I would not believe a single person who said they have never been bullied or bullied someone else. Furthermore, I would be sceptical if someone told me they have only been a victim or an oppressor and never the other.
I never suggested that there was any form of long term or rational plan here. I don't for a second believe this is possible. But even a desperate and irrational mind is subject to social concerns and particularly a mind that feels tortured by social humiliation, as this girl was, would be drawn to vindication and empathy above even their own life.
I don't think mourning changes anything, but empathising and exonerating do. If we start saying that her suicide was a natural response to her circumstances, then people will contemplate the option more and more. Suicide rates spiking in response to well publicised reports of suicide is a well studied phenomenon, called the Werther Effect. Awareness of suicide in itself leads to measurable increases in attempted and completed suicides, the more heartfelt and sympathetic the coverage, the larger the effect.
I simply do not think the escape scenario fits. Rarely does anyone who feels ridiculed and humiliated think that if they were somewhere else, things would be better. Those who feel exclusion, being contempted and mocked tend to believe that others mock and contempt them behind their back also and that others will contempt them also. Those who don't care about what others think about them while they're not there do not tend to be those who are easily made despondent by such things in the first place, so I think running away was probably not a prominent thought in this girl's mind at all, vindication was.
So yes, I stick with what I say, though possibly not my original phrasing. The WHO largely does too, with its media guidelines for prevention of suicide trends.
Yes, lets rant about how prissy the 12 year old girl was for taking her own life. Because we all know 12 year olds (girl or boy) are capable of handling things like an adult should, in your perfect world.
Well, it's either that or holding another 12 year old responsible for that suicide. Everyone seems to be blaming 12 year olds here.
This is ridiculous, school bullying is as old as schooling and has sometimes even been encouraged in the past and is declining as teachers become more aware of it. School suicides however is a rising and disturbing development. Emotional scars left by bullying heal quickly, emotional scars left by having a child kill herself are unlikely to ever heal. If bleeding hearts like you stopped identifying with those who commit suicide and started vilifying them, then people in emotional distress would stop thinking "once I'm dead, everyone will be sorry and make those who teased me pay for it" and start thinking "once I'm dead, everyone will think I'm an innate coward who failed as a daughter" and would be much less likely to go through with it.
No amount of sympathy will bring her back, but morning her and punishing her tormentors is giving her exactly what she wanted when she killed herself. Don't encourage this behaviour, it's just a type murder that the courts can't punish.
A MicroSD card is only.1 cubic inches, so if all things were equal you could stuff 100 64gb cards into a cubic inch of space!
Wouldn't that be 10? You know, with the decimal and all that.
Seriously, off by a factor of 10 is still a lot, no matter what scale you're talking about. Shouldn't someone check this stuff?
Beyond that, the time to read those things has got to be enormous, MicroSD can only be read at 104 MB/s, how many cards do you need to read in parallel to match a decent backbone link? These are not the days where you can have scores of malnourished workers clambering to sort and connect things for you, like the manual switchboards of old, you cannot assume these 19,141,092 MicroSDs can possibly loaded and read apart through the efforts of hundreds of workers, each taking union mandated work breaks and working no more than 8 hours a day without overtime pay.
Take 1.9 million SD cards, after reaching your destination, being loaded in parallel into thousands of slots by an army of whatever minimum wage yokels you can find, each card transferring at 104 MB/s and waiting for checksums to determine which cards must be reshipped in the same Chevy Suburban. Compare this to a single DWDM fibre optic link transferring 100 gigabits per second, day and night, unceasingly, unerringly, unquestioningly until every last bit is transmitted, in order and has been acknowledged.
Sneakernet has gone the way of mercury delay line memory, thermionic valves and punch cards. Storage has not gotten smaller and cars have not gotten slower, so this is the time to celebrate the leap that computer networks have taken.
First, implement an emulator to run OSX apps in a windowed environment on iOS, implementing panning and zooming to allow these apps to be viewed on mobile device.
