Sorry! My parents didn't pay their taxes for McJob prep school.
Nor did I pay my college tuition for McJob prep school!
I'm was there to be EDUCATED. Not TRAINED.
The idiot who thinks that we should impose lousy teachers on students (ESPECIALLY at lower grade levels) needs to have their face slapped with a live cattle prod.
Repeatedly.
As someone is meticulously breaking every joint in every digit on their hands.
This kind of handout justification for the protection of totally sub-par teachers turns my stomach.
They got socked in the pocketbook by cancellations. They saw traffic on the boards spike, mainly in a single 2200 page thread. Most from paying accounts (I'm sure the gold farms and bots stayed quiet), all stating that they would NOT take a bite of this shit sandwich and they could prep for further cancellations if this actually didn't get changed TODAY. And they were made to look like complete assclowns in the media.
About the time the beancounters got through running the numbers, a hit was put out on whomever it was that actually considered this a good idea and the heads of several highly placed underlings were left on the doorsteps of the forums by way of apology.
So what does this mean for Blizzard/Activision now?
Well, first of all, it's demonstrated that they're NOT trustworthy when it comes to things like this (unless you can pose a real threat to their revenue stream and public persona simultaneously). As such, only a fool would continue trusting them. Unfortunately the WoW playerbase is large enough to keep Blizzard tripping over likely fools for several decades.
Better review and fact checking is NOT "less openness".
30-40 years ago, publishing flawed papers like this would have been a career-ending move (whether the ultimate point of the document is still correct or not).
65 feet (20 meters) is an entirely reasonable safety margin for this situation. A good current could push you 20 meters faster than you can respond, causing you to crash into the equipment (that would be Bad [TM]).
Any photographer (professional or dilettante) who can't capture a picture of this equipment from that distance is an utterly hopeless moron. All the more reason for not allowing them even closer.
"We fucked up. Didn't review our data closely enough. We didn't care if it was wrong. But our overall premise is still 127-43/33rds% right!"
It's these kind of stupid-ass shenanigans that have people distrusting scientists nowadays.
The only excuse for this sort of sloppiness is the current climate (pun unintended) in the scientific community right now. Anything with the right "social" vetting bypasses any sort of rigorous checking before being released to the public.
Any summary on a BEGINNERS book on SQL or XML WOULD STILL DEFINE THE TERM.
The term WAS defined. Hello? Reading comprehension?
Did you buy your four digit id, or are you just cranky today?
I have low tolerance for idiots and none for trollish anonymous coward bitch-boys like yourself.
Not to mention that PDI is far less ubiquitous than eitehr XML or SQL, and even googling it does not help since the definition as used here is on page fifteen of the results.
The article reviewer defined PDI early on. Not my fault if people can't read plain english.
Since it was established fairly on that PDI is Pentaho Data Integration (damn, first time I saw it I coulda sworn it was "pendejo"), I'm not really sure what exactly your bitch is.
What I'm talking about is an armed insurgency using cell tactics and going after soft targets. NOT straight-out fighting Army troops.
Done right, nobody would know whether it was some concerted attack or merely some whacko or disgruntled guy with a gun.
The South lost the war by fighting in a conventional manner against a superior force. But John Wilkes Booth still decapitated the Executive Branch.
Now I'm NOT calling for this to happen. Hell, I don't even OWN a gun.
I am simply saying that if someone declares war on the US government from within the US populace, people may know about the declaration, but they're not going to know if the guy gunned down this week is actually tied to that guy who got gunned down last week three states over.
I haven't even gotten into the issues with having Army troops fighting on their home soil against such an nebulous, asymmetrical opponent.
Shit that gets ignored because it's "someone else's grubby little country" simply WON'T fly here.
Your mistake is that of the revolutionary war generals placed in modern combat. Or that of the WWI commander trying to fight WWII on the Maginot Line.
Combat nowadays is rarely a contiguous "front".
The idea that an armed insurrection is going to simply band together and stand across the field from an Army unit with tanks and field emplacements and "trade volleys" is ludicrous.
An armed insurrection nowadays is going to be a guy with a gun popping important people (or people he thinks are important). And while he's probably a dead man for doing so, he can inflict an inordinate amount of casualties before they finally stop him. Honestly, if you were concealed, and didn't care about prolonging your life, how many people could you kill off before someone found you and ended you? Or better yet, if you didn't care about prolonging your life, how many people could you kill in a group simply by walking up innocuously and unloading?
Wow, the police killed ONE WHOLE GUY! How many people did he wound or kill outright before that? And do they know he was part of an armed insurrection or just somebody gone postal with a gun?
