I think there is a more subtle distinction than 'study to get the paper' vs 'learn stuffs'; although I do appreciate the humour. Most of what I've ever learned has been by 'learn stuffs'. At the same time, having suffered a reasonably strict base education, including people harping about grammar and punctuation, is a great way to 'learn stuffs' quite effectively.
I remember a colleague, who was quite adept at complex software tasks like writing scsi adapter drivers, telling me about how he 'invented' hashing. He was quite right, in the sense that he had never seen it before, and came up with it independently. I didn't have the heart to show him it had been well documented before he was born.
Sadly, Knuth is not for the feint of heart, unless you have a certain basis behind you in the first place. A structured education is handy for acquiring that basis, but after that quickly loses relevance.
But it isn't the sarcasm that failed. It is generally quite a bit funnier when someone, or even better a thundering herd, takes it seriously. Similarly, when an earnest statement is interpreted as humour. The answer is not to lower the bar. Much better to beat the clueless mercilessly with it.
no offense intended, but why would anybody be a "dell shop"? Sure, pick up a couple here and there, but what do they offer outside of:
1. Green + Purple plugs so you don't plug the mouse and keyboard in wrong. 2. Charcoal grey cases, so they don't look like whiteboxes (which they are).
For half the price you could have tonnes of "standby's" and be way further ahead. If you really wanted to use your money wisely, become a mac shop.
Rogers is first a cable company; and have a monopoly on cable tv in much of densely (in both senses) populated Canada. They are manipulating the bandwidth caps to protect the cable business. Expect to see Bell to follow, as they have their satellite TV business to protect. The CRTC (a bit like a neutered and mewling version of the FCC) will back them up to the hilt; I think they are being blackmailed by Bell and Rogers.
Eventually, these moves will be the unwinding of Rogers; few businesses survive bunker mentality in the face of competition. The old man (Ted) died a few years ago, and as is usually the case, his offspring have none of the cunning, cleverness or savvy that permitted him to build the empire in the first place.
to how the (music|film) industry use their contacts to screw the people who actually make something interesting by insuring slow-cousin-ted gets some money. I know 'slow-cousin-ted' managed to become a lawyer, rather than a "film wrapper" in this round, but same applies.
I always wondered how some insane serial killer/... could wake up in the morning, and not think "wow, maybe I overdid it last night". I feel that way when two beers in I decide to get honest. Look at the RIA* case - what sort of monster wakes up and decides to start this every day?...in the end, the bleeding hearts and artists....
Chile isn't exactly a have-not or third world country. Its HDI ranking is just a touch below G8 average; and its GINI is one slot below the US, admittedly three slots below the "civilized world", as it were.
I think, to a degree, the latin influence is slightly more 'let it be' than the anglo-germanic 'let it be as I say'. Ireland is always the spoiler with its 'aye, we'll do that' which really means 'if it makes you shut up, we'll agree and never get around to it'.....
A couple of years, and a better world cup finish, might see Chili really step into the light, especially as some of the old guard grow dimmer, both literally and figuratively.
With the puppet dictatorships and their bastard overlords temporarily banished, Chili and other South American Countries finally have a chance to strut their stuff. It is nice that they are demonstrating how backwards the so-called first world is. As much as I desire a world without her, I do hope Thatcher lives to see the antithesis of her efforts.
Your right, there are, and they do. Unfortunately, there is no money in saying "you can't reliably measure that"; so to pay the bills, a little tour in fishnet stockings is required. Take a look at the money behind the "personality test industry" and the papers published about the effectiveness of these tests.
An anecdote from the straightdope:....... The test was developed starting in the 1940s by the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers with the goal of sorting people based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. The best that can be said about the Swiss psychiatrist's ideas is that they were ingenious -- he made no attempt to validate them via experiment. Briggs and Myers, for their part, had no expertise in psychology other than what they picked up from Jung and consultation with people in the testing business. Nonetheless, the MBTI began attracting professional attention in the 1960s, and Consulting Psychologists Press (now CPP) began publishing it in the 1970s. After that the thing took off........
I don't mean that NYT was talking about a shift to Apple development. I mean that Apple recognized the growing apathy towards MS.
MS has been seen to be tired, unimaginative and lacking innovation to developers for the last decade or so. They have shown innovation in lobbying, litigation, and a sense of fairplay that would be an Uraguay defender blush; but those only score marks in the douchebag category.
Apple leaped on this with its ads, hoping to capture both fed up users, and instill a sense of cachet towards its brand. I think it did a pretty good job with that. Its hard to see how the "I'm a douchebag and Windows 7 was my idea" will have any reverberation; but some people still think that 2-for-1 is a bargain (Miller, before he became an outright douchebag, quipped "If they really wanted to fuck you, they would make you take 3") so what do I know.
I've only used them on mac + gimp on linux, but from my perspective - which really is I wanted to cut and paste boobies onto a photo I had - I found both of them nearly impossible to use. With GIMP, I did load an image, but what followed that was a bit like an acid trip. Stuff would appear, disappear, change on its own. It was intriguing for a while, but like when that little bouncing ball reaches the corner of the TV, I lost interest.
