I don't disagree with you. It is badly worded. What it will do is create jobs in robot maintenance. Someone has to fix them when they break down and ensure they are serviced etc.
My copy of Scrabble is by Mattel. I live in Australia. From the Scrabble website it is clear that both Mattel and Hasbro have IP on it depending on where you are in the world. http://www.scrabble.com/
SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.
I see this idea as a two edged sword. It gets around a problem of hiring someone for simple things, but if it suddenly needs to grow into something larger, or if the project was always going to be large it'll be bad.
I've had to put up with people who learned 'a little programming' at work. What usually happens is they write a program and do it all incorrectly. No comments, hard coding things which should be variables, lots of 'goto's', lack of understanding of logic poor structure etc. Then, when something goes wrong or a major change needs to happen they end up coming to me to sort out their mess. When you point out the problems with their code they make statements like, 'Oh, but I'm not a programmer.' and 'You should be able to understand it without comments, you just read it because you can program.'
In the case of people following the advice, they'll learn a little programming and once it hits something difficult, or things don't work, they'll hire someone to sort it out. It isn't the same as learning to sing. If you screw up the singing on a record and need a singer to come in and sing the song for you they don't inherit all the bad singing done before. In music it's probably closer to producing, where if a previous producer did stupid things during the recording process and the session musicians are long gone, you find yourself correcting the things which had been done poorly, and having to hire session musicians to come in a correct parts recorded incorrectly etc.
For simple things it will probably be okay. But for anything with substance the person will either have to get into programming and learn proper coding techniques or hire someone.
On Perth (Australia) TV I remember seeing a 52 degrees C recorded earlier this year (or late last year) when watching the weather report on TV, but looking it up from the WA Bureau of Meteorology doesn't have it listed. I can remember seeing a number of temperatures listed over 50 degrees C from the middle of WA before, but they are obviously unofficial ones that the TV likes to report. Max. temp. I can find for WA was 50.5 recorded in 1998 (which would have put them in the now purple colour range). No bush fires in WA on that map! Hope it stays that way indefinitely.
It is funny how in some of the Star Trek original series they used metric in some shows and empirical in others. It was like some writers were predicting the future use of it throughout the galaxy and others were just used to using empirical, so didn't bother to convert.
It says he used a WWI code book. Yet, it includes things like 'PABLIZ - Panzer Attack - Blitz', In WWI the Germans didn't produce any 'Panzer' ie armour. They had the A7V tank, but from my recollection it was never referred to as Panzer. They also didn't use Blitz warfare until WWII. So, why would a WWI codebook have words in it referring to things not yet known/familiar to allied forces in WWI????
HVPKD - Have Panzers Know Directions
CMPNW - Counter Measures [against] Panzers Not Working
A lot of reference to panzers... prior to the first one being built in the 1930's (too lazy to look up the exact date). Did Nostrodamus write this WWI code book?
Add "Made in Indonesia" to that list (Vietnam, Thailand et al), because there are good indications they may boom in the near future and start to produce a lot more. (Some things already come from there, such as some Nike shoes etc, but I keep reading the same thing (that they will boom soon) in the Financial stuff both here in the West and in Indonesia and Malaysia.)
"Colleges have made use of the myth that you can’t get a job unless you have a college education."
This seems to be the premise of the piece, and it is incorrect. (James makes similar claims in his other books). There are plenty of jobs out there that don't require a college education and colleges don't make use of any myth concerning them. ie colleges don't claim you need a college degree to be a toilet cleaner. There are also plenty of jobs out there that require a college/university education and you can't practise without one. For instance, Medical Doctor.
I know heaps of people in IT who have no formal qualifications. But, at an interview for a developer, if there are two candidates who are about equal in skill it is more likely you'll get the job if you have a BCompSc than without. It can become the deciding factor. Also, what do we consider a college education? In computer networking, if you have Cisco certifications you'll get a lot further than someone without. (I know from experience). But, you can go through some colleges to get these qualification and you can also go through some other learning establishments to do courses or you can self study and just sit the exam. Different people will benefit from each of the methods available. I've never ever heard a college claim you can't work in computer networking without doing the Cisco certs through them. A BCompSc doesn't seem to matter in networking, in fact, I know no one in networking who has a BCompSc (but I assume they exist out there somewhere). About half the developers where I work have BCompSc. The other half didn't fall into the positions. Some started somewhere else and slowly moved into IT, whilst others did minor college courses to get themselves started.
