But individual Deans look better when they produce higher SAT scores... the individual motive over-ruels the organizational motive. In a military town, its number of MILITARY brats (like myself) that count, not locals.
My high school encouraged the lower half to drop out, or join a vocational school (circa 1991).. boat floats higher if you kick out the dead wood. It wasn't an official policy, but hanging out with the "riff-raff" showed me the light... they were encouraged by their guidance coucelors, despite having obvoius talents in art, or whathaveyou, to drop out. Keeping the low performers would make them look bad.
Due to unprecedented developments in technology, A call was sent out today from DARPA and MIT jointly to all aspiring sci-fi writers and directors to get off their butts. Having now created preliminary versions of just about every StarTrek, Asimov, Clarke, etc device possible, DARPA and MIT both are running out of cool ideas and will need to revert to evil geshhhtaaaapo technologies if we can't find something cool to work on.
Joe Schmo said, "Keep a scientist off the streets, write a story. WIthout cool sci-fi to keep them up at night they'll be building super-world-destructo bombs, and other "evil genius" devices..."
I built a counterheight desk so I could work standing up. Standing has done wonders for my productivity, and supposidly, you even burn more calories while doing so... you can also stretch more, and you have the option to have a seat if you want to. (whereas sitting at a normal desk you don't really have the option of standing.)
I get "tagged" by my parents... its not making sure *I* get to school.. just that my tag does.. so I pay (or bully) someone to take the thing to school for me.
Do I get married and lose my awesome genius, or do I get so fed up with all the bullshit dealing with academics, I decide to settledown and not do that kind of crap any more.
Cliff S. in "The Cukoos Egg" tails down a spy selling secrets to the russians. Most of the info he steals is *NOT* classified, but by having *ALL* the info, he can piece together something he doesn't know:
1. New fighter being developed
2. Contract awarded to company X
3. Rifle through purchase orders for titanium and other strategic parts.
4. Get shipping info on said parts
5. now you know the facility where it will be built.
6. find airline reservations from company in question
7. look for engineers and test personell.
8. find nearest test base from point of arrival.
9. Fighter X will be built in location A and tested at location B, between arrival date and departure date.
Needless to say, this is why more things have become classified since the early 80's
I say, if they can meet the challenge, I say "have at thee"... If they can't, *THEN* laugh at them... when they surprise the hell out of you by actually doing it, you'll be the one crying. Just cause you think its impossible, doesn't mean it can't be done.
will copyright their ledgers, will encrypt their communications, etc... how do you enforce a law to protect encrypted "legal" works and not hinder law enforcement against organized crime.
Where the f*ck is HAL?!? We've go just about everything for the trip, and yet NO HAL!! His birthday came and went... Or is it the engineers said "Hey, we need an uber-intelligent AI to pilot this thing".. and everyone just started saying "Open the pod bay doors, Hal".. and the idea was scratched from the list.
I think..
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Ageism in IT?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
... what people are expecting is that you should be managing groups of younger people, helping them enhance their skills etc.
Being self employed, I've noticed (now age 30) that I am respected more by clients who see me as someone who has been in the business longer... Perhaps they want to *HIRE* young, but they want to contract with a company that has more experience, maybe with some of those younger coders under the wing of the lead... Someone to focus all the raw energy.
Isn't there a Japanese business archetype of the older man that guides and tempers the younger man, you need to position yourself as the lead/guiding role
I'm looking at it from a software development standpoint... simple software is easier to test. Now, in your simple software you put something along the lines of
"Should I REAALLY turn off the thrustor".. which goes off to your neural/AI/whatever that makes suggestions... "No, false alarm"
"Ok"
So the "decision software" is supporting the "grunt" software... chicken and egg, what to do when the decision software is all wonky. I prefer tiny insect-like portions... perhaps redundant.
