Ah, but there are many people on/. who have extreme political views- even if the 'average' person is fairly moderate, I've seen posts on/. more rascist than any I've seen on VDARE. (Most were modded to 0 or -1, but not all). And if mocking Microsoft constituted hate speech...
Taking time to read about them on their site, they do seem slighty rascist- but to quote Avenue Q, "Everybody's a little bit rascist". They aren't advocating killing other ethnicities, denying rights to hispanics, or anything illegal- they seem primarily concerned with enforcing existing immigration laws and supporting Free Speech rights of extremists. If having an extreme political view is cause for censorship,/. should be high on the ban list.
Nearly 14% of respondents said they found it difficult to stay away from food for several days and 12% admitted that they often eat more than expected. More than 8% of those surveyed said they hid snacks from family, friends and employers, and the same percentage confessed to eating to forget real-world problems. Approximately 6% also said their personal relationships had suffered as a result of excessive weight gain. 'Potential markers of problematic eating are present in a sizeable portion of the population,' the researchers note.
The Marine campaign tended to be quite scary- especially if you played in the harder modes. Nothing like limited saving and inifinitly spawning enemies to heighten the suspense (and make your death much more painful). Eventually I had to give up and beat the Marine campaign in an easier mode- I just couldn't beat one level in hard difficulty, much less hardcore mode.
The illeagal aliens are the ones who make this country run. They do the jobs that we can't get americans to do. They don't get free health care, or welfare- and while their kids do often get a free education, that makes the kids more valuble as workers for us.
Do you really think that people without an SSN are getting free welfare by being in the U.S.?
I'm not really sure what your talking about- I can (and have) bought machetes, swords, knives, and clubs without any sort of background check other than the store checking my Driver's Licence to verify that I am over 16/18 (depending on the weapon). You may have state-specific rules that apply to you, but it's not a problem in the rest of the USA.
We used to have SSNs on certain employee forms until I noticed them and mentioned that it was a bad idea to my supervisor. I removed it from the forms (we also have a unique ID number for employees). I also set it up so fewer people have access to SSNs.
Seriously, though, this is/.- most of us here work in IT, so we are the ones who control the information distribution in our companies. If you notice something stupid about how SSNs or other personal information is distributed, tell your boss (or your boss's boss) and get it fixed.
My school did not block any websites that I was aware of. What it did do is throttle bandwidth to students who used to much of it (if you downloaded too many gigs of stuff in a single day, you would get your bandwidth throttled down to Dial-up speeds for a day or two, and then it would reset). The bandwidth levels were high enough that you could play video games online all day without reaching your limit- unless you were downloading several movies a day, you weren't going to be affected.
It's the same principle as Briteny Spears making more money than the people who write her songs.
Honestly, though, I'm sure the top 0.1% of game developers are making 6 figures (Take Will Wright, John Romero, and John Carmack), just like the top 0.0001% of gamers. You can't really compare the 'leetest' gamers with your average game software developer (who will still earns well over 50,000/yr). That would be like comparing Will Wright to the average gamer (who pays $1500/year to play games).
Apparently Mrs. Sheff gets paid to refer people to specific schools... and it has been alleged in the past that she does so under false pretenses. If this is true, Mrs. Sheff is indeed the liar, con artist and crook the defendent claims she is. If it's true, it isn't libel.
Sony and Universal are getting something like 50% of the Google ad Revenue that their music videos generate for Google (possibly not counting bandwidth fees). Thus, not only are they getting exposure, they are getting money (it's a win-win situation for everyone involved). Naturally, other companies would want a cut of the profits on their own copyrighted material as well. They would probably be fine if it stays up, as long as they get their 'fair share'.
