Some credit needs to go to Howard Dean's '04 campaign for demonstrating that way that the Obama campaign is using their website could really work. Right idea, probably the wrong Yeeargh candidate.
Although of course none of the current candidates are anywhere near as passionate about tech issues as Al Gore.
Except that you are aware of the hole (since you designed the room, and the experiment) so it exists in your perception. Thus the experiment methodology is flawed.
Well, the more complete plan would be: 1. Create a mediocre search engine for Wikipedia 2. Publicize it via Slashvertisement 3. Get bought out by a good search engine. 4. PROFIT!!!
Actually, if you read the very beginning of Genesis closely, you'll notice that God doesn't create water: "And the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters."
I'm suspecting that they've put together a bunch of sock puppet accounts voting things to the top of the Firehose, and that the "editors" aren't looking carefully enough at what they're doing to notice.
The computer is a tool everyone uses every day, and no sane person is even suggesting that math should be dumbed down.
Although this is slightly off-topic, there are a remarkably large number of people suggesting just that. From what I can tell, they are mostly humanities-types who have gone into education, remember that math was hard for them, and rather than try to figure out better ways of teaching it advocate for teaching math as if it were English literature.
1) You "can X and restart it without rebooting" but can a novice? To answer your question, yes. In fact, it's so easy that there were people asking for the feature to be turned off, because users might trigger it accidentally. If a user tries ctrl-alt-delete, most distros will reboot the machine, so even that isn't a real problem.
I didn't think reducing power usage and increasing generation were mutually exclusive. They're both good ideas, and there's no particular reason why people couldn't do both (other than time and money, of course).
Depending on the kind of farm, one of the other power generation options out there is based off of collecting the methane from manure composting. A number of dairy farmers are already doing this and selling the surplus power.
Obviously, this only works if your farming operation produces a lot of manure, but most farms that involve animals in some way do just that.
I interview people to work for my tech company and I don't care if you're from MIT or middle of nowhere college, it all depends on what comes out of your mouth during the interview. And I haven't met a company that's any different.
But would he even be selected for the interview if he's from middle-of-nowhere-college while most of the other candidates come from MIT, CALTECH or similar? As a liberal arts CS grad now working for a Fortune 1000 company, yes, you will get the interview. And chances are that you'll be better able to communicate with non-technical folks, which will help you immensely in interviews and later on in your career.
Another big advantage of the liberal arts program is that your professors will be primarily interested in teaching rather than research. And when they do research, they're going to be more interested in involving undergrads. You'll also tend to have a lot more freedom to do the sorts of projects that you want to do: I had term projects that were "find something to do related to the subject matter, get my approval, and do it."
The liberal arts program you describe could well be the one I graduated from: if so, you'll have a blast.
Actually, the nearest ship (the Californian, about 10 nautical miles away) not only didn't respond to the radio distress call, they also didn't respond to the strange angle and behavior of the ship (which had stopped in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason) or the flares being sent up. The crew watched the entire thing unfold without doing anything about it.
To quote Theodore Sturgeon: "Ninety percent of everything is crap." Whether or not it's precisely accurate, it does encourage a high standard of proof for believing something.
And journal articles can be wrong too. If students are overly skeptical of sources, that's probably a help to actual learning, so long as it's clear that BS in their own work is not acceptable. Being skeptical of sources means you're more likely to go the extra mile in verifying that your assertions are solid.
In a conversation with a headhunter, I mentioned that this pattern seemed like a problem. He confirmed that this was in fact the case: inexperienced people are simply not offered positions in major companies. Period. An "entry level" programmer or admin in my area is someone with between 3-5 years of experience, not someone right out of college. This has been going on for about 3 years, and now employers are having a hard time getting good entry level people for some strange reason.
From what I gather, the theory is that IT workers make most of their mistakes in their first 3 years of professional work, so it's to each employer's advantage to have somebody else deal with those first 3 years. Trouble is, collectively this invariably leads to a serious shortage of qualified IT professionals, while the people who wanted to become qualified IT professionals are stuck trying to make ends meet at the local Starbucks.
My characterizations, which are think are reasonable here: MSNBC - liberal/Democratic CNBC - somewhat conservative (more bias towards its investor audience) CNN - fairly neutral (but concentrated on horse race politics) PBS - Tries to remain neutral, is generally caught between the liberal individual donors and the conservative corporate and foundation donors CBS - no news organization to speak of C-Span - The most unbiased source imaginable, since it shows what politicians are saying and doing rather than commenting on what politicians are saying and doing.
It's called contempt of court, and it can get you into all sorts of trouble. When you're in contempt, you're directly challenging the judge's authority, and the judge is not likely to be lenient when you've just pissed him/her off.
Of course, there's always the possibility of appealing to a more $upportive venue, but it's still a great way to end up in jail or losing a law license.
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Some credit needs to go to Howard Dean's '04 campaign for demonstrating that way that the Obama campaign is using their website could really work. Right idea, probably the wrong Yeeargh candidate.
