Why do you think Asians kick so much ass in the sciences and tech fields?
Actually b/c Asian culture believes that science and engineering are skills which can be acquired by hard work, whereas the average American believes they are inate talents that a person either has or does not have, and if not, cannot be acquired to any meaningful degree. Hence, the average Asian student setting out to master science or other technical field starts out with a fundamental hope and belief in his or her eventual success, while their American counterpart is more quickly and easily dissuaded from putting in the requisite hard work and sacrifice.
And pure science very rarly is the driver of much of anything. Where the technical fields impact our lives is through engineering. It's making science practical. And that's something that the evolution vs ID really has no impact on.
Your post was interesting till this point, then it became silly. Repeat after me: Pure science drives EVERYTHING. Without pure science and theoretical research, there ARE NO "technical fields", NO engineering, NO practical science, NO gadgets. Engineering accomplishments are the implementation of theoretical knowledge gained through pure research. Without continuously advancing theoretical knowledge, engineering will never produce anything more than variations on current theory.
For just one example, where do you think our current computing paradigm came from if not from the logic invented by past philosophers? Further, do you think we could even dream of creating quantum computers without first having developed quantum theory?
There are plenty of criticisms of Windows architecture shortcomings, but what about PocketPC OS? I haven't paid much attention to this market. Was it designed from scratch, or is it a cut-down windows kernel? Does it share any of Window's vulnerabilities (mixing of app & os code, security issues, etc.), or is it inherently more secure than Windows by virtue of different architecture?
I've been using quite a large amount of beta probrams
Is a probram a problematic program? Or a programmatic problem? Or a probabalisitc anagram? Or prognosticating BRAM (Buffer Random Access Memory)? Or something else? Thanks for the clarification...
The company has decided against assigning a codename to this new, common processor microarchitecture, curiously enough.
Wow, could it be that the engineers are back in charge at Intel? Palace coup? You know if the marketing people were still in charge, they'd have blue freaks miming the new codename all over the place. Dare I hope that it might become cool again for geeks to like Intel...
And the fact that he actually felt the need to explain what a "paradigm shift" is to his audience - undoubtedly consisting of cynical techies - as if we'd never been (over)exposed to the concept before, quadrupled the BS meter. Honestly, was he born yesterday?
Oblig Dr. Evil Quote: [about his new "laser"] You see, I've turned the moon into what I like to call a... "Death Star".
Unfortunately, that would be about as useful as a solar powered flashlight, unless they find a way to transfer the waste heat permanently into space...
I think that some slashdotters must be fortunate enough to have never seen a really good phishing email.
Actually I get ones like you describe almost every day.
For your convenience they even provide a link to the "website" for you,
And that's always one of the first two givaways, at least to/. readers. The other is that the from email address is sometimes a little suspicious, and the linked website URL is always suspicious, since that can't be faked.
Google doesn't do any research. What does google do?
I don't know about that. Google's mission is to "Organize the world's information". Considering such an undertaking has never before been attempted on such a scale (unless you count Yahoo's manual indexing), then I suspect Google engages in quite a bit of advanced research. Why else would they hire brilliant, accomplished PhDs and encourage them to research and publish. It's certainly not to master AJAX web scripting techniques. Granted, Google's research is in more nebulous areas of unstructured datamining, information retrieval, algorithms, AI, OS & filesystem design, and maybe they won't develop the next general, purpose Unix or better materials for spaceship construction, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they don't do research. A brief list of their research areas are:
You might say they're standing on the shoulders of the giants of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, but in terms of computer science, show us someone who isn't. That doesn't mean Google's research could be any less important or ground breaking. And don't underestimate the value of the knowledge aggregation and improving language translation ability of their search engine. Who knows how this could affect human civilization, maybe even to the point of speeding up our advancement by connecting minds with more relevant information more quickly than the printing press, the worthless main stream media, and even P2P email allowed. Only time will tell...
Of course, they can still add new features to new versions of a ROM-based Windows kernel, just not retroactively. New boxen would still get the new features, just not old boxen. A compromise, but possibly worth it for the security gains. Bit of a red herring, his comment...
What am I supposed to do for money? I don't want a free ride but odds are that, if I wouldn't hire someone disabled like me, nobody else will either.
