Very true. The best teachers I ever had in college (engineering) had real world experience. I think it is actually the best kind of career to have after you work in industry for about 20 to 30 years. You don't have to work too hard when your body is older and can't take as much stress. Both you and the people you teach are much better off for it.
He [Mr. Smith] said he was "reluctantly" considering taking legal action against Google, which could involve his family trust selling shares in the group to fund the claim.
"I feel it is up to me as the founder and the major shareholder. We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said. "We're confident that we have the funding available to us and we're girding our loins," he said.
As much as they may have a case, I always find the "we don't want to, but they are forcing us" argument funny. Not because of the company itself, but because I can imagine some IP lawyers saying, "Yesss! They are being forccced to! Hisss!" as their forked tongues flick from their mouths and they rub thier greedy paws together with reptilian glint in their eyes.
For crying out loud, I was just making a frigging joke! Jeez, it looks like the mods are not on the right pills. Perhaps we should execute their trainer:-).
Yes, this is why our troops are still there. Because Iraq does not have a top-level Internet domain. Why, oh why, don't they have a top-level Internet domain? Is clean water really that important?
I'm glad to see some governments looking the Napoleon of Redmond and his Igor-ish CEO right in the face and telling them what's what.
Gates: Throw the first switch!
Balmer: Yes, Master!
[Balmer throws first switch. lightning, crackle, boom]
Gates: Throw the second switch!
Balmer: Not the second switch!
Gates: Throw it I say!
[Balmer throws second switch. lightning, crackle, boom]
Gates: It's alive! Alive!
Balmer: No, master, it's the Blue Screen of Death.
Gates: Igor, I need to ask you something.
Balmer: Yes, master.
Gates: That programmer you sent me. It wasn't the programmer I asked for was it?
Balmer: You won't be angry.
Gates: I will NOT be angry.
Balmer: Uh, no. It wasn't.
Gates: Ah! Now, what programmer did you send me?
Balmer: Abby somebody.
Gates: Abby somebody? Abby who?
Balmer: Abby normal.
Gates: So, you let an abnormal programmer put code in my 500MB operating system! [chokes Balmer, Balmer eyes bulge out]
Either that or when I just barely limp my way to the first mile on my bicycle, some crazed soccer mom is going to run me over in her oversized monstrosity.
This is the same reason I don't ride a bike to the subway, even though it is only about 4km away. There are main highways that I have to cross and most of the people driving SUVs drive like complete imbeciles. I would love to be able to bike to the subway, but I'll get killed trying in not too long.
As an aside, I could never understand why anyone likes SUV's. They certainly make sense if you actually need one. However, for everyone else, if you are going to spend so much damn money on a vehicle (and the extra money on the gas it takes to fill it up), why not buy a classy car, like a BMW or a SAAB? You know, one that has some actual freakin' style instead of one of those ugly monstrosities. SUV's are not only unnecessary for most people, but they show horrifically poor taste.
"It was a hot day in Brno and I was hoping to take the day off. I looked out the smudged window of my sixth-story office holding my two best friends in my hands. The first is my.9 mm, I keep it loaded. The other is a bottle of vodka. It keeps me loaded.
Yep, it was just another boring day until a client showed up. He was all boo-hooing over something that was after his business and acting all irrational, but then clients are like that. It seems some computer virus was out to get his software and I needed this mess like I needed a Windows upgrade. Which made sense in its own twisted sort of way. You see, the client was Bill Gates.
I'm Peter Fifka, and I'm a Private Internet Investigator."
Isn't this why O'Reilly on FOX wants ACLU declared an anti-american "terrorist organization" or something to that effect?
Well, that and screaming, "Shut up! You shut up!" to guests who are able to make decent points against his raving. The sad thing is that he is probably the sanest talking head on FAUX News.
There's six billion objects with natural intelligence that we let wander around with no supervision or real control.
Have you even met any of these six billion objects? They are completely out of their so-called "minds"! They roam free and kill each other off, befoul their own nests, and then create more of their type of objects than their pathetic little planet can sustain!
Oh, and if you are not with the invasion fleet, I didn't say anything. This is not the message you are looking for.
Bar codes are often used to track documents and forms in large companies, organizations, government agencies, and so on. I don't think placing a RFID chip on every sheet of paper that has to be tracked is a practical solution, to say the least. RFID is great for bulky things and will no doubt replace the bar code for tracking packages, shipments, and things placed on top of other things, but I this is hardly the death of bar codes.
I'm not saying that it can't. And yes, I know of Lysenko and also of Deutsche Physik. Politicized "science" is what creationism (or its current variant known as Intelligent Design) is. You get politicized science when a radical ideology takes over and does not allow any kind of dissent, dissenting views being essential to good scientific practice. Intelligent Design/creationism could be a seriously considered dissenting scientific viewpoint if it actually followed the scientific method and was independently verifiable and falsifiable. It is none of these.
Current evolutionary biology is open to new ideas, which is demonstrated whenever archeologists and biologists uncover something unexpected. Other branches, such as physics, are also like this. The well-worn example is Einstein's relativity. One of the many logical results of relativity is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. This naturally displeases a lot of people who are optimistic about the human race colonizing distant stars. You even get arrogant freshmen (are there any other kind?:-p) that believe they have "proved" that SR is wrong, and it is usually the same predictable misunderstanding of SR.