The only time I ran into a prejudice against people not having a BCompSc was an agency in Sydney who only wanted people with degrees on their books. They rejected me at the time claiming I couldn't have been in IT as at the time I was studying for a BCompSc (part time) and hadn't completed it. At the time I was also working as a Database Admin. But, at the universities/colleges I've attended, not one of them ever made the claim that having a degree guaranteed me a job, nor did they claim not having a degree meant I couldn't get a job. So, which colleges/universities are making this claim? I think it is more a generalisation that some people have. Also, a lot of certifications now only last three years. I've done certifications through both colleges and other 'learning establishments' and as I've moved around between job, the need for them waned so I didn't keep them up to date. At present on paper it looks like I've done virtually no study at all. A college degree at least lasts forever, and if you are going into a field where a degree helps, then even if you start in the industry without one, it would be worth it to get one along the way part time. But, in some areas, such as computer networking, a degree is almost worthless and certification (Cisco, Juniper, Nortel etc) are worth a lot more as they are more relevant than a BCompSc which is more general.
Point here is, it all depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to be a medical doctor (and I have friends who did this), then 'yes' you require a degree. If you are going to do something that doesn't require a degree, then no, and I've never heard a college/university claim you need a college education for the jobs that don't require them.
I think the governments of the world are seeing it in a similar way to how they can veto company names which they consider inappropriate. (This comment in no way means I either agree or disagree with them).
'... they're working on open-source versions of bulldozers, bread ovens, saws and other tools...'
Okay, remind me how long patents go for! (Sorry, it's a rhetorical question)... 20 years after 1995, and 17 years prior to that... so... From Wikipedia:
'On December 18, 1923, Cummings and McLeod filed U.S. patent #1,522,378 that was later issued on January 6, 1925 for an "Attachment for Tractors."'
The Bulldozer patent went into public domain in 1942, and subsequently you could possibly build a design of your own using the technology of the original without legal worries... and I'm sure there are plenty of other Bulldozer improvements that have fallen into public domain that could also be used. As for Bread Ovens, Saws, other tools (are we talking hammer, screw drivers and mallets etc?), I'm pretty sure they have all been around long enough to be in public domain too. So, sure, maybe you'd have to design an open source bulldozer, but aren't all these things (saws, hammers etc) pretty much 'open source' already?
It was a 30% fall off and was cycling to work, not cycling in general. The amount of the population cycling in general actually increased, just not proportionally to the population increase. The stats also show that in bike accidents where a head injury was sustained there was 50% less chance of a fatality since the laws were introduced [Something the Qld police used when this topic came up once before]. So, helmets do help safety wise. I theorise they work because in car versus bike accidents, a lot of the injuries are not caused by the head and car coming in contact, but the head and road coming in contact. A helmet certainly helped me in that area.
I was one of the people who stopped cycling to work shortly after helmets were introduced, (1991) but it wasn't because I was deterred by helmets, it was because an idiot in a car went through a stop sign and straight over the top of me. The driver was in a rush as he was running late for work. Whether I was wearing a helmet or not had nothing to do with whether he would have stopped, (I was wearing bright red and white striped pants, so easily able to be seen), but the helmet did stop me getting a chunk taken out of my head by the road.
There was actually a 21% increase in cycling from 1985 to 2011. So more people are actually cycling. It is considered a decrease in cycling popularity due to the increase in the population. Relatively it was a 22% decrease in cycling popularity. But this could also be caused by a lack of facilities being produced for the amount of people taking up cycling. I know that every work place I've been to in recent years has bike racks and other facilities, but they are always full, so there just isn't any more room for people wanting to cycle to work. At least they provide facilities now, where as when I was cycling to work I had to chain my bike up in the outside car park till one of the bosses complained that it was unsightly. Then I tried leaving it in the mens room, but it was 'in the way'. Then it got chained up out the back to one of the trees and when the boss complained about that I asked where he could suggested I put the bike, and he decided I could keep chaining it to the tree.
But, (getting back to facilities), when there are 200+ cycle racks in a building (like at where I was working about six months ago) and all those cycle racks are being used, and you aren't allowed to leave the bike elsewhere in the building (due to building policies), and there is no where else to leave the bike outside (due to property management policies), it is a big incentive to take the train or bus. My team leader is someone who would like to ride to work, but can't as we don't have bike facilities for him to use.
