It's kinda sad that the first thing in the discussion of this study is the most simple-minded moronic solution one can come up with. Abolishing religion won't remove this human tendency. Essentially if you want to introduce ideas to a cultural group of any sort, you have to relate that idea to something they already believe. Belief is a necessary component to the acceptance of truth. It doesn't matter if its religious or even antireligious, the key to adoption will always be whether or not you can adapt your message to your audience. This is the problem with trite solutions like 'abolish religion' and religion haters. they are some of the least creative minds on the planet, because they fail to crystalize what they want and adapt it to those who might help them obtain it--instead religion (or politics, or those darn hillbillies in the mountains) is to blame and becomes a weak-minded scapegoat. Turns out that most of us want very similar things, but if you force us to have them--against what we believe--we push back.
So to you, death and the void is your god. You've put your faith in nothingness. Essentially you've created your own little death-cult. The fact that you claim this makes you happy, makes it a "happy shiny fun" death cult. And judging from your shared opinion, you put it out there like any other missionary for their religion.
Clearly Italians want what we all want: Automated Protect the Handicapped and the Children video services! This is really not that hard. Just have someone write a perl script that automatically detects any potentially offensive video before the video is posted. End of problem. Case closed. In carta diem di tutto! Done and done.
It's just a simple matter of software at this point.
The school district should have contacted the local authorities to retrieve the laptops. Even if they had no clue to whom they'd gone, they shouldn't turn them on remotely without some sort of court-ordered backup/warrant. Unfortunately some school administrators think of themselves as a "law unto themselves", are distrustful of parents and the kids they have the opportunity to tutor. This particular incident really stinks of some ulterior shennanigans... Either the administrators were very naieve (aka. stupid) or they aren't telling the truth about their true motives. With the drug accusation I wonder if there wasn't some sort of personal vendetta/entrapment going on here, where an administrator convinces himself that so-and-so is a 'bad egg' and makes it his life's quest to make the singled-out student pay...
Q. What's wrong with our country?
A. The price to make you perfectly safe, six times over, is prohibitively expensive.
This seems like a stupid approach to the issue. I mean, just how many engineers need to be hired to make you feel safe? And exactly how do they test all 200 million lines of code? If Toyota's engineers missed something like this, do you honestly think that the government is going to magically find it? It's not like Toyota engineers did this sort of thing on purpose. They made a mistake. It's now costing lives. That's killing Toyota too.
of course most people don't pay anything. they wait to be slapped on the hand because the issue is complicated and there's just enough leeway to claim ignorance. unless the GPL nazi's come knocking they coast...
O'Reilly "Learning X" (fill in X with your programming language of choice) are not "BIBLE"s. They're learning texts. For the real meat of the language, decent reference and altogether comprehensive understanding of life and the universe, you'd want to pick up O'Reilly "Programming X" books. So in this case, Programming Python would be a Bible, a book you return to again and again. The Programming series of books, for most experienced programmers is generally just as good a place to start learning the language, and you don't need the Learning series.
The motive to get rid of two years of highschool is enticing right now--especially to bankrupt state legislatures. This is all about cost-savings. In a way it makes sense. Universities have huge computer labs (compared to High schools) and fascilities for every speciality, yet, with a highschool in order to provide any sort of specific education requires a lot of money. Multiply that by how many highschools there are in a state (which greatly outnumbers the number of universities in the state) and presto! Instant reduction in operating costs for schools. No need to hire better teachers if the level of education remains remedial...
My highschool computer science training was abysmal. I still remember how liberating it was to get to go to university and take a class from an expert. I can see how, for students that are motivated and don't like the timewasting antics that much of highschool students engage in, this could be a good thing.
The nature of programming has changed. When 40+ year olds were going to college or studying, OOP was in its infancy, and even functional programming was more about clever algorithms on limited hardware, where optimization mattered, rather than programming interfaces and patching together APIs with a zillion features, connecting with some database somewhere else, etc.
Darn, and I was hoping for something along the lines of Peewee Herman's BigTop adventures, with Jarjar the main character, constantly breaking the third wall to talk to a juvenile audience about toy endorsements, "Can yousa kids say to Mommy, "Meesaw want Jarjar action figures!" "
I've had my PC repaired and my windows copy invalidated because the motherboard was replaced. The solution: Call microsoft. They fixed it without any questions. No biggie. The "repair industry" really should know this trick, if they're worth their salt.
Funny how this topic breeds anonymous coward trolls, and isn't it strangely coincidental that they're all of the same meme. Google is evil. US Government is a bad guy. China is a victim.
No matter how you look at this issue, it's really just putting rosed-colored glasses on a tough situation. Sure, scientists and such are clever and will try to figure out how to continue to expand the sciences, even without financial support systems of the past, but the demand in aeronautics will continue to diminish, fewer experts will get involved, and any incentives to stay will simply go away.
