Contless thousends, maybe even millions of people, have died and struggled in order for you to be free.
Even free to be an arshole.
The minimum standard of decency of any citizen in a free country is to get their lazy asses to a voting poll and vote.
If you don't care about politics or feel you are not represented you can invalidate your vote. That sends pretty much the same message, but at least says you have a minimum of respect for the people that have given so much in order for you to enjoy the freedoms (that have been diminishing in the US and many other countries recently) that you so non chalantly decide to take for granted.
Maybe one day geeks, nerds (or whatever you want to call them or call themselves) will get this in the part of the brain that is necessary: programming is not art.
There, I don't care if it hurts. I have made my good deal of programming, saved the world once or twice, was very satisfied about it, and then moved on. I am also an artist on my free time, play piano to good standards, compose a bit, write novels, etc. So I think I know the differences.
Programming is an engineering-mathematical activity that can be analyzed formally in terms of mathematical equations and theorems and that can (and should) be sujected to constraints, costs and project planning for it to be of any general use. This is more so in the context of the original posting.
Now, if writing a perl script makes you feel all artsy-farsy, all the power to you, but the pleasure derived from it is not aesthtic in nature and will not convey any aesthetic reaction from anybody normal.
- You can't delete all the messages in one folder. - The search function never works as intended (I want to look for messages only in one folder, damnit!).
So assuming this guy is very clever, Python must be broken or too dificult to use.
Shows us some data, even a few examples, showing which people are getting fund and which aren't.
And just for your information, not all countries work in the same way when it comes to research.
In many countries you have freedom to chose your research topic under many circumstances and your grant will come from monies budgeted for general research in advance.
And in any case, the interest groups trying to fight the global climate change theory are coming with crap science by people with no expertise in the relevant scientific fields.
If they had a leg to stand on surely they would be hiring with the enormous resources they have, reputable scientists in the filed to make their point. The fact they aren't should thell us something about the quality of ther claims.
There is no formulated formal theory that states "if there is water there is life". If there was one, you should be able to find it quickly (because it would be a monumental piece of science), but I am betting you you can't.
What people do is an informed guess, since the only kind of life we know so far requires water to survive, thus it makes sense checking first what we know has potential, rather that go aimlessly.
There is absolutely no empiric, observable data, of the existence of a deity of any kind. It is simply an article of faith. You either believe it or you don't.
Global climate change is not an article of faith. We know, in rough terms if you wish, what is going to happen if the climate changes too drastically, and we are drawing conslussions from multiple sources about the most probable cause of this climate change (us, our industrial activity).
Os in conclussion, your analogy is complete rubish.
You either probe what you are saying or apologize and SFU.
I am sick and tired of this smear of scientists that reached a conclussion many years before it was fashionable for politicians to support this idea, or for it to be potentially profitable to research climate change.
Show us that climate change is a self interested theory supported by ecological interests (like if those "interests" had any money to be paying for the huge amount of research required for all these studies)...
Shows the names o the scientists being paid, the organizations paying for them and in general a patter of deceit and misinformation, which is what you are implying.
With the flat-earthers of global climate change, supported by their paymasters in the industry, it is trivial to cast a light on the puppet masters.
So go on, show us that what you are asying is at least marginally plausiable.
If Greenpeace had that much money they would have made sure they got anybody but Bush and his cronnies in the White House.
The fact that most people in recent Republican administrations are intimately linked with oil companies should tell you all what you need to know about which side has the resources to spin their truth.
And it is not like all the evidence regarding global climate change is comming from Greenpace. Most of it comes from research institutes while carrying research tangentially linked to climate change but whose result are later found to be useful to explain the problem.
In the Kyoto agreement China would have been not force to reduce emisions (because they were laughably small when compared with the US's and other industrialized countries).
The Education you get in college provides you with a full context of your profession.
In many circumstances it stops you in your track when you are trying to reinvent the wheel.
And in good Universities you learn about topics that, although not directly related to your profession, are of importance (Economics and some Project Management and Accountancy come to mind).
The golden dropouts we all know about, are the rarest of exceptions. Most people that progress know where they are going because their education broadened thir horizons.
Very often we try to hire and we don't find qualified people (in the sense of people knowing their stuff, we look at official papers only after the candidate has probed that he knows what he is talking about).
Many people in IT joined the profession to earn a good living but do not want to pay their dues (as in any other profession) and to climb the ladder.
FOr those that enojy IT and are ready to persevere the rewards can be quite satisfying, outsourcing or not.
Having said that, outsourcing hotspots revolv around English, so your half assed joke falls flat since no Mandarin or Hindi is really necessary if you want to try your luck working on those countries.
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Nobody is forcing you to read it.
Is that silence what I am hearing?
.... going to answer for all their deceptions then?
The moment you let loose the patent lawyers we know Linux would have won.
If there was any infringing code, it would be removed.
If not we would get you off our backs.
What sles can we wish for?
And in many places, where the idiocy of software patents is not allowed, this is a non issue.
Bring it on Ballmer.
First of all, shame on you.
Contless thousends, maybe even millions of people, have died and struggled in order for you to be free.
Even free to be an arshole.
The minimum standard of decency of any citizen in a free country is to get their lazy asses to a voting poll and vote.
If you don't care about politics or feel you are not represented you can invalidate your vote. That sends pretty much the same message, but at least says you have a minimum of respect for the people that have given so much in order for you to enjoy the freedoms (that have been diminishing in the US and many other countries recently) that you so non chalantly decide to take for granted.
Shame on you and all your ilk.
