Most of science isn't lab work. In fact, for the work a serious scientist is likely to be doing most of the time, a short skirt and heels is just as appropriate as any other garment the scientist in question chooses to wear.
Linux has been usable for 90% windows can do for over a decade. And today is used by an awful lot of people for a lot of things.
Windows is targeted for home and office PC users and it fills that niche quite well. I just willingly paid for a Win7 professional OEM edition that was not forced on me, because I want my home desktop to run Windows. But like hell I'm going to install that thing on the server cluster that needs to stay up around the clock, unhacked for me to make money.
Linux is already "pretty usable" on the desktop, the question is whether it is as good as Win7 and OSX. Probably not, but why do I care whether Linux can out-compete these operating systems in their own niches?
There's a hell of a lot of government in North Korea, why aren't they rich?
All babies come out of females, but why do you never see babies coming out of a convent, or the ladies senior bridge club, or a girl's elementary school.
I work in China in online games development. My Chinese coworkers are paid well over the average US whitecollar worker salary, here are some examples of things they cannot do:
Use quadratic curves (or cubic curves for that matter). For example, you have three vectors and a scaler, a starting velocity, starting position, finish position and time and you want to linearly accelerate so the fireball hits the target when it is supposed to (they know how to find the roots of a parabola in several ways, but where is the y=ax^2+bx+c here?).
Use a cross product to find basis vectors, or even a position to left/right of an object (they know what a cross/vector product or "Chaji"/"Xiangliangji" is, but not why you want that third vector).
Use a dot product to project vectors, for example to work out whether an object is in front or behind another (they know what a dot product or "Dianji" is, but not why you want that scalar).
Write out a 90 degree 2d rotation matrix (they know how to write an arbitary rotation matrix or "Xuanzhuan Juzheng", with cos and sin, but need a calculator to work out cos(pi/2)).
Integrate velocity/acceleration/drag/whatever over time rather than simulating with crude, uneven time slices.
I mean, sure, most westerners can't do that either, but if you're a game programmer you should eat and breathe this stuff. I think East Asian culture just does not teach people to look at some knowledge and work out how it could be applied. The mentality is "you need to know this for the exam", there is no reason beyond that, nor does there have to be.
Finally, an anecdote. I was talking to my coworkers about University, saying at my university we wrote an compiler more or less from scratch, with tokeniser, parser, code generator, etc all hand written in stages with clear interfaces between each component set by the professor. My coworker said that there was no way a Chinese professor could organise something like that. Then I pointed out that the professor who taught it was called Xue Jingling and he graduated from Tsinghua University, not 3km from the company. So in my opinion it is not Chinese people themselves that are idiotic, they are often very smart, creative, and capable. It seems that they have a couple of subtle traits that when you get a whole lot of them together, you can really make an idiotic society. The same can be said of Americans too, but the difference is that Americans are far less obnoxious in their own country than out of it, whereas Chinese are the opposite.
Most of the attrocities were committed by Russian, German and French soldiers. The American, British and surprisingly Japanese soldiers generally maintained dicipline and only looted the state treasuries.
I've had no problem finding programming jobs in Chinese companies. It's just a matter of being able to prove you are good enough and have enough relavent to justify the amount of trouble you will be for them. Salary is no problem, for a senior Chinese programmer with 8 years of experience making MMORPG it is about US$40K - US$140K depending on how many famous titles they have shipped.
But not having the local language is a huge problem for finding white collar work, luckily most programmers can at least read and write English at least, so it might work out OK.
I learned how to celebrate from my Chinese boss. Nice family dinner with wife and son, then they go home and we hit the Maotai hard with the mistress de jour and a few KTV hostesses.
Well, this is the hacker/engineer distinction clearly evident. Admiral Hopper apparently fell into the former category, as she was so keen to hack up her compiler that she forgot to design a language for it that wasn't shit.
He said he was giving a presentation when it came up. Flipping up sexy girlie picks at work in front of an audience has got to look unprofessional. It would embarrass the hell out of me and I love pornography.
