I know this might come as a shock to you, but the U.S. Government is very large. It does multiple things at one time. One part can have a policy contradicting another part. In some cases, the contradiction is mandated by Congress. Government is not a large company where getting out of line can get you fired. There is no line, there are fiefdoms. And you wouldn't want it any other way.
What would "theoretical evidence" actually be. Evidence which is not like real evidence because it is theoretical. Evidence for a particular theory? That seems plausible but if so, it should be stated as "theory evidence".
That's part of it. However, I think the author of the article missed (unless I missed reading it) turning your company over to MBAs who do not understand engineering or manufacturing. Having no product experience, or worse, desiring none, they will make a mess of a product regardless of where it is manufactured.
Enumerating the explanations...how would that work? There isn't a recursive procedure to enumerate all and only the explanations. So we are left with picking a language, say English, and enumerating all the sentences in English. That's a bit tricky. We'd have to generate all strings in the alphabet in English (including spaces and punctuation) and then test each one for whether it is a valid or meaningful English sentence. I'll chose valid because meaningful is ill-defined. So we'd have to consider that "The two-headed rat with faces like Putin killed all those entities collected together under the roof of the mansion." We'd probably need paragraphs but we'll settle for run-on English sentences. We can throw out the ones that fail to meet the facts.
The ones that do meet the facts is infinite. Still, we must endeavor to accept the infinite, so we'll be at this for quite a while. Just before the heat death of the Universe, we'll stop and see what we have. Except that we live in an information limited environment, so we don't know about information that we don't know (cue Rumsfeld, or better Ross Perot, "That makes as much sense as two-headed rat choosing his favorite brand of cheese"). We are left with a possibly infinite set of explanations, some probably involving two-headed rats with heads that look like Putin.
Conclusion: stop reading fiction as though it were truth.
Yes and no. AT&T was split up and Southwestern Bell was one of the baby bells. Then SW Bell bought the shell that AT&T had become. After so much time and so many business school weenies running the companies, AT&T is only the bastard son of MBAs.
No. Mathematics or biology is an enabling science. Knowing those can open up many different areas to you. Knowing theoretical CS allows you to be flexible, but it won't give you the necessary background to do much that is interesting in the economy.
If half of CS and IT doesn't require a college degree, then teaching it to little fellers and claiming it is somehow preparing them for the workplace is isn't a career path to anything except obsolescence.
More to the point, promoting CS for everyone is just a way for the pols to claim they are somehow in tune with the current economy. They don't have clue, well, no one really does because the world's and U.S.'s economy is big...really, really big...so big that no one thing like CS education is going to move the dial.
Also, the pol's idea of CS education has been spoon fed to them by companies like MS whose idea of CS education is using their software. Come to think of it, a push like this will probably dumb down American education even more than it is already. Teach the sprogs math, science, literary ability, etc. Stop teaching them technologies; those technologies will be all different by the time the sprogs hit the workforce.
The Iranians will just buy what they need from N. Korea. They were already on that path before Israel took out the nuke plant in Syria a few years back. So in 10 years, their missile technology will have been perfected just in time to receive N. Korean warheads. And in the meantime, the Iranians will get back into the international economy to fund their foreign adventures. They are willing to fight for Syria to the last Arab.
The U.S. Administration just kicked the can down the road.
Yep, coming up with new security controls, testing them internally for coverage, re-engineering them for holes should take...what...about an afternoon for you?
This is much worse than that, the S. Koreans are blasting (among other things) KPop at the Norks. I'm surprised the Norks haven't launched an attack over this dastardly attack of boys and girls groups. Lil' Kim is probably charging up the Fart-O-Cannon connected to the anterior lobes of his posterior and ready to lob ballistic SBD blobs at Seoul. The U.S. has already imposed a baked beans embargo on the Norks but to no avail...they have Double Secret Weapon...the Kimche-of-the-UnDead. The S. Koreans are quaking in their boots right now pleading for the Norks to send their nukes instead.
But gender is a major part of programming. Programming is essentially seen as an individual endeavor much like science. You are expected to grind out technical solutions to problems almost as puzzles. That brings with it the "individual" as the main driver, in contraposition to group science projects which are much harder to organize and require greater resources.
Girls are much more social than boys. The focus on individual effort just isn't as interesting to them. Boys can keep themselves amused for hours on something very small in the relative scheme of things because they focus on the problem. Girls just require more social interaction and the social activity is what makes something interesting, not the small problem.
The result is just what we see. Most scientists, engineers, and computer scientists are men. Most socially oriented occupations such as teaching, nursing, etc. are populated by women. As usual with the real world, most things conform to some sort of probability distribution, so there are women in science, but not a lot relative to the general pop.
Really? The U.S. helped the Islamic nutjobs take Afghanistan from the Russians. Then, just to show us how much they appreciated the effort, they provide a safe haven for Al Qaeda and the rest is history.
You also ignore that Saudi Arabia has been exporting the most virulent form of insane Islam for a long time.
The U.S. took Iraq away from a brutal dictator. The Iraqis decided to turn their country into shit...home grown Islamic shit. The U.S. helped take Libya away from a brutal dictator. The Libyans decided to turn their country into Islamic shit.
