If you're intelligent enough it's rather hard to truly fuck up. I should know as I got rather close to actually pulling that improbable feat off. If you accept your own choices and their consequences then good for you, many people don't which is what I don't like.
The thing is that money is security, that's the main thing I learned from my parents. I can live off of rather little but life is rarely truly fair or nice or pleasant for too long. Bad things happen and having something sizable to fall back on is more than worth it. Essentially I want to be able to retire in my 50s even if half the damn planet is blown up. I also have no illusions about that being a strong possibility, figuratively or literally.
Personally I went to a very good school, financial aid and a scholarship let me leave with 0 debt with a masters. Some of the connections I got as a result let me score a very nice and well paying job. If I wanted to I could probably make even more by consulting on the side but I'm not in much of a mood for that for now. Well not quite, I do some minor IT consulting sometimes more as a hobby than anything else.
Also I love my job and I expect to always love my job, if I don't then I'll find another one. I have no need to depend on my current job or company or anything like that. Likewise I doubt I'll ever truly retire because then I'd be bored out of my mind, I love solving problems and I love doing so in lots of different areas.
Anyway, I was mostly just stating a fact and yes I do know someone who got fucked over by a computer glitch.
In the US system you do lose some stability (you can't ever be sure that X will mean you get into Y) but I do think the flexibility is by far worth it. Not that there isn't some flexibility in other countries but it seems a lot more contained and limited. Of course I'm biased since I grew up (mostly) in the US and personally I'd be eaten alive by a system based only on standadized tests.
The original poster wasn't but thatskinnyguy was implying it, that it's the fault of others. I admit I should have worded my reply in another way to be more clear, my mistake.
And yes I do bitch quite often, I never said I don't.
In this case it's simply due to my own hard learned experience. Intelligence is worth very little unless you have the work ethic to put it to use, and it's your own fault if you can't manage to do something with that intelligence not anyone else's. I've seen too many people believe otherwise and get sucked into an bottomless pit of no return, for if you wrongly blame the world for something you can fix yourself then you will never actually fix it. It is human to blame others but I simply don't find it productive. Of course if you want to be lazy and accept the consequences then that's perfectly fine.
If you can't put the effort into it then you ARE inferior to someone of lesser intelligence. There are no fruits if you can't even take the time to planet the tree.
In other words stop blaming everyone else and look hard at yourself and either stop bitching or change
Depending on how high, the SAT does require some studying or you really can't do that well unless you're gifted in a particular way. The math test used to be a collection or trick filled essentially trivial problems which you could get wrong not because you didn't know the material but because you missed the fast one they tried to pull. The english section was a question of how well you can memorize dictionaries. The thing is that for both sheer studying could get you a much better grade although it was a particularly useless type of studying imho.
The true geniuses can do well no matter what but for the ones who are simply above average in intelligence things like the SAT are much more of an equalizer than an IQ test.
US colleges use a whole lot more than the SATs to determined admission, essays and extra-curriculars and grades and so on. In some ways the fact that you can study for the SAT does make it a better measure, work ethics and the ability to study are important for life and college.
Actually the US college system relies amazingly little on standardized tests in comparison to many other nations. In many countries there is a set of tests which pretty much are the only measure and the only chance you get. If you do badly or the computer system fucks up you're screwed.
It predicts average or possible education achievement, by college you have already met or not met the "possible" part of that. If you're lazy then you will do worse even if you have a good IQ. You have better potential but actual achievement is determined by more than just potential. Likewise it only measures one part of your potential and is far from a comprehensive measure (for example creativity is not measured).
By the time you enter college it doesn't matter how good you inherently are but how good you actually are, that has to include your work ethic and knowledge in some way not just your sheer intelligence or problem solving skills.
BS, you're apparently incapable of understanding the real world.
If you can afford the time and effort, trying something new almost always produces some benefit. And if you are omnipotent you can move mountains, in the real world (not whatever fantasy YOU live in) everything is a trade off against time and money. Nothing has infinite resources and apparently you think everything does.
If they were wrong, they gained valuable insight into a) the abilities of their tools and b) the nature of their project. And it cost them likely millions of dollars, probably tens of millions if you add everything into it.
There is more to life than passing some test and your intelligence doesn't matter as much as you think it does. In every single field who you know matters a whole lot more than anything else. Getting to know those people and knowing how to use them is a skill in itself. Likewise your intelligence is worthless if you can't work hard but also work smart, take advantage of your time in other words.
Anyway he seems to have the ability to manage and drive people, something people utterly lacking them seem to enjoy dismissing. Someone with those skills are worth a lot more to a group than some socially inept geek.
What kind of professor tells undergrads that they don't deserve to have "an educational experience" in 3d, VR, game technology, etc? The type who actually wants to provide a good experience to those who do get in. If it's a heavily team based class than a single fuck up can ruin it for half the class.
