Here I am, in an interview, trying to impress you with my willingness to be a team player, and you ask me for my username and password. There is definitely pressure there to comply. If it's not being taken into account when evaluating employees, why is it asked? That just reeks of falsehood.
I am guessing 99% of the people posting here don't have children....to suggest that if you have good kids you don't really have to watch them is wall idiotic.
So is assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot. It's possible that your point of view is not as ironclad as you think.
That's about the most "Duh" article. Anyone with half a brain should know if they are already in all bets are off and it matters not a whit if you used corned beef to generate your hash.
Finally! Man I was starting to think I was reading the world's first Slashdot article to have nothing but honest discussion, without trolls, jokes, offtopics or idiots! You broke the spell.
In China or India, if you are an engineer, you are going to be the chick magnet of the party. In the U.S., my experience is that if you tell people you are an engineer, people call you names like "geek" or "nerd." Nobody calls a lawyer or doctor a "geek" or "nerd." Thus, for a kid looking for a career, forget about math and science, it's embarrassing. For a teenager, forget it, girls will not like you. For an adult, forget it, it's hard work for not enough money. This "It's hip to be stupid" thing used to be just the scourge of African Americans, but it has spread into the popular culture and it's going to sink our boat if we don't find a way to honor hard work and intelligence again.
... is that we don't have enough patent office workers, and very few are any quality. They make a low salary, there aren't enough of them, and they leave shortly after starting (within 2 years, I heard). If we had enough to do a careful review, maybe the current law would suffice. This law is the equivalent of trying to make software fast by removing all the useful work it does. Process is streamlined, but results are crap.
Single dimensional dichotomies are about all that most people can handle when it comes to analysis, which is unfortunate.
It is definitely unfortunate. I think the only valid single-dimensional dichotomy upon which to place ideas is whether their implementation results in increasing well-being for people and society. Well-being here is defined by me, ala Sam Harris, as increasing happiness of individuals and cooperation between individuals.
It still doesn't matter. Have you ever heard of a concept called sovereignty? The point you jumped to miss is that the USA is not England or France, or Germany or Egypts or South Africa or any other country. When someone says something in US politics is leftist, or rightists, they are speaking specifically in reference to how it's standing with in US politics. The US could be a complete fascist dictatorship and calling the guy who wants to elect the dictators instead of having them appointed by parliament a "leftist" would be accurate in reference those politics.
But that does not mean it "doesn't matter." Knowing that other groups of people hold different views and thereby attain better or worse results is relevant and possibly useful information, whether we use the information or not. Yes, we're sovereign, but if we continue to choose stupidity as national policy, e.g., by underfunding and resisting science and technological progress, we will not always be sovereign, I'd wager. Funding education is a socialist policy. Societies that fund education do better. We ignore useful data at our peril.
At the same time, I agree that a one dimensional "left-right" dichotomy is simplistic and harmful.
You are just describing "hot fusion." The concept of "cold fusion" is a fairy tale. I didn't say there is no theory behind it, I said there is no solid theory behind it, by which I meant a framework for understanding how it could occur in reality.
his interviews are based on the premise that counter argument,... can logically be right if you forget all the facts....
I don't think so. I think his interviews are based on the premise of making fun of the pomposity, unfairness and ignorance other interviewers, particularly but not exclusively conservative ones. He is a comedian.
Actually, the word "breakthrough" is pretty applicable here. There was this undiscovered property that acted as a barrier and prevented moving forward with the technology, but now that it is discovered, the barrier has been broken through and progress can continue. You might not be satisfied unless it's an announced product, and I'm with you there, but it's still a breakthrough in the technical sense of the word.
How about layering a nice GUI on top of command line tools? This allows repeatability, scriptability, etc., but also can provide access to things a GUI does more easily, such as browse for files, perhaps, or pick your favorite feature. It's not like all GUIs suck at all things.
Don't worry: The article breathlessly describes strands of DNA zipping through holes and being scanned, but at the end it admits, it's "10 years away", so that means realistically, it'll never happen and they just want more funding.
Botanically speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. What we call vegetables are really stems, leaves, flowers, and roots, and in fact some vegetables are fruits, such as squash.
Is the poster just ignorant, or is there something really here for Multiply Sclerosis sufferers? That would imply stroke victims as well. But I don't think this applies to brain damage, does it?
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Here I am, in an interview, trying to impress you with my willingness to be a team player, and you ask me for my username and password. There is definitely pressure there to comply. If it's not being taken into account when evaluating employees, why is it asked? That just reeks of falsehood.
I am guessing 99% of the people posting here don't have children....to suggest that if you have good kids you don't really have to watch them is wall idiotic.
So is assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot. It's possible that your point of view is not as ironclad as you think.
