English is the lingua franca, so from a business standpoint, if you want to be an engineer type dude, you are probably set.
Chinese would be smart if you want to make more money learning a foreign language, so is Arabic. Russian is damn hard, but that would greatly increase your marketability as well. Like if you want to be a consultant or something later on.
If you want to learn a language for the hell of it, I'd recommend a romance language. Pick one that seems interesting, French and Italian are very pretty sounding. IMHO, German is very cool from a logical standpoint, many words are simply conjugations of smaller words.
There are some very talented web-developers, and there are some very intuitive web applications. But yes, there are many slow, crappy, and insecure ones out there too.
Linux doesn't work well in the business world for ordinary users. Trust me. It doesn't. They need stuff that is windows only.
Prototype solves a lot of the DOM incompatibilities between IE/Firefox.
My point is, web apps do RAD very well. Native apps give you flexibility. But such flexibility is not required for run-of-the-mill data management apps. I don't want to write something to manage updates, the very nature of a web app eliminates the need to do that. If I am going to write something at home, I'll do it in C. But I'd rather do a project as quickly as possible, it gives me more time to post on Slashdot;)
#1, Yes, it is hard to push out an application to every University computer when you are at one w/ 50,000 students.
#2, see #1
#3, everything is done on the server-side, and prior to AJAX, it was redone in Javascript on the clientside for a more responsive user interface. Now, both the client and server use the server-side procedure.
Exactly what I was thinking. There isn't much space to compromise between the security of Java applet, and the speed of an Active-X plug-in. So this is basically a cross-platform version of Active-X; I am sure that will make many system administrators happy, especially the ones that grant their OS X users admin rights, thinking they are safe =) from web-installed rubbish.
What the hell are you talking about? Web applications have some really good uses in the real-world (read business world). Instead of updating every computer in the office with a new version of some data management app, it is deployed once.
Native programs are optimized for speed, Web Applications are optimized for Rapid Application Development. Remember visual basic? Thats what web apps do nowadays, and trust me, its better.
As for "your horrid mishmash of technologies" statement, I agree that AJAX is overused, but believe me it is very nice to be able to do stuff on the server side (think form validation), and then not have to redo on the client-side in javascript.
All my friends (myself excluded), spend 80-90% of the time they could be watching TV, playing video games. Hell, my boss who is in his mid-thirties, and well educated, spends his would-be-watching-tv time playing video games too. Same with many of my co-workers.
And then there are people like me (read cheapskates), who only have extremely basic cable because it comes at next to nothing w/ cable modem service. Netflix on-demand, for like $9 a month, gives me a plethora of documentary programming, and some decent movies, fills in the gaps that free television websites (southparkstudios.com, adultswim.com), do not provide.
What I have been saying for the last couple years is that cable companies should allow people to pick 10 networks, and be able to watch any of the content at any time, and stream it over the internet. Hell, I'll even provide the computer, it is easy enough to hook one up to a television nowadays. Some cable companies do it now with set-top boxes, but WTF do I want Style Network, Lifetime Network, and 20 other shitty channels just to be able to get their "premium" tier of service (on-demand). At a cost of like $80 a month w/ a cable modem. I'd gladly pay half that for what I just mentioned.
IMHO, YouTube has a very difficult business model to profit from, the way things are currently headed. Networks would rather publish their own television shows on their own websites, because it allows them instantaneous and total control over advertising and video content. In fact, many major networks now have their prime-time lineup on the web for instant viewing.
NetFlix on-demand, and Cable/Satellite on-demand services will be duking it out in the movie realm, with competition from pirated websites as well.
YouTube has its niche in user-created, low-budget content. And although it is entertaining, the easiest way to turn a profit would be annoying pre-video commercials, which would probably drive their viewers to other similar web-sites.
I never said "clear evolutionary advantage". Many less than ideal candidates are able to reproduce in our society because of the sheer numbers of humans, take for instance my co-worker who smells like a trout, has green-teeth, and dirty wizard-length finger nails (which he frickin' bites).
But, I am sure it is the monkey that was the biggest asshole that had all the monkey babes, because he pulled no punches, literally, when smashing the faces of sexual competitors. He was ruthless, and a watered-down form of this ruthlessness can be seen within our society.
And oh yea, I'm not going to "ask the smokin'-hot young women" about my friend because that isn't a very good pick-up line.
There are some how-to books for dating that advocate being a complete asshole. I download (pirate) books more than anything, and occasionally I'll see a dating guide that I'll skim over. Anyone with a social life has probably noted that there is a serious art in treating women like crap, and it will get you laid quickly.
