His math also obviously did not factor in the odds of getting raped, mugged, or murdered; things which I think are far more important than his other criteria.
The author is quite confused: email predates the web by decades. It predates the internet.
Yes, the author has a credibility problem. Even if his message is 100% accurate, it's hard to take him seriously when he can't distinguish between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
I'm willing to bet that the second they come up with a test for these genes, there will be lawsuits by school districts who lose funding over standardized tests, claiming that they are at an unfair disadvantage because their students simply don't have the genetic makeup to score well on the tests.
I would bet on a different outcome; school districts will plead for more money:
"Wee nede mor mony bekus hour stuudants r dumm, and mor mony wil undumm them."
Difficult tasks are potential bug generators and finding a task difficult is the programming equivalent of going to sleep at the wheel.
This is moronic, at best. It's the easy things that are the equivalent of sleeping at the wheel. The hard stuff makes us stop and think. I always spend much more effort analyzing hard problems, and breaking them down into manageable chunks, than I do when I'm on cruise control implementing the simple stuff.
...the only use I can see for Java on the desktop is to enable machines to get infected with malware.
Do you realize that Java isn't just a browser plugin, and that Java on the desktop doesn't mean just applets? All of my modern software is written in Java+Swing (or just Java if the project is a server), and never touches a web browser.
Please try to understand the difference between Java applets and Java applications, as they are starkly different.
Oracle Forms is a monumental, absolute, obsolete, unmitigated piece of shit. But Oracle Forms != Java.
1) You're not reliant on closed hardware vendors to provide drivers for your operating system. 2) You don't have to trust that your hardware vendor isn't reporting your every move to your fascist government. 3) You don't have to worry about your hardware vendor's interests diverging from your own, and stranding you.
There are many more, but I don't have time to post them.
Case in point, I would not have studied stats by choice, but now I'm damn glad it was hammered into me.
I would not have studied stats by choice, either. I'm damn glad I passed, but I core dumped 99.99% of it after passing. I haven't had a need for it since, so it was a complete waste of time and money.
I also wouldn't have studied much math, either, while in college. That was hammered into me, though, and it has proved itself to be completely useless to me as a software developer. That is, until I decided that I wanted to learn 3D game programming. Then I bought some books on 3D math, learned Linear Algebra, and wrote a game engine.
My point is that my structured University degree was almost entirely worthless from a practical perspective. Anything of any value was learned on an as-needed basis.
How about natively booting Linux Mint 17 and putting 7 in Virtualbox if you must have this POS.
My clients typically have one or two mission-critical (to them), Windows-only application that they can't live without. I tell them that I will support Windows only in a virtual machine environment, to facilitate disaster recovery. I boot them into Kubuntu, and install Windows onto VirtualBox.
I'll skip the details, but suffice it to say that they love it this way. Their Windows infections have almost disappeared, and recovery is trivially simple (roll back to the initial install snapshot).
I'm not going to click any links on this craptacular "story."
I did, and it really is a craptacular article. I can sum it up thusly: "Phishers do illegal things, therefore getting more clicks. If legitimate marketers did the same thing, their click rate would skyrocket."
And, "Don't use Windows XP on the Internet." This, by the way, was always good advice. And it still applies to all versions of Windows.
Seriously, there's a reason that the article numbers are less than 1% of the size of the average windows server infection..
There are clearly many more Windows servers on the Internet than there are Linux servers. After all, if Linux had anywhere near the deployment of Windows, then Linux would experience the same rate of infection, right?
believe that Microsoft is right to claim the US government doesn't have jurisdiction over data stored outside of the United States.
This is actually very simple. When you have a presence in a county, you are subject to that country's laws. Period. End of discussion. If you find yourself in a situation where you are subject to two countries' laws, and you are required by one of those countries to break the laws of the other, you must do one of the following:
1) Break one country's laws and abide by the other's laws, and accept the consequences. 2) Negotiate with/bribe one or both countries, and see if an agreement can be reached. 3) Leave one of the countries with conflicting laws, probably abandoning whatever property is within that country.
Microsoft is clearly wrong, and its lawyers know it. Any company with a U.S. presence is subject to U.S. laws, just as any company with, say, a British presence is subject to British laws. If the two conflict, one or more of the listed choices must be made. It doesn't matter if what the Government wants is located in another country. If the company wants to continue operating in the U.S., it must comply with U.S. law.
