I think refusing to hire someone solely because of their age is naive. Is there some magical event at the age of 30 that bestows knowledge of linkers to the aging programmer? Give me a break. You are making bad assumptions. Your first bad assumption is that just because of your anecdotal experience dealing with one individual, that all schools no longer teach anything about linkers. Your second bad assumption is that even if that was true, no programmer would learn that information on their own, as if no one is generally interested in learning comp sci any more outside of the classroom.
Doesn't seem too much in the "challenge" department versus the "Nintendo Hard" department (Oh, so you survived that wave? Well let's see how you deal with filling the whole SCREEN with bullets!)
Well the XBox 360 version you just play until you lose all your lives. Your failure is inevitable (at least it's supposed to be). I think extreme difficulty in games like this is more reasonable because you're not really getting frustrated trying to get to the next level or trying to get further in the storyline. You're generally just trying to beat your friend's high score. I could see people getting annoyed with Ikaruga because it's beatable but only after becoming an expert at the game, and to do that, you have to play the levels over and over again.
The one I have done involves sitting behind someone, eyes closed, and having your nose stroked (by a third party) while you stroke someone else's nose in front of you. After a few seconds, your brain "clicks" and you feel like you have an incredibly long nose.
Now I know what to do to feel like I have an incredibly long penis. But I'm not quite sure if it's worth it.
When cars were first sold to the public, if you bought one you'd damned well better know how to fix it yourself. Fast forward to now. Plenty of idiots still buy cars and are completely fucked when it comes time to do something as minor as changing the oil or spark plugs.
But is it really because people are stupid that they can't change a spark plug or oil, or is it because that knowledge is really no longer a necessity for some people? I know how to change a tire and to jump start a car because it is knowledge I have needed and will probably need in the future. However I've never changed my oil or a spark plug because those are things that I consider maintenance. I make enough money where I can pay professionals to maintain my car. Unless people stop providing car maintenance service and reasonable price, there is no necessity for me to learn such things. The extra cost I pay is soaked up by the time and hassle I save. To you, I guess I'm stupid. But to me, I'm just allowing myself more free time to do what I want.
God I hope so. Right now EVE's AI behavior is: If player is within a visibility range, go to an optimum range of player and orbit; if player is in locking range, lock on player; if player is locked, fire weapons on player. I love how you can just destroy a whole squadron of enemies while the other squadron nearby just sits there and acts like nothing happened. God Eve is boring.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
Wow this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I could easily deal with an armed person by force in many situations:
A. If I have the element of surprise. B. I have friends with weapons guns as well. C. The victim sucks at using their gun.
So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.
No. The greatest civilization is one where all citizens have absolutely no reason to be armed or to use force.
I'm not that much of an anti-gun person but to say that guns will create a perfect civilization is absurd.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed if someone walked up to me and spanked me on the arse as an adult.
Horrible comparison. I think most parents spank their kids because of a reason, they just don't walk up to their kid and spank them for the hell of it. Second of all, if it was a female that slapped me on the ass, I would be the opposite of pissed.
It certainly doesn't work as a disciplinary measure, what it does do is enforce a pointless cycle of abuse.
I was spanked as a child. I've never been in a fight and I'm not even sure if I will spank my children if I ever have any. Yeah it's anecdotal, but I bet you would be hard pressed to fine any proof that spanking alone makes people abusive. Have you even been spanked before? It's hardly abuse. It stings for like a minute and goes away. It seems that I'm in the minority here and I will probably get modded down for it, but I'm all for giving families the freedom of choosing how they raise their kids, as long as the kid isn't being hurt out of pure anger, and doesn't suffer any injuries.
How is this insightful? I'm not saying that these companies are to blame for every single death that is caused while someone is using their product, but to say that they have NOTHING to do with the deaths is quite a stretch.
Everything has risk. No shit. But that doesn't mean that companies have no responsibility when things go wrong with their products. Especially if they advertise their product in such a way that misleads consumers into making mistakes when making their risk assessment.
