If so many CS grads don't have basic development/db/sysadmin skills, companies should be willing to pay quite a bit for those who do. At the moment, this is not the case.
The problem with the MBTI is that your type is whatever you say it is, regardless of your test results. I think if I were asked by my employer to take an MBTI and the job was something that frowned upon INTJs for some reason (probably sales, as you said), I'd say my type was ESTP or something similarly gregarious. Even if you can't outright say "this is my type", you can research the sorts of questions being asked and reverse-engineer the test.
If I apply in the first place, it means I want the job (I wouldn't want sales, of course, as an INTJ), which probably means my personality is at least somewhat aligned. A personality test is hardly going to stand in the way of that.
"...VeriSign Class 3 Commercial Software Publisher Certificate"
These certificates cost $499/year from Verisign, and there are probably other fees involved in getting a PIC. I don't know if Microsoft will allow certificates from other vendors (considering what Verisign charges for a simple SSL certificate and what we've seen them do when they've had exclusive control of a market, they'd better), but no developer who gives away software for free is going to be very appreciative of this.
In any case, that link infers that administrators may still install unsigned drivers. Administrator access should be required to install *any* driver anyway.
Considering the high demand and supposed lack of supply (everyone's whining that they can't find programmers these days, for example), why hasn't this affected starting salaries significantly?
"This is an apple. It is smooth, shiny, and red." "This is fluffy. It is shiny with orange and white stripes."
If set up properly, it should be easy enough for a human to guess which is the kitten and which is not, but difficult for a bot (without semantic reasoning) to tell the difference. You may have to avoid words that the bot can clue in on ("fur" is probably bad, for example).
This technique has been around long before the "Kitten Rank" site, however, and by fixing the object to find as "kittens", rather than changing it with each new test, you weaken the CAPTCHA significantly, so I'm not sure what the obsession is with that site. It might have to do with the "OMG Ponies!!!" thing that went on last week:)
Master's programs run a bit later. Some don't require replies until late summer. April 15 is the reply deadline for many Ph. D. programs, however, particularly if you receive a fellowship.
I just looked back and realized that I didn't actually answer your question. I've noticed that lots of CS people (myself included) seem to like the natural sciences (Don't go into physics if you don't like math. You will need to know some statistics in any scientific field) and music. If your school has an IT program, that may be more your style as well, and it usually involves a bit more communication than CS.
Keep in mind that CS began as a branch of the mathematics departments at many universities. Probably at least partially because of this, deep theory is extremely mathematical.
On the other hand, if all you want to do is program, you don't need that much math. What you get in a typical undergraduate CS curriculum should be enough.
The point of education is not solely to get a job. I wouldn't be going for a Ph. D. if I believed that education ended with vocation, nor would anyone else.
Also, not all of those 50,000 are going to want to work for one particular company. This is one of the few cases where the numbers cancel each other out to the individual's benefit: Lots of companies, lots of workers, and a more or less constant ratio between the two.
I used to GM an Ultima Online shard. The most successful quests tended to be the ones that involved players in the storyline, bringing all of UO's lore into play and allowing them to mold the shard's future lore. These quests tend to be deeper, darker, and more dangerous than your run-of-the-mill "kill these monsters" quests. You can drag some of these storylines out over multiple quests spanning long periods of time, too.
That's if you're talking about GM-run quests. If you plan on automating your quests, you're going to be kind of doomed from the start. Anything automatic will eventually become boring to players.
When you get older, you will realize life isn't about what you want to do.
Which is why you need to work on your financial goals when you're young if you want to be able to do what you want later. Doesn't it make more sense to do the hard stuff when you're young and healthy, so you can relax when you may not be?
As oil becomes more and more difficult to extract, people will start moving to alternative sources of energy because they'll have little choice. If that's the only way people will ever switch, so be it - We need peak oil.
It isn't always harder to know things about larger datasets than smaller ones. Case in point:
"You can't even tell me what my brother did yesterday and you expect me to believe you've charted the history of the whole human race back to 800 AD?"
Just as it's easier to lump people together into large groups and study their behavior, it's easier to lump climate data into a large dataset and study its behavior. What my brother did yesterday is not a significant part of overall history, and one single day's weather is not a significant part of overall climate.
