The countries that have excelled at the programming contest recently are ones that stress rote memorization and that have, by Western standards, rampant cheating
So when the 'West' wins, it's all fair and above board but when the 'not West' wins it's because of unsubstantiated rampant cheating and the stressing of rote memorization?
I went to school in the 'West' and that's all that school was, rote memorization. I got excellent grades by cramming and accomplished all of my assignment work by 'reading between the lines' and understanding what the teachers / lecturers / private tutors were looking for. Young people are forced to attend locations under the most subservient and degrading circumstances where their minds are entrained to regurgitate a fixed set of information.
The government is monitoring my every digital footprint whilst advertising companies are gathering more data about me than I knew existed. Google is constantly pushing me to drop my anonymity, sites like Facebook are rampantly collecting my private information and claiming ownership over it (without recourse) then on-selling that information with blatant disregard for personal privacy. Minors are being cajoled into legal agreements which are illegal without any parental oversight. Software patents are choking free software to death. Companies regularly disregard basic security and have no respect for my credit card details, personal details etc. Governments are passing privacy legislation which blatently supports all of this.
What would the EFF consider to be an epic fail of their stated goal?
Step 1: Formulate a premise based on a widely accepted existing theory
Step 2: Write a piece of software which runs a simulation supporting that premise
Step 3: Receive accolades from mainstream science for your groundbreaking work
This isn't science, it's just plain silly. Spending time refining an existing concept about how the continents were arranged prior to human life existing.. relevance anyone? No wonder we're still traversing the surface of the earth using combustion and generating electricity by destroying our planetary resources, all of the 'scientists' are busy wasting the planet's resources staring at a pile of bearshit in the woods.
It's the woods.. bears live in it.. they eat, they shit.
Quit living in the past. Modern film making is about certainties. If you try to come up with a new idea, what if it didn't work?
The studios need to know precisely what's going to happen before they even try. That's why you stick with the same formula over and over again and the only new content is derived from best selling works. That way you know what's going to fail and what's going to succeed.
ushering in the “Wild West of 3D printing” among our sedate sea of MacBook Air laptops running Adobe InDesign
Once again Apple's walled garden has broken the potential of a wonderful technology freedom. At what point do we all put pillow cases on our heads and hunt down the MacoPhytes? We should do it before Apple ruins the potential for us to print our 3d guns or there's no hope left!!
What about the heat transfer from the servers to the atmosphere? I'm no environmental physics expert, but with the ground so cold wouldn't that cause a sharp increase in the temperature at higher altitudes and upset the airflow with hotter air moving rapidly towards the equator? Wouldn't this create disruptive weather patterns.. ie. low pressure hitting high pressure causing violent storms?
Perhaps it's not enough impact, but the question remains.. "How many servers does it take to change a weather pattern?". Hiding behind the old and tired "Competitive economics always finds the best solution" idea is just sticking your head in the sand. What impact does Facebook have on the planet?
I couldn't see that shutting it down would be terribly detrimental.
What are you saying? That no matter who you vote for the end results are the same? It's almost like there really isn't a democratic political process at all?
An industry advocacy group discovered that their industry is really important to the US economy! I wonder how much it would have cost for them to discover that their industry is nowhere near as important as they think?
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He would ask his engineers at CIA to try to replicate some of Bond's technology
Life imitating art imitating life. You'd have to be a heroin junky to try this.
Oh wait...
.. smash two stars together, close enough to the earth to collect all of the gold .. GOLD!!!
Should have been named 'Fate'
That's what the article seems to be worried about
Damn! You got me.
Or rather, being in the west is a disadvantage due to a pervasive sense of entitlement
At least we're not starving radical leftie commie nigga lovin terrorist bastards!
The countries that have excelled at the programming contest recently are ones that stress rote memorization and that have, by Western standards, rampant cheating
So when the 'West' wins, it's all fair and above board but when the 'not West' wins it's because of unsubstantiated rampant cheating and the stressing of rote memorization?
.. it's indoctrination.
I went to school in the 'West' and that's all that school was, rote memorization. I got excellent grades by cramming and accomplished all of my assignment work by 'reading between the lines' and understanding what the teachers / lecturers / private tutors were looking for. Young people are forced to attend locations under the most subservient and degrading circumstances where their minds are entrained to regurgitate a fixed set of information.