That's all great except that there are essentially three teams on each side on football. An american football player rarely is on the field more than half of the game. As a soccer player I can tell you that those times where the ball comes off the field, and play is shortly stopped, are much needed. You really can't get away with a lack stamina conditionining in soccer like you can in football.
Either an action 'ABC' is a crime or it is not - that should not depend on someone's reaction to 'ABC'.
Okay, I guess I can try to murder my friend who is allergic to peanuts by putting peanuts in his food, and get away with it. Hey, feeding peanuts to someone isn't a crime!! So even though I knew he was allergic to peanuts and he could possibly die, I shouldn't receive any punishment, right?
The crime in this case should be that Lori Drew tormented a girl who had depression and risked the girl's life by psychologically hurting her. Since there was no "Making a Myspace persona to incite an individual's suicide" crime, the prosecution found another crime that was already in the books (but generally never enforced, and probably won't be enforced in the future except for extreme cases like this) that she did commit and used those as reason to punish her. This obviously isn't the most efficient way to serve justice, but I do think justice was served in this particular case.
I know it's popular to hate on American football because it's American, but the types of hits and tackles legal in the NFL would mean half a rugby team would be paralyzed by the end of the season
I'm gonna have to call bull shit on that one. I have sneaking suspicion you never actually watched a professional rugby game before. There is little difference between the severity of the hits and tackles. In fact, I definitely see more blood and injuries with rugby. Also, the play doesn't always end when you get hit/tackled and rugby. American football players generally get a good 20 second rest. American football is pretty much rugby with much more resting.
Computing, post-graduate science, and engineering just don't compensate people well for the lifestyle sacrifices (long working hours, little exercise) required.
Are you kidding me!? In terms of starting salary, Computer Science and engineering are still some of the best majors to get in to. Not only that, compared to the medical fields and law fields, getting a degree in CS or engineering requires much less time and effort. And long working hours? That has nothing to do with your field of study. As a staff computer scientist at my company, I can work anywhere between 30-40 hours per week. My company is an engineering company that does contracts with various government agencies and while some people end up doing overtime once in a while, it's a rare thing. It would be naive of someone to choose a different field if they think engineering fields require long hours. If you get good grades and connections you can choose a job with the hours you are looking for.
Lastly, what century have you been living in? Almost all good paying jobs these days require very little exercise, and it's not like people can't just join a sports team or go the gym during their free time because they are an engineering major. Furthermore, most jobs that require exercise also involve more risk. I'm sorry, but I have to say that your theory why women aren't getting into engineering fields is a very weak theory.
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I don't blame him. According the article, Card said some pretty hateful things, and seems to have some ideologies that could really damage America's future. Personally, I still might read the new book, but it might be a purchase that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
What about all of the music we enjoy? Most musicians do things that many people don't condone.
While doing drugs and engaging in rampant promiscuity are things I don't really condone, inciting hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and possible violence is on a whole other level. I can't think any musicians that I listen to who provoke such horrible things.
I tried creating a finger print matching system for my final project in my Vision Class. I would say there are no standards for declaring a match because the quality of the fingerprints you get off the scene and the quality of the fingerprints you have in your database can effect what algorithms/thresholds you should be using. A lot of these matching systems just narrow down the possible matches and then a human can examine the finger prints pretty effectively. No one ever said it was perfect, but if you can get good finger prints from the scene, it definately can help identify people.
There are multiple graphs. You can't just look at one. There seems to be a very slight increase in players in the past week or so, judging from the daily graph. However looking at the big picture, it looked like Eve growth was doubling every few years until early this year. There has been a no-growth period for the last 6 months. Who knows why that's the case though. The shitty economy could very well be the reason why growth is now stagnant.