Hehehe....NoScript showed a black page, it caused my browser to load nothing. Then I checked the url, Forbes. End-O-Session, nope, do not want, the Forbes site is the Breath of Satan.
Hmmm....air quality in Beijing and other parts of China are piss poor. New Delhi is blanketed by smog. Indonesia is burning their rain forests.
Last we heard, these were very competitive places to set up business. Could you please move there and let us know how you like it? Postcards will do, try to get some action photos of the pollution in these business havens, we like that sort of thing.
Before the Norks went to the Great Leader in the Sky, a lot of Sorks would die first because it doesn't take long to light off the Norks missiles which are aimed and ready for screwing S. Korea.
And after the war, the winning combatants would have to put up with world condemnation for killing so many innocent Norks. Plus, they'd have to fund the rehab of N. Korea.
And any build up before a war would have to counter the help Putin would give to the Norks, because he would see it as a way of raising the cost. He'd could then argue to his own sheep that what happened to the Norks was being planned for the Russkies.
As one of the previous commenters mentioned, it is good for keeping tabs on the contents of the elderlies' refrigerators. If you have ever had to care for aged parents or aunts or uncles or grandparents, you quickly realize many can get along just fine as long as the little details of life can be managed for them. You have a choice, you can buy in-home care to do this for you. However, if you don't have that sort of cash to throw around (and it ain't cheap), then little baubles like this are god-send. You won't be there enough time and it would exhaust you to do it.
And when you reach your dotage, you will want to (1) be independent, (2) thankful for little eyes to watch things for you just as long as they aren't attached to someone strange (or weird, or larcenous) in your house.
I think it is a problem with STEM fields in general. The main reason I found (asst. of a lab once) is that STEM fields value independent moxie. This dovetails with many men's nature to be independent.
Women, however, are very social. They generally have no problems sharing victories or working together to achieve something great.
The end result is that STEM is uninviting for women, there's not enough social interaction to make it interesting to a broad swath of them. And it is populated by a lot of men who do not value much social interaction because they are too busy trying to run the ball by themselves into the end zone so they can spike it, alone.
The caveat is that just about everything in real life is a probability distribution, so there are great women scientists and engineers and very social men.
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I know this might come as a shock to you, but the U.S. Government is very large. It does multiple things at one time. One part can have a policy contradicting another part. In some cases, the contradiction is mandated by Congress. Government is not a large company where getting out of line can get you fired. There is no line, there are fiefdoms. And you wouldn't want it any other way.
Hmmm....I think you mean "dismemberment" of their lawyers. It is best not to leave them a way out.
Errr...there is good rap?
I don't think you can make those sorts of comparison unless we have some believable figures on butt size. The Kardashians are known for ample heft.
Stop watching TV, it is bad for you.
What would "theoretical evidence" actually be. Evidence which is not like real evidence because it is theoretical. Evidence for a particular theory? That seems plausible but if so, it should be stated as "theory evidence".
That's part of it. However, I think the author of the article missed (unless I missed reading it) turning your company over to MBAs who do not understand engineering or manufacturing. Having no product experience, or worse, desiring none, they will make a mess of a product regardless of where it is manufactured.
Enumerating the explanations...how would that work? There isn't a recursive procedure to enumerate all and only the explanations. So we are left with picking a language, say English, and enumerating all the sentences in English. That's a bit tricky. We'd have to generate all strings in the alphabet in English (including spaces and punctuation) and then test each one for whether it is a valid or meaningful English sentence. I'll chose valid because meaningful is ill-defined. So we'd have to consider that "The two-headed rat with faces like Putin killed all those entities collected together under the roof of the mansion." We'd probably need paragraphs but we'll settle for run-on English sentences. We can throw out the ones that fail to meet the facts.
The ones that do meet the facts is infinite. Still, we must endeavor to accept the infinite, so we'll be at this for quite a while. Just before the heat death of the Universe, we'll stop and see what we have. Except that we live in an information limited environment, so we don't know about information that we don't know (cue Rumsfeld, or better Ross Perot, "That makes as much sense as two-headed rat choosing his favorite brand of cheese"). We are left with a possibly infinite set of explanations, some probably involving two-headed rats with heads that look like Putin.
Conclusion: stop reading fiction as though it were truth.
Yep, cue the Greek guy with the electric hair, he'd have no problems explaining this.
Yes and no. AT&T was split up and Southwestern Bell was one of the baby bells. Then SW Bell bought the shell that AT&T had become. After so much time and so many business school weenies running the companies, AT&T is only the bastard son of MBAs.
No. Mathematics or biology is an enabling science. Knowing those can open up many different areas to you. Knowing theoretical CS allows you to be flexible, but it won't give you the necessary background to do much that is interesting in the economy.
If half of CS and IT doesn't require a college degree, then teaching it to little fellers and claiming it is somehow preparing them for the workplace is isn't a career path to anything except obsolescence.
More to the point, promoting CS for everyone is just a way for the pols to claim they are somehow in tune with the current economy. They don't have clue, well, no one really does because the world's and U.S.'s economy is big...really, really big...so big that no one thing like CS education is going to move the dial.
