Still cheaper than internet on my island, Mauritius!
around $285/mo for a 4M adsl line here!
Cheapest is $28 for a 512kbps (yes not KBps but kbps) for a max 5GB monthly usage.
So:p yes iowa is way better:p, and i better has better latency.
"Writing code for a living isn't like being a Navy SEAL sharpshooter. Programming is seriously not that demanding, so you shouldn't need to be a tough-as-nails superhero to enter this profession.
Anyone with enough practice and motivation could have done our jobs, and most other programming and CS-related jobs as well. Seriously, companies aren't looking to hire the next Steve Wozniak—they just want to ship code that works."
This is what makes the industry so shitty. This is what make advancement in the technological field so sluggish. The very idea that one doesn't need to hire a programmer who can think properly is evil. Pfft practice doesn't make perfect in programming according to me, you are either born to think as a programmer OR NOT.
I quote:
"her aunt—whose son had been rejected—congratulated her by saying, “Well, you only got into MIT because you're a girl.”)
Over a decade later, she now does some programming at her research job, but wishes that she had learned more back in college."
Obviously now we see that "she does some programming" and that she apparently didn't learn much. You do not learn programming in college, you learn it in your house for the pleasure of coding. If she hasn't been able to understand that so far, i believe she is a failure. She definitely took the place of someone else who could have fared better in MIT. That is what happens with capitalism. I would not go as far as saying she got in because she is female, but that could contribute to a certain sense, because political wise it sounds a lot more fair when we show statistics of higher number of females being at college and studying IT.
"If I stared at someone in silence and nodded as they were talking, they would usually assume that I understood" -- i would call that cheating the system. You learn nothing out of this.
Not everybody gets to be at MIT, and i sincerely do not believe that placing a programmer in a cocoon is gonna make him/her any better.
Flame wars and code flame is what actually make people better at programming, that's just my honest opinion, the entire world can disagree.
If you don't tell someone he is a noob and why he is a noob, he will not evolve. Insulting people's intelligence is constructive both for the one insulting and to the one being insulted. Lol what now, females wants to be cared for in the field? definitely these creatures always asks for favors everywhere.
Well:) it wud sound arrogant if i said the systems favors those a
Who are good talkers/braggers/liars. It is very rare that someone with high technical skills gets a lion's cut. Kind of makes me happy that maybe there still is some hope for people who produce against people who manage. Granted without good management and good sales your business will fail.
I travel a lot, and i have seen really awesome software engineers earning $8000 yearly. Sometimes many do not understand that your paygrade may not reflect how good you are worldwide. The industry forces to hide such people so as they can't leave to get a better salary, I know the tricks employed to make developpers feel so bad that they do not deserve better, yet still make them milk cows while paying them a miser:p. It is all a matter of how good you are with making people feel bad.
"I'm not sure why it matters. People can burn calories in other ways too."
That is why we are having nations of obese people cropping up all around the world, because people apparently can burn calories in other ways too, but are not forced to.
That's a gross exaggeration. Also, the birth rate will drop significantly in poor countries as well once they stop being so poor (eventually).
indian forks roughly around 1,000,000 new entities per 15 days, in the US american forks 4,000,000 kids yearly. Gross exageration you say? The culture itself is about forking, they stick to one woman mostly and produce kids for the sake of making their parents happy. If the kids has to go and beg on the streets, so be it.
"They didn't "live" longer than humans. They "existed as a species" for longer. Dinosaurs existed for an even longer period. That doesn't make them more evolved or better than humans, does it?"
"Paranthropus boisei have lived/evolved", %species% have lived longer, does not equate to "the life span of %species% is longer than %other species%, that was simple english:s.
This makes them in a better position than homo sapiens when it comes to who survived longer or not. Homo sapiens are still kid when it comes to the evolutionary time line. I'd say a Cockroach is way more evolved in all sense than that 200,000 years old species called homo sapiens. We just got lucky that we got a brain that made us use tools in our surroundings to better out lives. Until as a species we don't survive more than the number of years other species have survived, we cannot really set ourselves on some kind of throne and claim we did it, we are superiors.
