I'm entirely fine with that. Trying to commoditize coding is not the way forward. "Everyone can Code", "Coding is easy", etc are all stupid statements being generated by companies so that they can get cheap sources of mass labour.
I don't see doctors or lawyers playing down the difficulty of their profession in any way. Why should the software industry do the same?
How the fucking fuck is this sexist in any fucking way? The guys made an app about taking pictures of yourself staring at boobs. That's highly immature, but NOT sexist in any fucking way.
I don't see any outrage over girls drooling over half-naked guys in Twilight or other 'Tween' movies, so why is this app sexist, but Twilight not?
Not necessarily. In India, while trains are slower, they are also much cheaper than taking airplanes. Yet most trains consist of coaches only having bunks for sleeping (along with tables and such). And this is in a country that's packed to the brim with people.
I don't see why fast trains wouldn't work in the USA.
Well the 'sandwich' is just ice cream between two biscuits, or cookies as you Americans like to call them.
I had some a few years ago, and they were delicious.
Well regarding the part about the upper class knowing the little tricks required to get in, the situation is the same all over the world. The upper class has the money and the resources that make getting into elite institutions easier.
Ever notice how sliding a desk across a floor is really heard to do, then gets easier?
It's because it's levitating part of the mass on trapped sound waves under the sliding feet...
This is old news by now.
What? It has nothing whatsoever to do with sound waves, but rather the fact that the coefficient of static friction is higher than that of kinetic friction.
When you are stationary, you are working against static friction. Once you are moving, however, you are doing work against kinetic friction, which is a weaker force for most substances.
The Indian system of education doesn't work like that. Here's a post I made on another forum:
You can theoretically attain all marks in the 0-100 range because there is no scaling up.
Each paper has components that together total upto a 100.
For example, there could be 10 1-mark questions, 15 2-mark questions, 4 3-mark questions, 3 4-mark questions and 6 6-mark questions.
Each question can be graded to a fraction of it's worth. So you can get 1.5 on a 2-mark question, 0.5 on a 3-mark question, etc.
Thus theoretically, all possible combinations of scores are possible. The absence of certain scores is evidence of tampering.
SOURCE: I appeared for the CBSE exams last year. The system is similar, though not the same.
That's because the onus is on the user to install AdBlock. Firefox doesn't come packaged with AdBlock. The user has the choice of whether or not to use AdBlock. Here Microsoft is enabling adblocking in the shipped product.
A 'Cracker' is somebody who finds exploits and security holes in applications and then uses them for illegal purposes. Cracking applications is just a small subset of that.
Hackers are basically do what you said. The Grandparent is incorrect in its definition of crackers and hackers.
FIFA 13 is horrible. Their online play is terribly buggy. The inbuilt presets for teams are totally unlike their actual playing styles. The AI often plays in stupid ways, and yet manages to have near perfect ball control/ passing, even for very weak teams. There's a bug in Career mode which makes it impossible to play more than two seasons if you want to buy a player in the transfer market. While it may be the best offering on the market, with the money it makes, I expect a much better product.
While the point you make about the slar wind blowing away any potential atmosphere on Mars, that is a process that takes MILLIONS of years. It is not a sudden process. Millions of years is enough for bacteria to evolve to the gradually increasing harshness of the environment.
Also, it is important to consider that sub-surface bacteria do not need an atmosphere, light or even oxygen to survive.
An Instant Cooler is called a fridge/freezer.
A Flying submarine is an airplane/blimp.
A self-microwaving TV dinner - well ether you get exposed to microwaves, or it sucks heat out of the environment, something that's a lot more work than using a microwave.
Usually, in most cases where co-op studying is allowed, students are told that while discussing ideas is OK, verbatim (or similar enough) answers that are used by multiple members of the group will be considered cheating.
Moreover, when you take an exam, the questions are meant to be thought about, and the answers to those questions have to come out of your own ideas, or so I'd imagine would be the case for a PoliSci class.
