Your unstated premise is that national borders interfere with a free market. As long as the separate nations of Mexico and the United States of America exist, they have separate economies and separate labor markets.
Therefore, given two separate labor markets, illegally allowing cheap labor from one into the other constitutes intervention in the free market by bloating supply to depress prices. You can go ahead arguing for "free trade" and "free movement of people", but don't try to treat the economics as though the laws didn't exist.
Every now and then someone stays straight but is ignored by the media and their peers and dissapears into the corner of irrelevance. So every now and then you get a Dennis Kucinich.
(how many OS'es are written in Java?) You hit the nail on the head. Until D and to my knowledge, Object Pascal was the highest-level language you could write bare-metal/embedded code in (think C++ without the bullshit). Perl and Python can have as many features and perform as fast as you like, but I've never seen anyone compile them down to machine code and have them schedule threads on a bare x86.
No one has stopped to ask... is the insane scholastic and hence market competition toxic to the social fabric and harmony of society? Plenty of people ask it. For example, those of us who get branded ADHD and then wonder if it's really *us* who have something wrong after all ask it a lot. But nobody listens because we're in the minority. So without changing the majority's mind about the Bar-Raising Required Work on Deadline that they seem at least competent at, how can we change the standards for ourselves? You can't just set up an alternative world for people who feel like living in a different way. The hippies tried it and failed pathetically.
If insane competition hurts us, how do we get rid of it and still make our way in the Real World?
We only have to look at modern money markets and their products to see that this idea of rushing to market or trying to make a buck produced inferior buggy products... I and many economists would counter that if people want to put short-term profits ahead of long-term profits, that's their business.
No one stopped to ask, are we over stressing the kids? Is the way we teach hurting people psychologically? The biggest factor is that evolutionary biology is ignored, so is maslow's hierarchy of needs. Doing good...
What if a student isn't getting laid at all or has some other biological trait (anxiety, etc) that is effecting his ability to perform school work because his more basic needs are not met? Ouch, and just when you were making a point. Kids who don't get laid (I count myself among them.) often seem to pour the psychic energy generated by sexual frustration into hobby or work efforts. Hence why nerds (often, but not nearly as often as people think) have good grades.
Just drop that point, because sex is unhealed scab tissue on our culture's skin. Nobody wants to actually tackle the question of why certain people get laid and others don't. It reveals too much ugliness.
On the other hand, this particular factor is breeding us into Idiocracy.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. How can I obtain a bachelor's and Ph. D in Computer Science, however, without deadlines and consistent production of required work?
I don't think I can take the fact that some born in 1989 is posting on slashdot. Learn to live with it. Born 1989.
Have two, it's fun. I have three, possibly four if I forgot one. All the stuff I would want connected back to me goes to this one and another (which is roughly the same but with a different name on different sites).
On the internet, no one should know you're a teenager. Pray tell, why? It might surprise you to learn that not all teenagers are fools.
There have been many sci-fi Solarians, but only one group nuked us and became hermaphroditic (due to their hatred of human contact) later on. Asimov all the way!
maximum flexibility, performance, compatibility and extensibility (*nix) Please repost when you've rid yourself of the Unix Virus. *nix may be the best thing on today's market for desktop or server operating systems, but it does not in any way meet those criteria. Hell, nothing can ever give maximum in all of those, especially compatibility.
So, obviously our culture has diseased the innocent solarian people. Those damned hermaphrodite Solarians are anything but innocent. Bastards nuked us!
1) 18-24 year olds in general are one of the most politically apathetic groups in the country. 2) For most 18-20 year olds, it's much easier to obtain booze illegally than it is to change the drinking age laws. 3) There are so many old people who think the 21 drinking age is a good thing that they can completely outvote 18-20 year olds. 4) Due to #3, running on lowering the drinking age is political suicide, so candidates who champion this issue never make it to the ballot. 5) Due to #4, 18-20 year olds can't vote for a candidate who supports their issues and views. So they don't vote at all, causing #1.