"It's another exaggeration."
Usually i would expect a "it is an exageration because...."
"I've never heard of Hominidae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae) interbreeding."
And in science i keep hearing " Scientists made a new discovery that will forever change all their understanding of... ":)
I wouldn't mind having my own basement cloning labs to clone myself to harvest body parts off those clones and i could burn the rest of the shell.
If only we could save a brain's state and reload that saved state on another identical brain:p, i could even get a new brain implant and destroy my aging body!
"Most Modern human eat stressed up meat"
As compared to the cavemen whose prey was relaxed and happy? :p A beast which has been running around and and living a full life is pretty much nicer to eat, texture wise, the meat is much better, no idea if you ever tried eating animals that haven't come from a supermarket.
"nothing they ever spent time to hunt and kill"
Umm, what?
Typo, meant, "they never spend time to hunt and kill", true, rare are the few individuals who actually spends time knowing their food, killing it, burning calories to make the food, most are now heavilly enslaved to the food industry.
"modern man rarely fork (except the chinese or the indians)"
Umm, WHAT?!
See the statistics about the worlds population. People have a tendency not to make kids and share their genes that much in the west, rather than the make thousands of kids in the east. (which also is a problem when it comes to resource allocation, but heh, forking to the max ensures the continuity of the species if some has to die in hunger due to that, it is nature's way of dealing with it).
" modern man do not get to choose with whom they want to fornicate, it is now the female who choose with whom they want to fournicate"
Let me guess: you emigrated to North America or Western Europe from the Middle East, Africa or Asia and just can't get used to the fact that women here usually get to decide who they have sex with?
:) Seriously, I wouldn't emigrate from where i am right now, I live on an island with sandy beaches:p I do not get to complain. I do travel a lot to sample other countries though, the thing I was pointing out here is that evolution of mankind has come to a change because if you check up history, it was always men who forced themselves up on women, and hence characteristic of intelligence were largely being left out while mostly stronger males or more powerful males got to spread their genes. While nowadays that patriarchal society being nearly dead, we end up in a world where it is the chick who gets to choose, this makes the genetic pool larger rather than what it would have been in case you had kings or tribe leaders forcing a kid on most females around.:p.
"modern man doesn't really have a right to say tiger nut eating man sux at evolution:p, modern man is still lagging behind in terms of years lived. "
Lagging behind whom?
Paranthropus boisei have lived/evolved longer than the homo sapiens, (read up on the evolution timeline).
"apes seems to mate with each other and will even mate with other species of its own kind"
With whom of the what?
Hmm apes cross breeded among different apes of different species, this is a highly possible scenario, because this happens even now in nature.
PS. Did you learn English from the Bible or something?
Na, I just use to place myself on pedestal and assume am god, and speak in whichever language mix i feel at ease with, i am a free man after all right?:p
Come on the language in the bible is not as bad as mine:p.
Oh the minorities who can refuse the temptation those are among the brink of extinction i guess, this is not a factual answer so don't expect any stats!
I personaly do not see the problem with patent trolls, they basically do not do shit and try to steal what you worked on for years and try to gain money out of that. They will bring lots of lawyers to take you down and make money out of your invention, well that just makes you a man without anything else to lose if you life time work is being stolen openly by the law, basically that makes the law a failure, why not kill the lawyers and the patent troll and get jailed and give your kid the business to run. Atleast you've taught patent trolls "don't fuck with hard working people". The law is here only if we want to "keep up" with the pretense of doing things the right way, when we all know we want things to be done the selfish way, to some extent you will accept certain things, but someone stealing your work and getting away from it is just where the law fails, grow some balls and do what needs to be done. Pfft having free access to weapons, and yet having to live an entire life in pretense isn't that hypocrisy? Life is too short to fall in this game of society, either you do things right, and when people screws you up you eliminate that genes that will be a problem to mankind in the long run (since probably they are not producers but leechers) or you just simply die in shame for having lived as a puppet to words:s
People do not seem to notice, is that, whenever oracle tried to acquire some piece of technology specially software wise, that piece of software/tech tends to perish, notable examples are Openoffice (when oracle acquired it, luckilly now that's apache'd), MySQl (luckilly the community revived it through MariaDB). You don't hear much about these anymore. Agreed they did acquire a lot more of software out there that.. well you never hear much of.
