According to some drinking buddy the protection money is a trickle compared to the Russian taxes. According to my mom because of the protection money everything is 30% more expensive. We are not Russians though.
For some that might be the way, but remember you do things not because they are easy but because they are hard. I mean look what you can achieve with that attitude.
Some massage person (this is legal in my part of the world) told me that many men and women like anal stimulation. Personally I wouldn't want a dick in my ass, men are so dick controlled and whatnot, but it maybe alright for somebody else.
But uh oh, I guess my conclusion is that it takes two, and the GP is having a skewed worldview.
When I still watched TV they called engineers "Tüftler" - you know tinkerer. I doubt it has changed. Large companies also like to have a hierarchy where the boss has to have a higher degree than the underlings, so to make matters more efficient they added more layers of abstraction and invented degrees where they can teach people less and spend less (also it gives the older people some sense of growth). They probably aren't even great "Tüftlers" either.
Fortunately we have foreign consultants here, at least I can practice my english with them.
Personally I loved the engineer in the first "Flight of the Phoenix" that was a proper German Engineer, slightly arrogant, certain of his abilities and worth, and flexible (it was just the Reynolds number but hey) - perfect!
Sounds technically solvable. A combination of sperm banks and sex workers could do. Now you just have to lay off all those religious nuts and you are legal.
I wouldn't reign in Wall Street. It seems there is always some cycle going on involving either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment or that austrian school equivalent. This is perfectly normal if you notice that your only knowledge comes from the past and you are optimistic and that it pays to be optimistic, then at some point you hit the ceiling. It hasn't been hit yet since nothing has really changed.
I would rather suggest we develop hibernation technology to freeze extra engineers (like the ones from Apollo (ideally like in Demolition man where convicts learn in their sleep)) so we can wake them up when they are needed. Towards the periods where money breeds money engineers are not needed, they would only be bored. I would have liked to have gone to sleep around 2004.
This is probably too futuristic but if I'm right we still don't need them right now and assuming a lead time of 5 years for the production of fresh engineers and your president mentioning this now I would expect things to change in at most 5 years from now.
Also note that the methods mentioned in the economist article are much better suited for places like Libya where most people may have a radio but probably not a computer or even a network connection.
Slashdot already has acquired notoriety according to some government statements, there was an article about this on slashdot some time ago.
Interestingly Slashdot has attempted to become more mainstream maybe to drive up add revenue. With that it has become a more worthwhile target for spin doctoring and since it has gone down in quality to reach a larger audience, the effort an attacker has to expend has gone down as well. So the bar has been lowered for everyone.
> I thought the algorithms were already smarter than that.
I have the suspicion, that Google is like any other company, in that they only innovate if they must and the bottom line is most the important.
So I would have to applaud JCPenney for causing some progress in the world.
I also have the suspicion that since google seems to be market leader it could be the most affected by search engine circumvention devices. Less well known companies with different algorithms could yield better results just because of that
Also, competition doesn't necessarily require the same kind of effort.
Not all that much anymore, society has been working against it. Normally engineers are called "Tueftler" in the media - a tinkerer. While I feel like that occasionally, engineering is meant to be more of a discipline.
Personally I do find the engineer in "Flight of the Phoenix" (played by Hardy Krueger) a good role model for engineers in western societies. You need the kind of arrogance and hard nosed thinking to get any kind of respect.
You see though how ordinary HR people are just as fucked up in this particular case:
From the first link:
"I answered no, but also made a note for a verbal qualification as I did have a transgression on my record, from when I was 17 years old and for which I was never convicted of any crime; I was sure this incident would turn up in any public record background check and so I simply mentioned it.
As it turns out, upon hearing that I had a felony charge on my record, albeit without any subsequent conviction, HR immediately had a genuine grade-A freak out, called security and had me escorted from the building!"
Somebody was covering his ass, and then the thing started rolling once FDIC got involved. It kind of makes sense that banks would like to employ higher standards, but on the other hand he doesn't have to mention anything from before he was 18 years old.
When I stayed in the US I always had this feeling that people were terribly paranoid, I wonder how your society turned out that way. I mean you would like to blame the guy who keeps on harassing the poor SOB now but I would also blame HR for their reaction, they could have behaved far saner even though they have a tough job of predicting peoples future behaviour.
The article looks at math from an anti-capitalist angle:
"Unfortunately, the marketing of math has become similar to the marketing of creams to whiten teeth, gels to grow hair and regimens to build a beautiful body.
There are three steps to this kind of aggressive marketing. The first is to convince people that white teeth, a full head of hair and a sculpted physique are essential to a good life. The second is to embarrass those who do not possess them. The third is to make people think that, since a good life is their right, they must buy these products."
