You're saying that "the current anti-muslim fearmongers" are "simply a less capable Hitler wannabe?" Really? Then why, exactly, are they having such a successful run? Looks to me like they are succeeding in ways Adolph never dreamed of.
I'd like to know how the study corrected out other factors that would have led the kids to act the way they do. I'm thinking behavioral issues that stem from other influences, and maybe even crappy parenting might also be common to the misbehaving kids. If you're a parent that lets their kid swill down a bunch of soda, maybe there are other problems here.
You are saying YOUR posts. YOUR data. They aren't. You post it on Facebook, it's theirs. They can do as they please with it, including take it away from you. They SAY you own it, but read their terms. They can use it as they please until you delete it. Then even if you delete something, if someone has reposted it or shared it, it stays in Facebooks domain. So despite the soothing words you are in essence giving it to them. If there is something you want guaranteed access to and control over, do not put it on Facebook. Period.
If you are looking at immediate employment prospects and saying you don't need math for them, then yeah you're right - in the short term. But 5 years from now, who knows what you will be doing or what you will have to be familiar with? Even if you don't remember the exact approaches, you should at least be able to recognize the problems. As for the actual math, I sucked at math. Until I got a good prof who loved what she taught and convinced me that while my doing the problems assigned was good, if I was having difficulty it was because I wasn't doing enough homework. So I ended up doing all the problems I could get my hands on and basically doing math all day Saturdays and Sundays and quite a few evenings. Turns out if you want to be good at it, you have to do a lot of it - not just the minimum required. Very few of us are Sheldon Cooper and math is all about practice.
It's just an indication that the sheer ignorance on the part of government of the use of the internet in general and social media in particular is world-wide. Hell, the people who dreamed up the idea probably think spam is a good mass marketing tool. Politicians are the same everywhere - disconnected and with a blind sense of entitlement.
As a guy who worked on some pretty complex financial software, I can tell you this; If you come to a company and say "Hey, look. Your software is outdated, and just not cool anymore. Let us fix it." They will say "OK, how much will it cost, how many times will you screw up (and you WILL) and how much will it cost in lost productivity, development and training time?" In other words, prove to me that the cost and risk outweighs the benefits of leaving my not-cool but working structure in place? Know what? You can't. When you are talking about financials, companies are justifiably VERY risk-averse. And yeah, people laughed at COBOL when I was coding, and even back in the 70s when I was learning. This is an old argument and the fact is COBOL will be around a very long time whether our new compsci grads like it much or not. They aren't paying the bills and looking at cash flow. They just see all that legacy code and say they could do it better. Maybe you can. But you're not gonna.
"This finding is important because methane is estimated to be 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and it could indicate that global warming is about to accelerate dramatically"
Or, conveniently left out of the horror story, is that fact that since it was just discovered it could have been going on for a very long time and the effects are already covered in the temperature data and it makes no difference at all except as an interesting find. But balanced and thoughtful reportage wouldn't grab so much attention.
OK, some things are going to be tough to quantify. But I suspect that at least some if not most of your responsibilities consist of putting out fires, right? I am not a sysadmin, but I know ours at my last job ended up fixing lots of stuff. When I was working in an electronic test support group, we used mean time to repair and mean time between failures to track our efforts. it does require logging problems and tracking time, but you should be doing that now anyway.
Mine stems from a different cause - Alports syndrome. I wear hearing aids, and as anyone who could once hear normally and now wears then can attest, they suck! Well, they're better than being deaf, but in some circumstances you may as well be. I am a habitual user of CC, but not all programs have it and many that do, do a very poor job of syncing the captioning up with the video. Argh.
ANYWAY, that out of the way, the reason is of course money. CC costs money. Someone has to sit down and transcribe every word said and enter in into the CC system. That someone probably wants to be paid for their work. Free online content isn't going to support that sort of thing, and I kind of doubt that most ad-driven sites are making enough bucks to cover the cost either.
