Don't run Windows. "Software auditors" are just about unknown to users of any other platform.
I think you meant "to users of any other platform where the hardware costs less than a car." Oracle, for example, has a long history of auditing its customers and only the most brain damaged among them would run it on Windows.
How well would the world function if garbage men, postal employees, or truck drivers? None of those professions require a great amount of skill or extensive training. They are important, but easily replaceable.
And yet, in many parts of the world, those important but easily replaceable professionals are paid noticeably more than highly skilled and extensively trained IT workers. And by an incredible coincidence, they are the same ones who belong to unions and threaten to go on strike from time to time.
Your luggage has already been checked and your carry-on baggage should be of the approved size and shape to fit through, um, TSA-standard luggage receiving orifices.
Yea because engineers never ask questions! They never look at historical results! That's why all the bridges, roads, computers, phones, buildings, and yes weapons used each day just magically function. Genius, asking questions and working off historical results is exactly what engineers do best. Asking the right questions and applying the answers to come up with functional\better results. Otherwise people like yourself would be living like cavemen.
Thank you. I don't think that I could have demonstrated my point quite as well as you just did. Engineering teaches you to ask questions about how well something functions. "I am designing a bridge to cross this river. How strong does it need to be? Where is the best place to put it? What weather and geological conditions will it be subjected to?" Those are very important questions and the answers will help to ensure that the bridge is built well. In fact those kinds of questions are so important that even when I suggested that studying engineering alone will not teach you what the right questions to ask are, you immediately assumed that those were the only ones that needed answering.
Why does the bridge need to be built? What effect is it likely to have on the people who live and work near it? What purpose would the bridge serve? Is there another way to achieve that goal? These are not engineering questions. They are not questions which someone who works as an engineer cannot ask, but they are not questions which the study of engineering prepares you to ask.
Ask some more questions. Like why would the US invest in science and engineering over liberal arts.
Why would "the US" invest in science and engineering? It's Colleges and Universities which teach it, not the federal government. And US schools are generally so deep in debt that they are choosing to invest only in fields which have an immediate financial return or which can be supported directly by corporate sponsors. That's a lot like sending your kids to work in a factory instead of finishing school -- You get an immediate payback, but they're pretty much screwed in the long term.
There are a lot of common sense answers there. Maybe to keep growing in technological and medical break throughs? Maybe to grow as a nation and improve quality of life.
Yeah! Without US technological breakthroughs, what would chinese and mexican factories build for japanese companies? And "improve quality of life" is good choice of words. Of the 30 nations making up the OECD, the USA has the most children living in poverty. Somehow those medical break throughs combined with the highest per capita health care spending in the world have still left the USA in 38th place in the world for life expectancy, putting it right behind Cuba. Infant mortality rates are 34th in the world and roughly double that of developed nations like Sweden and Japan. These are not signs that say "Hey, everything is great and I'm sure we're all doing the right thing!"
We have plenty of news reporters and journalist. All of which were so bad at "asking questions" that there newspapers are going under.
Again, thanks for supporting my point. This is what happens when your schools can no longer teach. And when you can no longer tell the difference between words like "there", "they're" and "their", or the proper use of punctuation like the slash, but that's a whole other story.
Next time you wise off at engineering and sciences on you computer just remember who gave you the ability to do so.
Wow. Either you're a very experienced troll or you actually do have no clue what I was talking about. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the latter, so I'll try to sum up the original point: Studying nothing but Engineering, and completely disregarding all other fields, can leave you with a a very unbalanced view of the world around you. And that can lead to the parent post.
If the covered side treats it as a 4 way stop, the oncoming 'Green' lane will not stop (they have no way of telling that the other side is covered) so there exists a possibility of someone pulling out into the street on a Red light, and getting hit...
Assuming that all cars are being driving by competent drivers who should be allowed behind the wheel of anything more dangerous than Mario Kart, how is it possible that one of them will see that the light is obscured, correctly treat the intersection as if it were a all-way stop, stop his or her vehicle, look around to see that the intersection is clear and then proceed through only when it is safe, only to be hit by an oncoming vehicle? Unless the vehicle in the oncoming 'Green' lane is either invisible or travelling at something close to the speed of light that can't happen unless one of the drivers has skipped an important step.
And in that case I'm going to have to let Robert Loggia explain where things started to go wrong.
If you don't know this basic driving principle, you shouldn't be driving.
You'd best keep that kind of thinkin' to yerself. Here in the good ole U S of A everyone has the right to drive where they like, how they like, when they like, in what they like, no matter how uneducated, intoxicated, impaired, incompetent or unlicensed they may be. It's in the Constitution, you know, so don't you try to stop me. The Founding Fathers of the nation liked to have a few beers and go hunt deer out of their pickup trucks and they made gollamn sure that the rest of us could too.
