Maybe if he didn't smoke, he would have been an EVEN BETTER physicist and mathematician, and we would have reached the singularity by know. Which would have been better? Who knows.
Based on what scientific evidence exists, I'd bet hevily on Feynman's physics contributions being unaffected by whether he smoked. Next you're going to tell me that any alcohol use noticeably damages my brain and only puritans can do greaat work.
Meaning, do you start with what the machines can do, and design a game to fill those functions, or do you dream up a game and then design it so that it will fit the technical limitations of
I'll bet it's number 2. Up in the top, Sid is quoted as saying that you should make the machine your slave.
A vocal segment of the high-tech community, including, evidently, the author of this piece, is protectionist and consistently opposes higher visa limits for foreign workers. I, personally, think this is short-sighted; I think continued immigration of the best and brightest from the rest of the world is a positive for the US.
How do you connect H1-B to immigration? H1-Bs are not immigrants, they are workers. After 6 years, they have to leave. I oppose all H1-B visas and support immigration. It's only honest.
Who else would be against the people voting for anything important. We can't have that now can we?
The way I hear it, the vote was for whether to do a monorail, but the actual price tag was unknown and the station size was a secret. Then we went and killed a lot of the funding for it. Nice, huh?
If you actually look at the distribution of tax intake around Washington state, you'll find it's the suburbs that are bearing the brunt of the tax burden.
Part of that's because we have places like Medina and Chilton hill or whatever, where houses start at around a million and driving a car made before 2000 is a ticketable offense. Seattle has a lot of poor/industrial areas, but that's changing as the city recovers from whatever knocked it on its ass in the 70s (new resident myself).
One thing worth mentioning: we have no trouble getting around inside the city. It's the traffic across the lake that sucks. That and whoever decided that I-5 should be 2 lanes in the city core should be shot.
Can you please explain to the audience how subsidies lower food prices?
I agree with you. That said, wheat subsidies are an example where you want that - wheat is easy to grow, so if you don't institute a price floor, the price per bushel will crash, with nobody being able to make a profit because the price is so low. Mix in one bad season and you lose half or more of your capacity. End result: famine. Subsidies make wheat and milk more expensive, but stable too.
I agree that the sugar subsidies are out of whack - isn't sugar way cheaper in europe?
Yes, and that's why we don't organize this country around pure capitalism. It erodes the middle class and benefits only a few.
Have you tried to think as someone who has come to the US of A as an immigrant worker?
Are you suggesting that India will accept me with open arms should I decide to run off there and get a job? Everything I've seen says that India is protective of its job market, much more so than the US. This means that you end up with companies that can easily move jobs, but people that can't follow.
couldn't they underwrite a, say, 5-year loan and then pay on that loan for as long as you worked for the company?
Yes, yes they could. They could also offer to pay off all student loans on your 5th anniversary, or even every 5 years (get more degrees). Unfortunately, most places don't want to pay.
but are 5 Indians for the same price really going to have less total good ideas than one US citizen? This is an insult to other cultures and nations.
You're asking the wong question. Firstly, you assume that the high price of US engineers somehow exists in a vacuum. Fact is, those engineers need somewhere to sleep, food to eat, and loans to repay (college ain't cheap). Indians are cheap because all that other stuff is cheap and their standard of living reflects it. If you wish to make the US into a third world country, I'll invite you to do it elsewhere - maintaining the standard of living also means that there are people to support the companies that employ those engineers.
What burns me about the whole situation is that corporations want to do business in a first world country and pay third world rates. What's worse, those workers willing to emigrate find that India really hates to let you work there unless you were born there. Do you see the dilemma? Go to school for 16 years only to find your job exported with no way to replace it or pay the bills. Meanwhile, MS bitches about a shortage of engineers.
Oh come on. Just don't run through the station vaulting over turn-styles a few days after several bomb attacks and I think you'll be ok. More sensationalism.
Menezes was sitting down. Perhaps he was sitting in a threatening manner? Maybe the cops were afraid of darkies.
official policy was to make "backups" of Access databases which were basically flat lists, but which were 100Mb or so and grew ten meg every time they were 'backed up' by the management consultants.
Explain please: what were these backups the mgmt sluts recommended?
And a massive 99% of people don't need to understand that. Mail servers should be designed to ignore e-mails of a larger size than they can handle. It's not up to the users to understand KB, MB, GB, mail server loads, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, whatever.
Yes they do. KB, MB, and GB are basic literacy requirements, just like g, Kg, metric ton. It is up to users to understand that a 20M file should generally not be emailed to 20 people and that overloaded servers are a fact of life. They don't need to fix the problems that overload servers, but they need to know enough not to add to them.
Car analogy time: I like subarus, especially the imprezas. These cars are AWD and, for some reason, people like to drag race them. The think that they can do a clutch drop and spin the wheels just like a 2wd car, but they can't. The extra 2 wheels in the drivetrain limit wheel slip, so all the shock load hits the tranny. The upshot is that a bunch of idiots break their trannies, then complain when Subaru denies the warranty claim for abuse. You don't need to know the details of transmission construction, but you do need to know how to properly use the equipment.