Americans with Disability Act? Hah. OK, force content providers to add CC to their streams. Guess what? You're going to lose a bunch of streams - and probably the most interesting ones. Big guns like CNN will handle it, but small providers? The very ones who aren't spitting out the mass produced pap and biased (well, at least not all biased the same way) journalism? Bu-bye! Online content does not follow the same financial model as commercial broadcast. So, while I'd love to see it, it's not going to happen any time soon.
Why in the world would you want to take home a hard disk full of sensitive information, when you can work on it while it's stored at a remote location? It's called client/server, and we handle data that way at my job, and we're not even techie IT guys - it's just more secure and even we know that. If it's not on your laptop, it ain't gonna get stolen when the laptop is! Instead it's on a server in a locked room with some security around it.
You don't need to take my identity home with you so you can get some work done on the freaking beach or while boffing your mistress, OK?
The guys writing this stuff may have been writing from a religious perspective, but that doesn't mean they were stupid.
IMNSHO, yes it does mean they are stupid. Bring the bible into this discussion is like bringing any other work of fiction into it. Why not talk about Logan's Run and Carousel, or THX-1138?
Fiction is a good tool to explore what-ifs and extrapolate trends. I don't think the writers of that little bit of religious verse were stupid, and they fully understand the first moves of an inhumane government.
Seems to me any totalitarian, evil (for lack of a better word with fewer metaphysical overtones) state would just LOVE to track the movements of their mindless cyborgs, excuse me, citizens. Haven't we given up enough freedom and privacy in the name of safety and convenience yet?
Listen to yourself. This guy wants to VOLUNTARILY implant himself. Shouldn't people decide what is right for them? No "totalitarian, evil state" is making him do anything. OR do you think the government is using it's secret mind-control technology on him?
Sure, voluntarily make yourself a subject of tracking. Go ahead. No skin off my nose. Voluntarily make your every move transparent. Someone in government with a do-gooder complex and too much time on their hands will notice how easy it is to keep tabs on you and say "This would be great if EVERYONE did it. Life is so convenient for this guy now. Let's push for it! It will still be voluntary though.". From there it's a short hop to "Let's MAKE everyone do it! Yeah! If it's good, we should legislate it!" The government has a poor record for staying the hell out of peoples business, in case you haven't noticed. And it's getting worse, not better.
And, if you think you can't be tracked now, you are either ignorant or fooling yourself.
Sure I can - but why make it easier? If I pay cash at K-Mart, whose going to know if I bought those gardening implements and a copy of the subversive 2600? Implant me and those items, and knowing that becomes trivial.
Hearing aids and other embedded prosthetics don't have the potential to track your every move, so that's not a valid comparison.
While the guys' post does put a religious spin on it, discounting it because it's from a religious source is narrow minded. The guys writing this stuff may have been writing from a religious perspective, but that doesn't mean they were stupid. Seems to me any totalitarian, evil (for lack of a better word with fewer metaphysical overtones) state would just LOVE to track the movements of their mindless cyborgs, excuse me, citizens.
Haven't we given up enough freedom and privacy in the name of safety and convenience yet?
No and fuck no. At first glance it sounds cool. Hey, I can start my car, log into my machine, open my house, make a purchase all by walking up to a scanner. They know who I am because I have this unique RRFID chip embedded in my (name your body part here).
Hey, now K-Mart knows I walked in their door and what I bought, even though I paid cash. I am chipped and so are the goods in the cart, and all of it was scanned on the way out.
Hey, now my wife knows I went to that strip club, bcause their RFID scanner nailed me as I walked though the door, and the local blue noses got a court order releasing the records and put the info on their website.
Hey, now my RFID tag is no longer unique - someone duped it and used it to steal my ID and get into my house, my accounts, my car, my life.
Waaaaay too intrusive. I am going to run for president on an "I will leave you the hell alone for four years and make sure everyone else does, too" platform.
WiFi needs an infrastructure. If it's not there, WiFi is useless. Are we also talking about setting up free WiFi everywhere and granting free accounts to everyone that gets a $100 laptop? No, I am not saying we shouldn't (in fact we should, if we can afford it), but there is a lot more to this than just handing people the nifty plastic box.