THAT is what the government is going to have to put up with, if it ever REALLY comes to an armed insurrection. Afghanistan in their own back yards. But worse. Because EVERYONE looks just like you!
Humans, OTOH, are aggressive social animals. Put into a system where all are ostensibly "equal", a few will always attempt to become "more equal than others". With appropriately gameable systems in place, this just gives them a framework to work from (rather than constructing one themselves).
This is why communism always fails, eventually.
It's just going to do a lot of damage on it's way down.
Correction. Religion and religious dogma has absolutely no place in the scientific method.
Religion can motivate people to enter the scientific community for myriad reasons. Helping one's fellow man. Understanding how the world around us is put together and functions, as a means of understanding the will of God and their own place in it. Or any of a hundred other no-less-admirable reasons.
The majority of religion is a social code to live by so we (hopefully) won't exterminate our own species. The rest of it, all the mysticism, and flash are simply window dressing to "sex up" (if you'll pardon the usage) the underlying message and make it mentally appealing to people.
Look at it this way. I can quickly sketch out a rebellion against possibly illegitimate authority and a plot to destroy a powerful weapon in use by said authority. It won't have the same visual, mental or visceral impact that watching the original Star Wars trilogy had on people.
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Pardon me while I sigh in disgust.
Oh. I see it right here on the map. Just southeast of Outer Buttfuckistan...err...Des Moines.
Who in their right mind puts something like this out in the asscrack back of beyond?
"Oh property values are cheap and this'll draw tourism!"
IT'S FUCKING IOWA! It's one gigantic cornfield with pretty much NOTHING else to recommend it.
And this place is nearly an hour's travel from the nearest major expressway. Yeah! Gonna draw lots of non-locals there!
What next? The Goatse hall of fame?
Now they have something they can favorably compare themselves against!
"This Linux has all these bugs in it and they haven't repaired ANY of them!"
Sorry! My parents didn't pay their taxes for McJob prep school.
Nor did I pay my college tuition for McJob prep school!
I'm was there to be EDUCATED. Not TRAINED.
The idiot who thinks that we should impose lousy teachers on students (ESPECIALLY at lower grade levels) needs to have their face slapped with a live cattle prod.
Repeatedly.
As someone is meticulously breaking every joint in every digit on their hands.
This kind of handout justification for the protection of totally sub-par teachers turns my stomach.
They got socked in the pocketbook by cancellations.
They saw traffic on the boards spike, mainly in a single 2200 page thread. Most from paying accounts (I'm sure the gold farms and bots stayed quiet), all stating that they would NOT take a bite of this shit sandwich and they could prep for further cancellations if this actually didn't get changed TODAY.
And they were made to look like complete assclowns in the media.
About the time the beancounters got through running the numbers, a hit was put out on whomever it was that actually considered this a good idea and the heads of several highly placed underlings were left on the doorsteps of the forums by way of apology.
So what does this mean for Blizzard/Activision now?
Well, first of all, it's demonstrated that they're NOT trustworthy when it comes to things like this (unless you can pose a real threat to their revenue stream and public persona simultaneously).
As such, only a fool would continue trusting them. Unfortunately the WoW playerbase is large enough to keep Blizzard tripping over likely fools for several decades.
Better review and fact checking is NOT "less openness".
30-40 years ago, publishing flawed papers like this would have been a career-ending move (whether the ultimate point of the document is still correct or not).
What has changed now?
They want their has-been hack from Minnesota back.
But this is a common sense distance.
65 feet (20 meters) is an entirely reasonable safety margin for this situation. A good current could push you 20 meters faster than you can respond, causing you to crash into the equipment (that would be Bad [TM]).
Any photographer (professional or dilettante) who can't capture a picture of this equipment from that distance is an utterly hopeless moron. All the more reason for not allowing them even closer.
Seriously.
"We fucked up. Didn't review our data closely enough. We didn't care if it was wrong. But our overall premise is still 127-43/33rds% right!"
It's these kind of stupid-ass shenanigans that have people distrusting scientists nowadays.
The only excuse for this sort of sloppiness is the current climate (pun unintended) in the scientific community right now. Anything with the right "social" vetting bypasses any sort of rigorous checking before being released to the public.
Ah Jordan. Spoken like a true third-grade dropout!
"I might be interested in this book, but don't yet know what ETL, Kettle, Pentaho, or BI refer to. Could you help me out please?"
But that's NOT how the original poster stated it. Here's copy of what they posted.
My goodness, would it kill you to state what an acronym stands for the first time you use it?
Slightly surly? Eh?
Had the GP been civil, so would I.
Correct, it's all about shooting and driving while banging a hooker and snorting blow while looking for your next contact.
Oh, and don't forget, running down pedestrians!
