You are mostly just asserting that IT and CS work isn't very intellectually deep, which generally holds true for most IT tasks, as well as many CS task. There are however many tasks which require more academic knowledge, like an insurance algorithm. Zoho's most complex algorithms will be some statistics functions in their spreadsheet and their spell checker though, so high school kids sound reasonable.
You know, people have been marrying for money and security for centuries right? And it's not always that much money, or even that much security.
Google's health benefits for homosexual couples will require that relationships are serious, well maybe they even ask if you've ever had a commitment ceremony. I'm doubtful many google employees would lie about their relationships for $1k per year, maybe some lie for the health care already, but whatever.
Just fyi, if you disable all extra-testing, etc. repositories then you'll clean out like 10+ megs package descriptions, which sufficed for most people. I personally had further problems with LaTeX because Maemo's optify rather stupidly does not move hordes of small files to/home/opt, but I moved them manually. If you install command line applications like git, you must always manually move them too.
Apple will have all manor of roadblocks set up against using an iPod touch, like no multitasking, pulling telephony applications, etc. Just avoid Apple.
Imho, you should look at the Nokia N900 and Nokia's Symbian phones, but Android also offers support for Skype and SIP via third party applications. Symbian includes a separate SIP application from Nokia, and a Skype application exists too. You'll find suitable Symbian phones for way less than Android.
N900s however offer truly integrated SIP and Skype, which beats the pants off third party applications. You shouldn't expect that you'll use the N900 like a little computer however, sure the physical keyboard beats the pants off an iPhone's virtual keyboard, but we're still talking a very small keyboard.
I've got an ssh script that prints just fine, sans overhead too, but..
The whole point of local cups is integrated printing, i.e. the N900's native applications like email, pdf reader, ovi maps, conversations, and contacts all need printing support.
I've experienced serious problems using all three telepathy MSN plugins, admittedly before PR1.2. I'm unsure if the issues are telepathy or the plugins.
Yeah, but we've been fairly fearful that Maemo/MeeGo was being held back by Symbian heads inside Nokia, obviously all the old codgers have been overruled. It's awesome if Nokia merely elevates their N series. In fact, they has well better maintain a clear tech lead over their competitors, as that buys them all their public hardware beta testing. And you just know support for Android apps as second class citizens will arrive shortly.
Yes, it's an OSS mobile dream come true, but also : (1) Nokia ships more advanced hardware than any other phone maker. (2) Nokia is the biggest phone maker in the world. (3) Nokia has maintained user interface loyalty since before Apple even rehired Jobs.
We've been bullshitting about "the year of Linux on the desktop" here since the beginning, but well this might actually be the year of Linux on the mobile. Maemo/MeeGo require special apps for UI purposed, like all mobile devices, but unlike iPhone, Android, and Palm they don't require those apps be owned by Apple or be rewritten in Java or whatever.
N900's are currently fairly raw, but they are fucking bad ass. I'd assume that Meego will bring rotation, after that, the only shit that annoys me is : (1) the integrated aim and msn suck, although sms, skype, and sip are solid, (2) few games dispite being the only phone with solid GL, and (3) no cups/gs printing. On what other phone would you bitch about the lack of fucking printing?
Patents might count more than publications for non-academics, hell even for academics. If your employer would own the patent, fine well make them pay the lawyers, and get the resume line for yourself. Yes, software patents are wrong, and we'll all win if they're eliminated one day, but the resume line still counts.
In fact, academia is wide open if your invention is really that brilliant, but most likely you're simply not nearly as clever as you imagine. So fine you'll never see science, nature, etc. but you should not let that discourage you however. I'll explain :
Academia has a handful of brilliant tenured professors with good academic jobs doing serious research. We're talking maybe half-ish the faculty at the top three-ish institutions in each state, way more in MA, way less in MO, etc. After these, we've got the smart young postdocs who produce good research simply by being smart and young, but those smart young people must eventually either leave academia for industry, or take glorified high school teacher posts at so-called liberal arts collages.
You know how people say "the people who can do and the people who can't teach"? Well, they're not talking about professors at research universities, who most definitely can do, but maybe can't teach. They're talking about professors at liberal arts collages, who learned to teach, but never quite got the doing, and never escaped into industry.