A ham can talk to the rest of the world on a few watts of power and a $50 radio set with a wire strung out as an antenna.
This may be a stretch, but it seems to me that a good rule of thumb is that the more advanced the technology, the less useful it is to developing countries.
It's funny how us old folks got a decent education while relying on our sliderules or (gasp) pencil and paper. But we had an advantage - we were fed reasonably well, and lived in a stable society that put some emphasis on education and hope for the future. Concentrate on a real education and a safe place to live for people and seems to me the rest will fall in line eventually. And the kids will be a lot happier than they would be with a new electronic toy.
Do you have to be a mechanic to own a car? Darn few of us are, and we manage to drive 'em OK. I know there is still an elitist mentality out there (I'm guilty of it myself), but who here recalls the days when we the geeks thought that EVERYBODY should have access to computers? Anyone? The '70s were wonderful time, and this magical box would soon be ubiquitous.
Now that it is and everyone who has a few nickles to rub together *does* have access to computers - or, more to the point, the internet - some folks are cranky. Granted there is damn little common courtesy out there, and a lot of ignorance, but the industry brought that on itself by making it look as though the 'net and computers were mature tech, usable by anyone. We know that''s not true, but truth doesn't sell product.
What is needed is a basic book - there aren't many out there for the layman that brings everything together. I'm not sure that it will sell, but the idea is right. Writing it so granny can understand it is going to be a trick. Good luck - I want a signed copy!
You'd be reducing the efficiency of the system, not exactly a worthwhile goal:) It woud take more energy to obtain the O2 than you would recover from using it.
One of these miracles put on a motor on a dynamometer and tested in a lab. Just once! Screw road tests. Put the damn thing on a dyno, put a known load on the motor, and measure fuel consumption at the same speed and torque on the same motor under the same conditions both with and without the magic gizmo running. Also collect waste gases for analysis with and without, under identical operating conditions. I don't care if it burns dead cats, consecrated Barbie dolls, or whatever. If there is a difference, a dyno test will show it. If there isn't, it will show that too.
No, I don't mean to inflame. It looks like Just Another Email Client (tm). OE, Eudora, T-Bird, Pegasus - they all look like this. They all send and receive email. The screens are arranged the same way.
Educate me.
I love it when people who don't have a clue make comments like this. Surplus electricity, yeah. I suppose there is a little drain somewhere so all that surplus electricity can run off. Can't have little puddles of that stuff laying around, ya know!
Alternators supply electrical energy. This energy is converted from mechanical energy taken from the motor depending on load. The more load you put on the alternator the higher the torque load on the engine. More electrical consumption = more power taken from the motor. There are no extra watts floating around not doing anything.
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You're saying that "the current anti-muslim fearmongers" are "simply a less capable Hitler wannabe?" Really? Then why, exactly, are they having such a successful run? Looks to me like they are succeeding in ways Adolph never dreamed of.
I'd like to know how the study corrected out other factors that would have led the kids to act the way they do. I'm thinking behavioral issues that stem from other influences, and maybe even crappy parenting might also be common to the misbehaving kids. If you're a parent that lets their kid swill down a bunch of soda, maybe there are other problems here.
You are saying YOUR posts. YOUR data. They aren't. You post it on Facebook, it's theirs. They can do as they please with it, including take it away from you. They SAY you own it, but read their terms. They can use it as they please until you delete it. Then even if you delete something, if someone has reposted it or shared it, it stays in Facebooks domain. So despite the soothing words you are in essence giving it to them. If there is something you want guaranteed access to and control over, do not put it on Facebook. Period.
If you are looking at immediate employment prospects and saying you don't need math for them, then yeah you're right - in the short term. But 5 years from now, who knows what you will be doing or what you will have to be familiar with? Even if you don't remember the exact approaches, you should at least be able to recognize the problems. As for the actual math, I sucked at math. Until I got a good prof who loved what she taught and convinced me that while my doing the problems assigned was good, if I was having difficulty it was because I wasn't doing enough homework. So I ended up doing all the problems I could get my hands on and basically doing math all day Saturdays and Sundays and quite a few evenings. Turns out if you want to be good at it, you have to do a lot of it - not just the minimum required. Very few of us are Sheldon Cooper and math is all about practice.
