I think you are right. I do believe that there are still many gender biases in our workforce and society as a whole, but the problem in the engineering fields with lack of females has been shown to be primarily a problem of supply. What is interesting is that universities first tried to fix this problem by soliciting femailes entering college but have now found that they need to intervene earlier than college in order to get women more interested in math and engineering. The engineering program that I am most familiar with now spends the majority of their outreach to female students on adolescent age ranges and all metrics seem to indicate that this is far more effective.
I don't think he is being obtuse. The law is not going to specifically ban Google glasses, but any potential head mounted display. There can be no doubt based on years research and real world experience in the military that see-through head mounted displays can significantly improve situation awareness. A ban on head mounted displays not only prevents the use of ones that are bad for driving but any that could also be good for driving.
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Contiki is primarily aimed at 802.15.4 devices. As far as I am concerned, Bluetooth LE is a hackish attempt to make it compete in the same space as 802.15.4. I think that your average 802.15.4 radio consumes less power for the same range & throughput as a bluetooth LE. Also, you have the advantage being able to create more advanced sensor networks. Of course, BLE has the huge advantage of being able to piggyback along with existing bluetooth to get on all the phones and tablets.
You hit the nail on the head and I think what you wrote applies just as much to any researcher as it does graduate students. Journals are for the most part filled with papers of academics because institutions incentivize academics for the publication of papers through degrees and tenure and what-not. These institutions generally fail to incentivize the publication of a more complete set of data, code, and other useful things, so they are a low priority.
But being that they are able to use media to get their message across concurrently with performing the DDOS, doesn't that have the same effect as holding signs and chanting? I am not familiar with any situation in which their was not an abundance of information on why people were protesting. I would even argue that the DDOS attacks were usually accompanied by much more specific and clear reasons for protest than the Occupy Wall Street movement in which everyone seemed to be protesting something different.
I think to clarify the position of Anonymous in this case, it is important to recognize that the DDOS attacks were not performed with botnets, or comprimised machines. Instead, they were performed by individuals volunteering their own time and resources. Not the time and resources of unsuspecting innocents. Does that change your opinion?
I believe that in the case of the previous Anonymous protests, the botnets were voluntary. Not "compromised" machines. That is a pretty important distinction. One could argue that DDOS gets a bad rap because it is often done with compromised machines, usually by a single person. In the case of anonymous, organizing a large DDOS required the cooperation of a lot of people who were willing to put their time and resources into carrying out the DDOS.
I pretty much agree, with exception to the word severe. One has to account for the fact that cops are just average joes complete with all of the emotions and ignorance that we all possess. Add to that fact that their jobs can put them in quite stressful situations and you can get what appears to be quite unsatisfactory performance at time. You would probably find that 99.9% of these video confiscation problems would be solved with the application of very mild penalties like losing a little vacation time or being forced to attend some very boring training.
My thoughts exactly. If you know my arrival and departure information and you know you competitors prices, then knowing my favorite color is probably not going to do you much good as the airline. Although, I do think that they can use this information to gouge business travellers, because I have seen a lot of people stay loyal to a certain airline in order to get more frequent flier rewards. Since they are not flying on their own dime, they often do not care it it costs more. These are the targets for this type of pricing, the "loyal" customers.
I find typical journal papers with tiny font are hard to read even on the best 10 inch tablet. Reading the tiny print can be done, but it is really hard to do for more than 10 to 15 minutes without giving your self a headache. I don't think it is so much a function of pixel density at this point as much as it is just overall character size. However, it is not the tablet makers that need to change so much as it is the journal publishers. Maintaining tiny fonts may have been useful in the day when everything was printed, but it gains us nothing in the world of electronic publishing.
How does anybody read that gibberish and come to the conclusion that the commentor is a juror? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense?
People are not motivated entirely by self interest. People do not reason through every decision and categorize things as things that will make them happy or not happy. A lot is going on in the subconscious mind that we are not even aware of and the primary function is not to increase happiness but to increase the likelihood of survival and procreation.