This thing simultaneously fires three laser guided, tungsten jacketed shells off the top of a rocket, travelling at Mach 3.5, each with half a kilogram of high explosive. They fly 1.5m apart to maximise the chance of hitting a fast moving object, they can out-turn a plane turning at 9Gs and any one of the three hitting is enough to tear through the armour of a modern APC, though the fragmentation alone would be enough to kill a person several meters away.
If you let me choose any weapon for seriously ruining the day of a motorcyclist from the top of a building, I could think of nothing better than this one. In fact, I still find it hard to believe that the British were actually crazy enough to build such a thing.
I would agree. Cutting off the first letter of a quote 'he Ministry of Defence...' is something I would do while hurriedly posting quotes into MSN, not something an editor should do on a widely read website. Just ridiculous.
No, I'm going to say Beijing was just as successful as Sydney. Maybe goals were different, but China wanted to show off its bling bling and achieved just that.
Guinea worm is looking like it is on the verge of eradication thanks to a concentrated effort over the last 10 years, a 99% reduction over the last 25 years. This is through basic sanitation and proper treatment procedure with none of this no-holds-barred short term thinking you are proposing.
It just awaits the opening of certain war-torn areas to health workers, then it will be gone for good. Proposing to deplete a valuable resource in its name just makes you sound impetuous and stupid.
Well, China is a big factor in Africa too, building roads and the like for free using Chinese labour and materials. It can be seen as dumping, but Africa still needs infrastructure.
Well, that said. In my field (3d gaming) there are a few female developers who are absolutely excellent. I have a female programmer as my right-hand person to do critical, production blocking tasks when I am indisposed, as I trust her to have high standards and pride in her work, do things right the first time and not make a cock-up of everything. This is much more than my male subordinates, who tend to rush things out of arrogance and I have to shout at them and make them redo their work. She's the third woman I've hired for a technical role and by far the best, the previous two were OK, I only ever had to lose my temper at one of them once, which is far below average.
That said, I've seen some female coders in the web development scene who do not care about their work, do not have any form of technical inclination and do not do a good job. We had a female lead on our website team, low work quality, too thick to improve and too sensitive for me to do anything but smile sweetly and let her make a mess, until she thankfully resigned. If I had to work with this sort of women, then I would feel sexist too. Of course, the men over there were not much better, but at least I could see in their eyes that they hated themselves for what they were doing.
I live in China. I'd only consider a completely local hosting solution, not because the US government fucks you harder than the Chinese government, but simply because you're going to get fucked by the local one whatever you do, so better leave it at one than be double penetrated.
Science and the Bible conflict an awful lot. Straight from page 1 onwards.
I think what you are missing after that is "...for about 5 pages, then that bit about the flood a bit later, and then extremely rarely for the bulk of that quite hefty book."
But constitutional law in Australia does not deal with basic human rights, just delegation of power between governments and the mechanism of parlimentary democracy. The constitution has been found to give the Federal Government the power to unilaterally ratify treaties, which it has with various UN charters regarding human rights.
Basically the Australian constitution specifies business as usual for the colonial legislative assemblies, which become state legislative assemblies, the only difference is that the powers previously withheld from colonial home rule are now held by Australian House of Representatives in Melbourne (later Canberra) rather than the Colonial Office in London. The same applies to the Supreme Courts which may be overruled by the High Court rather than the Privy Council.
There is nothing there whatsoever about founding principles, it gave Australians a chance to find their own destiny, rather than mandate conditions from the get-go.
Well, there are people with a lot of ability who are able to cooperate with others and there are those who cannot. Theo should pick a smaller project than an operating system to do by himself and I'm sure he could do brilliantly and make it famous and widely used (OpenBSD is known by most of slashdot, mostly for its phenomenal strokes of brilliance in the areas Theo cares about and its gaping lack of features in other areas). Drepper on the other hand, well, I'm not sure what's so great about glibc, sure, sprintf never has crashed on me but fucked if I'm handing out any credit to the guy who manages stlib.h just because he manages it.
