That "fact sheet" from the American Trial Lawyers Association doesn't make the case any less stupid. Coffee is hot. Yes, hot enough to burn you badly, particularly if you dump a whole lot of it on your genital area.
IMHO I think that what we really need is to stop consuming so much shit and rethink our infrastructures and ways of living if we're going to ride this one out.
Fine. Shut off your computer and move to Amish country. Never mind that the Amish lifestyle is even less sustainable without serious population restriction.
Too much town/city planning is oriented towards the car - shops located in retail parks (some without any sort of pavement for pedestrian access), business parks built miles from residential areas.
Planning everything so everyone lives and shops within walking distance of where they work? Even as a one-time static task assuming one worker per household, that's an enormous task. Add the fact that you often have two workers per household, or that people change jobs and move (often not at the same time) and it gets flat-out impossible. Never mind that you also kill all the economies of scale which occur with the current set-up.
It's all backwards and unsustainable. If we redesigned the way we live and travel we wouldn't need to find anywhere near as many 'substitute' energy sources in the first place.
Yes, but we'd rather live in the 21st century than the 17th.
You'll know you're in Microsoft's virtual world instead of the real world because 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA and 1600 Ampitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA will be smoking craters.
The "chair" flag flying over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC is a tip-off too.
Programming has evolved waaaay beyond the lone programmer in his little corner office working his own hours. A programmer is expected to talk to end users and tease out their real requirements; it requires them to be able to stand up and argue for something in a room full of managers;
This isn't evolution, this is just dumping all the work on a single person. And it has to be the programmer, because while typical programmers often make lousy business analysts, typical business analysts can't write working code at all.
Truth to be told I learned more taking economics, marketing, human resources, accounting, and finance about what customers needs are and how computers fit in more than what any computer science degree can teach.
Great. So you're perfectly qualified to be the PHB that your employees hold in contempt.
Two of the companies that are complaining are Google and Microsoft, both of whom give good salaries and great benefits when compared with the average job.
Last I looked, Google has requirements that are considerably higher than and different from those for most companies -- they're one of the few actually looking for people with M.S. and Ph.D. CS degrees, for instance. Not surprising they have trouble finding people, given that.
If your company is finding developers within 3 weeks on average, interviewing 6-9 people per position, I'd say that's not that bad.
If colleges did their job and taught students business skills such as economics, accounting, project planning as well as professional programming skills such as object oriented programming, secure coding, MVC, three tier system design and SQL, and not calculus IV obscure algorithms, zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithm garbage we would not have this problem.
I find it difficult to understand why it is the job of colleges to teach students business skills in a computer science (or even computer engineering) curriculum. Most universities will have a school of business which offers such courses, if students are interested. You do understand that colleges and universities are not intended to be vocational schools or even professional schools, right? As for zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithms... what's the point of doing a CS major with a concentration in Physics if I can't do zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithms?
Well, to be fair, while the iPhone does not use C++ directly in its application-facing API (it does use Objective C), it is a BSD-based system. And lots of mundane system-level apps are written in C++.
If the iPhone OS X is like Mac OS X, the driver level (IOKit) is a C++ subset, with the rest of the kernel in C.
Who screw up, badly, a simple array-reversal coding question.
Simple? Last company I was at, array-reversal was the _hard_ question. Granted, it had to be in-place array reversal using constant space and linear time.
Serious programming is a team sport, brush up on your social skills. The sloppy fat geek computer genius semi-buried in a pile of pizza boxes and cola cans is a mythical creature, best buried deep, never to be seen again.
Hmm. Perhaps this is why companies can't find good programmers; they're explicitly not looking for them in their natural habitat, and not recognizing them when they do find them.
What next, demand doctors drop the white coats and the god-like attitudes? Expect lawyers to give up Armani suits and martinis? Sorry guys, you've got to take the good with the bad.
Opinions are not statements of fact, something that apparently escapes even the highest court in Maryland.
The highest court hasn't ruled yet. And the question isn't about the merit of the libel claim anyway; it's about whether the plaintiff should have to demonstrate that merit before obtaining the identity of the defendant.
