They are definitely part of the problem. A good friend of mine wanted to build bridges for a living. Graduating high school, he asked the guidance counsellor, followed by several college recruiters, all of whom told him to go into architecture.
After less than one semester of architecture he transferred to Civil Engineering, because he wanted to design and build bridges.
The sad truth of the matter is no one knows what engineers do, they think it's a fancy title. They don't realize "real" engineers are licensed like doctors and lawyers (EIT, PE, etc.) to build things.
Infolinc Computers in Lincoln, NE. About 30 minutes after I posted that, I realized that I haven't been in Lincoln since 1998, and I the last time I visited that store was 1996 to buy a computer (A very solid system). Then I pretty much realized I'm old.
It's worth a look though, who knows, they might still have some of those games.
If you are in the U.S. (I'm assuming you are), go to a public TV station and ask what it takes to produce a show for them (Usually they will provide equipement you can use in their studio for production).
A few suggestions: buy a nice video camera if you plan to produce a show outside their studio. If you want something with your own homebrew FX, buy a nice video card with TV-in/out functions.
There is a store in Nebraska that still has old games like this on the shelf for $10 a pop.
Instruction manual and everything. They are classics, but rare, lord no.
What are you looking for in the midwest? Large cheap houses? Check out Omaha, Kearney, Grand Island in nebraska (I know Cabellas is always hiring tech people, but they are truly in the middle of nowhere). Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence are very good in Kansas.
For larger cities where you have luxuries check out Kansas City (Overland Park), Oklahoma City, Chicago.
Avoid Denver, the houses are overpriced, and the market is very tight even for people with experience and education.
The midwest doesn't offer as many tech/geek opportunities, but they do offer very cheap land and houses.
If morality is set by the community, then I suppose you have no problem with people getting their hands cut off for stealing, or women getting stoned to death because they were *accused* of adultery (whether or not they're actually guilty of the act) because in some community - THOSE are the standards.
And in those communities, they ARE acceptable and the right and MORAL thing to do. It sounds as if those morals conflict with yours.
The poster was trying to get this point across: some people have morals that conflict with others.
Not everyone will agree with whats right and wrong.
One was an unexpected paid day off: Everyone was working on Monday already, Christmas was on Tuesday. The friday before, boss walks in, says everyone has monday off, fully paid, and took us out to lunch.
The other best gift was gift certificates to the restraunt of our choice, Boos just went around, asked everyone individually where they liked to eat out, and bought $30 gift certificates to that place with a card, and put them in a holiday mug.
A simple computer ontology builds abstract relationships between objects.
Animals -> Birds -> Flightless Birds -> Penguins
It is an important first step into AI and computer interaction.
Unfortunately I found the article as useful as those old programs where the computer would try and guess what you were thinking about.
Information Warfare
Information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information and information systems to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy, an adversary's information, information-based processes, information systems, and computer-based networks while protecting one's own. Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military or business adversaries (Dr. Ivan Goldberg's definition)
Leaflet bombs, pirate radio broadcasts, news blackouts, all are parts of Information Warfare. It is much more broad than computers, and much more powerful.
The majority of voters vote in herds, they have their own problems day-to-day, and instead of reading up on the issues, they follow the opinions of their friends, family, and church. Failing that they go based on the pictures of what people look like, or where a candidate is located on the card.
People who have an issue will go in to vote for that issue. But what happens when there are 50 unrelated issues on the ballot you haven't heard of?
The best solution might be electronic voting booths, where you can research the topics and look up words while voting (In a reasonable amount of time).
> What will you do when your $100K/yr job is gone and the only things around are $30K work at Frys?
Pray they have a good dental plan.
I couldn't agree more with the H1B Visa abuse. Unfortunately, I have seen people who have a dollar for every time they abuse an H1B, and they all drive Mercedes.
I know too many people that have lost their job, destroying the cohesiveness and effectiveness of a department, just so management could look good by showing they saved a few hundred dollars by outsourcing projects offshore (Getting undocumented crap).