Required classes are BS, trust me I should know as I easily met requirements despite not having what it takes (lazy and very intelligent). Just because you KNOW something doesn't mean you have the passion to take up to another level (so to say). For some classes dedication is a lot more important than knowledge. If you need to be in lab 40 hours a week for a class it doesn't matter how well you did beforehand if you don't have the will power to actually be in lab 40 hours a week.
I don't know of any consumer satellite internet that DOESN'T use geostationary sats. The complexity an cost of having to track the satellites, your dish needs to be aimed at them and they are a moving target, makes it far from worthwhile.
Also the latency while high is not unusable for everyday usage and only games are really affected. Also a number of satellite providers use dial up for outbound traffic to mediate the problem.
The biggest problem with satellite internet isn't the latency but the relatively low bandwidth and indecently low download/upload caps.
I'm amazed. You can tell that there was nothing else beneath the sweatshirt, that none of those components were capacitors, that no wires went anywhere else except that device, that the putty in her hand was not connected to the device and so on.
No they thought it may be part of an explosive device, their job is to identify potential threats.
Yes but the energy required by it to do that could have probably cooked a continent. So I'm sure they'd be too busy working for the DoD to have time to help out the Mars holidayers.
Except that when you report on a plane crash you're expected to tell people WHY it crashed not just that it did. If all you do is believe the plane company (or manufacturer) who claims it was purely pilot error despite a video of the plane exploding in mid-air then you ARE a shitty journalist.
No one has provided any evidence that it is better for desktop stuff, the current/new scheduler has included a lot of patches which fix all the old problems it may have had. People are bitching because they have no lives and love to bitch, controversy gives meaning to their lives probably.
The author even when so far as to rework it so that the scheduler is a pluggable item. And his scheduler was rejected because he was not a good developer in Linus's view. Writing the code is in some ways a minor part of what a developer has to do on such a large project and Linux didn't think this guy handle it.
You don't want desktop performance, you want old slow hardware performance. There is a difference. New things require more power to run. Granted most likely you fucked up somewhere in your configuration, software or hardware. How much ram do you have btw?
He was resisting arrest and moving about when eh was tasered AFTER multiple attempts to subdue him in other ways. The alternative to him getting tasered would have probably broken his arm if not worse.
This is why I don't like non-lethal weapons in the hands of police. Well we better cut of their arms and leg and heads as well, those are all non-lethal weapons as well.
He was asked to leave. He refused and resisted. The police decided to remove him at that point.
And another thing that amused me was how people were just sitting there watching and it seems no one tried to help him. ...Why would anyone help him? It was his fault and he was goign to get arrested for it. I mean "helping" him would mean that now you'd both be arrested. It wouldn't help anyone.
Howly shit, that seems quite similar to what happens in other matters in the USA when people is fucked by their government. The most anyone do is say "suck to be you" and watch. So what would they have done in your country? Started a riot? Set a few cars on fire? Had a nice brawl with the police?
See I guess unlike your country in the US people expect the police to most of the time not be corrupt, horribly, bastards that will torture to death anyone they arrest. It's nice to live in a civilized country, you should try it some time.
ODF is the default filetype for openoffice.org so there are many users but simply not close to (I'm sure that's an understatement) as many as other formats have.
Except only certain file types get properly identified and parsed into html. The fact that it's not in the drop down list is a minor problem likely due to the relative lack of popularity of these formats right now.
Yet I can't help but wonder if customers will think twice about buying a 75% functional chip. Why would they care? They never did before. Low clock cpus were just those that filed to run properly at high clock rates. Mid end video cards were the ones were some part of a high end one failed.
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No, the free market pretty much always exists. If it's not legal it's called the black market or bribery or government corruption or organized crime.
If you're intelligent enough it's rather hard to truly fuck up. I should know as I got rather close to actually pulling that improbable feat off. If you accept your own choices and their consequences then good for you, many people don't which is what I don't like.
The thing is that money is security, that's the main thing I learned from my parents. I can live off of rather little but life is rarely truly fair or nice or pleasant for too long. Bad things happen and having something sizable to fall back on is more than worth it. Essentially I want to be able to retire in my 50s even if half the damn planet is blown up. I also have no illusions about that being a strong possibility, figuratively or literally.
Personally I went to a very good school, financial aid and a scholarship let me leave with 0 debt with a masters. Some of the connections I got as a result let me score a very nice and well paying job. If I wanted to I could probably make even more by consulting on the side but I'm not in much of a mood for that for now. Well not quite, I do some minor IT consulting sometimes more as a hobby than anything else.
Also I love my job and I expect to always love my job, if I don't then I'll find another one. I have no need to depend on my current job or company or anything like that. Likewise I doubt I'll ever truly retire because then I'd be bored out of my mind, I love solving problems and I love doing so in lots of different areas.
Does it sound like I think thats a good system?
Anyway, I was mostly just stating a fact and yes I do know someone who got fucked over by a computer glitch.
In the US system you do lose some stability (you can't ever be sure that X will mean you get into Y) but I do think the flexibility is by far worth it. Not that there isn't some flexibility in other countries but it seems a lot more contained and limited. Of course I'm biased since I grew up (mostly) in the US and personally I'd be eaten alive by a system based only on standadized tests.
