When I was little, I found a book in our bookshelf about the future. The book was from the early sixties. All with floating at sea nuclear plants, automatic farming, synthetic meet, maglev trains, and trains running through tubes. Propelled either by a propeller at the back or by magnets in vacuum. So Elon Musk just had a similar book in his youth and now tries to build the stuff. Some is great, but that tube thing sucks. It is expensive, it will require a lot of resources even compared to bullet trains.
Uber is a company which provides an app and additional technology using cheapest labor (average driver) on the back of cheap labor (taxi drivers) to generate lots of money for those who already have enough. Therefore, do not use Uber. Do not support Uber. Instead support the protest.
My post was not about gender equality. First, because the initial article is on a program which is intended to increase the number of women in programming. Second, I really do not know what this gender equality thing is. We have regulations stating that all humans have the same rights. So the term is redundant, as human equality includes gender equality. However, it is used regularly and everyone has a different opinion what it actually comprises. So no I do not post on that.
The 70% of women in Iran is stated in "Under the Islamic Republic of Iran" fourth paragraph. But beside that, I had some interesting talks with Iranian computer scientists on a conference in March in Germany. They explained that with a factoid that in Iran engineering and CS are not a guys thing. They rather study other topics including theology. They are, as those two stated, more interested in their look than in technical gadgets.
For western ears that sounds totally odd. However, it allows the conclusion that STEM interests are not a biological determined thing and are induced by culture. Therefore, if you want to change it you have to look at these cultures and how that came into existence. Then you can come up with a plan that works.
On a side note: I do not think that it is necessary to lure women into STEM. While industry believes that all these women are potential programmers, they would not be very good ones if they are not interested in the topic. What they do not understand that a potential programmer is not the same thing as a real programmer. It is like being an athlete. We are all potential athletes, however, most of us suck in that field.
In short: More women in STEM by luring them in will not result in more women and more capable programmers in the field.
What leads you to believe that? All you've done is display a link between "countries with fewer rights for women" and "women in STEM/CS". This would lead a rational person to believe that when women have more options they exercise them (like in the west). When they have fewer options they are stuck with STEM/CS.
First, not all listed countries induce restrictions on women. Second, the restrictions do not apply in education. Albeit in Iran Theology is off limits in Iran, they can study almost everything if they want to. Iran is not Saudi Arabia. In addition I had the pleasure to talk to different Iranian Women on a conference in Germany which point out different causes for the differences in selecting topic. In their culture, engineering is not considered a man thing. While I find that weird, it is part of their culture. And this is very different to our culture.
And you know for sure that this does not happen in those countries you listed? As far as I know of those cultures, they treat women much much more different than they do men, including toys and such.
Yes they do, however, in another different than ours. anyway, to change the reputation of STEM topics (without Biology and Pharmacy which are already a women dominated fields) in the public and show our daughters that STEM can be fun for them.
You are right in that that pushing people into STEM does not help them, the companies they work for, and us. Already are many students studying CS for the wrong reasons. They do not like programming and they do not like working intensely on problems.
This is only true for Western countries. In many other cultures women are dominant in engineering and computer science. For example, Iran (70 percent), Philippines (52 percent), Thailand (51 percent) and Kazakhstan (50 percent).
Therefore, it is a cultural thing and I doubt that it will improve any time soon. First, most programs address people at the end or after school. Then it is too late. If you want to "fix" it, you should start changing education in nursery and primary school. And yes, you should stop offering them dolls and fostering stupid girlie behavior, like "oh cool shopping".
BTW: In eastern European countries the percentage of women in STEM was higher during "communism", as they do not indulge in such "being a toy"-stuff. however, since the end of "communism" this changed, due to new/old role models emerging.
You are absolutely right . If these server provide fail over then they must be present. The server start stop thing only applies to load management, e.g. for web shops. As I stated earlier (maybe it was in another post), fail over server as all redundancy related infrastructure are not useless. They serve a purpose. Therefore they cannot be stopped without getting into trouble.
True, but in that case these machines do something sometimes over the year. In a modern data center you would be able to shutdown the servers not used for a longer period and restart them automatically when the load rises. A hardware server start may take ten minutes (if there is not much to synchronize), but as you should know your load profile and use load estimation techniques, you can start the servers in advance. Especially, in context of replication of JVM and.Net components, this should be pretty easy. It is more complicated with databases as they might need some time to synchronize with each other.
A fail over server is not considered useless. They did not monitor server output and decided then after a period of time that the server were not doing anything. You can infer this knowledge by reading the "paper", as they switched these servers off after identifying them. Switching of fail over servers normally would raise alarms and then you get thrown out;-) So you could safely assume that they mean unused servers.