My dad always told me to get a profession (lawyer, doctor, etc.), not a job. With a job, say as a manager, you're always dependent on a company being willing to employ you for your income. With a profession, you can work for a company or a firm, or hang out your own shingle and work for yourself. One of the best things about being a skilled developer is that it's more of a profession than a job, and you can hang out your own shingle if a company won't hire you. Sounds like you've got the skills to do so, and now a business degree to help you with the financial/legal/managerial side of running your own business, so why not give it a try?
It's easy to get into the mindset of thinking the only way to make money is by working for a corporation, and to an extent that's probably the most secure way, unless the corporation goes under. But there are other avenues that while initiallly more difficult may give you more control over your own destiny, and hence may prove to be both more secure and more rewarding in the long run. Try to identify a need that your skills and experiences allow you to address in a unique way. For example, your tech skills and long experience, plus MS might allow for some interesting services to people with MS and similar demographics, and would probably be a decent candidate for a government small business grant. Think about it.
I don't condemn the US for choosing to drop the bombs instead of sending tens of thousands more Marines and soldiers to their deaths, but I wonder why the US dropped the bombs on civilian cities, rather than on major Japanese military bases. Seems like the latter would have made just as much an impression on the Japanese government as the former, so why not hit military targets instead of civilian ones?
it [Windows] was a pioneering effort. No one was even close to the ease of use that Windows offered. Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.
Somebody mod the article -1 Flamebait, please. For those who wonder why, read.
It's unfortunate that so much of America's scientific research is funded by the Pentagon, since they tend to see research in terms of national security rather than in terms of discovery of knowledge and advancement of the human race. The achilles heal of this approach is apparent when we've deployed the military, are strapped for cash, and funding for pure research is the first to go. Pure research is, in the long term, the single most important investment a nation can make, for social, scientific, and technological advancement, and for national security reasons. Anyway, I suppose now we're going to see commercials recruiting high school kids to be scientists - "A Research Team of One", or some such schlock.
Be first, or
be second and be happy with that, or
go play elsewhere.
You cannot underestimate the value of being first into the market with a new gadget.
That's old economy stuff, and not necessarily true. Plenty of counter-examples, iPod and Google being the most glaring, and Netscape being another. For whatever reasons, being the first to market no longer guarantees anything, especially not the all-powerful and necessary mindshare required to dominate said market.
There is a very distinct, provable, cellular and molecular difference between "Life" and "Human Life" in the normal process of cellular growth between a sperm and an egg. There is a very predictable period where that cell-that-is-dividing, can be told to become something other than a fetus. This is "Life".
So, what could those cells naturally become, other than some form of human life? It's not like there's a 75% chance those cells will become a human, and a 25% chance they'll become a fish. Even if they haven't reached the developmental threshold you speak of, the die is pretty much cast as to what they will become. I don't see that this alters the issue any, other than giving pro-choice people a red herring to add to their arguments.
Fyi, I'm not very religious either, but do believe in human rights and in the protection of human life. The past century has shown that it is all too easy for people to rationalize the taking of human life, so this is an issue I think we all need to be very careful about.
This whole article is nothing but a flamebait troll. Just like the mainstream media, it reduces complicated issues into aggravating soundbites designed for nothing but rowling its readers into generating a shitstorm of comments. The author/editors must be aiming this one at the Hall of Fame. Can we please extend the mod system to article submissions as well, please?
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I thought there should be: x) Profit!!! somewhere in that list
Not this time, I'm afraid...
Why do you think Asians kick so much ass in the sciences and tech fields?
Actually b/c Asian culture believes that science and engineering are skills which can be acquired by hard work, whereas the average American believes they are inate talents that a person either has or does not have, and if not, cannot be acquired to any meaningful degree. Hence, the average Asian student setting out to master science or other technical field starts out with a fundamental hope and belief in his or her eventual success, while their American counterpart is more quickly and easily dissuaded from putting in the requisite hard work and sacrifice.
And pure science very rarly is the driver of much of anything. Where the technical fields impact our lives is through engineering. It's making science practical. And that's something that the evolution vs ID really has no impact on.