The last one I don't agree with. There was a lot of fat in the industry that needed to be trimmed, and it is down to the bone.
There are a lot of problems with the tech sector (Engineering and IT, both of which are very different). Uniting in a union might solve problems, and Unions don't always prop up the "underachievers", people just like to see the worst-case scenarios.
Making an IT/Engineering Union just will not work, though. People must be willing to risk their entire livelihoods to start a union from scratch. Most Unions in the past were created to force management to make working conditions safer. Unless computers become deadly-killing-machines soon, I don't think ENOUGH people will be willing to risk it all to start a union.
Bill Gates isn't Borg trying to assimilate everything, he's the Riddler.
Think about it: he always does things that don't seem to make sense, often contradicting himself. He has his enemies, keeps all his secrets to himself, and everything that happens seems to fall into his plan perfectly. He also makes statements that are half-truths that are confusing and enigmatic, but in the end come out making some sense.
> How is this modded up as insightful??? Object recognition has nothing to do with this being hard. Read what it says on the bottom of page 2:
I don't know what slashdot you're thinking about, but I'm reading the version where no one reads the article.
Hell he mentioned X and Y in his post somewhere, so it MUST be insightful. I didn't even bother reading his whole post, I'm too busy playing flash adventure to care.
Slashdot Mirror
Name the red room Romero.
They are definitely part of the problem. A good friend of mine wanted to build bridges for a living. Graduating high school, he asked the guidance counsellor, followed by several college recruiters, all of whom told him to go into architecture.
After less than one semester of architecture he transferred to Civil Engineering, because he wanted to design and build bridges.
The sad truth of the matter is no one knows what engineers do, they think it's a fancy title. They don't realize "real" engineers are licensed like doctors and lawyers (EIT, PE, etc.) to build things.
No offense to software engineers intended.
Kids these days...
> In 1984 history undoes YOU!
That is soooo 2002. It should be:
history Ctrl+Z You!
> BTW, why the fuck can't we post in the last story?
I'm guessing because it's a story about the decline of quality education in america that uses the word "plase".
> Where in Nebraska? Store name?
Infolinc Computers in Lincoln, NE. About 30 minutes after I posted that, I realized that I haven't been in Lincoln since 1998, and I the last time I visited that store was 1996 to buy a computer (A very solid system). Then I pretty much realized I'm old.
It's worth a look though, who knows, they might still have some of those games.
If you are in the U.S. (I'm assuming you are), go to a public TV station and ask what it takes to produce a show for them (Usually they will provide equipement you can use in their studio for production).
A few suggestions: buy a nice video camera if you plan to produce a show outside their studio. If you want something with your own homebrew FX, buy a nice video card with TV-in/out functions.
There is a store in Nebraska that still has old games like this on the shelf for $10 a pop. Instruction manual and everything. They are classics, but rare, lord no.
What are you looking for in the midwest? Large cheap houses? Check out Omaha, Kearney, Grand Island in nebraska (I know Cabellas is always hiring tech people, but they are truly in the middle of nowhere). Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence are very good in Kansas. For larger cities where you have luxuries check out Kansas City (Overland Park), Oklahoma City, Chicago.
Avoid Denver, the houses are overpriced, and the market is very tight even for people with experience and education.
The midwest doesn't offer as many tech/geek opportunities, but they do offer very cheap land and houses.
If morality is set by the community, then I suppose you have no problem with people getting their hands cut off for stealing, or women getting stoned to death because they were *accused* of adultery (whether or not they're actually guilty of the act) because in some community - THOSE are the standards.
And in those communities, they ARE acceptable and the right and MORAL thing to do. It sounds as if those morals conflict with yours.
The poster was trying to get this point across: some people have morals that conflict with others. Not everyone will agree with whats right and wrong.
One was an unexpected paid day off:
Everyone was working on Monday already, Christmas was on Tuesday. The friday before, boss walks in, says everyone has monday off, fully paid, and took us out to lunch.
