I think some care should be taken that the guy doesn't get blamed for killing the show. Oison's triply a victim here. Bashed in the face by an abusive star, accused of killing the show by a rabid fanbase, and will probably be out of a job when the show ends.... hopefully employable.
+1 for Netflix. I think the show should move on. The BBC has limits and I think they're doing the right thing here.
I'd flub your interview with my iPhone, but you'd never know that I had a drawer full of Android and Blackberry devices.
iOS? I would never hold it against them. Reliable phones with reasonable defaults, and you don't have to root them to back them up. OTOH, I would be skeptical of a tech who had a non-rooted Android phone. It shows a lack of care for privacy, security and reliability. For one, I know that they sent my contact info to Google and it's already mingling with the Google+ data to build a social network.
Then, an applicant who's rooted their Android and hacked it to death... while job hunting, seems to not understand what it is to tinker with a production systems. They're lucky if their phone hasn't crashed or isn't out of battery by the time they get a call.
Somebody who's customized Android to their liking, firewalled their apps, de-Googled and can reproducibly customize other Android phones to stable settings... that shows some thought and skill.
But any Android bigot I've met has been an underemployed tinkerer who's had their priorities mixed up. iPhones are good phones, lucrative platforms and good techs recognize that.
"the BBC really has no choice, and the blame should be placed on Clarkson for being an idiot. But that doesn't change the fact that losing Clarkson will kill Top Gear. He made the show what it is."
Sums it up perfectly for me.
Kill the show. It's lost its edge. Maybe find a new group of guys who work well together on screen and create a new show, but it will have to be different in its own way, else it will be like Top Gear USA or something equally bland and derivative.
Yeah, this is not an access issue, it's more the research skills of the parents.
Even without the talk page, the assertion that people are sending their kids to school while unable to afford food and shelter, much less Internet access is a bit... ignorant. Education is not cheap. SIM cards and data are cheap in India, even by local standards, at least for those who have enough to consider sending their kids to school. A quick search on vodaphone.in puts 1G of data for 30 days at around $4USD without a contract. Indian GDP is low, but not *THAT* low.
Footwork and telephone calls are reasonable research tools too. If parents are themselves uneducated, they'll have difficulty making decisions about an institution. Not because uneducated == stupid, but because it means they don't know what to look for when checking out an institution.
It would be nice to hear from someone in India on this, it's not like they're not part of the Slashdot community. 15,000 people dont' screw this up because they're stupid. Something deeper is at play and I don't think the Wikipedia Zero explanation makes sense.
It's handy to have an Indian coworker to vet their degree. Last coworker I had from India had a masters but spelled like he was on a q9 keyboard.
We did the same for applicants citing Chinese degrees or to call about job experience. They should be happy we had somebody who knew the schools, spoke the language and could make the calls, it often worked in their favour, but sometimes it spotted a fraud.
Sadly if somebody can only cite a random foreign school and experience and if nobody can vet them, I'll pass on the applicant. The immigrant experience is not easy.
Hey, maybe it means that when a band creates a new sound, they can license it out....
I threw up a little saying that.
My GF is learning Programming with js.
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.... so far, I do not recommend it.
"A great introductory language"
There *must* be something I'm missing.
I see her struggling with syntax errors and logical mistakes not picked up in syntax highlighters or bolt-on delinters. The debuggers are a myriad of pages of DOM inspectors, performance tools, js files she's not working with, options for things she doesn't know about and a maze of files, with very little ability to actually step through your running code to see how your "if" statement executes.
The cute little sandbox online simulators take shortcuts.... she spent three hours trying to figure out why she couldn't get a selector hook a click event to a button, running the code in online simulators but not being able to translate it to her code. In the end it was because she forgot to start with a jQuery $(document).ready statement, the simulator couldn't identify that mistake. She couldn't spot it herself because it gave no indication of what might be wrong.
Even turning on strict mode on Firefox doesn't give a single error for a missing $(document).ready, but generates 7 errors for jquery.js.
I used to think Javascript was okay for learning.... but she's programming blind on a lot of stuff. I would love for her to see something like "assigning click event to null object, line 28" or similar, but all I can say is "divide and conquer... test your assumptions at each step, and watch for errors, even if they rarely appear...".. She would have been much better off spending her time working with variables, types and if statements rather than trying to squeeze information out of her programming environment.
He's claiming that poor plant maintenance activities caused random civilians to be exposed in the area around the plants that this occurs all the time and was even addressed by the authorities with fines.