In any event, evolutionary biology is only offensive to fundamentalists who have an absurdly literalistic interpretation of the Bible. It is not only unscientific, it is not even good theology.
Your point is understood, but I only mentioned a sampling of the courses that I personally took in college. However, I don't see what is particularly left-wing about biology. Biology courses simply teach what is currently understood in the biological sciences. Just because some modern-day fundamentalists have a problem with basic science does not make biology classes left-wing or political in any way. Furthermore, Intelligent Design as it is put forth now cannot in the least be considered science. The main reason is because it is not falsifiable and it makes no independently verifiable predictions. This is basically because Intelligent Design is simply a repackaging of young earth creationism so that it is more politically feasible to force a particular religious viewpoint (held only by a small but loud minority of Christians, let alone the general population) on the public school systems.
If some sort of Intelligent Design were to become a science, it would need to be able to make independently verifiable and falsifiable predictions. The key hypothesis, of course, is that there is some sort of intelligence directing the creation of life on Earth. There would be many different related hypotheses (to use the proper scientific term). One would be that all life was created as it is, which basic biological evolution would rule out, unless someone can conclusively demonstrate that evolution did not produce the initial variety of life, but only functions after that initial creation (there being no life before a creation that can evolve). A second, and stronger one, would be an intelligent hand in the evolution of life. Certain results would be expected that could demonstrate an intelligent hand versus simple non-intelligent evolution. And I am sure if you wrack your brain you could think of some others. But they would need to be testable and falsifiable hypotheses and I personally think it would be an interesting study. This is not, however, what current ID proponents are after. They are simply and brazenly trying to force their absurd fundamentalism on the rest of us.
Yeah, funny, but the OP has thought of arts classes, I guess.
Well, he probably was, but the OP said "a lot of teachers in colleges today push more liberal politics on campus than they do science." I don't recall seeing any arts and literature professors teaching engineering and science courses. My point was really that the OP has no idea what he is talking about at all. He is just mindlessly blurting out right-wing propaganda, the kind that treats people who earn Masters degrees and Ph.D.s as if they are inherently stupid.
Completely ignore the fact the a lot of teachers in colleges today push more liberal politics on campus than they do science.
Funny, I don't remember any liberal politics in my classes on circuit analysis, mechanics, electromagnetism, calculus, differential equations, tensor analysis, quantum mechanics, solid state theory, antenna design and analysis, electromechanical systems, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. Perhaps you could explain to me the liberal bias inherent in a Greens Function or a multi-body gravitation problem? Perhaps hideous Communist ideologies are lurking inside Schroedinger's Equation?
Better yet, maybe you could explain something else to me. How does one go about parallelizing a finite-difference time-domain computational problem for an arbitrary antenna structure using conservative ideology?
Well anyway, you are probably right. After all, Rush Limbaugh says so and he went to college for like a year, right?
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:-) Actually, I thought most of them were taking psychoactive drugs, easily prescribable considering their obviously demented condition.
Very true. The best teachers I ever had in college (engineering) had real world experience. I think it is actually the best kind of career to have after you work in industry for about 20 to 30 years. You don't have to work too hard when your body is older and can't take as much stress. Both you and the people you teach are much better off for it.
It's the result of global warming and rising sea levels. All the inhabitants of Linux island had to be evacuated to Jakarta and Surabaya.
"I feel it is up to me as the founder and the major shareholder. We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said. "We're confident that we have the funding available to us and we're girding our loins," he said.
As much as they may have a case, I always find the "we don't want to, but they are forcing us" argument funny. Not because of the company itself, but because I can imagine some IP lawyers saying, "Yesss! They are being forccced to! Hisss!" as their forked tongues flick from their mouths and they rub thier greedy paws together with reptilian glint in their eyes.
Hell, if you get on enough junk mailing lists and have a nice wood burning stove, your heating bill for the Winter will be almost nil.
In Soviet Russia, people telling In Soviet Russia jokes are taken out and shot in the town square.
Well, that was sort of the point in We. This was basically the party line, so this description of music was used for propaganda purposes.
Then perhaps you should go out and buy yourself a sense of humor instead of taking everything so damn seriously.
For crying out loud, I was just making a frigging joke! Jeez, it looks like the mods are not on the right pills. Perhaps we should execute their trainer :-).
Yes, this is why our troops are still there. Because Iraq does not have a top-level Internet domain. Why, oh why, don't they have a top-level Internet domain? Is clean water really that important?
Gates: Throw the first switch!
Balmer: Yes, Master!
[Balmer throws first switch. lightning, crackle, boom]
Gates: Throw the second switch!
Balmer: Not the second switch!
Gates: Throw it I say!
[Balmer throws second switch. lightning, crackle, boom]
Gates: It's alive! Alive!
Balmer: No, master, it's the Blue Screen of Death.
Gates: Igor, I need to ask you something.
Balmer: Yes, master.
Gates: That programmer you sent me. It wasn't the programmer I asked for was it?
