Intelligence takes work? First I've heard about that. Sure, utilising intelligence to create new things, undertake science, refine and present new ideas, learning, building etc -- they all take work. I.e. it takes work to use your intelligence to its full potential. But I don't think that's the same thing as saying "Intelligence? That takes work".
My thoughts exactly. Education takes work. Being smart is just as easy or hard as being beautiful.
I expect its somewhere between the two. Like being muscular - you need some apptitude and need to put some work into it.
I'm a sexist prick who works for a financial company and because I program, I consider myself a geek, even though I'm contributing nothing to geekdom."
Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they want me to work on a small payments system...
True, and actually I wouldn't be surprised if a system that is run on budget hardware (as well as some quality phones) does have more hardware issues than the iPhone for example
14 percent of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a hardware fault, versus 3.7 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 8 percent for iPhones and 9 percent for Windows Phone 7 devices.'
In other news: '86% of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a software issue, versus 96.3 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 92 percent for iPhones and 91 percent for Windows Phone 7 devices.'
They're referring to in-shoring. Bringing in people from poorer countries with similar skills and paying them much less than what is expected for that position. It's happening in America as well. Employers claim they can't find enough people to do the job in the US and conveniently find all the qualified people they need from poor countries. Obama's speech sounds good on the service, but he's ignoring the elephant in the room. I suspect they hope people outside the field fall for it, appearing as if he's addressing the high unemployment, when in reality this won't change much, if anything.
That's what happens in our company. The thing is it is a self-fulfilling prophecy, advertise for a experienced programmer at 5k p/a and you will find that you can't find anyone ion your own company. Talk to an Indian company and they'll supply programmers to work in your office at that rate, or half that in India. You can get them visas because you advertised in the UK (I assume that it works the same way in the USA) and didn't get any applicants.
Certainly one of the evolutionary benefits of reasoning could be to win debates. On the other hand problem solving certainly plays part. I can picture a cave-man saying "remember when we hunted those mammoths near the cliffs and one fell down. It was an easy kill, and nobody got hurt. Lets drive the mammoths towards the cliff again"!
As the article says, the "winning debate" comes to the fore more in larger groups - and people started off in small hunter-gatherer tribes. Also there are two types of debate - the academic debate where people knowledgable in the field evaluate arguments and the sort of debate that two politicians have on TV. In the first case reason is very important. In the second case dissembling - not answering questions - and implying things that they know are wrong are more important. A slick presentation of a lie would easily convince most of the viewing population over a rigorous, boring argument for the truth.
Same here in the UK. 10 years ago the floor I work on had 100 full-time English programmers. Now it has 20 full-time staff and 150 contract staff from India.
Yes. Majority opinion should be held so high, even if it trumps conceited arrogance assumptions of what is progress.
Let me be clear, I fully support nuclear power, I think it should be expanded greatly, safely using advanced techniques. I think these countries are idiots for closing it down, but it is their democratic right, and don't anyone dare take that away from them.
Mod parent up. If the majority of people cote for something then they should get it, except when it directly infringes basic human rights of others (i.e. where most people want to kill the Jews/Gypsies/Blacks etc.)
What is the ICD-10 code for being a dickless idiot. They could save time by automatically adding it to the record of all Federal employees. OK - maybe not the FBI - honestly I didn't mean you, I was just sayi.....
There are others you can buy but Nissan tries like hell to invalidate your warranty if you don't use their blessed charger installed by their holy electrician.
off-topic but holy shit dude, you live 50mi+ from your work? Why?!
Seriously it happens. We have a guy in our office who commutes 60 miles each way, taking nearly two hours twice a day. He was made redundant in his previous job. It took him six months to find this position, during which he worked on a couple of contracts 250 miles from home (away every week) He has kids who will be going through their final school exams in the next two years - moving schools would be very disruptive at this point. It is unlikely that he will get another job near his home - in a largely rural area with a now closed government research facility. He is resigned to commuting for two years, stopping overnight when there is snow and then moving when his kids are in uni.
So when do they release the next product: Google Causation?
There is actually a very strong possibility of this. Because sites are ranked by popularity of selection Google itself could well amplify trends. If you do a search for "family health" and the top results are news reports on increased rates, what would your next search be? If you get sick what are you likely to put it down to?
How an injunction granted by a UK court can apply to a web site hosted in the US or to users of that web site who are located in countries other than the UK.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that they are going to try to get an injunction in a US court to ask Twitter to release information necessary for them to take proceeding against British twitters in a British court. Well actually probably only English and Welsh twitters, because the gagging order only applied there.
Mitterand had commented that copyright debates had grown so calm now that everyone agreed upon the ground rules
It is surprisingly calm at home even when I have come back an hour later from the pub that I told my wife I would on a day when she was supposed to meet someone, as long as I stick my fingers in my ears and say "La La LA I'm not listening".
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Intelligence takes work? First I've heard about that. Sure, utilising intelligence to create new things, undertake science, refine and present new ideas, learning, building etc -- they all take work. I.e. it takes work to use your intelligence to its full potential. But I don't think that's the same thing as saying "Intelligence? That takes work".
My thoughts exactly. Education takes work. Being smart is just as easy or hard as being beautiful.
I expect its somewhere between the two. Like being muscular - you need some apptitude and need to put some work into it.
I'm a sexist prick who works for a financial company and because I program, I consider myself a geek, even though I'm contributing nothing to geekdom."
Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they want me to work on a small payments system...
Despite what navel-gazing corners of the internet have tried to convince ourselves, the only people who think geeks are cool are geeks.