"Solar DOES make baseload NOW. And better than nuclear. Unless you redefine baseload to make it fit nuclear's usage."
From Wikipedia, the largest solar plant in the world is at 550MW, opened this year, sits in the desert and takes up 6 sq km
Fukishima generated 4.7GW, opened 43 years ago, sits outside Tokyo and takes up 3.5 sq km.
I'm very pro-solar. I support all R&D in the area and I think it's the future.... however I imagine a future of distributed generation, distributed storage and distributed load, addressing generation, storage and distribution issues. 50sq km of solar farm in Tokyo and surrounds would be impossible, and PV isn't going to become 1000% more efficient any time soon. 50sq km of rooftops + conservation + wind, + etc etc, Very possible... of course it will take a lot more at a more northern latitude.
Baseload power comes from nuclear, coal, geothermal or hydroelectric. Hydroelectric is limited, environmentally difficult and already exploited to the max. geothermal is highly regional.
Solar and wind will be great some day.... but they don't stand a chance at current baseload generation.
Any specific cases of radioactive spills in suburban England?
After Sept 11, 2001, in my hometown the visitor center got shut down and a few extra security measures were put in place. Some people thought it was due to cover-ups.
But then, some people also thought the strange plants growing in the waste heat pond from the reactor were radioactive.
The Ukraine mine had 32 this month. 101 died there in November 2007, 57 more the next month.
I grew up near a nuclear plant. We didn't know it was there except that the restricted building zone near the plant was full of baseball diamonds, beaches and nature trails. No, really.
The Trek franchise reads like a novice writer grappling with current issues and mistakes from previous ideas.
TOS - WW2 submarine warfare. The good guys were good guys, the bad guys were bad guys. Parallel's America's involvement in WW2. Color enhanced to show off capabilities of color TV. Lots of sexy 60s stuff, but a wildly diverse crew. Hard to appreciate now because aside from the skirts, cultural makeup looks like a typical office.
TNG - cold war superpowers. Lots of neutral zone talk and dealing with lesser civilizations. Federation flagship with a psychic and a super-robot deal with interpersonal issues. Very little sex because the boomers grew up, aids freaked people out and lots of preteens watching. First opponent is a god, because well, what other stories can you tell with superpowers and supermen?
DS9 - USSR is gone. Superpowers were boring to write about anyway. Story about a broken down space station on the edge of civilization. They have NOTHING. Maybe the captain, psychic and superman in TNG shouldn't have been white, white and ultrawhite. Brought back some diversity, extended the inter-alien diversity. Grapples with issues of multicultralism in an inclusive society while surrounded by warring cultures.
Voyager - stories about stations which can't move are boring. Story about a ship hopelessly far from anywhere. Easier to write for. Just flip coins to figure out crew diversity and use AD&D encounter tables to randomly generate plots.
Enterprise - Maybe it was too easy to write for Voyager, everything was new. Prequels are hot. Let's delve into the history and backstory.
Enterprise - hmm. maybe should have hired writers which knew the backstory...
"It's a pity because we love the iconic things this series has given us, but at this point I think the franchise is far beyond salvation."
Suing somebody for selling you bad weed should be thrown out because you're committing a crime in buying it.
Why wrongful death could be tried by the family of a burglar against somebody who set up lethal traps in a house....... I have no idea. There's probably a good case with a lengthy judgement about it somewhere... but if you're ever thinking of doing it, in most places it's criminal to set up those kinds of traps.
For civil stuff, you can't come before the court with "unclean hands". I.e., if you were breaking the law when the offence occurred, the court won't hear the case.
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"Or should it be Judas ?"
He doesn't seem to have any say in the matter:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/27/top-gear-producer-oisin-tymon-will-not-press-charges-against-jeremy-clarkson
I think some care should be taken that the guy doesn't get blamed for killing the show. Oison's triply a victim here. Bashed in the face by an abusive star, accused of killing the show by a rabid fanbase, and will probably be out of a job when the show ends.... hopefully employable.
+1 for Netflix. I think the show should move on. The BBC has limits and I think they're doing the right thing here.
I'd flub your interview with my iPhone, but you'd never know that I had a drawer full of Android and Blackberry devices.
iOS? I would never hold it against them. Reliable phones with reasonable defaults, and you don't have to root them to back them up. OTOH, I would be skeptical of a tech who had a non-rooted Android phone. It shows a lack of care for privacy, security and reliability. For one, I know that they sent my contact info to Google and it's already mingling with the Google+ data to build a social network.
