But how much has it cost us indeed? How much less severe would Katrina and Sandy have been? Would the Syrian revolt have started without the immigration influx started by a drought? What about the costs of the California drought? Would Mexico be set to get flattened quite so hard right now by history's most powerful hurricane?
For programmers, I think electronic design should be mandatory. At a minimum, you need to understand the AND/OR/NOT gate level.
That stuff is less accessible though, I'm not sure it would be very practical to teach it at the high school level. Maybe make it an advanced level class, like calculus.
If you're going to teach kids computer science at all, programming is how you should do it.
Teach them how to use the tools, and they will get confused when the UI changes. Teach them how to build the tools, and they'll be able to figure it out.
There's no better way to understand how a computer works, and its limitations, than actually programming it.
There are other options. When someone needs help, you can always offer them help.
Give them useful advice, say, "Oh, you can't find the bug? Just delete file X and it should fix itself. I remember seeing bugs in there. Call me back if you want more useful advice."
Always give them useful advice, even if you hate them.
What do you think an average high school graduate know about computer science and technology?
Programming.
We already know how to teach high school kids how to program (look at Alan Kay's work, he's been researching that sort of thing for years). The problem is finding people who are qualified to teach it. Most people who are good at programming would rather not be a school teacher.
If it were, that would be good for California, because they can use some extra water (which tends to come in El Nino years).
Unfortunately there is no good computer modeling able to predict El Nino, and the models are divided on whether El Nino will increase or decrease as a result of AGW.
Yeah, that's the problem with AGW.....to actually do something substantial (get CO2 down to 350 ppm, for example) we need to take drastic measures.
Think about the changes we would need to make to society in order to begin removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Building a few solar plants (or even putting solar panels on everyone's roof) is not enough.
The officials have explained (in the article, if you had cared to read it) that it would only be in certain situations, where the president would be killed if they didn't use it. Something like if this happened, you wouldn't really worry about warrants. The real question is whether they've ever actually used that power or not.
They used the other exception in a hostage/kidnapping situation, apparently because there wasn't time to get a warrant.
It's only (reportedly) used in situations where the president is likely to be in danger.
At some point, you are willing to ruin your court case in exchange for protecting your president.
Wendelstein 7-X’s bizarrely shaped components must be put together with millimeter precision. All welding was computer controlled and monitored with laser scanners.
BTW, the java browser plugin is written in C code, AFAIK.
Yeah, that's probably true.
The problem was a design issue though, access granted where it shouldn't have been, not a language issue (it could have been done in any language).
That's only because we don't have a scale that calibrates that far left.
No, you are wrong, it's because it's a different scale. What do republicans and democrats have to say about the French issue? Different countries have different problems....just like local issues tend to be completely different than national issues.
When Dijkstra was talking about people whose mind had been 'mutilated' by BASIC, he was talking about people with the hack-and-get-er-done mindset, people who don't try to think of everything that can go wrong, people who just try to get it working in the case needed now, and don't worry about future proofing it (or even debugging it really, except in simple cases).
It's dangerous to evaluate foreign countries on the American political spectrum, and especially dangerous based on their name. If you judged American politics based on the names of the parties, you would think that one party desperately wanted a direct democracy, and the other party was fighting ferociously to keep the states independent. But neither of those is why the names were chosen (in fact, the founder of the democrat party fought to strengthen the states rights).
In Canada, the Liberal Party has that name, but it is the centrist party.
"All politics is local," that is the saying. In Canada, no one is fighting over Obamacare, just like in America no one cares about Quebec independence. In fact, one of the ways the party won is by getting a lot of votes in Quebec (also, Justin Trudeau is kind of hot).
Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues.
Not to be too rude about it - but does anyone actually trust Microsoft to pay off on this unless the exploit is stupidly egregious?
If you want them to pay the $15k, you need to have a working exploit, and XSS doesn't count, even though it should.
So no, they've stated they won't pay unless the exploit is stupidly egregious.
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Most of the insurance increase has been from people signing up for medicare.
I'm ok with that, but that doesn't mean it hasn't caused problems for other people.
I don't think programming is necessary to be taught in high school, but I'm open to alternate viewpoints.
If you're going to teach about computers after 5th grade though, programming ought to be taught.
But how much has it cost us indeed? How much less severe would Katrina and Sandy have been? Would the Syrian revolt have started without the immigration influx started by a drought? What about the costs of the California drought? Would Mexico be set to get flattened quite so hard right now by history's most powerful hurricane?
Yes, that was my question.