Of course I might be wrong, but honestly, if this philosophy really worked in governing bodies (the idea that you slash the budget to marginally operating ability, and suddenly you get better "products") then you should not expect record spending, but instead we should expect to see record budget slashing.
The truth is, there's no great plan, instead these cuts are politically motivated due to the demographics of states affected by this change. Of course that's a president's prerogative and presidents do political things. I just won't pretend it's good news for NASA or US space tech.
At least the research potential for such systems contributes to the nation's ability to develop high-speed rocket/radar and comm systems, and has the potential to keep jobs and expertise in the country. Compare that with a "job stimulus package" which is giving money to people for doing nothing, or something that should already be automated.
Outside of the fifth grade, when do public schools bother to teach grammar? So far, they haven't. My daughter's seventh grade class has been all about reading. They have certain expectations about writing, but the rules and intricacies of grammar are not part of the subject matter. The curriculum simply does not reflect your observation. Further the closer to college, the less parents have influence over curriculum.
One trouble is that news sources are no longer monolithic, and therefore folks don't know how to quantify objectivity and quality. Name any news source, and you're likely to find some sort of bent, depending upon who you are and where you come from...
It has been noted that Slashdot is a specialized/personal technical news source (for geeks!). It is a great place to get a smattering of all sorts of news going on out there, but if one considers the sorts of stories as being objective, well, they'd have to be daft. Slashdot is full of opinion pieces, entertainment pieces, news rumors, leaks and actual news stories, and then there's the political leanings of this place, and the way the stories are summarized, and the tendency to favor certain software rights models... etc...
I guess the question arises, exactly who decides what is a decent news source? Is it based upon popularity? Is there some sort of objectivity sensor that I'm unaware of? And what criteria would that broader, less specialized news content be based upon? Locality? Topicality? Banality? Frivolity?
There will always be an expectation for a more objective newssource, and more than enough nonobjective news sources claiming they're filling that gap, but as the audience and news provider communicate, the profit model and the desire to please one another for profit corrupts the whole.
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It's kinda sad that the first thing in the discussion of this study is the most simple-minded moronic solution one can come up with. Abolishing religion won't remove this human tendency. Essentially if you want to introduce ideas to a cultural group of any sort, you have to relate that idea to something they already believe. Belief is a necessary component to the acceptance of truth. It doesn't matter if its religious or even antireligious, the key to adoption will always be whether or not you can adapt your message to your audience. This is the problem with trite solutions like 'abolish religion' and religion haters. they are some of the least creative minds on the planet, because they fail to crystalize what they want and adapt it to those who might help them obtain it--instead religion (or politics, or those darn hillbillies in the mountains) is to blame and becomes a weak-minded scapegoat. Turns out that most of us want very similar things, but if you force us to have them--against what we believe--we push back.
So to you, death and the void is your god. You've put your faith in nothingness. Essentially you've created your own little death-cult. The fact that you claim this makes you happy, makes it a "happy shiny fun" death cult. And judging from your shared opinion, you put it out there like any other missionary for their religion.
Clearly Italians want what we all want: Automated Protect the Handicapped and the Children video services! This is really not that hard. Just have someone write a perl script that automatically detects any potentially offensive video before the video is posted. End of problem. Case closed. In carta diem di tutto! Done and done.
It's just a simple matter of software at this point.
The school district should have contacted the local authorities to retrieve the laptops. Even if they had no clue to whom they'd gone, they shouldn't turn them on remotely without some sort of court-ordered backup/warrant. Unfortunately some school administrators think of themselves as a "law unto themselves", are distrustful of parents and the kids they have the opportunity to tutor. This particular incident really stinks of some ulterior shennanigans... Either the administrators were very naieve (aka. stupid) or they aren't telling the truth about their true motives. With the drug accusation I wonder if there wasn't some sort of personal vendetta/entrapment going on here, where an administrator convinces himself that so-and-so is a 'bad egg' and makes it his life's quest to make the singled-out student pay...
I keep wondering if this won't open a whole new series of security exploits. Has Direct X been tested for cracker cooties?
Q. What's wrong with our country? A. The price to make you perfectly safe, six times over, is prohibitively expensive. This seems like a stupid approach to the issue. I mean, just how many engineers need to be hired to make you feel safe? And exactly how do they test all 200 million lines of code? If Toyota's engineers missed something like this, do you honestly think that the government is going to magically find it? It's not like Toyota engineers did this sort of thing on purpose. They made a mistake. It's now costing lives. That's killing Toyota too.
of course most people don't pay anything. they wait to be slapped on the hand because the issue is complicated and there's just enough leeway to claim ignorance. unless the GPL nazi's come knocking they coast...