Anyways, all these baby sitter professors need weak journals where they can publish whatever kinda interesting stuff they've been toying around with in between all their massive teaching and administrative duties, ideally stuff so easy they've involved their undergraduates. You'll therefore find plenty of journals or conferences for which your paper is suitable, I promise. Do you think your find is better than a clever rich kid's heavily guided summer project? Great, we've got journals for that intermediate level too.
Do you think you're discovery is really really great? Alright, maybe you should chat about it with local universities. You might actually find some trick for getting a masters or even doctorate out of it. You'd need some classes of course, but hey masters with thesis usually doesn't require many hours. If they take you, they'll help you get the paper into the right journal. Don't you think a master's degree plus a publication sounds way better than just a publication?
Is a patent worth more than a master's degree? I donno, maybe depending upon the employer, but you can try both.
Yes of course, that's perfectly logical. All the investors know the stock price was over inflated for a company that's merely "profitable".
Companies likely need some new form of governance or stock incentives that prevents short term thinking. A successful approach is if executives options vest only years after they depart the company. Another approach would be dividing the board into two houses, one elected by the investors, and one elected by the employees. Another might be some form of deliberative democracy for validating the board's decisions, like say trials where random employees are jury members, and different opinions on the board are the advocates.
Other wikileaks staff bitch about how they cannot find him for weeks or months on end, and that's before he angered the U.S.
Assange isn't the best programmer or mathematicians aiding wikileaks, but he's definitely the one who'll expose himself. Assange very likely knows absolutely nothing about the individual leaks until another member involves him, like with Collateral Murder.
Yes, ideas can survive almost any conventional military attack, but waiting for your enemy to get bored and go home isn't exactly substantive progress towards your political ends.
Iraqi 'irregulars' will win precisely when the U.S. goes home, but all their efforts spent keeping the American body count high may not make the departure date any sooner.
America achieved their revolutionary goals definitively largely because England was over committed elsewhere, the French gave significant aid, and they already had massive influence within the existing power structure.
Afganistan and Vietnam has significant aid but still ended up just waiting the USSR and US out because they were not over committed elsewhere.
Afaik, the communist revolutions like China, Russia, Cuba, etc. largely ate the existing decadent power structure from the inside, same for many European revolutions.
The Palestinians will never achieve their political goals through violence because the Israelis are also fighting for survival. I'll grant they'll never drive the Israelis into the sea using peaceful means either, but they could establish stable states.
Gandhi and MLK achieved radical political change quite rapidly using non-violent means.
All that torrent based media does is provide ISPs with an excuse for using caching servers for bittorrent, which solves their bandwidth problems, just not how the media industry wants.
Governments are *very* good at force escalation. Gandhi and MLK won by denying them legitimacy once they employed force. By comparison, the Palestinians have never gained their own state precisely because they've refused to forswear violence.
You need not be completely non-violent of course, but you must convincingly reject violence. Indeed, Gandhi and MLK both faced competition from violent groups with the same goals, but they and their lieutenants rejected violence so absolutely that government could not blame them for any violence. Arafat never seriously even sought that status.
I doubt online rights would suffer if Lameo got shot by one lone crazy with guns and NRA membership, but your public encouraging of said hypothetical gun nut makes rights activists look bad, and any concerted effort towards would be even worse.
If you feel like doing some good, how about helping convince slashdot, boing boing, etc. to impose a 1 year moratorium on wired.com links. Lameo is just a moron who tricked Manning. Wired has seriously violated journalistic integrity.
Afaik, DePaul University is a Catholic pseudo-degree mill. So they'll use just use papal infallibility.
As others have observed, they have basically just added some calculous courses onto a standard low-level liberal arts degree. You'll fair far better hiring any math major with half was decent grades from any upper level state school.
You ain't being accused by spamhaus, they just collate other people's opinions. You are being accused by me when I drag your email into my spam box.
I've dragged your email into my spam box because I never wanted to read another asinine email like it again and I hope my email account will learn that your email is garbage. If my email account learns by submitting spam to spamhaus, wonderful, maybe my other email accounts will learn that your emails are garbage too.