Then, an applicant who's rooted their Android and hacked it to death... while job hunting, seems to not understand what it is to tinker with a production systems. They're lucky if their phone hasn't crashed or isn't out of battery by the time they get a call.
Somebody who's customized Android to their liking, firewalled their apps, de-Googled and can reproducibly customize other Android phones to stable settings... that shows some thought and skill.
But any Android bigot I've met has been an underemployed tinkerer who's had their priorities mixed up. iPhones are good phones, lucrative platforms and good techs recognize that.
I think the rail line is more realistic... the China -> Walmart route could justify it alone.
"the BBC really has no choice, and the blame should be placed on Clarkson for being an idiot. But that doesn't change the fact that losing Clarkson will kill Top Gear. He made the show what it is."
Sums it up perfectly for me.
Kill the show. It's lost its edge. Maybe find a new group of guys who work well together on screen and create a new show, but it will have to be different in its own way, else it will be like Top Gear USA or something equally bland and derivative.
The Ford Fiesta review was stunning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7R3y-qwZ0
... and they're talking about bridging Alaska and Siberia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Highway
"Yeah, poverty sucks, doesn't it."
A 1GB vodaphone pay-as-you go credit costs ~ 250Rp.
An MBA at IIPM costs ~1,400,000Rp
The impoverished aren't going to IIPM.
Yeah, this is not an access issue, it's more the research skills of the parents.
Even without the talk page, the assertion that people are sending their kids to school while unable to afford food and shelter, much less Internet access is a bit... ignorant. Education is not cheap. SIM cards and data are cheap in India, even by local standards, at least for those who have enough to consider sending their kids to school. A quick search on vodaphone.in puts 1G of data for 30 days at around $4USD without a contract. Indian GDP is low, but not *THAT* low.
Footwork and telephone calls are reasonable research tools too. If parents are themselves uneducated, they'll have difficulty making decisions about an institution. Not because uneducated == stupid, but because it means they don't know what to look for when checking out an institution.
It would be nice to hear from someone in India on this, it's not like they're not part of the Slashdot community. 15,000 people dont' screw this up because they're stupid. Something deeper is at play and I don't think the Wikipedia Zero explanation makes sense.
It's handy to have an Indian coworker to vet their degree. Last coworker I had from India had a masters but spelled like he was on a q9 keyboard.
We did the same for applicants citing Chinese degrees or to call about job experience. They should be happy we had somebody who knew the schools, spoke the language and could make the calls, it often worked in their favour, but sometimes it spotted a fraud.
Sadly if somebody can only cite a random foreign school and experience and if nobody can vet them, I'll pass on the applicant. The immigrant experience is not easy.
They go to "great expense" to send their children on courses there, but can't afford a SIM card to do any research?
I'm sure the greater part of the Israeli training program is "active duty"
That's why you use a USB SD Card reader which honours the write protect in its hardware.
You don't use an on-board SD card reader.
Cyanogenmod with F-Droid, Firefox OS, Nokia N900....?
Hey, maybe it means that when a band creates a new sound, they can license it out....
I threw up a little saying that.
.... so far, I do not recommend it.
"A great introductory language"
There *must* be something I'm missing.
I see her struggling with syntax errors and logical mistakes not picked up in syntax highlighters or bolt-on delinters. The debuggers are a myriad of pages of DOM inspectors, performance tools, js files she's not working with, options for things she doesn't know about and a maze of files, with very little ability to actually step through your running code to see how your "if" statement executes.
The cute little sandbox online simulators take shortcuts.... she spent three hours trying to figure out why she couldn't get a selector hook a click event to a button, running the code in online simulators but not being able to translate it to her code. In the end it was because she forgot to start with a jQuery $(document).ready statement, the simulator couldn't identify that mistake. She couldn't spot it herself because it gave no indication of what might be wrong.
Even turning on strict mode on Firefox doesn't give a single error for a missing $(document).ready, but generates 7 errors for jquery.js.
I used to think Javascript was okay for learning.... but she's programming blind on a lot of stuff. I would love for her to see something like "assigning click event to null object, line 28" or similar, but all I can say is "divide and conquer... test your assumptions at each step, and watch for errors, even if they rarely appear...".. She would have been much better off spending her time working with variables, types and if statements rather than trying to squeeze information out of her programming environment.
