There is one problem, though. Achieving a really useful level of math needs about 15 years. Now trim the math from basic education and you are harming those who actually want to use it professionally later. It is like piano -- you have to start learning very early to be able to reach the top. While I understand that this increases the pressure on those students who will never use it, but I think that is an acceptable tradeoff.
So why aren't we making everyone learn how to play the piano?
to learn that when the republicans sweep back into power next month that the FBI won't be able to get that bill through congress. Republicans would never let it happen, right?
NO they won't. They'll kill the bill and replace it with something worse.
Can somebody please program an add-on that encrypts messages, pictures and text on facebook?
E.g. like the blowfish add-on that exist for IRC programs, that makes text unreadable for people without the correct key.
...can a Business Analyst be used to write application logic?
No, however, they can be sliced open like a tauntaun and used as a sleeping bag, if you happen to be trapped at night, out in the open, on an ice planet.
....and I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
Try this on my property, you WILL get shot. No warrant, not invited, attempting to tamper with something of mine means risking lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.
Ignore the Constitution by taking some judge's opinion over the written law at your own risk.
I think the phrase your looking for is "accidentally shooting them for trespassing".
Zidane was imo one of the more tolerable main characters among the modern games since FF7 came out. I think only Cloud is as good as him, really. Squall is utterly boring and a complete annoying... Argh. Tidus is bland as hell and wth his outfit is ridiculous. I haven't played FFXII and FFXIII though so they might change my mind...
Tidus wasn't the main character. Final Fatasy X was really about Yuna. Tidus was more of a playable narrator.
I think that has to do with the 3d era. I mean... When the graphics and characters are less realistic you don't expect the same level of human.. ness. Past laugh scenes didn't have great acting either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Zyimc9VAs&fmt=18
The first scene called for the characters to practice fake laughter and suck at it. The acting was perfect and Kefka was meant to look like a deranged idiot.
I had a perfect system for telling if a square enix game was going to be good. All the ones where Uematsu wrote the soundtrack were awesome. This may make me loose faith in the system.
No. In other words... don't remain sub par (at best) or perennially incompetent (at worst). There is no justification for a IT person with 5-6 years in the field still exhibiting programming skills below junior/senior-year level.
If members of a professional field happens to display sub par or mediocre skills, that's a 1) problem of education at a social level, and 2) a problem of work ethics at a personal level. People like that deserve to be replaced. Period.
This is a problem since most people are average by definition.
It is not a problem if by average people are not incompetent or mediocre. Only in software and IT do we see such amount of mediocrity. And, though the field is still young compared to other engineering fields, it is not a new one either (and thus, there is no excuse anymore for the sorry state of affairs we work with nowadays.)
If it is a problem to a large number of individuals because they are mediocre and easily replaceable, then too bad, even if they allowed their field to turn into shit to the point average == suckage. Tonight at 10PM news, life is not fair.
Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
Glengarry Glen Ross was not supposed to be a management training video.
Both major parties want to invade your personal life:
Democrats want you to smoke weed, but not tobacco (flip for Republicans)
Democrats want to censure you from saying "hurtful" words, but want flag burning (flip for Repubs)
Democrats want to control what you eat, no more fast food for you (I'm sure Repubs don't want you to eat something)
Democrats don't want you to drink soda, but alcohol is a-okay (flip for Repubs).
Democrats want you to speak out against the government [unless they're in power] (same for the Repubs)
The list can go on. Thinking that the Democrats are for personal freedom is outdated thinking. Both major parties are led by totalitarian control freaks.
Nope the Republicans really don't care what you eat. Have you seen Rush Limbaugh! Vote the lesser of two evils and preserve our traditional junk food.
Seriously? The average voter has NO clue about stuff like this. In fact, they'll probably vote FOR it, if someone calls it anti-terrorist.
Yep.
For them nothing has changed since 9/11. They're living "normally" as far as they're concerned. All they have to worry about is making payments on their McMansion, credit cards, luxury cars, online shopping sprees,....
...and since everyone is behind on those I don't see Obama getting a second term. The system works......eventually....for the wrong reasons.
Meh, that's just splitting hairs. How many IT people are getting outsourced to India? Vs. how many plumbers? Perhaps job security is less important these days than career security.
That is such utter crap. I've been hearing the same crap about how IT people are getting outsourced to India for the last 15 years. People who care or worry about being outsourced should ask themselves whether they have the skills (or inclination to get the skills) that make them irreplaceable or nearly irreplaceable. "Cookie cutter" programmers and tech support are replaceable. High-tech specialists are not. Your career security is your skills and in your ability and drive to stay ahead.