The original poster wasn't but thatskinnyguy was implying it, that it's the fault of others. I admit I should have worded my reply in another way to be more clear, my mistake.
And yes I do bitch quite often, I never said I don't.
In this case it's simply due to my own hard learned experience. Intelligence is worth very little unless you have the work ethic to put it to use, and it's your own fault if you can't manage to do something with that intelligence not anyone else's. I've seen too many people believe otherwise and get sucked into an bottomless pit of no return, for if you wrongly blame the world for something you can fix yourself then you will never actually fix it. It is human to blame others but I simply don't find it productive. Of course if you want to be lazy and accept the consequences then that's perfectly fine.
If you can't put the effort into it then you ARE inferior to someone of lesser intelligence. There are no fruits if you can't even take the time to planet the tree.
In other words stop blaming everyone else and look hard at yourself and either stop bitching or change
Depending on how high, the SAT does require some studying or you really can't do that well unless you're gifted in a particular way. The math test used to be a collection or trick filled essentially trivial problems which you could get wrong not because you didn't know the material but because you missed the fast one they tried to pull. The english section was a question of how well you can memorize dictionaries. The thing is that for both sheer studying could get you a much better grade although it was a particularly useless type of studying imho.
The true geniuses can do well no matter what but for the ones who are simply above average in intelligence things like the SAT are much more of an equalizer than an IQ test.
US colleges use a whole lot more than the SATs to determined admission, essays and extra-curriculars and grades and so on. In some ways the fact that you can study for the SAT does make it a better measure, work ethics and the ability to study are important for life and college.
Actually the US college system relies amazingly little on standardized tests in comparison to many other nations. In many countries there is a set of tests which pretty much are the only measure and the only chance you get. If you do badly or the computer system fucks up you're screwed.
It predicts average or possible education achievement, by college you have already met or not met the "possible" part of that. If you're lazy then you will do worse even if you have a good IQ. You have better potential but actual achievement is determined by more than just potential. Likewise it only measures one part of your potential and is far from a comprehensive measure (for example creativity is not measured).
By the time you enter college it doesn't matter how good you inherently are but how good you actually are, that has to include your work ethic and knowledge in some way not just your sheer intelligence or problem solving skills.
There is more to life than passing some test and your intelligence doesn't matter as much as you think it does. In every single field who you know matters a whole lot more than anything else. Getting to know those people and knowing how to use them is a skill in itself. Likewise your intelligence is worthless if you can't work hard but also work smart, take advantage of your time in other words.
Anyway he seems to have the ability to manage and drive people, something people utterly lacking them seem to enjoy dismissing. Someone with those skills are worth a lot more to a group than some socially inept geek.
Required classes are BS, trust me I should know as I easily met requirements despite not having what it takes (lazy and very intelligent). Just because you KNOW something doesn't mean you have the passion to take up to another level (so to say). For some classes dedication is a lot more important than knowledge. If you need to be in lab 40 hours a week for a class it doesn't matter how well you did beforehand if you don't have the will power to actually be in lab 40 hours a week.
I don't know of any consumer satellite internet that DOESN'T use geostationary sats. The complexity an cost of having to track the satellites, your dish needs to be aimed at them and they are a moving target, makes it far from worthwhile.
Also the latency while high is not unusable for everyday usage and only games are really affected. Also a number of satellite providers use dial up for outbound traffic to mediate the problem.
The biggest problem with satellite internet isn't the latency but the relatively low bandwidth and indecently low download/upload caps.
I'm amazed. You can tell that there was nothing else beneath the sweatshirt, that none of those components were capacitors, that no wires went anywhere else except that device, that the putty in her hand was not connected to the device and so on.
No they thought it may be part of an explosive device, their job is to identify potential threats.
Well it's great that you have x-ray vision and zoom built into your eyes, you may wish to patent your great invention btw.
Yes but the energy required by it to do that could have probably cooked a continent. So I'm sure they'd be too busy working for the DoD to have time to help out the Mars holidayers.
Except that when you report on a plane crash you're expected to tell people WHY it crashed not just that it did. If all you do is believe the plane company (or manufacturer) who claims it was purely pilot error despite a video of the plane exploding in mid-air then you ARE a shitty journalist.
You don't want desktop performance, you want old slow hardware performance. There is a difference. New things require more power to run. Granted most likely you fucked up somewhere in your configuration, software or hardware. How much ram do you have btw?
See I guess unlike your country in the US people expect the police to most of the time not be corrupt, horribly, bastards that will torture to death anyone they arrest. It's nice to live in a civilized country, you should try it some time.
ODF is the default filetype for openoffice.org so there are many users but simply not close to (I'm sure that's an understatement) as many as other formats have.
Except only certain file types get properly identified and parsed into html. The fact that it's not in the drop down list is a minor problem likely due to the relative lack of popularity of these formats right now.