Yeah I agree that Computer Scientists are mostly worthless, but you can pay them a lot less than you have to pay a real engineer, so were just trying our luck to see if we can find a computer scientist who is actually mildly competent.
This is what our add asks for (it's linked in my sig):
1. 3+ years experience as a software engineer
2. BS degree in Computer Science or related field
3. Must be fluent in English.
4. Candidate must be able to program in C/C++, skills in Java an advantage
5. Comfortable working with customers in an outward facing role
6. Candidate must be able to present technical concepts in a clear manner to customers through demos and proposals
7. Willingness to assume responsibility and see processes through to successful conclusion
8. Requires the analytical skills and attention to detail necessary to address the details of pre and post-sales systems implementation for customers while maintaining a big picture view of the sales opportunity and customer implementation
9. Customer training experience is a plus
10. Strong problem solving skills, self-management ability, and good communication skills are required.
Why was this modded funny? This is exactly waht I'm seeing. We write programmer tools that involve compilers and system level debugging and stuff and every single Masters of CS I've interviewed is totally lacking in the necessities.
The lecturer was in Australia talking about Australian students, and I've heard the same thing from Academics in the UK, but I thought it was probably applicable to the USA as well. It's also happening where I am now in Taiwan. So yes, it's happening across the board.
When I was at university I was talking to an old engineering lecturer and he was complaining that they had to lessen the difficulty levels of the courses even more because students were getting dumber.
It's not that scores are getting better, it's that the tests are getting easier. Also there is still a very high demand for genuinely smart people, but not so great science grads are being churned out at a higher rate than what is required.
$4.7mil apartment! With that kind of money I probably have a Merc SLK65 for short trips, a CLK65 for the wife, an S500 for taking the whole family on day trips, an SUV for multi day trips or shopping. Also need some space to work on my Ferrari as it requires some maintenance, oh and I need 3 minis for pulling bank jobs to keep me in the money.
One of the articles was about a jet engine research project funded by the airforce, but after reading your comment I can see clearly that they are wasting their money looking at this flying thing. Obviously what they should be doing is researching how they can lay maglev track at Mach 2.0, and have the bombs flying down the track just behind the head of construction.
It's genius! You send down the bombs, then you send down the troops to go in and secure what's left of the place and then you can send supplies in by the same track. Maglev capability is obviously a serious military advantage. With the Japanese, Germans, and Chinese vying for top spot with this tech we could see a new world Military leader emerge.
There could even be some possiblities there for commercial applications too, except that the infrastructure costs exceed what you would make back on such a project.
$7.5 million is nothing to the military, especially the Airforce. They blow $100 of millions on customized database applications, billions on building single aircraft, and trillions on R&D for Airframes. $7.5 million is like some spare change they give to some college students to work on a project for 5 years that will end up being canned.
BMW have probably invested a lot more into research into alternative fuels like hydrogen and still haven't come up with something that has us all dumping our hydrocarbon ways.
What needs to be worked on is a more novel way of taking in air and forcing it out the back, past that you need to work out how to apply external forces to aircraft. We're looking at a lot more than $7.5 mil for that kind of physics lab experimentation.
There, I fixed the Subject for you (was "wisdom of crowds"). I don't think there are too many crowds in other countries that think Saddam was connected to 9/11.
What about talking about Taiwan independence? I think the people around you probably sensor you...but I don't really know. When I was in Australia the Chinese students there seemed to get pretty fired up saying that Taiwan should be part of China.
In some ways mathematics is a frame of mind you need to train your mind to think mathematically.
In Australia the last 3 years of high school are years 10,11 and 12. Pick up the equivalent of a year 10 maths/exercise book. There will bechapters explaining some stuff and then it will have lots of exercises to exercise your mind. Answers will be in the back.
At year 11 and 12 level you are looking at what we call "Mathematics II". The yr 10 book will have given you the basics of differentials and Integrals, the 11 and 12 stuff will then go into how you can use them.
After that you need to pick what field you are looking at. Control systems, bridge design, chemical reactions, and pick up the book that covers the mathematics for that. This will be fairly advanced stuff normally taught at university level. I did Engineering which uses calculus quite heavily.
So you think there aren't a whole bunch of submarine patents waiting for Solid State drives to become main stream? They'll wait their moment, sitting still so as not to get attention, then Phoomp! they'll pop up and wage war. All they need is for someone to put in lots of effort in development and marketing, then just as that hard worker starts to get their money back WHAM! They'll rob em like a filthy barbaric Bill Sikes (from Oliver the movie).
this experiment cannot say anything about the existence or non-existence of God
I hadn't even considered "proof of God", because the existence of some spritual power from a God that people can feel just seems too ridiculous in this day and age. I was thinking more along the lines of trying to stop external sources that make people think they feel god, but I guess maybe this could be a mental health issue too.
I wonder evangelistic brainwashing is a process of activating this internally? So could you activate this Psycologically instead of electrically?
the sensory experience of something by "poking" at the brain doesn't mean that a real outside stimulus is false
Your right, more so than you may realize, in fact it proves that there is actually a real outside stimulus and not just all in people's heads. Now all they need to do is make some sensors that can detect such a stimulus, and go round looking for where this stimulus comes from.