I for one I'm happy to see some people being outsourced. The IT and software industry has been saturated for quite a while, with salaries inflated beyond what a set of skills justify. If you have decent skills (even if fresh out of college) and do your homework and never let your career stagnate (job != career), you'll be fine even in the midst of an outsourcing feeding frenzy.
In other words...don't be average. This is a problem since most people are average by definition.
Some body in the press "OMG THE PENTAGON IS BURNING BOOKS!"
Captain Picard *headpalm*
Someone else in Pentagon "Office of Information Management for US Citizens" --
"Who was the ignorant jackass that ordering public books burnings when they could simply be 'placed in storage until the relevant information is de-classified'."
Duh it's cheaper to burn them then have them take up storage space for a few decades.
I happen to know a few people who are really.. well, they love Jesus more than most. They seem to attack science, not to learn anything, but to merely shoot down their "adversary".
I really wish those people could understand this quote (last 2 lines of the article): "People start off with a belief and a prejudice—we all do. And the job of science is to set that aside to get to the truth."
The wrong view of science betrays itself in the craving to be right; for it is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
Sir Karl Popper
Your assumption is what's absurd. Porn is an industry with their own lobby and special interest groups. They're not going to go into the courtroom like something you'd expect out of some porno flick, they're going in as an industry in need of protection and they'll get it.
No they won't. Porn is like the tobacco industry. Every politician want's to make it look like their against them.
Still room for the old logical fallacy there. If God created gravity, then who created God? Most theists then state that God was always there, but then it's easier to simply say that gravity was always there.
It's easier to ignore the whole debate and watch TV. This doesn't mean that's the correct decision.
In other news, research shows that goal setting, eating right, exercising, going outdoors and getting sun light, and having friends and maybe a girlfriend/boyfriend also helps with Starcraft Addiction and reduces the time spent playing the game.
Come on, its not rocket science. Anti-depressants work, but they are all "profit" based, as is probably this research. A little change in lifestyle can probably do just as much, except in the most extreme cases where mental illness is involved.
Getting an addicted gamer to do those things is not a little change of lifestyle.
Well, yes. Profiteering in wartime is usually taken as things like smuggling operations, black markets, people trafficking. War stories, war comics, war movies - when they edge into propaganda and black propaganda - are questionable, but people expect heroes and villains in stories. However, in no context are they remotely profiteering. My guess is that the soldier in question has played many a FPS and probably many a wargame of other sorts. I doubt he had any problems with those.
I would also guess that he - and probably many other soldiers - bought weapons for their family after 9/11. Gun merchants who rely on fear by their customers are far closer to profiteering from wartime. Games are not bought out of fear or panic, they don't rely on scare tactics (such as a Democrat getting elected), if their sales alter during a conflict it is because of increased interest and nothing more. But if you asked those same soldiers if gunshops should be penalized for profiteering, there's no way on this planet they would agree. If they even accepted that that is what it was (unlikely), they'd tell you that weapons are a fundamental right (which they're not, since there are many classes of people in the US who cannot own one) and that it doesn't matter if profiteering takes place in a free society (dubious, but of all the arguments it's the most convincing).
So why are games a problem? Ah, well, you see the game itself is NOT the problem. Neither, I suspect, is the fact that you can play a bad guy. (Certainly hasn't hurt game sales where you can only play the bad guy.) I suspect the problem is that the military is extremely good at dehumanizing and that makes it very difficult to connect with a game that starts from the assumption that
a grid of electrodes that excite nerves in the skin with small pulses of current to trick the body into perceiving texture, pressure, or pin-pricks depending on the current amplitude and electrode resolution.
Am I the only here imagining some malware creator cackling as he tries to figure a way to deliver as much current as the battery can pump with a single touch of the screen once his virus gets downloaded?
They have these things called fuses that could prevent problems like that.
Not any more than usual. I don't play EVE or other online games, so it's not personal in that sense. It's just that overvaluing goofy things that other people don't is pretty much the definition of being a geek. I'd hazard a guess that most people here are pretty obsessively into something that most normal people would consider "nothing of value."
The meme is basically a slight against all geek-kind.
Not all geek kind. Just those specific geeks that are slightly different from us.
I play Warcraft so I'm NOTHING like them:P
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There is one problem, though. Achieving a really useful level of math needs about 15 years. Now trim the math from basic education and you are harming those who actually want to use it professionally later. It is like piano -- you have to start learning very early to be able to reach the top. While I understand that this increases the pressure on those students who will never use it, but I think that is an acceptable tradeoff.
