This reminds me of a time in grade school when my science teacher told the class, "there are more brain cells in the brain than atoms in the universe." Of course this was obviously wrong and I pointed out that, "since brains are made of atoms, clearly there are more atoms in the universe than brain cells." The teacher told me, and the class, that I was wrong and she was right. Then I explained that she probably meant that there were more possible combinations of connections between brain cells than atoms in the universe. She maintained her original statement and threatened me with detention.
I learned a valuable lesson that day that many authority figures don't think and weren't interested in discussing it. And that most students (people in general) were happy to accept whatever was told them without thinking about it either.
In my experience as a kid in school and as a parent of kids in school, smart kids who are not also athletic are picked on, teased, tormented, and put down constantly. Their only recourse is to "hide", to try to not be noticed, or to fight. And if they are not athletic or they are physically small, fighting will not have good results.
Ok, I'll pencil Linux in right between Fusion energy and my flying car.
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Scene from an alternate universe: Brock deftly navigated his flying car through congested lanes of traffic high above clean streams of water vapor coming from the Fusion Plant below. "Damn!", his son shouted from the rear seat, "I should never have installed Duke Nukem Forever on Windows! Linux is mainstream now, I should have used that!".
> I still can not understand why the average pay of a well-seasoned applications designer is still no match to that of a recently-graduated MBA
That is the attitude of a Computer Science student or recent grad.
Look at any company. Find where the money comes into that company. See how close or far your position is to that money entering the company. That determines your salary right there.
A company doesn't mind paying salespeople (who perform well) plenty of money because it is clear what they are worth. They are bringing in the money that keeps the company alive.
MBAs are closer to the money. They are in a "profit-center" of their companies.
The programmers are pretty far from the money. In most companies they are in a "cost-center", ie: they are a cost that the company grudgingly pays as a cost of doing business. They would be eager to lower that cost.
At one place I worked a few years ago there were programmers who worked in the "back office" servicing the company-wide infrastructure and there were programmers who working directly for a "front office" department, ie: closer to where the money is made. I worked for a front-office department and made $120K for doing the exact same thing programmers in the back office were paid $60K to do.
A closely related sport/pastime is Letterboxing. Letterboxing is less tech, more puzzle solving. Both get you out of the house looking for hidden "treasures".
Also see: Armchair Treasure Hunting, where you solve puzzles, usually in a book, to find REAL treasure buried or hidden somewhere. Examples: Masquerade, David Blaine's Mysterious Stranger, etc.
I'd provide links, but given the topic, you should be able to find your own way with just some clues!
There is newly uncovered evidence that Neandertal and Cro-Magnon often mated, siring hybrid caveman/modern humans as seen in these recently discovered remains.
> Another option might be that Neanderthals were enslaved by humans, and they slowly died out due to abuse and the poor living conditions afforded them. Not a great story either.
Yes, that's it! But then an evolved Neanderthal from a far future where Neanderthals ruled over Cro-Magnon men came back in time to the present in a crashed spaceship left by modern explorers and had an evolved child who was hidden from the authorities in a circus who then went on to teach the other Neanderthal slaves how to say 'No' and say it forcefully, thus leading to the eventual overthrow of the modern human population and the existence of the very future the evolved Neanderthal came from until finally the entire timeline got re-written once again by a fucking pretty-boy underwear model which completely screwed up any logic or reason in the entire timeline confusing all hopes of putting together any sort of sensible history.
> Or maybe they just didn't fuck like rabbits and decimate their natural environment and keep moving on like an uncontrollable scourge?
I, for one, welcome our new rabbity-fucking uncontrollably moving slightly higher evolved overlords! Er... our old overlords... er... I mean us. I welcome us.
Hey, good luck with that. After you're done rescuing the games industry from creative death, perhaps you can let Hollywood and the music industry know how you did it because both of those much older more established industries have gone down the exact same path dictated by unstoppable market forces.
Why on Earth would his readership care what CMS engine is running behind his site? They are reading articles and comments. If he switched from MySQL to PostGreSQL would he lose readership as well?
