I don't know about the US (no I havent't RTFA yet), but here in Mexico, Social Security is an "organization" composed by various hospitals, and personnel (it's not a database).
The problem is that the State has to sustain all the retired "Social Security" workers (and hire even more). The Mexican Institute of Social Security (that's the name) resists privatization. And all the money spent on many retired "workers" (and worse, the directors who earn lotsa money) sucks all the funds supposedly used to buy medicines and treat patients.
Hospitals lack equipment, qualified medical personnel, and medicines. I commented with my father and he tells me that the US Social Security model is heaven compared to this.
people used to say "men are natural hunters, women are natural home-makers and organisers, therefore it's correct that the man should be the boss and the woman the secretary"
Maybe not correct. Perhaps eficiency would be a more appropriate word (after all, you put people where they're more efficient at doing things, right? I recall that around WW2 women were employed in wiring circuitry because they were considered experienced at sewing and knitting -i.e. delicate manual labor. Just matter of optimization.
However... we should make sure OPTIMIZATION doesn't result in DISCRIMINATION.
The US is a country where having children and having sex have nothing in common now - where lack of opportunities force women to leave their children just to maintain their home - and where divorce is more common than marriage.
In this strangely unnatural (i'm not saying right or wrong) society, women *NEED* jobs now, it's logical that they want to refute any excuse for them not to get one.
So, mankind has changed society, and many natural (or genetic, whatever) laws no longer apply. And saying women are "naturally bad at math" only means that there are less women available for certain jobs than men. Those who stand out from the crowd obviously are not part of the average, so why discriminate them?
If man has altered nature, he can't use nature as an excuse to do things one way or another.
I believe she was acting emotionally rather than logically
Which proves the point. It's not "good at math" vs "bad at math", but rather "emotional thinking" vs "logical thinking".
Men are naturally bad at sharing their feelings: they're colder and probably more rational, they take less into account their feelings when taking decisions.
Women are "naturally" more emotional than men - is that really a weakness? After all, which mother would you prefer? One who has great math skills, or one who knows how to make you feel better when that bully at school took your sandwich and beat you? Sharing and understanding your emotions is a virtue, not a defect.
Sure, women could need more "training" to develop their math skills, but really... what's the big deal? (After all they're humans, they can learn). If I say that women are naturally prepared to become mothers, should all the ultra-progresist girls out there come and burn me at the stake for chauvinism? No, instead they should go after the guys who use these [facts?] as an excuse to consider women as inferior and abuse them.
My problem with ultra-feminists isn't that they want equal rights for women - but that they neglect their own feminity and innate motherhood to achieve it.
>click fraud is the bane of the search advertising industry
Click fraud is the bane of the USELESS CLICK-THRU ADVERTISING industry. Use targetted banners, of both online and offline products. Get smarter, dammit.
If I see a coke ad on a hot sunny day, i'm more eager to buy it than to click a stupid "punch the monkey" ad.
How about this. In say, long scientific article, who the heck will pay attention to a banner on the top of the page, rather than in the middle?
Common sense, boys. You wanted instant revenue. There's no such thing.
...primitive components of a mass production system (basically a highly iterative and controlled series of reactions, building larger and larger blocks, that progress down a conveyer belt).
Anyway, it sounds good, and I cannot wait until the real application of this becomes app'nt (breaking the current nm barrier in CPU tech so we can hit 10ghz at consumer level).
I think you're too much into molecular assembly. Nanotech has slowly acquired a new meaning: Use of nanostructures (nanotubes) and quantum physics (quantum dot) for diverse apps.
IIRC (If I recall correctly), nanotube transistors are what is needed to go not only for GHz, but for THz in computing. There are already experiments in nanotubes superconductivity.
If you're still into molecular assemblers, you could try these new DNA-as-crane chip manufacturing methods. They sound promising.
I think this could be considered as a proof of how ActiveX was vapor-designed by Microsoft to compete with original Netscape's plugins.
