I was a civilian employee at a supply base for the US Navy Polaris missile submarines in the 1970's The programmers there got only one compile a night with their punch card deck. If you got a syntax error on a compile, you got called in to explain. Two, you got written up. Three in a month and you were no longer a programmer. But, hey, that was the Navy.
I was a physics major in the 1960's-70's. Programming was done on punch cards with the often one day turn around. I believe most of the students doing programming were actually engineering students. As the quarter went on, the students programs got more complex and the card decks got bigger - often quite large. So, one day I was headed across campus at the end of the quarter and a rain shower sprang up. People started running and this one guy tripped on the curb. His cards went flying into the mud. He scrambled around trying to pick them up; this was no doubt his final project. He suddenly sat down and started crying. As I stood there watching, I thought, "If this is what computers do to people, I will have nothing to do with them".
Many years later, as I was sitting alone on the floor in the data center at 3:00 AM after a power failure trying to bring up countless cranky Windows NT servers running on Compaq boxes (why isn't the SQLNT starting?), I remembered my failure to obey that oath taken so many years ago.
Good point - you can't get a diploma and walk into such a highly skilled position as those mentioned above, especially one where a mistake can cost some real dollars.
However, today's in today's educational environment skilled trades don't even exist from the point of view of the teachers for school grades 1-12 and college so there' little to no investment in training for skilled trades (welding is not the only one). Everyone has to start somewhere, and the present system for skilled trades seems to often depend on being someone's relative so you can be carried through the learning period. I think we can do better by investing in and supporting vocational schools.
This problem has already been solved. It's done with the state sponsored one and two year vocational school programs. In more forward looking states, they build these programs in concert with local industries to meet specific needs.
However, there's a political problem. The universities and colleges fight tooth and nail against these schools because they take funding and students.
From the article: A good trade to consider: welding. I recently visited Pioneer Pipe in the Utica and Marcellus shale area of Ohio and learned that last year the company paid 60 of its welders more than $150,000 and two of its welders over $200,000. The owner, Dave Archer, said he has had to turn down orders because he can't find enough skilled welders.
So, the answer to your question is: "Pioneer Pipe in the Utica and Marcellus shale area of Ohio"
After shutting down all science projects that involve projectiles, we need to move against other deadly militaristic skills.
1) stop all activities that train for grenade throwing. For example, one so-called sport has a group of five taking turns attempting to throw a projectile through a 'hoop', where it should be obvious to anyone that this is training terrorists to hurl molotov cocktails through the windows of our leaders homes as well as elementary schools.
2) stop all activities that train for Hoplite style of battles. For example, one so-called sport has a groups of eleven engaging in pushing and shoving to get a ball to a goal behind the group. This is clearly military practice to train for close quarters combat without firearms. No doubt their plan is to disrupt the police who may be engaged in clearing streets from deranged people such as the occupy Wall Street protestors.
3) debate clubs. Why do we need debate clubs except to train people to delude and confuse the populace? The government licensed media should provide all the news and opinions we need.
I have to disagree with that. I strongly doubt poorly designed gameplay/games will make you turn violent.
As for hard games? Games were much "harder"/tougher to complete (overall) 20 years ago than they are now and we're seeing a much higher level of violence in today's youth.
Umm, no we are not seeing a much higher level of violence in today's youth. Violent crimes peaked in the 1970's and has dropped ever since then. http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/ind...
I know of a mechanism that exaggerates small variations into having the appearance of large ones. It consists of truncating a graph by cutting off the bottom of the scale.
If they really wanted to find out whether sunlight affected weight, they would have done a randomized, controlled trial.
They would have randomly assigned half the people to getting exposed to sunlight early, and the other half to getting exposed to sunlight late.
Instead, they let the subjects go their merry way and simply measured their exposure to sunlight during the day.
These kind of studies give spurious results. For example, suppose the ones who are exposed to sunlight in the morning are getting up early to start their day jogging.
Well, no. You don't begin a line of inquiry with a randomized, controlled trial. You begin with a study to see if there may be a correlation. Why? If there's no correlation in a study, then there's no reason to spend the (much greater) money on a randomized trial. If there does appear to be a correlation, you report it so that you (and others) may pursue the inquiry further.
You should also try not to crash into a concrete barrier wall at 110mph, then through a reinforced buttressed concrete wall, then headlong into a tree.
Unless you're driving a Tesla, then it's no big deal.
"Why do Netflix and a few other companies keep the DVD format alive, when streaming is more convenient for almost all users?
At the End of the article you then say:
I'd be interested in hearing other theories, as long as people understand the question: Why movie studios don't allow movies to be streamed in a manner that mimics, as closely as possible, the experience of checking out DVDs by mail from Netflix (including, say, a mandatory delay between the time you select the movie and the time that you can watch it).