IMO, even if taken as an absolute factual statement (which it was not), the claim is not provable either way -- there's no way the plaintiff can show the restaurant was not dirty and "unsanitary-looking" at the time the defendant saw it. And IANAL but I think the burden is on the plaintiff to show that the defamatory statement was false.
I have a friend who's a radiologist. He's an extremely sharp guy and I've heard people say that he's really good at his job. And yet, he and his wife fought tooth and nail to try to keep a cell phone tower being put up a mile from their house because they didn't want to be irradiated.
Great guy, but the logical disconnect here almost drove me to drink.'
He probably doesn't go anywhere near the scanners either. Even if he wasn't concerned about the radiation, there's the danger that there might be patients there. Radiology techs actually run the machines. The radiologist decides on the scan protocol and interprets the result.
If vaccines are not to blame, then exactly what IS causing the rise in autism these days? It concerns me that doctors are simply discounting vaccines as the cause, but then totally ignoring the fact that there is still a huge fucking problem!
They're not ignoring the problem, but they are discarding a hypothesis that fails to stand up to scrutiny. Vaccines (including MMR, the usual scapegoat) have been around longer than the rise in autism. Changes in vaccines that nearly coincided with the rise have been demonstrated to be unrelated.
Correct. But if these same doctors could point to a cause for the Autism Spectrum Disorders, all of this crap speculation would go away.
If they'd stop labeling everything from "classic" autism to other developmental delays to geekiness as "Autism Spectrum", maybe they could actually find a cause for the actual (and probably distinct) disorders contained within that "spectrum".
Unfortunately, today, year 2008, this is not unusual. The FBI is opening a case of child porn against a 32-year old album of Scorpions (Virgin Killers).
What's kind of funny is that the article you linked to blanks out the girl's breasts... which, she being pre-pubescent, aren't much to look at anyway.
Then, how many people have genetic testing done to determine their chromosomal sex? If you were born with female genetalia, underwent puberty, and developed as a completely normal girl into a completely normal woman, why would you suspect that you had a Y chromosome?
If you desired children, you'd probably find out when you sought treatment for your infertility. Also a number of Olympic athletes have found out by being disqualified.
No, your d!ck won't fall off or anything, but your sperm count goes down and you will behave "like a fag" for lack of adequate terms. That's a fact.
Um, would that be the swishy flaming queen sort of thing, or like the tough and sensitive gay guy gorgeous women are just dying to jump into bed with until they find out? Because if it's the latter, someone should bottle that stuff; they'd make a fortune selling to Slashdotters alone.
(a third alternative, the "physically attracted to men" sort of behavior, probably wouldn't go over so well).
That's right. In some cultures, the boys will throw tea sets and pretend to ride dolls around like they were transportation, and the girls will serve imaginary beverages out of toy truck bodies. Personally I think our culture is a bit more sensible.
I know of quite a number of people who are addicted to prescription pain medication and have been for years. 15 minutes before "time" for their pill and they get all panicky trying to find the thing (if they do not take it one time they will experience "pain" - I've yet to find a pain pill that works that way).
While the behaviour you describe certainly sounds like addicted behavior, have you never been in pain? Any pain pill (including NSAIDS) will work that way, if you are actually experiencing long-term or chronic pain.
And flat out once drugs infest a neighborhood it is a terror justifying Draconian measures of almost limitless extent to stomp out any degree of illegal drug use.
William Bennett, is that you?
Anyway, it's trivial to wipe out illegal drug use. Simply repeal the laws against drug use. Now your illegal drug use is legal. No more bullets flying through the streets; instead, the drug dealers will be suing each other over patent and trademark violations.
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That "fact sheet" from the American Trial Lawyers Association doesn't make the case any less stupid. Coffee is hot. Yes, hot enough to burn you badly, particularly if you dump a whole lot of it on your genital area.
Fine. Shut off your computer and move to Amish country. Never mind that the Amish lifestyle is even less sustainable without serious population restriction.
Planning everything so everyone lives and shops within walking distance of where they work? Even as a one-time static task assuming one worker per household, that's an enormous task. Add the fact that you often have two workers per household, or that people change jobs and move (often not at the same time) and it gets flat-out impossible. Never mind that you also kill all the economies of scale which occur with the current set-up.
Yes, but we'd rather live in the 21st century than the 17th.