Secondly, install a dynamo in Steve Jobs' coffin, allowing Apple to become energy self-sufficient.
There is a joke, but it's hardly funny. The joke is that the Russians are warning their people about America in the same way that America warned it's citizens about Russia in the 70's and 80's.
Or alternatively, Russians are warning their people about America in the same way that Soviets warned their people about America in the 70's and 80's. The exact same bullshit about the boogiemen over there has been flung both ways for centuries. These days we have the Internet to open our eyes, but the lies are pretty much the same as those that started the Punic wars 2200 years ago.
Someone out there has some killer ideas that no one can understand the value of, because if you're good at game design and coming up with ideas for gameplay. You need someone at your skill level or higher to understand their value.
Luckily, if you are one of those exceptional people who can have a terrific game design modelled in your head, building a proof-of-concept implementation yourself should be quite easy for you. If you can't convince others that your idea is great, let them play and see for themselves. In other words, put up or shut up.
Hi, in answer to your question. I came to China since a local Chinese company offered me a good, well paid job after I had visited them as a consultant, working for a third party middleware company. Normally I could not do this because of my contract, but I just so happened to have been laid off, along with 3/4 of the company while the offer was valid. I am on a guest worker visa. Business is 80% local, foreign business is handled in the morning for the Americas and evening for Europe. We work long hours, so we get a decent overlap window with both.
I've worked with a bunch 10 or so, more than half of them hired by me or on my recommendation. They have all been, to a single woman, kind of average at problem solving, system design, bug fixing, optimisation and other key aspects that a virtuoso programmer requires.
However, I still hire most female applicants that come in, whereas only maybe 1/4 men for one reason, dependability. Men screw up the simple tasks because they think they are easy, women will generally give their 100% and get it right every time. Men tend to forget systems and duties that they're meant to be taking care of because something else comes along, a woman can be responsible for a dozen tasks and carry them all out with diligence and care.
I've got almost a 1:1 ratio team working on one of the projects in my company and they work fantastically, each side complementing the other's weaknesses. Furthermore, this is in 3d games development where masculine flair and focus are indispensable (or Corinne Yu, but she's an outlier), if you're working on something more stable and routine, like maintaining webapps or whatever then you should hire all the women you can.
I have the advantage that I am in China where 1) there are slightly more women studying computer science since it's seen as a more mainstream career option and some are just assigned into it by the state and can't change 2) there's no such thing as a "hostile workplace", so the males can still talk like they're in a warship's mess and nothing changes with their inclusion. I feel that over here the lower position of women in public society and the higher status of "geek" guys (status is culturally largely based on earning potential) means men feel completely non-threatened by female co-workers and in turn are extremely willing to go out of their way to cooperate with them and befriend them. This in turn makes the females feel included, "fit in" and have more appreciation and understanding for their male colleagues and have a more productive and rewarding career, with plenty of positive re-enforcement both ways. Industry gender dynamics in the west however started with male geeks feeling afraid and threatened by women and often reacting in an insecure way, which lead to women _actually_ threatening male geeks with accusations of sexism, immaturity and social deviancy, making the suspicion and insecurity even worse. I'm sad about that, but I would still continue to hire some women in the west because they really do certain tasks extremely well, it's worth it.
Yeah, it's totally boring that these guys are now able to calculate the observer's position anywhere in the galaxy to within several metres and velocity to within less than a meter per second, something previously only imagined in the realm of sci-fi. Next thing you know they'll be building a working warp drive, holodeck, transporter or something else equally trite and unoriginal.
Yes, and you need telemetry to feed into the computer so it knows where you are and how fast you're going so it can calculate that answer, which is where TFA comes in.
Not to mention the persistent rumblings from London about emancipation of slaves, Somersett's case and other tyrannical plots to deprive planters of their lawful property.