I was also going to post about the disagreement but you beat me to it. Honestly, though, I think how much mathematics that you need is dependent on what you are doing. Most programmers really only need small amounts of discrete mathematics and logic, and some programmers won't even need that. If you're designing a 3-D engine you need a lot of geometry and matrix theory. Physics engines need physics (which is really just applied mathematics). Kernels, embedded systems, and other core devices often need to be optimised to run as fast as possible on minimal hardware, which requires a good grasp of run-time complexity (which goes back to the discrete math and logic). I work in the manufacturing industry myself, and I use huge amounts of 3-D geometry/trig in my work. I've only used Calculus once in the workplace so far, but Calculus is useful for simulations of real-world events.
Basically, what I'm telling aspiring programmers out there is that a strong Math background gives you more options- but that you don't need it to be a successful programmer.
What's even more interesting is that the more Google's stock goes up, the less stock they need to give to YouTube. If I read the press release correctly, YouTube won't receive the stock until Google and YouTube work out a few minor things. So if Google's stock rises 10% in the meantime, that's ~9% less stock YouTube gets in the end (though they get the same dollar value regardless).
You're missing my point entirely. My point is that making assumptions about things you know nothing about it stupid. It's just as stupid to assume that no other rooms are blue as it is to assume that all rooms are blue. When you are clueless, it's better to just admit it and try to find some evidence for something than pretend you know the answer without any data to support you.
It's because you can't draw conclusions from a sample size of 1. Suppose that you've spent your whole life in a blue room. You know there are other rooms out there- but can you assume that they are all blue? Can you assume that most of them are blue? Even if there are other blue rooms, would they be the same shade (Cerulean, let's say) as yours?
Even assuming that we are not unique, there is a big difference between thousands of stars with planets and billions of stars with planets.
You really don't need that many significant digits for most problems. With floating point numbers, 0.00000000005 (about the width of a hydrogen atom in meters) can be expressed as a float or a double, just like 0.5 can. Also consider that all widths and distances are approximate, since the particles are constantly moving in unpredictable ways. Using 64 bit prescision would be as ridiculous as saying that the moon is 14295433070.866 inches from Earth.
If my shoulder hurts after an hour's play it means I'm actually getting a good workout in. With the obesity levels in America I certainly think we could use the exercise. And if people wonder why your right arm is buff and not your left you can tell them "it's from playing with my Wii". On second thought, you could tell them you're into bowling, fencing, or some other sport that favors your right arm over the left.
The University of Virgina is 37th in the lists of the top mathematics graduate programs. Thus, his math degree (even at the bachelor level) is probably more valuble than mine, and harder to achieve. It's not as valuble as one from Berkeley or MIT, but not much is.
Some Universities have lower standards for Math degrees than others. My guess is that he was a brilliant guy, but (for whatever reason) didn't get good scholarships to the schools he wanted to go to. Instead, he went to a school (for free) that had low requirements where he could graduate in a year for (but not learn as much). Sure, his B.S. degrees may not be worth as much as if he got it from a better school, but once he gets his master's degree people won't care where he got his B.S.
You can get AP credit in High school for a lot cheaper than college credit in college. His senior year of High schoool he got at least 21 credit-hours from AP classes, probably more like 30-40. High School is free, with $50-$100 for an AP test (worth 3-6 credit hours, usually), while my college charged almost $300 per credit hour.
Given an option of getting 30 credit hours for $1000, or 30 credit hours for $9,000, which would you take?
Unfortunately, the Internet in the US is no longer a Common Carrier. No one is really sure what that means for the internet providers, though, so we won't find out about such things are settled in court.
First point: Youth violence and crime is at an all-time low.
Second point: Have you read much (non fiction) about life 50 years ago? Kids then were just as bad as they are now- probably worse, because you would get beat up more often. And heaven help you if you were black, Jewish, Italian, etc.
Third point: You are complaining that kids are ruder today than they were- and I'll agree with this. Americans have definitely gotten ruder as a society. However, I also think that we are much less tolerant of violence than we were, especially amoung children. I'd prefer to be made fun of verbally than get beat up.
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Ah, but there are many people on /. who have extreme political views- even if the 'average' person is fairly moderate, I've seen posts on /. more rascist than any I've seen on VDARE. (Most were modded to 0 or -1, but not all). And if mocking Microsoft constituted hate speech...