I don't know what level clearance your friend was going for, but they only go back 7-10 years for the ones on the SF86....Or that's what they say, anyway:)
It isn't that the cookie is huge; the problem is that if you stick some JOINs, or perhaps even an OR 1=1, into a query, it can really drag down the DBMS if you have enough rows. MySQL's documentation has some information on how that can happen.
I agree, though; if you're not validating what your cookies are sending you in some way, you do likely have larger problems.
There's the possibility of setting up some sort of DDoS attack by modifying cookies sent to a server in order to construct huge queries, but that means there has to be an SQL injection vulnerability on the server as well. Of course, you should validate and escape anything you put into a query from a user, whether it's a POST variable or a cookie.
It wasn't AOL; I believe it was a BBC thing. I took it as a curiosity, to see what sorts of questions they'd ask. I imagine, officially, that they're using the same Stanford-Binet that they use over here.
One of the nice things about math is that you can do so much with the stuff that's centuries old. There is no lack of unsolved problems, even those that have endured for centuries.
Now, about the IQ loss - I took a British IQ test once. It asked me to name people by their faces, among other things. If these are the sorts of IQ tests being given nationwide, no wonder the IQ seems to be dropping so precipitously. If that is the case, the problem lies in the tests.
Not all volcanoes are of the same magnitude. They're indexed by the Volcanic Explosivity Index, (usually abbreviated) VEI. Presumably, the grandparent was talking about volcanoes towards the higher end of that scale.
Anyway, when you ignore individual eruptions and look at net output, volcanoes do not put out nearly as much CO2 as human activities. According to Wikipedia,
Volcanic activity now releases about 130 to 230 teragrams (145 million to 255 million short tons) of carbon dioxide each year. Volcanic releases are about 1% of the amount which is released by human activities.
Finally, what would you have us do if volcanoes were causing climate change? (Let's ignore the fact that this was not a problem at all before the industrial revolution, even though volcanoes were around far earlier). Surely the answer "accept much of the earth becoming uninhabitable and keep going about our merry ways" is not acceptable.
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If so many CS grads don't have basic development/db/sysadmin skills, companies should be willing to pay quite a bit for those who do. At the moment, this is not the case.
In a Ph. D. program, universities pay YOU! (usually)
The problem with the MBTI is that your type is whatever you say it is, regardless of your test results. I think if I were asked by my employer to take an MBTI and the job was something that frowned upon INTJs for some reason (probably sales, as you said), I'd say my type was ESTP or something similarly gregarious. Even if you can't outright say "this is my type", you can research the sorts of questions being asked and reverse-engineer the test.
If I apply in the first place, it means I want the job (I wouldn't want sales, of course, as an INTJ), which probably means my personality is at least somewhat aligned. A personality test is hardly going to stand in the way of that.
"...VeriSign Class 3 Commercial Software Publisher Certificate"
These certificates cost $499/year from Verisign, and there are probably other fees involved in getting a PIC. I don't know if Microsoft will allow certificates from other vendors (considering what Verisign charges for a simple SSL certificate and what we've seen them do when they've had exclusive control of a market, they'd better), but no developer who gives away software for free is going to be very appreciative of this.
In any case, that link infers that administrators may still install unsigned drivers. Administrator access should be required to install *any* driver anyway.
Considering the high demand and supposed lack of supply (everyone's whining that they can't find programmers these days, for example), why hasn't this affected starting salaries significantly?
You can always introduce audio into it, too:
:)
"This is an apple. It is smooth, shiny, and red."
"This is fluffy. It is shiny with orange and white stripes."
If set up properly, it should be easy enough for a human to guess which is the kitten and which is not, but difficult for a bot (without semantic reasoning) to tell the difference. You may have to avoid words that the bot can clue in on ("fur" is probably bad, for example).
This technique has been around long before the "Kitten Rank" site, however, and by fixing the object to find as "kittens", rather than changing it with each new test, you weaken the CAPTCHA significantly, so I'm not sure what the obsession is with that site. It might have to do with the "OMG Ponies!!!" thing that went on last week
Master's programs run a bit later. Some don't require replies until late summer. April 15 is the reply deadline for many Ph. D. programs, however, particularly if you receive a fellowship.
