I think that one point people are missing is that the wetware is different, and that usually this has been the case for an extended period of time. I don't think that using the Ocular Rift is going to be capable of helping people understand The schizophrenic programmer who built an os to talk to god. Same as there's no way to simulate PTSD or Major Depressive Disorder, OCD, Hypervigilance, or even panic attacks that are sparked by relatively innocuous events.
If you want to get a realistic taste of what it's like, why not read through all those comments that demonstrated a total lack of understanding or empathy, and even outright hostility. Others reactions are a big part of the "experience", and you won't get that using an Oculus Rift.
There's no legal problem as long is any accident happens in space or on Mars - since nobody has legal jurisdiction there, and any country trying to claim legal jurisdiction would be challenged by a crapload of other countries.
The first 10 volunteers for open heart surgery were told they were going to die. They did it anyway, because they had nothing to lose. 1 out of the next 10 survived. Today? Heart *transplants* are done all the time.
Pendulum swinging is where we have all-women shortlists or special girls-only STEM education programmes, reasonable to some extent I suppose as such are well-intentioned.
"Well-intentioned " discrimination is still discrimination. It implies that girls and women are somehow "less capable", and is extremely paternalistic. That attitude is poison to both genders - it characterizes the problem that it's somehow supposed to solve.
There are other ways that are not so corrosive, but take more effort, but getting people to clean up their act won't make headlines.
You seem to have forgotten Africa, which is supposed to go from 1 billion to 4 billion. Or maybe you're counting on Ebola to "fix" that? Sub-Saharan Africa will be the #1 growth spot over the next century, not India.
If you still want the experience, there are parts of Chicago that fit the bill. It's a good example of what happens when there's a fundamental disconnect between the economy and reality.
I thought the ABSOs were bad enough... violating such an order can get you 5 years in the pokey, even though ABSOs are civil, not criminal orders.
The list is ridiculous. Suicide (if someone's depressed enough to try to kill themselves, they need help, not a prohibitory order), posting signs on public property ("Have you seen my cat"), urinating discretely in public (judges here have ruled that "when you've got to go, you've got to go - just don't be obvious about it), rudeness (so much for comedies), wearing one glove (no Michael Jackson fan events for YOU).
And the allowing of hearsay as "evidence"? Just dumb.
I was referring more to the fact that we are seeing the negative effects of the digital revolution in pre-schoolers, who are already using moms' smartphone and tablet to play with alone, rather than interact with other kids. Sesame Street and shows like that work great with 10-20 kids in one room shouting out the answers. But of course, they don't drive selling more digital junk food.
As for the use of feminine pronouns, we've always referred to ships and cars as "she", so I guess it varies with context (and yes, I admit it, political correctness to the point of being patronizing). The sentence could be more inclusive as follows:
Before children even start primary school," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in their Foundation's 2015 letter, "they will be able to use their parent's smartphone to learn numbers and letters, giving a big head start.
Notice that the last two "hers" were totally eliminated, not replaced with "their", as they are completely superfluous. The sentence is shorter, and better.
I guess the pendulum tends to overshoot in one direction, then the other. Same as TV commercials have been nauseating for decades making it look like men are total klutzes and the woman knows everything - if that's the case, the women must be pretty low-expectation low-self-esteem settle-for-any-old-dummies. Advertisers need to get it in their thick skulls that it might have been "cute" for 15 minutes in the '60s, but we should have moved on a long time ago.
Having experienced it from both sides of the gender divide, it's offensive either way.
"delivered reliable web applications" for a small business that did search engine advertising... that could be as simple as deploying web site templates with some minor changes. Something I would expect the graphics guy to take care of.
All nice and good, but this took place in Canada. The continent was scoured for generators - anything available was shipped in - but that takes time, especially when I saw city roads that had to be scraped free of more than a foot of ice with a bulldozer, and 15,000 troops helped out.
Generators from all over north america were trucked in. Unfortunately, that takes time, especially when you're trying to make up for the loss of 16,000 megawatts of transmission capacity from James Bay (almost 10 Pilgrim nukes) and further losses from other sources.
They also took diesel-electric locomotives off their tracks and drove them on the streets to where they could be hooked up to the mains. That's enough juice for a small town.