He does help others. That is what makes him happy and it is actually what makes a lot of people happy. Humans are wired to release happy brain chemicals and energy release when we help others. That is why they have him meditate on compassion during the measurements. They already know that compassion to other human beings will increase the happiness that he feels.
If I had made an important contribution to Linux that was used in Android phone, then I would very proudly let people know about it. Why shouldn't people be recognized when their work is making a small difference in millions of lives?
I see where your coming from. I am an engineer who has learned to program because I find it critical to doing my job. Lets face it. Nothing is built these days with just simple levers, pulleys, capacitors, and resistors. If you want to do something interesting, you better know how to make a digital computer do what you want it to do. One thing about programming is that you are always having to learn new things... learn new libraries, new platforms (8 years ago, everyone wanted.NET programmers, now everyone wants Android and IOS), and that takes a lot of self discipline and desire to improve one's self. Based on my observations in the work place, that is something special.
I do the same thing and would like to add that outlining a larger block of code in comments before writing any code also helps me to stay focused on the overall design. If you just start hammering away at coding then it is easy to forget about what the code in its entirety is going to accomplish. Its like making a drawing of what you are about to construct before you rush in and just start hammering in nails.
Classrooms provide very poor environments for social learning because children are learning from children who are equally immature. Human beings were not meant to be grouped by age and monitored in large groups by a single adult. We only do this for efficiency reasons, not because it is good for the childs social or cognitive development. The average public school is detrimental to a childs social skills. Kids can be downright abusive toward each other and not only do they create a culture where poor social habits are spread but when a child is threatened their fight or flight response kicks in which impairs the ability of their brain to learn. The best way for a child to learn social skills is to raise them in a nuturing and safe environment with plenty of opportunities to interact with mature groups of adults. That ain't new.
There is no way that I am getting on a plane where the pilot learned to fly by sitting in a 30 person classroom with unruly 15 year olds while copying down notes that are written on a blackboard.
I am not intending too bash educators or the classroom experience, but I do not believe that you have supported your argument in favor of in class learning. In a perfect scenario, the in class experience has all of the advantage of the online experience with the added benefit of an instructor that can answer our question in person and adapt the course to the needs of the class. What about the real and all too imperfect world? Much of my public education involved some of the following problems that would not be present in online learning: 1. Inability to make up a missed lecture. 2. Unruly classrooms causing wasted time. 3. Most teachers that wasted student time by having them grade each other's papers. 4. Lesson plans that were put on hold when teachers were sick or absent. 5. Curriculums that could not accomodate the pace and needs of the students and parents. 6. A system that expects every parent to find the means to accomodate an inflexible schedule. 7. Much higher cost....And I am sure that is just the beginning.
My point is that the optimal solution is probably somewhere in the middle. A combination of parent directed online learning and teacher provided public/private education.
I guess everybody's experience could vary by location, but in my state (Ohio), all teacher salary information is available online at http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/teacher-salary. When I search on the elementary school in my neighborhood, the 2011 salaries for full time employees range from 25K to 91K (this includes everyone from janitor to principals). The median employee is making just over 60K. That may not be great for some areas of the country, but here in Ohio, that is a good salary and based off of their workload and level of education, it is a more than fair salary.
You are right to be skeptical of the topics main premise of using an off the shelf router without any other supporting services in place. It does not make a lot of sense unless of course it for research purposes of which there have been many instances of researchers working with first responders to demonstrate early prototypes of mesh networks and technologies in that area. Right now, there are a lot of people that believe that Ad-hoc networks, hastily formed networks, and cloud services offer a lot of value in various emergency management situations.
I cannot say for certain what point the GP was trying to make, but I believe he is pointing out that all government programs will be wasteful because of the way in which are government operates, not because Lawrence Livermore or DARPA or anyone else employs bad managers and engineers. The fact that every government organization is singled out as wasteful on a frequent basis supports this. If all of these organizations are wasteful, doesn't that support the assertion that the problem is the government itself? And since all of these organization are being managed by political appointees and having their policies dictated by politicians, who should we blame for the waste?
