That will give you a legal, meritocratic approach to being a discriminatory bastard.
Or he could just use the tried and true method of pre-screening candidates to discriminate toward older people: 20 years experience required. HR won't even show you the resume of a young guy if you list a requirement like that.
This is insightful, although the government conspiracy is a out there.
The market is totally dependent on the risk of failure. It is completely built into the system. Every interest rate out there is predicated on the risk of failure, aka non-payment. Why do people with poor credit ratings have to pay high interest rates? Because the lender is taking a big amount of risk in lending. Loans with low default risk bear low interest rates. The safest investment is government T-Bills but they are a bad investment because they bear very little interest. More risk == More reward.
The bank's owners (shareholders, aka investors, aka lenders themselves) took a risk by investing in their particular bank. They took this risk expecting to earn a reward in the form of a dividend or higher share price. It is their fault that the bank failed by allowing their board of directors to allow such bone-headed financial positions. It is the shareholders who should suffer the fallout of the banks failure by losing their investments. Completely. That's the risk they took. Anything else ruins the market dynamic. Who reaps the benefit of a bailout? The shareholders do. Do consumers? Does my mortgage interest rate decrease? It should... its not as risky for the bank to loan me the money anymore since they are being propped up by taxpayers.
The better solution IMHO, would have been to bail out troubled mortgages. You're in foreclosure and you life is about to be ruined, here's $200K from the federal government. Loan forgiven. 700 billion could have saved every home in america from foreclosure AND it would have saved the banks from failing. The downside is the guys who paid their mortgages on time, every month, wouldn't see the benefit that deadbeats see.... that is unpopular politically and couldn't fly. Instead, mortgage help was the first thing struck from the original bailout proposal. How insane is that? Ostensibly, the package was to help the state of the economy but the only people being helped are the banks. Real working class people don't get any help. Ain't that the way of the world???
I picked up a new Asus WL-500G because my prior linksys was crapping out daily like that. The new Asus did the same thing out of the box. I read somewhere on the net that it was because of bad power. I put the router and cable modem on an UPS and have been 100% stable (knocking on wood) ever since.
It's not as central as it was made out to be, but one area where calculus shows up in economics is in calculating the area under a curve. So when your supply or demand curves are, you know, curvy (as opposed to straight lines) it is easy to calculate the area under them using integration.
I'm studying Blockbuster in my MBA program. They are really getting their lunch eaten by Netflix. Really and truly. They eventually copied the Netflix model, but they charged too much. Although they had the great idea of letting you drop them off in the store(actually, brilliant) it was too little too late. They are WAY behind on subscribers with little hope of turning the tide. Rentals are dwindling, they can't charge late fees any more. The brick and mortar stores are really dragging down profatability. They are in a downward spiral that is going to be tough to reverse.
My group is studying possible strategies going forward and we pretty much concluded they have to do a box like this. The DVD is now obsolete and it's replacement, the Blu-Ray may be slow on the uptake and worse, even if it were the best newest thing, Netflix will still be eating their lunch because it has the same delivery model as the DVD. Blockbuster needs to get away from the costly brick and mortar stores it operates and needs to skip the Blu-Ray wave. This means they need to deliver HD content directly to consumers. They could copycat the Netflix download service (which they are working on) but my opinion (and probably a lot of others) is that it sucks to use a PC to watch movies and Joe Public isn't savvy enough to use MythTV's or other home-grown media boxes to get the video to the TV.
Apple has a really good set top box, but it seems to not be taking hold. HD content is still pretty slow to deliver via broadband download. Maybe as higher-speed services like FIOS start coming to the mainstream, this can change and the download model will be viable but Blockbuster may be in chapter 11 before this happens. And besides that, they have to start poaching back subscribers from Netflix or they will be screwed when Netflix has their own set-top box.
My clever marketing idea was to pick up the AOL model and start sending out Mail Service subscriptions to everyone and anyone. Offer three months free or something and keep them hooked. Then when the online downloads or set-top boxes become stable offerings, then they have an easy way to convert people instead of having to gain all new customers. It's a critical race right now for subscribers and Netflix is winning that battle. They need to start playing hardball.