O'Reilly "Learning X" (fill in X with your programming language of choice) are not "BIBLE"s. They're learning texts. For the real meat of the language, decent reference and altogether comprehensive understanding of life and the universe, you'd want to pick up O'Reilly "Programming X" books. So in this case, Programming Python would be a Bible, a book you return to again and again. The Programming series of books, for most experienced programmers is generally just as good a place to start learning the language, and you don't need the Learning series.
The motive to get rid of two years of highschool is enticing right now--especially to bankrupt state legislatures. This is all about cost-savings. In a way it makes sense. Universities have huge computer labs (compared to High schools) and fascilities for every speciality, yet, with a highschool in order to provide any sort of specific education requires a lot of money. Multiply that by how many highschools there are in a state (which greatly outnumbers the number of universities in the state) and presto! Instant reduction in operating costs for schools. No need to hire better teachers if the level of education remains remedial...
My highschool computer science training was abysmal. I still remember how liberating it was to get to go to university and take a class from an expert. I can see how, for students that are motivated and don't like the timewasting antics that much of highschool students engage in, this could be a good thing.
The nature of programming has changed. When 40+ year olds were going to college or studying, OOP was in its infancy, and even functional programming was more about clever algorithms on limited hardware, where optimization mattered, rather than programming interfaces and patching together APIs with a zillion features, connecting with some database somewhere else, etc.
I wanted a chart. What's with all this writing stuff? (shudder!) IT people don't read. If we wanted to read, we'd have girlfriends...
Darn, and I was hoping for something along the lines of Peewee Herman's BigTop adventures, with Jarjar the main character, constantly breaking the third wall to talk to a juvenile audience about toy endorsements, "Can yousa kids say to Mommy, "Meesaw want Jarjar action figures!" "
I've had my PC repaired and my windows copy invalidated because the motherboard was replaced. The solution: Call microsoft. They fixed it without any questions. No biggie. The "repair industry" really should know this trick, if they're worth their salt.
Unobtanium will never get to your desktop. It may however hover slightly above it.
Funny how this topic breeds anonymous coward trolls, and isn't it strangely coincidental that they're all of the same meme. Google is evil. US Government is a bad guy. China is a victim.
I'm sure it's only a coincidence.
I can't wait to see what my favorite cartoon characters are doing day to day, when they're not starring in films/television.
No matter how you look at this issue, it's really just putting rosed-colored glasses on a tough situation. Sure, scientists and such are clever and will try to figure out how to continue to expand the sciences, even without financial support systems of the past, but the demand in aeronautics will continue to diminish, fewer experts will get involved, and any incentives to stay will simply go away.
Of course I might be wrong, but honestly, if this philosophy really worked in governing bodies (the idea that you slash the budget to marginally operating ability, and suddenly you get better "products") then you should not expect record spending, but instead we should expect to see record budget slashing.
The truth is, there's no great plan, instead these cuts are politically motivated due to the demographics of states affected by this change. Of course that's a president's prerogative and presidents do political things. I just won't pretend it's good news for NASA or US space tech.
At least the research potential for such systems contributes to the nation's ability to develop high-speed rocket/radar and comm systems, and has the potential to keep jobs and expertise in the country. Compare that with a "job stimulus package" which is giving money to people for doing nothing, or something that should already be automated.
Outside of the fifth grade, when do public schools bother to teach grammar? So far, they haven't. My daughter's seventh grade class has been all about reading. They have certain expectations about writing, but the rules and intricacies of grammar are not part of the subject matter. The curriculum simply does not reflect your observation. Further the closer to college, the less parents have influence over curriculum.
Ha-ha!
One trouble is that news sources are no longer monolithic, and therefore folks don't know how to quantify objectivity and quality. Name any news source, and you're likely to find some sort of bent, depending upon who you are and where you come from... It has been noted that Slashdot is a specialized/personal technical news source (for geeks!). It is a great place to get a smattering of all sorts of news going on out there, but if one considers the sorts of stories as being objective, well, they'd have to be daft. Slashdot is full of opinion pieces, entertainment pieces, news rumors, leaks and actual news stories, and then there's the political leanings of this place, and the way the stories are summarized, and the tendency to favor certain software rights models... etc... I guess the question arises, exactly who decides what is a decent news source? Is it based upon popularity? Is there some sort of objectivity sensor that I'm unaware of? And what criteria would that broader, less specialized news content be based upon? Locality? Topicality? Banality? Frivolity? There will always be an expectation for a more objective newssource, and more than enough nonobjective news sources claiming they're filling that gap, but as the audience and news provider communicate, the profit model and the desire to please one another for profit corrupts the whole.
And the thousands of Nasa engineers will have a place to work... in India. See? It all works out for the best.
Don't let'em set up their own web server. They probably don't want the spacestation slashdotted...
Well this is Mars. There are a lot of them. Family Vacations on mars might be as exciting as driving through Nebraska.
"I spy with my little eye, something red."
"Is it... a rock?"
"Your turn."
(repeat ad nauseum)