This is funny to me. While these "scientists" are playing with their stupid little "I'm smarter than you" studies, the people that "fail at science" are the ones making the world go round.
It's not like anybody really WANTED to go into K-12 too. What the GP is saying is that critical thinking skills should be incorporated into the compulsory part of K-12, and most probably some other subjects would have to be made optional.
And then there're a number of states that scientists think are likely to exist, but haven't actually observed yet. e.g. Degenerate matter in the core of white dwarfs and neutron stars.
I make iPhone apps and web apps (mostly front-end work). Now obviously I'd need XCode which is Mac-only. But even if you take away the iPhone apps, Mac is still much easier to set up and use as a developer's machine. e.g. consider the things you need to set up before you have all the tools you need:
Windows
UNIX tools - I *need* UNIX tools, I can't live without grep. So Cygwin is a must. Takes hours to download and set up, and it's slow.
Text editor - I use vim. The one in Cygwin doesn't cut it because I want a native one usable via context menus. After setting it up, I need to modify the config files to set things like default encoding, color scheme and visual mode keys.
Scripting languages and compilers - PHP, Perl, Python, gcc and the whole GNU toolchain. Cygwin provides those, but those are, again, slow.
Servers - Cygwin provides them, again. But I still prefer to run native servers. Usually I'd set up a native Apache and then an OpenSSH from within Cygwin.
Browsers - Needed for testing and debugging. IE comes with Windows but I need multiple IE versions so I'd need to install IETester as well. And then I'd need to install Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome.
Screencast - Needed for demonstrating stuff to customers or making tutorials. I used to use CamStudio, but now I use Jing.
Document viewers and editors - Windows's built-in stuff opens almost nothing by themselves. MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, GIMP, ec.
Media codecs - required to view videos of all strange formats given by customers or other developers. Also required when the need arises to encode videos. I use CCCP.
Browser plugins and addons - Flash and Java are obviously required and takes a tiny little time to set up. Other things include Firebug, IE developer toolbar, MS Script Debugger (the "newer" debugger offered in MS Office is too damned slow), etc.
File archiving tools - Windows comes with almost none of them. The first thing I set up is usually 7-zip since it is free and decompresses most archives. But pretty soon I'll need WinRAR and WinACE as there're always some.rar and.ace archives that can't be opened by 7-zip. For UNIXy things like tar, gz and bzip2 archives there's Cygwin.
Email - Thunderbird. I hate both Outlook and Outlook Express, don't ask me why.
Anti-virus - I use Avast! in my home computers, it's free for domestic use. Doesn't slow the computer down too much, but I hate the popups.
Media players - WMP and Media Player Classic don't cut it for all formats. So I usually need to install RealPlayer and QuickTime. QuickTime and iTunes are usually installed along with Safari. I also need them for my iPhone.
I'm sure there're a lot others but I haven't been using Windows for my productive OS for a whole year now so I must have forgotten some. But as you can see here... it takes a lot of time and lots of reboots to set all these up. And many items in the list are actually duplicated because I want the best solution for a particular job, instead of having something that works but is slow or buggy.
Setting the same thing up in Linux is practically impossible, don't ask me to use Wine. And UI stuff in Linux are generally slower. And having to edit config files in vim or help debug things in the console too many times for what supposedly is working, or should be done in a GUI, isn't fun.
Now, let's see Mac:
UNIX tools - Mac is already UNIX. But the UNIX tools that come with the default installation are rather limited, so, fink. Much less frustrating to download and setup compared to Cygwin.
Text editor - Mac already comes with vim. The vimrc file still needs to be modified a bit, but that's ok. For GUI, I use MacVim.
Scripting languages and compilers - They're installed automatically with XCode, which comes with the iPhone SDK. PHP modules support is non-existent, however. But that's a non-issue for me, my work is mostly on the front end. If
Ok. So now you're allowing something's definition to be infinitely expanded?
Now I say God isn't just not bound by time, it's also not bound by logic. In fact, logic does not exist, the logic we see is just an illusion produced by God. (NOT FALSE) is not (TRUE), (TRUE OR FALSE) is not TRUE, and 1 + 1 in binary is not 10. Nothing is true, only God is true. So there, argue against that.;-)
Of course, I don't really believe in creationism either. But it seems to me it's fruitless to argue against those people, anyway. But hey... I guess I can ask the next creationist to prove black equals to white at the next zebra crossing.
You leave your fingerprints everywhere, so it's pretty much public information. Now the only thing you're relying on is the attacker's inability, or choosing not waste time, to reproduce your fingerprint - but that's security by obscurity, isn't it?