Eh, he started his career as a product manager, and moved up the corporate ladder on the management side.
:)
Let's be honest: he has no clue what he's talking about either.
For programmers, I think electronic design should be mandatory. At a minimum, you need to understand the AND/OR/NOT gate level.
That stuff is less accessible though, I'm not sure it would be very practical to teach it at the high school level. Maybe make it an advanced level class, like calculus.
If you're going to teach kids computer science at all, programming is how you should do it.
Teach them how to use the tools, and they will get confused when the UI changes. Teach them how to build the tools, and they'll be able to figure it out.
There's no better way to understand how a computer works, and its limitations, than actually programming it.
We've seen CO2 levels increase dramatically, from 280ppm to 400ppm. How much has it cost us to adapt to that increase?
There are other options. When someone needs help, you can always offer them help.
Give them useful advice, say, "Oh, you can't find the bug? Just delete file X and it should fix itself. I remember seeing bugs in there. Call me back if you want more useful advice."
Always give them useful advice, even if you hate them.
What do you think an average high school graduate know about computer science and technology?
Programming.
We already know how to teach high school kids how to program (look at Alan Kay's work, he's been researching that sort of thing for years). The problem is finding people who are qualified to teach it. Most people who are good at programming would rather not be a school teacher.
And said El Nino is being fed by carbon warming.
If it were, that would be good for California, because they can use some extra water (which tends to come in El Nino years).
Unfortunately there is no good computer modeling able to predict El Nino, and the models are divided on whether El Nino will increase or decrease as a result of AGW.
Maybe they can move it 12 parsecs into the future.
Maybe they mean in terms of geologic time.
Point conceded.
Archaeologists will find evidence of its creation in the same strata as Mr Fusion.
in the not-so-distant future, when autonomous vehicles become the norm
That's optimistic.
Yeah, that's the problem with AGW.....to actually do something substantial (get CO2 down to 350 ppm, for example) we need to take drastic measures.
Think about the changes we would need to make to society in order to begin removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Building a few solar plants (or even putting solar panels on everyone's roof) is not enough.
And some issues are not even placeable on a left/right spectrum......surveillance has plenty of proponents and opponents in each party, for example.
The officials have explained (in the article, if you had cared to read it) that it would only be in certain situations, where the president would be killed if they didn't use it. Something like if this happened, you wouldn't really worry about warrants. The real question is whether they've ever actually used that power or not.
They used the other exception in a hostage/kidnapping situation, apparently because there wasn't time to get a warrant.
It's only (reportedly) used in situations where the president is likely to be in danger.
At some point, you are willing to ruin your court case in exchange for protecting your president.
Wendelstein 7-X’s bizarrely shaped components must be put together with millimeter precision. All welding was computer controlled and monitored with laser scanners.
An example of this is the Liberal party of Australia, which tends to be labeled as a "right" party
BTW, the java browser plugin is written in C code, AFAIK.
Yeah, that's probably true.
The problem was a design issue though, access granted where it shouldn't have been, not a language issue (it could have been done in any language).
That's only because we don't have a scale that calibrates that far left.
No, you are wrong, it's because it's a different scale. What do republicans and democrats have to say about the French issue? Different countries have different problems....just like local issues tend to be completely different than national issues.
When Dijkstra was talking about people whose mind had been 'mutilated' by BASIC, he was talking about people with the hack-and-get-er-done mindset, people who don't try to think of everything that can go wrong, people who just try to get it working in the case needed now, and don't worry about future proofing it (or even debugging it really, except in simple cases).
It's dangerous to evaluate foreign countries on the American political spectrum, and especially dangerous based on their name. If you judged American politics based on the names of the parties, you would think that one party desperately wanted a direct democracy, and the other party was fighting ferociously to keep the states independent. But neither of those is why the names were chosen (in fact, the founder of the democrat party fought to strengthen the states rights).
In Canada, the Liberal Party has that name, but it is the centrist party.
"All politics is local," that is the saying. In Canada, no one is fighting over Obamacare, just like in America no one cares about Quebec independence. In fact, one of the ways the party won is by getting a lot of votes in Quebec (also, Justin Trudeau is kind of hot).
Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues.
Not to be too rude about it - but does anyone actually trust Microsoft to pay off on this unless the exploit is stupidly egregious?
If you want them to pay the $15k, you need to have a working exploit, and XSS doesn't count, even though it should.
So no, they've stated they won't pay unless the exploit is stupidly egregious.
Apparently these types of exploits can be sold legally for $100k.