Indeed. Since our actions are now affecting much larger parts of the planet than a simple hunter/gatherer can understand, we need to know the size of the effect of our actions. Also our reasoning about the society we live in should not be solely based on our own experience but on equivalently certain information (give me your eyes and ears people (uh, not quite like that)). Because other people tend to distort information (and also we our self) more accuracy in information distribution and reasoning are needed. To give an example, anybody who is publishing statistically inaccurate information (i.e. published articles per source about terrorism vs traffic accidents has to match actual occurrence) has to pay a fine (personally I'm more in favour of bare bottom spanking but people might object). To enforce such a policy we need an educated public because laws don't spring into life by them self, its either money or the people.
Regarding the article, I didn't read it yet but I expect pure demagoguery, probably from the same Indian who lately bought Nazi paraphernalia - hey plain old cheap polemics is still allowed.
You are just lucky that you don't have to mow that. You can enjoy it if you go to some outbackish places in Australia. I was made painfully aware of that grass while walking through an old mining area in Western Australia. The open mine shafts can be even more dangerous.
I would say that the speed improvement from an SSD is about an order of magnitude. Given that the perceived responsiveness of your machine frequently depends on loading applications you will probably get the biggest bang for the buck if speed is your thing.
Over the last decade I would say that highly parallel GPUs, cheap RAM with high throughput, and SSDs have brought the greatest speed improvement. In the future I would think that parallelized software for multicore CPUs, lower latency RAM, and maybe the fusion of CPU and GPU can bring speed improvements.
All my machines have SSDs in them, that speed boost was too good to pass up, price be damned. Only poverty seems a good reason not to buy an SSD.
Slashdot Mirror
According to some drinking buddy the protection money is a trickle compared to the Russian taxes. According to my mom because of the protection money everything is 30% more expensive. We are not Russians though.
For some that might be the way, but remember you do things not because they are easy but because they are hard. I mean look what you can achieve with that attitude.
Some massage person (this is legal in my part of the world) told me that many men and women like anal stimulation. Personally I wouldn't want a dick in my ass, men are so dick controlled and whatnot, but it maybe alright for somebody else.
But uh oh, I guess my conclusion is that it takes two, and the GP is having a skewed worldview.
When I still watched TV they called engineers "Tüftler" - you know tinkerer. I doubt it has changed. Large companies also like to have a hierarchy where the boss has to have a higher degree than the underlings, so to make matters more efficient they added more layers of abstraction and invented degrees where they can teach people less and spend less (also it gives the older people some sense of growth). They probably aren't even great "Tüftlers" either.
Fortunately we have foreign consultants here, at least I can practice my english with them.
Personally I loved the engineer in the first "Flight of the Phoenix" that was a proper German Engineer, slightly arrogant, certain of his abilities and worth, and flexible (it was just the Reynolds number but hey) - perfect!
Sounds technically solvable. A combination of sperm banks and sex workers could do. Now you just have to lay off all those religious nuts and you are legal.
I wouldn't reign in Wall Street. It seems there is always some cycle going on involving either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment or that austrian school equivalent. This is perfectly normal if you notice that your only knowledge comes from the past and you are optimistic and that it pays to be optimistic, then at some point you hit the ceiling. It hasn't been hit yet since nothing has really changed.
I would rather suggest we develop hibernation technology to freeze extra engineers (like the ones from Apollo (ideally like in Demolition man where convicts learn in their sleep)) so we can wake them up when they are needed. Towards the periods where money breeds money engineers are not needed, they would only be bored. I would have liked to have gone to sleep around 2004.
This is probably too futuristic but if I'm right we still don't need them right now and assuming a lead time of 5 years for the production of fresh engineers and your president mentioning this now I would expect things to change in at most 5 years from now.
So back to sleep then, yawn.
Uh, it is child's play so to say:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/olpc-achieves-2km-range-in-802-11s-tests-339277912.htm
Also note that the methods mentioned in the economist article are much better suited for places like Libya where most people may have a radio but probably not a computer or even a network connection.
Slashdot already has acquired notoriety according to some government statements, there was an article about this on slashdot some time ago.
Interestingly Slashdot has attempted to become more mainstream maybe to drive up add revenue. With that it has become a more worthwhile target for spin doctoring and since it has gone down in quality to reach a larger audience, the effort an attacker has to expend has gone down as well. So the bar has been lowered for everyone.
> I thought the algorithms were already smarter than that.
I have the suspicion, that Google is like any other company, in that they only innovate if they must and the bottom line is most the important.
So I would have to applaud JCPenney for causing some progress in the world.
I also have the suspicion that since google seems to be market leader it could be the most affected by search engine circumvention devices. Less well known companies with different algorithms could yield better results just because of that
Also, competition doesn't necessarily require the same kind of effort.