Surely someone has already commented (but I can't see it) that this is a blatent slashvertisement. Google custom search is an revenue-generating system whereby anyone can make a page, put up a google search bar, then get ad money off of the search results.
You may only need calculus-type math when dealing with programs with physics involved... games, simulations, navigation control etc.
In university, however, calculus is what is used to prove that you have what it takes to succeed in Discrete Mathematics or Matrix and Linear Algebra. Admittedly it doesn't take these courses to 'program', but they are essential if you want a deep understanding of why 90% of computer science theory is the way it is.
Programming is all some people aspire to... and in a lot of ways it is superior to the theoretical stuff that goes on at a university. Practical, real world solutions are what most people value. However, R&D is what drives innovation and this is the world where the theory is critical. If you think you can make an algorithm faster than quicksort or mergesort, you better have a damn good understanding of why they run in O(n log n)... These kind of problems are language-agnostic... it doesn't matter your mastery of C++, you can make solutions in pseudo-code for all anyone cares... it's the concepts that matter here not the language. The programming is just the implementation of it.
Programming can be taught to anyone at ITT Tech or by Sam's 24-hour books. It's not that hard to do and that's why jobs are being shipped overseas. Anyone can do it. The hardcore, deep level theory stuff can't be done by just anyone. Personally, I can't even do it. A BS in computer science only get's you so far into the theoretical... but at least now I can really understand the value in it.
As for the Linux kernel, I don't know if it does or doesn't have any superficial "real math" in it... (i haven't studied it) but I guaran-damn-tee you that it has cutting edge computer science concepts involved in it.... the developers may have themselves been innovative in using these or they may have been standing on the shoulders of giants, but trust me, to fully understand what happens in a modern OS you need some good math. It's a fact.
In the end, like homeschooling, it boils down to the parents taking responsibility for their children doing the work. Maybe with virtual school the teacher can do a little bit to make students sit stil, but surely it's still mostly on the parents to make sure the work gets done. That is a scary thought since many parents these days completely abdicate their parental duties.
And this doesn't speak to the socialization aspect. Half of what is taught in school isn't just the three R's. The other half is how to become a responsible adult functioning in a society where you must interact with others. Sheltering kids from the outside world does not teach them that.
You say: Shame on the UK or any other country that gives their citizen away to an other country, whatever the charges are.
For a time I worked in the US embassy in the Dominican Republic. There was a case where we were pleading for extradition for a Dominican citizen who had brutally murdered three americans in New York city and then fled back to DR. The Dominicans didn't consider him a murderer since as far as they were concerned he had killed nobody. They were holding him on unrelated crimes committed in the dominican republic but not murder. In some short amount of time he would be free to drink Presidente on the beach instead of answering for his crimes in the jurisdiction where he committed them.
This is why extradition treaties exist. That's MY viewpoint, you can disagree.
When I lived in china, the teacher of my chinese as a second language class showed us a poem written by a great chinese scholar. The poem was written when some government officials had proposed eliminating the standard chinese character system and having the country go to the pinyin lettering system. (you know the one where the rest of the world is able to read names like 'deng xiao ping')
Well, the joke is that the poem is about 40 words long where all the words are pronounced "shi". When read it sounds like "sure, sure, sure,... sure" These can be understood verbally by the tones the speaker puts on the syllables and can be read because the chinese written language has different pictograms for all these words, but if written in pinyin the poem is completely unintelligible.
Bad advice, dividends are paid out of the corporate coffers after taxes have been assessed on income. After the dividend is paid out (to you since you are the sole shareholder) you will have to pay taxes on your own personal income. AKA double taxes.
Better is to pay yourself a wage (which is pretax expense to the company) and only pay the taxes on your personal earnings.
The way Hawkings thinks about this (at least what I remember/understand from one of his books) is that it doesn't really matter. This article seems to be placing the beginning of time before the big bang and each bang/crush cycle just gets tacked on to the previous timeline. According to hawkings, time had to begin with the big bang. The compressed ball of matter had such a gravitational pull that time and space were bent and broke and stopped and no information could escape. Even if the cycle had happened a trillion times before it wouldn't matter because the first point were information could become available was the current bang. Thats when time for anyone in this universe began and bang/crunch cycles are irrelevant, there may as well have been nothing before the bang.