Photoshop was different, at one point I'm pretty sure I had 50 copies of the image in little icons bordering the playing field, and a corresponding array of little tools that I could use to play with my images, if only I could convince it to let me actually do something with one of them. At one point, I thought I had, but it turned out I made the image my screensaver. It took me far less time to accomplish nothing in Photoshop than in GIMP, so Adobe deserve some credit for making it less trippy and more annoying.
Eventually, I printed both images, and with an x-acto knife, glue and a scanner, got the desired result. Didn't take nearly as long, and would have been much cheaper but for the gouges in the dining room table.
Oh I love Libertarians. It is like 5 year olds arguing about why they should have chips & soda. Good on ya, and I'm pretty sure "mevets" has been called far worse things by far better people; to steal a phrase.
It is too bad Drew finds it difficult to detect {sarcasm, parody, irony,...} without some lame ASCII-art version of a laugh track tacked on. Being dull and slow must be quite terrible, but recognizing your limitations must help somewhat. At many points in time you can look at democratic choice as being awful; pretty much every country can point to repeated elections of imbeciles and thugs. Overall, though, democracy has done a pretty good job of filtering out the wannabe Caesars, Napoleons and their ilk. Ron Paul, I'm talking about you.
While democracy ( or crowds ) don't seem to offer much in star appeal, there is a long term stability in mass decisions which are likely more right than wrong.
In contrast, dictatorships, monarchies and brilliant individuals don't really pan out in the long term, other than how their gross failures help foster new democracies.
Has the same problem; identifying the best is another problem, and even identifying metrics for determining the best is far from obvious. As fortune keeps reminding me: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo".
It is an engineering problem. Suppose one of these turbines went berzerk and started spewing air over everything; its bad enough on land, but offshore, it could lead to a breeze that would disrupt wildlife, and possibly lead birds to migrate the wrong way. That is why it is better to pump oil. Nothing can really go wrong.
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I think there is a more subtle distinction than 'study to get the paper' vs 'learn stuffs'; although I do appreciate the humour. Most of what I've ever learned has been by 'learn stuffs'. At the same time, having suffered a reasonably strict base education, including people harping about grammar and punctuation, is a great way to 'learn stuffs' quite effectively.
I remember a colleague, who was quite adept at complex software tasks like writing scsi adapter drivers, telling me about how he 'invented' hashing. He was quite right, in the sense that he had never seen it before, and came up with it independently. I didn't have the heart to show him it had been well documented before he was born.
Sadly, Knuth is not for the feint of heart, unless you have a certain basis behind you in the first place. A structured education is handy for acquiring that basis, but after that quickly loses relevance.
But it isn't the sarcasm that failed. It is generally quite a bit funnier when someone, or even better a thundering herd, takes it seriously.
Similarly, when an earnest statement is interpreted as humour. The answer is not to lower the bar. Much better to beat the clueless mercilessly with it.
for the pointer, it seemed to work, although they insist on keeping it a zombie for two weeks so I can re-activate it.
no offense intended, but why would anybody be a "dell shop"? Sure, pick up a couple here and there, but what do they offer outside of:
1. Green + Purple plugs so you don't plug the mouse and keyboard in wrong.
2. Charcoal grey cases, so they don't look like whiteboxes (which they are).
For half the price you could have tonnes of "standby's" and be way further ahead. If you really wanted to use your money wisely, become a mac shop.
Rogers is first a cable company; and have a monopoly on cable tv in much of densely (in both senses) populated Canada. They are manipulating the bandwidth caps to protect the cable business. Expect to see Bell to follow, as they have their satellite TV business to protect. The CRTC (a bit like a neutered and mewling version of the FCC) will back them up to the hilt; I think they are being blackmailed by Bell and Rogers.
Eventually, these moves will be the unwinding of Rogers; few businesses survive bunker mentality in the face of competition. The old man (Ted) died a few years ago, and as is usually the case, his offspring have none of the cunning, cleverness or savvy that permitted him to build the empire in the first place.
Why would the media jump all over Microsoft? They never do. People don't expect PCs to work.
I think GWB stopped working for Murdoch in Jan/09.
sorry, that snide comment was meant to deride the Americans. Its a national pass time in Canada. Some of my best friends use axes to cut meat.
Yeah, I have an iphone 4G baby, and am quite happy about the bars.
to how the (music|film) industry use their contacts to screw the people who actually make something interesting by insuring slow-cousin-ted gets some money. I know 'slow-cousin-ted' managed to become a lawyer, rather than a "film wrapper" in this round, but same applies.
I always wondered how some insane serial killer/... could wake up in the morning, and not think "wow, maybe I overdid it last night". I feel that way when two beers in I decide to get honest. Look at the RIA* case - what sort of monster wakes up and decides to start this every day? ...in the end, the bleeding hearts and artists....
Chile isn't exactly a have-not or third world country. Its HDI ranking is just a touch below G8 average; and its GINI is one slot below the US, admittedly three slots below the "civilized world", as it were.