The other best gift was gift certificates to the restraunt of our choice, Boos just went around, asked everyone individually where they liked to eat out, and bought $30 gift certificates to that place with a card, and put them in a holiday mug.
La solución fácil es aprender español
A simple computer ontology builds abstract relationships between objects.
Animals -> Birds -> Flightless Birds -> Penguins
It is an important first step into AI and computer interaction.
Unfortunately I found the article as useful as those old programs where the computer would try and guess what you were thinking about.
Information Warfare
Information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information and information systems to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy, an adversary's information, information-based processes, information systems, and computer-based networks while protecting one's own. Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military or business adversaries (Dr. Ivan Goldberg's definition)
Leaflet bombs, pirate radio broadcasts, news blackouts, all are parts of Information Warfare. It is much more broad than computers, and much more powerful.
Super-saving Dillons/King Soopers cards that give the cardholder a discount. Free to get the card, but will track all purchases made.
People would block out the information overload.
The majority of voters vote in herds, they have their own problems day-to-day, and instead of reading up on the issues, they follow the opinions of their friends, family, and church. Failing that they go based on the pictures of what people look like, or where a candidate is located on the card.
People who have an issue will go in to vote for that issue. But what happens when there are 50 unrelated issues on the ballot you haven't heard of?
The best solution might be electronic voting booths, where you can research the topics and look up words while voting (In a reasonable amount of time).
NOOOOOOO!!!!
I'm sure you meant the fabric takes up less volume, as I would hope that weight is not an issue in space.
> What will you do when your $100K/yr job is gone and the only things around are $30K work at Frys?
Pray they have a good dental plan.
I couldn't agree more with the H1B Visa abuse. Unfortunately, I have seen people who have a dollar for every time they abuse an H1B, and they all drive Mercedes.
I know too many people that have lost their job, destroying the cohesiveness and effectiveness of a department, just so management could look good by showing they saved a few hundred dollars by outsourcing projects offshore (Getting undocumented crap).
The last one I don't agree with. There was a lot of fat in the industry that needed to be trimmed, and it is down to the bone.
There are a lot of problems with the tech sector (Engineering and IT, both of which are very different). Uniting in a union might solve problems, and Unions don't always prop up the "underachievers", people just like to see the worst-case scenarios.
Making an IT/Engineering Union just will not work, though. People must be willing to risk their entire livelihoods to start a union from scratch. Most Unions in the past were created to force management to make working conditions safer.
Unless computers become deadly-killing-machines soon, I don't think ENOUGH people will be willing to risk it all to start a union.
I've been trying to figure it out for YEARS!!!!
Bill Gates isn't Borg trying to assimilate everything, he's the Riddler.
Think about it: he always does things that don't seem to make sense, often contradicting himself. He has his enemies, keeps all his secrets to himself, and everything that happens seems to fall into his plan perfectly. He also makes statements that are half-truths that are confusing and enigmatic, but in the end come out making some sense.
Many undergraduate civil engineers get the chance to build real bridges with the Steel Bridge Competition
My personal favorite has always been the Concrete Canoe, though.
In answer to the topic question: You get out of your education what you put into it.
I hereby claim the first post after reading the article. /.ed :
I will follow up this troll by posting the article before the site is
get the BESTSELLING wireless video camera.
The amazing X-10.
No wires attached.
Keep an eye on things at home.
I had to pull this, the site was horribly done, it was moving rapidly to the left and right. A very annoying site indeed.
> I want to whack something with a sword, and set something on fire. Does that make me a bad person?
38% of people polled said "no".
I'll pick one up when they come out with Wireless 809.11 connections.
> How is this modded up as insightful??? Object recognition has nothing to do with this being hard. Read what it says on the bottom of page 2:
I don't know what slashdot you're thinking about, but I'm reading the version where no one reads the article.
Hell he mentioned X and Y in his post somewhere, so it MUST be insightful. I didn't even bother reading his whole post, I'm too busy playing flash adventure to care.