Ok, I see where you're coming from. But it seems to me that all of that is an engineering problem. Off the top of my head...
Create an optical source that the rest of the system draws light from. That source is powered using electricity, but is so large and strong and hardened against EMF, that it would take a nearby nuke to disrupt.
What kind of problem does depleted uranimum have? Since you're talking about radiation, it would make one think that you're saying depleted uranium is a radiation hazard.
Send them there to do what? ASIMO can walk and do other movements. That's it. The only way to make it useful to the public at this point would be to stick a lightbulb on it's head and call it a lamp.
Are you trying to sell PHP? I'd label the first program "Ticketseller basic". If you want "Ticketseller Advanced" you'll have to pay me a lot more money. And with the experence I've gotten from writing the first program, the second one should be a snap.
So, it looks like PHP is the gateway to riches, using your example.
I used PHP for my dynamic site because Perl is a pain in the ass unless you're a perl programmer. JAVA? I had no interest in picking up a book because all the people I taking JAVA classes were saying "I just can't get my program to work!"
I picked up a book on PHP and had functional website in 3 days. Took me a year to make it look good though...
"Why bother?" I thought. "It's just a dinky little website with a few hundred stories. No need to normalize the tables. One table will do."
Man, trying to normalize the database a few years later as more functionality was added to the website was a pain in the ass, and a lot of work I could of avoided if I did it right the first time.
The school of "Learning the hard way" is always open and accepts everyone, even if they didn't apply.
You mean like your post? How about a little fisking...
Bloggers - many with vicious partisan political and personal agendas Many? As in hundreds? As in a majority? As in "I have no idea?"
and want all the visibility and rights of journalists, with none of the responsibility
Proof please, link please, logic please, give us SOMTHING to show you just didn't make up an attribute of bloggers.
It's possible that some may not want the responsibility, but then I stop reading them.
and definitely no representation of the "other side of the story", as it were.
Bloggers tend to react to stories. The "other side of the story" is already out there! The blogger LINKS to the "other side of the story" and so it's represented by the person who posted it originally!
Stories that are nothing more than glorified op-ed get passed around as gospel, and get read by many who are less discriminating about the sources for their information, and take it at face value, because if it's written intelligently on a decent looking site and a bunch of people are agreeing with it, it must be the complete truth.
Yeah, do you even read blogs? The stories can be passed around as gospel. But only after it's been read, and accepted by the reader. Who usually checked the links and reads the other side of the story.
So, what you're ranting against, is that people are reading someone's response to a current situation, making up their own mind, and passing around the link to the blogger.
You sir, are an elitist.
It's amazing that so many slashdotters understand the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" when it comes to software, but can't draw parallels to other aspects of life.
Sigh. I'm not "Absolving" anything. You're upset that the dog barks and disturbs the neighbors.
You can't stop the dog permanantly from barking, it's in it's nature. Your solution is to deal with the reality that the dog barks, not get mad at the dog barking.
Dealing with the reality CAN include punishment, training, setting up a noise activated electric collar, moving to a farm, whatever.
Deal with the reality of human nature and you'll be better off in the long run.
This is not new! When given the power, people abuse it, not once, or once in a while, but a LOT.
It doesn't matter the country, community, race or religon. This is why I'm for a weaker federal government. It won't get rid of the abuse of power, but people will have less power to wield.
My post was mocking the "I'm shocked, shocked!" reponse that was coming from slashdot.
Figure out what happened, decide if it requires fixing, and then FIX it.
If someone is having a medical emergency, do you go "OMG! This is horrible! How could this happen?!" or do you try to help the person?
Personally? I believe that the article found the report, and the blew it out of proportion. The easiest way to report news is to make it up.
In theory. In practice, at least where I'm at, it's a lot easier to approve of hiring someone than it is to push through their termination.
In theory, in practice, at least where I'm at, it's a lot easier to get rid of someone than it is to hire them. I've been working with a guy who has been here for years, and had to start looking for a job before they would change him from contractor to an employee. If you do something someone doesn't like? Bam, you're walked out the door.
About half of the people here are going to be outsourced in the next two months. These are my social connections. Not too useful for finding me a job at this point.
You're claiming that there are good people that the hiring process filters out. I'm using "presentable to the hiring process" to mean "having characteristics such as to avoid being filtered by the hiring process". Simple enough?
Simplicity doesn't mean correct. Fine. Lets say you put out a book that tells people to have these characteristics. And now a new job opens up at the company and EVERY ONE of the people who applies has those characteristics. It's not going to help them, is it? Only one will be hired, and it will be with the criteria that the hiring manager made up that you don't know about.
I have the personal connections necessary to find new work in less than a week should my company fold. Which is my point.
