Interestingly, the same topic was covered in the book Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explore the Hidden Side of Everything. One of the authors, Steven Levitt, developed some of the tools to find cheating teachers. One of the examples I from the book was to look for strings of correct answers that were statistically significant (where the teacher would have erased quite a few of a students answers, right or wrong, and put in all right answers).
What is there to feel good about? I feel ambivalent; one the one hand it is good to see a woman of iranian descent in space, and its good for iranians (and muslims and women) that look up to her. On the other hand, she is just another entrepreneur who paid her way up into space, how is that inspirational?
From TFA: "The challenge for Google is to remain different--which is part of its competitive advantage--while staying true to its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally, rather than selectively, accessible and useful.
Yeah, universally available to all those living outside of China.
I don't think you will need to worry about these products not being labelled. More likely, marketing companies will confuse the general populace by putting stickers with things such as "Super Organic!" etc on them. I hope that regulations have been drawn up to define exactly how and with what standards this lab-meat must be grown and that this can be communicated to the public so we all know what we are eating.
I'm not sure what dictionary that definition comes from, but its already somewhat outdated. Memes are fleeting, and if they do stick around they evolve and change. Can you imaging passing down "ALL YOUR BASE" to your kids? I hope not.
Who thinks up these things? Politicians, ofcourse. I live in Perth, and lately there has been a flap in the news that the massive convention centre that was built at taxpayers expense (on the beautiful perth foreshore, too) was a big waste of money because no one was using it. I think the state government is making a hard push in the southeast asian region for companies to attend at the GO3 Expo. The GO3 website says Perth is a gateway to Asia and Europe. Europe no way, but definitely Asia. From Perth, it is quicker to fly into Indonesia than fly to Sydney. So maybe it won't be too bad.
Traditionally we think of computers as things that are meant to make our lives easier and faster, giving us more time to do the things we really want to do (which for most of us is playing with computers!) In this case it appears that computers are benefitting us as consumers to the detriment of the company that has implemented the technology. How long will it be before this new 'technology' is only employed to give the illusion of efficiency, but in reality will keep us hovering around those impulse items for far longer than we should?
Grab your tinfoil hats, people, here it comes. Shopping habits of consumers could be analysed to determine who is more likely to impulse spend, and these consumers could be held at the checkout longer while the computer 'processes' the items that they wish to purchase. However, I suppose that when that becomes feasible, RFID chips will intercept our thoughts and send them to McDonalds anyway.
From TFA: "The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed at preventing strangers from contacting users younger than 16 'utterly ineffective'." And then this: "In May, after a series of e-mails and phone calls, he picked her up at school, took her out to eat and to a movie, then drove her to an apartment complex parking lot in South Austin, where he sexually assaulted her, police said. He was arrested May 19."
This suit is bogus, the claimants are going after who has the money. If the girl believed the guy to be much younger than he was based on his online profile, she obviously was not alarmed enough to brush him off upon meeting him. In fact, she spent several hours with him. The fact that this guy allegedly sexually assaulted her has absolutely nothing to do with MySpace at all.
I almost choked on my Mountain Dew when I read the parent! And now there's Cheetos everywhere, and I still haven't finished writing that payroll system in Microsoft Access.
What differentiates them from the rest is that they actually prepare very hard for it-- with actuve faculty and school encouragement
Maybe in preparing for the ACM contest they actually *gasp* learn something about CS. And it's great that they have school encouragement, we should only hope to see more encouragement out of the universities in America.
Most others just show up, expecting to have fun.
Bit of an unfair generalisation. I'm sure everyone tries hard to win. Nevertheless, the Russians and Chinese have been winning these contests of late and you shouldn't discredit them by (effectively) saying: "Us Americans didn't try".
Yeah, it's easy to phone someone up and organise some sort of activity, but with each new person who wants to join in on said activity the complexity grows. Try and get 10 people to reach a consensus on where to eat.. it can take a while! I can see the calendar as being a useful application.
I agree with parent, it *does* matter that you like what you do. But if you do or you don't, you will undoubtedly change careers at some point. I can't back this up with a reference, but I believe that on average, a person stays in one career (that's career, not job) for only seven years. My advice is to get in there, see how it fits and get some job experience. Oh, and about wether you will get a job.. I personally believe it comes down to personality. Coding may get outsourced to India, but creating and maintaining relationships with your clients won't.
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KDE is not entirely that productive. It can be, sure. But then again, so can anything. KDE has loads of useless apps, but you don't have to install them.
I am having the same problem with my HCF PCI internal modem, it simply won't be recognized. I agree that they aren't worth what they are made on and I now have to put up with an *old* modem or go and buy a new external modem.
All I can hope is that one day, somewhere, some place, on the box will be "Linux Compatible" or "Optimised for Linux". One can only hope.
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Interestingly, the same topic was covered in the book Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explore the Hidden Side of Everything. One of the authors, Steven Levitt, developed some of the tools to find cheating teachers. One of the examples I from the book was to look for strings of correct answers that were statistically significant (where the teacher would have erased quite a few of a students answers, right or wrong, and put in all right answers).