Many composers do exactly what you are saying.
Beethoven "Prometheus" theme is heard in many of his compositions, as is its theme from the 5th Simphony.
As a matter of fact, Wagner advocates this approach (leif motifs) as part of composing an opera.
And there are uncountable examples of composers that borrowed material from others to make their own compositions (the lazy bastards).
Maybe one day geeks, nerds (or whatever you want to call them or call themselves) will get this in the part of the brain that is necessary: programming is not art.
There, I don't care if it hurts. I have made my good deal of programming, saved the world once or twice, was very satisfied about it, and then moved on. I am also an artist on my free time, play piano to good standards, compose a bit, write novels, etc. So I think I know the differences.
Programming is an engineering-mathematical activity that can be analyzed formally in terms of mathematical equations and theorems and that can (and should) be sujected to constraints, costs and project planning for it to be of any general use. This is more so in the context of the original posting.
Now, if writing a perl script makes you feel all artsy-farsy, all the power to you, but the pleasure derived from it is not aesthtic in nature and will not convey any aesthetic reaction from anybody normal.
The bastards, doing their job.
How dare they.
That tells me all what I need to know about the new "PR" person...
- You can't delete all the messages in one folder.
- The search function never works as intended (I want to look for messages only in one folder, damnit!).
So assuming this guy is very clever, Python must be broken or too dificult to use.
There are many other ways to infer temperatures in the past. We don;t nee to keep manual records of them .
SOme of these go back thousend of years (rings on fosiled trees, ice core in glaciers).
It has been thoroughly debunked.
No wonder, since Mr Lombok did not have a solid background in any relevant fields.
So you have no data but bodly make unsubstantiated claims.
Way to go buddy.
Shows us some data, even a few examples, showing which people are getting fund and which aren't.
And just for your information, not all countries work in the same way when it comes to research.
In many countries you have freedom to chose your research topic under many circumstances and your grant will come from monies budgeted for general research in advance.
And in any case, the interest groups trying to fight the global climate change theory are coming with crap science by people with no expertise in the relevant scientific fields.
If they had a leg to stand on surely they would be hiring with the enormous resources they have, reputable scientists in the filed to make their point. The fact they aren't should thell us something about the quality of ther claims.
There is no formulated formal theory that states "if there is water there is life". If there was one, you should be able to find it quickly (because it would be a monumental piece of science), but I am betting you you can't.
What people do is an informed guess, since the only kind of life we know so far requires water to survive, thus it makes sense checking first what we know has potential, rather that go aimlessly.
There is absolutely no empiric, observable data, of the existence of a deity of any kind. It is simply an article of faith. You either believe it or you don't.
Global climate change is not an article of faith. We know, in rough terms if you wish, what is going to happen if the climate changes too drastically, and we are drawing conslussions from multiple sources about the most probable cause of this climate change (us, our industrial activity).
Os in conclussion, your analogy is complete rubish.
You either probe what you are saying or apologize and SFU.
I am sick and tired of this smear of scientists that reached a conclussion many years before it was fashionable for politicians to support this idea, or for it to be potentially profitable to research climate change.
Show us that climate change is a self interested theory supported by ecological interests (like if those "interests" had any money to be paying for the huge amount of research required for all these studies)...
Shows the names o the scientists being paid, the organizations paying for them and in general a patter of deceit and misinformation, which is what you are implying.
With the flat-earthers of global climate change, supported by their paymasters in the industry, it is trivial to cast a light on the puppet masters.
So go on, show us that what you are asying is at least marginally plausiable.
If Greenpeace had that much money they would have made sure they got anybody but Bush and his cronnies in the White House.
The fact that most people in recent Republican administrations are intimately linked with oil companies should tell you all what you need to know about which side has the resources to spin their truth.
And it is not like all the evidence regarding global climate change is comming from Greenpace. Most of it comes from research institutes while carrying research tangentially linked to climate change but whose result are later found to be useful to explain the problem.
In the Kyoto agreement China would have been not force to reduce emisions (because they were laughably small when compared with the US's and other industrialized countries).
.... found evidence while doing completely unrelated studies.
There has not been an organized campaign to hype up global climate change.
As for the denyers, it has been shown ad nauseam that they are normally backed up by shameful interest groups.
And lets an Anonymous Coward troll /.
Thanks for nothing.
The Education you get in college provides you with a full context of your profession.
In many circumstances it stops you in your track when you are trying to reinvent the wheel.
And in good Universities you learn about topics that, although not directly related to your profession, are of importance (Economics and some Project Management and Accountancy come to mind).
The golden dropouts we all know about, are the rarest of exceptions. Most people that progress know where they are going because their education broadened thir horizons.
When are you starting to whine about all the jobs created by Japanese car companies in the US?
http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/about_toyota/manufactur ing/worldwide.html
really, you can't have it both ways.
If you don't want jobs to go overseas then be consistent and complain when foreign companies create jobs that were not there in your own country...
Very often we try to hire and we don't find qualified people (in the sense of people knowing their stuff, we look at official papers only after the candidate has probed that he knows what he is talking about).
Many people in IT joined the profession to earn a good living but do not want to pay their dues (as in any other profession) and to climb the ladder.
FOr those that enojy IT and are ready to persevere the rewards can be quite satisfying, outsourcing or not.
Having said that, outsourcing hotspots revolv around English, so your half assed joke falls flat since no Mandarin or Hindi is really necessary if you want to try your luck working on those countries.
What is that suppossed to mean?
It would be more useful to the intial poster and the original discussion if you explain how you landed those gigs.