Not true.p>
Heh, you can't start a post saying Not True and then proceed to agree. Maybe you're misunderstanding the German politcal system?
The nazi party actually legitimately aquired a majority in the Reichstag,
Yes, this is true. However, 'Aquired' as in 'had majority backing' and not 'had the majority of seats themselves'. In other words, a majorty of the Reichstag was content not to 'raise a vote-of-no-confidence'.
Canadians own more guns per capita than people from the US. Bring it on!
Norway owns even more guns pr capita (if you include assault rifles that is). On behalf of the Norwegian population I'd really, really like you to stay away though.
Next step is to draft and enact a law making it a criminal offence not to lock your door. Won't take long 'till the whole family is gathered, together again, in prison/workcamp. It'll be fun!
Birds are too stupid to avoid a large group of spinning windmills
Ahh. Let's play a game. It's called, 'spot the guy who haven't kept birds'.
Seriously, If there is a limit to stupidity, birds are pretty close to it. There is nothing too stupid for a bird to do. Ever.
The vibrations will confuse whales!"
Whales are food; when they're confused they easily scratch themselves on sharp fish, and their meat won't be as tender. As such, this actually is a valid concern, and I really don't take lightly to your attempt at trivializing it. I will accept your apology.
If you have to disable traction control in order to actually get anywhere (apart from driveways and extremely special cases), you've got so little basic grip you probably should either leave your car or fix it:)
I think the extremely short, general format for doing business is something like:
1. Agree to terms.
2. Stick to terms.
Now, bandwidth-shaping, artificial limits etc are here to stay? Fine, then include it in the deal. Don't advertise Unlimited Internet Access, when you're providing crippled, mangled occasional Internet Access.
Anything less is dishonest, sleezy and, depending on the specific contract and the specific country, downright illegal.
In fact, I place the 'oohh, but we'd die without it so we have to' argument in the same retarded spoilt-ass can't-see-beyond-your-own-nose stupid category as 'but I like downloading free music!' (I atleast acknowledge that what I'm doing is illegal though). If you need it, pay up! Set up the terms, and make an agreement. That's how society works.
Buying a bottle of whisky at the nearest liquer store doesn't give me the right to refill it after it's empty... pretty much regardless of how much I needed it to stay drunk. Reality doesn't conform to our needs. It sucks, but so does life:
Whatever, you're just bitter that your country is nowhere to be found on the list.
My country is 1/3 the size of Moscow. I'm not especially worried about being on this list.
If anything the education was too broad
Well, there is a large difference in the variety of subjects and the methology. I don't doubt there is greit variety, however; my personal experience, which may have been very skewed due to only being in University and only meeting a limited amount of people, was that the general methology was 'This is an assigment, this is how to solve it, now go home and do this 50 times 'till you know it'.. which ultimatetly, you don't learn very much from (except for being ridicously good at using that one specific algorithm or whatever).
Hi, Hyfe, you might be very, very cautious about making overbroad comments.
Well, MGU is the most prestigous University in Russia. I can judge what I saw there. I'll give you that I might just have been unlucky with the students I met, but I seriously wasn't impressed. Obviously, I know nothing of the other universities, but based on my experiences with MGU, I can, and will, advice caution.
To be more specific; What I can say is;
The computer students I met there learnt *everything* volunteraly outside of class. They generally seemed competent.
The economics students were toss. Seriously. I cannot begin to describe it. I met several, and tried discussing with them. This is probably partly due to a much lower general awareness of politics and economics (not that I blame them, 70 years of disagreement being fatal *will* affect a society)
I spoke better English than the Language students. I wrote better English than the English teachers.
I did not spend much time with Math/Physics students though.
Either way, everybody seemed always to be busy studying for some test.. as such, it was really intensive, hard work, lots of stuff to deliver; but the stuff they had to deliver never actually made much sense. Old teaching materials, extremely conservative teachers, a 'I know best'-attitude combined with a general irresponsibility among many of the students does not combine well. The stories some of the girls told me about how people acted during lectures frankly scared me. Guys there seemed to grow up/mature later than over here.
The large Dom Knigi on Novy Arbat, (right next to the Norwegian Embassy if you have a tourist guide, I might be mistaking the streetname), had the largest selection of English book I could find. Never checked out computer books though.
Yeah, dude, I know why it was "appaling". Because you couldn't handle studying there, that's why.
Moscow didn't impress me no.
You fucking WILL learn linear algebra, physics, differential calculus, discrete mathematics, etc., whether you like it or not.
I know Linear Algebra, Differential Calculus, Discrete mathematics.. Physics is a weak spot though (relativly, took the courses, got bad grades and deserved them).. I finished my Master Thesis in Computer Science. Seriously, I know my shit. I met some really bright, impressive people there... and *alot* of fucking stupid ones.
Russian schools that is easily on par with _any_ Western college or university for which here in the US you'd be paying
Top students, sure; I think you're right. Average student; hell no! Might have been different back in the days, but nowadays they're basically lazy, incompetent ****s.
Agreed, my post really was borderline trolling. Article wasn't about the state of Russian Universities.