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I think you are right. I do believe that there are still many gender biases in our workforce and society as a whole, but the problem in the engineering fields with lack of females has been shown to be primarily a problem of supply. What is interesting is that universities first tried to fix this problem by soliciting femailes entering college but have now found that they need to intervene earlier than college in order to get women more interested in math and engineering. The engineering program that I am most familiar with now spends the majority of their outreach to female students on adolescent age ranges and all metrics seem to indicate that this is far more effective.
I don't think he is being obtuse. The law is not going to specifically ban Google glasses, but any potential head mounted display. There can be no doubt based on years research and real world experience in the military that see-through head mounted displays can significantly improve situation awareness. A ban on head mounted displays not only prevents the use of ones that are bad for driving but any that could also be good for driving.
Contiki is primarily aimed at 802.15.4 devices. As far as I am concerned, Bluetooth LE is a hackish attempt to make it compete in the same space as 802.15.4. I think that your average 802.15.4 radio consumes less power for the same range & throughput as a bluetooth LE. Also, you have the advantage being able to create more advanced sensor networks. Of course, BLE has the huge advantage of being able to piggyback along with existing bluetooth to get on all the phones and tablets.
You hit the nail on the head and I think what you wrote applies just as much to any researcher as it does graduate students. Journals are for the most part filled with papers of academics because institutions incentivize academics for the publication of papers through degrees and tenure and what-not. These institutions generally fail to incentivize the publication of a more complete set of data, code, and other useful things, so they are a low priority.
But being that they are able to use media to get their message across concurrently with performing the DDOS, doesn't that have the same effect as holding signs and chanting? I am not familiar with any situation in which their was not an abundance of information on why people were protesting. I would even argue that the DDOS attacks were usually accompanied by much more specific and clear reasons for protest than the Occupy Wall Street movement in which everyone seemed to be protesting something different.
I think to clarify the position of Anonymous in this case, it is important to recognize that the DDOS attacks were not performed with botnets, or comprimised machines. Instead, they were performed by individuals volunteering their own time and resources. Not the time and resources of unsuspecting innocents. Does that change your opinion?
I believe that in the case of the previous Anonymous protests, the botnets were voluntary. Not "compromised" machines. That is a pretty important distinction. One could argue that DDOS gets a bad rap because it is often done with compromised machines, usually by a single person. In the case of anonymous, organizing a large DDOS required the cooperation of a lot of people who were willing to put their time and resources into carrying out the DDOS.
I pretty much agree, with exception to the word severe. One has to account for the fact that cops are just average joes complete with all of the emotions and ignorance that we all possess. Add to that fact that their jobs can put them in quite stressful situations and you can get what appears to be quite unsatisfactory performance at time. You would probably find that 99.9% of these video confiscation problems would be solved with the application of very mild penalties like losing a little vacation time or being forced to attend some very boring training.
My thoughts exactly. If you know my arrival and departure information and you know you competitors prices, then knowing my favorite color is probably not going to do you much good as the airline. Although, I do think that they can use this information to gouge business travellers, because I have seen a lot of people stay loyal to a certain airline in order to get more frequent flier rewards. Since they are not flying on their own dime, they often do not care it it costs more. These are the targets for this type of pricing, the "loyal" customers.
I find typical journal papers with tiny font are hard to read even on the best 10 inch tablet. Reading the tiny print can be done, but it is really hard to do for more than 10 to 15 minutes without giving your self a headache. I don't think it is so much a function of pixel density at this point as much as it is just overall character size. However, it is not the tablet makers that need to change so much as it is the journal publishers. Maintaining tiny fonts may have been useful in the day when everything was printed, but it gains us nothing in the world of electronic publishing.
How does anybody read that gibberish and come to the conclusion that the commentor is a juror? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense?
People are not motivated entirely by self interest. People do not reason through every decision and categorize things as things that will make them happy or not happy. A lot is going on in the subconscious mind that we are not even aware of and the primary function is not to increase happiness but to increase the likelihood of survival and procreation.
He does help others. That is what makes him happy and it is actually what makes a lot of people happy. Humans are wired to release happy brain chemicals and energy release when we help others. That is why they have him meditate on compassion during the measurements. They already know that compassion to other human beings will increase the happiness that he feels.