So 81% of journalist, you know, the people who's job is to gain knowledge about what's happening in the world and report it, vote democrat. There was a slashdot article earlier this year that had a breakdown of economists political views. I can't remember the exact number, but a similar majority of them supported democrats as well. This is totally my bias speaking here, but maybe educated people are biased towards the left because they actually know that it is better for the country. I am biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Evidently, only 3% more than half the people want healthcare, ending the war, etc. I would hardly call the election a vote of confidence for Obama, more like a few more people than last time voted Democrat.
Compared to many elections, Obama's win was quite large. You need to look at the history of some elections if you are honestly trying to make it seem that Obama barely won. Bush got less than fifty percent, and less popular votes than Al Gore in 2000. When you campaign in a country that is extremely divided by gun rights, gay marriage, and abortion, how in the world can you expect a candidate to magically win 100% of the vote?
And you mean the truth about where the tax increase would start? Or the truth about accepting public campaign finances??
If you actually looked at the statistics of Obama's tax plan, there is a net decrease (albeit small) of taxes. I have a feeling your bias is strong enough that you won't even bother to check. Yeah Obama went back on his word for public financing, but if I were in his position I would have done the same thing.
There was enough dirty politics, misrepresenting the facts and half truths to go around, neither candidate can claim the high ground. I distinctly remember when I was pleased they were both behaving, and then noticed Obama going negative first.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. Please try some news sources other than Fox News every once in a while. Show me a news article about Obama being negative towards McCain, and I'll show you an earlier one with McCain attacking Obama. And let's not totally ignore the fact of the levels negativity coming from the campaigns. We have one side shouting "Kill him! He's a terroist!" and the other side is saying "He is old, and is similar to Bush!" Give me a break.
Now Obama wants everyone to work together. If only he had started that mantra with his own party when he got elected to the senate, maybe he would have more credibility. His definition of 'working together' appears to be 'doing it my way'.
So which is it? Either he votes with his party 97% of the time, or he is "doing it my way". Those are two mutually exclusive things that people use to attack his credibility.
I'm not saying stuff like that never happens in schools. But come on, does this community service thing really mean that children will suffer the same oppression that black slaves in the south did? I was just trying to make the point that a few hours of community service a month isn't the end of the world for these kids. And equating that specific requirement to slavery is silly. If you want to make the argument that some schools already treat the students like slaves, I would not disagree with that.
Mandatory community service? Sounds a bit like slavery to me.
Do the school officials kill the kids who try to leave early, and sexually abuse the female students? Can the school sell the kids for money to other schools or private organizations? No?
Yeah, mandatory community service doesn't sound at all like slavery to me.
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"Homophobic" is newspeak. Does it ever occur to you that people who oppose adoption by gays, for example, may do so on the basis of principles they hold and not irrational fear?
Does it ever occur to you that some people's principles are what cause/create irrational fear? Or that people's irrational fears morph their principles?
Mandatory community service? Great, let's send a bunch of unmotivated kids to do stupid work. Hell, that kind of shit would have been a nightmare for me at that age when I had massive social anxiety and was extremely uncomfortable in such situations.
I don't think it's such a horrible idea, but I am probably biased because am no longer a student =). I just hope the plan wouldn't be enforced too much. If we are failing kids out of an education because they don't want to some work, then I think it would be a bad thing. That being said, I do think that the problems we are going to be facing in the near future are going to require EVERYONE to chip in this time, not just the compassionate types. It probably wouldn't be that bad for the kids either. I would imagine what will happen is that public schools will choose certain classes where the class has a weekly "field trip" and the kids help pick up trash or something like that. I don't understand how this could be any more of nightmare for an anti-social kid that's already in a public school in the first place.
Your request is poorly worded. I wouldn't blame the GP for not answering it for that reason alone, although there are many others. Are you asking for a news source which is claiming that Biden's statements make sense? Or are you asking which news source makes sense when they are talking about Biden's statements? Your word usage sucks ass. Are you honestly already attacking Obama's foreign policy when they have yet to take a single action? At least wait until the guy gets into the office before you start criticizing them. You might get an ounce of credibility then.
