Explain how people learning math would put the lottery out of business. People are gambling for an adrenaline rush, not to satisfy some mathematical equation. Guess what, some people posion their bodies with alcohol on occasion to enjoy the side effects. Some of them even have extensive education in biology and medicine.
There is now so much data, researchers cannot keep it all.' One researcher says, 'We are going to have to come up with really clever ways to throw away data so we can see new stuff.'"
Perhaps they can come up with a new type of storage mechanism modeled after nature. They could store this data in tight helical structures and instead of base 2 use base 4.
It is likely far more efficient to do the sorting by machine than to have every single person spend time every day sorting it themselves.
I live in an apartment complex with one large recycling bin for everyone.
Things that "rot" I put in a garbage bag and throw out each day. Everything else goes into a pile which ends up in the recycling bin at the end of the week. I may or may not be trying to recycle the correct things but no one has said anything yet. I even put old clothes in there. The "homeless" people always pick through the recycle bin first so it's probably better than directly putting it in the garbage.
It's bad because Liberty is an unalienable right, and the government has no business deciding what you should study.
Feel free to read and study whatever you feel like in your free time. If you want the government to flip the bill for your non-revenue generating hobbies then I can see the issue.
But I hope they don't cancel those classes on Internet Porn Surfing, at least not while I'm only a year away from my Ph.D.
Extreme competition ruins a lot of sports and athletes. The experience and the joy of training/playing is lost and replaced by this constant stress to fare better than others.
It isn't just psychological, there can be long-term physical damage. Gymnasts often experience wrist and ankle issues from over training.
“Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters"
If the number of engineers has decreased and the teaching methods have been a constant...
Seems like the problem is somewhere else in the equation.
Investment adviser (at a bank): - job consists of picking 1 of 7 possible bank created portfolios to put their clients money into - gets to keep their job and bonuses regardless of the portfolio outcome - works bankers hours - doesn't get called in after hours or have to stay on call for emergencies
Engineer: - job consists of far more stressful work than picking a number between 1 and 7 - career flounders if projects (even ones with unrealistic deadlines) slip - works overtime (without overtime pay) - constantly on call - gets paid less than the investment advisers (after bonuses)
Great for the pay but lousy for the advancement of humanity. Additionally most stopped being free thinkers as they found cliques they'd like to be a part of, and slowly faded into irrelevance.
Maybe it's different elsewhere, but it seems like a disturbing downward trend to me.
Not everyone has the dedication and discipline for purely altruistic endeavors such as.. trolling the internet and posting flamebait, but kudos to you.
So open the joker up an desolder the antenna. I bet a business could make good money supplying modified for this sort of use Xboxes and updates via usb.
Prisoners may not be smart but they do have a lot of time on their hands. These people make cross-bows out of paper, saliva and pencils so I'm fairly certain they could figure out how to resolder an antenna.
And don't forget about RPO. If you want synchronous file replication over any useful distance we're talking $$$. If asynchronous is acceptable then decide what an acceptable RPO is, along with your data change rate. With those you can decide if you can afford offsite replication. Most business decide nightly tapes are acceptable at that point.
Parent currently is marked as "0" but is dead on. His opening statement talks about a data loss (x2), is "very paranoid about data loss" and his closing remarks talk about "ease of recovery". Your statements suggest you are primarily concerned about data loss.
Clustered filesystems are complex software that specialize in concurrent server access, not increased redundancy.
You need to research backups and/or remote replication. Or buy an enterprise file server that does everything including call-home when it detects a hardware issue.. not waste time on a CFS.
So what happens to the animals that eat them and that aren't immune to the PCB?
Much like how Sharks are resistant to cancer and eating their fins will "transfer the ability to you"; so will eating Killifish transfer PCB immunity to you.
Killifish will now become a high priced delicacy in China. Or as we like to call it, operation payback.
Suppose I know some amount (X) of C now (Just out of college)
Will that be less valuable after having 2 years experience in the field?
School related C skills without work experience... no... it won't be worth less in 2 years. It will be worth exactly the same... which is diddly.
Only the 2 years field experience will mean anything when you apply for another job. And that field experience will decline... usually because a great deal of knowledge around programming is not about knowing the language but the framework, modules and libraries your project uses. And those are continually changing.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software available for download, only the research paper.
The release is delayed because the software is limited to only a few useful objects at the moment: Buddha Statue, Dragon Statue, Pool Table and Dead Hooker.