I wouldn't have hired you either, or wanted to work with you. I'd be spending too much time fixing your mistakes. Why should anyone pay for you to learn one of the most popular software packages of that era? If you couldn't be arsed to buy a copy and learn it (and the later manuals, dBASE 4.2 and dBase 5 contain a lot of information that you won't get from any crappy "Learn dbase in 28 days" book) then maybe that was a clue to first get at least a little bit qualified.
Now, I would like to know how you can justify this statement:
Two weeks later, the position was still unfilled. What the hiring manager didn't grasp was that, in 2 weeks, I could have learned enough D-base skills to do what they need
... if you've never done it , haven't seen what they actually need, and don't have enough experience to see what's wrong? Maybe they needed some loadable.bin code to add extra functionality. Or maybe the database schema sucked. No database experience, no hire.
Or alternatively, since it WAS the go-to product at the time, if you HAD learned it in 2 weeks, you could have re-applied and got the job. Did you have any previous database experience? You could have done what I did, bought Clipper, then got dBASE as a competitive upgrade, for less than the cost of dBASE alone.
I wouldn't want to risk the equivalent of a 25-thousand-Euro judgment because my internet was slow or other reasons. It's important to see the other side in court, because when they lie you can immediately nail them and that leaves a heck of an impression. Doing it in slo-mo over the internet, not so much.
Probably someone suffering from cabin fever because it's -21, or -32 with the wind chill up here. Canadian winters absolutely suck. Heck, even Poland and Germany are above freezing today.
I guess your reading skills are not up to snuff. It did NOT take 11 days to repair the transmission lines. You even quoted it - "Although the transmission lines were restored within a few days".
I went through the ice storm of 98 - a month with no power. 25 people died of hypothermia.
"Before a child even starts primary school," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in their Foundation's 2015 letter, "she will be able to use her mom's smartphone to learn her numbers and letters, giving her a big head start.
Big Bird and Miss Piggy would like a word with you...:-)
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I think that one point people are missing is that the wetware is different, and that usually this has been the case for an extended period of time. I don't think that using the Ocular Rift is going to be capable of helping people understand The schizophrenic programmer who built an os to talk to god. Same as there's no way to simulate PTSD or Major Depressive Disorder, OCD, Hypervigilance, or even panic attacks that are sparked by relatively innocuous events.
If you want to get a realistic taste of what it's like, why not read through all those comments that demonstrated a total lack of understanding or empathy, and even outright hostility. Others reactions are a big part of the "experience", and you won't get that using an Oculus Rift.
Didn't you see how it was really done in Capricorn One?
There's no legal problem as long is any accident happens in space or on Mars - since nobody has legal jurisdiction there, and any country trying to claim legal jurisdiction would be challenged by a crapload of other countries.
The first 10 volunteers for open heart surgery were told they were going to die. They did it anyway, because they had nothing to lose. 1 out of the next 10 survived. Today? Heart *transplants* are done all the time.
They'll just put them in the B Ark.
Convection ovens have internal fans. They can get noisy after a while.
No matter how hard you try, you cannot "get into the mind" of a schizophrenic. Even with the Oculus Rift.
It's because wearing one glove was seen as a symbol of gang affiliation. Same as Doc Martens and different-coloured laces.
Pendulum swinging is where we have all-women shortlists or special girls-only STEM education programmes, reasonable to some extent I suppose as such are well-intentioned.
"Well-intentioned " discrimination is still discrimination. It implies that girls and women are somehow "less capable", and is extremely paternalistic. That attitude is poison to both genders - it characterizes the problem that it's somehow supposed to solve.
There are other ways that are not so corrosive, but take more effort, but getting people to clean up their act won't make headlines.
You seem to have forgotten Africa, which is supposed to go from 1 billion to 4 billion. Or maybe you're counting on Ebola to "fix" that? Sub-Saharan Africa will be the #1 growth spot over the next century, not India.
If you still want the experience, there are parts of Chicago that fit the bill. It's a good example of what happens when there's a fundamental disconnect between the economy and reality.
I thought the ABSOs were bad enough ... violating such an order can get you 5 years in the pokey, even though ABSOs are civil, not criminal orders.
The list is ridiculous. Suicide (if someone's depressed enough to try to kill themselves, they need help, not a prohibitory order), posting signs on public property ("Have you seen my cat"), urinating discretely in public (judges here have ruled that "when you've got to go, you've got to go - just don't be obvious about it), rudeness (so much for comedies), wearing one glove (no Michael Jackson fan events for YOU).
And the allowing of hearsay as "evidence"? Just dumb.
