Can you use soft you obtained under academic license for commercial (paid) work? If not and you are still going to do why not just dl it of the torrentz?
There is no reason to get defensive, I don't think anyone is forcing you to work yourself to death (btw you have serious father-figure psychological issues). If you can live simple, it's fine, just accept that you will never have nice things and in every job above mop pushing you'll be outcompeted by people like me.
Now have a nice stress-free life.
I actually agree with everything you said, but if you choose a more laid back lifestyle than don't complain if those who choose a different path in life outcompete you.
Apparently Open Source users don't play games either. Either that or there are certain kinds of software not very suitable to open source mode of development. Have you seen the credits for a modern game? Hundreds of programmers, graphics designers of every kind, musicians, managers, drivers, stunt coordinators, it's like a big budget film. Compared to something like that writing a kernel and userland stack is trivial.
I know, Knuth is a Christian too. I just want to point out that Mathematics is not a natural science, it's just a bunch of logically consistent statements about made up objects not found in nature, kinda like religion and theology. So I think we can forgive religious mathematicians.
In this case to fill the gap in your education you could start with "The Origina of Spieces...." in particular it's last sentence: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
I'm a math major and you've just completely discredited yourself if you think that a hypothesis in a natural science can be in any way proved by mathematics (which can come up with any kind of crazy made up system as long as its axioms are logically consistent)
This offer could still be attractive to third-world programmers. You know , the people living on less than a dollar a day. Less than 10 years ago our CS school teachers and university professors were living on 10 cents a day. I'm sure they would have been happy to do some os/2 hacking rather than sell their books and other possesions on the streets.
I'm not from the USA, but I don't see what the big deal here. Maybe if you've worked for 30 years as a cashier at Wall-mart or some other repetitive, mind-destroying job, the you'll be looking every minute of your life to retirement. But for people who love what they do for a living it's doesn't even enter their minds that they would just switch off and stop working at some fixed date in the future.
I think if it's done right, questioning Evolution as opposed as presenting it as dogma could help the students understand the theory better. My biology teacher made us think about about the scientific arguments for evolution when she proposed arguments against it. BTW, it was back in 1987 in Soviet Union, she got to talk to KGB about it, they tried to scare her, but couldn't break her, later they forced the director of the school to reduce her teaching hours, so they though she wouldn't be able to survive on the reduced salary and quit teaching herself. She proposed the (now) well known argument of everything looking as if it was designed. Now I know how to refute this argument but back then noone in class knew how to argue against it. And it made us think about the scientific method.
From what I've seen American math education is not very good. For instance you got Calc I -> Calc II -> Calc III before American students finally get a chance to do mathematics(Real Analysis). It's all very simple, very dumbed down and very rote memorization oriented. I've watched some video lectures from supposedly good state schools, and it's a pain seeing how for many semesters teachers endlessly go over the same elementary things and there are still students who don't get it. I wonder how they got accepted in the first place. Maybe its the price to pay for common higher education.
It can be proven mathematically through the instruments given by game theory that certain strategies are always beneficial both for the group and the individual.
This is not entirely true. In France and in other countries sticking to a similar system, when you declare your major before entrance exams to the university, you can still transfer between departments (majors) (not automatically, but permission is not hard to obtain) but that means you have to pass all the classes that the students who picked that major have been studying since their first year. It hard but not impossible, you are usually given a whole semester to accomplish that. But I do like the American system better, I see that a lot of math and physics freshmen at our university don't ever want to be professional mathematicians and physicists. We nopw habe a situation where Geology department has become a dump for kids who didn't pass entrance exams to other departments and Math department a dump for people who have no clue what they want to do with their lives but (maybe) did well at math in school. Letting people wait 2-3 years before declaring a major is a good thing.
I feel really bad for our minorities, but they are a.... minority. And you are not being entirely truthful, a few years ago the economic prosperity has started spilling out of the Moscow metro area, the development has come here to Siberia, where I live. It is unfortunate but for a while Russia will be like South Africa, maybe two third of people will live in economically developed urban areas and the rest in desperate poverty in parts of the countryside. I'm not proud of that but I think we are on the right way to economic development. And we need this research money, if we don't preserve the scientific potential obtained during the Soviet Union and don't give the young people who graduate now a reason to stay then we'll end up in much worse situation in 10-15 years. I dropped out of college in the 90s, started my own business, but now I'm studying again to finish my math major because I think Russia will need educate people soon, many of the other students younger than me are also hoping they won't have to immigrate.
He brought his wife to the US out of poverty in Russia, and she relayed him by stealing money from his struggling company, sleeping with his weirdo transvestite ex-friend and finally taking away his kids. He killed her in a moment of passion, then got scared and tried awkwardly to get away with murder. I can understand his situation and what drove him to murder.
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Can you use soft you obtained under academic license for commercial (paid) work? If not and you are still going to do why not just dl it of the torrentz?
There is no reason to get defensive, I don't think anyone is forcing you to work yourself to death (btw you have serious father-figure psychological issues). If you can live simple, it's fine, just accept that you will never have nice things and in every job above mop pushing you'll be outcompeted by people like me. Now have a nice stress-free life.