Then steer them towards jobs in high finance and save them a life of grief
You're not from Greece, right?
It's not the people in high finance that are going to get the hardest shafting in Greece, I assure you.
Take portfolio managers for example. What other job can you lose boat loads of money, not hit your target and STILL take home a bonus? That would NEVER happen in any field of computing.
"Four top executives of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board pocketed nearly $7 million in bonuses this year despite losing $24 billion of taxpayers' money in bad investments, according to the board's annual report released yesterday." http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/642330
I got drawn (without my intention) into three 20 minute sessions, talking to high school students about computer science and programming, and am wondering what are some of the things I should talk to them about?
Warn them that a career in almost any area of computing science will be high stress, high workload and have few long term options as they age. Apologize on behalf of society for a system that doesn't value real work and instead tell them to think of their future and what makes most sense. Then steer them towards jobs in high finance and save them a life of grief.
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Explain how people learning math would put the lottery out of business. People are gambling for an adrenaline rush, not to satisfy some mathematical equation. Guess what, some people posion their bodies with alcohol on occasion to enjoy the side effects. Some of them even have extensive education in biology and medicine.
People who drink alcohol live longer than people who don't. It's a fact: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2017200,00.html
And this this study includes heavy drinkers that pull down the average life span of general alcohol consumers...
We're gonna have flying cars 'within the next 15-30 years'
Technically the batteries will last 10 years, it just has an aggressive sleep mode!
It goes to sleep after 0.5-0.75s of no activity and takes 2-3 seconds to wake up again :)
If they're 0.000000312 kilometers per hour how fast is that "scale speed"? If they were the size of a car, how fast would they be traveling?
If a "Adult bone marrow stem cells" is ~ 25 microns = 25E-6m
http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about154.html?hilit=Stromal
If an average car is 4.12m
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_length_of_a_car
Then 4.12/25E-6=x/(0.000000312km/h)
x=0.0514176km/h
I don't condone piracy but I can understand it.
Yeah, well... I condone quantum mechanics, but I don't understand it.
There is now so much data, researchers cannot keep it all.' One researcher says, 'We are going to have to come up with really clever ways to throw away data so we can see new stuff.'"
Perhaps they can come up with a new type of storage mechanism modeled after nature. They could store this data in tight helical structures and instead of base 2 use base 4.
>Really? Come on; how lazy can you get?
It is likely far more efficient to do the sorting by machine than to have every single person spend time every day sorting it themselves.
I live in an apartment complex with one large recycling bin for everyone.
Things that "rot" I put in a garbage bag and throw out each day. Everything else goes into a pile which ends up in the recycling bin at the end of the week. I may or may not be trying to recycle the correct things but no one has said anything yet. I even put old clothes in there. The "homeless" people always pick through the recycle bin first so it's probably better than directly putting it in the garbage.
"Whatever doesn't kill us, makes us stronger..."
It's bad because Liberty is an unalienable right, and the government has no business deciding what you should study.
Feel free to read and study whatever you feel like in your free time. If you want the government to flip the bill for your non-revenue generating hobbies then I can see the issue.
But I hope they don't cancel those classes on Internet Porn Surfing, at least not while I'm only a year away from my Ph.D.
Thanks for the sanity.
Extreme competition ruins a lot of sports and athletes. The experience and the joy of training/playing is lost and replaced by this constant stress to fare better than others.
It isn't just psychological, there can be long-term physical damage. Gymnasts often experience wrist and ankle issues from over training.
“Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girls_in_Pretty_Boxes
Right after getting it, one of my nieces threw it back at me, calling it useless, and then she called me a "nerd ass faggot".
Wait, wait, wait...
Did your niece call you a "nerd-ass faggot"... or a "nerd ass-faggot", because the hyphen really changes the dynamics of the entire story :)
http://xkcd.com/37/
Dividends are not growth.
Learn stock basics.
--
BMO
Where I live (and report income), dividends are taxed at a lower rate than capital gains.
So, comparing apples to apples, you are better off getting the same return in the form of dividends.
If the number of engineers has decreased and the teaching methods have been a constant ...
Seems like the problem is somewhere else in the equation.