Wow, if we discover the exact region and mechanism for how consciousness emerges from brain activity, then this, in my mind, is the final nail in the coffin of the Soul Hypothesis
Heh, you haven't actually had to talk to the religious/nutty, apparently. They will defend their absurdly ignorant misinterpretation of the universe with a violent ferver not seen anywhere else. They will simply wait until one of their brainwashers/preachers/ministers/popes/whatever invents the most ridiculously ludicrous explanation for how this actually ties into their fairy in the sky's grand plan for humanity; and bullshit, ignore, and dogmatically shout down anyone who tries to use anything even remotely approaching logic.
No, this discovery will be completely lost on 95% of the world's massively idiotic population.
Withholding that money would be regime suicide (plus possibly population genocide).
If first world countries were to redirect the massive amounts of money spent to invade and conqueror those third world, oil producing countries over to renewable research and development, the end result would comparable: enough funding to end the need to invade and conqueor said oil producing countries.
A magic number is then produced as to the tested product on site. The application/suit as shipped then matches that same end test numbers.
And who writes the program that does the test? Who writes the compiler that compiles the test? Who controls the build farm that creates and compares everything? Everything is under the strict, untrustworthy, iron handed control of the very same criminal (yes, convicted of multiple felonies in multiple courts) organization against whom Governments are trying to protect themselves.
Sorry, but this is all just smoke and mirrors from Microsoft.
I think they're talking about the prices they can charge other utility companies. Consumer prices will continue to rise, because corporate greed will never decline.
I wish i could say that therapy is worth a hoot but so far what I see is cell therapy (the iron bar type) works better than a two thousand dollar a day rehab.
All qualitative arguments aside, and sticking to purely quantitative evidence: imprisoning drug users has resulted in no reduction in drug users over the last 30+ years. Drug use has risen, unabated by the threat of prison, from the very beginning of our misguided war on drugs.
Punishing addiction is bad policy. There are far deeper psychological issues surrounding drug addiction that cannot be addressed by the penal code.
No, it isn't legal. Look up Impeding Traffic. You aren't allowed to impede the normal flow of traffic, even if that traffic is violating the law.
Impeding Traffic varies from state to state. In Missouri, for example, drivers in the left lane must move faster than drivers in the right line (assuming both lanes are for the same direction); but only up to and including the speed limit. If the driver in the left lane is at the speed limit, and the driver in the right lane is exceeding the speed limit, the right-lane driver is violating the law while the left-lane driver is obeying the law.
Dissolving the corporation and forming a new corporation with the same assets(in this case, patents) is a classic example of where that can happen and what that very concept was created for.
Which is VERY easy to skirt:
1) Form a new corporation, issue stock (tada, new ownership free of liability). 2) Declare bankruptcy on the old corporation (triple point score if it's incorporated in Delaware). 3) Liquidate the assets of the old corporation to the new corporation for a pittance. 4) Shutter the old corporation. 5a) Next victim, please. 5b) Thumb your nose at the judge, who is now powerless.
I started with GNOME way back when, but then switched to KDE at version 1.44.
I have a love/hate relationship with KIO. My biggest complaint is that KIO isn't a virtual file system, but rather is just a file copy mechanism. It works great for many uses, but completely falls flat when trying to perform an open/read/close sequence. It copies the entire file to a temporary location, then opens that temporary copy. This is asinine, and is the single largest failing of the IO Slave mechanism.
Even Windows' UNC handles remote files better in this regard, which is saying something since most of Windows networking is a painful joke.
You have a better chance of a wish for a flock of pink Unicorns to be granted than you have of a White House petition having any desireable effect. White House petitions exist solely as a feel good measure; nothing else.
If you want a better alternative, stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. While not a silver bullet (how apt a metaphor), it has a much better chance of evoking change. Vote for someone who usually wouldn't stand a chance against the RepubliCraps, and stop wasting your vote. Neither major party is the lesser of two evils.
Since nobody can tell what skills will be needed in the next decade, learning a particular coding language, the "learning to code" is almost certainly teaching the wrong language to children.
Teaching several languages is just a vehicle driving all of the things you mentioned; they are all the natural results of learning multiple programming languages. Each language contributes to a person's understanding of abstract terms. Teaching multiple languages will even mitigate against the stupidity of "teaching the keystrokes" that currently infests most "introduction to computers" classes.
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His math also obviously did not factor in the odds of getting raped, mugged, or murdered; things which I think are far more important than his other criteria.
The author is quite confused: email predates the web by decades. It predates the internet.