If you get a lot of experience and enjoyment from your work there and have a lot of loyalty to the project, you should take that in consideration before you strike over pay. If you absolutely want to work there, you should bear that in mind before you strike and alienate yourself from management.
I think the better analogy would be: "If that girl didn't want to get raped, she wouldn't have broken into that maximum security cell block full of sex offenders."
Damn right they would, a black man calling himself president of all things. Though 1776 congress would have to consider giving him a flogging then get to work finding his owner, since an educated, well spoken and presented house slave like that must still be worth a lot to his master.
She would meet the eligibility requirements if an Indian company hired her, Infosys is an Indian company, ergo if she was hired, she would be eligible to work in India.
I don't know about India, but I know China is pretty reasonable about work visas. A bachelor degree, two years work experience in one's home country and a salary offer equal or above an equivalent Chinese professional is enough.
You're not counting where advertisers are not spending their money now but would be if they couldn't buy printed ads. They could and probably would spend it on TV / Radio commercials or web ads, who's cost goes towards subsidising entertainment, not spent on paper to be thrown away.
If the mail service was not subsidised by the taxpayer, the average taxpayer would have slightly more money to spend on other things, perhaps a meal in a restaurant, a theater ticket; all of which goes back into the local economy.
People and corporations do not lack better places to spend their money. If we don't need an economic sector anymore, then let it die.
Yes, and then the "professional" Sculley ran his company into the ground.
I think the Jobs vs. Sculley thing is the supreme example of how dangerous it is, not only to chase the blunt mannered visionaries out, but to let the smarmy business types in in the first place.
The Slashdot summary illustrates exactly why one should not "ask a Korean" about Korean social issues.
If you work with Koreans, hang out with Koreans, talk with Koreans, or go to Korea you can learn a lot about how Koreans interact with each other. However if you directly ask or even worse, comment, you tend to get a bunch of denialism, white washing, false comparisons and missing of the point.
Basically, you are free to admire the good parts, but when something is obviously really wrong, you should mind your own business.
Also, if you watched those Amnesia videos that Double Fine put out, you would see that Tim Schafer is working with a lot of other good people. Frankly it is impossible to build a large game through one person's vision and oversight, you need multiple people each chipping away at the project almost autonomously if you want some magnum opus full of creativity and surprises. Being enough of a good sort to have lots of good people that want to work with you is what separates successful game creators from the wrecks and failures strewn around the industry's forgotten corners.
The X5 is exported from US to China, because BMW tend to set up production lines for most of its models in just one factory, they are also prohibitively expensive in China (cheapest model is US $95K) (baidu search here). You will also notice the Axis powers tend to set up their factories in "right to work" states, so no unions to speak of.
Interestingly, I have been in a Chinese sensor factory and chatted with the managers about what make them different from the other supplier of that part, a company in Germany. In the manufacturing floor which had a total of one worker watching the machines, I was told "This machine comes from Austria, this from France and this from Germany. There is no savings from running them here rather than Europe." Then I was taken to the testing/testing floor, with 200-300 identically dressed women with a oscilloscope on their desk and a vernier calliper in their hand. "Here's where we make 100% of our money, either the Europeans don't test by hand and we win on quality, or they do and we win on price." So the Chinese understand the merits of automation and do use it, but they also keenly realise 100% automation is not usually in their favour economically. Another thing about Chinese companies is they have a very small lead time on production compared to anyone else because they are far more willing to use man power to make up for the lack of a jig or any other gap in automated manufacturing. The Chinese will do things in very painful, labour intensive ways if they think it will achieve their goals, especially if that job can be delegated away from the decision makers.
The most obvious part: "search for next week's lottery numbers and emerge as a millionaire!"
You really think Microsoft is going to claim their search engine can find the lottery numbers, and claim it on Slashdot of all places? You are too much of a sucker.
Slashdot Mirror
Depends which Islam you mean. The true type of the heretical type that they follow on the other side of the gulf?
