IBM sponsors education of 6 minority low-income children, claims success by offering a job to the 6 of them. Billion dollar education contract ensues...
I mean, is anyone seeing the issue here? Offering these people a job is a small price to pay for IBM to 'irrefutably proof' the success of their program. I'm not saying their program is not good, but really, we should maybe have an external source assess this.
Professionally (Software Developer) on a Windows 7 with 16G of ram (3 yr old top end Intel processor 8-core, I'm guessing i7 but not sure), 2 video cards with 3 monitors. I have Eclipse open with about 100 Maven Java projects open (don't ask). SQLDeveloper with some open connections to databases. Cygwin. Firefox with 8 tabs (gmail, subversion, jira, jenkins, intranet, slashdot,...), a Cassandra database (for debugging and testing purposes, not under heavy load), some legacy Java services running with GUIs etc... It all works fine, no issues here.
Most Police Academies in the US take 6 months or less to complete. How in earth can you expect policemen to learn to act accordingly in all circumstances and know the law as well in that short amount of time. They need to be physically fit, know how to operate their weapons, know the law, have the psychological insight to act accordingly in any situation, know how to file any type of police report, get driving classes, know a bit about the different sciences involved in drugs, crime scenes etc... It's just impossible really and usually comes down to having good old fashioned common sense to be a good cop.
Exactly. F16 are Second Strike fighters/bombers. They can't be used used in a First Strike operation. Any half-assed rogue state already has the capabilities to detect and take down F16s. So if you want to use F16s, you need the big boys to go in first and take down all mobile radar and ground-air missile machinery.
Guys sees drone flying around; doesn't like it; shoots it down. To my knowledge gun ownership is legal there. So the only thing that happened was he destroyed other peoples property. So he needs to reimburse that person and any other harm done. Case closed. Why the whole arresting and crazy charges either way?
Take as much holidays as you want, come to work when you want, etc...
Check this presentation about the Netflix Culture (http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664?from=ss_embed).
Basically they want high performers, and if that means you perform high coming to work 20 hrs a week, so be it. It also means if you're pulling 80 hrs a week and are just getting by, that's not enough. You don't get an A+ for "trying hard", you get an A+ for achieving high performance. That's all that matters.
Same here. I was maybe 15-16 and had no trouble installing and using Windows 3.x at all and nobody had to teach me anything
It had windows with obvious names that contained obvious programs. The metaphor was pretty clear and obvious....
Sure, the guy was a rocket scientist, yeah right...
I had (still have it but upgraded to something better) a D250 10.1" (Atom N270, 1 GB, 160 HDD, WIndows 7) and frankly it was a piece of crap.
First of all, the overheating was terrible. You couldn't run anything without overheating. It actually overheated while installing the damn thing turning it on for the first time. Went to >90C (200F) in less than a minute and would shut down if you dared to open two programs at once.
While charging, it was even worse. You basically couldn't do anything with it except some basic browsing (no flash or youtube!) if you didn't want it to burn.
Next the performance was bad. You couldn't watch a movie over 480p really without it lagging after 10 seconds.
I think after less than a year the hard drive crashed (it was a toshiba drive).
Tossed it out and put an SSD in, also installed Ubuntu instead of the Windows 7.
Things got better and it ran smoother, but watching movies was still a no-no and overheating was still an issue. Apparently it was a construction mistake where both the processor and graphical chip were under the same heat-sink.
I refuse to read the linked article unless it is spoon-fed to me through a nice layout and beautiful pictures and animations in an easy to digest scroll-down fashion!
UoT says it's okay because "they are expected to approach controversial topics with a critical lens". So how exactly will they be graded on the course if they are indeed skeptical about the voodoo explained? If the examinator asks "How does dilution works?" Can you answer "well it doesn't because it's BS and proven to be so in Clinical Trials". Does that get you an A+ in the course?
When I was in University in the 90s, many Liberal Arts studies actually had some sort of programming classes. I had a friend that studied Economics, and I know she had an Informatics class where she had to write some Delphi program with UI and everything. It was basically a simple "address form desktop application", which was exactly what IDEs like Delphi and Visual Basic excelled at. Needless to say, these students didn't really care for those classes.
I'm sure many years later she completely forgot about all that. So really, unless you want to flood these students curriculum with technology related classes, there is just no way you'll get (most of) them interested in developing/programming their own idea.
If they would be interested, they'd go for engineering as well instead of Economy or Law school.
For about a week I received the same SMS message every minute a couple of times, next every 2-3 minutes, next every hour, next every 6 hours and finally it quit after 3 days. Would do that for every SMS I received. Suddenly after a week I received those same SMS's through Google Hangout (over a week old SMS's I already had received) and than it was over.