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Great tune, also good for learning pointless information was their song about James K. Polk.
I submitted the story and it got rejected (I'm crushed). But for those of you who are interested (this being a space thread), the Tom Hanks IMAX movie was released. It's playing in several theaters across the country.
Recall your middle school physics classes where they taught you the difference in kinetic energy and potential energy. Kinetic energy is the energy of movement and potential energy is the kinetic energy something could have if it were released. For example, a rock falling has kinetic energy... but a rock perched on the edge of the table has potential energy. You give something potential energy by lifting it up.
With hydrogen we are talking about chemical energy. It's kind of like potential energy except that the potential is the element's potential to form chemical bonds with other elements. With raw Hydrogen, the potential is H's potential to grab a buddy and form a bond with O to make H20. Doing this releases energy in the form of heat which will drive the motors.
Now the energy carrier part: To reverse the process you have to insert energy into the water to get the H2 to break it's bond with the oxygen. This energy has to come from somewhere.... THAT is really the energy source. (well, sort of.... oil is just an energy carrier as well.... the sun was the original energy source in that regard).
And the problem: You lose energy in the form of heat at every step in this transaction. When we are burning fossil fuels, we are fortunate that the main energy loss happened without us millions of years ago. So to us, it's a net energy gain. (even though it's a terrible, terrible waste of energy that hit the earth millions of years ago... i forget the numbers, but one gallon of gas has an obscene amount solar energy that went into it). With hydrogen, we have to put the energy in right now. Not really practical unless we can come up with a great source of energy. (nukes are the only feasable way... but good luck with that)
You already shelled out the cash for the three years, you really should be smart enough not to throw away that investment just because your fellow classmates are dumb.
You might have a good job now, but it won't last forever.... with wife and kids eventually things just get harder. You should try to advance yourself while you are still young and before you get tied up too tight in reality. Especially while you have some disposable income.
Note: I'm basing this reply on this and your other replies in this thread.
You are either a troll or very blind to the rest of the world.
You apparently haven't bothered to actually look up what some of these certs require. If you did you wouldn't have nearly the attitude that you do.
You need to evaluate any individual cert on it's own merits. Plain and simple.
An A+ cert? Garbage. Doesn't increase value of the resume. Why? Anybody can get one in 20 minutes using just their general knowledge.
A Cisco CCIE Cert? Absolute Gold. Increases the value of the resume by a factor of 3. Why? Because this guy has shown in a practical lab environment that he is a badass at configuring and troubleshooting Cisco equipment. Comparitively very few people get these and they are very tough to get. Google this one, you will see what I'm talking about.
Now, that being said, would you hire a CCIE for a coding job? Not unless he had some other evidence that he can code. Why? Because he has demonstrable skill in networking equipment but not necessarily swinging c++ around. If you had to set up a large scale WAN with multiple frame relays and a complex structure of VLANs, this would be your guy. If you want to write application software with complex object interaction and multiple abstraction layers... well, he probably doesn't know how to do that.
Basically, what I'm saying is that you can't make sweeping generalizations about these certs. You have to know a little about what the cert entails and you have to know how it relates to the job function you are filling. If you want someone to set up and maintain a linux server a RHCE would be an added plus to the resume not a minus and tossing this resume just 'cause it has a cert on it is really fricking dumb.
Maybe the cert isn't the whole picture of the candidate, you've got to consider the whole package, but to put someone out of the game who is probably very qualified for that reason is silly.
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Malwarebytes is awesome! The AV2009 malware is a tough one to remove, but Malwarebytes takes is right off.
That will give you a legal, meritocratic approach to being a discriminatory bastard.
Or he could just use the tried and true method of pre-screening candidates to discriminate toward older people: 20 years experience required. HR won't even show you the resume of a young guy if you list a requirement like that.
This is insightful, although the government conspiracy is a out there.