I wouldn't be surprised if oracle has a magic algorithm to screw up fine projects, and one would have thought having such huge financial backing will just enhance products, such doesn't seem the case.
Evolution of mankind :
We will wake up one day, drink one pill that will contain all our needed fuel. Our Robot slaves will look after us, do our work, then we'll spend our time plotting about who's territorry we can conquer today, then we send our robots to fight,:p Age of Empires in real life!
Most Modern human eat stressed up meat, nothing they ever spent time to hunt and kill, they also eat vegetables which seems to have been doped to reach harvest time (still nothing wrong in both as long as one can survive), but modern man rarely fork (except the chinese or the indians), plus most modern man do not get to choose with whom they want to fornicate, it is now the female who choose with whom they want to fournicate:p. Modern man has an ego so big that they are on a brink of launching nuke weapons on each other at the mere insult, so modern man doesn't really have a right to say tiger nut eating man sux at evolution:p, modern man is still lagging behind in terms of years lived.
Now, each time we keep having such discussions, we wonder, apes seems to mate with each other and will even mate with other species of its own kind as long as there is an orifice and the want to fornicate is there:p, I wouldn't be surprised if one day scientists came up with something like "everything that we know about ourselves is now changed, apparently we have a mixture of multiple prehistoric genes mixed with each other" Does that sound so improbable that along the evolutionary phase genes across multiple evolved apes got mixed with each other? and those genes replicated along the lines?
If people adopts it, would be pretty great because I could know who not to kiss among the female gender:p. hahaha.
On a serious note:s privacy is going so much downhill that they want even your teeth brushing habits! dafuq! Soon tooth paste companies will be sending in ads based on your brushing habits!
Technology wise it is pretty neat, but slowly we are giving away our privacy to small things like this, and soon we'll have toilets that measure the speed and distance travelled by our pee and we will be able to share that on social network also!
$200 a tooth brush that takes a little bit of your privacy again. But isn't it a bit disgusting to use the same tooth brush for a longer period of time, since i guess, you don't throw a $200 toothbrush after 3 days of brushing..
American corrupting the Danish Government:p, you must be out of your mind, the Danish government seems among the most toughest governments around to corrupt. There people will get angry and since education level is very high there, they speak out!
true indeed! Sad, human just wants the blood of other human, and they do not want to get their hands dirty:p. In some way of the other we do have most of the other pacific robots [factory robots, driver robots etc..],:p except a damned fine sex robot which we still lack. Maybe humans are masochist or bored, they want the ultimate killer machine so as one day it can be used against them and they can hunt or be hunted!
Pretty frequently on slashdot i hear " would alter scientists' understanding of how", this makes me wonder, why the heck did they make people fail or pass in science exams if nothing seems to be a constant in such fields:p, shouldn't they instead program a full fledged theoritical environment where they define certain stuffs and ask you to figure things out and come to conclusion based on that? Nope, they would just ask to "to calculate" based on "whoever's theory" when it seems those morons always gets there understanding "alterred", i wonder if they can be sued for not knowing enough and convincing people that "this time we are sure it is THE thing".
give him the code in x86 assembly:p, most probably if he is into hardware, he should get the information he seeks from this.
If he complains that he doesn't understand because he doesn't code, then tell him that you do not design hardware equally, that is the best thing you can come up with.
If all else fails and that you are willing to pimp your arrogance and ego for money, then write a simple perl parser that will parse your program and replace specifically where there are logical decision to their respective gates,
http://www.chem.uoa.gr/applets/appletgates/Images/Image1.gif
I would also if i was to pimp out my arrogance and ego to gain money and succumb to doing something out of what i like to do to design an algorithm using gate, it would be no different than learning a new language, map out the if, add, sub, mul, (division gets a lil bit tricky), from that you can build anything, once you make this map, use a perl parser to parse your program as mentionned and make it generate it according to the map you made.