That's simply not true. My mum thinks I'm cool too. (the exception that proves the rule perhaps...)
Use Picasa, it's not made by a wannabe evil, world dominating organisation.
Priceless!
Well google may not wannabe evil but it proves that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
That has to be the most insightful, and obvious when you hear it, comment yet.
Windows is a trademark of the Microsoft corporation.
True, and actually I wouldn't be surprised if a system that is run on budget hardware (as well as some quality phones) does have more hardware issues than the iPhone for example
14 percent of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a hardware fault, versus 3.7 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 8 percent for iPhones and 9 percent for Windows Phone 7 devices.'
In other news: '86% of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a software issue, versus 96.3 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 92 percent for iPhones and 91 percent for Windows Phone 7 devices.'
Shows how bad Android is doesn't it....
in a poor European country
I think at the moment with the financial crisis that means every European country except Liechtenstein
They're referring to in-shoring. Bringing in people from poorer countries with similar skills and paying them much less than what is expected for that position. It's happening in America as well. Employers claim they can't find enough people to do the job in the US and conveniently find all the qualified people they need from poor countries. Obama's speech sounds good on the service, but he's ignoring the elephant in the room. I suspect they hope people outside the field fall for it, appearing as if he's addressing the high unemployment, when in reality this won't change much, if anything.
That's what happens in our company. The thing is it is a self-fulfilling prophecy, advertise for a experienced programmer at 5k p/a and you will find that you can't find anyone ion your own company. Talk to an Indian company and they'll supply programmers to work in your office at that rate, or half that in India. You can get them visas because you advertised in the UK (I assume that it works the same way in the USA) and didn't get any applicants.
Certainly one of the evolutionary benefits of reasoning could be to win debates. On the other hand problem solving certainly plays part. I can picture a cave-man saying "remember when we hunted those mammoths near the cliffs and one fell down. It was an easy kill, and nobody got hurt. Lets drive the mammoths towards the cliff again"! As the article says, the "winning debate" comes to the fore more in larger groups - and people started off in small hunter-gatherer tribes. Also there are two types of debate - the academic debate where people knowledgable in the field evaluate arguments and the sort of debate that two politicians have on TV. In the first case reason is very important. In the second case dissembling - not answering questions - and implying things that they know are wrong are more important. A slick presentation of a lie would easily convince most of the viewing population over a rigorous, boring argument for the truth.
Same here in the UK. 10 years ago the floor I work on had 100 full-time English programmers. Now it has 20 full-time staff and 150 contract staff from India.
Since we don't know the terms, we can't speculate how it was settled
Actually, since we don't know the terms, all we can do is speculate.
OK here goes. The chairman of Nokia gets to screw the Chairman of Apple's daughter.
Yes. Majority opinion should be held so high, even if it trumps conceited arrogance assumptions of what is progress. Let me be clear, I fully support nuclear power, I think it should be expanded greatly, safely using advanced techniques. I think these countries are idiots for closing it down, but it is their democratic right, and don't anyone dare take that away from them.
Mod parent up. If the majority of people cote for something then they should get it, except when it directly infringes basic human rights of others (i.e. where most people want to kill the Jews/Gypsies/Blacks etc.)
What is the ICD-10 code for being a dickless idiot. They could save time by automatically adding it to the record of all Federal employees. OK - maybe not the FBI - honestly I didn't mean you, I was just sayi.....
Whilst there are useful examples for local apps, the most common thing is going to be advertising brochures.
Like the sites that say "dozens of hot girls in <your town> are waiting to meet you".
many sites have location-aware store finders, etc. You can do a location aware serach for "museum brochure" and probably get the same result.
I smell apple marketing something that is already being done as somehow being their "new innovation"
There are others you can buy but Nissan tries like hell to invalidate your warranty if you don't use their blessed charger installed by their holy electrician.
Ah the one that worked on the pope-mobile
off-topic but holy shit dude, you live 50mi+ from your work? Why?!
Seriously it happens. We have a guy in our office who commutes 60 miles each way, taking nearly two hours twice a day. He was made redundant in his previous job. It took him six months to find this position, during which he worked on a couple of contracts 250 miles from home (away every week) He has kids who will be going through their final school exams in the next two years - moving schools would be very disruptive at this point. It is unlikely that he will get another job near his home - in a largely rural area with a now closed government research facility. He is resigned to commuting for two years, stopping overnight when there is snow and then moving when his kids are in uni.
Nisaan Leaf violates the laws of physics
The Leaf has Heisenberg compensators.
You cannot break the laws of physics. The dilithiam crystals 'll never take it captain.
Fukushima To Remain Nuclear Dump
So when do they release the next product: Google Causation?
There is actually a very strong possibility of this. Because sites are ranked by popularity of selection Google itself could well amplify trends. If you do a search for "family health" and the top results are news reports on increased rates, what would your next search be? If you get sick what are you likely to put it down to?
Mod parent up. All a service should provide is a directory for a peer to peer service, and gateways to landlines etc.
How an injunction granted by a UK court can apply to a web site hosted in the US or to users of that web site who are located in countries other than the UK.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that they are going to try to get an injunction in a US court to ask Twitter to release information necessary for them to take proceeding against British twitters in a British court. Well actually probably only English and Welsh twitters, because the gagging order only applied there.
Mitterand had commented that copyright debates had grown so calm now that everyone agreed upon the ground rules
It is surprisingly calm at home even when I have come back an hour later from the pub that I told my wife I would on a day when she was supposed to meet someone, as long as I stick my fingers in my ears and say "La La LA I'm not listening".
I think M Mitterand is doing the same thing.