The market is totally dependent on the risk of failure. It is completely built into the system. Every interest rate out there is predicated on the risk of failure, aka non-payment. Why do people with poor credit ratings have to pay high interest rates? Because the lender is taking a big amount of risk in lending. Loans with low default risk bear low interest rates. The safest investment is government T-Bills but they are a bad investment because they bear very little interest. More risk == More reward.
The bank's owners (shareholders, aka investors, aka lenders themselves) took a risk by investing in their particular bank. They took this risk expecting to earn a reward in the form of a dividend or higher share price. It is their fault that the bank failed by allowing their board of directors to allow such bone-headed financial positions. It is the shareholders who should suffer the fallout of the banks failure by losing their investments. Completely. That's the risk they took. Anything else ruins the market dynamic. Who reaps the benefit of a bailout? The shareholders do. Do consumers? Does my mortgage interest rate decrease? It should... its not as risky for the bank to loan me the money anymore since they are being propped up by taxpayers.
The better solution IMHO, would have been to bail out troubled mortgages. You're in foreclosure and you life is about to be ruined, here's $200K from the federal government. Loan forgiven. 700 billion could have saved every home in america from foreclosure AND it would have saved the banks from failing. The downside is the guys who paid their mortgages on time, every month, wouldn't see the benefit that deadbeats see.... that is unpopular politically and couldn't fly. Instead, mortgage help was the first thing struck from the original bailout proposal. How insane is that? Ostensibly, the package was to help the state of the economy but the only people being helped are the banks. Real working class people don't get any help. Ain't that the way of the world???
I picked up a new Asus WL-500G because my prior linksys was crapping out daily like that. The new Asus did the same thing out of the box. I read somewhere on the net that it was because of bad power. I put the router and cable modem on an UPS and have been 100% stable (knocking on wood) ever since.
It's not as central as it was made out to be, but one area where calculus shows up in economics is in calculating the area under a curve. So when your supply or demand curves are, you know, curvy (as opposed to straight lines) it is easy to calculate the area under them using integration.
Posting these kind of videos is a really slippery slope.
I'm studying Blockbuster in my MBA program. They are really getting their lunch eaten by Netflix. Really and truly. They eventually copied the Netflix model, but they charged too much. Although they had the great idea of letting you drop them off in the store(actually, brilliant) it was too little too late. They are WAY behind on subscribers with little hope of turning the tide. Rentals are dwindling, they can't charge late fees any more. The brick and mortar stores are really dragging down profatability. They are in a downward spiral that is going to be tough to reverse.
My group is studying possible strategies going forward and we pretty much concluded they have to do a box like this. The DVD is now obsolete and it's replacement, the Blu-Ray may be slow on the uptake and worse, even if it were the best newest thing, Netflix will still be eating their lunch because it has the same delivery model as the DVD. Blockbuster needs to get away from the costly brick and mortar stores it operates and needs to skip the Blu-Ray wave. This means they need to deliver HD content directly to consumers. They could copycat the Netflix download service (which they are working on) but my opinion (and probably a lot of others) is that it sucks to use a PC to watch movies and Joe Public isn't savvy enough to use MythTV's or other home-grown media boxes to get the video to the TV.
Apple has a really good set top box, but it seems to not be taking hold. HD content is still pretty slow to deliver via broadband download. Maybe as higher-speed services like FIOS start coming to the mainstream, this can change and the download model will be viable but Blockbuster may be in chapter 11 before this happens. And besides that, they have to start poaching back subscribers from Netflix or they will be screwed when Netflix has their own set-top box.
My clever marketing idea was to pick up the AOL model and start sending out Mail Service subscriptions to everyone and anyone. Offer three months free or something and keep them hooked. Then when the online downloads or set-top boxes become stable offerings, then they have an easy way to convert people instead of having to gain all new customers. It's a critical race right now for subscribers and Netflix is winning that battle. They need to start playing hardball.
The researchers suggest that an increase in the exposure of Earth to extragalactic cosmic rays causes mass extinctions.
Or maybe, the increased radiation merely causes some periods of increased mutations... extinctions follow as species are outcompeted for resources.