That's what happens if you forget the / in the tag.
The best fantasy series I've read in years has been A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R. R. Martin, which is also based off the Wars of the Roses. I would encourage you people on /. who like such things to check it out.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with the author or publisher, I just like the novels.
Taking time to read about them on their site, they do seem slighty rascist- but to quote Avenue Q, "Everybody's a little bit rascist". They aren't advocating killing other ethnicities, denying rights to hispanics, or anything illegal- they seem primarily concerned with enforcing existing immigration laws and supporting Free Speech rights of extremists. If having an extreme political view is cause for censorship, /. should be high on the ban list.
Nearly 14% of respondents said they found it difficult to stay away from food for several days and 12% admitted that they often eat more than expected. More than 8% of those surveyed said they hid snacks from family, friends and employers, and the same percentage confessed to eating to forget real-world problems. Approximately 6% also said their personal relationships had suffered as a result of excessive weight gain. 'Potential markers of problematic eating are present in a sizeable portion of the population,' the researchers note.
The Marine campaign tended to be quite scary- especially if you played in the harder modes. Nothing like limited saving and inifinitly spawning enemies to heighten the suspense (and make your death much more painful). Eventually I had to give up and beat the Marine campaign in an easier mode- I just couldn't beat one level in hard difficulty, much less hardcore mode.
Yeah, but +5 funny doesn't give any karma, so it doesn't matter.
The illeagal aliens are the ones who make this country run. They do the jobs that we can't get americans to do. They don't get free health care, or welfare- and while their kids do often get a free education, that makes the kids more valuble as workers for us.
Do you really think that people without an SSN are getting free welfare by being in the U.S.?
I'm not really sure what your talking about- I can (and have) bought machetes, swords, knives, and clubs without any sort of background check other than the store checking my Driver's Licence to verify that I am over 16/18 (depending on the weapon). You may have state-specific rules that apply to you, but it's not a problem in the rest of the USA.
We used to have SSNs on certain employee forms until I noticed them and mentioned that it was a bad idea to my supervisor. I removed it from the forms (we also have a unique ID number for employees). I also set it up so fewer people have access to SSNs.
/.- most of us here work in IT, so we are the ones who control the information distribution in our companies. If you notice something stupid about how SSNs or other personal information is distributed, tell your boss (or your boss's boss) and get it fixed.
Seriously, though, this is
My school did not block any websites that I was aware of. What it did do is throttle bandwidth to students who used to much of it (if you downloaded too many gigs of stuff in a single day, you would get your bandwidth throttled down to Dial-up speeds for a day or two, and then it would reset). The bandwidth levels were high enough that you could play video games online all day without reaching your limit- unless you were downloading several movies a day, you weren't going to be affected.
It's the same principle as Briteny Spears making more money than the people who write her songs.
Honestly, though, I'm sure the top 0.1% of game developers are making 6 figures (Take Will Wright, John Romero, and John Carmack), just like the top 0.0001% of gamers. You can't really compare the 'leetest' gamers with your average game software developer (who will still earns well over 50,000/yr). That would be like comparing Will Wright to the average gamer (who pays $1500/year to play games).
Apparently Mrs. Sheff gets paid to refer people to specific schools... and it has been alleged in the past that she does so under false pretenses. If this is true, Mrs. Sheff is indeed the liar, con artist and crook the defendent claims she is. If it's true, it isn't libel.
Sony and Universal are getting something like 50% of the Google ad Revenue that their music videos generate for Google (possibly not counting bandwidth fees). Thus, not only are they getting exposure, they are getting money (it's a win-win situation for everyone involved). Naturally, other companies would want a cut of the profits on their own copyrighted material as well. They would probably be fine if it stays up, as long as they get their 'fair share'.