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I think refusing to hire someone solely because of their age is naive. Is there some magical event at the age of 30 that bestows knowledge of linkers to the aging programmer? Give me a break. You are making bad assumptions. Your first bad assumption is that just because of your anecdotal experience dealing with one individual, that all schools no longer teach anything about linkers. Your second bad assumption is that even if that was true, no programmer would learn that information on their own, as if no one is generally interested in learning comp sci any more outside of the classroom.
Doesn't seem too much in the "challenge" department versus the "Nintendo Hard" department (Oh, so you survived that wave? Well let's see how you deal with filling the whole SCREEN with bullets!)
Well the XBox 360 version you just play until you lose all your lives. Your failure is inevitable (at least it's supposed to be). I think extreme difficulty in games like this is more reasonable because you're not really getting frustrated trying to get to the next level or trying to get further in the storyline. You're generally just trying to beat your friend's high score. I could see people getting annoyed with Ikaruga because it's beatable but only after becoming an expert at the game, and to do that, you have to play the levels over and over again.
If only Eve was actually fun.
The one I have done involves sitting behind someone, eyes closed, and having your nose stroked (by a third party) while you stroke someone else's nose in front of you. After a few seconds, your brain "clicks" and you feel like you have an incredibly long nose.
Now I know what to do to feel like I have an incredibly long penis. But I'm not quite sure if it's worth it.
When cars were first sold to the public, if you bought one you'd damned well better know how to fix it yourself. Fast forward to now. Plenty of idiots still buy cars and are completely fucked when it comes time to do something as minor as changing the oil or spark plugs.
But is it really because people are stupid that they can't change a spark plug or oil, or is it because that knowledge is really no longer a necessity for some people? I know how to change a tire and to jump start a car because it is knowledge I have needed and will probably need in the future. However I've never changed my oil or a spark plug because those are things that I consider maintenance. I make enough money where I can pay professionals to maintain my car. Unless people stop providing car maintenance service and reasonable price, there is no necessity for me to learn such things. The extra cost I pay is soaked up by the time and hassle I save. To you, I guess I'm stupid. But to me, I'm just allowing myself more free time to do what I want.
God I hope so. Right now EVE's AI behavior is: If player is within a visibility range, go to an optimum range of player and orbit; if player is in locking range, lock on player; if player is locked, fire weapons on player. I love how you can just destroy a whole squadron of enemies while the other squadron nearby just sits there and acts like nothing happened. God Eve is boring.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
Wow this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I could easily deal with an armed person by force in many situations:
A. If I have the element of surprise.
B. I have friends with weapons guns as well.
C. The victim sucks at using their gun.
So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.
No. The greatest civilization is one where all citizens have absolutely no reason to be armed or to use force.
I'm not that much of an anti-gun person but to say that guns will create a perfect civilization is absurd.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed if someone walked up to me and spanked me on the arse as an adult.
Horrible comparison. I think most parents spank their kids because of a reason, they just don't walk up to their kid and spank them for the hell of it. Second of all, if it was a female that slapped me on the ass, I would be the opposite of pissed.
It certainly doesn't work as a disciplinary measure, what it does do is enforce a pointless cycle of abuse.
I was spanked as a child. I've never been in a fight and I'm not even sure if I will spank my children if I ever have any. Yeah it's anecdotal, but I bet you would be hard pressed to fine any proof that spanking alone makes people abusive. Have you even been spanked before? It's hardly abuse. It stings for like a minute and goes away. It seems that I'm in the minority here and I will probably get modded down for it, but I'm all for giving families the freedom of choosing how they raise their kids, as long as the kid isn't being hurt out of pure anger, and doesn't suffer any injuries.
How is this insightful? I'm not saying that these companies are to blame for every single death that is caused while someone is using their product, but to say that they have NOTHING to do with the deaths is quite a stretch.
Everything has risk. No shit. But that doesn't mean that companies have no responsibility when things go wrong with their products. Especially if they advertise their product in such a way that misleads consumers into making mistakes when making their risk assessment.