I don't think any parent would sacrifice anything to make sure nothing happens to their children
Am I the only one that read this with my eyebrows raised?
That's about the most "Duh" article. Anyone with half a brain should know if they are already in all bets are off and it matters not a whit if you used corned beef to generate your hash.
Finally! Man I was starting to think I was reading the world's first Slashdot article to have nothing but honest discussion, without trolls, jokes, offtopics or idiots! You broke the spell.
In China or India, if you are an engineer, you are going to be the chick magnet of the party. In the U.S., my experience is that if you tell people you are an engineer, people call you names like "geek" or "nerd." Nobody calls a lawyer or doctor a "geek" or "nerd." Thus, for a kid looking for a career, forget about math and science, it's embarrassing. For a teenager, forget it, girls will not like you. For an adult, forget it, it's hard work for not enough money. This "It's hip to be stupid" thing used to be just the scourge of African Americans, but it has spread into the popular culture and it's going to sink our boat if we don't find a way to honor hard work and intelligence again.
... is that we don't have enough patent office workers, and very few are any quality. They make a low salary, there aren't enough of them, and they leave shortly after starting (within 2 years, I heard). If we had enough to do a careful review, maybe the current law would suffice. This law is the equivalent of trying to make software fast by removing all the useful work it does. Process is streamlined, but results are crap.
Single dimensional dichotomies are about all that most people can handle when it comes to analysis, which is unfortunate.
It is definitely unfortunate. I think the only valid single-dimensional dichotomy upon which to place ideas is whether their implementation results in increasing well-being for people and society. Well-being here is defined by me, ala Sam Harris, as increasing happiness of individuals and cooperation between individuals.
It still doesn't matter. Have you ever heard of a concept called sovereignty? The point you jumped to miss is that the USA is not England or France, or Germany or Egypts or South Africa or any other country. When someone says something in US politics is leftist, or rightists, they are speaking specifically in reference to how it's standing with in US politics. The US could be a complete fascist dictatorship and calling the guy who wants to elect the dictators instead of having them appointed by parliament a "leftist" would be accurate in reference those politics.
But that does not mean it "doesn't matter." Knowing that other groups of people hold different views and thereby attain better or worse results is relevant and possibly useful information, whether we use the information or not. Yes, we're sovereign, but if we continue to choose stupidity as national policy, e.g., by underfunding and resisting science and technological progress, we will not always be sovereign, I'd wager. Funding education is a socialist policy. Societies that fund education do better. We ignore useful data at our peril.
At the same time, I agree that a one dimensional "left-right" dichotomy is simplistic and harmful.
... means what you think it does:
a revolution that could become a parable...
Bzzt. wrong
Thanks for the clarification -- the OP was right!
You are just describing "hot fusion." The concept of "cold fusion" is a fairy tale. I didn't say there is no theory behind it, I said there is no solid theory behind it, by which I meant a framework for understanding how it could occur in reality.
Actually, to my knowledge, there is no reason to think that cold fusion has or every will work. It's a claim without solid theory behind it, no?
his interviews are based on the premise that counter argument,... can logically be right if you forget all the facts....
I don't think so. I think his interviews are based on the premise of making fun of the pomposity, unfairness and ignorance other interviewers, particularly but not exclusively conservative ones. He is a comedian.
Actually, the word "breakthrough" is pretty applicable here. There was this undiscovered property that acted as a barrier and prevented moving forward with the technology, but now that it is discovered, the barrier has been broken through and progress can continue. You might not be satisfied unless it's an announced product, and I'm with you there, but it's still a breakthrough in the technical sense of the word.
How about layering a nice GUI on top of command line tools? This allows repeatability, scriptability, etc., but also can provide access to things a GUI does more easily, such as browse for files, perhaps, or pick your favorite feature. It's not like all GUIs suck at all things.
Don't worry: The article breathlessly describes strands of DNA zipping through holes and being scanned, but at the end it admits, it's "10 years away", so that means realistically, it'll never happen and they just want more funding.
Sounds like a Michael Jackson house party.
'nuff said?
It's more like a mindset of Washington: "It's better to pass a bad law than no law at all."
I'm a frayed knot!
Botanically speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. What we call vegetables are really stems, leaves, flowers, and roots, and in fact some vegetables are fruits, such as squash.
Searching is nice, but you also need community ratings to identify trojans/spam/crap/excellence and reward uploaders with props to encourage them.
Four years ago we discussed the use of the tobacco mosaic virus to enable fast-switching transistors.
So where are the fast switching transistors? Does ANYTHING every come to fruition?
BTW -- Multiply Sclerosis sounds like a mathematical ailment, LOL. sorry for my typo...
Is the poster just ignorant, or is there something really here for Multiply Sclerosis sufferers? That would imply stroke victims as well. But I don't think this applies to brain damage, does it?