Yes, the author has a credibility problem. Even if his message is 100% accurate, it's hard to take him seriously when he can't distinguish between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
I'm willing to bet that the second they come up with a test for these genes, there will be lawsuits by school districts who lose funding over standardized tests, claiming that they are at an unfair disadvantage because their students simply don't have the genetic makeup to score well on the tests.
I would bet on a different outcome; school districts will plead for more money:
"Wee nede mor mony bekus hour stuudants r dumm, and mor mony wil undumm them."
Difficult tasks are potential bug generators and finding a task difficult is the programming equivalent of going to sleep at the wheel.
This is moronic, at best. It's the easy things that are the equivalent of sleeping at the wheel. The hard stuff makes us stop and think. I always spend much more effort analyzing hard problems, and breaking them down into manageable chunks, than I do when I'm on cruise control implementing the simple stuff.
Who thinks up this crap?
...the only use I can see for Java on the desktop is to enable machines to get infected with malware.
Do you realize that Java isn't just a browser plugin, and that Java on the desktop doesn't mean just applets? All of my modern software is written in Java+Swing (or just Java if the project is a server), and never touches a web browser.
Please try to understand the difference between Java applets and Java applications, as they are starkly different.
Oracle Forms is a monumental, absolute, obsolete, unmitigated piece of shit. But Oracle Forms != Java.
1) You're not reliant on closed hardware vendors to provide drivers for your operating system.
2) You don't have to trust that your hardware vendor isn't reporting your every move to your fascist government.
3) You don't have to worry about your hardware vendor's interests diverging from your own, and stranding you.
There are many more, but I don't have time to post them.
Case in point, I would not have studied stats by choice, but now I'm damn glad it was hammered into me.
I would not have studied stats by choice, either. I'm damn glad I passed, but I core dumped 99.99% of it after passing. I haven't had a need for it since, so it was a complete waste of time and money.
I also wouldn't have studied much math, either, while in college. That was hammered into me, though, and it has proved itself to be completely useless to me as a software developer. That is, until I decided that I wanted to learn 3D game programming. Then I bought some books on 3D math, learned Linear Algebra, and wrote a game engine.
My point is that my structured University degree was almost entirely worthless from a practical perspective. Anything of any value was learned on an as-needed basis.
How about natively booting Linux Mint 17 and putting 7 in Virtualbox if you must have this POS.
My clients typically have one or two mission-critical (to them), Windows-only application that they can't live without. I tell them that I will support Windows only in a virtual machine environment, to facilitate disaster recovery. I boot them into Kubuntu, and install Windows onto VirtualBox.
I'll skip the details, but suffice it to say that they love it this way. Their Windows infections have almost disappeared, and recovery is trivially simple (roll back to the initial install snapshot).
I'm not going to click any links on this craptacular "story."
I did, and it really is a craptacular article. I can sum it up thusly: "Phishers do illegal things, therefore getting more clicks. If legitimate marketers did the same thing, their click rate would skyrocket."
And, "Don't use Windows XP on the Internet." This, by the way, was always good advice. And it still applies to all versions of Windows.
Seriously, there's a reason that the article numbers are less than 1% of the size of the average windows server infection..
There are clearly many more Windows servers on the Internet than there are Linux servers. After all, if Linux had anywhere near the deployment of Windows, then Linux would experience the same rate of infection, right?
Right?
believe that Microsoft is right to claim the US government doesn't have jurisdiction over data stored outside of the United States.
This is actually very simple. When you have a presence in a county, you are subject to that country's laws. Period. End of discussion. If you find yourself in a situation where you are subject to two countries' laws, and you are required by one of those countries to break the laws of the other, you must do one of the following:
1) Break one country's laws and abide by the other's laws, and accept the consequences.
2) Negotiate with/bribe one or both countries, and see if an agreement can be reached.
3) Leave one of the countries with conflicting laws, probably abandoning whatever property is within that country.
Microsoft is clearly wrong, and its lawyers know it. Any company with a U.S. presence is subject to U.S. laws, just as any company with, say, a British presence is subject to British laws. If the two conflict, one or more of the listed choices must be made. It doesn't matter if what the Government wants is located in another country. If the company wants to continue operating in the U.S., it must comply with U.S. law.
Wow, if we discover the exact region and mechanism for how consciousness emerges from brain activity, then this, in my mind, is the final nail in the coffin of the Soul Hypothesis
Heh, you haven't actually had to talk to the religious/nutty, apparently. They will defend their absurdly ignorant misinterpretation of the universe with a violent ferver not seen anywhere else. They will simply wait until one of their brainwashers/preachers/ministers/popes/whatever invents the most ridiculously ludicrous explanation for how this actually ties into their fairy in the sky's grand plan for humanity; and bullshit, ignore, and dogmatically shout down anyone who tries to use anything even remotely approaching logic.