I was referring more to the fact that we are seeing the negative effects of the digital revolution in pre-schoolers, who are already using moms' smartphone and tablet to play with alone, rather than interact with other kids. Sesame Street and shows like that work great with 10-20 kids in one room shouting out the answers. But of course, they don't drive selling more digital junk food.
As for the use of feminine pronouns, we've always referred to ships and cars as "she", so I guess it varies with context (and yes, I admit it, political correctness to the point of being patronizing). The sentence could be more inclusive as follows:
Before children even start primary school," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in their Foundation's 2015 letter, "they will be able to use their parent's smartphone to learn numbers and letters, giving a big head start.
Notice that the last two "hers" were totally eliminated, not replaced with "their", as they are completely superfluous. The sentence is shorter, and better.
I guess the pendulum tends to overshoot in one direction, then the other. Same as TV commercials have been nauseating for decades making it look like men are total klutzes and the woman knows everything - if that's the case, the women must be pretty low-expectation low-self-esteem settle-for-any-old-dummies. Advertisers need to get it in their thick skulls that it might have been "cute" for 15 minutes in the '60s, but we should have moved on a long time ago.
Having experienced it from both sides of the gender divide, it's offensive either way.
No thanks - being at 45 degrees latitude it gets HOT in the summer (especially in traffic), and being a big island in the St. Laurence, very humid.
"delivered reliable web applications" for a small business that did search engine advertising ... that could be as simple as deploying web site templates with some minor changes. Something I would expect the graphics guy to take care of.
All nice and good, but this took place in Canada. The continent was scoured for generators - anything available was shipped in - but that takes time, especially when I saw city roads that had to be scraped free of more than a foot of ice with a bulldozer, and 15,000 troops helped out.
Generators from all over north america were trucked in. Unfortunately, that takes time, especially when you're trying to make up for the loss of 16,000 megawatts of transmission capacity from James Bay (almost 10 Pilgrim nukes) and further losses from other sources.
They also took diesel-electric locomotives off their tracks and drove them on the streets to where they could be hooked up to the mains. That's enough juice for a small town.
I wouldn't have hired you either, or wanted to work with you. I'd be spending too much time fixing your mistakes. Why should anyone pay for you to learn one of the most popular software packages of that era? If you couldn't be arsed to buy a copy and learn it (and the later manuals, dBASE 4.2 and dBase 5 contain a lot of information that you won't get from any crappy "Learn dbase in 28 days" book) then maybe that was a clue to first get at least a little bit qualified.
Now, I would like to know how you can justify this statement:
Two weeks later, the position was still unfilled. What the hiring manager didn't grasp was that, in 2 weeks, I could have learned enough D-base skills to do what they need
... if you've never done it , haven't seen what they actually need, and don't have enough experience to see what's wrong? Maybe they needed some loadable .bin code to add extra functionality. Or maybe the database schema sucked. No database experience, no hire.
Or alternatively, since it WAS the go-to product at the time, if you HAD learned it in 2 weeks, you could have re-applied and got the job. Did you have any previous database experience? You could have done what I did, bought Clipper, then got dBASE as a competitive upgrade, for less than the cost of dBASE alone.
That's a far cry from criminalizing not taking every possible precaution for not getting an infection.
A vaccine is a rational precaution, not "every possible precaution." Otherwise, we'd be telling people to wear full isolation suits. Strawman much?
I wouldn't want to risk the equivalent of a 25-thousand-Euro judgment because my internet was slow or other reasons. It's important to see the other side in court, because when they lie you can immediately nail them and that leaves a heck of an impression. Doing it in slo-mo over the internet, not so much.
Probably someone suffering from cabin fever because it's -21, or -32 with the wind chill up here. Canadian winters absolutely suck. Heck, even Poland and Germany are above freezing today.
I guess your reading skills are not up to snuff. It did NOT take 11 days to repair the transmission lines. You even quoted it - "Although the transmission lines were restored within a few days".
I went through the ice storm of 98 - a month with no power. 25 people died of hypothermia.
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Are you referring to import javax.script.*
Too true, there is that too. I guess I'm still not cynical enough :-)
"Before a child even starts primary school," Bill and Melinda Gates wrote in their Foundation's 2015 letter, "she will be able to use her mom's smartphone to learn her numbers and letters, giving her a big head start.
Big Bird and Miss Piggy would like a word with you ... :-)