:p am no electronic's person, but to solve any problem, a good background study is needed:p.
who knows, if you write it out and open source it out:p it might be of some use to someone else [the perl parser to convert a language to logic gates]!
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Still cheaper than internet on my island, Mauritius! around $285/mo for a 4M adsl line here! Cheapest is $28 for a 512kbps (yes not KBps but kbps) for a max 5GB monthly usage. So :p yes iowa is way better :p, and i better has better latency.
Easier tools for developers, definitely means more developers will be interested. OpenGL was always a nightmare to me!
"Writing code for a living isn't like being a Navy SEAL sharpshooter. Programming is seriously not that demanding, so you shouldn't need to be a tough-as-nails superhero to enter this profession.
Anyone with enough practice and motivation could have done our jobs, and most other programming and CS-related jobs as well. Seriously, companies aren't looking to hire the next Steve Wozniak—they just want to ship code that works."
This is what makes the industry so shitty. This is what make advancement in the technological field so sluggish. The very idea that one doesn't need to hire a programmer who can think properly is evil. Pfft practice doesn't make perfect in programming according to me, you are either born to think as a programmer OR NOT.
I quote:
"her aunt—whose son had been rejected—congratulated her by saying, “Well, you only got into MIT because you're a girl.”)
Over a decade later, she now does some programming at her research job, but wishes that she had learned more back in college."
Obviously now we see that "she does some programming" and that she apparently didn't learn much. You do not learn programming in college, you learn it in your house for the pleasure of coding. If she hasn't been able to understand that so far, i believe she is a failure. She definitely took the place of someone else who could have fared better in MIT. That is what happens with capitalism. I would not go as far as saying she got in because she is female, but that could contribute to a certain sense, because political wise it sounds a lot more fair when we show statistics of higher number of females being at college and studying IT.
"If I stared at someone in silence and nodded as they were talking, they would usually assume that I understood" -- i would call that cheating the system. You learn nothing out of this.
Not everybody gets to be at MIT, and i sincerely do not believe that placing a programmer in a cocoon is gonna make him/her any better. Flame wars and code flame is what actually make people better at programming, that's just my honest opinion, the entire world can disagree. If you don't tell someone he is a noob and why he is a noob, he will not evolve. Insulting people's intelligence is constructive both for the one insulting and to the one being insulted. Lol what now, females wants to be cared for in the field? definitely these creatures always asks for favors everywhere.
Well :) it wud sound arrogant if i said the systems favors those a
Who are good talkers/braggers/liars. It is very rare that someone with high technical skills gets a lion's cut. Kind of makes me happy that maybe there still is some hope for people who produce against people who manage. Granted without good management and good sales your business will fail.
I travel a lot, and i have seen really awesome software engineers earning $8000 yearly. Sometimes many do not understand that your paygrade may not reflect how good you are worldwide. The industry forces to hide such people so as they can't leave to get a better salary, I know the tricks employed to make developpers feel so bad that they do not deserve better, yet still make them milk cows while paying them a miser :p. It is all a matter of how good you are with making people feel bad.
"I'm not sure why it matters. People can burn calories in other ways too."
:s.
:)
That is why we are having nations of obese people cropping up all around the world, because people apparently can burn calories in other ways too, but are not forced to.
That's a gross exaggeration. Also, the birth rate will drop significantly in poor countries as well once they stop being so poor (eventually).
indian forks roughly around 1,000,000 new entities per 15 days, in the US american forks 4,000,000 kids yearly. Gross exageration you say? The culture itself is about forking, they stick to one woman mostly and produce kids for the sake of making their parents happy. If the kids has to go and beg on the streets, so be it.
"They didn't "live" longer than humans. They "existed as a species" for longer. Dinosaurs existed for an even longer period. That doesn't make them more evolved or better than humans, does it?"