Surely someone has already commented (but I can't see it) that this is a blatent slashvertisement. Google custom search is an revenue-generating system whereby anyone can make a page, put up a google search bar, then get ad money off of the search results.
You may only need calculus-type math when dealing with programs with physics involved... games, simulations, navigation control etc.
In university, however, calculus is what is used to prove that you have what it takes to succeed in Discrete Mathematics or Matrix and Linear Algebra. Admittedly it doesn't take these courses to 'program', but they are essential if you want a deep understanding of why 90% of computer science theory is the way it is.
Programming is all some people aspire to... and in a lot of ways it is superior to the theoretical stuff that goes on at a university. Practical, real world solutions are what most people value. However, R&D is what drives innovation and this is the world where the theory is critical. If you think you can make an algorithm faster than quicksort or mergesort, you better have a damn good understanding of why they run in O(n log n)... These kind of problems are language-agnostic... it doesn't matter your mastery of C++, you can make solutions in pseudo-code for all anyone cares... it's the concepts that matter here not the language. The programming is just the implementation of it.
Programming can be taught to anyone at ITT Tech or by Sam's 24-hour books. It's not that hard to do and that's why jobs are being shipped overseas. Anyone can do it. The hardcore, deep level theory stuff can't be done by just anyone. Personally, I can't even do it. A BS in computer science only get's you so far into the theoretical... but at least now I can really understand the value in it.
As for the Linux kernel, I don't know if it does or doesn't have any superficial "real math" in it... (i haven't studied it) but I guaran-damn-tee you that it has cutting edge computer science concepts involved in it.... the developers may have themselves been innovative in using these or they may have been standing on the shoulders of giants, but trust me, to fully understand what happens in a modern OS you need some good math. It's a fact.
In the end, like homeschooling, it boils down to the parents taking responsibility for their children doing the work. Maybe with virtual school the teacher can do a little bit to make students sit stil, but surely it's still mostly on the parents to make sure the work gets done. That is a scary thought since many parents these days completely abdicate their parental duties.
And this doesn't speak to the socialization aspect. Half of what is taught in school isn't just the three R's. The other half is how to become a responsible adult functioning in a society where you must interact with others. Sheltering kids from the outside world does not teach them that.
You say:
Shame on the UK or any other country that gives their citizen away to an other country, whatever the charges are.
For a time I worked in the US embassy in the Dominican Republic. There was a case where we were pleading for extradition for a Dominican citizen who had brutally murdered three americans in New York city and then fled back to DR. The Dominicans didn't consider him a murderer since as far as they were concerned he had killed nobody. They were holding him on unrelated crimes committed in the dominican republic but not murder. In some short amount of time he would be free to drink Presidente on the beach instead of answering for his crimes in the jurisdiction where he committed them.
This is why extradition treaties exist. That's MY viewpoint, you can disagree.
When I lived in china, the teacher of my chinese as a second language class showed us a poem written by a great chinese scholar. The poem was written when some government officials had proposed eliminating the standard chinese character system and having the country go to the pinyin lettering system. (you know the one where the rest of the world is able to read names like 'deng xiao ping')
... sure" These can be understood verbally by the tones the speaker puts on the syllables and can be read because the chinese written language has different pictograms for all these words, but if written in pinyin the poem is completely unintelligible.
Well, the joke is that the poem is about 40 words long where all the words are pronounced "shi". When read it sounds like "sure, sure, sure,
They are still using the pictograms.
Bad advice, dividends are paid out of the corporate coffers after taxes have been assessed on income. After the dividend is paid out (to you since you are the sole shareholder) you will have to pay taxes on your own personal income. AKA double taxes.
Better is to pay yourself a wage (which is pretax expense to the company) and only pay the taxes on your personal earnings.
Google "Second Life", mmog where users make the content.
The way Hawkings thinks about this (at least what I remember/understand from one of his books) is that it doesn't really matter. This article seems to be placing the beginning of time before the big bang and each bang/crush cycle just gets tacked on to the previous timeline. According to hawkings, time had to begin with the big bang. The compressed ball of matter had such a gravitational pull that time and space were bent and broke and stopped and no information could escape. Even if the cycle had happened a trillion times before it wouldn't matter because the first point were information could become available was the current bang. Thats when time for anyone in this universe began and bang/crunch cycles are irrelevant, there may as well have been nothing before the bang.