Your outlined procedure is reasonable. And it is correct to escalate. Actually, it would have made more sense on your side to escalate much earlier. As this is a short script of an imaginary email conversation, I assume that you set a time limit in your first request. "We use your component and your changes Y hinder us to reach our goal X. [...] We need a solution to this problem by today+7 and a solution strategy by tomorrow. If it is improbable to solve the issue to our needs we need to escalate this accordingly, as this would have financial consequences for the company."
However, if your next management level and their next management level are in different branches than this will not work properly, as it would require further escalation, costing time. Each level must set a deadline for an answer and a solution proposal.
Culture is the ways people live together, their music and art, the way they address problems in life etc. There is no better culture. Only because racists think of their culture (which is often only a subculture as in a partial culture in a wider culture) as superior does not mean that it is that way or that we should use it in that way. I personally think culture is dynamic changing thing and it helps to learn from other cultures as it enriches me and my fellow humans around me.
In Europe there are several areas where technology thrives. However, they are not in the area of Internet technology. For example the Southwest of Germany is a hub of machinery technology. And there is another cause: In Europe computer science is often called informatics and originates from mathematics. There is no mathematics industry (beside present day banking). In the USA computer science originated from electric engineering. And finally, we do not have one big market, we have 28 countries every country with its own language.
When I want to create a website for the US, you can start with an English only site and still there are 380 million people able to understand it. In Europe you cannot. You have to support different languages. Even if many people can speak English, you cannot address all people with an only English site. The news of country A will not report on a service in country B. And the US invented the Internet so you had an advantage in that area.
If you want to start an IT business here in the EU, it is hart to get venture capital. It is easier to go to Silicon Valley and get money from European lenders than to do so on European soil. While the US has such a good reputation for being innovative they have an advantage in getting money. The labor regulations are not a problem, because they are mostly ruined in the last decade and they only come into effect when your company is larger and your people work for longer time.
This is an orthographic mistake which may happen even to native speakers. So please forgive me when I make some mistakes. Hopefully you still got the message.
No we would not do well with only one language, we would loose a lot of culture. It would be like one standard food for everyone. Furthermore, your proposition is ludicrous, as language changes all the time. That's why new street languages pop up and then evolve in something different. Language is reflection of culture. It is not like a programming language. If you want to communicate with other people you should learn additional languages. And while you are at it, also try to learn something about their culture. Otherwise could would not be able to understand them. So even with only one language, you would not be able to understand them.
BTW: The most problems between societies are not based on religion. Religion is only used as a vehicle to transport the hostility. It is about greed, ignorance, stupidity, and frustrations.
Humans developed different languages in different regions. Now we have different languages with different features and different cultural ties. While it is often possible to translate the semantics of one language is an equivalent in another language, you have more trouble doing so with pragmatics. And in addition the result does not "taste" as good as the original. It is a little bit like food. You could just consume a nutritious supplement to sustain life. However, all the culture and tastes and emotions around food would be wasted. Even as an US-American you are aware that their are different feelings and moods attached to, lets say, porridge, a steak, a burger, a donut, a beer, Chinese take-out, pizza, corn etc.
Recent studies showed that we even have different personalities depending what language we are using. So it would be great to be only able to speak, read, and listen to one single language. And if we should agree on one. Are you willing too learn Chinese?
The continent is called America. The country is called United States of America in short USA. So to be precise you should the correct term. Here, politicians often call critic towards the USA as anti-Americanism. However, this is still wrong, because the criticism is direct to the USA and not to Venezuela (even though that country should also be criticised extensively).
There is no proof that he handed secrets to the Russians or Chinese. The whole article on that was made up by its authors.
BTW: People criticising the USA normally criticise the politics and actions of the USA. To call them America-haters is totally wrong. In two ways. First, there is a lot more America then only the USA. Use google maps if you do not believe me. Second, its the actions abroad that cause you low reputation. And three, your tourists often help to foster such reputation. Even though the last thing is hardly something that can be changed. We all have parts of our population which go on vacation and ruin our reputation. Ask the Germans and the British or even better ask the Italian and Spanish on the reputation of Germans and the British.
The claim of the political reason is without reference. However, the article correctly states that ESA does not have RTG technology and no one was selling RTGs at that time.
First, is correctly states that ESA does not have an RTG and cannot acquire one, due to the lack of a seller. And then secondly, he claims (without proper reference, and I could not find any)) that this is due to political reasons. However, what you need to develop an RTG is (a) money and (b) Plutonium-238. This requires reactors capable to develop nuclear weapons material. While the US has only a few bits left from their program, certainly France and the UK do not have that much around. And other states, like Germany, do not have nuclear weapons and the means to create enough Plutonium without violating treaties. Therefore, an RTG is not an option.