You'll know you're in Microsoft's virtual world instead of the real world because 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA and 1600 Ampitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA will be smoking craters.
The "chair" flag flying over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC is a tip-off too.
This isn't evolution, this is just dumping all the work on a single person. And it has to be the programmer, because while typical programmers often make lousy business analysts, typical business analysts can't write working code at all.
Great. So you're perfectly qualified to be the PHB that your employees hold in contempt.
Last I looked, Google has requirements that are considerably higher than and different from those for most companies -- they're one of the few actually looking for people with M.S. and Ph.D. CS degrees, for instance. Not surprising they have trouble finding people, given that.
If your company is finding developers within 3 weeks on average, interviewing 6-9 people per position, I'd say that's not that bad.
I find it difficult to understand why it is the job of colleges to teach students business skills in a computer science (or even computer engineering) curriculum. Most universities will have a school of business which offers such courses, if students are interested. You do understand that colleges and universities are not intended to be vocational schools or even professional schools, right? As for zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithms... what's the point of doing a CS major with a concentration in Physics if I can't do zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithms?
If the iPhone OS X is like Mac OS X, the driver level (IOKit) is a C++ subset, with the rest of the kernel in C.
Simple? Last company I was at, array-reversal was the _hard_ question. Granted, it had to be in-place array reversal using constant space and linear time.
Hmm. Perhaps this is why companies can't find good programmers; they're explicitly not looking for them in their natural habitat, and not recognizing them when they do find them.
What next, demand doctors drop the white coats and the god-like attitudes? Expect lawyers to give up Armani suits and martinis? Sorry guys, you've got to take the good with the bad.
The highest court hasn't ruled yet. And the question isn't about the merit of the libel claim anyway; it's about whether the plaintiff should have to demonstrate that merit before obtaining the identity of the defendant.
IMO, even if taken as an absolute factual statement (which it was not), the claim is not provable either way -- there's no way the plaintiff can show the restaurant was not dirty and "unsanitary-looking" at the time the defendant saw it. And IANAL but I think the burden is on the plaintiff to show that the defamatory statement was false.
The pot isn't any less black for the kettle calling it so.
He probably doesn't go anywhere near the scanners either. Even if he wasn't concerned about the radiation, there's the danger that there might be patients there. Radiology techs actually run the machines. The radiologist decides on the scan protocol and interprets the result.
They're not ignoring the problem, but they are discarding a hypothesis that fails to stand up to scrutiny. Vaccines (including MMR, the usual scapegoat) have been around longer than the rise in autism. Changes in vaccines that nearly coincided with the rise have been demonstrated to be unrelated.
If they'd stop labeling everything from "classic" autism to other developmental delays to geekiness as "Autism Spectrum", maybe they could actually find a cause for the actual (and probably distinct) disorders contained within that "spectrum".
A US publisher refused to publish them, but they are not disallowed by law.
What's kind of funny is that the article you linked to blanks out the girl's breasts... which, she being pre-pubescent, aren't much to look at anyway.
If you desired children, you'd probably find out when you sought treatment for your infertility. Also a number of Olympic athletes have found out by being disqualified.
Read the story. Totally justified. Trolls should know better than to meddle in the affairs of dragons.
The Internet doesn't work if you need permission to send an IP packet to someone.
Um, would that be the swishy flaming queen sort of thing, or like the tough and sensitive gay guy gorgeous women are just dying to jump into bed with until they find out? Because if it's the latter, someone should bottle that stuff; they'd make a fortune selling to Slashdotters alone.
(a third alternative, the "physically attracted to men" sort of behavior, probably wouldn't go over so well).
That's right. In some cultures, the boys will throw tea sets and pretend to ride dolls around like they were transportation, and the girls will serve imaginary beverages out of toy truck bodies. Personally I think our culture is a bit more sensible.
While the behaviour you describe certainly sounds like addicted behavior, have you never been in pain? Any pain pill (including NSAIDS) will work that way, if you are actually experiencing long-term or chronic pain.
William Bennett, is that you?
Anyway, it's trivial to wipe out illegal drug use. Simply repeal the laws against drug use. Now your illegal drug use is legal. No more bullets flying through the streets; instead, the drug dealers will be suing each other over patent and trademark violations.
Wasn't this the end of the world panic 5-10 years ago?