Imagine if you could get a machine that could give a whole room full of people the feeling of god at the press of a button. Has amazing potential for abuse. What if it fit in your pocket and worked within a proximity - then everyone around you would feel your presence! hmmm, I wonder if my wife would then show me respect? Probably not:-(
I wonder how it would apply to sales, getting a job, meeting the oppsite sex, a president negotiating with another one. Certainly would add value to face time.
In Jakarta you just pay an unemployed person standing on the sidewalk $1 to ride with you to work. At certain times single occupant cars aren't even allowed on the road. The dude then gets another $1 to ride back with someone else. There's queues of these people waiting at highway entrances waiting to get a $1 to ride with you.
Apples to oranges. Nobody wants to see Ferrari go out of business. But in this topic we are talking about one of the most evil corporations on the face of the planet. They attack ordinary decent citizens from all walks of life. Anything that can be done to destroy them is the only morally right thing to do. Therefore paying for music is actually morally wrong. Many laws have been put through by corrupt pollies who have been bought off by said evil corporate body. So abiding by those laws is also morally wrong they are laws sponsored by evil.
So? When the Linux Kernel gets updated people download it while retaining their same KDE or GNOME desktop. People bought MS-DOS 1,2,3,4,5,6 and yet each version *looked* the same. Apples OS/X looks mostly the same with each new release. To be honest I couldn't give a flying fsck about the new Vista Window Manager, but I appreciate the overall improvements to the operating system.
I'm quite happy with the Vista Kernel thank you very much. I find the multitasking I/O and http stack to be working better than NT. If you have speed issues then try using the XP desktop that is there in Vista. If you have driver issues, well yes it's not as good as XP on the driver front. If anything I think maybe a Vista Embedded Light or something could be made that has a smaller footprint and only runs.NET 3.0 apps.
No wait. Microsoft *Patented* this idea. Now they can use that patent to stop anyone from doing it. Imagine if the RIAA paid off the US government to make this mandatory on all devices, well now there's a barrier.
Well to argue counter to that you would have to list all the things that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the patent system. Here's my list off the top of my head:
1) The little border around ActiveX controls in IE that indicates you have to click them for them to work
2) ?
At the moment I'm lucky enough that only my sister is experimenting with using the internet. I can't imagine the pain of having to provide tech support to 99% of my family who would be trying to work out this new internet thing.
At least there's the hurdle of neading to be able to be able to buy and operate a computer. What would be interesting is if broadband connection was made to be mandatory when you bought a telephone connection. Then people would feel compelled to use it. That would really open up the market for internet appliances.
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Yeah I agree that Computer Scientists are mostly worthless, but you can pay them a lot less than you have to pay a real engineer, so were just trying our luck to see if we can find a computer scientist who is actually mildly competent.
This is what our add asks for (it's linked in my sig):
1. 3+ years experience as a software engineer
2. BS degree in Computer Science or related field
3. Must be fluent in English.
4. Candidate must be able to program in C/C++, skills in Java an advantage
5. Comfortable working with customers in an outward facing role
6. Candidate must be able to present technical concepts in a clear manner to customers through demos and proposals
7. Willingness to assume responsibility and see processes through to successful conclusion
8. Requires the analytical skills and attention to detail necessary to address the details of pre and post-sales systems implementation for customers while maintaining a big picture view of the sales opportunity and customer implementation
9. Customer training experience is a plus 10. Strong problem solving skills, self-management ability, and good communication skills are required.
Why was this modded funny? This is exactly waht I'm seeing. We write programmer tools that involve compilers and system level debugging and stuff and every single Masters of CS I've interviewed is totally lacking in the necessities.
The lecturer was in Australia talking about Australian students, and I've heard the same thing from Academics in the UK, but I thought it was probably applicable to the USA as well. It's also happening where I am now in Taiwan. So yes, it's happening across the board.
When I was at university I was talking to an old engineering lecturer and he was complaining that they had to lessen the difficulty levels of the courses even more because students were getting dumber.
It's not that scores are getting better, it's that the tests are getting easier. Also there is still a very high demand for genuinely smart people, but not so great science grads are being churned out at a higher rate than what is required.
$4.7mil apartment! With that kind of money I probably have a Merc SLK65 for short trips, a CLK65 for the wife, an S500 for taking the whole family on day trips, an SUV for multi day trips or shopping. Also need some space to work on my Ferrari as it requires some maintenance, oh and I need 3 minis for pulling bank jobs to keep me in the money.
Now how many garages do I get? 1 oh....bummer
One of the articles was about a jet engine research project funded by the airforce, but after reading your comment I can see clearly that they are wasting their money looking at this flying thing. Obviously what they should be doing is researching how they can lay maglev track at Mach 2.0, and have the bombs flying down the track just behind the head of construction.
It's genius! You send down the bombs, then you send down the troops to go in and secure what's left of the place and then you can send supplies in by the same track. Maglev capability is obviously a serious military advantage. With the Japanese, Germans, and Chinese vying for top spot with this tech we could see a new world Military leader emerge.
