It doesn't look pretentious if you're European, it looks normal. There is a world outside the evil empire! I will, however, agree that one shouldn't mix standards.
I, but then this is a fifty year old talking, would argue that maturity is about having the range of experience to make balanced judgements, and to know that 'preconceived notions' are often wrong.
As for an old dog learning new tricks, you don't stay in the IT world for long without having to learn something new all the time, otherwise I'd still be looking after Win 3.11 PCs, and not *nix systems. Where maturity comes in is that, when there's a crisis, I have a bigger set of mental tools to cope with it than a raw newcomer.
I take your point about physics discoveries - ignoring Newton, of course. This is even more true in Maths which has a quicker burn out rate, but across the wider field of human endeavour I think you'll find there's more spread to the bell curve.
A "child-like flexibility of attitudes, behaviors and knowledge" is probably adaptive to the increased instability of the modern world, Charlton believes. Formal education now extends well past physical maturity, leaving students with minds that are, he said, "unfinished."
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"By contrast, many modern adults fail to attain this maturity, and such failure is common and indeed characteristic of highly educated and, on the whole, effective and socially valuable people," he said.
So it looks like his definition of 'maturity' coresponds to my 'boring old fart', which, at the age of 53, I hope I'm not.
Use your brain, the rep. did exactly the right thing. And the fact that a 30-year-old man behaves like a pre-menstrual school girl just tells you something about our men today...
Maybe I'm just being troll food but - you arrogant sexist bastard!
Well in one respect, I don't really care where spyware & malware is going - I just want it eliminated. Whether it's key loggers or rootkits or adware, our job is simple: keep unauthorized software off of the users' machines. We've attacked this problem at multiple levels
And this from the company that won't let you install security fixes unless you install their spyware, sorry WMA. Or is it that their spyware is OK, others is not because 'they're the good guys'
And that's why your spacecraft crash, because one engineer uses si, and the next uses imperial. I guess your naval engineers use knots for things other than ships because of tradition.
The rest of the world has managed to go metric, even us conservative Brits, espcially when writing in something that advertises itself as 'Global News For The Creators Of Technology', come and join us in the 21st century.
So why is the author writing down to his audience on a web site aimed at The Creators Of Technology (their words, not mine)
Anybody reading EETimes should be able to think in Kelvin directly, and not have to have it transcribed to an obsolete system. In fact, the cell phone reference is pretty patronising as well
If you live in northern UK then 80 is a scorcher, two inches of snow is a blizzard, and 3 cm of rain is a downpour. Weather descriptions depend on your outlook. 'Phew What A Scorcher' was a famous national newspaper headline (Daily Mirror, I think, but it might have been the Sun) during a 'heatwave' when the temperature went as high as 88F
IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) and Georgia Tech (Atlanta) claimed that they have demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies above 500 GHz by cryogenically "freezing" the circuit to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit (4.5 Kelvins).
Is anyone in the scientific world still seriously using Fahrenheit? What happened to si. Ok, for old farts like me it's nice to have the weather in Fahrenheit because I know that 60 is a nice spring day, 70 is hot and 80, phew, what a scorcher, but if I'm doing science I would no more use Fahrenheit than I would measure distance in poles.
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Well actually I used my 2 week old estate (station wagon in the USA) to take horse manure from the local stables to my back garden so yes, exactly, a car is a car, and a PC is PC, both are topols and the aesthetics come a long way second, but then I don't own an Apple.
So when you've just been hauled out of the shower, been called away from your favourite tv prog, interrupted in your meal, it will be OK because you'll know as soon as you answer it.
How about one which monitors it's citizens telephone calls, or insists that it's ISP's hand over surfing details? I don't trust the Chinese either, but they're not the only villains on this stage.
I work for a British Government financial department. There is no technical reason why I couldn't copy this sort of data down from the *nix boxes onto an external hard drive and take it home. I'd probably end in court if I did - official secrets act and all that - and I'd certainly lose my job, but, in technical terms, no probs.
As ever, with security, when it comes to sysadmins, you need to be able to trust the personnel, no only in terms of their integrity, but also in terms of their stupidity.
If you think in cartesian terms the the unreal axis is at 90 degrees to the real axis. This maps very neatly to where entities work at 90 degrees to each other, as in electric currents running through a wire in a magnetic field. Additionally, although I can't remember the details as it was thirty five years ago when I studied this, the shape of an aerofoil can be described using i, and if you do so the maths relating to the airflow becomes much simpler.
As I said, I studied engineering thirty five years ago and I'm very rusty, I'm sure that other/.ers could provide plenty of examples
Firstly you never know when a mathematical oddity will turn out, years later, to be an essential part of something else. Both the sqare root of minus one and matraces had no posible application when they were firts investigated. Now both are essential tools for engineers.
Secondly for the same reason that we flew to the moon, because if we lose our inate curiosity then we lose our humanity. There's far more to being alive than materialism
There's not much here, it's written in the WSJ which means it's in language that my mum would understand, and has precious little in the way of hard facts.
For those who can't be bothered to RTFA,
There are things called 'Captchas'
People don't like them
Computers are getting better at cracking them
Some boffins are trying to make new ones which people like and computers don't
"I think it's a very interesting solution to a very important problem," says William Dorlund, a plasma physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park, US. But he warns it will be difficult to apply the solution to functional reactors until the theory behind the technique is well understood.