Or perhaps the students who put some effort into studying pointless subjects like history, philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, and whatever other underwater-basket-weaving people who aren't engineers take, might have learned enough to say "Hey, you know what? This has all happened before and it didn't work then. This is the wrong way to do it. Have you considered an alternative to blowing things up?"
The students who only studied engineering never learned what the right questions were, let alone how to ask them.
As an aside, US Colleges have been cutting liberal arts education budgets far more than those of sciences and engineering. One might say that this is an example of a country where asking questions is considered much less important than knowing how to blow stuff up.
Maybe a uniform design like a red jacket with a shining insignia on the left chest and a black top that covers the shoulders and a little down. + black pants. Naturally all made in spandex.
The problem with that is that the shirt keeps riding up and you'll have to tug it back down every time you sit.
I mean, ask someone who has just built a perfect scale replica of a trebuchet why he did it. He'll feed you some bullshit about history and what not, but I think ultimately he doesn't really know why he did it.
Well, what else is he going to do with all those perfect scale replicas of cows? The trebuchet seems like the obvious choice to me.
somehow put them all into a coma for the duration of the flight.
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS!
Have you seen the movies they show on flights nowadays? If they aren't aiming for "comatose", they're at least hoping that the stomach pains will keep us from doing anything unexpected.
One of these days, when I have enough time before a plane flight, I'm going to follow the letter of the rules while showing off how easily they can be worked around
In your case, "enough time before a plane flight" would be in the neighbourhood of five to ten years. Good luck with that, though, and enjoy your vacation in Cuba.
Give him realistic fps with one-hit-kill bullet and he will not play it for long. You do not keep playing game you suck at, and adding some mechanics means that pretty much everyone ends up sucking.
Unless, mysteriously enough, he's not some kind of teabagging munchkin and actually enjoys being challenged by something more than figuring out which button launches the nuclear rocket in his backpack. While this would set him apart from the majority of online gamers in the world today, it's not unheard of.
Did you know that some people actually played Contra without entering the cheat code? And that games like Shinobi were quite popular, despite not being mind-numbingly Haloistically easy? Ever wonder where the phrase "Nintendo Hard" came from? It came from people playing games that they sucked at, and not giving up.
So if we take out the "Anakin crap", we are left with a young Obi Wan, a half built C3PO, and Jar Jar.
You're left with Qui Gon and Obi Wan beating up a bunch of droids with light sabres, then some blurry stuff where we just can't seem to pay attention, then Qui Gon and Obi Wan beating up Darth Maul with light sabres. Then the credits roll, and nobody even remembered the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria.
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I think you meant "to users of any other platform where the hardware costs less than a car." Oracle, for example, has a long history of auditing its customers and only the most brain damaged among them would run it on Windows.
No, you just don't bother reporting them any more.
You're right, they don't.
And yet, in many parts of the world, those important but easily replaceable professionals are paid noticeably more than highly skilled and extensively trained IT workers. And by an incredible coincidence, they are the same ones who belong to unions and threaten to go on strike from time to time.
Go figure.
His replacement.
Your luggage has already been checked and your carry-on baggage should be of the approved size and shape to fit through, um, TSA-standard luggage receiving orifices.
Or whatever they should be called.
How about this?
"Best Buy ... A Waste of Money"
That about covers it.
Apparently, Bono learned math from Verzion.
Thank you. I don't think that I could have demonstrated my point quite as well as you just did. Engineering teaches you to ask questions about how well something functions. "I am designing a bridge to cross this river. How strong does it need to be? Where is the best place to put it? What weather and geological conditions will it be subjected to?" Those are very important questions and the answers will help to ensure that the bridge is built well. In fact those kinds of questions are so important that even when I suggested that studying engineering alone will not teach you what the right questions to ask are, you immediately assumed that those were the only ones that needed answering.
Why does the bridge need to be built? What effect is it likely to have on the people who live and work near it? What purpose would the bridge serve? Is there another way to achieve that goal? These are not engineering questions. They are not questions which someone who works as an engineer cannot ask, but they are not questions which the study of engineering prepares you to ask.
Why would "the US" invest in science and engineering? It's Colleges and Universities which teach it, not the federal government. And US schools are generally so deep in debt that they are choosing to invest only in fields which have an immediate financial return or which can be supported directly by corporate sponsors. That's a lot like sending your kids to work in a factory instead of finishing school -- You get an immediate payback, but they're pretty much screwed in the long term.
