My own experience working as a foreign/w foreign: Russians: Extreme technical proficiency. Lack of interest to lead or help others. Individualist. ( I can do it, stop bothering me) Indians: Extreme technical proficiency. They welcome lead positions but can't give up control. What's make them superior as programmers is the their natural incline to help others while they excel in their own arena (I can do it..I can teach you!..We can finish it sooner.) Chinese. Mixed technical proficiency. What hinder their quest to excel is the fear of being the weak link. They don't percieve ignorance kindly.(I can do it..tense silence..anything else?) U.S(Americans). Superior technical proficiency. Natural leaders(gift/curse). Not unheard of being the first ones leaving in search for greener pastures(lead?).(I can do it...but I think there's a better way...I got someone on the line..can you hold?)
Thanks Man!. T
hat Mercury service is a worthless POS. First the damn pop-ups. Then the freaking conufussion withe effin applet and to cap it. When the dload supossedly started, fails with errno 11. Can't start thread. What a team of bozos!
Did a say it?
Oh here goes again.
Thanks for the file.
Dad? What? I need a laptop so I become more efficient at school. Okay, son, grab a pen snd some paper. Here's your questionaire, you get a good score, you get yourself a thinkpad.
Q1. Write a 1500 word essay outlinining the differences between scheduled and self paced learning.
Q2. Describe how to find the height of a mountain using basic trigonometry.
Q3. Make a hand-free diagram of mayor througfares of the city/town were you live.
Q4. What's a paradox? Give 2 examples.
Q5. Did you know all this answers can be found
easily on the Internet without you having to
think and reflect about the question but
just using a search engine to pop up the answer? Explain how is that better as a teaching aid?
Then you got us, computers nerds, who replicate information (gazillions of data) into PERFECT PRISTINE copies using hashing mechanisms and error correction algorithms to guarantee PERFECT copies of everything (packets of data, programs, JPEGS etc); and don't get me started with quantum data transmission (you can't see the data being replicated without altering the fabric of space and time). In our world, DNA replication mechanisms is not only IMPERFECT, but UNACCEPTABLE and downright SHODDY for use as , to give an example, bit-torrent distribution.
Are we, humans, intelligent beings, in our quest to crate perfect copies of the things we create (mass production, total quality)? Should every now and then when someone downloads itunes and an error happens and the signature of the payload fails..let it install anyway and hope for the best? Should we let that imperfect copy by downloaded to more users?
Would it be safe to infer that enzimes are specifically designed NOT to make perfect copies?
Diversity...an accident?
Uniformity...a falacy?
Food for thought.
Mainframe programmers by definition, must have a larger pool of knowledge on computing and network architecture.
As their knowledge increases thought their Happiness decreases!.
I even made a graph!
happines | \
knowldedge ------
"I make a lot of graphs" Lisa Simpson.
Yet, another standard for coding on C. Who needs this? How about changing the Title. "Olsen's Standard Book of C Coding." C: The expurgated version.... P: (pause; politely) I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that...? C: The expurgated version. P: (exploding) The EXPURGATED version of "Olsen's Standard Book of C
Coding"?!?!?!?!? C: (desperately) The one without the MACROS! P: The one without the MACROS!!! They've ALL got the MACROS!! It's a
Coding Standard, the MACROS, it's in all the books!!! C: (insistent) Well, I don't like them...they mess my debugging output.
The zoom effects in quaility are next to none.
This people are dangerous!
People at Google:
we are not worthy!
we are not worthy!
we are not worthy!
we suck!!
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock. Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money] Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
As someone who: A. Went through USMC Bootcamp. B. Wrote a report on The Manhattan Project. C. Had to study the Nuremberg Trials.
Perhaps this will share light on the subject of the moral dilemma: "The Ends Justify The Means"
As a soldier, as soon as you are issued your standard M16 Rifle you start a psycological process to assimilate the use of: "Deadly Force"
Remember the phrase from Full Metal Jacket? "The USMC doesn't want machines, it wants killers"
That phrase is truth to the core.