Great tune, also good for learning pointless information was their song about James K. Polk.
Taking questions here, prior Gamespy interview referenced in the Article and I happened to see this almost simultaneously:
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Actors do all the Oprah's and Letterman's they can before their movies are released to drum up publicity, seems this is a similar tactic.
Wow, how did that slip through marketing?
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I submitted the story and it got rejected (I'm crushed). But for those of you who are interested (this being a space thread), the Tom Hanks IMAX movie was released. It's playing in several theaters across the country.
So thats what they use in the 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop!!
I've heard these will be bundled with a 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop.
Recall your middle school physics classes where they taught you the difference in kinetic energy and potential energy. Kinetic energy is the energy of movement and potential energy is the kinetic energy something could have if it were released. For example, a rock falling has kinetic energy... but a rock perched on the edge of the table has potential energy. You give something potential energy by lifting it up.
With hydrogen we are talking about chemical energy. It's kind of like potential energy except that the potential is the element's potential to form chemical bonds with other elements. With raw Hydrogen, the potential is H's potential to grab a buddy and form a bond with O to make H20. Doing this releases energy in the form of heat which will drive the motors.
Now the energy carrier part: To reverse the process you have to insert energy into the water to get the H2 to break it's bond with the oxygen. This energy has to come from somewhere.... THAT is really the energy source. (well, sort of.... oil is just an energy carrier as well.... the sun was the original energy source in that regard).
And the problem: You lose energy in the form of heat at every step in this transaction. When we are burning fossil fuels, we are fortunate that the main energy loss happened without us millions of years ago. So to us, it's a net energy gain. (even though it's a terrible, terrible waste of energy that hit the earth millions of years ago... i forget the numbers, but one gallon of gas has an obscene amount solar energy that went into it). With hydrogen, we have to put the energy in right now. Not really practical unless we can come up with a great source of energy. (nukes are the only feasable way... but good luck with that)
Watch out... You're limiting yourself.
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You already shelled out the cash for the three years, you really should be smart enough not to throw away that investment just because your fellow classmates are dumb.
You might have a good job now, but it won't last forever.... with wife and kids eventually things just get harder. You should try to advance yourself while you are still young and before you get tied up too tight in reality. Especially while you have some disposable income.
Take this from an old-timer... i'm 26
Note: I'm basing this reply on this and your other replies in this thread.
You are either a troll or very blind to the rest of the world.
You apparently haven't bothered to actually look up what some of these certs require. If you did you wouldn't have nearly the attitude that you do.
You need to evaluate any individual cert on it's own merits. Plain and simple.
An A+ cert? Garbage. Doesn't increase value of the resume. Why? Anybody can get one in 20 minutes using just their general knowledge.
A Cisco CCIE Cert? Absolute Gold. Increases the value of the resume by a factor of 3. Why? Because this guy has shown in a practical lab environment that he is a badass at configuring and troubleshooting Cisco equipment. Comparitively very few people get these and they are very tough to get. Google this one, you will see what I'm talking about.
Now, that being said, would you hire a CCIE for a coding job? Not unless he had some other evidence that he can code. Why? Because he has demonstrable skill in networking equipment but not necessarily swinging c++ around. If you had to set up a large scale WAN with multiple frame relays and a complex structure of VLANs, this would be your guy. If you want to write application software with complex object interaction and multiple abstraction layers... well, he probably doesn't know how to do that.
Basically, what I'm saying is that you can't make sweeping generalizations about these certs. You have to know a little about what the cert entails and you have to know how it relates to the job function you are filling. If you want someone to set up and maintain a linux server a RHCE would be an added plus to the resume not a minus and tossing this resume just 'cause it has a cert on it is really fricking dumb.
Maybe the cert isn't the whole picture of the candidate, you've got to consider the whole package, but to put someone out of the game who is probably very qualified for that reason is silly.