Since when has Bush's War been a just war? Israel has no interest in helping the United States screw itself over, and quite frankly the United States shouldn't help Israel when the USA has no interests in doing so.
Bottom line is: nations seem to act according to their self-interest. Why doesn't the United States?
At that point, HP's costs increase trying to support Grandma, or HP risks seriously upsetting a customer and possibly getting into further legal troubles. It's a lose-lose for HP and Grandma. Think economically. You're essentially describing a situation in which the demand for support services goes up because a bunch of Grandmas and Aunt Tillies bought cheap Linux or even naked systems. Inevitably, HP will figure out how to make money off of this situation:
1) HP starts selling copies of Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo/etc that "cost" $75-$100 to cover their support costs. People who go for the cheapest option take Windoze or naked. 2) HP raises the price on support packages for Linux or naked systems. Word gets out among consumers that Linux/naked will cost you on support if you're not a techie, and people stop buying Linux/naked without knowing what to do with it. 3) HP institutes a program where Grandma can exchange her naked/Linux hard-drive imprint for a normal Windoze one once she uses enough support hours. Grandma pays $40 for the Windoze CD and license, and HP doesn't charge her for her Linux-related tech support hours because the exchange will save them net tech-support hours in the long run.
In all of these, everyone goes away happy. In fact, they could be combined. The whole point of these bundling laws is that HP *offers* the naked or Linux PCs (and if Linux is free-as-in-beer it's as good as naked), the consumers make their own choices and the free market resolves any remaining issues.
Because while some women whined to her girlfriend about her husband fighting with her girlfriend's husband, both men were driven by their competition to create something. Then at least one of those things wound up of some worth to humanity, be it art, science, philosophy, religion, literature, etc.
Don't doubt for a second that if Iran had the power to do so it would.
Don't doubt that Iran will have the power to do that in a few years and they will begin conquering their neighbours shortly thereafter. And the civilized world will be able to do nothing about it but send Iran polite letters asking it to stop. Which it won't.
The main problem with Bush is that he decided to invade the wrong country.
One country *will* fight Iran tooth and nail. Israel will defend the world from Iran, and for it the "civilized world" will condemn and boycott Israel. Business as usual.
There has only been one program ever written from from scratch, and that was "Hello World." Everything other program has been cut-n-pasted from that. Actually, just about every kernel with any remotely new idea, and most without, are written from scratch.
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I'm going to say this as gently as possible, while still giving you what I think is a much-needed reality check:
Programming and computer science research are very different things. Being able to program in no way identifies you as someone who can understand the interesting aspects of this particular research.
WTF does she care if you think she's great? The people she needs to impress are probably, in this order: her department (to get tenure), her sponsors (either corporate or government), her peers (via good research publications),..., her dog, her cat,..., a package of oatmeal,..., you.
You sound as though you think the world is waiting with bated breath to find out which university you join, so that all the computer science faculty can line up and give you a blow-job out of gratitude. What happened, were you the highest scorer on your math SATs in your school or something? You know, just like the tens of thousands of other students this year?
If you wanted the information from that professor, why didn't you just read one of her research papers on the topic? If she doesn't have any published and yet claims this is her major research area, there's something wrong. If there is something published, why don't you stop bothering busy people and RTFP instead?
Do you have any idea how busy professors typically are, especially during the semester? It was an act of charity that she even responded to your email at all.
1.They are. But if you want a high-school kid to have training in Computer Science before being told one of the simplest possible things about a paper, why should he enter the field of Computer Science? 2.She should care because my hypothetical tuition money goes to pay her salary. I've heard from enough grad students to know that Man Cannot Live By Research Grants Alone. And somehow I think I rank above the package of oatmeal, though lower than the dog. 3.Nice straw man. Professors should expect inquiries from possible undergrads. How else can we find out about university departments when no opportunities to speak to actual undergrads are given? 4.As a matter of fact, I asked about this particular research project because I read the paper abstracts (the part of the paper available without an ACM membership) and they didn't actually explain how the fuck this woman's "storage management system" manages what storage for what computer system with what application. Answering at least one of those would be nice, though I don't expect to see all 3 in an abstract. 5.My stepdad's an EE professor. If he got such an email, it would take him about a week to respond, despite his 12-hour workday (counting time spent working from home). This woman took about 3 weeks to a month.