To speculate why this trait would be advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint, many people who treat women like crap have a "me-first" attitude, and are skilled manipulators of their social surroundings. To use an anecdote, I have a friend who is very good at picking up smokin'-hot young women in college bars (hes in college too). Despite having a relatively-low GPA, being a serious pot-head, and alcoholic, he has managed to finagle scholarship after scholarship out of his department. People like him; but I have never met anyone that the adage "familiarity breeds contempt" applies to more. I unfortunately know him well enough to understand that he is a borderline psychopath in regards to his empathy for other human beings.
Back to why this is an evolutionary advantage, his "me-first" attitude will become an "us-first" attitude when he gets married, he will have no problem fucking-over his friends, co-workers, bosses, and neighbors for personal gain, because people will tolerate it to a certain extent. This is because he is largely like-able, although he avoids people enough so that they don't grow tired of his constantly selfish attitude.
To sum my point, so-called "bad boys" that women like are skilled social manipulators that pull no punches. They probably are impressed by that, although this person has few desirable traits, people seem to like him, and also he gets what he wants by asserting social dominance through being well-liked.
I agree. I think that the tracks should also be separated by learning-style as well. I cannot watch someone do familiar math (calculus, algebra of real numbers, etc) on the board and learn by example. Most learning, at least for me, is done on my own, working out problems. I think that a SOLUTIONS MANUAL for odd problems should be given to every high school student, and very close attention should be paid to which textbook is utilized.
In my opinion, the emphasis of higher-level math curricula should be self-learning. Some students really don't need a math teacher or a math class to learn. Of course an instructor should be present to answer questions, but I think that high schools need to recognize that many students struggle to learn from math teachers doing work on the white-board. The reason I sucked so bad at math in high school is because it NOT ENGAGING OR HELPFUL to take notes on someone else's work, especially if you don't understand the material.
9 pounds isn't really that much. I've lost 2 pounds of water in a couple hours of working out. You have your units mixed up, recalling my nutrition class from last semester, 1-2 pounds a WEEK is healthy for most people (women included). If the above-mentioned dude cycled and swam for the amount of time he was playing Wii sports, and ate a balanced diet, i'd imagine he'd lose over ten. Think about "The Biggest Loser" TV program, and how much weight those people lose in a week.
Although the Wii burns calories, it would be a good supplement, not a substitute, to a training routine.
weight-to-power ratio. Bikes are basically an engine with wheels. 3 seconds is exaggerated, it's probably more like 3.8 on a 90 degree day with hot-tires and a pro-rider. It is pretty common to see 4 second 0-60 times advertised on bikes, actually getting to 60 that fast is quite a feat, even on a liter-bike.
To clarify parent, the "safest" way to crash is a low-sider, which is sort-of falling behind the motorcycle when you lay it down. A "high-sider" is the opposite, laying it down and being in-front of the motorcycle can get you crushed pretty bad.
You can still create a memory leak in C# if a reference to an object is still in scope (and it shouldn't be), as seen in a certain University's UAV project.
I certainly wouldn't call it an anomaly. The "confounding variable" is the poverty spin cycle that afflicts a far larger percentage of blacks than whites. Bluntly speaking, the more impoverished a family is, the lower the chances of that person of graduating from college. Unfortunately, tuition grants do not seem to help to problem.
There is less of an incentive to go to college, and overall academic motivation is far, far, lower among the poorest of American students. This article points out something that is rather obvious if you look on any college campus, there is a severe lack of participation in science/engineering programs among ethnicities outside of white, asian, and west Indian. Funny that these happen to be the 3 riches ethnic groups in America.
And at one point, the team starting taking on rather large losses. The odds only work in your favor some of the time, so even if you are card-counting with perfect precision, you can still lose large sums of money with bum luck. A considerable portion of their success also had to do with playing with "invested" money, so their tolerance for loss is higher than joe-average playing with his paycheck.
The counter measures you speak of involves using more decks for blackjack, I believe 5 is standard. Any discrete math / blackjack pros care to comment whether this affects the probabilities adversely for a player counting cards?
Exactly what I thought, even if he is beating math-nerds, you cannot create a machine-learning algorithm without using fairly sophisticated mathematics. Since psychology is largerly based on statistics, I am sure the guy has a firm grounding in the subject. I am sure he isn't basing his algorithm on Aedipus Complexes (sic) and ink blots.
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Swedish and Norwegian are very similar languages. You can learn the other pretty easily if you speak one (or some my Swedish-ex used to say).
There is no "Swiss" language, they speak German, Italian, and French.
I just meant that you can make words out of smaller units, "Krankenhaus", for example. As for grammar, no, it is not logical.
English is the lingua franca, so from a business standpoint, if you want to be an engineer type dude, you are probably set.