"as long as people understand the question:"? Which question? The second question clearly answers the first question by asking "Why movie studios don't allow movies to be streamed...". The question itself is saying that movie studios don't allow streaming in a manner to match DVD by mail, so that's why Netflix doesn't do it.
This is a physical access attack and therefore not very interesting. To do this you have to cut the ATM open at the point where the computer is installed and attach a smartphone to the USB port (or in older versions, a USB stick, or keyboard). They recommend upgrading the OS and securing the hard drive. How about putting epoxy in the computer's device ports?
That chart does no such thing. According to that chart Greece, Ireland, and Latvia have over double the productivity of France and nearly triple that of the US. You cite that, did not read it, and then go on to say the figures are worthless. Then modded up to +4 insightful. It is as if no one bothers to think or even try to learn something about the world.
RE:
That chart does no such thing
That chart does no what such thing? I say the two charts conflict and that furthermore both charts are not useful for the comparison the OP we're responding to who said "France has higher hourly per capita productivity" and the person who essentially said "it's the opposite"
I think that you fail at reading comprehension in regards to my post. I did read both charts and the original web sites (The Conference Board and stat.ee) that they are referenced from. I cite the second chart only to show how the two charts conflict. I said it agrees with ebbo-10db. AT NO PLACE DID I SAY THAT I AGREE WITH EITHER CHART NOR DID I AGREE WITH ebbo-10db. I am not ebbo-10db. That is a different person.
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According to that chart Greece, Ireland, and Latvia have over double the productivity of France and nearly triple that of the US.
Which is, of course, ridiculous and would be exactly my point if it were correct. I quote myself: "I say neither chart is useful." BTW, neither chart shows Greece, Ireland, Latvia having double/triple productivity over France/US. I can't see how you concluded that unless you had confused the chart that shows "change over previous year" with the productivity/hour charts. Your point is supported by Lativia's having 122 vs US 104.8 in 2009 in the 2005=100 relative chart (or similar years), but that's about 20%, not nearly 300%.
FWIW, I thought for sure that someone would call me out for using Estonia's economic reports. For that reason, I suspect that you, AC, did not actually look at what I offered.
I say neither chart is useful. It's just dividing the GDP by guesses at how many hours are worked by the people in each country. It really just tells us that some countries get their money in different ways than others. What we would want to know is how productive a worker is in comparable industries. Consider that Norway's economy has a huge component of production and export of natural resources (oil etc) while Luxembourg is almost all financial services and perhaps banking secrecy. There is no meaning in comparing the dollars produced by an Norway oil platform worker to that of a Luxembourg bank's US Treasury bond manager. I'm surprised France is as high as it is considering how much of its economy is based on agriculture. That is to say a high labor-low pay industry, and similarly for tourism.
My observations over the decades showed that the rule is this:
It's called a "law" if the person who thought it up called it a "law" It's called a "theory" if the person who thought it up called it a "theory"
E.g., the approximations known as "Newton's Laws of Motion" compared to Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" Consider also: Moore's Law of processor performance. Anything called a Law in Economics Once so named, it stays with that name with little relation to the validity of the thought.
It's a one-time pad system. OTP systems are theoretically unbreakable. The weakness of OTP systems occurs during the exchange or transmission of the OTP to the recipient. They claim that "Any attempt to intercept the exchange of the key causes detectable variations in the quantum states carrying the cryptographic key, alerting both sender and receiver to the attack and allowing them to take mitigating action."
It appears to me that the catch is that transmissions must remain on the fiber link of their equipment, I.E., in-house. Did I understand that correctly?
An old joke about neighbor envy... An angel in disguise visit a peasant's hut and is brought inside. The peasant shares what little food he has, and lets him sleep under his only blanket. The next morning the angel reveals himself and tells the peasant he will be rewarded, but the catch is, whatever the peasant asks for, his neighbor will get double. The peasant, agonized, thinks on it all day. Finally he tells the angel "I ask that you put out one of my eyes".
I think you got that backwards. Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh are, and have been, consistently at top of "most wired cities" lists. http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/...
Slashdot Mirror
Don't read the moronic gizmag article. (yeah I know, /., as if)
See this:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2...
It's pretty cool stuff.
I was a civilian employee at a supply base for the US Navy Polaris missile submarines in the 1970's
The programmers there got only one compile a night with their punch card deck. If you got a syntax error on a compile, you got called in to explain. Two, you got written up. Three in a month and you were no longer a programmer. But, hey, that was the Navy.
I was a physics major in the 1960's-70's. Programming was done on punch cards with the often one day turn around. I believe most of the students doing programming were actually engineering students.
As the quarter went on, the students programs got more complex and the card decks got bigger - often quite large.