I still don't understand why they make Apps that mess up the 'normal' functionality of the phone. It should be able to place and receive calls and SMS's period. Any other functionality is secondary. I've had my phone crash multiple times trying to place a call just because it was doing something else in the background, like google maps and GPS etc... (disclaimer: it's a Samsung mini s2, so pretty old and cheap, but still...)
That may be true. I'm too lazy to look up some references but there was a (statistically) significant difference. Didn't RTFA so don't know which numbers they juggle in there.
I'm in agreement with most of your statements, however I'd like to rationalize the "Man make more than Woman" statement a bit more. Most serious research on this takes into account equal pay/time/degree/responsibility/job level/etc... So it's not like they're comparing women on a 4/5th or part-time schedule earning less than men on a full schedule for the same job. Really, if you filter out all that smoke women are still earning significantly less than men. Those are the facts.
As far as making "girly science kits", that's complete BS to me. Real Science is hard. No amount of sugarcoating is going to make the Maxwell Equations simple to the general populace. Also, in some sciences women already quite outnumber men ( Biology, Bio engineering, Bio Medical Sciences,...). In Europe there are 25% more women in College than men. In Eastern Europe it's actually 50% more women than men!
Yep, the Thieves Guild missions bugged out on me too. After finishing the game (or at least the main plot and the different guilds) I had to restart a new one just for the Thieves Guild.
I agree. During my university Computer Science days starting from '95 we could get a Slackware distribution on CD-ROM (which ironically was considered the user-friendly distribution back then). Although basic installation was not that hard (partitioning HD, installing software, etc...) many hardware peripherals were not compatible. I don't think I ever managed to make my modem work (I admit, it was probably a win-modem based cheap one) nor get the X windows system to run in SVGA or find the correct horizontal/vertical scanning/refresh frequency to put in the properties file (again, my cheap video card probably did not have a linux driver either and same with the monitor). Also, the dual bootloader was not always that stable either, bricking not only my linux but also my ms-dos partition.
So even in the later 90s, you had to buy the correct hardware making sure it was linux compatible, which usually wasn't the cheapest hardware. I'm a happy camper now, using linux on both my laptop as at work but it certainly wasn't all rainbows and sunshine back in the 90s.
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IBM sponsors education of 6 minority low-income children, claims success by offering a job to the 6 of them. Billion dollar education contract ensues ...
I mean, is anyone seeing the issue here? Offering these people a job is a small price to pay for IBM to 'irrefutably proof' the success of their program. I'm not saying their program is not good, but really, we should maybe have an external source assess this.
Just ship them 3 year old budget smartphones which are basically free.
Obviously I forgot Outlook :) And some background noise IT puts on every box (AV and some remote managing take-over stuff)
Professionally (Software Developer) on a Windows 7 with 16G of ram (3 yr old top end Intel processor 8-core, I'm guessing i7 but not sure), 2 video cards with 3 monitors. I have Eclipse open with about 100 Maven Java projects open (don't ask). SQLDeveloper with some open connections to databases. Cygwin. Firefox with 8 tabs (gmail, subversion, jira, jenkins, intranet, slashdot, ...), a Cassandra database (for debugging and testing purposes, not under heavy load), some legacy Java services running with GUIs etc... It all works fine, no issues here.
Most Police Academies in the US take 6 months or less to complete. How in earth can you expect policemen to learn to act accordingly in all circumstances and know the law as well in that short amount of time. They need to be physically fit, know how to operate their weapons, know the law, have the psychological insight to act accordingly in any situation, know how to file any type of police report, get driving classes, know a bit about the different sciences involved in drugs, crime scenes etc... It's just impossible really and usually comes down to having good old fashioned common sense to be a good cop.
Exactly. F16 are Second Strike fighters/bombers. They can't be used used in a First Strike operation. Any half-assed rogue state already has the capabilities to detect and take down F16s. So if you want to use F16s, you need the big boys to go in first and take down all mobile radar and ground-air missile machinery.
Guys sees drone flying around; doesn't like it; shoots it down. To my knowledge gun ownership is legal there. So the only thing that happened was he destroyed other peoples property. So he needs to reimburse that person and any other harm done. Case closed. Why the whole arresting and crazy charges either way?
Take as much holidays as you want, come to work when you want, etc...
Check this presentation about the Netflix Culture (http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664?from=ss_embed).
Basically they want high performers, and if that means you perform high coming to work 20 hrs a week, so be it. It also means if you're pulling 80 hrs a week and are just getting by, that's not enough. You don't get an A+ for "trying hard", you get an A+ for achieving high performance. That's all that matters.
Same here. I was maybe 15-16 and had no trouble installing and using Windows 3.x at all and nobody had to teach me anything
It had windows with obvious names that contained obvious programs. The metaphor was pretty clear and obvious....
Sure, the guy was a rocket scientist, yeah right...
I had (still have it but upgraded to something better) a D250 10.1" (Atom N270, 1 GB, 160 HDD, WIndows 7) and frankly it was a piece of crap.