You are accountable to me and my spam box trigger finger. I don't care about your stupid new product. I don't care about our "pre-existing business relationship". I only care that your email is fucking garbage that should be deleted without anyone in the whole fucking world ever reading it.
You surely realize that google mail does not outsource all their spam detection to spamhaus? If I flag your email as spam in google, then every single email you send me will make you look bad to google, who has the capacity for blocking like half your spam or even docking your page rank. If I used say 10minutemail.com because you looked particularly scummy, well I just hope google docks the page rank for people listed by spamhaus.
Depends, but one options would simple be a philanthropist providing the money for the top 5--10 institutions in one particular field for 10 years.
You restrict the funding to institutions and fields where the students already get $30k, which already excludes good but cash-strapped places like Berkeley. So you're philanthropist is only paying an extra $10k per student per year in 5--10 departments, and your list will be MIT, Princeton, Harvard, CalTech, Stanford, etc.
You'll now clearly see the best students choosing these institutions, btw current students don't get the funds, only new students. So other institutions will allocate competitiveness pool funds either to raise their salaries to $30k and possibly replace an institution on your list, or to raise salaries above $30k themselves.
After one decade, your philanthropist isn't out *that* much cash, but they've radically altered the pay-scale for an entire discipline, including raising altering the entry level salaries for even baccalaureate level jobs. Again, some institutions that were previously receiving the bonus will replace it by allocating competitiveness pool funds, continuing the arms race for some years, and helping make the new salary state more stable.
Virtually all science and math PhD students are given tuition remission and paid $16k to $30k per year. If you paid for your own science PhD, most likely you're just the crackpot they all knew was crazy, but didn't kick out.
Imho, the easiest solution for fixing the sciences would are :
(1) Raise graduate student pay at top institutions from $30k to $40k, while pointedly advertising how this indicates that (a) people doing this job should make more, (b) people not studying for those institutions will never get tenure track jobs, etc. I'd imagine this would forced better pay at other institutions, thus forcing all institutions into being more selective.
(2) Ban NSF grants for institutions that employ non-retired non-student adjuncts with PhDs for less than $50k per year more for more than 6 months. Ideally, even hiring humanities adjuncts would exclude the institution from NSF funding.
(3) All graduate students should face institutional encouragement for leaving academia for industry, like requiring math PhDs take an applied math course, offering summer support for work on more applied problems, etc.
(4) Create "academically ambitious" tech startup grants that are restricted to very small companies whose projects and personnel are reviewed favorably by pure academics, under the restriction that all IP is licensed under RAND terms, even if the company fails.
Technology is the unique rising tide that lifts all boats.
We need an Automation Trade Initiative treaty that supersedes the WTO treaties. Signatories would be :
(1) Permitted to tariff manually mass produced goods up to the prices for good produced using significantly more automation.
(2) May sue for declaring a particular degree of manual labor excessive, assuming there are at least three other non-coluding signatories and at least six non-coluding companies using significantly more automation for the same product.
(3) Obliged to tariff excessively manually produced goods up to the minimum price among all automated producers.
In other words, you're permitted to be protectionist for a particular industry only if they are using significantly more automation than competitors. Further more, other signatories agree they'll tariff good produced by excessive manual labor, provided enough people are producing them using automation.
Btw, if you're a university student, you should write your professors a simple email explaining the situation, and recommend that they put pressure on the library to cancel the journals printed by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications.
Yes, the school may have violated the journals copyright, but an academic journal does not actually do any work, none, zilch, zero. All the work is done by authors, editors and referees who are paid by universities. And therefore the publisher will ultimately lose.
All universities should immediately cancel all journals subscripts to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications. Academics and students will easily obtain all the articles from either free preprint servers or by writing the article author, while the publisher has now made legit possession toxic.
All academics should apply pressure on their libraries to cancel subscriptions to these journals.
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You are mostly just asserting that IT and CS work isn't very intellectually deep, which generally holds true for most IT tasks, as well as many CS task. There are however many tasks which require more academic knowledge, like an insurance algorithm. Zoho's most complex algorithms will be some statistics functions in their spreadsheet and their spell checker though, so high school kids sound reasonable.