So, one day I was headed across campus at the end of the quarter and a rain shower sprang up. People started running and this one guy tripped on the curb. His cards went flying into the mud. He scrambled around trying to pick them up; this was no doubt his final project. He suddenly sat down and started crying.
As I stood there watching, I thought, "If this is what computers do to people, I will have nothing to do with them".
Many years later, as I was sitting alone on the floor in the data center at 3:00 AM after a power failure trying to bring up countless cranky Windows NT servers running on Compaq boxes (why isn't the SQLNT starting?), I remembered my failure to obey that oath taken so many years ago.
Good point - you can't get a diploma and walk into such a highly skilled position as those mentioned above, especially one where a mistake can cost some real dollars.
However, today's in today's educational environment skilled trades don't even exist from the point of view of the teachers for school grades 1-12 and college so there' little to no investment in training for skilled trades (welding is not the only one).
Everyone has to start somewhere, and the present system for skilled trades seems to often depend on being someone's relative so you can be carried through the learning period. I think we can do better by investing in and supporting vocational schools.
1 in 7 people on Earth uses it and I know none of them. And I know people in India
Same for me, but I also always got picked last at kickball so I'm not surprised the 6 in 7 other people don't tell me about their messaging.
This problem has already been solved. It's done with the state sponsored one and two year vocational school programs.
In more forward looking states, they build these programs in concert with local industries to meet specific needs.
However, there's a political problem.
The universities and colleges fight tooth and nail against these schools because they take funding and students.
From the article:
A good trade to consider: welding. I recently visited Pioneer Pipe in the Utica and Marcellus shale area of Ohio and learned that last year the company paid 60 of its welders more than $150,000 and two of its welders over $200,000. The owner, Dave Archer, said he has had to turn down orders because he can't find enough skilled welders.
So, the answer to your question is: "Pioneer Pipe in the Utica and Marcellus shale area of Ohio"
After shutting down all science projects that involve projectiles, we need to move against other deadly militaristic skills.
1) stop all activities that train for grenade throwing.
For example, one so-called sport has a group of five taking turns attempting to throw a projectile through a 'hoop', where it should be obvious to anyone that this is training terrorists to hurl molotov cocktails through the windows of our leaders homes as well as elementary schools.
2) stop all activities that train for Hoplite style of battles.
For example, one so-called sport has a groups of eleven engaging in pushing and shoving to get a ball to a goal behind the group.
This is clearly military practice to train for close quarters combat without firearms. No doubt their plan is to disrupt the police who may be engaged in clearing streets from deranged people such as the occupy Wall Street protestors.
3) debate clubs. Why do we need debate clubs except to train people to delude and confuse the populace? The government licensed media should provide all the news and opinions we need.
I was really hoping they would have gone for us reactive armor for the battery shield.
I have to disagree with that. I strongly doubt poorly designed gameplay/games will make you turn violent.
As for hard games? Games were much "harder"/tougher to complete (overall) 20 years ago than they are now and we're seeing a much higher level of violence in today's youth.
Umm, no we are not seeing a much higher level of violence in today's youth. Violent crimes peaked in the 1970's and has dropped ever since then.
http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/ind...
I know of a mechanism that exaggerates small variations into having the appearance of large ones. It consists of truncating a graph by cutting off the bottom of the scale.
If they really wanted to find out whether sunlight affected weight, they would have done a randomized, controlled trial.
They would have randomly assigned half the people to getting exposed to sunlight early, and the other half to getting exposed to sunlight late.
Instead, they let the subjects go their merry way and simply measured their exposure to sunlight during the day.
These kind of studies give spurious results. For example, suppose the ones who are exposed to sunlight in the morning are getting up early to start their day jogging.
Well, no.
You don't begin a line of inquiry with a randomized, controlled trial. You begin with a study to see if there may be a correlation.
Why? If there's no correlation in a study, then there's no reason to spend the (much greater) money on a randomized trial.
If there does appear to be a correlation, you report it so that you (and others) may pursue the inquiry further.
You should also try not to crash into a concrete barrier wall at 110mph, then through a reinforced buttressed concrete wall, then headlong into a tree.
Unless you're driving a Tesla, then it's no big deal.
At the beginning of the article, you ask:
"Why do Netflix and a few other companies keep the DVD format alive, when streaming is more convenient for almost all users?
At the End of the article you then say:
I'd be interested in hearing other theories, as long as people understand the question: Why movie studios don't allow movies to be streamed in a manner that mimics, as closely as possible, the experience of checking out DVDs by mail from Netflix (including, say, a mandatory delay between the time you select the movie and the time that you can watch it).
"as long as people understand the question:"?
Which question? The second question clearly answers the first question by asking "Why movie studios don't allow movies to be streamed...". The question itself is saying that movie studios don't allow streaming in a manner to match DVD by mail, so that's why Netflix doesn't do it.
