That is why I chose my words carefully:-)
I read this article (or one that is close enough) and it is IMHO one of the best arguments against heritage : it creates dumb wealthy people.
Actually the real message meta-coded there is : "We are not serious people, we just are here to take some taxpayers money and give a false sense of security by sitting in front of shiny computers.".
Google tests are (way) better than IQ, but guess what Google found out: the best performers are the ones who have the lowest scores on their interviews.
Then maybe Google tests are not that good then. IQ tests show a correlation with income and with education level. Correlation is not causation, but if a company wants someone with good education, IQ is not such a bad instrument.
Don't worry, they also have the same proportion (therefore higher absolute number) of cheaters, Madoff-wanabees, frauds... They also had financial crisis and bubble bursts in Asia. They will have them again.
Input lag of 150-200 ms is simply not playable. Remember that a laggy server hide the latency through interpolation and let's you have a short latency for your input.
200 ms is the kind of reaction time you can have at 5 fps. Of course their image goes at 30 or 60 fps, but if you want to see what a lag of 200 ms represent, witness how difficult it is to play at 5 fps.
Isn't that the same kind of people who was praising consoles for their lower piracy ratings ? In a few years he will complain that PCs are too open and allow to easily crack games...
This won't change a thing about obesity. It just changes the amount of distance you'll be able to walk to with a given effort, not the amount of energy you'll spend on moving.
On the same website, FSF lists what it identifies as the ten most important free software to complete :
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
I, for one, believe CoreBoot to be the most important of them
The problem is that every bank was saying that they did no bad loans in order to evacuate theirs quickly and throw the hot potato to someone else. Investigating such claims seems only fair. You also claim that the way media reporting is made is not fair. Well, yes, that's true and that's another problem entirely.
Yeah, and we should plant a cross and a flag.
What is more like exploration ? having a map of the underground resources gathered from orbit or having a man saluting a flag and exploring a 500x500m area of the planet ?
Humans are very bad and clumsy at exploration. You need them for colonization, but exploration (ie : gaining knowledge about unknown lands) is better handled by robots.
The idea is to solve all the industrial problems and to complete the designs for large scale solar power plant. And yes, as a side advantage, you get electricity.
If you had given the problem to solve to 10 mechanical engineers, you would get 9 times the same solution. The last one would have a slightly more innovative approach. Sorry, no, this is as innovative as a new algorithm : it has some cleverness, but forbidding other people to copy the functionality that is trivial to implement is still absurd.
As someone with a degree similar to a PhD (French engineering diploma, no thesis, a bit more math, from what I know) I completely agree. About programming, I learned next to nothing from the classes. I learned a lot from the other geeks in the class though. There were still a few classes of algorithmic and optimization that I think I would have never got by myself without a competent and dedicated teacher. Let's be large and say it represents ~50 hours of class. I am happy that I still got to learn some maths I would not have do by myself, but for the physics and electronics, I think I would have done a better job at self-teaching me. At the very least, the 5 years could have been replaced by a single one.
I think I was a worthwhile programmer out of high school. I wonder if 5 years of experience (it was during the dotcom bubbles! it would have been fun!) wouldn't have improved me more than 5 years of higher education. I have seen by myself that degrees mean nothing when it comes to hire a good programmer. Some essential skills are not taught in school at all.
But don't be too hard with people who think the other way. These things have only become true recently, thanks to Internet. Computer scientists were logically the first to benefit from it. In the world of education, ten years is short term and it has been since less than ten years that you can find a decent complete batch of courses for download. I see however many, many people, from teachers to education specialists, that believe that regular classes and schools are an outdated model. I, for one, don't believe that I will advise my kids to get into higher education like I did.
Exactly. Read the IPCC full report (which is written like a summary of science reports) vs the small report for decision maker (which is written "for the public" and for governments). Then, read the millions of internet trolls about climate change, IPCC political bias, yadadi, yadada. It all comes down to the "dumbing down" of the original report. Then it becomes clear why it is a bad idea.
Sometime, science explains complicated things. The public doens't like to rely on authoritative figures (a trait it shares with scientists) but sometimes you can't dumb things down. You have to go into statistics to explain why 20 more leucemies near a GSM antenna is not a high deviation from the average.
That madness like patents on format and suing people that make devices compatible to yours has to end. It has to be replaced by another silly law but that will be biased toward the consumer this time. The law is still silly, but I fully endorse the move.
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As a belt : http://www.monkeysandrobots.com/hapticcompass
As glasses : http://hackaday.com/2010/07/08/stylin-hmd/
So yeah, some employees truly do suck--always have and always will.
And should not be trusted with consumer financial data, which is a management error that is totally avoidable.
That is why I chose my words carefully :-)
I read this article (or one that is close enough) and it is IMHO one of the best arguments against heritage : it creates dumb wealthy people.
As pointed out in other posts, the rules were so vague that it sounds plausible that smart people would refuse to put good ideas there.