You know, people have been marrying for money and security for centuries right? And it's not always that much money, or even that much security.
Google's health benefits for homosexual couples will require that relationships are serious, well maybe they even ask if you've ever had a commitment ceremony. I'm doubtful many google employees would lie about their relationships for $1k per year, maybe some lie for the health care already, but whatever.
Just fyi, if you disable all extra-testing, etc. repositories then you'll clean out like 10+ megs package descriptions, which sufficed for most people. I personally had further problems with LaTeX because Maemo's optify rather stupidly does not move hordes of small files to /home/opt, but I moved them manually. If you install command line applications like git, you must always manually move them too.
Apple will have all manor of roadblocks set up against using an iPod touch, like no multitasking, pulling telephony applications, etc. Just avoid Apple.
Imho, you should look at the Nokia N900 and Nokia's Symbian phones, but Android also offers support for Skype and SIP via third party applications. Symbian includes a separate SIP application from Nokia, and a Skype application exists too. You'll find suitable Symbian phones for way less than Android.
N900s however offer truly integrated SIP and Skype, which beats the pants off third party applications. You shouldn't expect that you'll use the N900 like a little computer however, sure the physical keyboard beats the pants off an iPhone's virtual keyboard, but we're still talking a very small keyboard.
I've got an ssh script that prints just fine, sans overhead too, but ..
The whole point of local cups is integrated printing, i.e. the N900's native applications like email, pdf reader, ovi maps, conversations, and contacts all need printing support.
I've experienced serious problems using all three telepathy MSN plugins, admittedly before PR1.2. I'm unsure if the issues are telepathy or the plugins.
Yeah, but we've been fairly fearful that Maemo/MeeGo was being held back by Symbian heads inside Nokia, obviously all the old codgers have been overruled. It's awesome if Nokia merely elevates their N series. In fact, they has well better maintain a clear tech lead over their competitors, as that buys them all their public hardware beta testing. And you just know support for Android apps as second class citizens will arrive shortly.
Yes, it's an OSS mobile dream come true, but also :
(1) Nokia ships more advanced hardware than any other phone maker.
(2) Nokia is the biggest phone maker in the world.
(3) Nokia has maintained user interface loyalty since before Apple even rehired Jobs.
We've been bullshitting about "the year of Linux on the desktop" here since the beginning, but well this might actually be the year of Linux on the mobile. Maemo/MeeGo require special apps for UI purposed, like all mobile devices, but unlike iPhone, Android, and Palm they don't require those apps be owned by Apple or be rewritten in Java or whatever.
N900's are currently fairly raw, but they are fucking bad ass. I'd assume that Meego will bring rotation, after that, the only shit that annoys me is :
(1) the integrated aim and msn suck, although sms, skype, and sip are solid,
(2) few games dispite being the only phone with solid GL, and
(3) no cups/gs printing.
On what other phone would you bitch about the lack of fucking printing?
If so, they're just doing their jobs, more likely their aiding industrial espionage.
In all seriousness, Google can and should file a WTO complaint against China here.
Patents might count more than publications for non-academics, hell even for academics. If your employer would own the patent, fine well make them pay the lawyers, and get the resume line for yourself. Yes, software patents are wrong, and we'll all win if they're eliminated one day, but the resume line still counts.
In fact, academia is wide open if your invention is really that brilliant, but most likely you're simply not nearly as clever as you imagine. So fine you'll never see science, nature, etc. but you should not let that discourage you however. I'll explain :
Academia has a handful of brilliant tenured professors with good academic jobs doing serious research. We're talking maybe half-ish the faculty at the top three-ish institutions in each state, way more in MA, way less in MO, etc. After these, we've got the smart young postdocs who produce good research simply by being smart and young, but those smart young people must eventually either leave academia for industry, or take glorified high school teacher posts at so-called liberal arts collages.
You know how people say "the people who can do and the people who can't teach"? Well, they're not talking about professors at research universities, who most definitely can do, but maybe can't teach. They're talking about professors at liberal arts collages, who learned to teach, but never quite got the doing, and never escaped into industry.