Education isn't education
So it's very possible those countries just practiced harder for the contests
Quite true. Another possibility is that 'those countries' won fairly.
I once saw a study that suggested (not proved) that something like 20% of high school dropouts in the USA might be gifted
I would have thought it was closer to 80%. You have to be pretty smart to see the writing on the wall as a teenager.
Actually, Mexico just took over the top spot for obesity.
If you wanna be the best, you've GOT to be hungry.
This programming contests have nothing to do with real world programming or the skills need for most CS fields.
Phew, glad you cleared that up. For a second there I thought that the education system in the US had been flushed down the toilet!
Let's review.
The government is monitoring my every digital footprint whilst advertising companies are gathering more data about me than I knew existed. Google is constantly pushing me to drop my anonymity, sites like Facebook are rampantly collecting my private information and claiming ownership over it (without recourse) then on-selling that information with blatant disregard for personal privacy. Minors are being cajoled into legal agreements which are illegal without any parental oversight. Software patents are choking free software to death. Companies regularly disregard basic security and have no respect for my credit card details, personal details etc. Governments are passing privacy legislation which blatently supports all of this.
What would the EFF consider to be an epic fail of their stated goal?
Step 1: Formulate a premise based on a widely accepted existing theory
.. relevance anyone? No wonder we're still traversing the surface of the earth using combustion and generating electricity by destroying our planetary resources, all of the 'scientists' are busy wasting the planet's resources staring at a pile of bearshit in the woods.
.. bears live in it .. they eat, they shit.
Step 2: Write a piece of software which runs a simulation supporting that premise
Step 3: Receive accolades from mainstream science for your groundbreaking work
This isn't science, it's just plain silly. Spending time refining an existing concept about how the continents were arranged prior to human life existing
It's the woods
It did when I saw the original theatrical release on opening day in1978
Karma: Geek Cred +1
come up with a new ide
Quit living in the past. Modern film making is about certainties. If you try to come up with a new idea, what if it didn't work?
The studios need to know precisely what's going to happen before they even try. That's why you stick with the same formula over and over again and the only new content is derived from best selling works. That way you know what's going to fail and what's going to succeed.
Risk is not an option.
I have loved mine personally
You're a braver man than I Gunga Din.
ushering in the “Wild West of 3D printing” among our sedate sea of MacBook Air laptops running Adobe InDesign
Once again Apple's walled garden has broken the potential of a wonderful technology freedom. At what point do we all put pillow cases on our heads and hunt down the MacoPhytes? We should do it before Apple ruins the potential for us to print our 3d guns or there's no hope left!!
laughing about it from the safety of my underground weapons cache
There's still room down there??
wat to obfuscate real data
How else would someone get big expensive nuculer reactors installed??
Are you some kind of an idiot or something?
That one is open to debate, but I can say for certain that I'm not a coward.
What about the heat transfer from the servers to the atmosphere? I'm no environmental physics expert, but with the ground so cold wouldn't that cause a sharp increase in the temperature at higher altitudes and upset the airflow with hotter air moving rapidly towards the equator? Wouldn't this create disruptive weather patterns .. ie. low pressure hitting high pressure causing violent storms?
.. "How many servers does it take to change a weather pattern?". Hiding behind the old and tired "Competitive economics always finds the best solution" idea is just sticking your head in the sand. What impact does Facebook have on the planet?
Perhaps it's not enough impact, but the question remains
I couldn't see that shutting it down would be terribly detrimental.
the U.S. was nothing like the Soviets, not even close, not even now
That would mean that the soviet system wasn't monitoring every move a citizen made, clamping down on whistle blowers and repressing free speech.
I call bullshit.
What are you saying? That no matter who you vote for the end results are the same? It's almost like there really isn't a democratic political process at all?
... interesting.
Hmmmm
.. right up until I read "Dell"
film at eleven
Wins 12 Oscars
An industry advocacy group discovered that their industry is really important to the US economy! I wonder how much it would have cost for them to discover that their industry is nowhere near as important as they think?