Any university with your attitude ("We'd have a lovely university if it weren't for all those goddamned students!") isn't worth attending.
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1.I wasn't at all cranky in my original email. I was rather hopeful, in fact. 2.Why should she need to look it up? She cited it as her own major research project. 3.If she can't be bothered to explain it to a prospective student who already noted that he can program and understands technical explanations, why should I believe that she, her teaching or her research are all that great?
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Your unstated premise is that national borders interfere with a free market. As long as the separate nations of Mexico and the United States of America exist, they have separate economies and separate labor markets.
Therefore, given two separate labor markets, illegally allowing cheap labor from one into the other constitutes intervention in the free market by bloating supply to depress prices. You can go ahead arguing for "free trade" and "free movement of people", but don't try to treat the economics as though the laws didn't exist.
This is Slashdot. You have no girlfriend.
Science is descriptive rather than prescriptive. In fact, the plain evidence suggests Free Will over determinism.
YA damn right! Free Pascal Compiler for the win!
(how many OS'es are written in Java?)
You hit the nail on the head. Until D and to my knowledge, Object Pascal was the highest-level language you could write bare-metal/embedded code in (think C++ without the bullshit). Perl and Python can have as many features and perform as fast as you like, but I've never seen anyone compile them down to machine code and have them schedule threads on a bare x86.
If insane competition hurts us, how do we get rid of it and still make our way in the Real World? We only have to look at modern money markets and their products to see that this idea of rushing to market or trying to make a buck produced inferior buggy products... I and many economists would counter that if people want to put short-term profits ahead of long-term profits, that's their business. No one stopped to ask, are we over stressing the kids? Is the way we teach hurting people psychologically? The biggest factor is that evolutionary biology is ignored, so is maslow's hierarchy of needs. Doing good... What if a student isn't getting laid at all or has some other biological trait (anxiety, etc) that is effecting his ability to perform school work because his more basic needs are not met? Ouch, and just when you were making a point. Kids who don't get laid (I count myself among them.) often seem to pour the psychic energy generated by sexual frustration into hobby or work efforts. Hence why nerds (often, but not nearly as often as people think) have good grades.
Just drop that point, because sex is unhealed scab tissue on our culture's skin. Nobody wants to actually tackle the question of why certain people get laid and others don't. It reveals too much ugliness.
On the other hand, this particular factor is breeding us into Idiocracy.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. How can I obtain a bachelor's and Ph. D in Computer Science, however, without deadlines and consistent production of required work?
So AmigaOS 4 makes the 'cl' sound.
So you want the Unix virus to claim *another* victim?
There have been many sci-fi Solarians, but only one group nuked us and became hermaphroditic (due to their hatred of human contact) later on. Asimov all the way!
So, obviously our culture has diseased the innocent solarian people.
Those damned hermaphrodite Solarians are anything but innocent. Bastards nuked us!
The time when we throw toothbrushes at salesmen?
1) 18-24 year olds in general are one of the most politically apathetic groups in the country.
2) For most 18-20 year olds, it's much easier to obtain booze illegally than it is to change the drinking age laws.
3) There are so many old people who think the 21 drinking age is a good thing that they can completely outvote 18-20 year olds.
4) Due to #3, running on lowering the drinking age is political suicide, so candidates who champion this issue never make it to the ballot.
5) Due to #4, 18-20 year olds can't vote for a candidate who supports their issues and views. So they don't vote at all, causing #1.
Since when has Bush's War been a just war? Israel has no interest in helping the United States screw itself over, and quite frankly the United States shouldn't help Israel when the USA has no interests in doing so.