So based on this argument, card + code is just as secure as card + code + fingerprint. The fingerprint step is there to make you feel safe rather than really make you safe.
Why? Your native limbs have a fixed performance range and are not really efficient. Wouldn't you like to be able to run a Marathon without breaking a sweat? Or be able to use emacs on a qwerty keyboard all day without suffering carpal tunnel syndrome? Have no problem of leaving oily fingerprints on your iPhone? Have no problem carrying your 17" DTR notebook around with you wherever you go?
It's pretty ironic that we techies use a myriad of algorithms to protect data that nobody really cares (raise your hands if you use TrueCrypt - I do). Yet our banks, supposedly protecting one of the most important things in our lives, don't give a shit.
It's not the disappearing chairs that kill you, it's the chairs that decelerate in front your head that kill you.
But on a related note, I heard Ballmer would keep throwing chairs at anyone who complains, frowns, cries, screams, throws eggs, sleeps, or just didn't clap his hands in beat with his "Developers! Developers! Developers!". Maybe if we install a crash test dummy in the audience, and give Ballmer enough chairs, he'll keep throwing chairs and forget to release Windows 7.
It means the two atoms are bound together via ionic bonds (like NaCl, where you have an Na+ stuck to a Cl-), as opposed to covalent bonds (e.g. O2, where you have two O atoms sharing two electrons).
The difference here is that same-element covalent molecules are common place, like O2, Cl2, H2, N2, etc. A same-element ionic compound, however, is new.
Maybe we should resolve whether trying to resolve our ethical concerns before we perform science is ethical... Stopping scientific progress for something always subjective and poorly defined, sure sounds like an ethical thing to everyone.
Any resume can be a fraud until I see your code, or at least, you're able to explain your previous projects. These things can be checked. Now, why are you, in addition to assuming H1B resumes are all fake, assuming all employers are incompetent too?
If the big wigs is the problem, then fix the big wigs. Sending away foreign workers is just fixing one of the symptoms, they'll always have another way of screwing you up.
If the people hating you are a problem, you should send a few nukes to their home country as well. "We don't need" isn't an efficient way for fixing that problem. Either that, or you're looking at the wrong solution.
Jobs isn't some kind of resource you dig up from the ground. So arguing "There aren't enough jobs to go around" doesn't really make sense. Just a single Henry Ford or Thomas Edison would create tons of jobs. And for yours:
Plus, the real reason they want to bring these people in to the country is because they will work for peanuts.
There are quite a few possibilities here:
Foreign workers add less value than American workers, but they're cheap.
Foreign workers add equal or more value than American workers, and they're cheap.
Foreign workers add less value than American workers, but they aren't cheap.
Foreign workers add equal or more value than American workers, and they aren't cheap.
You seem to be assuming case 1 to be true, but where is your evidence?
You can't use classical mechanics to understand travel at relativistic speeds. If the ship can travel at near c speeds, the tour from Earth to Alpha Cent. from the perspective of the astronauts may only take one hour or less. The people on Earth will still have to wait 8.4+ years, but that's ok since they have a lot of things to do back here anyway.
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IE is finally done playing catchup... only on April Fool's Day.
Just do it like the bankers - if everyone is a pirate, you're "too big to be prosecuted".
This is funny to me. While these "scientists" are playing with their stupid little "I'm smarter than you" studies, the people that "fail at science" are the ones making the world go round.
Go round? Go SNAFU is more like it.
It's not like anybody really WANTED to go into K-12 too. What the GP is saying is that critical thinking skills should be incorporated into the compulsory part of K-12, and most probably some other subjects would have to be made optional.
Who cares! I want something that tastes better! Burger King!
Damn! Is there a course in some university on that science? I want to sign up!
After plasma there's quark-gluon plasma.
And then there're a number of states that scientists think are likely to exist, but haven't actually observed yet. e.g. Degenerate matter in the core of white dwarfs and neutron stars.
the year of Windows on the smart phone
Hey, maybe that's the thing that will come after the year of Linux on the desktop, right after the year the universe exploded.
Windows
I'm sure there're a lot others but I haven't been using Windows for my productive OS for a whole year now so I must have forgotten some. But as you can see here... it takes a lot of time and lots of reboots to set all these up. And many items in the list are actually duplicated because I want the best solution for a particular job, instead of having something that works but is slow or buggy.