I actually agree with everything you said, but if you choose a more laid back lifestyle than don't complain if those who choose a different path in life outcompete you.
Borat, is that you?
Apparently Open Source users don't play games either. Either that or there are certain kinds of software not very suitable to open source mode of development. Have you seen the credits for a modern game? Hundreds of programmers, graphics designers of every kind, musicians, managers, drivers, stunt coordinators, it's like a big budget film. Compared to something like that writing a kernel and userland stack is trivial.
I know, Knuth is a Christian too. I just want to point out that Mathematics is not a natural science, it's just a bunch of logically consistent statements about made up objects not found in nature, kinda like religion and theology. So I think we can forgive religious mathematicians.
In this case to fill the gap in your education you could start with "The Origina of Spieces...." in particular it's last sentence: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
I'm a math major and you've just completely discredited yourself if you think that a hypothesis in a natural science can be in any way proved by mathematics (which can come up with any kind of crazy made up system as long as its axioms are logically consistent)
Katrina happened after the invasion.
This offer could still be attractive to third-world programmers. You know , the people living on less than a dollar a day. Less than 10 years ago our CS school teachers and university professors were living on 10 cents a day. I'm sure they would have been happy to do some os/2 hacking rather than sell their books and other possesions on the streets.
I'm not from the USA, but I don't see what the big deal here. Maybe if you've worked for 30 years as a cashier at Wall-mart or some other repetitive, mind-destroying job, the you'll be looking every minute of your life to retirement. But for people who love what they do for a living it's doesn't even enter their minds that they would just switch off and stop working at some fixed date in the future.
So in your opinion, did he intend to hack into military computers or did it happen by accident?
I think if it's done right, questioning Evolution as opposed as presenting it as dogma could help the students understand the theory better. My biology teacher made us think about about the scientific arguments for evolution when she proposed arguments against it. BTW, it was back in 1987 in Soviet Union, she got to talk to KGB about it, they tried to scare her, but couldn't break her, later they forced the director of the school to reduce her teaching hours, so they though she wouldn't be able to survive on the reduced salary and quit teaching herself. She proposed the (now) well known argument of everything looking as if it was designed. Now I know how to refute this argument but back then noone in class knew how to argue against it. And it made us think about the scientific method.
You forgot rehabilitation.
From what I've seen American math education is not very good. For instance you got Calc I -> Calc II -> Calc III before American students finally get a chance to do mathematics(Real Analysis). It's all very simple, very dumbed down and very rote memorization oriented. I've watched some video lectures from supposedly good state schools, and it's a pain seeing how for many semesters teachers endlessly go over the same elementary things and there are still students who don't get it. I wonder how they got accepted in the first place. Maybe its the price to pay for common higher education.
I'm impressed! Apparently in America even basements have basements!
The GLX stuff is not Free and despite being reported back in 2003`Debian maintaners still refuse to move it to non-free.
I'm sure the researchers are not proud of this overstatement, but guess this is what one gotta do nowdays to obtain grant money.
It can be proven mathematically through the instruments given by game theory that certain strategies are always beneficial both for the group and the individual.
Who are "they" and why is it any of their business if I get poisoned, sick or get blown up on my property?
This is not entirely true. In France and in other countries sticking to a similar system, when you declare your major before entrance exams to the university, you can still transfer between departments (majors) (not automatically, but permission is not hard to obtain) but that means you have to pass all the classes that the students who picked that major have been studying since their first year. It hard but not impossible, you are usually given a whole semester to accomplish that. But I do like the American system better, I see that a lot of math and physics freshmen at our university don't ever want to be professional mathematicians and physicists. We nopw habe a situation where Geology department has become a dump for kids who didn't pass entrance exams to other departments and Math department a dump for people who have no clue what they want to do with their lives but (maybe) did well at math in school. Letting people wait 2-3 years before declaring a major is a good thing.
I feel really bad for our minorities, but they are a .... minority. And you are not being entirely truthful, a few years ago the economic prosperity has started spilling out of the Moscow metro area, the development has come here to Siberia, where I live. It is unfortunate but for a while Russia will be like South Africa, maybe two third of people will live in economically developed urban areas and the rest in desperate poverty in parts of the countryside. I'm not proud of that but I think we are on the right way to economic development. And we need this research money, if we don't preserve the scientific potential obtained during the Soviet Union and don't give the young people who graduate now a reason to stay then we'll end up in much worse situation in 10-15 years. I dropped out of college in the 90s, started my own business, but now I'm studying again to finish my math major because I think Russia will need educate people soon, many of the other students younger than me are also hoping they won't have to immigrate.
He brought his wife to the US out of poverty in Russia, and she relayed him by stealing money from his struggling company, sleeping with his weirdo transvestite ex-friend and finally taking away his kids. He killed her in a moment of passion, then got scared and tried awkwardly to get away with murder. I can understand his situation and what drove him to murder.
It is an inconvenient truth.
Or you could throw him in jail or a mental institution. Problem solved.