ROC technically controls part of two provinces, not only Taiwan but some minor outlying islands that are considered part of Guandong IIRC.
Kinmen and Matsu are part of Fujian province
Ever raped someone or been raped? I haven't.
I would not believe a single person who said they have never been bullied or bullied someone else. Furthermore, I would be sceptical if someone told me they have only been a victim or an oppressor and never the other.
So therein lays the distinction.
I never suggested that there was any form of long term or rational plan here. I don't for a second believe this is possible. But even a desperate and irrational mind is subject to social concerns and particularly a mind that feels tortured by social humiliation, as this girl was, would be drawn to vindication and empathy above even their own life.
I don't think mourning changes anything, but empathising and exonerating do. If we start saying that her suicide was a natural response to her circumstances, then people will contemplate the option more and more. Suicide rates spiking in response to well publicised reports of suicide is a well studied phenomenon, called the Werther Effect. Awareness of suicide in itself leads to measurable increases in attempted and completed suicides, the more heartfelt and sympathetic the coverage, the larger the effect.
I simply do not think the escape scenario fits. Rarely does anyone who feels ridiculed and humiliated think that if they were somewhere else, things would be better. Those who feel exclusion, being contempted and mocked tend to believe that others mock and contempt them behind their back also and that others will contempt them also. Those who don't care about what others think about them while they're not there do not tend to be those who are easily made despondent by such things in the first place, so I think running away was probably not a prominent thought in this girl's mind at all, vindication was.
So yes, I stick with what I say, though possibly not my original phrasing. The WHO largely does too, with its media guidelines for prevention of suicide trends.
Well, it's either that or holding another 12 year old responsible for that suicide. Everyone seems to be blaming 12 year olds here.
This is ridiculous, school bullying is as old as schooling and has sometimes even been encouraged in the past and is declining as teachers become more aware of it. School suicides however is a rising and disturbing development. Emotional scars left by bullying heal quickly, emotional scars left by having a child kill herself are unlikely to ever heal. If bleeding hearts like you stopped identifying with those who commit suicide and started vilifying them, then people in emotional distress would stop thinking "once I'm dead, everyone will be sorry and make those who teased me pay for it" and start thinking "once I'm dead, everyone will think I'm an innate coward who failed as a daughter" and would be much less likely to go through with it.
No amount of sympathy will bring her back, but morning her and punishing her tormentors is giving her exactly what she wanted when she killed herself. Don't encourage this behaviour, it's just a type murder that the courts can't punish.
OP was referring to "unlikeliest" being a superlative and thus cannot be used with "most".
Still, if he was offended by the word itself, showing him a Google search full of instances of it is unlikely to help him "chill out".
Wouldn't that be 10? You know, with the decimal and all that.
Seriously, off by a factor of 10 is still a lot, no matter what scale you're talking about. Shouldn't someone check this stuff?
Beyond that, the time to read those things has got to be enormous, MicroSD can only be read at 104 MB/s, how many cards do you need to read in parallel to match a decent backbone link? These are not the days where you can have scores of malnourished workers clambering to sort and connect things for you, like the manual switchboards of old, you cannot assume these 19,141,092 MicroSDs can possibly loaded and read apart through the efforts of hundreds of workers, each taking union mandated work breaks and working no more than 8 hours a day without overtime pay.
Take 1.9 million SD cards, after reaching your destination, being loaded in parallel into thousands of slots by an army of whatever minimum wage yokels you can find, each card transferring at 104 MB/s and waiting for checksums to determine which cards must be reshipped in the same Chevy Suburban. Compare this to a single DWDM fibre optic link transferring 100 gigabits per second, day and night, unceasingly, unerringly, unquestioningly until every last bit is transmitted, in order and has been acknowledged.
Sneakernet has gone the way of mercury delay line memory, thermionic valves and punch cards. Storage has not gotten smaller and cars have not gotten slower, so this is the time to celebrate the leap that computer networks have taken.