Balmer: You won't be angry.
Gates: I will NOT be angry.
Balmer: Uh, no. It wasn't.
Gates: Ah! Now, what programmer did you send me?
Balmer: Abby somebody.
Gates: Abby somebody? Abby who?
Balmer: Abby normal.
Gates: So, you let an abnormal programmer put code in my 500MB operating system! [chokes Balmer, Balmer eyes bulge out]
This is the same reason I don't ride a bike to the subway, even though it is only about 4km away. There are main highways that I have to cross and most of the people driving SUVs drive like complete imbeciles. I would love to be able to bike to the subway, but I'll get killed trying in not too long.
As an aside, I could never understand why anyone likes SUV's. They certainly make sense if you actually need one. However, for everyone else, if you are going to spend so much damn money on a vehicle (and the extra money on the gas it takes to fill it up), why not buy a classy car, like a BMW or a SAAB? You know, one that has some actual freakin' style instead of one of those ugly monstrosities. SUV's are not only unnecessary for most people, but they show horrifically poor taste.
Yep, it was just another boring day until a client showed up. He was all boo-hooing over something that was after his business and acting all irrational, but then clients are like that. It seems some computer virus was out to get his software and I needed this mess like I needed a Windows upgrade. Which made sense in its own twisted sort of way. You see, the client was Bill Gates.
I'm Peter Fifka, and I'm a Private Internet Investigator."
Well, that and screaming, "Shut up! You shut up!" to guests who are able to make decent points against his raving. The sad thing is that he is probably the sanest talking head on FAUX News.
Actually, they were probably a few random /. mods who said the article was "insightful".
Have you even met any of these six billion objects? They are completely out of their so-called "minds"! They roam free and kill each other off, befoul their own nests, and then create more of their type of objects than their pathetic little planet can sustain!
Oh, and if you are not with the invasion fleet, I didn't say anything. This is not the message you are looking for.
The AC is making fun of Jimmy "I have sinned! Boo-hoo!" Swaggart. Perhaps it's a little before your time :-).
I think most of us would rather not. That 120 Hz hum you hear is not the power transformer. It is Isaac Asimov spinning in his grave.
Bar codes are often used to track documents and forms in large companies, organizations, government agencies, and so on. I don't think placing a RFID chip on every sheet of paper that has to be tracked is a practical solution, to say the least. RFID is great for bulky things and will no doubt replace the bar code for tracking packages, shipments, and things placed on top of other things, but I this is hardly the death of bar codes.
Current evolutionary biology is open to new ideas, which is demonstrated whenever archeologists and biologists uncover something unexpected. Other branches, such as physics, are also like this. The well-worn example is Einstein's relativity. One of the many logical results of relativity is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. This naturally displeases a lot of people who are optimistic about the human race colonizing distant stars. You even get arrogant freshmen (are there any other kind? :-p) that believe they have "proved" that SR is wrong, and it is usually the same predictable misunderstanding of SR.
In any event, evolutionary biology is only offensive to fundamentalists who have an absurdly literalistic interpretation of the Bible. It is not only unscientific, it is not even good theology.
If some sort of Intelligent Design were to become a science, it would need to be able to make independently verifiable and falsifiable predictions. The key hypothesis, of course, is that there is some sort of intelligence directing the creation of life on Earth. There would be many different related hypotheses (to use the proper scientific term). One would be that all life was created as it is, which basic biological evolution would rule out, unless someone can conclusively demonstrate that evolution did not produce the initial variety of life, but only functions after that initial creation (there being no life before a creation that can evolve). A second, and stronger one, would be an intelligent hand in the evolution of life. Certain results would be expected that could demonstrate an intelligent hand versus simple non-intelligent evolution. And I am sure if you wrack your brain you could think of some others. But they would need to be testable and falsifiable hypotheses and I personally think it would be an interesting study. This is not, however, what current ID proponents are after. They are simply and brazenly trying to force their absurd fundamentalism on the rest of us.
Well, he probably was, but the OP said "a lot of teachers in colleges today push more liberal politics on campus than they do science." I don't recall seeing any arts and literature professors teaching engineering and science courses. My point was really that the OP has no idea what he is talking about at all. He is just mindlessly blurting out right-wing propaganda, the kind that treats people who earn Masters degrees and Ph.D.s as if they are inherently stupid.
Funny, I don't remember any liberal politics in my classes on circuit analysis, mechanics, electromagnetism, calculus, differential equations, tensor analysis, quantum mechanics, solid state theory, antenna design and analysis, electromechanical systems, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. Perhaps you could explain to me the liberal bias inherent in a Greens Function or a multi-body gravitation problem? Perhaps hideous Communist ideologies are lurking inside Schroedinger's Equation?
Better yet, maybe you could explain something else to me. How does one go about parallelizing a finite-difference time-domain computational problem for an arbitrary antenna structure using conservative ideology?
Well anyway, you are probably right. After all, Rush Limbaugh says so and he went to college for like a year, right?
Only on /. would a someone say a country is being "left out in the code"!
It's called DC (built on a swamp). Corporations are doing quite a good job at buying up that particular piece of swampland.
Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany. We must be cautious.