Yeah! Without US technological breakthroughs, what would chinese and mexican factories build for japanese companies? And "improve quality of life" is good choice of words. Of the 30 nations making up the OECD, the USA has the most children living in poverty. Somehow those medical break throughs combined with the highest per capita health care spending in the world have still left the USA in 38th place in the world for life expectancy, putting it right behind Cuba. Infant mortality rates are 34th in the world and roughly double that of developed nations like Sweden and Japan. These are not signs that say "Hey, everything is great and I'm sure we're all doing the right thing!"
Again, thanks for supporting my point. This is what happens when your schools can no longer teach. And when you can no longer tell the difference between words like "there", "they're" and "their", or the proper use of punctuation like the slash, but that's a whole other story.
Wow. Either you're a very experienced troll or you actually do have no clue what I was talking about. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the latter, so I'll try to sum up the original point: Studying nothing but Engineering, and completely disregarding all other fields, can leave you with a a very unbalanced view of the world around you. And that can lead to the parent post.
I believe that that sort of situation is adequately covered by this brief instructional video on the subject of driver training manuals.
Assuming that all cars are being driving by competent drivers who should be allowed behind the wheel of anything more dangerous than Mario Kart, how is it possible that one of them will see that the light is obscured, correctly treat the intersection as if it were a all-way stop, stop his or her vehicle, look around to see that the intersection is clear and then proceed through only when it is safe, only to be hit by an oncoming vehicle? Unless the vehicle in the oncoming 'Green' lane is either invisible or travelling at something close to the speed of light that can't happen unless one of the drivers has skipped an important step.
And in that case I'm going to have to let Robert Loggia explain where things started to go wrong.
You'd best keep that kind of thinkin' to yerself. Here in the good ole U S of A everyone has the right to drive where they like, how they like, when they like, in what they like, no matter how uneducated, intoxicated, impaired, incompetent or unlicensed they may be. It's in the Constitution, you know, so don't you try to stop me. The Founding Fathers of the nation liked to have a few beers and go hunt deer out of their pickup trucks and they made gollamn sure that the rest of us could too.
Now if you don't like it, get off the sidewalk.
Or perhaps the students who put some effort into studying pointless subjects like history, philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, and whatever other underwater-basket-weaving people who aren't engineers take, might have learned enough to say "Hey, you know what? This has all happened before and it didn't work then. This is the wrong way to do it. Have you considered an alternative to blowing things up?"
The students who only studied engineering never learned what the right questions were, let alone how to ask them.
As an aside, US Colleges have been cutting liberal arts education budgets far more than those of sciences and engineering. One might say that this is an example of a country where asking questions is considered much less important than knowing how to blow stuff up.
The problem with that is that the shirt keeps riding up and you'll have to tug it back down every time you sit.
No, they can make them. They just aren't the kind that explode and tend to have signs saying "This is not a bomb" on them.
Well, what else is he going to do with all those perfect scale replicas of cows? The trebuchet seems like the obvious choice to me.
Have you seen the movies they show on flights nowadays? If they aren't aiming for "comatose", they're at least hoping that the stomach pains will keep us from doing anything unexpected.
In your case, "enough time before a plane flight" would be in the neighbourhood of five to ten years. Good luck with that, though, and enjoy your vacation in Cuba.
Unless, mysteriously enough, he's not some kind of teabagging munchkin and actually enjoys being challenged by something more than figuring out which button launches the nuclear rocket in his backpack. While this would set him apart from the majority of online gamers in the world today, it's not unheard of.
Did you know that some people actually played Contra without entering the cheat code? And that games like Shinobi were quite popular, despite not being mind-numbingly Haloistically easy? Ever wonder where the phrase "Nintendo Hard" came from? It came from people playing games that they sucked at, and not giving up.
Now get off my lawn, kid.
Yup. I'm sure this guy is going to bat for me.
That's right.
Perhaps he lets his prophet speak for him. He's funny that way.
Remember, the first rule of Fuck Perl is that you do NOT TALK ABOUT Fuck Perl.
To say nothing of the three hundred thousand players who log in to Excel Online every day.
Ah, "Moonbase Alpha". What could possibly go wrong?
I had been hoping that all the promises about going to the moon would have involved actually going there, but I'll take what I can get.
And yet it was still back on the air less than two minutes later. That's still less than 1% of the expected RIM outage.
You're left with Qui Gon and Obi Wan beating up a bunch of droids with light sabres, then some blurry stuff where we just can't seem to pay attention, then Qui Gon and Obi Wan beating up Darth Maul with light sabres. Then the credits roll, and nobody even remembered the Lost Orb of Phantastacoria.
I've seen worse movies.