There's a flaw in Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs. Playing the PS3 is a "Peak Experience", putting it with Self Actualisation.
What is there to feel good about? I feel ambivalent; one the one hand it is good to see a woman of iranian descent in space, and its good for iranians (and muslims and women) that look up to her. On the other hand, she is just another entrepreneur who paid her way up into space, how is that inspirational?
From TFA: "The challenge for Google is to remain different--which is part of its competitive advantage--while staying true to its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally, rather than selectively, accessible and useful.
Yeah, universally available to all those living outside of China.
I don't think you will need to worry about these products not being labelled. More likely, marketing companies will confuse the general populace by putting stickers with things such as "Super Organic!" etc on them. I hope that regulations have been drawn up to define exactly how and with what standards this lab-meat must be grown and that this can be communicated to the public so we all know what we are eating.
I'm not sure what dictionary that definition comes from, but its already somewhat outdated. Memes are fleeting, and if they do stick around they evolve and change. Can you imaging passing down "ALL YOUR BASE" to your kids? I hope not.
Who thinks up these things? Politicians, ofcourse. I live in Perth, and lately there has been a flap in the news that the massive convention centre that was built at taxpayers expense (on the beautiful perth foreshore, too) was a big waste of money because no one was using it. I think the state government is making a hard push in the southeast asian region for companies to attend at the GO3 Expo. The GO3 website says Perth is a gateway to Asia and Europe. Europe no way, but definitely Asia. From Perth, it is quicker to fly into Indonesia than fly to Sydney. So maybe it won't be too bad.
Or if you haven't already, this: Was the 2004 Election Stolen? by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Traditionally we think of computers as things that are meant to make our lives easier and faster, giving us more time to do the things we really want to do (which for most of us is playing with computers!) In this case it appears that computers are benefitting us as consumers to the detriment of the company that has implemented the technology. How long will it be before this new 'technology' is only employed to give the illusion of efficiency, but in reality will keep us hovering around those impulse items for far longer than we should?
Grab your tinfoil hats, people, here it comes. Shopping habits of consumers could be analysed to determine who is more likely to impulse spend, and these consumers could be held at the checkout longer while the computer 'processes' the items that they wish to purchase. However, I suppose that when that becomes feasible, RFID chips will intercept our thoughts and send them to McDonalds anyway.
I'm only going to violate Rule 3.
From TFA: "The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed at preventing strangers from contacting users younger than 16 'utterly ineffective'." And then this: "In May, after a series of e-mails and phone calls, he picked her up at school, took her out to eat and to a movie, then drove her to an apartment complex parking lot in South Austin, where he sexually assaulted her, police said. He was arrested May 19."
This suit is bogus, the claimants are going after who has the money. If the girl believed the guy to be much younger than he was based on his online profile, she obviously was not alarmed enough to brush him off upon meeting him. In fact, she spent several hours with him. The fact that this guy allegedly sexually assaulted her has absolutely nothing to do with MySpace at all.
My suggestion .. Steve Bennet. Catchy, no?
I almost choked on my Mountain Dew when I read the parent! And now there's Cheetos everywhere, and I still haven't finished writing that payroll system in Microsoft Access.
I hear that they're still grappling with the udder matrix!
What differentiates them from the rest is that they actually prepare very hard for it-- with actuve faculty and school encouragement
Maybe in preparing for the ACM contest they actually *gasp* learn something about CS. And it's great that they have school encouragement, we should only hope to see more encouragement out of the universities in America.
Most others just show up, expecting to have fun.
Bit of an unfair generalisation. I'm sure everyone tries hard to win. Nevertheless, the Russians and Chinese have been winning these contests of late and you shouldn't discredit them by (effectively) saying: "Us Americans didn't try".
Yeah, it's easy to phone someone up and organise some sort of activity, but with each new person who wants to join in on said activity the complexity grows. Try and get 10 people to reach a consensus on where to eat .. it can take a while! I can see the calendar as being a useful application.
An even better solution is to sleep in your office and put your kids in a desk drawer .. a la the Japanese in Seinfeld.
Only purchased legally, ofcourse? Oh wait, theres no Zappa on iTunes.
What videos can you fit on a 1" screen. A slashdotter's penis?
I agree with parent, it *does* matter that you like what you do. But if you do or you don't, you will undoubtedly change careers at some point. I can't back this up with a reference, but I believe that on average, a person stays in one career (that's career, not job) for only seven years. My advice is to get in there, see how it fits and get some job experience. Oh, and about wether you will get a job .. I personally believe it comes down to personality. Coding may get outsourced to India, but creating and maintaining relationships with your clients won't.
KDE is not entirely that productive. It can be, sure. But then again, so can anything. KDE has loads of useless apps, but you don't have to install them.
I am having the same problem with my HCF PCI internal modem, it simply won't be recognized. I agree that they aren't worth what they are made on and I now have to put up with an *old* modem or go and buy a new external modem.
All I can hope is that one day, somewhere, some place, on the box will be "Linux Compatible" or "Optimised for Linux". One can only hope.