Also, the pol's idea of CS education has been spoon fed to them by companies like MS whose idea of CS education is using their software. Come to think of it, a push like this will probably dumb down American education even more than it is already. Teach the sprogs math, science, literary ability, etc. Stop teaching them technologies; those technologies will be all different by the time the sprogs hit the workforce.
The Iranians will just buy what they need from N. Korea. They were already on that path before Israel took out the nuke plant in Syria a few years back. So in 10 years, their missile technology will have been perfected just in time to receive N. Korean warheads. And in the meantime, the Iranians will get back into the international economy to fund their foreign adventures. They are willing to fight for Syria to the last Arab.
The U.S. Administration just kicked the can down the road.
Yep, coming up with new security controls, testing them internally for coverage, re-engineering them for holes should take...what...about an afternoon for you?
So you are saying the Norks are aiming their loudspeakers at their own people? Those bastards.
This is much worse than that, the S. Koreans are blasting (among other things) KPop at the Norks. I'm surprised the Norks haven't launched an attack over this dastardly attack of boys and girls groups. Lil' Kim is probably charging up the Fart-O-Cannon connected to the anterior lobes of his posterior and ready to lob ballistic SBD blobs at Seoul. The U.S. has already imposed a baked beans embargo on the Norks but to no avail...they have Double Secret Weapon...the Kimche-of-the-UnDead. The S. Koreans are quaking in their boots right now pleading for the Norks to send their nukes instead.
But gender is a major part of programming. Programming is essentially seen as an individual endeavor much like science. You are expected to grind out technical solutions to problems almost as puzzles. That brings with it the "individual" as the main driver, in contraposition to group science projects which are much harder to organize and require greater resources.
Girls are much more social than boys. The focus on individual effort just isn't as interesting to them. Boys can keep themselves amused for hours on something very small in the relative scheme of things because they focus on the problem. Girls just require more social interaction and the social activity is what makes something interesting, not the small problem.
The result is just what we see. Most scientists, engineers, and computer scientists are men. Most socially oriented occupations such as teaching, nursing, etc. are populated by women. As usual with the real world, most things conform to some sort of probability distribution, so there are women in science, but not a lot relative to the general pop.
Really? The U.S. helped the Islamic nutjobs take Afghanistan from the Russians. Then, just to show us how much they appreciated the effort, they provide a safe haven for Al Qaeda and the rest is history.
You also ignore that Saudi Arabia has been exporting the most virulent form of insane Islam for a long time.
The U.S. took Iraq away from a brutal dictator. The Iraqis decided to turn their country into shit...home grown Islamic shit. The U.S. helped take Libya away from a brutal dictator. The Libyans decided to turn their country into Islamic shit.
Stop whitewashing Islam.
Hehehe....NoScript showed a black page, it caused my browser to load nothing. Then I checked the url, Forbes. End-O-Session, nope, do not want, the Forbes site is the Breath of Satan.
And you base this opinion on your deep analysis of the grid and its power suppliers? Hell, you should run to be the next Trump.
Hmmm....air quality in Beijing and other parts of China are piss poor. New Delhi is blanketed by smog. Indonesia is burning their rain forests.
Last we heard, these were very competitive places to set up business. Could you please move there and let us know how you like it? Postcards will do, try to get some action photos of the pollution in these business havens, we like that sort of thing.
Before the Norks went to the Great Leader in the Sky, a lot of Sorks would die first because it doesn't take long to light off the Norks missiles which are aimed and ready for screwing S. Korea.
And after the war, the winning combatants would have to put up with world condemnation for killing so many innocent Norks. Plus, they'd have to fund the rehab of N. Korea.
And any build up before a war would have to counter the help Putin would give to the Norks, because he would see it as a way of raising the cost. He'd could then argue to his own sheep that what happened to the Norks was being planned for the Russkies.
As one of the previous commenters mentioned, it is good for keeping tabs on the contents of the elderlies' refrigerators. If you have ever had to care for aged parents or aunts or uncles or grandparents, you quickly realize many can get along just fine as long as the little details of life can be managed for them. You have a choice, you can buy in-home care to do this for you. However, if you don't have that sort of cash to throw around (and it ain't cheap), then little baubles like this are god-send. You won't be there enough time and it would exhaust you to do it.
And when you reach your dotage, you will want to (1) be independent, (2) thankful for little eyes to watch things for you just as long as they aren't attached to someone strange (or weird, or larcenous) in your house.
He's dumber than that; he thinks there's a live entity at Apple watching his account...his Apple Guardian Angel must have been taking a vacation.
I think it is a problem with STEM fields in general. The main reason I found (asst. of a lab once) is that STEM fields value independent moxie. This dovetails with many men's nature to be independent.
Women, however, are very social. They generally have no problems sharing victories or working together to achieve something great.
The end result is that STEM is uninviting for women, there's not enough social interaction to make it interesting to a broad swath of them. And it is populated by a lot of men who do not value much social interaction because they are too busy trying to run the ball by themselves into the end zone so they can spike it, alone.
The caveat is that just about everything in real life is a probability distribution, so there are great women scientists and engineers and very social men.