The first phrase you are instructed to repeat over oand over as soon you start rifle training is:
"One shot one kill"
Killing is taught not as a some form of automation but as a SKILL!
It takes some foretought and understanding to do it effectively. Ask anyone in you-know-where.
My drill instructor, when asked if we ought to kill women or children when commanded to do so (Direct Order from a superior officer) he responded:
"You are expected to follow orders, and for every action you take, YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
Couldn't agree more. This somewhat connects to the Nurembeg trials.
On the aspect making the big-kill(drop the big one) in my research on the historical data of the Manhattan project produced three main reasons (weight on each vary) of why the Atomic bomb was used: A.- To Shorten the war. B.- To do some human-test-drive for unproven brand-new technology. C.- To tell Russia to back off!
I personally suscribe more to reason B considering how clueless the U.S. was about the effects of radiation by atmosferic exposure. Anyway. To cap-up, on the Nuremberg Trials the question arose on wether a human can inflict pain on another with out making a concious decision. Pshycological studies demonstrated that remorse is not innate trade but an acquired one through childhood rearing meaning that if you are trying to prove that you felt no remorse for inflicting harm (no guilt) you must have been educated since childhood that doing harm to others as natural and acceptable. That did not fly and the nazi officers were found guilty and some of them, in a well thought conclusion, hanged for their crimes.
I was trying to install the X11 package in my mac-min w/ Panther. Inserted the CD. The install applet didn't find my package. I went to terminal. I ls into the cdrom and inside the System directory in the cdrom I saw the X11 package. So what? The Installer only worked on GUI and the GUI Finder won't see it because is designed only to access certain folders. Using the terminal I copied the damn package to my desktop and Now Finder sees it and installs it (thank God this was not OS9). Here's a new paradigm to the team of dudes/dudettes in Cupertino California "enhancing" OS X. KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm running Netscape 8. It uses the rendering engine of IExplorer and Firefox and you can choose which one to use. I was trying to add RSS feeds to the personal bar ( a task to somehwat the folks at Nestcape made cumbersome and idiotic ) and lord behold, when you enter trying to display a _http://somefile.xml/ you get a blank page and Netscape doesn't alert you that it has detected and RSS feed. Then you go to the left corner and change the rendering to Firefox and wham-o you get the xml displaying and Netscape pops a section in the top side and asks you if you want to add the feed to our personal toolbar. If you say yes, then it creates this horrible contraption that attempts to scroll or use a ticker to display the rss resulting in the disctracting junk dancing on top of yor browser. No good. Other than that Netscape is fine. Firefox is better, Opera is not and IExplorer is whatever. Funny thought that Microsoft cannot protect their OWN apps against a foreign install. But I digress, The real temporal solution to the xml fiasco is to switch rendering, not removing the darn browser. That's it.
Two days I read the Star Wars III broke SpiderMan's gross profits records on release (Some insane amount of money). Great things for America$$$!
People watch finalist from "American Idol" in records numbers.
MTV's top shows are "MTV Cribs$$$" and "Pimp my Ride$$$".
This morning DHS is shutting down bit-torrents servers and MPAA's CEO Dan Glickman claims victorious:
"Today's actions are bad news for Internet movie thieves and good news for preserving the magic$$$ of the movies,"
all I can say is to Mr Glickman is:
"Big Man, Pig Man, ha ha charade you are!"
I can picture it right now..
on
Blank Keyboard
·
· Score: 2, Funny
[honker@r11serv honker]$ su - Password: su: incorrect password [honker@r11serv honker]$ su - Password: su: incorrect password [honker@r11serv honker]$ su - Password: su: incorrect password DAMN IT!!