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Most of science isn't lab work. In fact, for the work a serious scientist is likely to be doing most of the time, a short skirt and heels is just as appropriate as any other garment the scientist in question chooses to wear.
Linux has been usable for 90% windows can do for over a decade. And today is used by an awful lot of people for a lot of things.
Windows is targeted for home and office PC users and it fills that niche quite well. I just willingly paid for a Win7 professional OEM edition that was not forced on me, because I want my home desktop to run Windows. But like hell I'm going to install that thing on the server cluster that needs to stay up around the clock, unhacked for me to make money.
Linux is already "pretty usable" on the desktop, the question is whether it is as good as Win7 and OSX. Probably not, but why do I care whether Linux can out-compete these operating systems in their own niches?
There's a hell of a lot of government in North Korea, why aren't they rich?
All babies come out of females, but why do you never see babies coming out of a convent, or the ladies senior bridge club, or a girl's elementary school.
I work in China in online games development. My Chinese coworkers are paid well over the average US whitecollar worker salary, here are some examples of things they cannot do:
I mean, sure, most westerners can't do that either, but if you're a game programmer you should eat and breathe this stuff. I think East Asian culture just does not teach people to look at some knowledge and work out how it could be applied. The mentality is "you need to know this for the exam", there is no reason beyond that, nor does there have to be.
Finally, an anecdote. I was talking to my coworkers about University, saying at my university we wrote an compiler more or less from scratch, with tokeniser, parser, code generator, etc all hand written in stages with clear interfaces between each component set by the professor. My coworker said that there was no way a Chinese professor could organise something like that. Then I pointed out that the professor who taught it was called Xue Jingling and he graduated from Tsinghua University, not 3km from the company. So in my opinion it is not Chinese people themselves that are idiotic, they are often very smart, creative, and capable. It seems that they have a couple of subtle traits that when you get a whole lot of them together, you can really make an idiotic society. The same can be said of Americans too, but the difference is that Americans are far less obnoxious in their own country than out of it, whereas Chinese are the opposite.
US First?
Wasn't that the name of Charles Lindbergh's gay little Nazi club or something?
Most of the attrocities were committed by Russian, German and French soldiers. The American, British and surprisingly Japanese soldiers generally maintained dicipline and only looted the state treasuries.
I've had no problem finding programming jobs in Chinese companies. It's just a matter of being able to prove you are good enough and have enough relavent to justify the amount of trouble you will be for them. Salary is no problem, for a senior Chinese programmer with 8 years of experience making MMORPG it is about US$40K - US$140K depending on how many famous titles they have shipped.
But not having the local language is a huge problem for finding white collar work, luckily most programmers can at least read and write English at least, so it might work out OK.
I learned how to celebrate from my Chinese boss. Nice family dinner with wife and son, then they go home and we hit the Maotai hard with the mistress de jour and a few KTV hostesses.
Well, this is the hacker/engineer distinction clearly evident. Admiral Hopper apparently fell into the former category, as she was so keen to hack up her compiler that she forgot to design a language for it that wasn't shit.
He said he was giving a presentation when it came up. Flipping up sexy girlie picks at work in front of an audience has got to look unprofessional. It would embarrass the hell out of me and I love pornography.
If you think the government deserves credit for "allowing" someone to create a successful business, you're a lost cause.
Why? Since most don't, I'm willing to lavish praise upon those that do.
EV kicks arse. You should hire some Belizean thugs to force Matt Burch to make a new one.
This thing simultaneously fires three laser guided, tungsten jacketed shells off the top of a rocket, travelling at Mach 3.5, each with half a kilogram of high explosive. They fly 1.5m apart to maximise the chance of hitting a fast moving object, they can out-turn a plane turning at 9Gs and any one of the three hitting is enough to tear through the armour of a modern APC, though the fragmentation alone would be enough to kill a person several meters away.