If the students in question did anything like what has been mentioned in the summary, then they deserve harsher punishment than what they are currently getting.
International students paying MORE money to Universities to fill their coffers drives prices up? Did you even read what you wrote? International students are only charged higher BECAUSE Universities don't have enough money, and would have to raise tuition prices for locals OTHERWISE.
Racism? Good reply.
50k/yr/student pretty much contributes a significant part to the tuition budget. And that's just for one student. If not for international students, you Americans would be paying significantly higher tuition fees.
And then you'd complain about how college is too expensive. So shut the fuck up and realise that by making your education exclusive to only Americans and rich international students, all you are doing is making your own populace more ignorant by robbing them the opportunity of interacting with people from around the world. Fucktard.
What your argument ignores is the respective numbers of each student, and the cumulative money that is paid.
Undergrads mostly study for 3-4 years on their own money, and most large State Universities have approx. 6000 international undergrads. At 50k/yr, that's 12 million US$ over 4 years in money from international undergrad students right THERE.
Actually, the varying standards prevent this from happening. What is acceptable practice here might not be acceptable medical practice in India. And vice versa.
And before anyone starts on the 'how is that possible, India is so dirty, etc' crap, you should know that medical tourism is among the fastest growing industries in India, and there ae plenty of world class doctors, who charge the equivalent of what is charged in the U.S.
Yup. Moreover, he actually had a big stake in this too, since his details were there to be exploited. He was checking how easy it was for someone to access that data
Heat Death is where the Universe expands so much that heat 'dies', i.e., there is not enough thermodynamic free energy (U) left when you consider the Universe as a closed system.
This implies that there is not enough energy available to perform energy consuming processes.
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I'm entirely fine with that. Trying to commoditize coding is not the way forward. "Everyone can Code", "Coding is easy", etc are all stupid statements being generated by companies so that they can get cheap sources of mass labour.
I don't see doctors or lawyers playing down the difficulty of their profession in any way. Why should the software industry do the same?
How the fucking fuck is this sexist in any fucking way? The guys made an app about taking pictures of yourself staring at boobs. That's highly immature, but NOT sexist in any fucking way.
I don't see any outrage over girls drooling over half-naked guys in Twilight or other 'Tween' movies, so why is this app sexist, but Twilight not?
How exactly is this sexism? There is no sexual discrimination occurring against women here. Only some immature jokes about body parts.
Not necessarily. In India, while trains are slower, they are also much cheaper than taking airplanes. Yet most trains consist of coaches only having bunks for sleeping (along with tables and such). And this is in a country that's packed to the brim with people.
I don't see why fast trains wouldn't work in the USA.
Well the 'sandwich' is just ice cream between two biscuits, or cookies as you Americans like to call them. I had some a few years ago, and they were delicious.
Well regarding the part about the upper class knowing the little tricks required to get in, the situation is the same all over the world. The upper class has the money and the resources that make getting into elite institutions easier.
Ever notice how sliding a desk across a floor is really heard to do, then gets easier? It's because it's levitating part of the mass on trapped sound waves under the sliding feet...
This is old news by now.
What? It has nothing whatsoever to do with sound waves, but rather the fact that the coefficient of static friction is higher than that of kinetic friction.
When you are stationary, you are working against static friction. Once you are moving, however, you are doing work against kinetic friction, which is a weaker force for most substances.
Stuff hasn't changed. I gave the CBSE exam a year ago, nothing has changed.
The Indian system of education doesn't work like that. Here's a post I made on another forum: You can theoretically attain all marks in the 0-100 range because there is no scaling up. Each paper has components that together total upto a 100. For example, there could be 10 1-mark questions, 15 2-mark questions, 4 3-mark questions, 3 4-mark questions and 6 6-mark questions. Each question can be graded to a fraction of it's worth. So you can get 1.5 on a 2-mark question, 0.5 on a 3-mark question, etc. Thus theoretically, all possible combinations of scores are possible. The absence of certain scores is evidence of tampering. SOURCE: I appeared for the CBSE exams last year. The system is similar, though not the same.
