I would agree with you, being myself a mathematician who makes a living outside the field of research. However, I believe our long term security (oh yeah I'm 'mercan) is best served by common Joe and Jane Q. Public being able to understand the technology and science of the world around them. If we raise the math and science skills of the common American, the enlistees and officers of our armed forces are of better quality. The civilian leaders are of better quality. The guy behind the counter at 7-11 might even start to grok the metric system.
(IMHO)
"booth capturing." That's when thugs take over an entire polling station, tying up election officials while they stuff the ballot boxes with vote after vote for their favorite candidate.
There's a lesson for you. That doesn't happen anywhere in the United States. The worst that would happen here (the U.S.)? Thugs having been given a beating by angry voters standing in line for an hour.
They're completely different. The RIAA and a GPL holder are using the same tools (the courts), but defending completely unrelated "products", so to speak.
I was happily working on a project when my manager assigned two more people to the team, making us three in number.
I'm John, I've got it all figurted out and would have finished the product.
I now work with Bob. Bob talks too much. Always coming to me with silly questions and he never seems to quite "get it".
I also now work with Tom. Tom is never available, he never answers his phone, and I swear he's cutting out at three on Fridays.
I know you've been in this situation as well.
We're a network, which I'd hardly refer to as peer-ro-peer. Our bandwidth may not be comparable to the study, but the general theorem is the same.
I've been a Star Trek fan for 30 years, from the time I saw my first TOS episode on a grainy far-distant TV station when I was ten. I've supported every ST series since, giving them each enough time to mature (two seasons, usually.)
And then, better Sci Fi started showing up. Babylon Five, Farscape (what Star Trek TOS was really meant to be, by the way. Wagon Train To The Stars), and now the new Battlestar Galactica.
Star Trek jumped the phase-shifted multi-dimensional klingon shark. Let's all give it a grand wake and move on to new pastures.
remember: All good things...
Astronomer: Now, you see here, this empty spot on the map? Well, sir, that is the very first Dark Matter galaxy ever discovered.
Congressman(skeptical): Well, I dunno...I don't really see anything there.
Astronomer: Oh, one moment...let me circle it for you!
Congressman: Yes, yes I see it!
Astronomer: Now I was wondering, Congressman...how much additional funding might we get for this discovery?
Congressman: Hm. I'm not sure we have additional funds for such an admittedly amazing find. Now, if you had TWO dark matter galaxies, we'd have something to discuss.
Astronomer(uncapping pen): Funny you should mention that...
I can forsee at least one interesting outcome, should this technology become more than someone's thesis work. Instead of worrying about some outsourced help desk staffer's bad english...now you'd only have yourself to blame!
Entrepreneurial criminals? How about the geeks in 8th grade becoming the new hi-tech bullies of the 21st century? "Gimme your lunch money, kid. And your laptop too!"
When I was 14, on the very first day of my high school physics class, lesson number one was "there is no such thing as a free lunch." In other words, since that day I've known how to recognize a perpetual motion scam from a mile away.
I assume the quality if my education is no different than that of most other people.
Archeologists ten thousand years from now will wonder why the march of civilization ended in the twenty-first century. They really should be working on a STONE disk, don't you think?
Slashdot Mirror
Sweet!
One Shenanigan is equal to one hundred hijinks. How many shenanigans before it's a mischievous to-do?
So when it crashes, will my loved ones see the Blue Screen of the Afterlife?
I would agree with you, being myself a mathematician who makes a living outside the field of research. However, I believe our long term security (oh yeah I'm 'mercan) is best served by common Joe and Jane Q. Public being able to understand the technology and science of the world around them. If we raise the math and science skills of the common American, the enlistees and officers of our armed forces are of better quality. The civilian leaders are of better quality. The guy behind the counter at 7-11 might even start to grok the metric system. (IMHO)
...the finger nails YOU.
Bigger than your normal everyday "mischeveous" slash-dotting. They actually canned the page.
"booth capturing." That's when thugs take over an entire polling station, tying up election officials while they stuff the ballot boxes with vote after vote for their favorite candidate. There's a lesson for you. That doesn't happen anywhere in the United States. The worst that would happen here (the U.S.)? Thugs having been given a beating by angry voters standing in line for an hour.
GM is "only" cutting 25K jobs, not 125K.
They're completely different. The RIAA and a GPL holder are using the same tools (the courts), but defending completely unrelated "products", so to speak.
That movie sucked. I was praying there would never be something that reminded me of THAT movie. Except every time Tom Sizemore shows up in the news.
...but the catatonic state is free.
Yes indeed, black is out. Grey is the new black. So, I suspect he's actually proposing grey holes? Or is it all grey matter?
...the internet controls you
I, for one, welcome our glorious black hole overlords.
I was happily working on a project when my manager assigned two more people to the team, making us three in number. I'm John, I've got it all figurted out and would have finished the product. I now work with Bob. Bob talks too much. Always coming to me with silly questions and he never seems to quite "get it". I also now work with Tom. Tom is never available, he never answers his phone, and I swear he's cutting out at three on Fridays. I know you've been in this situation as well. We're a network, which I'd hardly refer to as peer-ro-peer. Our bandwidth may not be comparable to the study, but the general theorem is the same.
I've been a Star Trek fan for 30 years, from the time I saw my first TOS episode on a grainy far-distant TV station when I was ten. I've supported every ST series since, giving them each enough time to mature (two seasons, usually.) And then, better Sci Fi started showing up. Babylon Five, Farscape (what Star Trek TOS was really meant to be, by the way. Wagon Train To The Stars), and now the new Battlestar Galactica. Star Trek jumped the phase-shifted multi-dimensional klingon shark. Let's all give it a grand wake and move on to new pastures. remember: All good things...
Congressman (skeptical): Well, I dunno...I don't really see anything there.
Astronomer: Oh, one moment...let me circle it for you!
Congressman: Yes, yes I see it!
Astronomer: Now I was wondering, Congressman...how much additional funding might we get for this discovery?
Congressman: Hm. I'm not sure we have additional funds for such an admittedly amazing find. Now, if you had TWO dark matter galaxies, we'd have something to discuss.
Astronomer (uncapping pen): Funny you should mention that...
enough said
I can forsee at least one interesting outcome, should this technology become more than someone's thesis work. Instead of worrying about some outsourced help desk staffer's bad english...now you'd only have yourself to blame!
I will NOT make any jokes about fruits or Melon heads.
Entrepreneurial criminals? How about the geeks in 8th grade becoming the new hi-tech bullies of the 21st century? "Gimme your lunch money, kid. And your laptop too!"
That's the number of IT people left in the U.S. This law doesn't apply to outsourced positions.
They don't DRAW paychecks...they sell ad space and we are but mere eyeballs.
When I was 14, on the very first day of my high school physics class, lesson number one was "there is no such thing as a free lunch." In other words, since that day I've known how to recognize a perpetual motion scam from a mile away. I assume the quality if my education is no different than that of most other people.
Archeologists ten thousand years from now will wonder why the march of civilization ended in the twenty-first century. They really should be working on a STONE disk, don't you think?