I think, to a degree, the latin influence is slightly more 'let it be' than the anglo-germanic 'let it be as I say'. Ireland is always the spoiler with its 'aye, we'll do that' which really means 'if it makes you shut up, we'll agree and never get around to it'.....
A couple of years, and a better world cup finish, might see Chili really step into the light, especially as some of the old guard grow dimmer, both literally and figuratively.
With the puppet dictatorships and their bastard overlords temporarily banished, Chili and other South American Countries finally have a chance to strut their stuff. It is nice that they are demonstrating how backwards the so-called first world is. As much as I desire a world without her, I do hope Thatcher lives to see the antithesis of her efforts.
Oracle, who are probably going to cause an extinction much earlier than this....
> I hate even more those people that cry "all these rules just hamper my creativity".
They call themselves Libertarians. Don't worry, most grow up, just at a slower pace than normal.
Your right, there are, and they do. Unfortunately, there is no money in saying "you can't reliably measure that"; so to pay the bills, a little tour in fishnet stockings is required. Take a look at the money behind the "personality test industry" and the papers published about the effectiveness of these tests.
An anecdote from the straightdope: ....... .......
The test was developed starting in the 1940s by the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers with the goal of sorting people based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. The best that can be said about the Swiss psychiatrist's ideas is that they were ingenious -- he made no attempt to validate them via experiment. Briggs and Myers, for their part, had no expertise in psychology other than what they picked up from Jung and consultation with people in the testing business. Nonetheless, the MBTI began attracting professional attention in the 1960s, and Consulting Psychologists Press (now CPP) began publishing it in the 1970s. After that the thing took off.
Testing is the snake oil of our times; but a fool and his money...
I don't mean that NYT was talking about a shift to Apple development. I mean that Apple recognized the growing apathy towards MS.
MS has been seen to be tired, unimaginative and lacking innovation to developers for the last decade or so. They have shown innovation in lobbying, litigation, and a sense of fairplay that would be an Uraguay defender blush; but those only score marks in the douchebag category.
Apple leaped on this with its ads, hoping to capture both fed up users, and instill a sense of cachet towards its brand. I think it did a pretty good job with that. Its hard to see how the "I'm a douchebag and Windows 7 was my idea" will have any reverberation; but some people still think that 2-for-1 is a bargain (Miller, before he became an outright douchebag, quipped "If they really wanted to fuck you, they would make you take 3") so what do I know.
hipster: Hello, I'm a mac.
douchebag: And I'm a PC.
ballmer: douchebags! douchebags! douchebags!
Its nice that NYT has uncovered the trend that Apples advertising staff figured out so long ago.
I've only used them on mac + gimp on linux, but from my perspective - which really is I wanted to cut and paste boobies onto a photo I had - I found both of them nearly impossible to use. With GIMP, I did load an image, but what followed that was a bit like an acid trip. Stuff would appear, disappear, change on its own. It was intriguing for a while, but like when that little bouncing ball reaches the corner of the TV, I lost interest.
Photoshop was different, at one point I'm pretty sure I had 50 copies of the image in little icons bordering the playing field, and a corresponding array of little tools that I could use to play with my images, if only I could convince it to let me actually do something with one of them. At one point, I thought I had, but it turned out I made the image my screensaver. It took me far less time to accomplish nothing in Photoshop than in GIMP, so Adobe deserve some credit for making it less trippy and more annoying.
Eventually, I printed both images, and with an x-acto knife, glue and a scanner, got the desired result. Didn't take nearly as long, and would have been much cheaper but for the gouges in the dining room table.
Oh I love Libertarians. It is like 5 year olds arguing about why they should have chips & soda. Good on ya, and I'm pretty sure "mevets" has been called far worse things by far better people; to steal a phrase.
It is too bad Drew finds it difficult to detect {sarcasm, parody, irony, ...} without some lame ASCII-art version of a laugh track tacked on. Being dull and slow must be quite terrible, but recognizing your limitations must help somewhat. At many points in time you can look at democratic choice as being awful; pretty much every country can point to repeated elections of imbeciles and thugs. Overall, though, democracy has done a pretty good job of filtering out the wannabe Caesars, Napoleons and their ilk. Ron Paul, I'm talking about you.
While democracy ( or crowds ) don't seem to offer much in star appeal, there is a long term stability in mass decisions which are likely more right than wrong.
In contrast, dictatorships, monarchies and brilliant individuals don't really pan out in the long term, other than how their gross failures help foster new democracies.
Is that the battle hymm of Afghanistan?
All you people care about is readers and making money off of her. She's a human! Leave Flash alone!
yeah, you got lost and attacked Mexico by mistake, again...
Has the same problem; identifying the best is another problem, and even identifying metrics for determining the best is far from obvious. As fortune keeps reminding me: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo".
It is an engineering problem. Suppose one of these turbines went berzerk and started spewing air over everything; its bad enough on land, but offshore, it could lead to a breeze that would disrupt wildlife, and possibly lead birds to migrate the wrong way. That is why it is better to pump oil. Nothing can really go wrong.