There could even be some possiblities there for commercial applications too, except that the infrastructure costs exceed what you would make back on such a project.
$7.5 million is nothing to the military, especially the Airforce. They blow $100 of millions on customized database applications, billions on building single aircraft, and trillions on R&D for Airframes. $7.5 million is like some spare change they give to some college students to work on a project for 5 years that will end up being canned.
BMW have probably invested a lot more into research into alternative fuels like hydrogen and still haven't come up with something that has us all dumping our hydrocarbon ways.
What needs to be worked on is a more novel way of taking in air and forcing it out the back, past that you need to work out how to apply external forces to aircraft. We're looking at a lot more than $7.5 mil for that kind of physics lab experimentation.
There, I fixed the Subject for you (was "wisdom of crowds"). I don't think there are too many crowds in other countries that think Saddam was connected to 9/11.
What about talking about Taiwan independence? I think the people around you probably sensor you...but I don't really know. When I was in Australia the Chinese students there seemed to get pretty fired up saying that Taiwan should be part of China.
In some ways mathematics is a frame of mind you need to train your mind to think mathematically.
In Australia the last 3 years of high school are years 10,11 and 12. Pick up the equivalent of a year 10 maths/exercise book. There will bechapters explaining some stuff and then it will have lots of exercises to exercise your mind. Answers will be in the back.
At year 11 and 12 level you are looking at what we call "Mathematics II". The yr 10 book will have given you the basics of differentials and Integrals, the 11 and 12 stuff will then go into how you can use them.
After that you need to pick what field you are looking at. Control systems, bridge design, chemical reactions, and pick up the book that covers the mathematics for that. This will be fairly advanced stuff normally taught at university level. I did Engineering which uses calculus quite heavily.
So basically, RTFM.
Remember when you were a little kid and would burn ants using the sun and a magnifying glass. That's what I immediately thought of.
So you think there aren't a whole bunch of submarine patents waiting for Solid State drives to become main stream? They'll wait their moment, sitting still so as not to get attention, then Phoomp! they'll pop up and wage war. All they need is for someone to put in lots of effort in development and marketing, then just as that hard worker starts to get their money back WHAM! They'll rob em like a filthy barbaric Bill Sikes (from Oliver the movie).
I hadn't even considered "proof of God", because the existence of some spritual power from a God that people can feel just seems too ridiculous in this day and age. I was thinking more along the lines of trying to stop external sources that make people think they feel god, but I guess maybe this could be a mental health issue too.
I wonder evangelistic brainwashing is a process of activating this internally? So could you activate this Psycologically instead of electrically?
Imagine if you could get a machine that could give a whole room full of people the feeling of god at the press of a button. Has amazing potential for abuse. What if it fit in your pocket and worked within a proximity - then everyone around you would feel your presence! hmmm, I wonder if my wife would then show me respect? Probably not :-(
I wonder how it would apply to sales, getting a job, meeting the oppsite sex, a president negotiating with another one. Certainly would add value to face time.
Apples to oranges. Nobody wants to see Ferrari go out of business. But in this topic we are talking about one of the most evil corporations on the face of the planet. They attack ordinary decent citizens from all walks of life. Anything that can be done to destroy them is the only morally right thing to do. Therefore paying for music is actually morally wrong. Many laws have been put through by corrupt pollies who have been bought off by said evil corporate body. So abiding by those laws is also morally wrong they are laws sponsored by evil.
So? When the Linux Kernel gets updated people download it while retaining their same KDE or GNOME desktop. People bought MS-DOS 1,2,3,4,5,6 and yet each version *looked* the same. Apples OS/X looks mostly the same with each new release. To be honest I couldn't give a flying fsck about the new Vista Window Manager, but I appreciate the overall improvements to the operating system.
I'm quite happy with the Vista Kernel thank you very much. I find the multitasking I/O and http stack to be working better than NT. If you have speed issues then try using the XP desktop that is there in Vista. If you have driver issues, well yes it's not as good as XP on the driver front. If anything I think maybe a Vista Embedded Light or something could be made that has a smaller footprint and only runs .NET 3.0 apps.
This explains that: http://www.motleycrow.com/ImageHost/crunchy17.jpg
No wait. Microsoft *Patented* this idea. Now they can use that patent to stop anyone from doing it. Imagine if the RIAA paid off the US government to make this mandatory on all devices, well now there's a barrier.
So we can find out the truth about who killed JFK with their magic bullets.
Well to argue counter to that you would have to list all the things that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the patent system. Here's my list off the top of my head: 1) The little border around ActiveX controls in IE that indicates you have to click them for them to work 2) ?
At the moment I'm lucky enough that only my sister is experimenting with using the internet. I can't imagine the pain of having to provide tech support to 99% of my family who would be trying to work out this new internet thing.
At least there's the hurdle of neading to be able to be able to buy and operate a computer. What would be interesting is if broadband connection was made to be mandatory when you bought a telephone connection. Then people would feel compelled to use it. That would really open up the market for internet appliances.