Well, the fact that you seem to be thinking my first language is English is a tribute to our Education System:). Optimalization was a direct translation of 'Optimalisering' which is the Norwegian word.
Urg, first reply missed my closing statement to parent.
In the end, I guess I, just like everybody else, am impressed by stuff I'm bad at, while the stuff I actually have talent won't seem as magical. Sure people are better than me, but they're not *that* better.
If you get the right algorithm, the problems can typically be solved in well under the time limit without doing anything fancy. If you do the naive thing, no amount of constant-factor optimization will allow the thing to finish before the universe ends.
Well, to be frank; if you're reasonably not-stupid, finding an algorithm that scales well shouldn't be a problem (alot of people seem to be reasonably stupid though.. a lot of people who really ought to know better). Sure, it'll take time, and actually implementing it without messing up will take more time, but esriously; we're not webmonkeys, we know what we're doing
Anyways, when saying constant-factor optimalization won't help, you're overlooking one very important real-world factor. The difference between accessing memory and disk-cache. Even with a small'ish dataset of 100-200MB you can run into serious memory-usage problems with a careless implementation. And caching really, really hurts, especially if you're using Linux (Windows' caching seem to be alot more agressive, kicks in earlier but handles peaks alot gracefuller. Linux tend to just plain become unusable.. I guess it's the difference between a caching system designed and optimized for single-user single-machine and the clean, simple'ish used on Linux).
1. Anybody managed to find the actual test questions? It's always interesting to see how advanced these are. Most of the time, I'm really not impressed by the complexity of the assignments, although the optimalization work done by the teams can be pretty 'way-better-than-anything-I-could-ever-do".
2. If you ever see Russian State Universities at the top of anything, be very, very cautious. I studied at MGU (Moscow State University) for a little while, and it was frankly appaling. They were taught extremely specific skillsets, they knew exactly what they would be tested in in advance of tests and didn't study *anything* else. It was like a game of 'getting through Uni without learning *anything*' which outranked anything I've ever seen back home (or heard of in the US). The methology probably lends itself well to predefined, known tests, but it produces practically useless students.
(To be fair, here back home, the ones who really learn something are the ones with a real interest in the subject, and they learn most of it outside class. There were really bright people at MGU too. It was the mindnumbingly staggering uselessness of the average student there which amazed me. It was supposed to be a "Top University".. oh, and you had to bring your own toiletpaper if you wanted to take a dump:)
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Hey, if somebody poured hot coffee in my ass, I'd sure as hell wake up alot faster than if I just drank it, but as you said, each to their own.
They are in the US. They're not here in Norway.
I'll take Socialism and Civil Rights over the right to be fucked over any day.
Although it seemed to end kinda abruptly with the "Read the rest of this comment..."-sentence though.
Yes, this is true. However, 'Aquired' as in 'had majority backing' and not 'had the majority of seats themselves'. In other words, a majorty of the Reichstag was content not to 'raise a vote-of-no-confidence'.
"I meet so many people daily, it's inevitable that I rape/kill one or two."
Just paraphrasing your logic abit. Apologism is bad, mkay?
There is a difference?! How can you tell?
Norway owns even more guns pr capita (if you include assault rifles that is). On behalf of the Norwegian population I'd really, really like you to stay away though.
The sequel wasn't worthwhile.
Speak for yourself. The worship of 'winners' and the extreme focus on being 'the best' is an American phenomen.
Atleast, here in Scandinavia we're on the complete opposite side of the spectrum; mostly everybody are pretty proud of celebrating mediocrasy.
Next step is to draft and enact a law making it a criminal offence not to lock your door. Won't take long 'till the whole family is gathered, together again, in prison/workcamp. It'll be fun!
Ahh. Let's play a game. It's called, 'spot the guy who haven't kept birds'.
Seriously, If there is a limit to stupidity, birds are pretty close to it. There is nothing too stupid for a bird to do. Ever.
The vibrations will confuse whales!"
Whales are food; when they're confused they easily scratch themselves on sharp fish, and their meat won't be as tender. As such, this actually is a valid concern, and I really don't take lightly to your attempt at trivializing it.
I will accept your apology.
The tricky part is getting the fire off your hands and somewhere else. :)
If you have to disable traction control in order to actually get anywhere (apart from driveways and extremely special cases), you've got so little basic grip you probably should either leave your car or fix it :)
1. Agree to terms.
2. Stick to terms.
Now, bandwidth-shaping, artificial limits etc are here to stay? Fine, then include it in the deal. Don't advertise Unlimited Internet Access, when you're providing crippled, mangled occasional Internet Access.
Anything less is dishonest, sleezy and, depending on the specific contract and the specific country, downright illegal.
In fact, I place the 'oohh, but we'd die without it so we have to' argument in the same retarded spoilt-ass can't-see-beyond-your-own-nose stupid category as 'but I like downloading free music!' (I atleast acknowledge that what I'm doing is illegal though). If you need it, pay up! Set up the terms, and make an agreement. That's how society works.
