You're rewriting history to suit your own needs. The first outbreak of Legionnaires was an isolated event amongst some convention-goers. Conversely, AIDS (or GRID as it was originally known) showed up in multiple places at once - always a very bad sign. It doesn't change the fact that the government response to Legionnaires was swift and capable. The government response to AIDS was... nothing. The Reagan administration, like the current administration, was heavily influenced by the radical right and had no interest in an issue that affected gays. You really don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know what you're talking about. The original outbreak of Legionairres in Philadelphia was confined to around a dozen old, white men. The government response was a stark contrast to the response (Reagan's response) to the AIDS epidemic.
IIRC, the infections started when Carter was still president, albeit the nature of the illness didn't make itself clear until the Reagan years. Perhaps the most effective thing that Reagan could have done would have been to restrict the behaviors that lead to the spread of the disease - prevention is way easier than a cure.
You right-wingers spew some idiot propaganda, but that really takes the cake. The most effective thing Reagan could have done was to treat it as a serious public health matter instead of totally ignoring it until things had gotten out of hand. You think it was handled well? Look at how Legionaire's Disease was handled when it infected a handful of white, heterosexual people.
If you can't see the value of OS design and learning how hash tables work, stop, do not pass go, do not collect your diploma, it's utterly wasted on you.
Well, I guess my degree was wasted on me as well. Any course that requires you to regurgitate rote memorization (Essay Question #1: explain how a hashtable works), is pointless. Now, give me a course that compares and contrasts various data structures and how to determine the most appropriate one for a given situation and you're teaching something. A monkey woth a stick can memorize hashtable implementatons
What I found particularly amazing, was that the culture has taught people not to question things. Even my PhD students largely accepted whatever was told to them. So even though there may have been forums online for them to learn about political dissent, most wouldn't particularly have been interested (a few seemed more aware than most, but only a very few).
Sounds a lot like the USA as well. Most people are more than happy to believe anything the Person In Power tells them to believe.
I have no explanation for you about those that do try to force their beliefs on others. All I can say is please don't paint us all with the same brush.
Maybe if you'd speak out against "the others" from time to time, instead of implicitly supporting them by silence, we might be less inclined to paint you with the same brush.
...languages dependent on garbage collection have always failed to find much deployment in industrial settings.
Huh? The world's busiest e-commerce websites are largely written in Java. Just what is your definition of "industrial settings"? If you mean that Java isn't used much in a foundry, then I guess you're right.
We have only the recruiter's word that he is not a spammer. Is his 600-client email the ONLY email he sends? I think we all know about the reputation that recuiters have. I've received spam from recruiters and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was spamming to get new customers as well as sending his monthly updates to clients.
The kinds of questions they ask will tell you a lot about the company. If they ask a lot of pointless questions like, "why are manhole covers round", that tells you something. A company that thinks pointless interview questions are helpful is a company that thinks you'll enjoy pointless busy work. Unless you like being a Dilbert, avoid these people.
The system is not designed to give you easy access to health care. On the contrary, it is designed to make it as difficult as possible.
On top of that, most techie-types are afraid (or too dim) to band together and leverage the power of their numbers. I will never figure out why we are so willing to be shoved around, mistreated and fired. Maybe we aspire to being Dilbert? Or have we been conditioned to run away at the mention of the word "union".
There is no way you could reliably hit a target with a projectile that lightweight. To put the velocity behind it that you'd need to have enough kinetic energy to penetrate the skin would vaporize anything that small. Not to mention that it would become useless in even a light breeze.
That's a load of crap. There's nothing UNIX dependent in Perl unless you specifically download a module that's not included in the standard distribution.
Things have probably changed but as of 1999, you had to be very careful which version of 5.004 you used on a Win32 box. If it wasn't Active State, you were asking for trouble.
I always thought that selling license to polute should be priced at the extimated cost of cleaning up the polution.
Cleaning up the pollution is only part of the cost. The rest of the cost of pollution (increased asthma and other lung ailments as well as quality-of-life costs) are borne by us
What does denying links achieve? The web is great because it is just that. Start blocking links and it will start to fall apart.
No, it won't. Start blocking links and people will stop coming to your site. Instead they'll go to a similar competing site. There are extemely few sites that are so blindingly original that similar information can't be found elsewhere. This is especially true of corporate-driven websites.
Of course most people fail. Do you really think an interview-style situation is one where people can regurgitate Java 101 answers to questions? When I hear things like this it makes me really glad I have a job. I remember one interview I went on where I was given a set of five questions to answer. I answered 3 out of 5 questions "correctly". I missed two of the questions because the interviewer had the wrong answer. It was funny when she said, "that's OK everyone I've interviewed has missed that question".
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You're rewriting history to suit your own needs. The first outbreak of Legionnaires was an isolated event amongst some convention-goers. Conversely, AIDS (or GRID as it was originally known) showed up in multiple places at once - always a very bad sign.
It doesn't change the fact that the government response to Legionnaires was swift and capable. The government response to AIDS was
The Reagan administration, like the current administration, was heavily influenced by the radical right and had no interest in an issue that affected gays.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
How long before a Win virus orders a pizza for everyone in your Outlook address book.