Well, currently this is a civilian project and it has a lead. Military projects are often incredibly conservative.
Actually the real message meta-coded there is : "We are not serious people, we just are here to take some taxpayers money and give a false sense of security by sitting in front of shiny computers.".
I think they are legal. However you will need to prove that you IQ Test is bias on Race, Gender or Religion.
Low IQs tend to be more religious : https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#Studies_comparing_religious_belief_and_I.Q.
Google tests are (way) better than IQ, but guess what Google found out: the best performers are the ones who have the lowest scores on their interviews.
Then maybe Google tests are not that good then. IQ tests show a correlation with income and with education level. Correlation is not causation, but if a company wants someone with good education, IQ is not such a bad instrument.
Don't worry, they also have the same proportion (therefore higher absolute number) of cheaters, Madoff-wanabees, frauds... They also had financial crisis and bubble bursts in Asia. They will have them again.
Input lag of 150-200 ms is simply not playable. Remember that a laggy server hide the latency through interpolation and let's you have a short latency for your input.
200 ms is the kind of reaction time you can have at 5 fps. Of course their image goes at 30 or 60 fps, but if you want to see what a lag of 200 ms represent, witness how difficult it is to play at 5 fps.
Isn't that the same kind of people who was praising consoles for their lower piracy ratings ? In a few years he will complain that PCs are too open and allow to easily crack games...
This won't change a thing about obesity. It just changes the amount of distance you'll be able to walk to with a given effort, not the amount of energy you'll spend on moving.
Copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author. Yes, this is madness.
Uh... Ok mod me down, I inverted two lines. Failure rates are similar (slightly lower for Soyuz)
It has pretty much the same track record as Soyuz and the Shuttle at about 98-99% reliable.
Except Soyuz made three times less casualties while transporting 6-7 times more humans.
Citizens or government bankrolled thugs without a clue?
Is that rethorical ?
On the same website, FSF lists what it identifies as the ten most important free software to complete :
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
I, for one, believe CoreBoot to be the most important of them
The day youtube implements a slashcode moderation system, internet will awake to global consciousness...
The problem is that every bank was saying that they did no bad loans in order to evacuate theirs quickly and throw the hot potato to someone else. Investigating such claims seems only fair. You also claim that the way media reporting is made is not fair. Well, yes, that's true and that's another problem entirely.
Yeah, and we should plant a cross and a flag.
What is more like exploration ? having a map of the underground resources gathered from orbit or having a man saluting a flag and exploring a 500x500m area of the planet ?
Humans are very bad and clumsy at exploration. You need them for colonization, but exploration (ie : gaining knowledge about unknown lands) is better handled by robots.
The idea is to solve all the industrial problems and to complete the designs for large scale solar power plant. And yes, as a side advantage, you get electricity.
If you had given the problem to solve to 10 mechanical engineers, you would get 9 times the same solution. The last one would have a slightly more innovative approach. Sorry, no, this is as innovative as a new algorithm : it has some cleverness, but forbidding other people to copy the functionality that is trivial to implement is still absurd.
As someone with a degree similar to a PhD (French engineering diploma, no thesis, a bit more math, from what I know) I completely agree. About programming, I learned next to nothing from the classes. I learned a lot from the other geeks in the class though. There were still a few classes of algorithmic and optimization that I think I would have never got by myself without a competent and dedicated teacher. Let's be large and say it represents ~50 hours of class. I am happy that I still got to learn some maths I would not have do by myself, but for the physics and electronics, I think I would have done a better job at self-teaching me. At the very least, the 5 years could have been replaced by a single one.
I think I was a worthwhile programmer out of high school. I wonder if 5 years of experience (it was during the dotcom bubbles! it would have been fun!) wouldn't have improved me more than 5 years of higher education. I have seen by myself that degrees mean nothing when it comes to hire a good programmer. Some essential skills are not taught in school at all.
But don't be too hard with people who think the other way. These things have only become true recently, thanks to Internet. Computer scientists were logically the first to benefit from it. In the world of education, ten years is short term and it has been since less than ten years that you can find a decent complete batch of courses for download. I see however many, many people, from teachers to education specialists, that believe that regular classes and schools are an outdated model. I, for one, don't believe that I will advise my kids to get into higher education like I did.
Exactly. Read the IPCC full report (which is written like a summary of science reports) vs the small report for decision maker (which is written "for the public" and for governments). Then, read the millions of internet trolls about climate change, IPCC political bias, yadadi, yadada. It all comes down to the "dumbing down" of the original report. Then it becomes clear why it is a bad idea.
Sometime, science explains complicated things. The public doens't like to rely on authoritative figures (a trait it shares with scientists) but sometimes you can't dumb things down. You have to go into statistics to explain why 20 more leucemies near a GSM antenna is not a high deviation from the average.
That madness like patents on format and suing people that make devices compatible to yours has to end. It has to be replaced by another silly law but that will be biased toward the consumer this time. The law is still silly, but I fully endorse the move.