Detect Major Event followed by Major Action Code should have something to check for "Am I Mistaken"
Make it simple. The original software used (like in the moonshots) was Very simple control loops... no OS, no overhead.. just a simple program doing a VERY simple job over and over. Read stick, fire retros as appropriate.
Also, solid state, however big and bulky, isn't susceptible to the radiation that many mega-tiny chips are... by writing (and testing) the software in the simplest manner, and building a VERY specific piece of hardware out of solid state components.. and lots of unit testing... you're more likely to get there.
For the same reason the 486 was the only space-rated intel processor for quite a long time (not sure if thats still true).
I'd rather go on "slower" simpler hardware that does a very specific job... and you can repair with a soldering iron.
The little guy always gets screwed, no matter what language they speak.
I'm more talking about the executive level folks who are milking everyone, who will now be forced to try something else... who are "boo hooing" over the unfare treatment.
Now, the surprise on so many faces - "how can they do that to us", "how will our workers eat?", "We have so much labor, and they are moving operations to some backwater 3rd world country"... will now be coming from New Delhi instead of New Jersey...
When your business consists of undercutting others, and providing services to willfully "outcompete" someone out of a job, don't expect pity.
As a piece of advice I once heard goes: "If you are stupid enough to date someone who dumped someone to be with you, don't be surprised when you get dumped, too."
There was this guy.. and he liked to tell stories that had meaning, because it was easy to remember the story, and the associated meaning... man, what was his name... (Insert favorite diety/boddhi here)
People inherently remember stories and songs much better than bare facts.
You could replace a desktop with this sort of interface, where apps you run would integrate into the one tool.. publishing information about their progress, etc
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But individual Deans look better when they produce higher SAT scores... the individual motive over-ruels the organizational motive. In a military town, its number of MILITARY brats (like myself) that count, not locals.
My high school encouraged the lower half to drop out, or join a vocational school (circa 1991).. boat floats higher if you kick out the dead wood. It wasn't an official policy, but hanging out with the "riff-raff" showed me the light... they were encouraged by their guidance coucelors, despite having obvoius talents in art, or whathaveyou, to drop out. Keeping the low performers would make them look bad.
ELITE back in the BBS days meant you knew someone with a pirate BBS... least in the circles I ran. So they missed the 'leet bus by about 2 decades.
Due to unprecedented developments in technology, A call was sent out today from DARPA and MIT jointly to all aspiring sci-fi writers and directors to get off their butts. Having now created preliminary versions of just about every StarTrek, Asimov, Clarke, etc device possible, DARPA and MIT both are running out of cool ideas and will need to revert to evil geshhhtaaaapo technologies if we can't find something cool to work on.
Joe Schmo said, "Keep a scientist off the streets, write a story. WIthout cool sci-fi to keep them up at night they'll be building super-world-destructo bombs, and other "evil genius" devices..."
Show starving artists trying to make their works breath life at all costs... show Jack Valentie et al. living lavish lifestyles at their expense.
I built a counterheight desk so I could work standing up. Standing has done wonders for my productivity, and supposidly, you even burn more calories while doing so... you can also stretch more, and you have the option to have a seat if you want to. (whereas sitting at a normal desk you don't really have the option of standing.)
I get "tagged" by my parents... its not making sure *I* get to school.. just that my tag does.. so I pay (or bully) someone to take the thing to school for me.
Do I get married and lose my awesome genius, or do I get so fed up with all the bullshit dealing with academics, I decide to settledown and not do that kind of crap any more.
I claim prior art for artificial ethics in such cases as Enron, WorldCOM, and countless examples in the current US Gov't administration
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Interesting, shows the airflow.. but they also do an insulator that shows lift WITHOUT airflow.
Cliff S. in "The Cukoos Egg" tails down a spy selling secrets to the russians. Most of the info he steals is *NOT* classified, but by having *ALL* the info, he can piece together something he doesn't know:
1. New fighter being developed
2. Contract awarded to company X
3. Rifle through purchase orders for titanium and other strategic parts.
4. Get shipping info on said parts
5. now you know the facility where it will be built.