Buying a bottle of whisky at the nearest liquer store doesn't give me the right to refill it after it's empty... pretty much regardless of how much I needed it to stay drunk. Reality doesn't conform to our needs. It sucks, but so does life:
1. Agree to terms.
2. Stick to Terms.
My country is 1/3 the size of Moscow. I'm not especially worried about being on this list.
If anything the education was too broad
Well, there is a large difference in the variety of subjects and the methology. I don't doubt there is greit variety, however; my personal experience, which may have been very skewed due to only being in University and only meeting a limited amount of people, was that the general methology was 'This is an assigment, this is how to solve it, now go home and do this 50 times 'till you know it'.. which ultimatetly, you don't learn very much from (except for being ridicously good at using that one specific algorithm or whatever).
Well, MGU is the most prestigous University in Russia. I can judge what I saw there. I'll give you that I might just have been unlucky with the students I met, but I seriously wasn't impressed. Obviously, I know nothing of the other universities, but based on my experiences with MGU, I can, and will, advice caution.
To be more specific; What I can say is;
The computer students I met there learnt *everything* volunteraly outside of class. They generally seemed competent.
The economics students were toss. Seriously. I cannot begin to describe it. I met several, and tried discussing with them. This is probably partly due to a much lower general awareness of politics and economics (not that I blame them, 70 years of disagreement being fatal *will* affect a society)
I spoke better English than the Language students. I wrote better English than the English teachers.
I did not spend much time with Math/Physics students though.
Either way, everybody seemed always to be busy studying for some test.. as such, it was really intensive, hard work, lots of stuff to deliver; but the stuff they had to deliver never actually made much sense. Old teaching materials, extremely conservative teachers, a 'I know best'-attitude combined with a general irresponsibility among many of the students does not combine well. The stories some of the girls told me about how people acted during lectures frankly scared me. Guys there seemed to grow up/mature later than over here.
The large Dom Knigi on Novy Arbat, (right next to the Norwegian Embassy if you have a tourist guide, I might be mistaking the streetname), had the largest selection of English book I could find. Never checked out computer books though.
Moscow didn't impress me no.
You fucking WILL learn linear algebra, physics, differential calculus, discrete mathematics, etc., whether you like it or not.
I know Linear Algebra, Differential Calculus, Discrete mathematics.. Physics is a weak spot though (relativly, took the courses, got bad grades and deserved them).. I finished my Master Thesis in Computer Science. Seriously, I know my shit. I met some really bright, impressive people there... and *alot* of fucking stupid ones.
Russian schools that is easily on par with _any_ Western college or university for which here in the US you'd be paying
Top students, sure; I think you're right. Average student; hell no! Might have been different back in the days, but nowadays they're basically lazy, incompetent ****s.Oh, and in Norway we have free education :)
Well, the fact that you seem to be thinking my first language is English is a tribute to our Education System :). Optimalization was a direct translation of 'Optimalisering' which is the Norwegian word.
In the end, I guess I, just like everybody else, am impressed by stuff I'm bad at, while the stuff I actually have talent won't seem as magical. Sure people are better than me, but they're not *that* better.
Well, to be frank; if you're reasonably not-stupid, finding an algorithm that scales well shouldn't be a problem (alot of people seem to be reasonably stupid though.. a lot of people who really ought to know better). Sure, it'll take time, and actually implementing it without messing up will take more time, but esriously; we're not webmonkeys, we know what we're doing
Anyways, when saying constant-factor optimalization won't help, you're overlooking one very important real-world factor. The difference between accessing memory and disk-cache. Even with a small'ish dataset of 100-200MB you can run into serious memory-usage problems with a careless implementation. And caching really, really hurts, especially if you're using Linux (Windows' caching seem to be alot more agressive, kicks in earlier but handles peaks alot gracefuller. Linux tend to just plain become unusable .. I guess it's the difference between a caching system designed and optimized for single-user single-machine and the clean, simple'ish used on Linux).
It's always interesting to see how advanced these are. Most of the time, I'm really not impressed by the complexity of the assignments, although the optimalization work done by the teams can be pretty 'way-better-than-anything-I-could-ever-do".
2. If you ever see Russian State Universities at the top of anything, be very, very cautious. I studied at MGU (Moscow State University) for a little while, and it was frankly appaling. They were taught extremely specific skillsets, they knew exactly what they would be tested in in advance of tests and didn't study *anything* else. It was like a game of 'getting through Uni without learning *anything*' which outranked anything I've ever seen back home (or heard of in the US). The methology probably lends itself well to predefined, known tests, but it produces practically useless students.
(To be fair, here back home, the ones who really learn something are the ones with a real interest in the subject, and they learn most of it outside class. There were really bright people at MGU too. It was the mindnumbingly staggering uselessness of the average student there which amazed me. It was supposed to be a "Top University".. oh, and you had to bring your own toiletpaper if you wanted to take a dump :)
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/dinoriki/phliez/wor k-well-together.html
You are entirely correct. Microsoft are criminals. I don't think there is any doubt over this.
The only fundemental difference is who's getting the share the loot