Unfortunately, while critical thinking may be (tentatively) a part of the curriculum at school, it's glossed over in favor of teaching to the assessment tests, which determine the school's funding levels. Meanwhile, the kids experience all sorts of encouragement towards groupthink in their daily lives.
Granted, private schools do teach critical think in more depth than most public schools, but you need to be able to afford the outlay for those schools. Right there, you start to hamstring the majority of students, since part of the implicit social contract is an obligation to educate the youth, so that they may become upstanding members of society. The prime instrument of that obligation has been the public school system, which is now looked upon by many people as either a waste of money or a place of last resort.
At least the PHP License doesn't incorporate the ideas of the Jabber Open Source License or their ilk. Those licenses possess the requirement that any modifications be licensed back to the licensor (e.g. Jabber) such that they can turn around and incorporate them into their closed source products without any payment whatsoever. Those clauses strike me as licenses to exploit the goodwill and hard work of contributors to your codebase, as a substitute for paying an engineering staff.
If you could figure out the MINs for the can-phones, and they're turned on in the cases, you could always try to call the numbers from your cellphone while standing in front of the store display. Then it becomes a simple matter of picking up the ringing case.
If you believe that this'll work, I've got a nice bridge for you...
College educations, especially in CS/EE, are, to my experience, four year mixers with hundred thousand dollar cover charge. If someone enters a CS or EE program without the raw skills, they'll come out as a broke, burnt out person with a piece of paper and maybe some connections on the other end. The really smart ones enter with the skills, and leave with the connections (with the implicit job).
In short, people like me get shafted. I have no degree, but I've been coding continuously since I was five years old, in a wide variety of languages and environments, but in this economy it doesn't mean diddly.
There is always paying to get a full T1 to your residence. It won't be cheap by any measure, but you could turn around and resell WiFi to your neighbors.
Doctors and lawyers can be offshored, just as easily as IT and steel workers.
X-Rays are being shipped off to India for interpretation, and with the perfection of operating room robots, surgery won't require a skilled surgeon to be present.
Lawyers can move a lot of the back-office drudge work to wherever the labor is cheapest.
I hope that labor and immigration laws get opened up, such that anyone can compete, regardless of country, for work. Imagine a world of free agent IT workers.
Here in Boston RCN caps us at 1.5 Mbps down and.8 Mbps up.
I suppose I should complain, but the $120/month bill includes premium catv, phone, and long distance in addition to the cable modem.
Anything to keep me away from ATT Comcast (nee ATT Broadband nee Cablevision) and Verizon (nee Bell Atlantic nee New England Telephone). My own experiences with both megacorps have been nothing short of hell.
As a bonus RCN gives me a pipe and a dynamic ip, but otherwise doesn't care about what I have running on the pipe.
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Unfortunately, while critical thinking may be (tentatively) a part of the curriculum at school, it's glossed over in favor of teaching to the assessment tests, which determine the school's funding levels. Meanwhile, the kids experience all sorts of encouragement towards groupthink in their daily lives.
Granted, private schools do teach critical think in more depth than most public schools, but you need to be able to afford the outlay for those schools. Right there, you start to hamstring the majority of students, since part of the implicit social contract is an obligation to educate the youth, so that they may become upstanding members of society. The prime instrument of that obligation has been the public school system, which is now looked upon by many people as either a waste of money or a place of last resort.
Don't forget the Jabber-like licenses, which abuse the open source model, as a way to get free software engineers.
Jabber-like license: "You must share what you add, and we can take it private, without further compensation, if we so choose."
Would you care to expand on how people appear in a worse light when you interview them in person?
In my own experience, I've had a lot of interviews that lead to either boilerplate f$#@ you letters, or "you're too qualified" letters.
At least the PHP License doesn't incorporate the ideas of the Jabber Open Source License or their ilk.
Those licenses possess the requirement that any modifications be licensed back to the licensor (e.g. Jabber) such that they can turn around and incorporate them into their closed source products without any payment whatsoever. Those clauses strike me as licenses to exploit the goodwill and hard work of contributors to your codebase, as a substitute for paying an engineering staff.
If you could figure out the MINs for the can-phones, and they're turned on in the cases, you could always try to call the numbers from your cellphone while standing in front of the store display. Then it becomes a simple matter of picking up the ringing case.
If you believe that this'll work, I've got a nice bridge for you...
Unfortunately, most HR discounts that anyone can possibly obtain those CS skills through anything but a 4-year college degree.
College educations, especially in CS/EE, are, to my experience, four year mixers with hundred thousand dollar cover charge. If someone enters a CS or EE program without the raw skills, they'll come out as a broke, burnt out person with a piece of paper and maybe some connections on the other end. The really smart ones enter with the skills, and leave with the connections (with the implicit job).
In short, people like me get shafted. I have no degree, but I've been coding continuously since I was five years old, in a wide variety of languages and environments, but in this economy it doesn't mean diddly.
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Resume: http://www.plumlocosoft.com/resume.html
There is always paying to get a full T1 to your residence. It won't be cheap by any measure, but you could turn around and resell WiFi to your neighbors.
OpenVMS can run on Alpha. Digital/Compaq renamed VMS when they moved it off the VAX architecture.
If you really want to run VMS on your Alpha, you could always try to find a VAX emulator
Doctors and lawyers can be offshored, just as easily as IT and steel workers.
X-Rays are being shipped off to India for interpretation, and with the perfection of operating room robots, surgery won't require a skilled surgeon to be present.
Lawyers can move a lot of the back-office drudge work to wherever the labor is cheapest.
I hope that labor and immigration laws get opened up, such that anyone can compete, regardless of country, for work. Imagine a world of free agent IT workers.
Yeah, avoiding "dangerous situations" like the GIANT Maraschino Cherry (tm).
Who knows the name of the DEC engineer who cleaned up after Dave Cutler's messes?
Here in Boston RCN caps us at 1.5 Mbps down and .8 Mbps up.
I suppose I should complain, but the $120/month bill includes premium catv, phone, and long distance in addition to the cable modem.
Anything to keep me away from ATT Comcast (nee ATT Broadband nee Cablevision) and Verizon (nee Bell Atlantic nee New England Telephone). My own experiences with both megacorps have been nothing short of hell.
As a bonus RCN gives me a pipe and a dynamic ip, but otherwise doesn't care about what I have running on the pipe.
-Eric
You'll only be allowed to wear vendor supplied t-shirts and hats.
Seriously... Everyone has to accept a little risk, or why bother getting out of bed in the morning/evening/whenever?