I assume he's not going to be an idiot and bring his site down while he installs and configures his new CMS engine.
I am sure I will be in the minority here on slashdot, but I strongly feel computers in the classroom only distract students from learning. Computers are an END, a topic to learn about in high school to prepare students for a high tech world. I saw my first computer when I was 13 and I became an expert, writing interpreters in 6502 assembly language among other things, before I graduated high school. I was old enough to benefit from exposure to computers. In grammar school the computers are used as babysitters or play-rewards and don't, in themsevles, have any educational value. Perhaps someone will point out an example of a teacher who really incorporates computers into an interesting and useful curriculum, but that is the exception not the rule.
> I usually just use my mom. I have so many projects going on here at the house it is crazy. When ever she starts yelling I know I missed something and I get told what it is.
When you grow up and become an adult you no longer need your mom to yell at you to manage your projects.
Forget email, set her up with Packet8 or Vonage VOIP with a videophone, and get her kids the same. Set up a big speed dial to dial her kids.
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> Is it just me, or has something drastically changed here at Slashdot? > I'm seeing almost no 4/5-moderated comments on any Slashdot stories for the past few days...
As is, the parent is a boring offtopic comment... but mod it up to +5 and you've got some real humor, baby! It would have everything, irony, pathos, in-jokes.
MOD IT UP!!
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> I'm one of those guys who smashes buttons seven or eight times
You must be a barrel of laughs waiting for an elevator.
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> Correcting a mistake the teacher made ?
This reminds me of a time in grade school when my science teacher told the class, "there are more brain cells in the brain than atoms in the universe." Of course this was obviously wrong and I pointed out that, "since brains are made of atoms, clearly there are more atoms in the universe than brain cells."
The teacher told me, and the class, that I was wrong and she was right.
Then I explained that she probably meant that there were more possible combinations of connections between brain cells than atoms in the universe. She maintained her original statement and threatened me with detention.
I learned a valuable lesson that day that many authority figures don't think and weren't interested in discussing it.
And that most students (people in general) were happy to accept whatever was told them without thinking about it either.
Your school was a total deviation from the norm.
In my experience as a kid in school and as a parent of kids in school, smart kids who are not also athletic are picked on, teased, tormented, and put down constantly.
Their only recourse is to "hide", to try to not be noticed, or to fight. And if they are not athletic or they are physically small, fighting will not have good results.
Ok, I'll pencil Linux in right between Fusion energy and my flying car.
---
Scene from an alternate universe:
Brock deftly navigated his flying car through congested lanes of traffic high above clean streams of water vapor coming from the Fusion Plant below. "Damn!", his son shouted from the rear seat, "I should never have installed Duke Nukem Forever on Windows! Linux is mainstream now, I should have used that!".
> it has to pass the "wife test"
Interestingly, I have rejected some potential wives because they didn't pass the "gadget test".
> I still can not understand why the average pay of a well-seasoned applications designer is still no match to that of a recently-graduated MBA
That is the attitude of a Computer Science student or recent grad.
Look at any company. Find where the money comes into that company. See how close or far your position is to that money entering the company. That determines your salary right there.
A company doesn't mind paying salespeople (who perform well) plenty of money because it is clear what they are worth. They are bringing in the money that keeps the company alive.
MBAs are closer to the money. They are in a "profit-center" of their companies.
The programmers are pretty far from the money. In most companies they are in a "cost-center", ie: they are a cost that the company grudgingly pays as a cost of doing business. They would be eager to lower that cost.
At one place I worked a few years ago there were programmers who worked in the "back office" servicing the company-wide infrastructure and there were programmers who working directly for a "front office" department, ie: closer to where the money is made. I worked for a front-office department and made $120K for doing the exact same thing programmers in the back office were paid $60K to do.
Just follow the money...
> puffy-nipple schoolgirl bukake
Soudns like a really good ad in a dating service...
A closely related sport/pastime is Letterboxing.
Letterboxing is less tech, more puzzle solving.
Both get you out of the house looking for hidden "treasures".