If I had made an important contribution to Linux that was used in Android phone, then I would very proudly let people know about it. Why shouldn't people be recognized when their work is making a small difference in millions of lives?
Nokia was suing in response to Apple suing for some scrolling patents first.
Not sure about the GP, but I would consider Android systems to be closed... with the exception of a few that may not try to lock the sytems down.
I see where your coming from. I am an engineer who has learned to program because I find it critical to doing my job. Lets face it. Nothing is built these days with just simple levers, pulleys, capacitors, and resistors. If you want to do something interesting, you better know how to make a digital computer do what you want it to do. One thing about programming is that you are always having to learn new things... learn new libraries, new platforms (8 years ago, everyone wanted .NET programmers, now everyone wants Android and IOS), and that takes a lot of self discipline and desire to improve one's self. Based on my observations in the work place, that is something special.
I do the same thing and would like to add that outlining a larger block of code in comments before writing any code also helps me to stay focused on the overall design. If you just start hammering away at coding then it is easy to forget about what the code in its entirety is going to accomplish. Its like making a drawing of what you are about to construct before you rush in and just start hammering in nails.
Taking out the loan would have no impact on your stock obligation from recieving the stock
Classrooms provide very poor environments for social learning because children are learning from children who are equally immature. Human beings were not meant to be grouped by age and monitored in large groups by a single adult. We only do this for efficiency reasons, not because it is good for the childs social or cognitive development. The average public school is detrimental to a childs social skills. Kids can be downright abusive toward each other and not only do they create a culture where poor social habits are spread but when a child is threatened their fight or flight response kicks in which impairs the ability of their brain to learn. The best way for a child to learn social skills is to raise them in a nuturing and safe environment with plenty of opportunities to interact with mature groups of adults. That ain't new.
There is no way that I am getting on a plane where the pilot learned to fly by sitting in a 30 person classroom with unruly 15 year olds while copying down notes that are written on a blackboard.
I am not intending too bash educators or the classroom experience, but I do not believe that you have supported your argument in favor of in class learning. In a perfect scenario, the in class experience has all of the advantage of the online experience with the added benefit of an instructor that can answer our question in person and adapt the course to the needs of the class. What about the real and all too imperfect world? Much of my public education involved some of the following problems that would not be present in online learning: ...And I am sure that is just the beginning.
1. Inability to make up a missed lecture.
2. Unruly classrooms causing wasted time.
3. Most teachers that wasted student time by having them grade each other's papers.
4. Lesson plans that were put on hold when teachers were sick or absent.
5. Curriculums that could not accomodate the pace and needs of the students and parents.
6. A system that expects every parent to find the means to accomodate an inflexible schedule.
7. Much higher cost.
My point is that the optimal solution is probably somewhere in the middle. A combination of parent directed online learning and teacher provided public/private education.
I guess everybody's experience could vary by location, but in my state (Ohio), all teacher salary information is available online at http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/teacher-salary. When I search on the elementary school in my neighborhood, the 2011 salaries for full time employees range from 25K to 91K (this includes everyone from janitor to principals). The median employee is making just over 60K. That may not be great for some areas of the country, but here in Ohio, that is a good salary and based off of their workload and level of education, it is a more than fair salary.
You are right to be skeptical of the topics main premise of using an off the shelf router without any other supporting services in place. It does not make a lot of sense unless of course it for research purposes of which there have been many instances of researchers working with first responders to demonstrate early prototypes of mesh networks and technologies in that area. Right now, there are a lot of people that believe that Ad-hoc networks, hastily formed networks, and cloud services offer a lot of value in various emergency management situations.
I cannot say for certain what point the GP was trying to make, but I believe he is pointing out that all government programs will be wasteful because of the way in which are government operates, not because Lawrence Livermore or DARPA or anyone else employs bad managers and engineers. The fact that every government organization is singled out as wasteful on a frequent basis supports this. If all of these organizations are wasteful, doesn't that support the assertion that the problem is the government itself? And since all of these organization are being managed by political appointees and having their policies dictated by politicians, who should we blame for the waste?