I like the idea in TFA.
First, implement an emulator to run OSX apps in a windowed environment on iOS, implementing panning and zooming to allow these apps to be viewed on mobile device.
Secondly, install a dynamo in Steve Jobs' coffin, allowing Apple to become energy self-sufficient.
There is a joke, but it's hardly funny. The joke is that the Russians are warning their people about America in the same way that America warned it's citizens about Russia in the 70's and 80's.
Or alternatively, Russians are warning their people about America in the same way that Soviets warned their people about America in the 70's and 80's. The exact same bullshit about the boogiemen over there has been flung both ways for centuries. These days we have the Internet to open our eyes, but the lies are pretty much the same as those that started the Punic wars 2200 years ago.
Someone out there has some killer ideas that no one can understand the value of, because if you're good at game design and coming up with ideas for gameplay. You need someone at your skill level or higher to understand their value.
Luckily, if you are one of those exceptional people who can have a terrific game design modelled in your head, building a proof-of-concept implementation yourself should be quite easy for you. If you can't convince others that your idea is great, let them play and see for themselves. In other words, put up or shut up.
Hi, in answer to your question. I came to China since a local Chinese company offered me a good, well paid job after I had visited them as a consultant, working for a third party middleware company. Normally I could not do this because of my contract, but I just so happened to have been laid off, along with 3/4 of the company while the offer was valid. I am on a guest worker visa. Business is 80% local, foreign business is handled in the morning for the Americas and evening for Europe. We work long hours, so we get a decent overlap window with both.
I've worked with a bunch 10 or so, more than half of them hired by me or on my recommendation. They have all been, to a single woman, kind of average at problem solving, system design, bug fixing, optimisation and other key aspects that a virtuoso programmer requires.
However, I still hire most female applicants that come in, whereas only maybe 1/4 men for one reason, dependability. Men screw up the simple tasks because they think they are easy, women will generally give their 100% and get it right every time. Men tend to forget systems and duties that they're meant to be taking care of because something else comes along, a woman can be responsible for a dozen tasks and carry them all out with diligence and care.
I've got almost a 1:1 ratio team working on one of the projects in my company and they work fantastically, each side complementing the other's weaknesses. Furthermore, this is in 3d games development where masculine flair and focus are indispensable (or Corinne Yu, but she's an outlier), if you're working on something more stable and routine, like maintaining webapps or whatever then you should hire all the women you can.
I have the advantage that I am in China where 1) there are slightly more women studying computer science since it's seen as a more mainstream career option and some are just assigned into it by the state and can't change 2) there's no such thing as a "hostile workplace", so the males can still talk like they're in a warship's mess and nothing changes with their inclusion. I feel that over here the lower position of women in public society and the higher status of "geek" guys (status is culturally largely based on earning potential) means men feel completely non-threatened by female co-workers and in turn are extremely willing to go out of their way to cooperate with them and befriend them. This in turn makes the females feel included, "fit in" and have more appreciation and understanding for their male colleagues and have a more productive and rewarding career, with plenty of positive re-enforcement both ways. Industry gender dynamics in the west however started with male geeks feeling afraid and threatened by women and often reacting in an insecure way, which lead to women _actually_ threatening male geeks with accusations of sexism, immaturity and social deviancy, making the suspicion and insecurity even worse. I'm sad about that, but I would still continue to hire some women in the west because they really do certain tasks extremely well, it's worth it.
Yeah, it's totally boring that these guys are now able to calculate the observer's position anywhere in the galaxy to within several metres and velocity to within less than a meter per second, something previously only imagined in the realm of sci-fi. Next thing you know they'll be building a working warp drive, holodeck, transporter or something else equally trite and unoriginal.
Yes, and you need telemetry to feed into the computer so it knows where you are and how fast you're going so it can calculate that answer, which is where TFA comes in.
Not to mention the persistent rumblings from London about emancipation of slaves, Somersett's case and other tyrannical plots to deprive planters of their lawful property.