It's just an indication that the sheer ignorance on the part of government of the use of the internet in general and social media in particular is world-wide. Hell, the people who dreamed up the idea probably think spam is a good mass marketing tool. Politicians are the same everywhere - disconnected and with a blind sense of entitlement.
Fortran rocks! Anything that can run on a PDP-8i is OK in my book. Now where can I find a new teletype ribbon?
As a guy who worked on some pretty complex financial software, I can tell you this; If you come to a company and say "Hey, look. Your software is outdated, and just not cool anymore. Let us fix it." They will say "OK, how much will it cost, how many times will you screw up (and you WILL) and how much will it cost in lost productivity, development and training time?" In other words, prove to me that the cost and risk outweighs the benefits of leaving my not-cool but working structure in place? Know what? You can't. When you are talking about financials, companies are justifiably VERY risk-averse. And yeah, people laughed at COBOL when I was coding, and even back in the 70s when I was learning. This is an old argument and the fact is COBOL will be around a very long time whether our new compsci grads like it much or not. They aren't paying the bills and looking at cash flow. They just see all that legacy code and say they could do it better. Maybe you can. But you're not gonna.
"This finding is important because methane is estimated to be 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and it could indicate that global warming is about to accelerate dramatically" Or, conveniently left out of the horror story, is that fact that since it was just discovered it could have been going on for a very long time and the effects are already covered in the temperature data and it makes no difference at all except as an interesting find. But balanced and thoughtful reportage wouldn't grab so much attention.
OK, some things are going to be tough to quantify. But I suspect that at least some if not most of your responsibilities consist of putting out fires, right? I am not a sysadmin, but I know ours at my last job ended up fixing lots of stuff. When I was working in an electronic test support group, we used mean time to repair and mean time between failures to track our efforts. it does require logging problems and tracking time, but you should be doing that now anyway.
Mine stems from a different cause - Alports syndrome. I wear hearing aids, and as anyone who could once hear normally and now wears then can attest, they suck! Well, they're better than being deaf, but in some circumstances you may as well be. I am a habitual user of CC, but not all programs have it and many that do, do a very poor job of syncing the captioning up with the video. Argh. ANYWAY, that out of the way, the reason is of course money. CC costs money. Someone has to sit down and transcribe every word said and enter in into the CC system. That someone probably wants to be paid for their work. Free online content isn't going to support that sort of thing, and I kind of doubt that most ad-driven sites are making enough bucks to cover the cost either. Americans with Disability Act? Hah. OK, force content providers to add CC to their streams. Guess what? You're going to lose a bunch of streams - and probably the most interesting ones. Big guns like CNN will handle it, but small providers? The very ones who aren't spitting out the mass produced pap and biased (well, at least not all biased the same way) journalism? Bu-bye! Online content does not follow the same financial model as commercial broadcast. So, while I'd love to see it, it's not going to happen any time soon.
Why in the world would you want to take home a hard disk full of sensitive information, when you can work on it while it's stored at a remote location? It's called client/server, and we handle data that way at my job, and we're not even techie IT guys - it's just more secure and even we know that. If it's not on your laptop, it ain't gonna get stolen when the laptop is! Instead it's on a server in a locked room with some security around it. You don't need to take my identity home with you so you can get some work done on the freaking beach or while boffing your mistress, OK?
Hearing aids and other embedded prosthetics don't have the potential to track your every move, so that's not a valid comparison. While the guys' post does put a religious spin on it, discounting it because it's from a religious source is narrow minded. The guys writing this stuff may have been writing from a religious perspective, but that doesn't mean they were stupid. Seems to me any totalitarian, evil (for lack of a better word with fewer metaphysical overtones) state would just LOVE to track the movements of their mindless cyborgs, excuse me, citizens. Haven't we given up enough freedom and privacy in the name of safety and convenience yet?