Yawn!
Have a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_ad_hoc_network
Or make your android phone MANET aware with the following:
http://www.olsr.org/?q=olsr_on_android
It does require cooperation of people though, so get out of your caves and talk to each other ;).
Not all that much anymore, society has been working against it. Normally engineers are called "Tueftler" in the media - a tinkerer. While I feel like that occasionally, engineering is meant to be more of a discipline.
Personally I do find the engineer in "Flight of the Phoenix" (played by Hardy Krueger) a good role model for engineers in western societies. You need the kind of arrogance and hard nosed thinking to get any kind of respect.
And the ingredients list contains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoroantimonic_acid instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascorbic_acid ?
Uh, freshly squeezed Alien juice?
You see though how ordinary HR people are just as fucked up in this particular case:
From the first link:
"I answered no, but also made a note for a verbal qualification as I did have a transgression on my record, from when I was 17 years old and for which I was never convicted of any crime; I was sure this incident would turn up in any public record background check and so I simply mentioned it.
As it turns out, upon hearing that I had a felony charge on my record, albeit without any subsequent conviction, HR immediately had a genuine grade-A freak out, called security and had me escorted from the building!"
Somebody was covering his ass, and then the thing started rolling once FDIC got involved. It kind of makes sense that banks would like to employ higher standards, but on the other hand he doesn't have to mention anything from before he was 18 years old.
When I stayed in the US I always had this feeling that people were terribly paranoid, I wonder how your society turned out that way. I mean you would like to blame the guy who keeps on harassing the poor SOB now but I would also blame HR for their reaction, they could have behaved far saner even though they have a tough job of predicting peoples future behaviour.
That is why I switched to LaTeX. No more bad typography.
Not Iron yet, guess I can go back to sleep again.
We are. It seems to be some sort of auto-immune disorder.
Ha! I only rarely think about the x in e^x being real, and yet never had to think about the difference between the two. Thanks for the insight.
If G.V.Ramanathan has as much life in him, as he is pretending with his non dried up mathless lifestyle, she will convince him.
That reminds me!
The article looks at math from an anti-capitalist angle:
"Unfortunately, the marketing of math has become similar to the marketing of creams to whiten teeth, gels to grow hair and regimens to build a beautiful body.
There are three steps to this kind of aggressive marketing. The first is to convince people that white teeth, a full head of hair and a sculpted physique are essential to a good life. The second is to embarrass those who do not possess them. The third is to make people think that, since a good life is their right, they must buy these products."
Now go ahead guys and gals, have fun with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Student_Olympiads
http://www.kidsmathbooks.com/2010/10/2nd-all-soviet-union-mathematical.html
I mean, why is he targeting the left wingers with his anti intellectual propaganda?
Indeed. Since our actions are now affecting much larger parts of the planet than a simple hunter/gatherer can understand, we need to know the size of the effect of our actions. Also our reasoning about the society we live in should not be solely based on our own experience but on equivalently certain information (give me your eyes and ears people (uh, not quite like that)). Because other people tend to distort information (and also we our self) more accuracy in information distribution and reasoning are needed. To give an example, anybody who is publishing statistically inaccurate information (i.e. published articles per source about terrorism vs traffic accidents has to match actual occurrence) has to pay a fine (personally I'm more in favour of bare bottom spanking but people might object). To enforce such a policy we need an educated public because laws don't spring into life by them self, its either money or the people.
Regarding the article, I didn't read it yet but I expect pure demagoguery, probably from the same Indian who lately bought Nazi paraphernalia - hey plain old cheap polemics is still allowed.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
http://books.google.com/books?id=M2lbSTsbfGsC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=Triodia+injuries&source=bl&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&sqi=2&q&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
You are just lucky that you don't have to mow that. You can enjoy it if you go to some outbackish places in Australia. I was made painfully aware of that grass while walking through an old mining area in Western Australia. The open mine shafts can be even more dangerous.
I would say that the speed improvement from an SSD is about an order of magnitude. Given that the perceived responsiveness of your machine frequently depends on loading applications you will probably get the biggest bang for the buck if speed is your thing.
Over the last decade I would say that highly parallel GPUs, cheap RAM with high throughput, and SSDs have brought the greatest speed improvement. In the future I would think that parallelized software for multicore CPUs, lower latency RAM, and maybe the fusion of CPU and GPU can bring speed improvements.
All my machines have SSDs in them, that speed boost was too good to pass up, price be damned. Only poverty seems a good reason not to buy an SSD.
You are working for the wrong newspaper. Oh, oops that was supposed to meant 'reading' instead of 'working' but hey, its close enough.
You would have to wear a velours uniform instead.
Only crazy guys around who shouldn't be there anyway or staff. Next application is the US-Mexican border I would guess.