In 2011 there were 1,989,562 people aged 9+ who cycle every day in Australia. That's a very large chunk of Australia's population, especially when you remove from the total population count those under 9+ (over 2 million of the population, who may not be capable of riding a bike - but aren't included in the bike riding statistics), and take into account those who are physically unable to ride (due to old age, illnesses, physical problems etc there are over 3 million Australians 65+ years of age), it is about 12% of the population actually capable of riding a bike who are cycling every day. Where I live now I have nothing close to cycle to. I am sure there are plenty of people like me who, if we were to take up cycling, it couldn't be to work, or to go shopping etc because we're just too far from anything usefully to ride to.
I've been to the Netherlands, and there was plenty of cycleways where you never came close to a car, and this is one of the things also listed in many reports as to why there are less deaths in the Netherlands and Denmark, they have much more cycling infrastructure than other countries. Some places, (when I lived in Sydney the Sydney Airport tunnel was one), are notorious for drivers getting annoyed at cyclists as one cyclist can cause one lane of traffic to slow down to the bik
Set up a donation site and try to double, (or better) your budget. There are a number of donation websites out there, such as http://gogetfunding.com/ (I found that by Googling and it was top of the list). Even just setting up a PayPal donation site might work. Then, tell everyone you can about it.
You might even be able to afford some solar panels or a petrol generator and petrol to keep the computers going. Even ask some solar panel manufacturers if you can get some for free, and ask around places like the computer manufacturers who have lease agreements (such as HP finance) if they have any old computers being returned. Approach some big corporations as well, most have budgets for donations. Or even write to Oprah (I'm sure she'd love to get involved).
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I don't disagree with you. It is badly worded. What it will do is create jobs in robot maintenance. Someone has to fix them when they break down and ensure they are serviced etc.
Your USB computer then gets herself to a nunnery, goes mad and kills herself!
SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.
I find that story hard to swallow!
I see this idea as a two edged sword. It gets around a problem of hiring someone for simple things, but if it suddenly needs to grow into something larger, or if the project was always going to be large it'll be bad.
I've had to put up with people who learned 'a little programming' at work. What usually happens is they write a program and do it all incorrectly. No comments, hard coding things which should be variables, lots of 'goto's', lack of understanding of logic poor structure etc. Then, when something goes wrong or a major change needs to happen they end up coming to me to sort out their mess. When you point out the problems with their code they make statements like, 'Oh, but I'm not a programmer.' and 'You should be able to understand it without comments, you just read it because you can program.'
In the case of people following the advice, they'll learn a little programming and once it hits something difficult, or things don't work, they'll hire someone to sort it out. It isn't the same as learning to sing. If you screw up the singing on a record and need a singer to come in and sing the song for you they don't inherit all the bad singing done before. In music it's probably closer to producing, where if a previous producer did stupid things during the recording process and the session musicians are long gone, you find yourself correcting the things which had been done poorly, and having to hire session musicians to come in a correct parts recorded incorrectly etc.
For simple things it will probably be okay. But for anything with substance the person will either have to get into programming and learn proper coding techniques or hire someone.
Wish they had Alan Moore writing it ... but, then it wouldn't be Star Wars, it'd be something unique like Watchmen or V for Vendetta! :-)
On Perth (Australia) TV I remember seeing a 52 degrees C recorded earlier this year (or late last year) when watching the weather report on TV, but looking it up from the WA Bureau of Meteorology doesn't have it listed. I can remember seeing a number of temperatures listed over 50 degrees C from the middle of WA before, but they are obviously unofficial ones that the TV likes to report. Max. temp. I can find for WA was 50.5 recorded in 1998 (which would have put them in the now purple colour range). No bush fires in WA on that map! Hope it stays that way indefinitely.
It is funny how in some of the Star Trek original series they used metric in some shows and empirical in others. It was like some writers were predicting the future use of it throughout the galaxy and others were just used to using empirical, so didn't bother to convert.
paranoid
Says the anonymous coward ... not that I have a problem with that .... just sayin'. :-)
It says he used a WWI code book. Yet, it includes things like 'PABLIZ - Panzer Attack - Blitz', In WWI the Germans didn't produce any 'Panzer' ie armour. They had the A7V tank, but from my recollection it was never referred to as Panzer. They also didn't use Blitz warfare until WWII. So, why would a WWI codebook have words in it referring to things not yet known/familiar to allied forces in WWI????