Bottom line is: nations seem to act according to their self-interest. Why doesn't the United States?
1) HP starts selling copies of Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo/etc that "cost" $75-$100 to cover their support costs. People who go for the cheapest option take Windoze or naked.
2) HP raises the price on support packages for Linux or naked systems. Word gets out among consumers that Linux/naked will cost you on support if you're not a techie, and people stop buying Linux/naked without knowing what to do with it.
3) HP institutes a program where Grandma can exchange her naked/Linux hard-drive imprint for a normal Windoze one once she uses enough support hours. Grandma pays $40 for the Windoze CD and license, and HP doesn't charge her for her Linux-related tech support hours because the exchange will save them net tech-support hours in the long run.
In all of these, everyone goes away happy. In fact, they could be combined. The whole point of these bundling laws is that HP *offers* the naked or Linux PCs (and if Linux is free-as-in-beer it's as good as naked), the consumers make their own choices and the free market resolves any remaining issues.
Actually, looks like there's a podcast.
Because while some women whined to her girlfriend about her husband fighting with her girlfriend's husband, both men were driven by their competition to create something. Then at least one of those things wound up of some worth to humanity, be it art, science, philosophy, religion, literature, etc.
Don't doubt that Iran will have the power to do that in a few years and they will begin conquering their neighbours shortly thereafter. And the civilized world will be able to do nothing about it but send Iran polite letters asking it to stop. Which it won't.
The main problem with Bush is that he decided to invade the wrong country.
One country *will* fight Iran tooth and nail. Israel will defend the world from Iran, and for it the "civilized world" will condemn and boycott Israel. Business as usual.- Programming and computer science research are very different things. Being able to program in no way identifies you as someone who can understand the interesting aspects of this particular research.
- WTF does she care if you think she's great? The people she needs to impress are probably, in this order: her department (to get tenure), her sponsors (either corporate or government), her peers (via good research publications),
..., her dog, her cat, ..., a package of oatmeal, ..., you.
- You sound as though you think the world is waiting with bated breath to find out which university you join, so that all the computer science faculty can line up and give you a blow-job out of gratitude. What happened, were you the highest scorer on your math SATs in your school or something? You know, just like the tens of thousands of other students this year?
- If you wanted the information from that professor, why didn't you just read one of her research papers on the topic? If she doesn't have any published and yet claims this is her major research area, there's something wrong. If there is something published, why don't you stop bothering busy people and RTFP instead?
- Do you have any idea how busy professors typically are, especially during the semester? It was an act of charity that she even responded to your email at all.
1.They are. But if you want a high-school kid to have training in Computer Science before being told one of the simplest possible things about a paper, why should he enter the field of Computer Science?2.She should care because my hypothetical tuition money goes to pay her salary. I've heard from enough grad students to know that Man Cannot Live By Research Grants Alone. And somehow I think I rank above the package of oatmeal, though lower than the dog.
3.Nice straw man. Professors should expect inquiries from possible undergrads. How else can we find out about university departments when no opportunities to speak to actual undergrads are given?
4.As a matter of fact, I asked about this particular research project because I read the paper abstracts (the part of the paper available without an ACM membership) and they didn't actually explain how the fuck this woman's "storage management system" manages what storage for what computer system with what application. Answering at least one of those would be nice, though I don't expect to see all 3 in an abstract.
5.My stepdad's an EE professor. If he got such an email, it would take him about a week to respond, despite his 12-hour workday (counting time spent working from home). This woman took about 3 weeks to a month.
Any university with your attitude ("We'd have a lovely university if it weren't for all those goddamned students!") isn't worth attending.
1.I wasn't at all cranky in my original email. I was rather hopeful, in fact.
2.Why should she need to look it up? She cited it as her own major research project.
3.If she can't be bothered to explain it to a prospective student who already noted that he can program and understands technical explanations, why should I believe that she, her teaching or her research are all that great?