Engineers are trained to solve problems.
Managers submit problems to engineers.
Engineers find a solution to solve the problem.
Only bad engineers solve obvious problems. Give two good engineers the same problem, there is a high probability that they will come up with the same solution.
The idea that only the first one to solve the problem is allowed to use the solution is just nonsense.
I heard that on the 20 euros that most CD cost, artists only see 2 or 3 euros...
I suppose that when they sell on their website, more than 80% of the selling price goes into their pocket, so it is not an idealist fight anymore, it is just a matter of making profit. 5 euros for a CD is cheap by today standard and would earn the artists more money, it will be a hard year for middle-men
That's called defamation suits and if Red Hat was really mentioned, they could sue Ballmer. I'm sure the EFF would be willing to help. The thing is, Red Hat isn't really a litigatous bastard and I believe they are right. Just ignore these crackpot claims, continue to make business decisions based on facts. Businessmen may not be less technically-savvy than IT engineers but I bet that they are more able to recognize a racket/scam when they see one. And this one is pretty obvious.
That proves the existence of a God spot to the most skeptical. That also proves that this feeling is caused by the physical brain of the meatworld, not by some spooky interaction with a soul thingie. The existence of God is not really concerned here but the hypothesis of the existence of the soul loses one more argument supporting it.
But how to fight? Shall I do exactly what they want us to avoid? Or avoid their products? Do exactly what they want us to avoid : to avoid their products.
blackboards are not the same. They are far less convenient, yet, schools prefer these because they are used to. That says something about them.
In school blackboards are used 90% of the time in order to allow teachers to make their one-man show. We all had slow writing teachers or unreadable ones. Maths demonstrations would be greatly enhanced if animations were possible, some curves are very difficult to draw on a chalkboard also. Teachers have adapted to chalkboard for so long that they don't even realize how limited this is.
Assuming that blackboards and whiteboards are the same, however, it is right that they are useful when groups of people think together. On occasions when one must make presentations, usually a powerpoint is preferred. Now when was the last time when you have worked together with fellow students on a blackboard ? it must have happen once in all my studies.
I say change every blackboards in school for whiteboards and use these sometime as a projector screen. That will enrich presentations without changing too much teachers' habits.
Well, it takes some time to perform necromancy rituals on the engineers that didn't totally document their part because "nobody will reuse that" "I have better things to do" and "I'll be around anyway"
I thinkg M. Goodnight has a point : kids are put into a century-old universe when put into school. It really is frustrating. I finished my high school 10 years ago, but already I didn't understand why I couldn't have a "find" function in a course, why we didn't use any of the software tools so convenient for drawing geometrical figures, why, again, the teaching world was so reluctant to see computers and calculator as tools and only saw them as toys. I knew that I wanted to walk the engineering path and I saw school as a largely obsolete universe.
Students do not *normally* come to school to learn anymore. They expect to be entertained. They expect to be catered to. Kids never did. Kids went to school because it is mandatory. Expecting them to be genuinely interested in school because you were isn't going to work. Kids who happen to have a good science education will usually talk to you about this particular teacher who managed to make them love math, or biology, or physics. Interest can be given by parents, but teachers also have that role. And school environment definitely has a role, that is negative as of now. If you think about it, where do you still find chalkboards outside school ? We are in the powerpoint era. It may have its drawbacks, but chalkboard is so limited and time-consuming to use...
I, for one, only hope that the current poverty of science in the world is reversed. I couldn't care less about the prevalent religion in one region or the other, they are just irrelevant to science.
The Internet blackout happened in the 24 hours after the first violent repression. It has been fairly synchronized. Of course they claim that this is due to damages done to a submarine cable...
I have seen several references to the Semantic Web as "Web 3.0". I have yet to see any researcher endorsing that term though, but it does sound like a good marketing term if the Web 2.0 gets good acceptance.
The Semantic Web should bring a big paradigm shift : the idea that every information should be labeled with meta-data and also the understanding that this can't be done by the average webmaster but that some sort of automation has to be done. This automation is of course the greatest challenge. The on-going joke is that "Semantic Web" is just a label for AI researcher from the golden age of AI to continue raising funds.