Anyways, all these baby sitter professors need weak journals where they can publish whatever kinda interesting stuff they've been toying around with in between all their massive teaching and administrative duties, ideally stuff so easy they've involved their undergraduates. You'll therefore find plenty of journals or conferences for which your paper is suitable, I promise. Do you think your find is better than a clever rich kid's heavily guided summer project? Great, we've got journals for that intermediate level too.
Do you think you're discovery is really really great? Alright, maybe you should chat about it with local universities. You might actually find some trick for getting a masters or even doctorate out of it. You'd need some classes of course, but hey masters with thesis usually doesn't require many hours. If they take you, they'll help you get the paper into the right journal. Don't you think a master's degree plus a publication sounds way better than just a publication?
Is a patent worth more than a master's degree? I donno, maybe depending upon the employer, but you can try both.
Yes of course, that's perfectly logical. All the investors know the stock price was over inflated for a company that's merely "profitable".
Companies likely need some new form of governance or stock incentives that prevents short term thinking. A successful approach is if executives options vest only years after they depart the company. Another approach would be dividing the board into two houses, one elected by the investors, and one elected by the employees. Another might be some form of deliberative democracy for validating the board's decisions, like say trials where random employees are jury members, and different opinions on the board are the advocates.
Other wikileaks staff bitch about how they cannot find him for weeks or months on end, and that's before he angered the U.S.
Assange isn't the best programmer or mathematicians aiding wikileaks, but he's definitely the one who'll expose himself. Assange very likely knows absolutely nothing about the individual leaks until another member involves him, like with Collateral Murder.
Or maybe BP hoping the oil spill gets out of the news sooner?
Yes, ideas can survive almost any conventional military attack, but waiting for your enemy to get bored and go home isn't exactly substantive progress towards your political ends.
Iraqi 'irregulars' will win precisely when the U.S. goes home, but all their efforts spent keeping the American body count high may not make the departure date any sooner.
America achieved their revolutionary goals definitively largely because England was over committed elsewhere, the French gave significant aid, and they already had massive influence within the existing power structure.
Afganistan and Vietnam has significant aid but still ended up just waiting the USSR and US out because they were not over committed elsewhere.
Afaik, the communist revolutions like China, Russia, Cuba, etc. largely ate the existing decadent power structure from the inside, same for many European revolutions.
The Palestinians will never achieve their political goals through violence because the Israelis are also fighting for survival. I'll grant they'll never drive the Israelis into the sea using peaceful means either, but they could establish stable states.
Gandhi and MLK achieved radical political change quite rapidly using non-violent means.
I'm feeling that whole BBC style 'low budget' vibe off this, maybe the BBC would pick them up?
All that torrent based media does is provide ISPs with an excuse for using caching servers for bittorrent, which solves their bandwidth problems, just not how the media industry wants.
Governments are *very* good at force escalation. Gandhi and MLK won by denying them legitimacy once they employed force. By comparison, the Palestinians have never gained their own state precisely because they've refused to forswear violence.
You need not be completely non-violent of course, but you must convincingly reject violence. Indeed, Gandhi and MLK both faced competition from violent groups with the same goals, but they and their lieutenants rejected violence so absolutely that government could not blame them for any violence. Arafat never seriously even sought that status.
I doubt online rights would suffer if Lameo got shot by one lone crazy with guns and NRA membership, but your public encouraging of said hypothetical gun nut makes rights activists look bad, and any concerted effort towards would be even worse.
If you feel like doing some good, how about helping convince slashdot, boing boing, etc. to impose a 1 year moratorium on wired.com links. Lameo is just a moron who tricked Manning. Wired has seriously violated journalistic integrity.
Afaik, DePaul University is a Catholic pseudo-degree mill. So they'll use just use papal infallibility.
As others have observed, they have basically just added some calculous courses onto a standard low-level liberal arts degree. You'll fair far better hiring any math major with half was decent grades from any upper level state school.
I've seen ISP try that actually, horrendous.
You ain't being accused by spamhaus, they just collate other people's opinions. You are being accused by me when I drag your email into my spam box.