Nobody Expects the Spanish RIAA! Their chief weapon is fear, fear and surprise... Two weapons! Fear, Surprise, and a ruthless efficiency. Aggg! No no! Three weapons.. Among their weapons are such diverse elements as fear, surprise ruthless efficiency and almost fanatical devotion to ownership of private intellectual property. Aggg im posting again
China is right to ban foreign companies from introducing/sell software in their nation. It's critical for each nation, to develop their own software technologies.
Timmy: Hi Mr. Sun Enginner, watchoding? Eng: I'm preparing Open Solaris for release Timmy. Timmy: Can I see it? Eng: No, Timmy, is not ready. Timmy: Can I take justa a peek? Eng: No. Timmy: WWWWWWhy? Eng: Because this is serious stuff Timmy, we want to be open about our development process and operative system so it harness the knowledge of the World Open Source Community. Timmy: Wow!? Can I see it now? Eng: No! Damn it! Timmy! Is not ready. You can't see it. Timmy: Why? Eng: Because there's stuff here that I don't want you to see. Timmy: Oops, my build is ready, can I go now? Eng: Yes Timmy, please go bother someone else.
I don't know but Ill put my hands in the fire for Linux and say: I will install the Latest Linux distro in 2025. Open a Shell. Type the ls command to the directory I created TODAY. edit my Makefile that I created TODAY by typing >vi Makefile
edit, modify, save it.. exactly the same way I edited a file in UNIX in 1985 and exactly the same way 20 years from now. By then XP will be long death and probably Longhorn too. Longhorn righ now is struggling like hell with the idiociy of non-case-sensitive filename legacy and assigning letters to volumes...idiocy. How can I manage resources seamlessy over the net?? Unix has been doing that for a while now. The UNIX architecture not only survives but thrives with Mac OSX and Linux while Windows OSes die horrible deaths and get resucitated as fearsome goblings and zombies each one harder to kill (legacy crap) and to contain.asp.com.net
No, seriously, nothing is anywere close to replace the PC's so why to ask the question in the first place!? Is an article abouth nothing! So why do you read it??? Because is in slashdot.
The first line of defense..and the most critical is getting access to the system. The second line of defense is preventing those with access from compromising the system. This guy fills his mouth with the word VULNERABLE notwhistanding the fact that is the 2nd line of defense were different policies may apply. As far as I'm concern, when you get an account from me, I trust you. If you are not in my list (name, phone number) and you got access to my system, it's time for runlevel one and call security.
10 years ago my profressor of CS (3rd year) made us us LaTeX to turn our papers in.
We all could have us MS Word but there was a point to be made.
They looked ugly and of poor quality. But higly efficient!! Aggh!!
10 years have passed and while driving in the Garden State Parkway I heard the interview of this uber pragmatic man and the creator of LaTeX. Donald Knuth. A ha!
I got to work, looked at the NPR site and then went to Professor Kunth homepage.
I knew what I was looking for and got it in all it's glory. His homepage. What an eyesore! A not very complementary self-picture (he should use the one on the NPR site) and the BIG BOLD heading-1 letters for all the link under some colorless background.
It sure took my back to my first html site 1995.
Function over form, the trademark of scientific academia. A brilliant man, nevertheless.
He should pay 5.12 to some student to do a extreme-make-over to his home-site. Some drop-down menus..cool graphics..make it pretty!
That is why they abandon the prospects of sitting in front of the glowing screen all day. Women need human contact. Men do too but they in their obsession to objectify everything and control everything they are (including me of course) trying to replace human contact with something to model, control, revise and improve upon...an HCI! HUMAN-COMPUTER-INTERFACE. We need women back in the field to save ourselves from our sterile lifeless endeavours.
Slashdot Mirror
My own experience working as a foreign /w foreign:
Russians: Extreme technical proficiency. Lack of interest to lead or help others. Individualist. ( I can do it, stop bothering me)
Indians: Extreme technical proficiency. They welcome lead positions but can't give up control. What's make them superior as programmers is the their natural incline to help others while they excel in their own arena (I can do it..I can teach you!..We can finish it sooner.)