Why would you affiliate with the weak students then? I always chose people who are at the same level or better than me for my group projects.
That's because the onus is on the user to install AdBlock. Firefox doesn't come packaged with AdBlock. The user has the choice of whether or not to use AdBlock. Here Microsoft is enabling adblocking in the shipped product.
A 'Cracker' is somebody who finds exploits and security holes in applications and then uses them for illegal purposes. Cracking applications is just a small subset of that. Hackers are basically do what you said. The Grandparent is incorrect in its definition of crackers and hackers.
FIFA 13 is horrible. Their online play is terribly buggy. The inbuilt presets for teams are totally unlike their actual playing styles. The AI often plays in stupid ways, and yet manages to have near perfect ball control/ passing, even for very weak teams. There's a bug in Career mode which makes it impossible to play more than two seasons if you want to buy a player in the transfer market. While it may be the best offering on the market, with the money it makes, I expect a much better product.
While the point you make about the slar wind blowing away any potential atmosphere on Mars, that is a process that takes MILLIONS of years. It is not a sudden process. Millions of years is enough for bacteria to evolve to the gradually increasing harshness of the environment. Also, it is important to consider that sub-surface bacteria do not need an atmosphere, light or even oxygen to survive.
An Instant Cooler is called a fridge/freezer. A Flying submarine is an airplane/blimp. A self-microwaving TV dinner - well ether you get exposed to microwaves, or it sucks heat out of the environment, something that's a lot more work than using a microwave.
You can set a fake location in developer options in the settings, It's pretty simple.
Usually, in most cases where co-op studying is allowed, students are told that while discussing ideas is OK, verbatim (or similar enough) answers that are used by multiple members of the group will be considered cheating.
Moreover, when you take an exam, the questions are meant to be thought about, and the answers to those questions have to come out of your own ideas, or so I'd imagine would be the case for a PoliSci class.
If the students in question did anything like what has been mentioned in the summary, then they deserve harsher punishment than what they are currently getting.
When we aren't in a hurry, we walk. When we are in a hurry, we run. When we are only somewhat in a hurry, we speedwalk/semirun.
How the fuck does this qualify in anyway as news? SMH.
International students paying MORE money to Universities to fill their coffers drives prices up? Did you even read what you wrote? International students are only charged higher BECAUSE Universities don't have enough money, and would have to raise tuition prices for locals OTHERWISE.
Racism? Good reply. 50k/yr/student pretty much contributes a significant part to the tuition budget. And that's just for one student. If not for international students, you Americans would be paying significantly higher tuition fees.
And then you'd complain about how college is too expensive. So shut the fuck up and realise that by making your education exclusive to only Americans and rich international students, all you are doing is making your own populace more ignorant by robbing them the opportunity of interacting with people from around the world. Fucktard.
What your argument ignores is the respective numbers of each student, and the cumulative money that is paid.
Undergrads mostly study for 3-4 years on their own money, and most large State Universities have approx. 6000 international undergrads. At 50k/yr, that's 12 million US$ over 4 years in money from international undergrad students right THERE.
Actually, the varying standards prevent this from happening. What is acceptable practice here might not be acceptable medical practice in India. And vice versa.
And before anyone starts on the 'how is that possible, India is so dirty, etc' crap, you should know that medical tourism is among the fastest growing industries in India, and there ae plenty of world class doctors, who charge the equivalent of what is charged in the U.S.
Yup. Moreover, he actually had a big stake in this too, since his details were there to be exploited. He was checking how easy it was for someone to access that data
How is this news? Scientists have been doing this to make BECs FOR AGES.
Heat Death is where the Universe expands so much that heat 'dies', i.e., there is not enough thermodynamic free energy (U) left when you consider the Universe as a closed system.
This implies that there is not enough energy available to perform energy consuming processes.