Well you're awful at making your points. You started off with "People should just make themselves better" and went to "I have lots of inside connections and can easily get a job."
I know you can get a job on your personal connections. Like I said before, your personal network is the main way anyone gets a job. Your original point was people shouldn't be given a chance.
Everyone has to start somewhere without a work history. Everyone has to be given a chance to prove themselves.
I'm going to be becoming an Asterisk admin, too, when we move into our new office, because I cornered the director of operations and insisted on it).
It must be nice to have that kind of power and access to people who actually have the authority to make those kinds of decisions.
How the heck do you get hired as an embedded systems programmer anyway? I know of one guy who did that and he was top of his class coming out of college.
I'm sorry -- but the economy's recovered to the point where if you can't get hired, it's your own damn fault. Stop whining and fix yourself, or go find a different profession.
How would changing professions help? Do any of my points of getting started become invalid when switching careers?
It seems to me that you've picked up this bizarre worldview from going to failing startup to failing startup.
hiring people who seem iffy up-front on account of desparation may bring in a few gems, but it's likely to bring in a lot more trash.
The trash can be easily disposed of. And now that you've given the gems a chance to shine, you have them!
I don't see a good reason why good people can't make themselves presentable to "the hiring process", presuming they aren't already.
What the heck are you talking about? Are you saying that the reason that one resume out of hundreds got the job was because he was more "Presentable"? Are these "Presentable" people "gems"?
My employer largely hires through personal relationships -- one of our current programming staff is willing to vouch for a friend's skill? They've at least got an interview. What good programmer doesn't have employed friends of similar skill?
The vast majority of jobs are gotten though your personal network.
So, programming. Is that what you do when you're in IT? I've done some. Or is it running operations? I've done that to. Networking? Yep.
Job openings are for specific positions and tasks and they want years of experence in VERY specific languages/OSs/whatevers. Good luck being good at what you do when you are never given a chance to do it.
And what happens when you take away the filter? You see lots of spam right? The emails you don't see are still taking up bandwidth on the internet cause they still need to be transfered.
Slashdot Mirror
Er, I do print less. But I still have to print.
Took me almost 2 years to get though the toner starter cartridge.
Ok, I see where you're coming from. But it seems to me that all of that is an engineering problem. Off the top of my head...
Create an optical source that the rest of the system draws light from. That source is powered using electricity, but is so large and strong and hardened against EMF, that it would take a nearby nuke to disrupt.
The heart of the system, so to speak.
If you can make the chip fully optical, why wouldn't you want the rest of the computer to be optical?
I was thinking that these chips and a "all optical" design would be a required for any kind of spacescraft.
I don't see why not. We have a industry of rolling robots, and robots that are immobile.
They are doing research with the aim of making a product. The product is a walking robot.
Do you understand what you're asking for? AI advanced enough to understand speech and process/interact with a 3-d enviroment. That's huge.
It doesn't exist man. Despite all the research that's been done in AI, we don't even know what it will take to make such a beast.
I will consider myself lucky if we build a working AI in my lifetime.
What kind of problem does depleted uranimum have? Since you're talking about radiation, it would make one think that you're saying depleted uranium is a radiation hazard.
Send them there to do what? ASIMO can walk and do other movements. That's it. The only way to make it useful to the public at this point would be to stick a lightbulb on it's head and call it a lamp.
It's just for research.
Are you trying to sell PHP? I'd label the first program "Ticketseller basic". If you want "Ticketseller Advanced" you'll have to pay me a lot more money. And with the experence I've gotten from writing the first program, the second one should be a snap.
So, it looks like PHP is the gateway to riches, using your example.
I used PHP for my dynamic site because Perl is a pain in the ass unless you're a perl programmer. JAVA? I had no interest in picking up a book because all the people I taking JAVA classes were saying "I just can't get my program to work!"
I picked up a book on PHP and had functional website in 3 days. Took me a year to make it look good though...
I'm wondering if the new chips will be radiation proof.
Heh. It only takes once.
"Why bother?" I thought. "It's just a dinky little website with a few hundred stories. No need to normalize the tables. One table will do."
Man, trying to normalize the database a few years later as more functionality was added to the website was a pain in the ass, and a lot of work I could of avoided if I did it right the first time.
The school of "Learning the hard way" is always open and accepts everyone, even if they didn't apply.
I have yet to be able to install and use postgres.
This "Slightly easier to setup" is one of the big reasons MySQL took off. People could EASILY install MySQL.
Postgres? Not so much.
The last OpenDarwin news item was 5 months ago. That can't be good.
I'm sorry, are you saying I'm part of some alien civilzation?
Bloggers - many with vicious partisan political and personal agendas
Many? As in hundreds? As in a majority? As in "I have no idea?"