Chinese. Mixed technical proficiency. What hinder their quest to excel is the fear of being the weak link. They don't percieve ignorance kindly.(I can do it..tense silence..anything else?)
U.S(Americans). Superior technical proficiency. Natural leaders(gift/curse). Not unheard of being the first ones leaving in search for greener pastures(lead?).(I can do it...but I think there's a better way...I got someone on the line..can you hold?)
Thanks Man!. T hat Mercury service is a worthless POS. First the damn pop-ups. Then the freaking conufussion withe effin applet and to cap it. When the dload supossedly started, fails with errno 11. Can't start thread. What a team of bozos! Did a say it? Oh here goes again. Thanks for the file.
Maybe it compiled in little-endian arch?
Dad?
What?
I need a laptop so I become more efficient at school.
Okay, son, grab a pen snd some paper. Here's your questionaire, you get a good score, you get yourself a thinkpad.
Q1. Write a 1500 word essay outlinining the differences between scheduled and self paced learning.
Q2. Describe how to find the height of a mountain using basic trigonometry.
Q3. Make a hand-free diagram of mayor througfares of the city/town were you live.
Q4. What's a paradox? Give 2 examples.
Q5. Did you know all this answers can be found
easily on the Internet without you having to
think and reflect about the question but
just using a search engine to pop up the answer? Explain how is that better as
a teaching aid?
Then you got us, computers nerds, who replicate information (gazillions of data) into PERFECT PRISTINE copies using hashing mechanisms and error correction algorithms to guarantee PERFECT copies of everything (packets of data, programs, JPEGS etc); and don't get me started with quantum data transmission (you can't see the data being replicated without altering the fabric of space and time). In our world, DNA replication mechanisms is not only IMPERFECT, but UNACCEPTABLE and downright SHODDY for use as , to give an example, bit-torrent distribution. Are we, humans, intelligent beings, in our quest to crate perfect copies of the things we create (mass production, total quality)? Should every now and then when someone downloads itunes and an error happens and the signature of the payload fails..let it install anyway and hope for the best? Should we let that imperfect copy by downloaded to more users? Would it be safe to infer that enzimes are specifically designed NOT to make perfect copies? Diversity...an accident? Uniformity...a falacy? Food for thought.
What is more complex? A:One program running in one million computers B:One program running in one computer and being used by a million people.
Mainframe programmers by definition, must have a larger pool of knowledge on computing and network architecture.
As their knowledge increases thought their Happiness decreases!. I even made a graph!
happines | \
knowldedge ------
"I make a lot of graphs" Lisa Simpson.
And let's not forget:
"I second that emotion"
(Bender gets a chip implanted to feel Leela's emotions)
and
"Love and Rocket"
(Bender falls in love with the planet express ship"
and
"Fry and the Slurm Factory"
(Fry wins a tour of the Slurm Soda Factory"
and if anyone doesn't agree they can bite
my shiny metal ass!
Yet, another standard for coding on C.
Who needs this?
How about changing the Title.
"Olsen's Standard Book of C Coding."
C: The expurgated version....
P: (pause; politely) I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that...?
C: The expurgated version.
P: (exploding) The EXPURGATED version of "Olsen's Standard Book of C
Coding"?!?!?!?!?
C: (desperately) The one without the MACROS!
P: The one without the MACROS!!! They've ALL got the MACROS!! It's a
Coding Standard, the MACROS, it's in all the books!!!
C: (insistent) Well, I don't like them...they mess my debugging output.
The zoom effects in quaility are next to none. This people are dangerous! People at Google: we are not worthy! we are not worthy! we are not worthy! we suck!!
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
As someone who:
A. Went through USMC Bootcamp.
B. Wrote a report on The Manhattan Project.
C. Had to study the Nuremberg Trials.
Perhaps this will share light on the subject of the moral dilemma:
"The Ends Justify The Means"
As a soldier, as soon as you are issued your standard M16 Rifle you start a psycological process to assimilate the use of:
"Deadly Force"
Remember the phrase from Full Metal Jacket?