You don't know what you're talking about. The original outbreak of Legionairres in Philadelphia was confined to around a dozen old, white men. The government response was a stark contrast to the response (Reagan's response) to the AIDS epidemic.
IIRC, the infections started when Carter was still president, albeit the nature of the illness didn't make itself clear until the Reagan years. Perhaps the most effective thing that Reagan could have done would have been to restrict the behaviors that lead to the spread of the disease - prevention is way easier than a cure.
You right-wingers spew some idiot propaganda, but that really takes the cake. The most effective thing Reagan could have done was to treat it as a serious public health matter instead of totally ignoring it until things had gotten out of hand. You think it was handled well? Look at how Legionaire's Disease was handled when it infected a handful of white, heterosexual people.
To say that China needs to boost their efficiency rather than the US is Republican looking at those figures.
You used the wrong word. I made the edit for you. You're welcome.
If you can't see the value of OS design and learning how hash tables work, stop, do not pass go, do not collect your diploma, it's utterly wasted on you.
Well, I guess my degree was wasted on me as well. Any course that requires you to regurgitate rote memorization (Essay Question #1: explain how a hashtable works), is pointless.
Now, give me a course that compares and contrasts various data structures and how to determine the most appropriate one for a given situation and you're teaching something.
A monkey woth a stick can memorize hashtable implementatons
As the anonymous poster noted, I just did.
When I said "you" , I meant the plural as in "all y'all".
As Barry Goldwater once remarked, "A good Christian would punch Jerry Falwell in the mouth".
Do you have any more up-to-date information?
Too lazy to look. I know Ebay, for one, is wrapping up their transition from C++ to Java.
What I found particularly amazing, was that the culture has taught people not to question things. Even my PhD students largely accepted whatever was told to them. So even though there may have been forums online for them to learn about political dissent, most wouldn't particularly have been interested (a few seemed more aware than most, but only a very few).
Sounds a lot like the USA as well. Most people are more than happy to believe anything the Person In Power tells them to believe.
Individuals and corporations, by definition, cannot bring censorship onto something.
That would be true except that, in the USA, the government is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the corporations.
I have no explanation for you about those that do try to force their beliefs on others. All I can say is please don't paint us all with the same brush.
Maybe if you'd speak out against "the others" from time to time, instead of implicitly supporting them by silence, we might be less inclined to paint you with the same brush.
But what good does keeping those younger then 16 off of the internet entirely accomplish?
Control what a child learns and you control the adult.
...languages dependent on garbage collection have always failed to find much deployment in industrial settings.
Huh? The world's busiest e-commerce websites are largely written in Java. Just what is your definition of "industrial settings"? If you mean that Java isn't used much in a foundry, then I guess you're right.
We have only the recruiter's word that he is not a spammer. Is his 600-client email the ONLY email he sends? I think we all know about the reputation that recuiters have. I've received spam from recruiters and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was spamming to get new customers as well as sending his monthly updates to clients.
I see no data to support the claim.
The kinds of questions they ask will tell you a lot about the company. If they ask a lot of pointless questions like, "why are manhole covers round", that tells you something. A company that thinks pointless interview questions are helpful is a company that thinks you'll enjoy pointless busy work.
Unless you like being a Dilbert, avoid these people.
The system is not designed to give you easy access to health care. On the contrary, it is designed to make it as difficult as possible.
On top of that, most techie-types are afraid (or too dim) to band together and leverage the power of their numbers. I will never figure out why we are so willing to be shoved around, mistreated and fired. Maybe we aspire to being Dilbert? Or have we been conditioned to run away at the mention of the word "union".
A disgustingly large portion of those who are sentenced to life in prison are let out on parole;
Where did you learn this?
There is no way you could reliably hit a target with a projectile that lightweight. To put the velocity behind it that you'd need to have enough kinetic energy to penetrate the skin would vaporize anything that small. Not to mention that it would become useless in even a light breeze.
That said, for all intensive purposes, ...
You really shouldn't criticize other's spelling, since for all intents and purposes, it makes you look pedantic.
That's a load of crap. There's nothing UNIX dependent in Perl unless you specifically download a module that's not included in the standard distribution.
Things have probably changed but as of 1999, you had to be very careful which version of 5.004 you used on a Win32 box. If it wasn't Active State, you were asking for trouble.
Why is technology work deemed less important for America's future?
Because technology workers don't have the good sense to unionize and leverage the resulting organizational advantage into into political muscle.
I always thought that selling license to polute should be priced at the extimated cost of cleaning up the polution.
Cleaning up the pollution is only part of the cost. The rest of the cost of pollution (increased asthma and other lung ailments as well as quality-of-life costs) are borne by us
What does denying links achieve? The web is great because it is just that. Start blocking links and it will start to fall apart.
No, it won't. Start blocking links and people will stop coming to your site. Instead they'll go to a similar competing site. There are extemely few sites that are so blindingly original that similar information can't be found elsewhere. This is especially true of corporate-driven websites.
Of course most people fail. Do you really think an interview-style situation is one where people can regurgitate Java 101 answers to questions?
When I hear things like this it makes me really glad I have a job. I remember one interview I went on where I was given a set of five questions to answer. I answered 3 out of 5 questions "correctly". I missed two of the questions because the interviewer had the wrong answer. It was funny when she said, "that's OK everyone I've interviewed has missed that question".