If you let me choose any weapon for seriously ruining the day of a motorcyclist from the top of a building, I could think of nothing better than this one. In fact, I still find it hard to believe that the British were actually crazy enough to build such a thing.
This is just getting ridiculous.
I would agree. Cutting off the first letter of a quote 'he Ministry of Defence...' is something I would do while hurriedly posting quotes into MSN, not something an editor should do on a widely read website. Just ridiculous.
No, I'm going to say Beijing was just as successful as Sydney. Maybe goals were different, but China wanted to show off its bling bling and achieved just that.
So Mexicans cannot legally immigrate?
Guinea worm is looking like it is on the verge of eradication thanks to a concentrated effort over the last 10 years, a 99% reduction over the last 25 years. This is through basic sanitation and proper treatment procedure with none of this no-holds-barred short term thinking you are proposing.
It just awaits the opening of certain war-torn areas to health workers, then it will be gone for good. Proposing to deplete a valuable resource in its name just makes you sound impetuous and stupid.
Well, China is a big factor in Africa too, building roads and the like for free using Chinese labour and materials. It can be seen as dumping, but Africa still needs infrastructure.
Crap coders tend to focus on incidental things that they feel will improve the quality of their code, rather than addressing the issues directly.
Well, that said. In my field (3d gaming) there are a few female developers who are absolutely excellent. I have a female programmer as my right-hand person to do critical, production blocking tasks when I am indisposed, as I trust her to have high standards and pride in her work, do things right the first time and not make a cock-up of everything. This is much more than my male subordinates, who tend to rush things out of arrogance and I have to shout at them and make them redo their work. She's the third woman I've hired for a technical role and by far the best, the previous two were OK, I only ever had to lose my temper at one of them once, which is far below average.
That said, I've seen some female coders in the web development scene who do not care about their work, do not have any form of technical inclination and do not do a good job. We had a female lead on our website team, low work quality, too thick to improve and too sensitive for me to do anything but smile sweetly and let her make a mess, until she thankfully resigned. If I had to work with this sort of women, then I would feel sexist too. Of course, the men over there were not much better, but at least I could see in their eyes that they hated themselves for what they were doing.
I live in China. I'd only consider a completely local hosting solution, not because the US government fucks you harder than the Chinese government, but simply because you're going to get fucked by the local one whatever you do, so better leave it at one than be double penetrated.
Science and the Bible conflict an awful lot. Straight from page 1 onwards.
I think what you are missing after that is "...for about 5 pages, then that bit about the flood a bit later, and then extremely rarely for the bulk of that quite hefty book."
If it was legal why would they need to punish someone who exposed it? Since it was not legal, why is there anything to be exposed?
Don't worry, this is made up slander and is nothing a good waterboarding won't fix.
Did I say waterboarding? I mean, um... shit
Well, you missed the "The Castle" reference.
But constitutional law in Australia does not deal with basic human rights, just delegation of power between governments and the mechanism of parlimentary democracy. The constitution has been found to give the Federal Government the power to unilaterally ratify treaties, which it has with various UN charters regarding human rights.
Basically the Australian constitution specifies business as usual for the colonial legislative assemblies, which become state legislative assemblies, the only difference is that the powers previously withheld from colonial home rule are now held by Australian House of Representatives in Melbourne (later Canberra) rather than the Colonial Office in London. The same applies to the Supreme Courts which may be overruled by the High Court rather than the Privy Council.
There is nothing there whatsoever about founding principles, it gave Australians a chance to find their own destiny, rather than mandate conditions from the get-go.
Well, there are people with a lot of ability who are able to cooperate with others and there are those who cannot. Theo should pick a smaller project than an operating system to do by himself and I'm sure he could do brilliantly and make it famous and widely used (OpenBSD is known by most of slashdot, mostly for its phenomenal strokes of brilliance in the areas Theo cares about and its gaping lack of features in other areas). Drepper on the other hand, well, I'm not sure what's so great about glibc, sure, sprintf never has crashed on me but fucked if I'm handing out any credit to the guy who manages stlib.h just because he manages it.