"The USMC doesn't want machines, it wants killers"
That phrase is truth to the core.
The first phrase you are instructed to repeat over oand over as soon you start rifle training is:
"One shot one kill"
Killing is taught not as a some form of automation but as a SKILL!
It takes some foretought and understanding to do it effectively. Ask anyone in you-know-where.
My drill instructor, when asked if we ought to kill women or children when commanded to do so (Direct Order from a superior officer) he responded:
"You are expected to follow orders, and for every action you take, YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
Couldn't agree more.
This somewhat connects to the Nurembeg trials.
On the aspect making the big-kill(drop the big one) in my research on the historical data of the Manhattan project produced three main reasons (weight on each vary) of why the Atomic bomb was used:
A.- To Shorten the war.
B.- To do some human-test-drive for unproven brand-new technology.
C.- To tell Russia to back off!
I personally suscribe more to reason B considering how clueless the U.S. was about the effects of radiation by atmosferic exposure. Anyway.
To cap-up, on the Nuremberg Trials the question arose on wether a human can inflict pain on another with out making a concious decision. Pshycological studies demonstrated that remorse is not innate trade but an acquired one through childhood rearing meaning that if you are trying to prove that you felt no remorse for inflicting harm (no guilt) you must have been educated since childhood that doing harm to others as natural and acceptable. That did not fly and the nazi officers were found guilty and some of them, in a well thought conclusion, hanged for their crimes.
I was trying to install the X11 package in my mac-min w/ Panther.
Inserted the CD. The install applet didn't find my package. I went to terminal. I ls into the cdrom and inside the System directory in the cdrom I saw the X11 package. So what? The Installer only worked on GUI and the GUI Finder won't see it because is designed only to access certain folders. Using the terminal I copied the damn package to my desktop and Now Finder sees it and installs it (thank God this was not OS9).
Here's a new paradigm to the team of dudes/dudettes in Cupertino California "enhancing" OS X.
KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm running Netscape 8.
It uses the rendering engine of IExplorer
and Firefox and you can choose which one to use.
I was trying to add RSS feeds to the personal bar ( a task to somehwat the folks at Nestcape made cumbersome and idiotic ) and lord behold, when you enter trying to display a _http://somefile.xml/ you get a blank page and Netscape doesn't alert you that it has detected and RSS feed.
Then you go to the left corner and change the rendering to Firefox and wham-o you get the xml displaying and Netscape pops a section in the top side and asks you if you want to add the feed to our personal toolbar.
If you say yes, then it creates this horrible contraption that attempts to scroll or use a ticker to display the rss resulting in the disctracting junk dancing on top of yor browser. No good.
Other than that Netscape is fine. Firefox is better, Opera is not and IExplorer is whatever. Funny thought that Microsoft cannot protect their OWN apps against a foreign install. But I digress, The real temporal solution to the xml fiasco is to switch rendering, not removing the darn browser. That's it.
Two days I read the Star Wars III broke SpiderMan's gross profits records on release (Some insane amount of money).
Great things for America$$$!
People watch finalist from "American Idol"
in records numbers.
MTV's top shows are "MTV Cribs$$$" and "Pimp my Ride$$$".
This morning DHS is shutting down bit-torrents servers and MPAA's CEO Dan Glickman claims victorious:
"Today's actions are bad news for Internet movie thieves and good news for preserving the magic$$$ of the movies,"
all I can say is to Mr Glickman is:
"Big Man, Pig Man, ha ha charade you are!"
[honker@r11serv honker]$ su -
Password:
su: incorrect password
[honker@r11serv honker]$ su -
Password:
su: incorrect password
[honker@r11serv honker]$ su -
Password:
su: incorrect password
DAMN IT!!
Nobody Expects the Spanish RIAA!