So why aren't we making everyone learn how to play the piano?
to learn that when the republicans sweep back into power next month that the FBI won't be able to get that bill through congress. Republicans would never let it happen, right?
NO they won't. They'll kill the bill and replace it with something worse.
And seriously... is this really front page material?
You'd rather argue about smartphones?
The iPhone is overrated!
Can somebody please program an add-on that encrypts messages, pictures and text on facebook? E.g. like the blowfish add-on that exist for IRC programs, that makes text unreadable for people without the correct key.
A key that you give out to your friends?
No, however, they can be sliced open like a tauntaun and used as a sleeping bag, if you happen to be trapped at night, out in the open, on an ice planet.
....and I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
Try this on my property, you WILL get shot. No warrant, not invited, attempting to tamper with something of mine means risking lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.
Ignore the Constitution by taking some judge's opinion over the written law at your own risk.
I think the phrase your looking for is "accidentally shooting them for trespassing".
Zidane was imo one of the more tolerable main characters among the modern games since FF7 came out. I think only Cloud is as good as him, really. Squall is utterly boring and a complete annoying... Argh. Tidus is bland as hell and wth his outfit is ridiculous. I haven't played FFXII and FFXIII though so they might change my mind...
Tidus wasn't the main character. Final Fatasy X was really about Yuna. Tidus was more of a playable narrator.
I think that has to do with the 3d era. I mean ... When the graphics and characters are less realistic you don't expect the same level of human.. ness. Past laugh scenes didn't have great acting either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Zyimc9VAs&fmt=18
The first scene called for the characters to practice fake laughter and suck at it. The acting was perfect and Kefka was meant to look like a deranged idiot.
I had a perfect system for telling if a square enix game was going to be good. All the ones where Uematsu wrote the soundtrack were awesome. This may make me loose faith in the system.
In other words...don't be average.
No. In other words... don't remain sub par (at best) or perennially incompetent (at worst). There is no justification for a IT person with 5-6 years in the field still exhibiting programming skills below junior/senior-year level.
If members of a professional field happens to display sub par or mediocre skills, that's a 1) problem of education at a social level, and 2) a problem of work ethics at a personal level. People like that deserve to be replaced. Period.
This is a problem since most people are average by definition.
It is not a problem if by average people are not incompetent or mediocre. Only in software and IT do we see such amount of mediocrity. And, though the field is still young compared to other engineering fields, it is not a new one either (and thus, there is no excuse anymore for the sorry state of affairs we work with nowadays.)
If it is a problem to a large number of individuals because they are mediocre and easily replaceable, then too bad, even if they allowed their field to turn into shit to the point average == suckage. Tonight at 10PM news, life is not fair.
Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
Glengarry Glen Ross was not supposed to be a management training video.
"dieing", lol.
It's a word. It refers to the processes of cutting with a die. It's the worst form of dying I could come up with on a moments notice.
I was hoping for a Farnsworth joke :(
Good news everyone, an overused joke is finally dieing!
Both major parties want to invade your personal life:
The list can go on. Thinking that the Democrats are for personal freedom is outdated thinking. Both major parties are led by totalitarian control freaks.
Nope the Republicans really don't care what you eat. Have you seen Rush Limbaugh! Vote the lesser of two evils and preserve our traditional junk food.
Seriously? The average voter has NO clue about stuff like this. In fact, they'll probably vote FOR it, if someone calls it anti-terrorist.
Yep.
For them nothing has changed since 9/11. They're living "normally" as far as they're concerned. All they have to worry about is making payments on their McMansion, credit cards, luxury cars, online shopping sprees, ....
...and since everyone is behind on those I don't see Obama getting a second term. The system works......eventually....for the wrong reasons.
Meh, that's just splitting hairs. How many IT people are getting outsourced to India? Vs. how many plumbers? Perhaps job security is less important these days than career security.
That is such utter crap. I've been hearing the same crap about how IT people are getting outsourced to India for the last 15 years. People who care or worry about being outsourced should ask themselves whether they have the skills (or inclination to get the skills) that make them irreplaceable or nearly irreplaceable. "Cookie cutter" programmers and tech support are replaceable. High-tech specialists are not. Your career security is your skills and in your ability and drive to stay ahead.