That's all great except that there are essentially three teams on each side on football. An american football player rarely is on the field more than half of the game. As a soccer player I can tell you that those times where the ball comes off the field, and play is shortly stopped, are much needed. You really can't get away with a lack stamina conditionining in soccer like you can in football.
Either an action 'ABC' is a crime or it is not - that should not depend on someone's reaction to 'ABC'.
Okay, I guess I can try to murder my friend who is allergic to peanuts by putting peanuts in his food, and get away with it. Hey, feeding peanuts to someone isn't a crime!! So even though I knew he was allergic to peanuts and he could possibly die, I shouldn't receive any punishment, right?
The crime in this case should be that Lori Drew tormented a girl who had depression and risked the girl's life by psychologically hurting her. Since there was no "Making a Myspace persona to incite an individual's suicide" crime, the prosecution found another crime that was already in the books (but generally never enforced, and probably won't be enforced in the future except for extreme cases like this) that she did commit and used those as reason to punish her. This obviously isn't the most efficient way to serve justice, but I do think justice was served in this particular case.
I know it's popular to hate on American football because it's American, but the types of hits and tackles legal in the NFL would mean half a rugby team would be paralyzed by the end of the season
I'm gonna have to call bull shit on that one. I have sneaking suspicion you never actually watched a professional rugby game before. There is little difference between the severity of the hits and tackles. In fact, I definitely see more blood and injuries with rugby. Also, the play doesn't always end when you get hit/tackled and rugby. American football players generally get a good 20 second rest. American football is pretty much rugby with much more resting.
Funny comparison, but I would lay low for a while and avoid anyone named Chris Hansen. If he asks you to have a seat, it's too late to run away.
I believe he is talking about a vasectomy.
Computing, post-graduate science, and engineering just don't compensate people well for the lifestyle sacrifices (long working hours, little exercise) required.
Are you kidding me!? In terms of starting salary, Computer Science and engineering are still some of the best majors to get in to. Not only that, compared to the medical fields and law fields, getting a degree in CS or engineering requires much less time and effort. And long working hours? That has nothing to do with your field of study. As a staff computer scientist at my company, I can work anywhere between 30-40 hours per week. My company is an engineering company that does contracts with various government agencies and while some people end up doing overtime once in a while, it's a rare thing. It would be naive of someone to choose a different field if they think engineering fields require long hours. If you get good grades and connections you can choose a job with the hours you are looking for.
Lastly, what century have you been living in? Almost all good paying jobs these days require very little exercise, and it's not like people can't just join a sports team or go the gym during their free time because they are an engineering major. Furthermore, most jobs that require exercise also involve more risk. I'm sorry, but I have to say that your theory why women aren't getting into engineering fields is a very weak theory.
I don't blame him. According the article, Card said some pretty hateful things, and seems to have some ideologies that could really damage America's future. Personally, I still might read the new book, but it might be a purchase that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
What about all of the music we enjoy? Most musicians do things that many people don't condone.
While doing drugs and engaging in rampant promiscuity are things I don't really condone, inciting hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and possible violence is on a whole other level. I can't think any musicians that I listen to who provoke such horrible things.
I tried creating a finger print matching system for my final project in my Vision Class. I would say there are no standards for declaring a match because the quality of the fingerprints you get off the scene and the quality of the fingerprints you have in your database can effect what algorithms/thresholds you should be using. A lot of these matching systems just narrow down the possible matches and then a human can examine the finger prints pretty effectively. No one ever said it was perfect, but if you can get good finger prints from the scene, it definately can help identify people.
There are multiple graphs. You can't just look at one. There seems to be a very slight increase in players in the past week or so, judging from the daily graph. However looking at the big picture, it looked like Eve growth was doubling every few years until early this year. There has been a no-growth period for the last 6 months. Who knows why that's the case though. The shitty economy could very well be the reason why growth is now stagnant.