HVPKD - Have Panzers Know Directions
CMPNW - Counter Measures [against] Panzers Not Working
A lot of reference to panzers ... prior to the first one being built in the 1930's (too lazy to look up the exact date). Did Nostrodamus write this WWI code book?
As easy as p!$$! (As the Aussie slang goes).
Add "Made in Indonesia" to that list (Vietnam, Thailand et al), because there are good indications they may boom in the near future and start to produce a lot more. (Some things already come from there, such as some Nike shoes etc, but I keep reading the same thing (that they will boom soon) in the Financial stuff both here in the West and in Indonesia and Malaysia.)
"Colleges have made use of the myth that you can’t get a job unless you have a college education."
This seems to be the premise of the piece, and it is incorrect. (James makes similar claims in his other books). There are plenty of jobs out there that don't require a college education and colleges don't make use of any myth concerning them. ie colleges don't claim you need a college degree to be a toilet cleaner. There are also plenty of jobs out there that require a college/university education and you can't practise without one. For instance, Medical Doctor.
I know heaps of people in IT who have no formal qualifications. But, at an interview for a developer, if there are two candidates who are about equal in skill it is more likely you'll get the job if you have a BCompSc than without. It can become the deciding factor. Also, what do we consider a college education? In computer networking, if you have Cisco certifications you'll get a lot further than someone without. (I know from experience). But, you can go through some colleges to get these qualification and you can also go through some other learning establishments to do courses or you can self study and just sit the exam. Different people will benefit from each of the methods available. I've never ever heard a college claim you can't work in computer networking without doing the Cisco certs through them. A BCompSc doesn't seem to matter in networking, in fact, I know no one in networking who has a BCompSc (but I assume they exist out there somewhere). About half the developers where I work have BCompSc. The other half didn't fall into the positions. Some started somewhere else and slowly moved into IT, whilst others did minor college courses to get themselves started.
The only time I ran into a prejudice against people not having a BCompSc was an agency in Sydney who only wanted people with degrees on their books. They rejected me at the time claiming I couldn't have been in IT as at the time I was studying for a BCompSc (part time) and hadn't completed it. At the time I was also working as a Database Admin. But, at the universities/colleges I've attended, not one of them ever made the claim that having a degree guaranteed me a job, nor did they claim not having a degree meant I couldn't get a job. So, which colleges/universities are making this claim? I think it is more a generalisation that some people have. Also, a lot of certifications now only last three years. I've done certifications through both colleges and other 'learning establishments' and as I've moved around between job, the need for them waned so I didn't keep them up to date. At present on paper it looks like I've done virtually no study at all. A college degree at least lasts forever, and if you are going into a field where a degree helps, then even if you start in the industry without one, it would be worth it to get one along the way part time. But, in some areas, such as computer networking, a degree is almost worthless and certification (Cisco, Juniper, Nortel etc) are worth a lot more as they are more relevant than a BCompSc which is more general.
Point here is, it all depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to be a medical doctor (and I have friends who did this), then 'yes' you require a degree. If you are going to do something that doesn't require a degree, then no, and I've never heard a college/university claim you need a college education for the jobs that don't require them.
So, we broadcast Hairspray the musical to the galaxy and see who complains about the acting (overacting) ... right????
I think the governments of the world are seeing it in a similar way to how they can veto company names which they consider inappropriate. (This comment in no way means I either agree or disagree with them).
SUSPICION?! :-)
' ... they're working on open-source versions of bulldozers, bread ovens, saws and other tools ...'
Okay, remind me how long patents go for! (Sorry, it's a rhetorical question) ... 20 years after 1995, and 17 years prior to that ... so ... From Wikipedia:
'On December 18, 1923, Cummings and McLeod filed U.S. patent #1,522,378 that was later issued on January 6, 1925 for an "Attachment for Tractors."'
The Bulldozer patent went into public domain in 1942, and subsequently you could possibly build a design of your own using the technology of the original without legal worries ... and I'm sure there are plenty of other Bulldozer improvements that have fallen into public domain that could also be used. As for Bread Ovens, Saws, other tools (are we talking hammer, screw drivers and mallets etc?), I'm pretty sure they have all been around long enough to be in public domain too. So, sure, maybe you'd have to design an open source bulldozer, but aren't all these things (saws, hammers etc) pretty much 'open source' already?