Netflix already explained why they don't license everything for streaming.
https://help.netflix.com/en/no...
http://blogs.indiewire.com/sha...
I used a almost secret hacker tool (used by the CIA, FBI, and NSA!) to get this information.
Try it: http://google.com/
This is a physical access attack and therefore not very interesting.
To do this you have to cut the ATM open at the point where the computer is installed and attach a smartphone to the USB port (or in older versions, a USB stick, or keyboard). They recommend upgrading the OS and securing the hard drive. How about putting epoxy in the computer's device ports?
"A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
I think it was E.F Schumacher that wrote that.
BTW, almost none of the famous Einstein "quotes" were actually said by Einstein.
I also bet that you could break Mike Tyson's nose with a sucker punch.
That chart does no such thing. According to that chart Greece, Ireland, and Latvia have over double the productivity of France and nearly triple that of the US. You cite that, did not read it, and then go on to say the figures are worthless. Then modded up to +4 insightful. It is as if no one bothers to think or even try to learn something about the world.
RE:
That chart does no such thing
That chart does no what such thing?
I say the two charts conflict and that furthermore both charts are not useful for the comparison the OP we're responding to who said "France has higher hourly per capita productivity" and the person who essentially said "it's the opposite"
I think that you fail at reading comprehension in regards to my post.
I did read both charts and the original web sites (The Conference Board and stat.ee) that they are referenced from.
I cite the second chart only to show how the two charts conflict. I said it agrees with ebbo-10db. AT NO PLACE DID I SAY THAT I AGREE WITH EITHER CHART NOR DID I AGREE WITH ebbo-10db.
I am not ebbo-10db. That is a different person.
RE:
According to that chart Greece, Ireland, and Latvia have over double the productivity of France and nearly triple that of the US.
Which is, of course, ridiculous and would be exactly my point if it were correct. I quote myself: "I say neither chart is useful."
BTW, neither chart shows Greece, Ireland, Latvia having double/triple productivity over France/US. I can't see how you concluded that unless you had confused the chart that shows "change over previous year" with the productivity/hour charts. Your point is supported by Lativia's having 122 vs US 104.8 in 2009 in the 2005=100 relative chart (or similar years), but that's about 20%, not nearly 300%.
FWIW, I thought for sure that someone would call me out for using Estonia's economic reports.
For that reason, I suspect that you, AC, did not actually look at what I offered.
BTW, The EU has their own web site http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.... for the same kind of tables with different numbers.
Or this, which agrees with ebbo-10db: http://www.stat.ee/64454
I say neither chart is useful. It's just dividing the GDP by guesses at how many hours are worked by the people in each country. It really just tells us that some countries get their money in different ways than others.
What we would want to know is how productive a worker is in comparable industries.
Consider that Norway's economy has a huge component of production and export of natural resources (oil etc) while Luxembourg is almost all financial services and perhaps banking secrecy.
There is no meaning in comparing the dollars produced by an Norway oil platform worker to that of a Luxembourg bank's US Treasury bond manager.
I'm surprised France is as high as it is considering how much of its economy is based on agriculture. That is to say a high labor-low pay industry, and similarly for tourism.
My observations over the decades showed that the rule is this:
It's called a "law" if the person who thought it up called it a "law"
It's called a "theory" if the person who thought it up called it a "theory"
E.g., the approximations known as "Newton's Laws of Motion" compared to Einstein's "Theory of Relativity"
Consider also:
Moore's Law of processor performance.
Anything called a Law in Economics
Once so named, it stays with that name with little relation to the validity of the thought.
It's a one-time pad system. OTP systems are theoretically unbreakable. The weakness of OTP systems occurs during the exchange or transmission of the OTP to the recipient.
They claim that "Any attempt to intercept the exchange of the key causes detectable variations in the quantum states carrying the cryptographic key, alerting both sender and receiver to the attack and allowing them to take mitigating action."
It appears to me that the catch is that transmissions must remain on the fiber link of their equipment, I.E., in-house.
Did I understand that correctly?
An old joke about neighbor envy ...
An angel in disguise visit a peasant's hut and is brought inside. The peasant shares what little food he has, and lets him sleep under his only blanket.
The next morning the angel reveals himself and tells the peasant he will be rewarded, but the catch is, whatever the peasant asks for, his neighbor will get double.
The peasant, agonized, thinks on it all day. Finally he tells the angel "I ask that you put out one of my eyes".
I think you got that backwards. Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh are, and have been, consistently at top of "most wired cities" lists.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/...
First sentence of the article:
"In the future envisioned by Google, Internet access will be a basic human right"
a right?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I'm from Flatland, you insensitive clod!