No, this discovery will be completely lost on 95% of the world's massively idiotic population.
Withholding that money would be regime suicide (plus possibly population genocide).
If first world countries were to redirect the massive amounts of money spent to invade and conqueror those third world, oil producing countries over to renewable research and development, the end result would comparable: enough funding to end the need to invade and conqueor said oil producing countries.
A magic number is then produced as to the tested product on site. The application/suit as shipped then matches that same end test numbers.
And who writes the program that does the test? Who writes the compiler that compiles the test? Who controls the build farm that creates and compares everything? Everything is under the strict, untrustworthy, iron handed control of the very same criminal (yes, convicted of multiple felonies in multiple courts) organization against whom Governments are trying to protect themselves.
Sorry, but this is all just smoke and mirrors from Microsoft.
Lower prices???? In what world?
I think they're talking about the prices they can charge other utility companies. Consumer prices will continue to rise, because corporate greed will never decline.
I wish i could say that therapy is worth a hoot but so far what I see is cell therapy (the iron bar type) works better than a two thousand dollar a day rehab.
All qualitative arguments aside, and sticking to purely quantitative evidence: imprisoning drug users has resulted in no reduction in drug users over the last 30+ years. Drug use has risen, unabated by the threat of prison, from the very beginning of our misguided war on drugs.
Punishing addiction is bad policy. There are far deeper psychological issues surrounding drug addiction that cannot be addressed by the penal code.
No, it isn't legal. Look up Impeding Traffic. You aren't allowed to impede the normal flow of traffic, even if that traffic is violating the law.
Impeding Traffic varies from state to state. In Missouri, for example, drivers in the left lane must move faster than drivers in the right line (assuming both lanes are for the same direction); but only up to and including the speed limit. If the driver in the left lane is at the speed limit, and the driver in the right lane is exceeding the speed limit, the right-lane driver is violating the law while the left-lane driver is obeying the law.
This is valuable stuff, now that it has a market use. And to think that I wrote it off as waste and was just pissing it away.
If successful (and mass-producible), this could be like the polio vaccine.
It won't be like the Polio vaccine unless:
1) It is introduced after Malaria is already all but eradicated due to better hygiene and sanitation.
2) It takes credit for the former.
Dissolving the corporation and forming a new corporation with the same assets(in this case, patents) is a classic example of where that can happen and what that very concept was created for.
Which is VERY easy to skirt:
1) Form a new corporation, issue stock (tada, new ownership free of liability).
2) Declare bankruptcy on the old corporation (triple point score if it's incorporated in Delaware).
3) Liquidate the assets of the old corporation to the new corporation for a pittance.
4) Shutter the old corporation.
5a) Next victim, please.
5b) Thumb your nose at the judge, who is now powerless.
I'd hire a woman over you. She's more likely to be a team player.
You have clearly never actually worked with a woman.
...that's when we fired all the stoners and hired every Mormon coder we could find.
I knew porn was conducive to programming!
The gvfs way is better than the KIO way.
I started with GNOME way back when, but then switched to KDE at version 1.44.
I have a love/hate relationship with KIO. My biggest complaint is that KIO isn't a virtual file system, but rather is just a file copy mechanism. It works great for many uses, but completely falls flat when trying to perform an open/read/close sequence. It copies the entire file to a temporary location, then opens that temporary copy. This is asinine, and is the single largest failing of the IO Slave mechanism.
Even Windows' UNC handles remote files better in this regard, which is saying something since most of Windows networking is a painful joke.
You have a better chance of a wish for a flock of pink Unicorns to be granted than you have of a White House petition having any desireable effect. White House petitions exist solely as a feel good measure; nothing else.
If you want a better alternative, stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. While not a silver bullet (how apt a metaphor), it has a much better chance of evoking change. Vote for someone who usually wouldn't stand a chance against the RepubliCraps, and stop wasting your vote. Neither major party is the lesser of two evils.
Since nobody can tell what skills will be needed in the next decade, learning a particular coding language, the "learning to code" is almost certainly teaching the wrong language to children.
Teaching several languages is just a vehicle driving all of the things you mentioned; they are all the natural results of learning multiple programming languages. Each language contributes to a person's understanding of abstract terms. Teaching multiple languages will even mitigate against the stupidity of "teaching the keystrokes" that currently infests most "introduction to computers" classes.