comment.
You could try DIASPORA.
I find myself wondering if they have a patent for it.
I'm so disappointed. I dropping out of slashdot.
I was wondering the same thing. Aren't there rules regarding employer responsibility? Surely such rules would apply to contractors as well.
The possibility of losing this is a huge worry. From a US drig company PoV Pharmac is a drug monopoly. From a NZ PoV it is literally a life saver and what we pay taxes to have.
GO AC!!!!
Always consider the messenger. There's a reason why online polls tend to favor the far left view.
I wonder how long this post is going to be readable??
I've been using mac laptops since 05 and I have, *every time*, had problems with the battery and needed to upgrade the ram. With the new design I've just said no more. For less money I'm going to get a tablet (not an ipad) and a tower.
On a final note, does no one else realise that Apple is doing what Microsoft has been so heavily criticised for, but no one is mad at Apple for it?
From what you wrote I'd say we are about the same age, assuming that you came straight out of tertiary study and into work - and I'm considered early career and definitely NOT mid career.
It's allot of time and work and $$$$$$$ to become PhD qualified and the recognition of all that is not guaranteed. So please, check your motives and aim to fill them, and make sure there is work at the end of it. I'm working at the University that I studied at and I love my job, but I realise that many people would go crazy doing what I do in the environment that I am in.
"There's a very common belief that if someone pirates your Wi-Fi connection or uses your computer without your permission, you are responsible for illegal downloads of copyrighted material." Thanks to the NZ government bending over for special interests, you are responsible in NZ. The punishment for being **alleged** to having your WiFi security violated three times is disconnection.
There was a great dilbert comic on this not long ago http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-06-26/?CmtOrder=Rating&CmtDir=DESC. Me, I'm so sick of apple AND android fanboy new items. The ipad is nice to use... until you actually want to use it like a computer, most people don't and that makes me sad.
This law was introduced as a one strike(!) law with no fees(!!!!!!!) by the major left wing party government of the day. The same politicians tried to undermine the (now in government) major right wing party by accusing them of implementing laws at the directive of American interests. Of course that right wing party eventually passed the watered down version that we now have in place. You just can't win with politics. I'm sorry but as a NZer, the whole thing to me just stinks. The appropriate insult in the local vernacular: the bloody mongrels! Honestly, I'm not a protester. There are many of those and I don't identify at all. However, this issue is nearly enough for me to vocalise my feelings. Defend your content rights by all means, but do it honestly. You wont convince me that the NZ film and TV industry is not worth the amount claimed: nearly the size of the NZ economy, as I've seen on posters in video shops. When I see that sort of thing, I just don't go in to spend my money. Good on Sky TV for making content available online ASAP after initial screenings overseas. I hope they expand this and others follow suit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/12/diesel-fumes-cause-cancer-who "Reclassifying diesel exhaust as carcinogenic puts it into the same category as other known hazards such as asbestos, alcohol and ultraviolet radiation." The electric hybrid bit helps but yeah... diesel is bad. Stinks too.
If you have java installed then you could try Clojure, it's a dialect of a family of languages called lisp. You will probably need access to the command line. It's perhaps a little mind bending but I really like it.
. Excellent for the myth-makers, who shape our minds for our own good -- and their own benefit.
Not quite the same, but reminds me of Marx's criticisms of self serving upper class lawmakers.
I wonder if this is skewed by certain Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, where the punishments for even minor crimes are so severe that people really are deterred. That would account for a third variable with a causal relationship to the two correlated variables mentioned. Just a thought.
Based on this report, I'm glad they are removing the glass. I always turn it off at first opportunity. As for the screen shots I keep thinking of the "rainbow spew" that I remember from when my old 8bit Sega master system threw a sloppy floppy.
I was going to say something like Ralph above me but without the socialism. Basically if you treat your employees like they matter and have some degree of human value (that is, personnel, NOT HR, massive Freudian slip there), then people behave like they have a stake in what they do.