BTW, here are the computations for Modern Portfolio Theory. Knock yourself out. I hope you know where to get the data from and how to adjust the frontier for a variety of inputs, investment styles, tax limitations, bonds, and mutual fund products. (Not that you're likely to know what an investment product is. They're all stocks, right?)
Thanks for the link. This all looks within my abilities and yes, I do know what an investment product is. I doubt that I have the sort of portfolio that will benefit from this theory, but who knows - maybe I'll do a career change in 10 years.
Now someone sends a 3MB attachment to all 500 people that use the mail server.
If it's only 500 people, it may not kill the server, but it can make things dodgy for awhile. If you have dialup customers (like the GP), it's time for the shotgun email that says taht some people are on dialup in BIG RED LETTERS, followed by a simple table that shows how long it takes to download 1MB on dialup. Some people still won't learn, but at least their damage potential is limited.
So what to do when you don't even know what a firewall is?
You learn. A firewall is a very simple idea - it attempts to keep dangerous stuff away from you, just like a real firewall.
When you aren't aware of the importance of shrinking down that huge "jpeg" you took with your digital camera before mass mailing it to all your friends and family who have email addresses?
Knowing about files and their sizes is a basic part of operating a computer. That's like driving a car and not knowing that you have to change the oil.
I've always believed they should be required to provide a plain language version with the original contract, even if the plain language version isn't legaly binding.
What good would that do? If they disagree, then the legalese portion takes precedence, so you need to understand it anyway.
If the guy/gal is stupid enough to post from inside the campus, the MS network admin just has to grep the network connection log and, bingo.
Don't be an asshole, this is Seattle. We've got 3 dozen free wifi networks spread around downtown. All he has to do is post from some coffee shop or grocery shop and presto! broken trace.
I say it's high time to say "f u" to the legal language and make it a requirement that all contracts be brief, to the point and in plain language
The problem with plain language is that it's vague - that's why contracts are long-winded. I could see requiring a definition of all terms that are used in a way that differs substantially from normal parlance. Outside of weird usage, most contracts are just boring.
I don't think the Copyright Act says that, but perhaps case law does...
I believe it was a SCOTUS ruling. At any rate, it's hard to make an argument under the 4 rules doctrine that format shifting is infringing, as it doesn't really cause anybody financial harm.
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It's Utah - the drug of choice is probably meth.
Maybe if he didn't smoke, he would have been an EVEN BETTER physicist and mathematician, and we would have reached the singularity by know. Which would have been better? Who knows.
Based on what scientific evidence exists, I'd bet hevily on Feynman's physics contributions being unaffected by whether he smoked. Next you're going to tell me that any alcohol use noticeably damages my brain and only puritans can do greaat work.
Meaning, do you start with what the machines can do, and design a game to fill those functions, or do you dream up a game and then design it so that it will fit the technical limitations of
I'll bet it's number 2. Up in the top, Sid is quoted as saying that you should make the machine your slave.
6. We could build one support beam for a bridge in Alaska that nobody actually wants.
what the shit part of i-5 are you on? it's four lanes - at least - the whole way. open your eyes.
Exits 165-167. You know, the part where it goes under those buildings and the right 3 lanes are exits.
A vocal segment of the high-tech community, including, evidently, the author of this piece, is protectionist and consistently opposes higher visa limits for foreign workers. I, personally, think this is short-sighted; I think continued immigration of the best and brightest from the rest of the world is a positive for the US.
How do you connect H1-B to immigration? H1-Bs are not immigrants, they are workers. After 6 years, they have to leave. I oppose all H1-B visas and support immigration. It's only honest.
Who else would be against the people voting for anything important. We can't have that now can we?
The way I hear it, the vote was for whether to do a monorail, but the actual price tag was unknown and the station size was a secret. Then we went and killed a lot of the funding for it. Nice, huh?
If you actually look at the distribution of tax intake around Washington state, you'll find it's the suburbs that are bearing the brunt of the tax burden.
Part of that's because we have places like Medina and Chilton hill or whatever, where houses start at around a million and driving a car made before 2000 is a ticketable offense. Seattle has a lot of poor/industrial areas, but that's changing as the city recovers from whatever knocked it on its ass in the 70s (new resident myself).
One thing worth mentioning: we have no trouble getting around inside the city. It's the traffic across the lake that sucks. That and whoever decided that I-5 should be 2 lanes in the city core should be shot.
Can you please explain to the audience how subsidies lower food prices?
I agree with you. That said, wheat subsidies are an example where you want that - wheat is easy to grow, so if you don't institute a price floor, the price per bushel will crash, with nobody being able to make a profit because the price is so low. Mix in one bad season and you lose half or more of your capacity. End result: famine. Subsidies make wheat and milk more expensive, but stable too.
I agree that the sugar subsidies are out of whack - isn't sugar way cheaper in europe?
Umm, isn't that called capitalism?
Yes, and that's why we don't organize this country around pure capitalism. It erodes the middle class and benefits only a few.
Have you tried to think as someone who has come to the US of A as an immigrant worker?