I for one I'm happy to see some people being outsourced. The IT and software industry has been saturated for quite a while, with salaries inflated beyond what a set of skills justify. If you have decent skills (even if fresh out of college) and do your homework and never let your career stagnate (job != career), you'll be fine even in the midst of an outsourcing feeding frenzy.
In other words...don't be average. This is a problem since most people are average by definition.
Some body in the press "OMG THE PENTAGON IS BURNING BOOKS!" Captain Picard *headpalm*
Someone else in Pentagon "Office of Information Management for US Citizens" -- "Who was the ignorant jackass that ordering public books burnings when they could simply be 'placed in storage until the relevant information is de-classified'."
Duh it's cheaper to burn them then have them take up storage space for a few decades.
I happen to know a few people who are really.. well, they love Jesus more than most. They seem to attack science, not to learn anything, but to merely shoot down their "adversary".
I really wish those people could understand this quote (last 2 lines of the article): "People start off with a belief and a prejudice—we all do. And the job of science is to set that aside to get to the truth."
The wrong view of science betrays itself in the craving to be right; for it is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. Sir Karl Popper
Your assumption is what's absurd. Porn is an industry with their own lobby and special interest groups. They're not going to go into the courtroom like something you'd expect out of some porno flick, they're going in as an industry in need of protection and they'll get it.
No they won't. Porn is like the tobacco industry. Every politician want's to make it look like their against them.
Still room for the old logical fallacy there. If God created gravity, then who created God? Most theists then state that God was always there, but then it's easier to simply say that gravity was always there.
It's easier to ignore the whole debate and watch TV. This doesn't mean that's the correct decision.
It's not a replacement for a brick and mortar store. At the store I can get a refund or at least credit towards a different game; steam? .
Which store is this? I'm not aware of any store that will give refunds or store credit for a PC game unless it's still shrink wrapped.
In other news, research shows that goal setting, eating right, exercising, going outdoors and getting sun light, and having friends and maybe a girlfriend/boyfriend also helps with Starcraft Addiction and reduces the time spent playing the game.
Come on, its not rocket science. Anti-depressants work, but they are all "profit" based, as is probably this research. A little change in lifestyle can probably do just as much, except in the most extreme cases where mental illness is involved.
Getting an addicted gamer to do those things is not a little change of lifestyle.
Well, yes. Profiteering in wartime is usually taken as things like smuggling operations, black markets, people trafficking. War stories, war comics, war movies - when they edge into propaganda and black propaganda - are questionable, but people expect heroes and villains in stories. However, in no context are they remotely profiteering. My guess is that the soldier in question has played many a FPS and probably many a wargame of other sorts. I doubt he had any problems with those.
I would also guess that he - and probably many other soldiers - bought weapons for their family after 9/11. Gun merchants who rely on fear by their customers are far closer to profiteering from wartime. Games are not bought out of fear or panic, they don't rely on scare tactics (such as a Democrat getting elected), if their sales alter during a conflict it is because of increased interest and nothing more. But if you asked those same soldiers if gunshops should be penalized for profiteering, there's no way on this planet they would agree. If they even accepted that that is what it was (unlikely), they'd tell you that weapons are a fundamental right (which they're not, since there are many classes of people in the US who cannot own one) and that it doesn't matter if profiteering takes place in a free society (dubious, but of all the arguments it's the most convincing).
So why are games a problem? Ah, well, you see the game itself is NOT the problem. Neither, I suspect, is the fact that you can play a bad guy. (Certainly hasn't hurt game sales where you can only play the bad guy.) I suspect the problem is that the military is extremely good at dehumanizing and that makes it very difficult to connect with a game that starts from the assumption that
So he's fine with Left for Dead?
a grid of electrodes that excite nerves in the skin with small pulses of current to trick the body into perceiving texture, pressure, or pin-pricks depending on the current amplitude and electrode resolution.
Am I the only here imagining some malware creator cackling as he tries to figure a way to deliver as much current as the battery can pump with a single touch of the screen once his virus gets downloaded?
They have these things called fuses that could prevent problems like that.
Not any more than usual. I don't play EVE or other online games, so it's not personal in that sense. It's just that overvaluing goofy things that other people don't is pretty much the definition of being a geek. I'd hazard a guess that most people here are pretty obsessively into something that most normal people would consider "nothing of value."
The meme is basically a slight against all geek-kind.
Not all geek kind. Just those specific geeks that are slightly different from us. :P
I play Warcraft so I'm NOTHING like them
Does this mean I've just been a jerk since the first grade? No wonder I don't like my inner child.
Stop giving your inner child wedgies.