Any summary on a BEGINNERS book on SQL or XML WOULD STILL DEFINE THE TERM.
The term WAS defined. Hello? Reading comprehension?
Did you buy your four digit id, or are you just cranky today?
I have low tolerance for idiots and none for trollish anonymous coward bitch-boys like yourself.
Not to mention that PDI is far less ubiquitous than eitehr XML or SQL, and even googling it does not help since the definition as used here is on page fifteen of the results.
The article reviewer defined PDI early on. Not my fault if people can't read plain english.
You must be new here.
Do you need a de-acronymization of SQL?
Do you need a de-acronymization of XML?
Since it was established fairly on that PDI is Pentaho Data Integration (damn, first time I saw it I coulda sworn it was "pendejo"), I'm not really sure what exactly your bitch is.
Guess I was a poet.
Not that I'd know it.
This move by the government seems to reek of monumental levels of fail and dumbness.
Oh well. The Ukraine's loss is someone else's gain.
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
I now know where Apple's been hiding their top secret stuff when they aren't out getting drunk and losing them.
And it's a place most people would NEVER go to steal something.
Think "Christopher Walker" "Pulp Fiction" and "Watch".
Excuse me, I need to go scrub my head out with a sandblaster now.
Ultimate proof he's turned to the dark side.
=)
So we can turn on the news and see a bunch of smug schmucks in black turtlenecks behind a newsdesk reporting Apple-approved pablum 24/7?
Hold on. Where's a leave my set of seppuku knives...
No AT&T?
No Apple iWhatever?
NO PROBLEMS!
Congrats on completely missing the point.
What I'm talking about is an armed insurgency using cell tactics and going after soft targets.
NOT straight-out fighting Army troops.
Done right, nobody would know whether it was some concerted attack or merely some whacko or disgruntled guy with a gun.
The South lost the war by fighting in a conventional manner against a superior force. But John Wilkes Booth still decapitated the Executive Branch.
Now I'm NOT calling for this to happen. Hell, I don't even OWN a gun.
I am simply saying that if someone declares war on the US government from within the US populace, people may know about the declaration, but they're not going to know if the guy gunned down this week is actually tied to that guy who got gunned down last week three states over.
I haven't even gotten into the issues with having Army troops fighting on their home soil against such an nebulous, asymmetrical opponent.
Shit that gets ignored because it's "someone else's grubby little country" simply WON'T fly here.
Your mistake is that of the revolutionary war generals placed in modern combat.
Or that of the WWI commander trying to fight WWII on the Maginot Line.
Combat nowadays is rarely a contiguous "front".
The idea that an armed insurrection is going to simply band together and stand across the field from an Army unit with tanks and field emplacements and "trade volleys" is ludicrous.
An armed insurrection nowadays is going to be a guy with a gun popping important people (or people he thinks are important).
And while he's probably a dead man for doing so, he can inflict an inordinate amount of casualties before they finally stop him.
Honestly, if you were concealed, and didn't care about prolonging your life, how many people could you kill off before someone found you and ended you?
Or better yet, if you didn't care about prolonging your life, how many people could you kill in a group simply by walking up innocuously and unloading?
Wow, the police killed ONE WHOLE GUY! How many people did he wound or kill outright before that?
And do they know he was part of an armed insurrection or just somebody gone postal with a gun?
THAT is what the government is going to have to put up with, if it ever REALLY comes to an armed insurrection. Afghanistan in their own back yards.
But worse. Because EVERYONE looks just like you!
Taking them in and getting a judgement is the EASY part.
Actually getting your damages/awards from them is where it becomes tough.
For social insects.
Humans, OTOH, are aggressive social animals. Put into a system where all are ostensibly "equal", a few will always attempt to become "more equal than others". With appropriately gameable systems in place, this just gives them a framework to work from (rather than constructing one themselves).
This is why communism always fails, eventually.
It's just going to do a lot of damage on it's way down.
Religion has absolutely no place in science.
Correction. Religion and religious dogma has absolutely no place in the scientific method.
Religion can motivate people to enter the scientific community for myriad reasons. Helping one's fellow man. Understanding how the world around us is put together and functions, as a means of understanding the will of God and their own place in it. Or any of a hundred other no-less-admirable reasons.
The majority of religion is a social code to live by so we (hopefully) won't exterminate our own species. The rest of it, all the mysticism, and flash are simply window dressing to "sex up" (if you'll pardon the usage) the underlying message and make it mentally appealing to people.
Look at it this way. I can quickly sketch out a rebellion against possibly illegitimate authority and a plot to destroy a powerful weapon in use by said authority. It won't have the same visual, mental or visceral impact that watching the original Star Wars trilogy had on people.