Are you suggesting that India will accept me with open arms should I decide to run off there and get a job? Everything I've seen says that India is protective of its job market, much more so than the US. This means that you end up with companies that can easily move jobs, but people that can't follow.
couldn't they underwrite a, say, 5-year loan and then pay on that loan for as long as you worked for the company?
Yes, yes they could. They could also offer to pay off all student loans on your 5th anniversary, or even every 5 years (get more degrees). Unfortunately, most places don't want to pay.
but are 5 Indians for the same price really going to have less total good ideas than one US citizen? This is an insult to other cultures and nations.
You're asking the wong question. Firstly, you assume that the high price of US engineers somehow exists in a vacuum. Fact is, those engineers need somewhere to sleep, food to eat, and loans to repay (college ain't cheap). Indians are cheap because all that other stuff is cheap and their standard of living reflects it. If you wish to make the US into a third world country, I'll invite you to do it elsewhere - maintaining the standard of living also means that there are people to support the companies that employ those engineers.
What burns me about the whole situation is that corporations want to do business in a first world country and pay third world rates. What's worse, those workers willing to emigrate find that India really hates to let you work there unless you were born there. Do you see the dilemma? Go to school for 16 years only to find your job exported with no way to replace it or pay the bills. Meanwhile, MS bitches about a shortage of engineers.
Where do you get the other 17%?
MBAs. Nobody really wants to claim them as their own.
Oh come on. Just don't run through the station vaulting over turn-styles a few days after several bomb attacks and I think you'll be ok. More sensationalism.
Menezes was sitting down. Perhaps he was sitting in a threatening manner? Maybe the cops were afraid of darkies.
official policy was to make "backups" of Access databases which were basically flat lists, but which were 100Mb or so and grew ten meg every time they were 'backed up' by the management consultants.
Explain please: what were these backups the mgmt sluts recommended?
And a massive 99% of people don't need to understand that. Mail servers should be designed to ignore e-mails of a larger size than they can handle. It's not up to the users to understand KB, MB, GB, mail server loads, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, whatever.
Yes they do. KB, MB, and GB are basic literacy requirements, just like g, Kg, metric ton. It is up to users to understand that a 20M file should generally not be emailed to 20 people and that overloaded servers are a fact of life. They don't need to fix the problems that overload servers, but they need to know enough not to add to them.
Car analogy time: I like subarus, especially the imprezas. These cars are AWD and, for some reason, people like to drag race them. The think that they can do a clutch drop and spin the wheels just like a 2wd car, but they can't. The extra 2 wheels in the drivetrain limit wheel slip, so all the shock load hits the tranny. The upshot is that a bunch of idiots break their trannies, then complain when Subaru denies the warranty claim for abuse. You don't need to know the details of transmission construction, but you do need to know how to properly use the equipment.
BTW, here are the computations for Modern Portfolio Theory. Knock yourself out. I hope you know where to get the data from and how to adjust the frontier for a variety of inputs, investment styles, tax limitations, bonds, and mutual fund products. (Not that you're likely to know what an investment product is. They're all stocks, right?)
Thanks for the link. This all looks within my abilities and yes, I do know what an investment product is. I doubt that I have the sort of portfolio that will benefit from this theory, but who knows - maybe I'll do a career change in 10 years.
Now someone sends a 3MB attachment to all 500 people that use the mail server.
If it's only 500 people, it may not kill the server, but it can make things dodgy for awhile. If you have dialup customers (like the GP), it's time for the shotgun email that says taht some people are on dialup in BIG RED LETTERS, followed by a simple table that shows how long it takes to download 1MB on dialup. Some people still won't learn, but at least their damage potential is limited.
So what to do when you don't even know what a firewall is?
You learn. A firewall is a very simple idea - it attempts to keep dangerous stuff away from you, just like a real firewall.
When you aren't aware of the importance of shrinking down that huge "jpeg" you took with your digital camera before mass mailing it to all your friends and family who have email addresses?
Knowing about files and their sizes is a basic part of operating a computer. That's like driving a car and not knowing that you have to change the oil.
Nah, saying that aliens did it implies that we could do it too with enough tech and time.
I've always believed they should be required to provide a plain language version with the original contract, even if the plain language version isn't legaly binding.
What good would that do? If they disagree, then the legalese portion takes precedence, so you need to understand it anyway.
If the guy/gal is stupid enough to post from inside the campus, the MS network admin just has to grep the network connection log and, bingo.
Don't be an asshole, this is Seattle. We've got 3 dozen free wifi networks spread around downtown. All he has to do is post from some coffee shop or grocery shop and presto! broken trace.
I say it's high time to say "f u" to the legal language and make it a requirement that all contracts be brief, to the point and in plain language
The problem with plain language is that it's vague - that's why contracts are long-winded. I could see requiring a definition of all terms that are used in a way that differs substantially from normal parlance. Outside of weird usage, most contracts are just boring.
In waiting for your response, I will be tucked away nicely out of sight.
Yeah, that's what you think...
I don't think the Copyright Act says that, but perhaps case law does...
I believe it was a SCOTUS ruling. At any rate, it's hard to make an argument under the 4 rules doctrine that format shifting is infringing, as it doesn't really cause anybody financial harm.