He's claiming that poor plant maintenance activities caused random civilians to be exposed in the area around the plants that this occurs all the time and was even addressed by the authorities with fines.
I call BS.
From Wikipedia, the largest solar plant in the world is at 550MW, opened this year, sits in the desert and takes up 6 sq km
Fukishima generated 4.7GW, opened 43 years ago, sits outside Tokyo and takes up 3.5 sq km.
I'm very pro-solar. I support all R&D in the area and I think it's the future.... however I imagine a future of distributed generation, distributed storage and distributed load, addressing generation, storage and distribution issues. 50sq km of solar farm in Tokyo and surrounds would be impossible, and PV isn't going to become 1000% more efficient any time soon. 50sq km of rooftops + conservation + wind, + etc etc, Very possible... of course it will take a lot more at a more northern latitude.
... but we need energy now.
Baseload power comes from nuclear, coal, geothermal or hydroelectric. Hydroelectric is limited, environmentally difficult and already exploited to the max. geothermal is highly regional.
Solar and wind will be great some day.... but they don't stand a chance at current baseload generation.
That leaves nuclear and coal.
What are the other options?
Any specific cases of radioactive spills in suburban England?
After Sept 11, 2001, in my hometown the visitor center got shut down and a few extra security measures were put in place. Some people thought it was due to cover-ups.
But then, some people also thought the strange plants growing in the waste heat pond from the reactor were radioactive.
The Ukraine mine had 32 this month. 101 died there in November 2007, 57 more the next month.
I grew up near a nuclear plant. We didn't know it was there except that the restricted building zone near the plant was full of baseball diamonds, beaches and nature trails. No, really.
Death per kilowatt, etc.
Many of these nuclear costs are because of irrational fear. If no amount of safety is enough, no amount of spending will be enough.
Nuclear is already far safer than other power generation, including numbers from Fukishima.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/print/
The impact to your life is far greater earlier in life, so buy all 40 years of tickets when you're in your early 20's.
If you win in your 60's, the real cost is 40 years of unnecessary labour + $2,080.
The Trek franchise reads like a novice writer grappling with current issues and mistakes from previous ideas.
TOS - WW2 submarine warfare. The good guys were good guys, the bad guys were bad guys. Parallel's America's involvement in WW2. Color enhanced to show off capabilities of color TV. Lots of sexy 60s stuff, but a wildly diverse crew. Hard to appreciate now because aside from the skirts, cultural makeup looks like a typical office.
TNG - cold war superpowers. Lots of neutral zone talk and dealing with lesser civilizations. Federation flagship with a psychic and a super-robot deal with interpersonal issues. Very little sex because the boomers grew up, aids freaked people out and lots of preteens watching. First opponent is a god, because well, what other stories can you tell with superpowers and supermen?
DS9 - USSR is gone. Superpowers were boring to write about anyway. Story about a broken down space station on the edge of civilization. They have NOTHING. Maybe the captain, psychic and superman in TNG shouldn't have been white, white and ultrawhite. Brought back some diversity, extended the inter-alien diversity. Grapples with issues of multicultralism in an inclusive society while surrounded by warring cultures.
Voyager - stories about stations which can't move are boring. Story about a ship hopelessly far from anywhere. Easier to write for. Just flip coins to figure out crew diversity and use AD&D encounter tables to randomly generate plots.
Enterprise - Maybe it was too easy to write for Voyager, everything was new. Prequels are hot. Let's delve into the history and backstory.
Enterprise - hmm. maybe should have hired writers which knew the backstory...
"It's a pity because we love the iconic things this series has given us, but at this point I think the franchise is far beyond salvation."
Agreed 200%
It's true, but subtle and depends on the jurisdiction.
I should add all the qualifiers, IANAL, I don't play one on TV, blah blah. This is Law 101 stuff.
http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/breach-of-contract-defenses-unclean-hands.html
Suing somebody for selling you bad weed should be thrown out because you're committing a crime in buying it.
Why wrongful death could be tried by the family of a burglar against somebody who set up lethal traps in a house....... I have no idea. There's probably a good case with a lengthy judgement about it somewhere... but if you're ever thinking of doing it, in most places it's criminal to set up those kinds of traps.
Robbery is still criminal.
For civil stuff, you can't come before the court with "unclean hands". I.e., if you were breaking the law when the offence occurred, the court won't hear the case.