1. Examine more or less how competition works 2. Quick! Make a prototype and flat-out obvious bugs (Missing step: redesign well taking into account security considerations) 3. Overhype 4. Profit!
So now we're stuck with an obsolete plugin model, which Microsoft neglects to fix because this would break backwards compatibility.
Genetics isn't an INVENTION of man. Man uses something that already EXIST. And this is SELF-replicating. You can't patent something that will REPRODUCE ITSELF.
"Mr. Anonymous Coward. How do you plead?" "The CIA sucks! I wonder why the [beep]Bin Laden didn't [beep beep] the [beep] CIA building instead." (public gasps) Jury? "The jury have agreed by anonym^H^H^H^H^H^Hunanimous decision in declaring the defendant... +5 Insightful."
a) Use an internal representation of the DOM tree.
b) Publish the specs
c) DON'T call it XML. Try "Extensible Tree Based Binary Format" or something. Just because XML is a standard people want XML to devour everything as some kind of spec blob.
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You surely don't refer to THIS, do you?
about the indian guy who smashed his car with an elephant and - oh, wait...
Funny.
Uh but he missed the link.
Strongbad gets a virus.
Sure, go ahead, kid... touch the socket.
*BZZZT*
(kid cries)
HAH! Now you won't do it again, will ya?
I don't know about the US (no I havent't RTFA yet), but here in Mexico, Social Security is an "organization" composed by various hospitals, and personnel (it's not a database).
The problem is that the State has to sustain all the retired "Social Security" workers (and hire even more). The Mexican Institute of Social Security (that's the name) resists privatization. And all the money spent on many retired "workers" (and worse, the directors who earn lotsa money) sucks all the funds supposedly used to buy medicines and treat patients.
Hospitals lack equipment, qualified medical personnel, and medicines. I commented with my father and he tells me that the US Social Security model is heaven compared to this.
Just some info from below-the-Bravo, yee haw!
I do... PPC works, a lot better then banner ads. PPC ads ARE targetted...
Like "warning! Your computer is insecure! Click here to fix" or... "shoot the monkey!" or... "Click here to shut up this vocal flash ad".
Obviously those are PPC. Don't tell me they're targeted.
people used to say "men are natural hunters, women are natural home-makers and organisers, therefore it's correct that the man should be the boss and the woman the secretary"
Maybe not correct. Perhaps eficiency would be a more appropriate word (after all, you put people where they're more efficient at doing things, right? I recall that around WW2 women were employed in wiring circuitry because they were considered experienced at sewing and knitting -i.e. delicate manual labor. Just matter of optimization.
However... we should make sure OPTIMIZATION doesn't result in DISCRIMINATION.
The US is a country where having children and having sex have nothing in common now - where lack of opportunities force women to leave their children just to maintain their home - and where divorce is more common than marriage.
In this strangely unnatural (i'm not saying right or wrong) society, women *NEED* jobs now, it's logical that they want to refute any excuse for them not to get one.
So, mankind has changed society, and many natural (or genetic, whatever) laws no longer apply. And saying women are "naturally bad at math" only means that there are less women available for certain jobs than men. Those who stand out from the crowd obviously are not part of the average, so why discriminate them?
If man has altered nature, he can't use nature as an excuse to do things one way or another.
I believe she was acting emotionally rather than logically
Which proves the point. It's not "good at math" vs "bad at math", but rather "emotional thinking" vs "logical thinking".
Men are naturally bad at sharing their feelings: they're colder and probably more rational, they take less into account their feelings when taking decisions.
Women are "naturally" more emotional than men - is that really a weakness? After all, which mother would you prefer? One who has great math skills, or one who knows how to make you feel better when that bully at school took your sandwich and beat you? Sharing and understanding your emotions is a virtue, not a defect.
Sure, women could need more "training" to develop their math skills, but really... what's the big deal? (After all they're humans, they can learn).