"Paranthropus boisei have lived/evolved", %species% have lived longer, does not equate to "the life span of %species% is longer than %other species%, that was simple english
This makes them in a better position than homo sapiens when it comes to who survived longer or not. Homo sapiens are still kid when it comes to the evolutionary time line. I'd say a Cockroach is way more evolved in all sense than that 200,000 years old species called homo sapiens. We just got lucky that we got a brain that made us use tools in our surroundings to better out lives. Until as a species we don't survive more than the number of years other species have survived, we cannot really set ourselves on some kind of throne and claim we did it, we are superiors.
"It's another exaggeration." Usually i would expect a "it is an exageration because...."
"I've never heard of Hominidae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae) interbreeding." And in science i keep hearing " Scientists made a new discovery that will forever change all their understanding of... "
I wouldn't mind having my own basement cloning labs to clone myself to harvest body parts off those clones and i could burn the rest of the shell. :p, i could even get a new brain implant and destroy my aging body!
If only we could save a brain's state and reload that saved state on another identical brain
"Most Modern human eat stressed up meat"
As compared to the cavemen whose prey was relaxed and happy?
"nothing they ever spent time to hunt and kill"
Umm, what?
Typo, meant, "they never spend time to hunt and kill", true, rare are the few individuals who actually spends time knowing their food, killing it, burning calories to make the food, most are now heavilly enslaved to the food industry.
"modern man rarely fork (except the chinese or the indians)"
Umm, WHAT?!
See the statistics about the worlds population. People have a tendency not to make kids and share their genes that much in the west, rather than the make thousands of kids in the east. (which also is a problem when it comes to resource allocation, but heh, forking to the max ensures the continuity of the species if some has to die in hunger due to that, it is nature's way of dealing with it).
" modern man do not get to choose with whom they want to fornicate, it is now the female who choose with whom they want to fournicate"
Let me guess: you emigrated to North America or Western Europe from the Middle East, Africa or Asia and just can't get used to the fact that women here usually get to decide who they have sex with?
"modern man doesn't really have a right to say tiger nut eating man sux at evolution
Paranthropus boisei have lived/evolved longer than the homo sapiens, (read up on the evolution timeline).
"apes seems to mate with each other and will even mate with other species of its own kind"
With whom of the what?
Hmm apes cross breeded among different apes of different species, this is a highly possible scenario, because this happens even now in nature.
PS. Did you learn English from the Bible or something?
Na, I just use to place myself on pedestal and assume am god, and speak in whichever language mix i feel at ease with, i am a free man after all right?
hahaha true!
Oh the minorities who can refuse the temptation those are among the brink of extinction i guess, this is not a factual answer so don't expect any stats!
I personaly do not see the problem with patent trolls, they basically do not do shit and try to steal what you worked on for years and try to gain money out of that. They will bring lots of lawyers to take you down and make money out of your invention, well that just makes you a man without anything else to lose if you life time work is being stolen openly by the law, basically that makes the law a failure, why not kill the lawyers and the patent troll and get jailed and give your kid the business to run. Atleast you've taught patent trolls "don't fuck with hard working people". The law is here only if we want to "keep up" with the pretense of doing things the right way, when we all know we want things to be done the selfish way, to some extent you will accept certain things, but someone stealing your work and getting away from it is just where the law fails, grow some balls and do what needs to be done. Pfft having free access to weapons, and yet having to live an entire life in pretense isn't that hypocrisy? Life is too short to fall in this game of society, either you do things right, and when people screws you up you eliminate that genes that will be a problem to mankind in the long run (since probably they are not producers but leechers) or you just simply die in shame for having lived as a puppet to words :s
Let's hope you don't end up having to do a ctrl alt del on that :p.
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100086488
People do not seem to notice, is that, whenever oracle tried to acquire some piece of technology specially software wise, that piece of software/tech tends to perish, notable examples are Openoffice (when oracle acquired it, luckilly now that's apache'd), MySQl (luckilly the community revived it through MariaDB). You don't hear much about these anymore. Agreed they did acquire a lot more of software out there that.. well you never hear much of.
I wouldn't be surprised if oracle has a magic algorithm to screw up fine projects, and one would have thought having such huge financial backing will just enhance products, such doesn't seem the case.
Evolution of mankind : :p Age of Empires in real life!