Your post was interesting till this point, then it became silly. Repeat after me: Pure science drives EVERYTHING. Without pure science and theoretical research, there ARE NO "technical fields", NO engineering, NO practical science, NO gadgets. Engineering accomplishments are the implementation of theoretical knowledge gained through pure research. Without continuously advancing theoretical knowledge, engineering will never produce anything more than variations on current theory.
For just one example, where do you think our current computing paradigm came from if not from the logic invented by past philosophers? Further, do you think we could even dream of creating quantum computers without first having developed quantum theory?
There are plenty of criticisms of Windows architecture shortcomings, but what about PocketPC OS? I haven't paid much attention to this market. Was it designed from scratch, or is it a cut-down windows kernel? Does it share any of Window's vulnerabilities (mixing of app & os code, security issues, etc.), or is it inherently more secure than Windows by virtue of different architecture?
I've been using quite a large amount of beta probrams
;)
Is a probram a problematic program? Or a programmatic problem? Or a probabalisitc anagram? Or prognosticating BRAM (Buffer Random Access Memory)? Or something else? Thanks for the clarification...
So a rant demonstrating a complete misunderstanding of Moore's Law gets modded +5 Insightful on /. Nice...
The company has decided against assigning a codename to this new, common processor microarchitecture, curiously enough.
Wow, could it be that the engineers are back in charge at Intel? Palace coup? You know if the marketing people were still in charge, they'd have blue freaks miming the new codename all over the place. Dare I hope that it might become cool again for geeks to like Intel...
And the fact that he actually felt the need to explain what a "paradigm shift" is to his audience - undoubtedly consisting of cynical techies - as if we'd never been (over)exposed to the concept before, quadrupled the BS meter. Honestly, was he born yesterday?
Oblig Dr. Evil Quote: [about his new "laser"] You see, I've turned the moon into what I like to call a... "Death Star".
Unfortunately, that would be about as useful as a solar powered flashlight, unless they find a way to transfer the waste heat permanently into space...
I think that some slashdotters must be fortunate enough to have never seen a really good phishing email.
/. readers. The other is that the from email address is sometimes a little suspicious, and the linked website URL is always suspicious, since that can't be faked.
Actually I get ones like you describe almost every day.
For your convenience they even provide a link to the "website" for you,
And that's always one of the first two givaways, at least to
I don't know about that. Google's mission is to "Organize the world's information". Considering such an undertaking has never before been attempted on such a scale (unless you count Yahoo's manual indexing), then I suspect Google engages in quite a bit of advanced research. Why else would they hire brilliant, accomplished PhDs and encourage them to research and publish. It's certainly not to master AJAX web scripting techniques. Granted, Google's research is in more nebulous areas of unstructured datamining, information retrieval, algorithms, AI, OS & filesystem design, and maybe they won't develop the next general, purpose Unix or better materials for spaceship construction, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they don't do research. A brief list of their research areas are:
- algorithms
- artificial intelligence
- genetic algorithms
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- robotics
(From Papers by Googlers)You might say they're standing on the shoulders of the giants of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, but in terms of computer science, show us someone who isn't. That doesn't mean Google's research could be any less important or ground breaking. And don't underestimate the value of the knowledge aggregation and improving language translation ability of their search engine. Who knows how this could affect human civilization, maybe even to the point of speeding up our advancement by connecting minds with more relevant information more quickly than the printing press, the worthless main stream media, and even P2P email allowed. Only time will tell...
Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3
Tim Sweeney created Unreal and its successors, not Carmack. And I think you mean the "upcoming Doom 4".
4. Butter Rifle. For long distance buttering hobbyists. How tight is your spread?
;)
Heh, that would be a butter shotgun, which I've patented. Rifles don't have spreads, they only fire a single projectile.
Of course, they can still add new features to new versions of a ROM-based Windows kernel, just not retroactively. New boxen would still get the new features, just not old boxen. A compromise, but possibly worth it for the security gains. Bit of a red herring, his comment...
grass would grow here
Um, since grass already grows on earth, then is "here" Mars? Wow, NASA's Mar's plans are a lot further along than I realized...