Also see: Armchair Treasure Hunting, where you solve puzzles, usually in a book, to find REAL treasure buried or hidden somewhere.
Examples: Masquerade, David Blaine's Mysterious Stranger, etc.
I'd provide links, but given the topic, you should be able to find your own way with just some clues!
There is newly uncovered evidence that Neandertal and Cro-Magnon often mated, siring hybrid caveman/modern humans as seen in these recently discovered remains.
> Seriously, it should be either *AA or ??AA. **AA is completely reduntant...
..AA or (MP)|(RI)AA
Jeez, people. It should be
> Another option might be that Neanderthals were enslaved by humans, and they slowly died out due to abuse and the poor living conditions afforded them. Not a great story either.
Yes, that's it! But then an evolved Neanderthal from a far future where Neanderthals ruled over Cro-Magnon men came back in time to the present in a crashed spaceship left by modern explorers and had an evolved child who was hidden from the authorities in a circus who then went on to teach the other Neanderthal slaves how to say 'No' and say it forcefully, thus leading to the eventual overthrow of the modern human population and the existence of the very future the evolved Neanderthal came from until finally the entire timeline got re-written once again by a fucking pretty-boy underwear model which completely screwed up any logic or reason in the entire timeline confusing all hopes of putting together any sort of sensible history.
> Or maybe they just didn't fuck like rabbits and decimate their natural environment and keep moving on like an uncontrollable scourge?
I, for one, welcome our new rabbity-fucking uncontrollably moving slightly higher evolved overlords! Er... our old overlords... er... I mean us. I welcome us.
Hey, good luck with that.
After you're done rescuing the games industry from creative death, perhaps you can let Hollywood and the music industry know how you did it because both of those much older more established industries have gone down the exact same path dictated by unstoppable market forces.
> Mmmmm young girls...
You'd better hope nobody does a forensic analysis of YOUR filesystems.
Could you go a step further and explain why this is important, how I should feel about it, and what my reaction should be. I wish to join the herd.
> It sounds like something that a lot of games can include
Not anymore they can't.
Why on Earth would his readership care what CMS engine is running behind his site?
They are reading articles and comments.
If he switched from MySQL to PostGreSQL would he lose readership as well?
I assume he's not going to be an idiot and bring his site down while he installs and configures his new CMS engine.
> That just opened my email reader and created an empty file called creationism.
Well, go ahead and close that file. It's already got all the facts and hard science in it that it's going to get.
> "If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
It's a good thing that didn't happen.
I am sure I will be in the minority here on slashdot, but I strongly feel computers in the classroom only distract students from learning.
Computers are an END, a topic to learn about in high school to prepare students for a high tech world.
I saw my first computer when I was 13 and I became an expert, writing interpreters in 6502 assembly language among other things, before I graduated high school. I was old enough to benefit from exposure to computers.
In grammar school the computers are used as babysitters or play-rewards and don't, in themsevles, have any educational value.
Perhaps someone will point out an example of a teacher who really incorporates computers into an interesting and useful curriculum, but that is the exception not the rule.
Thank you for travelling in the tube, Mr. Yakamoto. May we suggest some purchases for you?
> I usually just use my mom. I have so many projects going on here at the house it is crazy. When ever she starts yelling I know I missed something and I get told what it is.
When you grow up and become an adult you no longer need your mom to yell at you to manage your projects.
You'll have a wife doing it.
> read an article like this, run off, and lick a whore?
If that the first urge that pops into your head when reading the article I think you have bigger things to worry about...
Forget email, set her up with Packet8 or Vonage VOIP with a videophone, and get her kids the same. Set up a big speed dial to dial her kids.
> Is it just me, or has something drastically changed here at Slashdot?
> I'm seeing almost no 4/5-moderated comments on any Slashdot stories for the past few days...
As is, the parent is a boring offtopic comment... but mod it up to +5 and you've got some real humor, baby! It would have everything, irony, pathos, in-jokes.
MOD IT UP!!
> I'm one of those guys who smashes buttons seven or eight times
You must be a barrel of laughs waiting for an elevator.