We will wake up one day, drink one pill that will contain all our needed fuel. Our Robot slaves will look after us, do our work, then we'll spend our time plotting about who's territorry we can conquer today, then we send our robots to fight,
Most Modern human eat stressed up meat, nothing they ever spent time to hunt and kill, they also eat vegetables which seems to have been doped to reach harvest time (still nothing wrong in both as long as one can survive), but modern man rarely fork (except the chinese or the indians), plus most modern man do not get to choose with whom they want to fornicate, it is now the female who choose with whom they want to fournicate :p. Modern man has an ego so big that they are on a brink of launching nuke weapons on each other at the mere insult, so modern man doesn't really have a right to say tiger nut eating man sux at evolution :p, modern man is still lagging behind in terms of years lived.
:p, I wouldn't be surprised if one day scientists came up with something like "everything that we know about ourselves is now changed, apparently we have a mixture of multiple prehistoric genes mixed with each other" Does that sound so improbable that along the evolutionary phase genes across multiple evolved apes got mixed with each other? and those genes replicated along the lines?
Now, each time we keep having such discussions, we wonder, apes seems to mate with each other and will even mate with other species of its own kind as long as there is an orifice and the want to fornicate is there
If people adopts it, would be pretty great because I could know who not to kiss among the female gender :p. hahaha.
On a serious note :s privacy is going so much downhill that they want even your teeth brushing habits! dafuq! Soon tooth paste companies will be sending in ads based on your brushing habits!
Technology wise it is pretty neat, but slowly we are giving away our privacy to small things like this, and soon we'll have toilets that measure the speed and distance travelled by our pee and we will be able to share that on social network also!
$200 a tooth brush that takes a little bit of your privacy again. But isn't it a bit disgusting to use the same tooth brush for a longer period of time, since i guess, you don't throw a $200 toothbrush after 3 days of brushing..
American corrupting the Danish Government :p, you must be out of your mind, the Danish government seems among the most toughest governments around to corrupt. There people will get angry and since education level is very high there, they speak out!
true indeed! Sad, human just wants the blood of other human, and they do not want to get their hands dirty :p. In some way of the other we do have most of the other pacific robots [factory robots, driver robots etc..], :p except a damned fine sex robot which we still lack. Maybe humans are masochist or bored, they want the ultimate killer machine so as one day it can be used against them and they can hunt or be hunted!
Pretty frequently on slashdot i hear " would alter scientists' understanding of how", this makes me wonder, why the heck did they make people fail or pass in science exams if nothing seems to be a constant in such fields :p, shouldn't they instead program a full fledged theoritical environment where they define certain stuffs and ask you to figure things out and come to conclusion based on that? Nope, they would just ask to "to calculate" based on "whoever's theory" when it seems those morons always gets there understanding "alterred", i wonder if they can be sued for not knowing enough and convincing people that "this time we are sure it is THE thing".
:p
Killer robots cannot kill normally, :p because asimov says :
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
niahahaha your project is bound to fail!
give him the code in x86 assembly :p, most probably if he is into hardware, he should get the information he seeks from this.
If he complains that he doesn't understand because he doesn't code, then tell him that you do not design hardware equally, that is the best thing you can come up with.
If all else fails and that you are willing to pimp your arrogance and ego for money, then write a simple perl parser that will parse your program and replace specifically where there are logical decision to their respective gates,
http://www.chem.uoa.gr/applets/appletgates/Images/Image1.gif
:p am no electronic's person, but to solve any problem, a good background study is needed :p.
:p it might be of some use to someone else [the perl parser to convert a language to logic gates]!
I would also if i was to pimp out my arrogance and ego to gain money and succumb to doing something out of what i like to do to design an algorithm using gate, it would be no different than learning a new language, map out the if, add, sub, mul, (division gets a lil bit tricky), from that you can build anything, once you make this map, use a perl parser to parse your program as mentionned and make it generate it according to the map you made.
This might help also http://www.i-programmer.info/programming/hardware/4626-getting-started-with-digital-logic-logic-gates.html
who knows, if you write it out and open source it out
People use something else, until a new scandal crops up.