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When I was little, I found a book in our bookshelf about the future. The book was from the early sixties. All with floating at sea nuclear plants, automatic farming, synthetic meet, maglev trains, and trains running through tubes. Propelled either by a propeller at the back or by magnets in vacuum. So Elon Musk just had a similar book in his youth and now tries to build the stuff. Some is great, but that tube thing sucks. It is expensive, it will require a lot of resources even compared to bullet trains.
Uber is a company which provides an app and additional technology using cheapest labor (average driver) on the back of cheap labor (taxi drivers) to generate lots of money for those who already have enough. Therefore, do not use Uber. Do not support Uber. Instead support the protest.
My post was not about gender equality. First, because the initial article is on a program which is intended to increase the number of women in programming. Second, I really do not know what this gender equality thing is. We have regulations stating that all humans have the same rights. So the term is redundant, as human equality includes gender equality. However, it is used regularly and everyone has a different opinion what it actually comprises. So no I do not post on that.
The 70% of women in Iran is stated in "Under the Islamic Republic of Iran" fourth paragraph. But beside that, I had some interesting talks with Iranian computer scientists on a conference in March in Germany. They explained that with a factoid that in Iran engineering and CS are not a guys thing. They rather study other topics including theology. They are, as those two stated, more interested in their look than in technical gadgets.
For western ears that sounds totally odd. However, it allows the conclusion that STEM interests are not a biological determined thing and are induced by culture. Therefore, if you want to change it you have to look at these cultures and how that came into existence. Then you can come up with a plan that works.
On a side note: I do not think that it is necessary to lure women into STEM. While industry believes that all these women are potential programmers, they would not be very good ones if they are not interested in the topic. What they do not understand that a potential programmer is not the same thing as a real programmer. It is like being an athlete. We are all potential athletes, however, most of us suck in that field.
In short: More women in STEM by luring them in will not result in more women and more capable programmers in the field.
First, not all listed countries induce restrictions on women. Second, the restrictions do not apply in education. Albeit in Iran Theology is off limits in Iran, they can study almost everything if they want to. Iran is not Saudi Arabia. In addition I had the pleasure to talk to different Iranian Women on a conference in Germany which point out different causes for the differences in selecting topic. In their culture, engineering is not considered a man thing. While I find that weird, it is part of their culture. And this is very different to our culture.
Yes they do, however, in another different than ours. anyway, to change the reputation of STEM topics (without Biology and Pharmacy which are already a women dominated fields) in the public and show our daughters that STEM can be fun for them.
You are right in that that pushing people into STEM does not help them, the companies they work for, and us. Already are many students studying CS for the wrong reasons. They do not like programming and they do not like working intensely on problems.
This is only true for Western countries. In many other cultures women are dominant in engineering and computer science. For example, Iran (70 percent), Philippines (52 percent), Thailand (51 percent) and Kazakhstan (50 percent).
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Therefore, it is a cultural thing and I doubt that it will improve any time soon. First, most programs address people at the end or after school. Then it is too late. If you want to "fix" it, you should start changing education in nursery and primary school. And yes, you should stop offering them dolls and fostering stupid girlie behavior, like "oh cool shopping".
BTW: In eastern European countries the percentage of women in STEM was higher during "communism", as they do not indulge in such "being a toy"-stuff. however, since the end of "communism" this changed, due to new/old role models emerging.
Wonderful for you. I cannot understand it either. Most likely I should stop using my smartphone when writing comments online.
Well if it is broken, fix it. In your case the system was intended to be a redundant server, however, it did not provide real redundancy.
You are absolutely right . If these server provide fail over then they must be present. The server start stop thing only applies to load management, e.g. for web shops. As I stated earlier (maybe it was in another post), fail over server as all redundancy related infrastructure are not useless. They serve a purpose. Therefore they cannot be stopped without getting into trouble.
True, but in that case these machines do something sometimes over the year. In a modern data center you would be able to shutdown the servers not used for a longer period and restart them automatically when the load rises. A hardware server start may take ten minutes (if there is not much to synchronize), but as you should know your load profile and use load estimation techniques, you can start the servers in advance. Especially, in context of replication of JVM and .Net components, this should be pretty easy. It is more complicated with databases as they might need some time to synchronize with each other.
A fail over server is not considered useless. They did not monitor server output and decided then after a period of time that the server were not doing anything. You can infer this knowledge by reading the "paper", as they switched these servers off after identifying them. Switching of fail over servers normally would raise alarms and then you get thrown out ;-) So you could safely assume that they mean unused servers.
Your outlined procedure is reasonable. And it is correct to escalate. Actually, it would have made more sense on your side to escalate much earlier. As this is a short script of an imaginary email conversation, I assume that you set a time limit in your first request. "We use your component and your changes Y hinder us to reach our goal X. [...] We need a solution to this problem by today+7 and a solution strategy by tomorrow. If it is improbable to solve the issue to our needs we need to escalate this accordingly, as this would have financial consequences for the company."