The saddest part in Star Wars VII is when Bambi's mother turns to the dark side!
Well, if you made an effort to fine article you would know.
Another reason for not releasing it is because at present it looks like this:
List of things to do: Write draft for snooping laws.
But ... but ... it's one of my favourite shows!!!!!
Lionel Hutts is going to sue it when he finishes his lawsuit against the Never Ending Story.
It was a 30% fall off and was cycling to work, not cycling in general. The amount of the population cycling in general actually increased, just not proportionally to the population increase. The stats also show that in bike accidents where a head injury was sustained there was 50% less chance of a fatality since the laws were introduced [Something the Qld police used when this topic came up once before]. So, helmets do help safety wise. I theorise they work because in car versus bike accidents, a lot of the injuries are not caused by the head and car coming in contact, but the head and road coming in contact. A helmet certainly helped me in that area.
I was one of the people who stopped cycling to work shortly after helmets were introduced, (1991) but it wasn't because I was deterred by helmets, it was because an idiot in a car went through a stop sign and straight over the top of me. The driver was in a rush as he was running late for work. Whether I was wearing a helmet or not had nothing to do with whether he would have stopped, (I was wearing bright red and white striped pants, so easily able to be seen), but the helmet did stop me getting a chunk taken out of my head by the road.
There was actually a 21% increase in cycling from 1985 to 2011. So more people are actually cycling. It is considered a decrease in cycling popularity due to the increase in the population. Relatively it was a 22% decrease in cycling popularity. But this could also be caused by a lack of facilities being produced for the amount of people taking up cycling. I know that every work place I've been to in recent years has bike racks and other facilities, but they are always full, so there just isn't any more room for people wanting to cycle to work. At least they provide facilities now, where as when I was cycling to work I had to chain my bike up in the outside car park till one of the bosses complained that it was unsightly. Then I tried leaving it in the mens room, but it was 'in the way'. Then it got chained up out the back to one of the trees and when the boss complained about that I asked where he could suggested I put the bike, and he decided I could keep chaining it to the tree.
But, (getting back to facilities), when there are 200+ cycle racks in a building (like at where I was working about six months ago) and all those cycle racks are being used, and you aren't allowed to leave the bike elsewhere in the building (due to building policies), and there is no where else to leave the bike outside (due to property management policies), it is a big incentive to take the train or bus. My team leader is someone who would like to ride to work, but can't as we don't have bike facilities for him to use.
In 2011 there were 1,989,562 people aged 9+ who cycle every day in Australia. That's a very large chunk of Australia's population, especially when you remove from the total population count those under 9+ (over 2 million of the population, who may not be capable of riding a bike - but aren't included in the bike riding statistics), and take into account those who are physically unable to ride (due to old age, illnesses, physical problems etc there are over 3 million Australians 65+ years of age), it is about 12% of the population actually capable of riding a bike who are cycling every day. Where I live now I have nothing close to cycle to. I am sure there are plenty of people like me who, if we were to take up cycling, it couldn't be to work, or to go shopping etc because we're just too far from anything usefully to ride to.
I've been to the Netherlands, and there was plenty of cycleways where you never came close to a car, and this is one of the things also listed in many reports as to why there are less deaths in the Netherlands and Denmark, they have much more cycling infrastructure than other countries. Some places, (when I lived in Sydney the Sydney Airport tunnel was one), are notorious for drivers getting annoyed at cyclists as one cyclist can cause one lane of traffic to slow down to the bik
Set up a donation site and try to double, (or better) your budget. There are a number of donation websites out there, such as http://gogetfunding.com/ (I found that by Googling and it was top of the list). Even just setting up a PayPal donation site might work. Then, tell everyone you can about it.
You might even be able to afford some solar panels or a petrol generator and petrol to keep the computers going. Even ask some solar panel manufacturers if you can get some for free, and ask around places like the computer manufacturers who have lease agreements (such as HP finance) if they have any old computers being returned. Approach some big corporations as well, most have budgets for donations. Or even write to Oprah (I'm sure she'd love to get involved).
5 years away ... with our flying cars, hotels in space, warp drives, quantum computers, et hoc genus omne.