Setting the same thing up in Linux is practically impossible, don't ask me to use Wine. And UI stuff in Linux are generally slower. And having to edit config files in vim or help debug things in the console too many times for what supposedly is working, or should be done in a GUI, isn't fun.
Now, let's see Mac:
Ok. So now you're allowing something's definition to be infinitely expanded?
;-)
Now I say God isn't just not bound by time, it's also not bound by logic. In fact, logic does not exist, the logic we see is just an illusion produced by God. (NOT FALSE) is not (TRUE), (TRUE OR FALSE) is not TRUE, and 1 + 1 in binary is not 10. Nothing is true, only God is true. So there, argue against that.
Of course, I don't really believe in creationism either. But it seems to me it's fruitless to argue against those people, anyway. But hey... I guess I can ask the next creationist to prove black equals to white at the next zebra crossing.
You leave your fingerprints everywhere, so it's pretty much public information. Now the only thing you're relying on is the attacker's inability, or choosing not waste time, to reproduce your fingerprint - but that's security by obscurity, isn't it?
So based on this argument, card + code is just as secure as card + code + fingerprint. The fingerprint step is there to make you feel safe rather than really make you safe.
I've had a Savage4 before and it absolutely sucked - tons of z-buffer artifacts, buggy drivers and bad performance even if the driver works.
Why? Your native limbs have a fixed performance range and are not really efficient. Wouldn't you like to be able to run a Marathon without breaking a sweat? Or be able to use emacs on a qwerty keyboard all day without suffering carpal tunnel syndrome? Have no problem of leaving oily fingerprints on your iPhone? Have no problem carrying your 17" DTR notebook around with you wherever you go?
It's pretty ironic that we techies use a myriad of algorithms to protect data that nobody really cares (raise your hands if you use TrueCrypt - I do). Yet our banks, supposedly protecting one of the most important things in our lives, don't give a shit.
It's not the disappearing chairs that kill you, it's the chairs that decelerate in front your head that kill you.
But on a related note, I heard Ballmer would keep throwing chairs at anyone who complains, frowns, cries, screams, throws eggs, sleeps, or just didn't clap his hands in beat with his "Developers! Developers! Developers!". Maybe if we install a crash test dummy in the audience, and give Ballmer enough chairs, he'll keep throwing chairs and forget to release Windows 7.
Just an idea.
We can use Thorium after Uranium is depleted.
It means the two atoms are bound together via ionic bonds (like NaCl, where you have an Na+ stuck to a Cl-), as opposed to covalent bonds (e.g. O2, where you have two O atoms sharing two electrons).
The difference here is that same-element covalent molecules are common place, like O2, Cl2, H2, N2, etc. A same-element ionic compound, however, is new.
Maybe we should resolve whether trying to resolve our ethical concerns before we perform science is ethical ... Stopping scientific progress for something always subjective and poorly defined, sure sounds like an ethical thing to everyone.
Any resume can be a fraud until I see your code, or at least, you're able to explain your previous projects. These things can be checked. Now, why are you, in addition to assuming H1B resumes are all fake, assuming all employers are incompetent too?
Now, you can play with Apache on your Linux box all you want, but what good does that do you on a resume?
Start an open source project, or contribute to one. Now, you've got your resume entry.
Why send a communication back and wait 8.4 years for a reply when you can just fire up your near-light-speed engine and go back to Earth in 1 hour?
Earth will still have to wait for 8.4+ years, sure, but they don't have a problem with that.
If the big wigs is the problem, then fix the big wigs. Sending away foreign workers is just fixing one of the symptoms, they'll always have another way of screwing you up.
If the people hating you are a problem, you should send a few nukes to their home country as well. "We don't need" isn't an efficient way for fixing that problem. Either that, or you're looking at the wrong solution.
The economy isn't a zero-sum game.
Jobs isn't some kind of resource you dig up from the ground. So arguing "There aren't enough jobs to go around" doesn't really make sense. Just a single Henry Ford or Thomas Edison would create tons of jobs. And for yours:
Plus, the real reason they want to bring these people in to the country is because they will work for peanuts.
There are quite a few possibilities here:
You seem to be assuming case 1 to be true, but where is your evidence?
You can't use classical mechanics to understand travel at relativistic speeds. If the ship can travel at near c speeds, the tour from Earth to Alpha Cent. from the perspective of the astronauts may only take one hour or less. The people on Earth will still have to wait 8.4+ years, but that's ok since they have a lot of things to do back here anyway.
15 seconds isn't really that fast. My Hackintosh boots from Apple logo to desktop in 20 seconds, and it's full featured.