Their chief weapon is fear, fear and surprise...
Two weapons! Fear, Surprise, and a ruthless efficiency.
Aggg!
No no! Three weapons..
Among their weapons are such diverse elements as fear, surprise ruthless efficiency and almost fanatical devotion to ownership of private intellectual property.
Aggg im posting again
China is right to ban foreign companies from introducing/sell software in their nation.
It's critical for each nation, to develop their own software technologies.
Timmy: Hi Mr. Sun Enginner, watchoding?
Eng: I'm preparing Open Solaris for release Timmy.
Timmy: Can I see it?
Eng: No, Timmy, is not ready.
Timmy: Can I take justa a peek?
Eng: No.
Timmy: WWWWWWhy?
Eng: Because this is serious stuff Timmy, we want to be open about our development process and operative system so it harness the knowledge of the World Open Source Community.
Timmy: Wow!? Can I see it now?
Eng: No! Damn it! Timmy! Is not ready. You can't see it.
Timmy: Why?
Eng: Because there's stuff here that I don't want you to see.
Timmy: Oops, my build is ready, can I go now?
Eng: Yes Timmy, please go bother someone else.
My managers simply refuse to use anything proposed by us, the development team, and named subversion.
I don't know but Ill put my hands in the fire for Linux and say:
.asp .com .net
I will install the Latest Linux distro in 2025.
Open a Shell.
Type the ls command to the directory I created TODAY.
edit my Makefile that I created TODAY by typing
>vi Makefile
edit, modify, save it.. exactly the same way I edited a file in UNIX in 1985 and exactly the same way 20 years from now.
By then XP will be long death and probably Longhorn
too.
Longhorn righ now is struggling like hell with the idiociy of non-case-sensitive filename
legacy and assigning letters to volumes...idiocy.
How can I manage resources seamlessy over the net??
Unix has been doing that for a while now.
The UNIX architecture not only survives but
thrives with Mac OSX and Linux while Windows OSes die horrible
deaths and get resucitated as fearsome goblings
and zombies each one harder to kill (legacy crap) and to contain
It's just pining for the fjords.
No, seriously, nothing is anywere close to replace the PC's so why to ask the question in the first place!?
Is an article abouth nothing!
So why do you read it???
Because is in slashdot.
The first line of defense ..and the most critical is getting access to the system.
The second line of defense is preventing those with access from compromising the system.
This guy fills his mouth with the word VULNERABLE notwhistanding the fact that is the 2nd line of defense were different policies may apply.
As far as I'm concern, when you get an account from me, I trust you. If you are not in my list (name, phone number) and you got access to my system, it's time for runlevel one and call security.
10 years ago my profressor of CS (3rd year) made us us LaTeX to turn our papers in.
We all could have us MS Word but there was a point to be made.
They looked ugly and of poor quality. But higly efficient!! Aggh!!
10 years have passed and while driving in the Garden State Parkway I heard the interview of this uber pragmatic man and the creator of LaTeX.
Donald Knuth.
A ha!
I got to work, looked at the NPR site and then went to Professor Kunth homepage.
I knew what I was looking for and got it in all it's glory.
His homepage.
What an eyesore!
A not very complementary self-picture (he should use the one on the NPR site) and the BIG BOLD heading-1 letters for all the link under some colorless background.
It sure took my back to my first html site 1995.
Function over form, the trademark of scientific academia.
A brilliant man, nevertheless.
He should pay 5.12 to some student to do a extreme-make-over to his home-site. Some drop-down
menus..cool graphics..make it pretty!
That is why they abandon the prospects of sitting in front of the glowing screen all day.
Women need human contact. Men do too but they in their obsession to objectify everything and control everything they are (including me of course) trying to replace human contact with something to model, control, revise and improve upon...an HCI! HUMAN-COMPUTER-INTERFACE.
We need women back in the field to save ourselves from our sterile lifeless endeavours.