Investment adviser (at a bank):
- job consists of picking 1 of 7 possible bank created portfolios to put their clients money into
- gets to keep their job and bonuses regardless of the portfolio outcome
- works bankers hours
- doesn't get called in after hours or have to stay on call for emergencies
Engineer:
- job consists of far more stressful work than picking a number between 1 and 7
- career flounders if projects (even ones with unrealistic deadlines) slip
- works overtime (without overtime pay)
- constantly on call
- gets paid less than the investment advisers (after bonuses)
Funny. A belt is child abuse these days. In my day, that was considered 'punishment' for fucking up.
If this was his adopted "black" daughter would it change how this event was viewed?
Summary isn't 100% clear and I'm too lazy to actually read the article, but which statement is accurate:
"compiles 'directly' to Java byte-code"
"compiles to Java source code"
"StreetScooter", great name for a product... that isn't a scooter.
Plus, there is no way a search for StreetScooter could return ambiguous results.
http://vimeo.com/28929146
Great for the pay but lousy for the advancement of humanity. Additionally most stopped being free thinkers as they found cliques they'd like to be a part of, and slowly faded into irrelevance.
Maybe it's different elsewhere, but it seems like a disturbing downward trend to me.
Not everyone has the dedication and discipline for purely altruistic endeavors such as.. trolling the internet and posting flamebait, but kudos to you.
So open the joker up an desolder the antenna. I bet a business could make good money supplying modified for this sort of use Xboxes and updates via usb.
Prisoners may not be smart but they do have a lot of time on their hands. These people make cross-bows out of paper, saliva and pencils so I'm fairly certain they could figure out how to resolder an antenna.
http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/10/insane-prisoner-inventions-24-diy-prison-tools-weapons/
Except when they do support redundancy:
http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Creating_Replicated_Volumes - Replicated volumes replicate files throughout the bricks in the volume. You can use replicated volumes in environments where high-availability and high-reliability are critical.
RAID is still NOT A BACKUP!
I have a 500 node replicated filesystem... and I just overwrote the wrong file, or a virus infected a file, or the file got corrupted...
The good news is my 500 replicated nodes are all consistent. The bad news is... wheres my fucking file!
And don't forget about RPO. If you want synchronous file replication over any useful distance we're talking $$$. If asynchronous is acceptable then decide what an acceptable RPO is, along with your data change rate. With those you can decide if you can afford offsite replication. Most business decide nightly tapes are acceptable at that point.
Parent currently is marked as "0" but is dead on. His opening statement talks about a data loss (x2), is "very paranoid about data loss" and his closing remarks talk about "ease of recovery". Your statements suggest you are primarily concerned about data loss.
Clustered filesystems are complex software that specialize in concurrent server access, not increased redundancy.
You need to research backups and/or remote replication. Or buy an enterprise file server that does everything including call-home when it detects a hardware issue.. not waste time on a CFS.
So what happens to the animals that eat them and that aren't immune to the PCB?
Much like how Sharks are resistant to cancer and eating their fins will "transfer the ability to you"; so will eating Killifish transfer PCB immunity to you.
Killifish will now become a high priced delicacy in China. Or as we like to call it, operation payback.
Suppose I know some amount (X) of C now (Just out of college)
Will that be less valuable after having 2 years experience in the field?
School related C skills without work experience... no... it won't be worth less in 2 years. It will be worth exactly the same... which is diddly.
Only the 2 years field experience will mean anything when you apply for another job. And that field experience will decline... usually because a great deal of knowledge around programming is not about knowing the language but the framework, modules and libraries your project uses. And those are continually changing.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software available for download, only the research paper.
The release is delayed because the software is limited to only a few useful objects at the moment: Buddha Statue, Dragon Statue, Pool Table and Dead Hooker.
Then steer them towards jobs in high finance and save them a life of grief
You're not from Greece, right?
It's not the people in high finance that are going to get the hardest shafting in Greece, I assure you.
Take portfolio managers for example. What other job can you lose boat loads of money, not hit your target and STILL take home a bonus?
That would NEVER happen in any field of computing.
"Four top executives of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board pocketed nearly $7 million in bonuses this year despite losing $24 billion of taxpayers' money in bad investments, according to the board's annual report released yesterday."
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/642330
I got drawn (without my intention) into three 20 minute sessions, talking to high school students about computer science and programming, and am wondering what are some of the things I should talk to them about?
Warn them that a career in almost any area of computing science will be high stress, high workload and have few long term options as they age. Apologize on behalf of society for a system that doesn't value real work and instead tell them to think of their future and what makes most sense. Then steer them towards jobs in high finance and save them a life of grief.