After all, America space race only began after USSR became the first satellite launcher with Sputnik. Let's hope that seeing Chinese on the Moon will trigger interest in the Mars race.
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Agreed, the kid should be charged. But someone has to be charged for incompetence also.
Engineers are trained to solve problems.
Managers submit problems to engineers.
Engineers find a solution to solve the problem.
Only bad engineers solve obvious problems. Give two good engineers the same problem, there is a high probability that they will come up with the same solution.
The idea that only the first one to solve the problem is allowed to use the solution is just nonsense.
That's 5 GW, and an energy expert is quoted as saying that this is a "10 years solution" to the energy problem.
...by implementing a decades-old sci-fi solution.
Will we really have to wait for every ID in US to be stolen before some laws on mandatory encryption on privacy data are passed ?
If I may say... RTFA !
Arctic circle !
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9041041&pageNumber=2
That being DeBeers' one I guess this is also the one located in a diamond mine.
I heard that on the 20 euros that most CD cost, artists only see 2 or 3 euros...
I suppose that when they sell on their website, more than 80% of the selling price goes into their pocket, so it is not an idealist fight anymore, it is just a matter of making profit. 5 euros for a CD is cheap by today standard and would earn the artists more money, it will be a hard year for middle-men
Where do I apply to get paid doing this stuff ?
How is this commandment infringed by people playing a video game ?
That's called defamation suits and if Red Hat was really mentioned, they could sue Ballmer. I'm sure the EFF would be willing to help. The thing is, Red Hat isn't really a litigatous bastard and I believe they are right. Just ignore these crackpot claims, continue to make business decisions based on facts. Businessmen may not be less technically-savvy than IT engineers but I bet that they are more able to recognize a racket/scam when they see one. And this one is pretty obvious.
That proves the existence of a God spot to the most skeptical. That also proves that this feeling is caused by the physical brain of the meatworld, not by some spooky interaction with a soul thingie. The existence of God is not really concerned here but the hypothesis of the existence of the soul loses one more argument supporting it.
blackboards are not the same. They are far less convenient, yet, schools prefer these because they are used to. That says something about them.
In school blackboards are used 90% of the time in order to allow teachers to make their one-man show. We all had slow writing teachers or unreadable ones. Maths demonstrations would be greatly enhanced if animations were possible, some curves are very difficult to draw on a chalkboard also. Teachers have adapted to chalkboard for so long that they don't even realize how limited this is.
Assuming that blackboards and whiteboards are the same, however, it is right that they are useful when groups of people think together. On occasions when one must make presentations, usually a powerpoint is preferred. Now when was the last time when you have worked together with fellow students on a blackboard ? it must have happen once in all my studies.
I say change every blackboards in school for whiteboards and use these sometime as a projector screen. That will enrich presentations without changing too much teachers' habits.
Well, it takes some time to perform necromancy rituals on the engineers that didn't totally document their part because "nobody will reuse that" "I have better things to do" and "I'll be around anyway"
I, for one, only hope that the current poverty of science in the world is reversed. I couldn't care less about the prevalent religion in one region or the other, they are just irrelevant to science.
The Internet blackout happened in the 24 hours after the first violent repression. It has been fairly synchronized. Of course they claim that this is due to damages done to a submarine cable...
Wasn't this country IT infrastructure allegedly shut down by Chinese hackers a few months ago ?
CRC checks and parity bits should help you see if something is wrong.
You don't get it. They just want to be able to serve Flash application of different sizes.
I wish I was joking.
Hey, I've got a bridge to sell ...
I have seen several references to the Semantic Web as "Web 3.0". I have yet to see any researcher endorsing that term though, but it does sound like a good marketing term if the Web 2.0 gets good acceptance.
The Semantic Web should bring a big paradigm shift : the idea that every information should be labeled with meta-data and also the understanding that this can't be done by the average webmaster but that some sort of automation has to be done. This automation is of course the greatest challenge. The on-going joke is that "Semantic Web" is just a label for AI researcher from the golden age of AI to continue raising funds.
In a few weeks they will rename the project "The One Hundred Euros Laptop"
After all, America space race only began after USSR became the first satellite launcher with Sputnik. Let's hope that seeing Chinese on the Moon will trigger interest in the Mars race.