So what changes do you think you would make to the ecosystem of the deep ocean by dumping all that energy rich material in it? Of course you could also convert it in charcoal and bury that that in desert areas.
He can do what he wants with his money. I was making an assumption that his goal was to improve education. It is a suggestion that I think would help him get closer to that goal.
As to throwing money at inner city schools? That depends on the school. If they are lacking funds for music and the arts then yes it could help.
It is an interesting idea but I fear it will work with a group of students that would do well anyway. I really would rather see him dump money into an inner city school or even offering scholarships or loan forgiveness for teachers. Most of the problems with education seem to be cultural and economic. Areas with successful parents tend to have successful students. The parents are involved and push the kids to do well. I just do not think that a "new way" of teaching will solve the root problem in the educational system in the US. If the parents don't care only the small number of self motivated students will do well.
My opinion is that Google needs to move out of the SF area if you want more diversity. One of the reasons that you get mostly males that are mostly white and asian is that SF is not all that diverse when it comes to race. If you want more African American people to apply then I suggest Atlanta and the Washington DC area. If you want more Hispanic people to apply Texas"Dallas and Houston", Southern California, and South Florida are prime areas. I work in South Florida and we have a very diverse work force. You will not find a lot of people of color in the SF area since it has very little in the way African American or Hispanic history and culture. The Spanish influence has long ago been pushed back. BTW it will take time no matter what. Trying to fix the issue of women not going into the STEM fields will take a long time and if Google really wants this to happen they have got to work harder on quality of life for people with kids. Places to work with good schools, short commutes, and reasonable home prices will also help a lot with diversity and quality of life. Trying to get everyone to love SF is not going to work. While it is a nice place to visit I see it as a hellish place to live and I bet a lot of other people feel the same.
"That's BS. The prevalence of girls/women in theater disproves it." Umm you do know that acting is all about relating right?
As a software engineer that also took drama I have to say that is one of the oddest things I have seen on Slashdot in a while. Aka perform has more than one meaning.
Simple with a BSD license you can check the code yourself, build the code, and then deploy the code using a signed encoded DFU file with a custom boot loader.
I disagree that it is because java is easy to read. Java is easy to write. A good programer can write an app in Java and have it work really well. A bad programer can write an app in java it will work. With C++ a good programer can write an app and it will work but you really have to watch for a lot of gotchas. A bad programer can not write a program that works in C++ because it will leak memory, stomp on memory, and have issues with pointers. Java is better at stopping the little brain farts from blowing up in your face. C++ is a lot more fun to write in IMHO.
It really depends on the system. For instance things like logistics aka buying food, cleaning supplies, tools, and so on. could all be done on COTs systems and using public data centers. Things like how many SM-2s are down for repair is a different issue. And then keeping things separated is yet another issue.
" One could easily say that the capitalists are the greater evil, especially the owners big corporations, because they pollute the Earth, are utterly greedy, etc and have no concern for the distribution of resources among those who need them." Really? Wow I guess you have not seen what the old USSR did in the areas that controlled as far as the environment, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... Or the quality of air in China... "and have no concern for the distribution of resources among those who need them." Wow.. again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... Yea... You need to read a lot more history.
So we will all buy new cars every 3 years to get the latest infotainment system... Dumb. Really the cars today all use DIN for the "infotainment stack" The car makers should offer an upgrade path. For a few hundred bucks you get a new infotainment system and upgrade the car.
You left out construction workers, electricians, plumbers, electrical workers, roughnecks, cosmetologists, interior designers, fashion designers, gardeners, and lawn care workers. All of which are very sexists and or orientationist by nature.
Calling 911 is not a private act. it is a request for public resources. This is only for none registered phones which can only call 911. Privacy has nothing to do with this since cell phones 911 calls are also geolocated.
70% are hoaxes. A solution would be for the Cell carriers to be required to "register" those phones for free for 911 service. Each must be attached to an id so you can bust people for swatting. Not ideal but a compromise solution.
"I'll just refrain from much comment on that one - besides I have my afternoon prayers to nothing I gotta do this afternoon. Want to make certain when I die that I go nowhere, and the nothing that I worship is not pretty adamant about that."
"Nuc power can be safe. But not with that attitude. The power can be harnessed. The arrogance, politics, and contempt of people cannot." Sigh.... No, Chernobyl was a disasters waiting to happen. It lacked a containment building and the design allowed for a thermal runaway reaction. AKA as different from a modern western reactor as a 777 is from the Hindenberg. BTW I live with a Western Nuclear reactor in my town. You are right that disasters just that a disaster and are not good. Fukushima was the worst case aka a total loss of cooling but did have the large scale results that many anti nuclear folks by.