I've dragged your email into my spam box because I never wanted to read another asinine email like it again and I hope my email account will learn that your email is garbage. If my email account learns by submitting spam to spamhaus, wonderful, maybe my other email accounts will learn that your emails are garbage too.
You are accountable to me and my spam box trigger finger. I don't care about your stupid new product. I don't care about our "pre-existing business relationship". I only care that your email is fucking garbage that should be deleted without anyone in the whole fucking world ever reading it.
You surely realize that google mail does not outsource all their spam detection to spamhaus? If I flag your email as spam in google, then every single email you send me will make you look bad to google, who has the capacity for blocking like half your spam or even docking your page rank. If I used say 10minutemail.com because you looked particularly scummy, well I just hope google docks the page rank for people listed by spamhaus.
Depends, but one options would simple be a philanthropist providing the money for the top 5--10 institutions in one particular field for 10 years.
You restrict the funding to institutions and fields where the students already get $30k, which already excludes good but cash-strapped places like Berkeley. So you're philanthropist is only paying an extra $10k per student per year in 5--10 departments, and your list will be MIT, Princeton, Harvard, CalTech, Stanford, etc.
You'll now clearly see the best students choosing these institutions, btw current students don't get the funds, only new students. So other institutions will allocate competitiveness pool funds either to raise their salaries to $30k and possibly replace an institution on your list, or to raise salaries above $30k themselves.
After one decade, your philanthropist isn't out *that* much cash, but they've radically altered the pay-scale for an entire discipline, including raising altering the entry level salaries for even baccalaureate level jobs. Again, some institutions that were previously receiving the bonus will replace it by allocating competitiveness pool funds, continuing the arms race for some years, and helping make the new salary state more stable.
Virtually all science and math PhD students are given tuition remission and paid $16k to $30k per year. If you paid for your own science PhD, most likely you're just the crackpot they all knew was crazy, but didn't kick out.
Imho, the easiest solution for fixing the sciences would are :
(1) Raise graduate student pay at top institutions from $30k to $40k, while pointedly advertising how this indicates that (a) people doing this job should make more, (b) people not studying for those institutions will never get tenure track jobs, etc. I'd imagine this would forced better pay at other institutions, thus forcing all institutions into being more selective.
(2) Ban NSF grants for institutions that employ non-retired non-student adjuncts with PhDs for less than $50k per year more for more than 6 months. Ideally, even hiring humanities adjuncts would exclude the institution from NSF funding.
(3) All graduate students should face institutional encouragement for leaving academia for industry, like requiring math PhDs take an applied math course, offering summer support for work on more applied problems, etc.
(4) Create "academically ambitious" tech startup grants that are restricted to very small companies whose projects and personnel are reviewed favorably by pure academics, under the restriction that all IP is licensed under RAND terms, even if the company fails.
Technology is the unique rising tide that lifts all boats.
We need an Automation Trade Initiative treaty that supersedes the WTO treaties. Signatories would be :
(1) Permitted to tariff manually mass produced goods up to the prices for good produced using significantly more automation.
(2) May sue for declaring a particular degree of manual labor excessive, assuming there are at least three other non-coluding signatories and at least six non-coluding companies using significantly more automation for the same product.
(3) Obliged to tariff excessively manually produced goods up to the minimum price among all automated producers.
In other words, you're permitted to be protectionist for a particular industry only if they are using significantly more automation than competitors. Further more, other signatories agree they'll tariff good produced by excessive manual labor, provided enough people are producing them using automation.
Btw, if you're a university student, you should write your professors a simple email explaining the situation, and recommend that they put pressure on the library to cancel the journals printed by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications.
Yes, the school may have violated the journals copyright, but an academic journal does not actually do any work, none, zilch, zero. All the work is done by authors, editors and referees who are paid by universities. And therefore the publisher will ultimately lose.
All universities should immediately cancel all journals subscripts to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications. Academics and students will easily obtain all the articles from either free preprint servers or by writing the article author, while the publisher has now made legit possession toxic.
All academics should apply pressure on their libraries to cancel subscriptions to these journals.