Windows, which is really a great OS,
Actually, Windows is not a really great OS. Scroll down to the third section titled Design flaws common to all Windows versions and start reading.
Cool I'm getting one right away so I can be the first to port Linux to it! Oh, wait...
What am I supposed to do for money? I don't want a free ride but odds are that, if I wouldn't hire someone disabled like me, nobody else will either.
My dad always told me to get a profession (lawyer, doctor, etc.), not a job. With a job, say as a manager, you're always dependent on a company being willing to employ you for your income. With a profession, you can work for a company or a firm, or hang out your own shingle and work for yourself. One of the best things about being a skilled developer is that it's more of a profession than a job, and you can hang out your own shingle if a company won't hire you. Sounds like you've got the skills to do so, and now a business degree to help you with the financial/legal/managerial side of running your own business, so why not give it a try?
There are multiple options: contract application development (http://www.dice.com/ http://www.scriptlance.com/ http://www.getafreelancer.com/ http://www.rentacoder.com/ http://www.elance.com/ government & corporate grants for small tech businesses (http://www.technologygrantnews.com/), or various tech-related consulting services (here's one somewhat related to your situation - http://www.adaptivetech.net/).
It's easy to get into the mindset of thinking the only way to make money is by working for a corporation, and to an extent that's probably the most secure way, unless the corporation goes under. But there are other avenues that while initiallly more difficult may give you more control over your own destiny, and hence may prove to be both more secure and more rewarding in the long run. Try to identify a need that your skills and experiences allow you to address in a unique way. For example, your tech skills and long experience, plus MS might allow for some interesting services to people with MS and similar demographics, and would probably be a decent candidate for a government small business grant. Think about it.
Calling it the Dvorak prophecy seems way too pretentious.
/. article designed to up the comment count. Nothing to see here, move along please. ;)
Just another flamebait troll in a
I don't condemn the US for choosing to drop the bombs instead of sending tens of thousands more Marines and soldiers to their deaths, but I wonder why the US dropped the bombs on civilian cities, rather than on major Japanese military bases. Seems like the latter would have made just as much an impression on the Japanese government as the former, so why not hit military targets instead of civilian ones?
it [Windows] was a pioneering effort. No one was even close to the ease of use that Windows offered. Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.
Somebody mod the article -1 Flamebait, please. For those who wonder why, read.
It's unfortunate that so much of America's scientific research is funded by the Pentagon, since they tend to see research in terms of national security rather than in terms of discovery of knowledge and advancement of the human race. The achilles heal of this approach is apparent when we've deployed the military, are strapped for cash, and funding for pure research is the first to go. Pure research is, in the long term, the single most important investment a nation can make, for social, scientific, and technological advancement, and for national security reasons. Anyway, I suppose now we're going to see commercials recruiting high school kids to be scientists - "A Research Team of One", or some such schlock.
Be first, or be second and be happy with that, or go play elsewhere.
You cannot underestimate the value of being first into the market with a new gadget.
That's old economy stuff, and not necessarily true. Plenty of counter-examples, iPod and Google being the most glaring, and Netscape being another. For whatever reasons, being the first to market no longer guarantees anything, especially not the all-powerful and necessary mindshare required to dominate said market.
There is a very distinct, provable, cellular and molecular difference between "Life" and "Human Life" in the normal process of cellular growth between a sperm and an egg. There is a very predictable period where that cell-that-is-dividing, can be told to become something other than a fetus. This is "Life".
So, what could those cells naturally become, other than some form of human life? It's not like there's a 75% chance those cells will become a human, and a 25% chance they'll become a fish. Even if they haven't reached the developmental threshold you speak of, the die is pretty much cast as to what they will become. I don't see that this alters the issue any, other than giving pro-choice people a red herring to add to their arguments.
Fyi, I'm not very religious either, but do believe in human rights and in the protection of human life. The past century has shown that it is all too easy for people to rationalize the taking of human life, so this is an issue I think we all need to be very careful about.
This whole article is nothing but a flamebait troll. Just like the mainstream media, it reduces complicated issues into aggravating soundbites designed for nothing but rowling its readers into generating a shitstorm of comments. The author/editors must be aiming this one at the Hall of Fame. Can we please extend the mod system to article submissions as well, please?