"But making this somehow an equivalent between atheists and fundamentalists is almost an end run toward claiming atheism is a religion." Funny but it sure does look like one more and more. The joy in spreading the belief system, sense of superiority, the joy of seeing more "converts" that is see in many replies to this all look like the worst behaviour of civil religious people.
No I am claiming that the spying prevented the Cuban missile crisis from getting out of hand. It is also many historians opinions that it also prevented the Yom Kippur war from getting out of hand. It also saved many lives in the battle of the Atlantic during WWII and helped the Allies win WWII. So "which is contradictory to _ALL_ evidence and historical data." No it is not.
"But seriously? Trying to equate especially nuc power with religion is pretty silly." No I am equating the anti-technology views of those that are not atheists with those that are.
"Don't like seeing anything you don't like, eh? Life can be tough." I don't like the direction that Slashdot has taken. It is like NPR has been taken over by FOX News or MSNBC. " Chernobyl and Fukushima and come up with a rational reason to be wary of nuclear power." Actually being worried about Nuclear energy because of Chernobyl is as bad as fearing flying because of Hindenburg. Fukushima should actually make people feel good. The absolutely worst case situation happened it was not the massive disaster of everyone's fears.
"This is very important, because religious wackos tend to be the ones against modern science and technology." Really? I see a lot of Atheists that are antinuclear and anti GMO. Sorry but this just about does it for me and Slashdot. I have already turned off Politics on the my front page but the editors of slashdot still keep pushing politics into other sections. Now they are getting into social issues. News flash folks Slashdot provides as much good information on politics and social issues as People magazine does with science and technology.
For those that want this type of crap on Slashdot. Fine just put into a section I can ignore. If not I guess I will have to vote with my clicks. It is a shame because frankly the community here is so much better than say CNN or Endgadet.
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So what changes do you think you would make to the ecosystem of the deep ocean by dumping all that energy rich material in it?
Of course you could also convert it in charcoal and bury that that in desert areas.
And Google does not provide quality search results it provides popular search results.
And Slashdot shows an anti-religious bias again.
You get the same quality of results if you search for "have aliens landed on earth".
Not as much as you might think and it is not as "reliable" as it once was.
He can do what he wants with his money. I was making an assumption that his goal was to improve education. It is a suggestion that I think would help him get closer to that goal.
As to throwing money at inner city schools? That depends on the school. If they are lacking funds for music and the arts then yes it could help.
It is an interesting idea but I fear it will work with a group of students that would do well anyway.
I really would rather see him dump money into an inner city school or even offering scholarships or loan forgiveness for teachers.
Most of the problems with education seem to be cultural and economic. Areas with successful parents tend to have successful students. The parents are involved and push the kids to do well. I just do not think that a "new way" of teaching will solve the root problem in the educational system in the US.
If the parents don't care only the small number of self motivated students will do well.
My opinion is that Google needs to move out of the SF area if you want more diversity. One of the reasons that you get mostly males that are mostly white and asian is that SF is not all that diverse when it comes to race.
If you want more African American people to apply then I suggest Atlanta and the Washington DC area.
If you want more Hispanic people to apply Texas"Dallas and Houston", Southern California, and South Florida are prime areas.
I work in South Florida and we have a very diverse work force. You will not find a lot of people of color in the SF area since it has very little in the way African American or Hispanic history and culture. The Spanish influence has long ago been pushed back.
BTW it will take time no matter what. Trying to fix the issue of women not going into the STEM fields will take a long time and if Google really wants this to happen they have got to work harder on quality of life for people with kids. Places to work with good schools, short commutes, and reasonable home prices will also help a lot with diversity and quality of life.
Trying to get everyone to love SF is not going to work. While it is a nice place to visit I see it as a hellish place to live and I bet a lot of other people feel the same.
"That's BS. The prevalence of girls/women in theater disproves it."
Umm you do know that acting is all about relating right?
As a software engineer that also took drama I have to say that is one of the oddest things I have seen on Slashdot in a while.
Aka perform has more than one meaning.
Simple with a BSD license you can check the code yourself, build the code, and then deploy the code using a signed encoded DFU file with a custom boot loader.
I disagree that it is because java is easy to read. Java is easy to write. A good programer can write an app in Java and have it work really well. A bad programer can write an app in java it will work.
With C++ a good programer can write an app and it will work but you really have to watch for a lot of gotchas. A bad programer can not write a program that works in C++ because it will leak memory, stomp on memory, and have issues with pointers.