However, if your next management level and their next management level are in different branches than this will not work properly, as it would require further escalation, costing time. Each level must set a deadline for an answer and a solution proposal.
Culture is the ways people live together, their music and art, the way they address problems in life etc. There is no better culture. Only because racists think of their culture (which is often only a subculture as in a partial culture in a wider culture) as superior does not mean that it is that way or that we should use it in that way. I personally think culture is dynamic changing thing and it helps to learn from other cultures as it enriches me and my fellow humans around me.
In Europe there are several areas where technology thrives. However, they are not in the area of Internet technology. For example the Southwest of Germany is a hub of machinery technology. And there is another cause: In Europe computer science is often called informatics and originates from mathematics. There is no mathematics industry (beside present day banking). In the USA computer science originated from electric engineering. And finally, we do not have one big market, we have 28 countries every country with its own language.
When I want to create a website for the US, you can start with an English only site and still there are 380 million people able to understand it. In Europe you cannot. You have to support different languages. Even if many people can speak English, you cannot address all people with an only English site. The news of country A will not report on a service in country B. And the US invented the Internet so you had an advantage in that area.
If you want to start an IT business here in the EU, it is hart to get venture capital. It is easier to go to Silicon Valley and get money from European lenders than to do so on European soil. While the US has such a good reputation for being innovative they have an advantage in getting money. The labor regulations are not a problem, because they are mostly ruined in the last decade and they only come into effect when your company is larger and your people work for longer time.
This is an orthographic mistake which may happen even to native speakers. So please forgive me when I make some mistakes. Hopefully you still got the message.
No we would not do well with only one language, we would loose a lot of culture. It would be like one standard food for everyone. Furthermore, your proposition is ludicrous, as language changes all the time. That's why new street languages pop up and then evolve in something different. Language is reflection of culture. It is not like a programming language. If you want to communicate with other people you should learn additional languages. And while you are at it, also try to learn something about their culture. Otherwise could would not be able to understand them. So even with only one language, you would not be able to understand them.
BTW: The most problems between societies are not based on religion. Religion is only used as a vehicle to transport the hostility. It is about greed, ignorance, stupidity, and frustrations.
Humans developed different languages in different regions. Now we have different languages with different features and different cultural ties. While it is often possible to translate the semantics of one language is an equivalent in another language, you have more trouble doing so with pragmatics. And in addition the result does not "taste" as good as the original. It is a little bit like food. You could just consume a nutritious supplement to sustain life. However, all the culture and tastes and emotions around food would be wasted. Even as an US-American you are aware that their are different feelings and moods attached to, lets say, porridge, a steak, a burger, a donut, a beer, Chinese take-out, pizza, corn etc.
Recent studies showed that we even have different personalities depending what language we are using. So it would be great to be only able to speak, read, and listen to one single language. And if we should agree on one. Are you willing too learn Chinese?
You may have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (the image on the right). It is absolute proper to call the complete landmass America.
According to our all knowing oracle north and south America are also considered as one continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... it is also called the Americas, however, the America refer to the whole landmass. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The continent is called America. The country is called United States of America in short USA. So to be precise you should the correct term. Here, politicians often call critic towards the USA as anti-Americanism. However, this is still wrong, because the criticism is direct to the USA and not to Venezuela (even though that country should also be criticised extensively).
There is no proof that he handed secrets to the Russians or Chinese. The whole article on that was made up by its authors.
BTW: People criticising the USA normally criticise the politics and actions of the USA. To call them America-haters is totally wrong. In two ways. First, there is a lot more America then only the USA. Use google maps if you do not believe me. Second, its the actions abroad that cause you low reputation. And three, your tourists often help to foster such reputation. Even though the last thing is hardly something that can be changed. We all have parts of our population which go on vacation and ruin our reputation. Ask the Germans and the British or even better ask the Italian and Spanish on the reputation of Germans and the British.
The claim of the political reason is without reference. However, the article correctly states that ESA does not have RTG technology and no one was selling RTGs at that time.
First, is correctly states that ESA does not have an RTG and cannot acquire one, due to the lack of a seller. And then secondly, he claims (without proper reference, and I could not find any)) that this is due to political reasons. However, what you need to develop an RTG is (a) money and (b) Plutonium-238. This requires reactors capable to develop nuclear weapons material. While the US has only a few bits left from their program, certainly France and the UK do not have that much around. And other states, like Germany, do not have nuclear weapons and the means to create enough Plutonium without violating treaties. Therefore, an RTG is not an option.
The truth is ESA does not have an RTG. You cannot use what you do not have. And NASA pulled out of the project due to funding limitations.