Although of course none of the current candidates are anywhere near as passionate about tech issues as Al Gore.
That's strange, I got a message of "We apologize for the inconvenience".
Except that you are aware of the hole (since you designed the room, and the experiment) so it exists in your perception. Thus the experiment methodology is flawed.
Well, the more complete plan would be:
1. Create a mediocre search engine for Wikipedia
2. Publicize it via Slashvertisement
3. Get bought out by a good search engine.
4. PROFIT!!!
But now a Scot has control over England. So shouldn't you guys get revenge by outlawing ale or something like that?
Actually, if you read the very beginning of Genesis closely, you'll notice that God doesn't create water:
"And the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters."
That's before light exists.
I'm afraid xkcd inches ever closer to reality:
http://xkcd.com/344/
Let us hope Ninja Stallman can defend us, because so far it's only looking like him, NewYorkCountryLawyer, and Lawrence Lessig are on our side.
I'm suspecting that they've put together a bunch of sock puppet accounts voting things to the top of the Firehose, and that the "editors" aren't looking carefully enough at what they're doing to notice.
The computer is a tool everyone uses every day, and no sane person is even suggesting that math should be dumbed down.
Although this is slightly off-topic, there are a remarkably large number of people suggesting just that. From what I can tell, they are mostly humanities-types who have gone into education, remember that math was hard for them, and rather than try to figure out better ways of teaching it advocate for teaching math as if it were English literature.
We don't have to care. We're the Phone Company.
Watch who you're calling Program, program!
Here I was thinking this was intended for the Mobile Infantry. Go get 'em, Juan Rico.
I didn't think reducing power usage and increasing generation were mutually exclusive. They're both good ideas, and there's no particular reason why people couldn't do both (other than time and money, of course).
Depending on the kind of farm, one of the other power generation options out there is based off of collecting the methane from manure composting. A number of dairy farmers are already doing this and selling the surplus power.
Obviously, this only works if your farming operation produces a lot of manure, but most farms that involve animals in some way do just that.
But would he even be selected for the interview if he's from middle-of-nowhere-college while most of the other candidates come from MIT, CALTECH or similar? As a liberal arts CS grad now working for a Fortune 1000 company, yes, you will get the interview. And chances are that you'll be better able to communicate with non-technical folks, which will help you immensely in interviews and later on in your career.
Another big advantage of the liberal arts program is that your professors will be primarily interested in teaching rather than research. And when they do research, they're going to be more interested in involving undergrads. You'll also tend to have a lot more freedom to do the sorts of projects that you want to do: I had term projects that were "find something to do related to the subject matter, get my approval, and do it."
The liberal arts program you describe could well be the one I graduated from: if so, you'll have a blast.
The geek girls are better looking and more interesting too.
Actually, the nearest ship (the Californian, about 10 nautical miles away) not only didn't respond to the radio distress call, they also didn't respond to the strange angle and behavior of the ship (which had stopped in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason) or the flares being sent up. The crew watched the entire thing unfold without doing anything about it.
Actually, not only are cows terrorists, they're also communists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
That's easy: It's NaN mpg.
To quote Theodore Sturgeon: "Ninety percent of everything is crap." Whether or not it's precisely accurate, it does encourage a high standard of proof for believing something.
And journal articles can be wrong too. If students are overly skeptical of sources, that's probably a help to actual learning, so long as it's clear that BS in their own work is not acceptable. Being skeptical of sources means you're more likely to go the extra mile in verifying that your assertions are solid.
In a conversation with a headhunter, I mentioned that this pattern seemed like a problem. He confirmed that this was in fact the case: inexperienced people are simply not offered positions in major companies. Period. An "entry level" programmer or admin in my area is someone with between 3-5 years of experience, not someone right out of college. This has been going on for about 3 years, and now employers are having a hard time getting good entry level people for some strange reason.
From what I gather, the theory is that IT workers make most of their mistakes in their first 3 years of professional work, so it's to each employer's advantage to have somebody else deal with those first 3 years. Trouble is, collectively this invariably leads to a serious shortage of qualified IT professionals, while the people who wanted to become qualified IT professionals are stuck trying to make ends meet at the local Starbucks.
Relax, they're just scouting out locations for a Union Aerospace Corporation base. Let's hope the teleportation experiments work this time.
My characterizations, which are think are reasonable here:
MSNBC - liberal/Democratic
CNBC - somewhat conservative (more bias towards its investor audience)
CNN - fairly neutral (but concentrated on horse race politics)
PBS - Tries to remain neutral, is generally caught between the liberal individual donors and the conservative corporate and foundation donors
CBS - no news organization to speak of
C-Span - The most unbiased source imaginable, since it shows what politicians are saying and doing rather than commenting on what politicians are saying and doing.
It's called contempt of court, and it can get you into all sorts of trouble. When you're in contempt, you're directly challenging the judge's authority, and the judge is not likely to be lenient when you've just pissed him/her off.
Of course, there's always the possibility of appealing to a more $upportive venue, but it's still a great way to end up in jail or losing a law license.