Chinese would be smart if you want to make more money learning a foreign language, so is Arabic. Russian is damn hard, but that would greatly increase your marketability as well. Like if you want to be a consultant or something later on.
If you want to learn a language for the hell of it, I'd recommend a romance language. Pick one that seems interesting, French and Italian are very pretty sounding. IMHO, German is very cool from a logical standpoint, many words are simply conjugations of smaller words.
Here is a list of the 30 most spoken languages: http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html
lol, wow dude... wow
There are some very talented web-developers, and there are some very intuitive web applications. But yes, there are many slow, crappy, and insecure ones out there too.
Linux doesn't work well in the business world for ordinary users. Trust me. It doesn't. They need stuff that is windows only.
Prototype solves a lot of the DOM incompatibilities between IE/Firefox.
My point is, web apps do RAD very well. Native apps give you flexibility. But such flexibility is not required for run-of-the-mill data management apps. I don't want to write something to manage updates, the very nature of a web app eliminates the need to do that. If I am going to write something at home, I'll do it in C. But I'd rather do a project as quickly as possible, it gives me more time to post on Slashdot ;)
#1, Yes, it is hard to push out an application to every University computer when you are at one w/ 50,000 students.
#2, see #1
#3, everything is done on the server-side, and prior to AJAX, it was redone in Javascript on the clientside for a more responsive user interface. Now, both the client and server use the server-side procedure.
Exactly what I was thinking. There isn't much space to compromise between the security of Java applet, and the speed of an Active-X plug-in. So this is basically a cross-platform version of Active-X; I am sure that will make many system administrators happy, especially the ones that grant their OS X users admin rights, thinking they are safe =) from web-installed rubbish.
What the hell are you talking about? Web applications have some really good uses in the real-world (read business world). Instead of updating every computer in the office with a new version of some data management app, it is deployed once.
Native programs are optimized for speed, Web Applications are optimized for Rapid Application Development. Remember visual basic? Thats what web apps do nowadays, and trust me, its better.
As for "your horrid mishmash of technologies" statement, I agree that AJAX is overused, but believe me it is very nice to be able to do stuff on the server side (think form validation), and then not have to redo on the client-side in javascript.
All my friends (myself excluded), spend 80-90% of the time they could be watching TV, playing video games. Hell, my boss who is in his mid-thirties, and well educated, spends his would-be-watching-tv time playing video games too. Same with many of my co-workers.
And then there are people like me (read cheapskates), who only have extremely basic cable because it comes at next to nothing w/ cable modem service. Netflix on-demand, for like $9 a month, gives me a plethora of documentary programming, and some decent movies, fills in the gaps that free television websites (southparkstudios.com, adultswim.com), do not provide.
What I have been saying for the last couple years is that cable companies should allow people to pick 10 networks, and be able to watch any of the content at any time, and stream it over the internet. Hell, I'll even provide the computer, it is easy enough to hook one up to a television nowadays. Some cable companies do it now with set-top boxes, but WTF do I want Style Network, Lifetime Network, and 20 other shitty channels just to be able to get their "premium" tier of service (on-demand). At a cost of like $80 a month w/ a cable modem. I'd gladly pay half that for what I just mentioned.
Rip it to your Ipod. StreamRipperX does it on MacOS, i know there is a windows equivalent as well.
IMHO, YouTube has a very difficult business model to profit from, the way things are currently headed. Networks would rather publish their own television shows on their own websites, because it allows them instantaneous and total control over advertising and video content. In fact, many major networks now have their prime-time lineup on the web for instant viewing.
NetFlix on-demand, and Cable/Satellite on-demand services will be duking it out in the movie realm, with competition from pirated websites as well.
YouTube has its niche in user-created, low-budget content. And although it is entertaining, the easiest way to turn a profit would be annoying pre-video commercials, which would probably drive their viewers to other similar web-sites.
I never said "clear evolutionary advantage". Many less than ideal candidates are able to reproduce in our society because of the sheer numbers of humans, take for instance my co-worker who smells like a trout, has green-teeth, and dirty wizard-length finger nails (which he frickin' bites).
But, I am sure it is the monkey that was the biggest asshole that had all the monkey babes, because he pulled no punches, literally, when smashing the faces of sexual competitors. He was ruthless, and a watered-down form of this ruthlessness can be seen within our society.
And oh yea, I'm not going to "ask the smokin'-hot young women" about my friend because that isn't a very good pick-up line.
There are some how-to books for dating that advocate being a complete asshole. I download (pirate) books more than anything, and occasionally I'll see a dating guide that I'll skim over. Anyone with a social life has probably noted that there is a serious art in treating women like crap, and it will get you laid quickly.