No and fuck no. At first glance it sounds cool. Hey, I can start my car, log into my machine, open my house, make a purchase all by walking up to a scanner. They know who I am because I have this unique RRFID chip embedded in my (name your body part here). Hey, now K-Mart knows I walked in their door and what I bought, even though I paid cash. I am chipped and so are the goods in the cart, and all of it was scanned on the way out. Hey, now my wife knows I went to that strip club, bcause their RFID scanner nailed me as I walked though the door, and the local blue noses got a court order releasing the records and put the info on their website. Hey, now my RFID tag is no longer unique - someone duped it and used it to steal my ID and get into my house, my accounts, my car, my life. Waaaaay too intrusive. I am going to run for president on an "I will leave you the hell alone for four years and make sure everyone else does, too" platform.
WiFi needs an infrastructure. If it's not there, WiFi is useless. Are we also talking about setting up free WiFi everywhere and granting free accounts to everyone that gets a $100 laptop? No, I am not saying we shouldn't (in fact we should, if we can afford it), but there is a lot more to this than just handing people the nifty plastic box. A ham can talk to the rest of the world on a few watts of power and a $50 radio set with a wire strung out as an antenna. This may be a stretch, but it seems to me that a good rule of thumb is that the more advanced the technology, the less useful it is to developing countries.
It's funny how us old folks got a decent education while relying on our sliderules or (gasp) pencil and paper. But we had an advantage - we were fed reasonably well, and lived in a stable society that put some emphasis on education and hope for the future. Concentrate on a real education and a safe place to live for people and seems to me the rest will fall in line eventually. And the kids will be a lot happier than they would be with a new electronic toy.
Lord, that's painful to look at! Nice one! But wherz the ponies?
Do you have to be a mechanic to own a car? Darn few of us are, and we manage to drive 'em OK. I know there is still an elitist mentality out there (I'm guilty of it myself), but who here recalls the days when we the geeks thought that EVERYBODY should have access to computers? Anyone? The '70s were wonderful time, and this magical box would soon be ubiquitous. Now that it is and everyone who has a few nickles to rub together *does* have access to computers - or, more to the point, the internet - some folks are cranky. Granted there is damn little common courtesy out there, and a lot of ignorance, but the industry brought that on itself by making it look as though the 'net and computers were mature tech, usable by anyone. We know that''s not true, but truth doesn't sell product. What is needed is a basic book - there aren't many out there for the layman that brings everything together. I'm not sure that it will sell, but the idea is right. Writing it so granny can understand it is going to be a trick. Good luck - I want a signed copy!
You'd be reducing the efficiency of the system, not exactly a worthwhile goal :) It woud take more energy to obtain the O2 than you would recover from using it.
Now we know your idea works. Oh, wait, my exhaust is cool too. Maybe I should start my car and see what happens?
One of these miracles put on a motor on a dynamometer and tested in a lab. Just once! Screw road tests. Put the damn thing on a dyno, put a known load on the motor, and measure fuel consumption at the same speed and torque on the same motor under the same conditions both with and without the magic gizmo running. Also collect waste gases for analysis with and without, under identical operating conditions. I don't care if it burns dead cats, consecrated Barbie dolls, or whatever. If there is a difference, a dyno test will show it. If there isn't, it will show that too.
No, I don't mean to inflame. It looks like Just Another Email Client (tm). OE, Eudora, T-Bird, Pegasus - they all look like this. They all send and receive email. The screens are arranged the same way. Educate me.
I love it when people who don't have a clue make comments like this. Surplus electricity, yeah. I suppose there is a little drain somewhere so all that surplus electricity can run off. Can't have little puddles of that stuff laying around, ya know! Alternators supply electrical energy. This energy is converted from mechanical energy taken from the motor depending on load. The more load you put on the alternator the higher the torque load on the engine. More electrical consumption = more power taken from the motor. There are no extra watts floating around not doing anything.
Think of the potential in that jacket (no pun intended). The answer to the energy crisis is windbreakers and woolens!
And they say the *American* education systems sucks! I'm guessing the Aussies won't be puting a man on the moon anytime soon then... :)