6. find airline reservations from company in question
7. look for engineers and test personell.
8. find nearest test base from point of arrival.
9. Fighter X will be built in location A and tested at location B, between arrival date and departure date.
Needless to say, this is why more things have become classified since the early 80's
I say, if they can meet the challenge, I say "have at thee"... If they can't, *THEN* laugh at them... when they surprise the hell out of you by actually doing it, you'll be the one crying. Just cause you think its impossible, doesn't mean it can't be done.
will copyright their ledgers, will encrypt their communications, etc... how do you enforce a law to protect encrypted "legal" works and not hinder law enforcement against organized crime.
If an DNA program that checks the stock ticker happens to be a really deadly virus...
course the pr0n industry will love the crossover applications...
..on the JIMO site, I have one question:
Where the f*ck is HAL?!? We've go just about everything for the trip, and yet NO HAL!! His birthday came and went... Or is it the engineers said "Hey, we need an uber-intelligent AI to pilot this thing".. and everyone just started saying "Open the pod bay doors, Hal"
... what people are expecting is that you should be managing groups of younger people, helping them enhance their skills etc.
Being self employed, I've noticed (now age 30) that I am respected more by clients who see me as someone who has been in the business longer... Perhaps they want to *HIRE* young, but they want to contract with a company that has more experience, maybe with some of those younger coders under the wing of the lead...
Someone to focus all the raw energy.
Isn't there a Japanese business archetype of the older man that guides and tempers the younger man, you need to position yourself as the lead/guiding role
Funny, last time it was just imported tea that was being taxed...
1. Syncing Website Cache/Proxies
2. Database replication (albeit one way)
3. News forwarding (to prevent 9/11-style outages)
I'm looking at it from a software development standpoint... simple software is easier to test. Now, in your simple software you put something along the lines of
"Should I REAALLY turn off the thrustor".. which goes off to your neural/AI/whatever that makes suggestions... "No, false alarm"
"Ok"
So the "decision software" is supporting the "grunt" software... chicken and egg, what to do when the decision software is all wonky. I prefer tiny insect-like portions... perhaps redundant.
Detect Major Event followed by Major Action Code should have something to check for "Am I Mistaken"
Make it simple. The original software used (like in the moonshots) was Very simple control loops... no OS, no overhead.. just a simple program doing a VERY simple job over and over. Read stick, fire retros as appropriate.
Also, solid state, however big and bulky, isn't susceptible to the radiation that many mega-tiny chips are... by writing (and testing) the software in the simplest manner, and building a VERY specific piece of hardware out of solid state components.. and lots of unit testing... you're more likely to get there.
For the same reason the 486 was the only space-rated intel processor for quite a long time (not sure if thats still true).
I'd rather go on "slower" simpler hardware that does a very specific job... and you can repair with a soldering iron.
Would say
"Do you have documentation to prove that the code you show me wasn't in the linux kernel FIRST, and that you didn't copy said material.."
The little guy always gets screwed, no matter what language they speak.
I'm more talking about the executive level folks who are milking everyone, who will now be forced to try something else... who are "boo hooing" over the unfare treatment.
Now, the surprise on so many faces - "how can they do that to us", "how will our workers eat?", "We have so much labor, and they are moving operations to some backwater 3rd world country" ... will now be coming from New Delhi instead of New Jersey...
When your business consists of undercutting others, and providing services to willfully "outcompete" someone out of a job, don't expect pity.
As a piece of advice I once heard goes: "If you are stupid enough to date someone who dumped someone to be with you, don't be surprised when you get dumped, too."
There was this guy.. and he liked to tell stories that had meaning, because it was easy to remember the story, and the associated meaning... man, what was his name... (Insert favorite diety/boddhi here)
People inherently remember stories and songs much better than bare facts.
You could replace a desktop with this sort of interface, where apps you run would integrate into the one tool.. publishing information about their progress, etc