First of all, the overheating was terrible. You couldn't run anything without overheating. It actually overheated while installing the damn thing turning it on for the first time. Went to >90C (200F) in less than a minute and would shut down if you dared to open two programs at once.
While charging, it was even worse. You basically couldn't do anything with it except some basic browsing (no flash or youtube!) if you didn't want it to burn.
Next the performance was bad. You couldn't watch a movie over 480p really without it lagging after 10 seconds.
I think after less than a year the hard drive crashed (it was a toshiba drive).
Tossed it out and put an SSD in, also installed Ubuntu instead of the Windows 7.
Things got better and it ran smoother, but watching movies was still a no-no and overheating was still an issue.
Apparently it was a construction mistake where both the processor and graphical chip were under the same heat-sink.
A 90s romantic comedy about a man and a woman on the path to true love....featuring Meg Ryan and Richard Gere.
I refuse to read the linked article unless it is spoon-fed to me through a nice layout and beautiful pictures and animations in an easy to digest scroll-down fashion!
UoT says it's okay because "they are expected to approach controversial topics with a critical lens". So how exactly will they be graded on the course if they are indeed skeptical about the voodoo explained? If the examinator asks "How does dilution works?" Can you answer "well it doesn't because it's BS and proven to be so in Clinical Trials". Does that get you an A+ in the course?
I mean 300 billion $ (build up over the course of decades) Vs 3.5 trillion $ (in a month) ...
Well, for 1 year and a half to be correct (doubled and a half, +150%) :-)
When I was in University in the 90s, many Liberal Arts studies actually had some sort of programming classes. I had a friend that studied Economics, and I know she had an Informatics class where she had to write some Delphi program with UI and everything. It was basically a simple "address form desktop application", which was exactly what IDEs like Delphi and Visual Basic excelled at. Needless to say, these students didn't really care for those classes.
I'm sure many years later she completely forgot about all that. So really, unless you want to flood these students curriculum with technology related classes, there is just no way you'll get (most of) them interested in developing/programming their own idea.
If they would be interested, they'd go for engineering as well instead of Economy or Law school.
Scientists looking for black holes, you won't believe what they found...
For about a week I received the same SMS message every minute a couple of times, next every 2-3 minutes, next every hour, next every 6 hours and finally it quit after 3 days. Would do that for every SMS I received. Suddenly after a week I received those same SMS's through Google Hangout (over a week old SMS's I already had received) and than it was over.
I still don't understand why they make Apps that mess up the 'normal' functionality of the phone. It should be able to place and receive calls and SMS's period. Any other functionality is secondary. I've had my phone crash multiple times trying to place a call just because it was doing something else in the background, like google maps and GPS etc... (disclaimer: it's a Samsung mini s2, so pretty old and cheap, but still...)
Bennett Haselton, that's your first and last name, right ? .....
That depends on the offer.
That may be true. I'm too lazy to look up some references but there was a (statistically) significant difference. Didn't RTFA so don't know which numbers they juggle in there.
I'm in agreement with most of your statements, however I'd like to rationalize the "Man make more than Woman" statement a bit more. Most serious research on this takes into account equal pay/time/degree/responsibility/job level/etc... So it's not like they're comparing women on a 4/5th or part-time schedule earning less than men on a full schedule for the same job. Really, if you filter out all that smoke women are still earning significantly less than men. Those are the facts.
...). In Europe there are 25% more women in College than men. In Eastern Europe it's actually 50% more women than men!
As far as making "girly science kits", that's complete BS to me. Real Science is hard. No amount of sugarcoating is going to make the Maxwell Equations simple to the general populace. Also, in some sciences women already quite outnumber men ( Biology, Bio engineering, Bio Medical Sciences,
It was also noted that the breast size of men is now on average as large as that of women in the 1960s.
Yep, the Thieves Guild missions bugged out on me too. After finishing the game (or at least the main plot and the different guilds) I had to restart a new one just for the Thieves Guild.
I agree. During my university Computer Science days starting from '95 we could get a Slackware distribution on CD-ROM (which ironically was considered the user-friendly distribution back then). Although basic installation was not that hard (partitioning HD, installing software, etc...) many hardware peripherals were not compatible. I don't think I ever managed to make my modem work (I admit, it was probably a win-modem based cheap one) nor get the X windows system to run in SVGA or find the correct horizontal/vertical scanning/refresh frequency to put in the properties file (again, my cheap video card probably did not have a linux driver either and same with the monitor). Also, the dual bootloader was not always that stable either, bricking not only my linux but also my ms-dos partition.
So even in the later 90s, you had to buy the correct hardware making sure it was linux compatible, which usually wasn't the cheapest hardware.
I'm a happy camper now, using linux on both my laptop as at work but it certainly wasn't all rainbows and sunshine back in the 90s.