Java is better at stopping the little brain farts from blowing up in your face.
C++ is a lot more fun to write in IMHO.
It really depends on the system.
For instance things like logistics aka buying food, cleaning supplies, tools, and so on. could all be done on COTs systems and using public data centers.
Things like how many SM-2s are down for repair is a different issue.
And then keeping things separated is yet another issue.
So where is the EFF?
How dare Apple tell what I can and can use a device or program I own!
" One could easily say that the capitalists are the greater evil, especially the owners big corporations, because they pollute the Earth, are utterly greedy, etc and have no concern for the distribution of resources among those who need them."
Really?
Wow I guess you have not seen what the old USSR did in the areas that controlled as far as the environment, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A....
Or the quality of air in China...
"and have no concern for the distribution of resources among those who need them."
Wow.. again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Yea... You need to read a lot more history.
So we will all buy new cars every 3 years to get the latest infotainment system...
Dumb.
Really the cars today all use DIN for the "infotainment stack"
The car makers should offer an upgrade path. For a few hundred bucks you get a new infotainment system and upgrade the car.
But most modern gas turbines use single crystal turbine blades to reduce creep. I doubt that DMLS material will work as well.
I know women in nursing that make as much as a STEM worker if not more. In fact a lot of science don't pay all that well.
You left out construction workers, electricians, plumbers, electrical workers, roughnecks, cosmetologists, interior designers, fashion designers, gardeners, and lawn care workers.
All of which are very sexists and or orientationist by nature.
Don't worry they have a picture of you buying it.
"How the service will verify the identity of the person doing the registration in the first place?"
With a photo id.
Calling 911 is not a private act. it is a request for public resources.
This is only for none registered phones which can only call 911.
Privacy has nothing to do with this since cell phones 911 calls are also geolocated.
70% are hoaxes.
A solution would be for the Cell carriers to be required to "register" those phones for free for 911 service.
Each must be attached to an id so you can bust people for swatting.
Not ideal but a compromise solution.
"I'll just refrain from much comment on that one - besides I have my afternoon prayers to nothing I gotta do this afternoon. Want to make certain when I die that I go nowhere, and the nothing that I worship is not pretty adamant about that."
Thank you for confirming that one completely.
"Nuc power can be safe. But not with that attitude. The power can be harnessed. The arrogance, politics, and contempt of people cannot."
Sigh....
No, Chernobyl was a disasters waiting to happen. It lacked a containment building and the design allowed for a thermal runaway reaction.
AKA as different from a modern western reactor as a 777 is from the Hindenberg.
BTW I live with a Western Nuclear reactor in my town. You are right that disasters just that a disaster and are not good. Fukushima was the worst case aka a total loss of cooling but did have the large scale results that many anti nuclear folks by.
"But making this somehow an equivalent between atheists and fundamentalists is almost an end run toward claiming atheism is a religion."
Funny but it sure does look like one more and more. The joy in spreading the belief system, sense of superiority, the joy of seeing more "converts" that is see in many replies to this all look like the worst behaviour of civil religious people.
No I am claiming that the spying prevented the Cuban missile crisis from getting out of hand. It is also many historians opinions that it also prevented the Yom Kippur war from getting out of hand.
It also saved many lives in the battle of the Atlantic during WWII and helped the Allies win WWII.
So "which is contradictory to _ALL_ evidence and historical data."
No it is not.
"But seriously? Trying to equate especially nuc power with religion is pretty silly."
No I am equating the anti-technology views of those that are not atheists with those that are.
"Don't like seeing anything you don't like, eh? Life can be tough."
I don't like the direction that Slashdot has taken. It is like NPR has been taken over by FOX News or MSNBC.
" Chernobyl and Fukushima and come up with a rational reason to be wary of nuclear power."
Actually being worried about Nuclear energy because of Chernobyl is as bad as fearing flying because of Hindenburg. Fukushima should actually make people feel good. The absolutely worst case situation happened it was not the massive disaster of everyone's fears.
"This is very important, because religious wackos tend to be the ones against modern science and technology."
Really? I see a lot of Atheists that are antinuclear and anti GMO.
Sorry but this just about does it for me and Slashdot. I have already turned off Politics on the my front page but the editors of slashdot still keep pushing politics into other sections.
Now they are getting into social issues. News flash folks Slashdot provides as much good information on politics and social issues as People magazine does with science and technology.
For those that want this type of crap on Slashdot. Fine just put into a section I can ignore. If not I guess I will have to vote with my clicks. It is a shame because frankly the community here is so much better than say CNN or Endgadet.