So 81% of journalist, you know, the people who's job is to gain knowledge about what's happening in the world and report it, vote democrat. There was a slashdot article earlier this year that had a breakdown of economists political views. I can't remember the exact number, but a similar majority of them supported democrats as well. This is totally my bias speaking here, but maybe educated people are biased towards the left because they actually know that it is better for the country. I am biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Evidently, only 3% more than half the people want healthcare, ending the war, etc. I would hardly call the election a vote of confidence for Obama, more like a few more people than last time voted Democrat.
Compared to many elections, Obama's win was quite large. You need to look at the history of some elections if you are honestly trying to make it seem that Obama barely won. Bush got less than fifty percent, and less popular votes than Al Gore in 2000. When you campaign in a country that is extremely divided by gun rights, gay marriage, and abortion, how in the world can you expect a candidate to magically win 100% of the vote?
And you mean the truth about where the tax increase would start? Or the truth about accepting public campaign finances??
If you actually looked at the statistics of Obama's tax plan, there is a net decrease (albeit small) of taxes. I have a feeling your bias is strong enough that you won't even bother to check. Yeah Obama went back on his word for public financing, but if I were in his position I would have done the same thing.
There was enough dirty politics, misrepresenting the facts and half truths to go around, neither candidate can claim the high ground. I distinctly remember when I was pleased they were both behaving, and then noticed Obama going negative first.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. Please try some news sources other than Fox News every once in a while. Show me a news article about Obama being negative towards McCain, and I'll show you an earlier one with McCain attacking Obama. And let's not totally ignore the fact of the levels negativity coming from the campaigns. We have one side shouting "Kill him! He's a terroist!" and the other side is saying "He is old, and is similar to Bush!" Give me a break.
Now Obama wants everyone to work together. If only he had started that mantra with his own party when he got elected to the senate, maybe he would have more credibility. His definition of 'working together' appears to be 'doing it my way'.
So which is it? Either he votes with his party 97% of the time, or he is "doing it my way". Those are two mutually exclusive things that people use to attack his credibility.
I'm not saying stuff like that never happens in schools. But come on, does this community service thing really mean that children will suffer the same oppression that black slaves in the south did? I was just trying to make the point that a few hours of community service a month isn't the end of the world for these kids. And equating that specific requirement to slavery is silly. If you want to make the argument that some schools already treat the students like slaves, I would not disagree with that.
Mandatory community service?
Sounds a bit like slavery to me.
Do the school officials kill the kids who try to leave early, and sexually abuse the female students? Can the school sell the kids for money to other schools or private organizations? No?
Yeah, mandatory community service doesn't sound at all like slavery to me.
"Homophobic" is newspeak. Does it ever occur to you that people who oppose adoption by gays, for example, may do so on the basis of principles they hold and not irrational fear?
Does it ever occur to you that some people's principles are what cause/create irrational fear? Or that people's irrational fears morph their principles?
Mandatory community service? Great, let's send a bunch of unmotivated kids to do stupid work. Hell, that kind of shit would have been a nightmare for me at that age when I had massive social anxiety and was extremely uncomfortable in such situations.
I don't think it's such a horrible idea, but I am probably biased because am no longer a student =). I just hope the plan wouldn't be enforced too much. If we are failing kids out of an education because they don't want to some work, then I think it would be a bad thing. That being said, I do think that the problems we are going to be facing in the near future are going to require EVERYONE to chip in this time, not just the compassionate types. It probably wouldn't be that bad for the kids either. I would imagine what will happen is that public schools will choose certain classes where the class has a weekly "field trip" and the kids help pick up trash or something like that. I don't understand how this could be any more of nightmare for an anti-social kid that's already in a public school in the first place.
Your request is poorly worded. I wouldn't blame the GP for not answering it for that reason alone, although there are many others. Are you asking for a news source which is claiming that Biden's statements make sense? Or are you asking which news source makes sense when they are talking about Biden's statements? Your word usage sucks ass. Are you honestly already attacking Obama's foreign policy when they have yet to take a single action? At least wait until the guy gets into the office before you start criticizing them. You might get an ounce of credibility then.