If you get a lot of experience and enjoyment from your work there and have a lot of loyalty to the project, you should take that in consideration before you strike over pay. If you absolutely want to work there, you should bear that in mind before you strike and alienate yourself from management.
I think the better analogy would be: "If that girl didn't want to get raped, she wouldn't have broken into that maximum security cell block full of sex offenders."
Damn right they would, a black man calling himself president of all things. Though 1776 congress would have to consider giving him a flogging then get to work finding his owner, since an educated, well spoken and presented house slave like that must still be worth a lot to his master.
She would meet the eligibility requirements if an Indian company hired her, Infosys is an Indian company, ergo if she was hired, she would be eligible to work in India.
I don't know about India, but I know China is pretty reasonable about work visas. A bachelor degree, two years work experience in one's home country and a salary offer equal or above an equivalent Chinese professional is enough.
You're not counting where advertisers are not spending their money now but would be if they couldn't buy printed ads. They could and probably would spend it on TV / Radio commercials or web ads, who's cost goes towards subsidising entertainment, not spent on paper to be thrown away.
If the mail service was not subsidised by the taxpayer, the average taxpayer would have slightly more money to spend on other things, perhaps a meal in a restaurant, a theater ticket; all of which goes back into the local economy.
People and corporations do not lack better places to spend their money. If we don't need an economic sector anymore, then let it die.
Yes, and then the "professional" Sculley ran his company into the ground.
I think the Jobs vs. Sculley thing is the supreme example of how dangerous it is, not only to chase the blunt mannered visionaries out, but to let the smarmy business types in in the first place.
The Slashdot summary illustrates exactly why one should not "ask a Korean" about Korean social issues.
If you work with Koreans, hang out with Koreans, talk with Koreans, or go to Korea you can learn a lot about how Koreans interact with each other. However if you directly ask or even worse, comment, you tend to get a bunch of denialism, white washing, false comparisons and missing of the point.
Basically, you are free to admire the good parts, but when something is obviously really wrong, you should mind your own business.
Also, if you watched those Amnesia videos that Double Fine put out, you would see that Tim Schafer is working with a lot of other good people. Frankly it is impossible to build a large game through one person's vision and oversight, you need multiple people each chipping away at the project almost autonomously if you want some magnum opus full of creativity and surprises. Being enough of a good sort to have lots of good people that want to work with you is what separates successful game creators from the wrecks and failures strewn around the industry's forgotten corners.
The X5 is exported from US to China, because BMW tend to set up production lines for most of its models in just one factory, they are also prohibitively expensive in China (cheapest model is US $95K) (baidu search here). You will also notice the Axis powers tend to set up their factories in "right to work" states, so no unions to speak of.
Interestingly, I have been in a Chinese sensor factory and chatted with the managers about what make them different from the other supplier of that part, a company in Germany. In the manufacturing floor which had a total of one worker watching the machines, I was told "This machine comes from Austria, this from France and this from Germany. There is no savings from running them here rather than Europe." Then I was taken to the testing/testing floor, with 200-300 identically dressed women with a oscilloscope on their desk and a vernier calliper in their hand. "Here's where we make 100% of our money, either the Europeans don't test by hand and we win on quality, or they do and we win on price." So the Chinese understand the merits of automation and do use it, but they also keenly realise 100% automation is not usually in their favour economically. Another thing about Chinese companies is they have a very small lead time on production compared to anyone else because they are far more willing to use man power to make up for the lack of a jig or any other gap in automated manufacturing. The Chinese will do things in very painful, labour intensive ways if they think it will achieve their goals, especially if that job can be delegated away from the decision makers.
Troll, not spammer.
The most obvious part: "search for next week's lottery numbers and emerge as a millionaire!"
You really think Microsoft is going to claim their search engine can find the lottery numbers, and claim it on Slashdot of all places? You are too much of a sucker.