I just looked back and realized that I didn't actually answer your question. I've noticed that lots of CS people (myself included) seem to like the natural sciences (Don't go into physics if you don't like math. You will need to know some statistics in any scientific field) and music. If your school has an IT program, that may be more your style as well, and it usually involves a bit more communication than CS.
Keep in mind that CS began as a branch of the mathematics departments at many universities. Probably at least partially because of this, deep theory is extremely mathematical.
On the other hand, if all you want to do is program, you don't need that much math. What you get in a typical undergraduate CS curriculum should be enough.
What's to prevent spammers from setting up mailing lists to circumvent this system, then?
The point of education is not solely to get a job. I wouldn't be going for a Ph. D. if I believed that education ended with vocation, nor would anyone else.
Also, not all of those 50,000 are going to want to work for one particular company. This is one of the few cases where the numbers cancel each other out to the individual's benefit: Lots of companies, lots of workers, and a more or less constant ratio between the two.
I used to GM an Ultima Online shard. The most successful quests tended to be the ones that involved players in the storyline, bringing all of UO's lore into play and allowing them to mold the shard's future lore. These quests tend to be deeper, darker, and more dangerous than your run-of-the-mill "kill these monsters" quests. You can drag some of these storylines out over multiple quests spanning long periods of time, too.
That's if you're talking about GM-run quests. If you plan on automating your quests, you're going to be kind of doomed from the start. Anything automatic will eventually become boring to players.
I finally find an innovative idea that no one's done before, and some guy at MIT just blurts it out to millions of people one day. Great.
That would be the first patent I ever read about that I myself held prior art to. Not that it makes much difference.
10 years is towards the higher end of the scale. You can get one in as little as four sometimes. I believe that six years is the average.
A lot of it depends on how quickly you prepare your dissertation.
As oil becomes more and more difficult to extract, people will start moving to alternative sources of energy because they'll have little choice. If that's the only way people will ever switch, so be it - We need peak oil.
It isn't always harder to know things about larger datasets than smaller ones. Case in point:
"You can't even tell me what my brother did yesterday and you expect me to believe you've charted the history of the whole human race back to 800 AD?"
Just as it's easier to lump people together into large groups and study their behavior, it's easier to lump climate data into a large dataset and study its behavior. What my brother did yesterday is not a significant part of overall history, and one single day's weather is not a significant part of overall climate.
I don't know what level clearance your friend was going for, but they only go back 7-10 years for the ones on the SF86. ...Or that's what they say, anyway :)
And then keep it themselves, never acknowledge the source of the idea, and call it something like "Google Music Search".
I agree, though; if you're not validating what your cookies are sending you in some way, you do likely have larger problems.
There's the possibility of setting up some sort of DDoS attack by modifying cookies sent to a server in order to construct huge queries, but that means there has to be an SQL injection vulnerability on the server as well. Of course, you should validate and escape anything you put into a query from a user, whether it's a POST variable or a cookie.
It wasn't AOL; I believe it was a BBC thing. I took it as a curiosity, to see what sorts of questions they'd ask. I imagine, officially, that they're using the same Stanford-Binet that they use over here.
Now, about the IQ loss - I took a British IQ test once. It asked me to name people by their faces, among other things. If these are the sorts of IQ tests being given nationwide, no wonder the IQ seems to be dropping so precipitously. If that is the case, the problem lies in the tests.
Not all volcanoes are of the same magnitude. They're indexed by the Volcanic Explosivity Index, (usually abbreviated) VEI. Presumably, the grandparent was talking about volcanoes towards the higher end of that scale.
Anyway, when you ignore individual eruptions and look at net output, volcanoes do not put out nearly as much CO2 as human activities. According to Wikipedia,
Finally, what would you have us do if volcanoes were causing climate change? (Let's ignore the fact that this was not a problem at all before the industrial revolution, even though volcanoes were around far earlier). Surely the answer "accept much of the earth becoming uninhabitable and keep going about our merry ways" is not acceptable.