To speculate why this trait would be advantageous from an evolutionary standpoint, many people who treat women like crap have a "me-first" attitude, and are skilled manipulators of their social surroundings. To use an anecdote, I have a friend who is very good at picking up smokin'-hot young women in college bars (hes in college too). Despite having a relatively-low GPA, being a serious pot-head, and alcoholic, he has managed to finagle scholarship after scholarship out of his department. People like him; but I have never met anyone that the adage "familiarity breeds contempt" applies to more. I unfortunately know him well enough to understand that he is a borderline psychopath in regards to his empathy for other human beings.
Back to why this is an evolutionary advantage, his "me-first" attitude will become an "us-first" attitude when he gets married, he will have no problem fucking-over his friends, co-workers, bosses, and neighbors for personal gain, because people will tolerate it to a certain extent. This is because he is largely like-able, although he avoids people enough so that they don't grow tired of his constantly selfish attitude.
To sum my point, so-called "bad boys" that women like are skilled social manipulators that pull no punches. They probably are impressed by that, although this person has few desirable traits, people seem to like him, and also he gets what he wants by asserting social dominance through being well-liked.
I agree. I think that the tracks should also be separated by learning-style as well. I cannot watch someone do familiar math (calculus, algebra of real numbers, etc) on the board and learn by example. Most learning, at least for me, is done on my own, working out problems. I think that a SOLUTIONS MANUAL for odd problems should be given to every high school student, and very close attention should be paid to which textbook is utilized.
In my opinion, the emphasis of higher-level math curricula should be self-learning. Some students really don't need a math teacher or a math class to learn. Of course an instructor should be present to answer questions, but I think that high schools need to recognize that many students struggle to learn from math teachers doing work on the white-board. The reason I sucked so bad at math in high school is because it NOT ENGAGING OR HELPFUL to take notes on someone else's work, especially if you don't understand the material.
9 pounds isn't really that much. I've lost 2 pounds of water in a couple hours of working out. You have your units mixed up, recalling my nutrition class from last semester, 1-2 pounds a WEEK is healthy for most people (women included). If the above-mentioned dude cycled and swam for the amount of time he was playing Wii sports, and ate a balanced diet, i'd imagine he'd lose over ten. Think about "The Biggest Loser" TV program, and how much weight those people lose in a week.
Although the Wii burns calories, it would be a good supplement, not a substitute, to a training routine.
weight-to-power ratio. Bikes are basically an engine with wheels. 3 seconds is exaggerated, it's probably more like 3.8 on a 90 degree day with hot-tires and a pro-rider. It is pretty common to see 4 second 0-60 times advertised on bikes, actually getting to 60 that fast is quite a feat, even on a liter-bike.
To clarify parent, the "safest" way to crash is a low-sider, which is sort-of falling behind the motorcycle when you lay it down. A "high-sider" is the opposite, laying it down and being in-front of the motorcycle can get you crushed pretty bad.
You can still create a memory leak in C# if a reference to an object is still in scope (and it shouldn't be), as seen in a certain University's UAV project.
I certainly wouldn't call it an anomaly. The "confounding variable" is the poverty spin cycle that afflicts a far larger percentage of blacks than whites. Bluntly speaking, the more impoverished a family is, the lower the chances of that person of graduating from college. Unfortunately, tuition grants do not seem to help to problem.
There is less of an incentive to go to college, and overall academic motivation is far, far, lower among the poorest of American students. This article points out something that is rather obvious if you look on any college campus, there is a severe lack of participation in science/engineering programs among ethnicities outside of white, asian, and west Indian. Funny that these happen to be the 3 riches ethnic groups in America.
they didn't mention MONIAC, which is the coolest analogue computers IMHO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
with one simple difference
"Computer ate my homework" = your problem (losing personal $$$)
"Computer ate my work-work" = our problem (losing company $$$)
And at one point, the team starting taking on rather large losses. The odds only work in your favor some of the time, so even if you are card-counting with perfect precision, you can still lose large sums of money with bum luck. A considerable portion of their success also had to do with playing with "invested" money, so their tolerance for loss is higher than joe-average playing with his paycheck.
The counter measures you speak of involves using more decks for blackjack, I believe 5 is standard. Any discrete math / blackjack pros care to comment whether this affects the probabilities adversely for a player counting cards?
www.bls.gov
look at "programmer", look at "computer scientist"
Exactly what I thought, even if he is beating math-nerds, you cannot create a machine-learning algorithm without using fairly sophisticated mathematics. Since psychology is largerly based on statistics, I am sure the guy has a firm grounding in the subject. I am sure he isn't basing his algorithm on Aedipus Complexes (sic) and ink blots.