If I say that women are naturally prepared to become mothers, should all the ultra-progresist girls out there come and burn me at the stake for chauvinism? No, instead they should go after the guys who use these [facts?] as an excuse to consider women as inferior and abuse them.
My problem with ultra-feminists isn't that they want equal rights for women - but that they neglect their own feminity and innate motherhood to achieve it.
naturally-good-at-math geeks are doomed to be 99% guys :(
>click fraud is the bane of the search advertising industry
Click fraud is the bane of the USELESS CLICK-THRU ADVERTISING industry. Use targetted banners, of both online and offline products. Get smarter, dammit.
If I see a coke ad on a hot sunny day, i'm more eager to buy it than to click a stupid "punch the monkey" ad.
How about this. In say, long scientific article, who the heck will pay attention to a banner on the top of the page, rather than in the middle?
Common sense, boys. You wanted instant revenue. There's no such thing.
It's been discovered that it takes about 3 months before an owned Windows machine will be patched.
Funny :)
...primitive components of a mass production system (basically a highly iterative and controlled series of reactions, building larger and larger blocks, that progress down a conveyer belt).
Anyway, it sounds good, and I cannot wait until the real application of this becomes app'nt (breaking the current nm barrier in CPU tech so we can hit 10ghz at consumer level).
I think you're too much into molecular assembly. Nanotech has slowly acquired a new meaning: Use of nanostructures (nanotubes) and quantum physics (quantum dot) for diverse apps.
IIRC (If I recall correctly), nanotube transistors are what is needed to go not only for GHz, but for THz in computing. There are already experiments in nanotubes superconductivity.
If you're still into molecular assemblers, you could try these new DNA-as-crane chip manufacturing methods. They sound promising.
I think this could be considered as a proof of how ActiveX was vapor-designed by Microsoft to compete with original Netscape's plugins.
1. Examine more or less how competition works
2. Quick! Make a prototype and flat-out obvious bugs
(Missing step: redesign well taking into account security considerations)
3. Overhype
4. Profit!
So now we're stuck with an obsolete plugin model, which Microsoft neglects to fix because this would break backwards compatibility.
THE END.
"experiences, optimize agility or make people's passions come alive"
Sounds pretty much like sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
1. Make an antivirus company.
2. Hire virus writers to create your own market.
3. Profit!
our value lies with people,
Meaning that their value AND their (managing) people are liars? Yeah I believe them ^_^
Genetics isn't an INVENTION of man. Man uses something that already EXIST. And this is SELF-replicating. You can't patent something that will REPRODUCE ITSELF.
Patents are for machines.
Squaresoft will release Final Fantasy XX-3-n.5.... and 1/2.
"Mr. Anonymous Coward. How do you plead?"
"The CIA sucks! I wonder why the [beep]Bin Laden didn't [beep beep] the [beep] CIA building instead."
(public gasps)
Jury?
"The jury have agreed by anonym^H^H^H^H^H^Hunanimous decision in declaring the defendant... +5 Insightful."
Tired of your boss bullying you around?
Worry no more! Write a self-improvement book and get rich!
[public]whoaaaaaa
And now, introducing the... (drum rolls)
"HOW TO WRITE A SELF-IMPROVEMENT BOOK AND GET RICH SELLING IT" book!
[public] WHOA!!!! *APPLAUSE* *WHISTLES*
+5, insightful
a) Use an internal representation of the DOM tree.
b) Publish the specs
c) DON'T call it XML. Try "Extensible Tree Based Binary Format" or something. Just because XML is a standard people want XML to devour everything as some kind of spec blob.
In other words:
Don't like XML? DON'T USE IT!
When I said MS Word format, I meant "MS Word HTML output format".
take an example on microsoft XML formats. Word, or the MSN messages format... they're _NOT_ xml. They're proprietary formats DISGUISED as XML.
If Microsoft doesn't respect text-only XML, what do you think will happen when^H^H^H^Hif binary XML is out?