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Kinda looks pretentious,
It doesn't look pretentious if you're European, it looks normal. There is a world outside the evil empire! I will, however, agree that one shouldn't mix standards.
Maturity is the mental state of turning off observation and going into an auto-pilot mode of preconceived notions.
Sorry but I really can't let that pass. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maturity has the definition The state or quality of being fully grown or developed.
I, but then this is a fifty year old talking, would argue that maturity is about having the range of experience to make balanced judgements, and to know that 'preconceived notions' are often wrong.
As for an old dog learning new tricks, you don't stay in the IT world for long without having to learn something new all the time, otherwise I'd still be looking after Win 3.11 PCs, and not *nix systems. Where maturity comes in is that, when there's a crisis, I have a bigger set of mental tools to cope with it than a raw newcomer.
I take your point about physics discoveries - ignoring Newton, of course. This is even more true in Maths which has a quicker burn out rate, but across the wider field of human endeavour I think you'll find there's more spread to the bell curve.
P.S. My father, emeritus Professor of Statistics at London University, sounds a lot like your grandfather.
A "child-like flexibility of attitudes, behaviors and knowledge" is probably adaptive to the increased instability of the modern world, Charlton believes. Formal education now extends well past physical maturity, leaving students with minds that are, he said, "unfinished."
and
"By contrast, many modern adults fail to attain this maturity, and such failure is common and indeed characteristic of highly educated and, on the whole, effective and socially valuable people," he said.
So it looks like his definition of 'maturity' coresponds to my 'boring old fart', which, at the age of 53, I hope I'm not.
Use your brain, the rep. did exactly the right thing. And the fact that a 30-year-old man behaves like a pre-menstrual school girl just tells you something about our men today...
Maybe I'm just being troll food but - you arrogant sexist bastard!
And I was rebooting servers at 4 a.m. and shouldn't really be at work! It's no wonder I get my mucking words fuddled!
From TFA
Well in one respect, I don't really care where spyware & malware is going - I just want it eliminated. Whether it's key loggers or rootkits or adware, our job is simple: keep unauthorized software off of the users' machines. We've attacked this problem at multiple levels
And this from the company that won't let you install security fixes unless you install their spyware, sorry WMA. Or is it that their spyware is OK, others is not because 'they're the good guys'
The rest of the world has managed to go metric, even us conservative Brits, espcially when writing in something that advertises itself as 'Global News For The Creators Of Technology', come and join us in the 21st century.
So why is the author writing down to his audience on a web site aimed at The Creators Of Technology (their words, not mine)
Anybody reading EETimes should be able to think in Kelvin directly, and not have to have it transcribed to an obsolete system. In fact, the cell phone reference is pretty patronising as well
If you live in northern UK then 80 is a scorcher, two inches of snow is a blizzard, and 3 cm of rain is a downpour. Weather descriptions depend on your outlook. 'Phew What A Scorcher' was a famous national newspaper headline (Daily Mirror, I think, but it might have been the Sun) during a 'heatwave' when the temperature went as high as 88F
From TFA - my emphasis
IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) and Georgia Tech (Atlanta) claimed that they have demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies above 500 GHz by cryogenically "freezing" the circuit to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit (4.5 Kelvins).
Is anyone in the scientific world still seriously using Fahrenheit? What happened to si. Ok, for old farts like me it's nice to have the weather in Fahrenheit because I know that 60 is a nice spring day, 70 is hot and 80, phew, what a scorcher, but if I'm doing science I would no more use Fahrenheit than I would measure distance in poles.
Well they were, untill we /.ed it!
The people with no discretionary income are the teenager's parents - as I know only to well - and I thought a dog was expensive!
Well actually I used my 2 week old estate (station wagon in the USA) to take horse manure from the local stables to my back garden so yes, exactly, a car is a car, and a PC is PC, both are topols and the aesthetics come a long way second, but then I don't own an Apple.
who cares what it looks like?
So when you've just been hauled out of the shower, been called away from your favourite tv prog, interrupted in your meal, it will be OK because you'll know as soon as you answer it.
How about one which monitors it's citizens telephone calls, or insists that it's ISP's hand over surfing details? I don't trust the Chinese either, but they're not the only villains on this stage.
out of the waste bin in my workroom
It seemed an awful lot of fuss to me, what's wrong with copper wire, steel wire, and a lemon? Now that's simple.
As ever, with security, when it comes to sysadmins, you need to be able to trust the personnel, no only in terms of their integrity, but also in terms of their stupidity.
That's the bunny! Thanks.
If you think in cartesian terms the the unreal axis is at 90 degrees to the real axis. This maps very neatly to where entities work at 90 degrees to each other, as in electric currents running through a wire in a magnetic field. Additionally, although I can't remember the details as it was thirty five years ago when I studied this, the shape of an aerofoil can be described using i, and if you do so the maths relating to the airflow becomes much simpler.
As I said, I studied engineering thirty five years ago and I'm very rusty, I'm sure that other /.ers could provide plenty of examples
- There are things called 'Captchas'
- People don't like them
- Computers are getting better at cracking them
- Some boffins are trying to make new ones which people like and computers don't
Really, that's all there is.From TFA
"I think it's a very interesting solution to a very important problem," says William Dorlund, a plasma physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park, US. But he warns it will be difficult to apply the solution to functional reactors until the theory behind the technique is well understood.
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