Proof please, link please, logic please, give us SOMTHING to show you just didn't make up an attribute of bloggers.
It's possible that some may not want the responsibility, but then I stop reading them.
Bloggers tend to react to stories. The "other side of the story" is already out there! The blogger LINKS to the "other side of the story" and so it's represented by the person who posted it originally!
Yeah, do you even read blogs? The stories can be passed around as gospel. But only after it's been read, and accepted by the reader. Who usually checked the links and reads the other side of the story.
So, what you're ranting against, is that people are reading someone's response to a current situation, making up their own mind, and passing around the link to the blogger.
You sir, are an elitist.
It's amazing that so many slashdotters understand the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" when it comes to software, but can't draw parallels to other aspects of life.
No lying eh?
So, stonewalling or censorship is cool with you?
Sigh. I'm not "Absolving" anything. You're upset that the dog barks and disturbs the neighbors.
You can't stop the dog permanantly from barking, it's in it's nature. Your solution is to deal with the reality that the dog barks, not get mad at the dog barking.
Dealing with the reality CAN include punishment, training, setting up a noise activated electric collar, moving to a farm, whatever.
Deal with the reality of human nature and you'll be better off in the long run.
This is not new! When given the power, people abuse it, not once, or once in a while, but a LOT.
It doesn't matter the country, community, race or religon. This is why I'm for a weaker federal government. It won't get rid of the abuse of power, but people will have less power to wield.
My post was mocking the "I'm shocked, shocked!" reponse that was coming from slashdot.
Figure out what happened, decide if it requires fixing, and then FIX it.
If someone is having a medical emergency, do you go "OMG! This is horrible! How could this happen?!" or do you try to help the person?
Personally? I believe that the article found the report, and the blew it out of proportion. The easiest way to report news is to make it up.
In the news today, scientists working on politically sensitive issues are pressured by politicans.
Slashdot readers are shocked and amazed.
"I blame the Bush administration" says one.
"Who would of thought there would be a connection between the Federal government and Federally mandated enviromental issues?" Crys another.
"Wait, it doesn't say if enviromental groups were pressuring the Scientists." Commented one before he was quicken beaten down.
Wow, when you put it that way, I can see myself nuking massive cockroach cities and hunting down the fleeing remnants one by one.
And enjoying myself immensely.
So, let me get this straight. For some reason the US is in a war on EU soil and turn their GPS into "Distorted" mode.
This is to keep the bad guys from using the GPS signal to hit valuble targets with weapons that use the GPS signal for tracking.
The EU will LEAVE their system on in "Very accurate mode", allowing the bad guys to switch systems and hit any target of interest. Even European.
Ah.
In theory, in practice, at least where I'm at, it's a lot easier to get rid of someone than it is to hire them. I've been working with a guy who has been here for years, and had to start looking for a job before they would change him from contractor to an employee. If you do something someone doesn't like? Bam, you're walked out the door.
About half of the people here are going to be outsourced in the next two months. These are my social connections. Not too useful for finding me a job at this point.
Simplicity doesn't mean correct. Fine. Lets say you put out a book that tells people to have these characteristics. And now a new job opens up at the company and EVERY ONE of the people who applies has those characteristics. It's not going to help them, is it? Only one will be hired, and it will be with the criteria that the hiring manager made up that you don't know about.
Well you're awful at making your points. You started off with "People should just make themselves better" and went to "I have lots of inside connections and can easily get a job."
I know you can get a job on your personal connections. Like I said before, your personal network is the main way anyone gets a job. Your original point was people shouldn't be given a chance.
Everyone has to start somewhere without a work history. Everyone has to be given a chance to prove themselves.
It must be nice to have that kind of power and access to people who actually have the authority to make those kinds of decisions.
How the heck do you get hired as an embedded systems programmer anyway? I know of one guy who did that and he was top of his class coming out of college.
How would changing professions help? Do any of my points of getting started become invalid when switching careers?
It seems to me that you've picked up this bizarre worldview from going to failing startup to failing startup.
The trash can be easily disposed of. And now that you've given the gems a chance to shine, you have them!
What the heck are you talking about? Are you saying that the reason that one resume out of hundreds got the job was because he was more "Presentable"? Are these "Presentable" people "gems"?
The vast majority of jobs are gotten though your personal network.
So, programming. Is that what you do when you're in IT? I've done some. Or is it running operations? I've done that to. Networking? Yep.
Job openings are for specific positions and tasks and they want years of experence in VERY specific languages/OSs/whatevers. Good luck being good at what you do when you are never given a chance to do it.
Which was my original POINT.
And what happens when you take away the filter? You see lots of spam right? The emails you don't see are still taking up bandwidth on the internet cause they still need to be transfered.