I was also going to post about the disagreement but you beat me to it. Honestly, though, I think how much mathematics that you need is dependent on what you are doing. Most programmers really only need small amounts of discrete mathematics and logic, and some programmers won't even need that. If you're designing a 3-D engine you need a lot of geometry and matrix theory. Physics engines need physics (which is really just applied mathematics). Kernels, embedded systems, and other core devices often need to be optimised to run as fast as possible on minimal hardware, which requires a good grasp of run-time complexity (which goes back to the discrete math and logic). I work in the manufacturing industry myself, and I use huge amounts of 3-D geometry/trig in my work. I've only used Calculus once in the workplace so far, but Calculus is useful for simulations of real-world events.
Basically, what I'm telling aspiring programmers out there is that a strong Math background gives you more options- but that you don't need it to be a successful programmer.
What's even more interesting is that the more Google's stock goes up, the less stock they need to give to YouTube. If I read the press release correctly, YouTube won't receive the stock until Google and YouTube work out a few minor things. So if Google's stock rises 10% in the meantime, that's ~9% less stock YouTube gets in the end (though they get the same dollar value regardless).
You're missing my point entirely. My point is that making assumptions about things you know nothing about it stupid. It's just as stupid to assume that no other rooms are blue as it is to assume that all rooms are blue. When you are clueless, it's better to just admit it and try to find some evidence for something than pretend you know the answer without any data to support you.
It's because you can't draw conclusions from a sample size of 1. Suppose that you've spent your whole life in a blue room. You know there are other rooms out there- but can you assume that they are all blue? Can you assume that most of them are blue? Even if there are other blue rooms, would they be the same shade (Cerulean, let's say) as yours?
Even assuming that we are not unique, there is a big difference between thousands of stars with planets and billions of stars with planets.
You really don't need that many significant digits for most problems. With floating point numbers, 0.00000000005 (about the width of a hydrogen atom in meters) can be expressed as a float or a double, just like 0.5 can. Also consider that all widths and distances are approximate, since the particles are constantly moving in unpredictable ways. Using 64 bit prescision would be as ridiculous as saying that the moon is 14295433070.866 inches from Earth.
If my shoulder hurts after an hour's play it means I'm actually getting a good workout in. With the obesity levels in America I certainly think we could use the exercise. And if people wonder why your right arm is buff and not your left you can tell them "it's from playing with my Wii". On second thought, you could tell them you're into bowling, fencing, or some other sport that favors your right arm over the left.
The University of Virgina is 37th in the lists of the top mathematics graduate programs. Thus, his math degree (even at the bachelor level) is probably more valuble than mine, and harder to achieve. It's not as valuble as one from Berkeley or MIT, but not much is.
Some Universities have lower standards for Math degrees than others. My guess is that he was a brilliant guy, but (for whatever reason) didn't get good scholarships to the schools he wanted to go to. Instead, he went to a school (for free) that had low requirements where he could graduate in a year for (but not learn as much). Sure, his B.S. degrees may not be worth as much as if he got it from a better school, but once he gets his master's degree people won't care where he got his B.S.
You can get AP credit in High school for a lot cheaper than college credit in college. His senior year of High schoool he got at least 21 credit-hours from AP classes, probably more like 30-40. High School is free, with $50-$100 for an AP test (worth 3-6 credit hours, usually), while my college charged almost $300 per credit hour.
Given an option of getting 30 credit hours for $1000, or 30 credit hours for $9,000, which would you take?
Unfortunately, the Internet in the US is no longer a Common Carrier. No one is really sure what that means for the internet providers, though, so we won't find out about such things are settled in court.
First point: Youth violence and crime is at an all-time low.
Second point: Have you read much (non fiction) about life 50 years ago? Kids then were just as bad as they are now- probably worse, because you would get beat up more often. And heaven help you if you were black, Jewish, Italian, etc.
Third point: You are complaining that kids are ruder today than they were- and I'll agree with this. Americans have definitely gotten ruder as a society. However, I also think that we are much less tolerant of violence than we were, especially amoung children. I'd prefer to be made fun of verbally than get beat up.