That reminds me of a story I heard a long time ago about a technologist. I've got no idea if it ever happened as I can't recall where I heard it. He was brought in to fix a mainframe that had started to go wonky. He looks the machine over and asks some questions. Then he goes over and wonks the thing with his fist. This of course solves the problem, but the person that hired him wants to know why he should pay for so little work. The technologist replies, you're not paying me to hit your machine, you're knowing where to hit your machine.
Which is the point, the tools are out there, there's lots of free ones that do the job, but what you're typically paying for is the knowledge of which part of the system to wonk.
As has been pointed out by others, in the past you couldn't auto-translate it into another language and back. You lose virtually all of the identifiable information that would help them analyze the document like that.
Except that monitors tend to last a lot longer than video cards do. Even during the 90s, the monitors would typically outlast several generations worth of videocards. It was a bit less one sided when the LCDs first came out, but at this point there's little point for most people to upgrade again if they buy a quality monitor.
You're frequently better off getting a second screen than going larger than 24". Hell even with a 20" screen it's likely better to get a second one. Unfortunately, most systems don't seem to handle multiple monitors very well. Meaning that if I'm playing a game on my primary screen, the OS doesn't know to put a screen saver on the other and restrict the mouse to the game screen. I haven't seen any WMs that handle that well, regardless of OS. And don't get me started with times when the screens aren't the same size.
And they're releasing source as their legal department signs off on it. So at least in theory they should be better integrated at some point in the future.
That wasn't why we criticized Apple for refusing to support Flash, we criticized it because it was another instance of Apple telling their customers what they can do with their property. I think most of us support anything that makes Flash less viable.
And unfortunately, Adobe and Macromedia's efforts to make Flash too bloated to run on any existing system seems to have failed...
And how can drugs be illegal if there's a guy that sells them in the local park. Just because they're out there doesn't change the legality. In this case the testing hasn't been completed, most likely it either doesn't have that impact or the devices will be yanked. The FCC doesn't allow devices to interfere in that way, so I'm guessing that somebody screwed up in evaluating them.
North Korea has large nuclear weapons. I doubt many exist, but they're large enough that it would be difficult for them to be used other than on themselves. They're still way too large to be mounted on a missile. Even if they had any of sufficient reliability.
Yes, but then you just take the phone and give it back at the end of the day, or require a parent to come in to collect it. Or at least that's how it used to be done in the schools I went to. No privacy problems since the school doesn't go through the contents of the phone.
I've had a knife at the neck, but never a gun pointed at me. And I've had it comparatively worse than most Americans. You should provide a citation about the cameras because it's not true. The UK has 1 camera for every 14 citizens and we don't have anywhere near that many here. I know the building I used to work security in had only a handful to keep track of a huge amount of space and thousands of people on a daily basis. And we had more than the other buildings in the downtown core.
I'd agree with you if A the transfer were free and B data was more expensive than SMS. As it is they're price gouging for something that doesn't cost them anything to provide, and in extreme cases have been willing to extend thousands of dollars worth of credit to allow people to be further gouged.
Indeed, it's a great scam they have going. A bunch of idiots paying exorbitant prices for something which costs the carrier basically nothing to provide.
It's a lot more complicated than that. Sure you can break it down to variables, but what exactly does that get you? How do you calculate like likelihood of a dropped pass when neither team is used to playing in the cold? Or the likelihood of a QB being sacked as a result of environmental conditions when considering that aspect of blitzing?
Plus, you're not going to see a computer calling an onside kick to start the first half like in that Packers game last season against the Patriots. A lot of coaching has to do with gaining and retaining tempo, it's really not easy to teach a computer that.
It's particularly bad for medications which have little to know market in the developed world. Sometimes governments of poorer nations will threaten to dissolve the companies IP rights if they don't lower the cost. Sometimes it works, but often it doesn't because a lot of the time the companies don't have to be working on medications to solve those problems, there's poor profitability and they aren't under any sort of legal requirement to sell medications at a loss.
Antibiotics tend to be in a similar situation, they cost a lot to develop, they don't really last very long and at the end of the day they likely wouldn't be working on it at all if they didn't need the PR.
It might not be nice, but anybody that's claiming that evolution is wrong or that climate change doesn't exist has a responsibility to put up actual evidence. Sure I'm a bit gruff, but I have yet to meet anybody that is a creationist or a climate change skeptic that's capable of justifying it, and none of them have any actual evidence to cite. At some point you have to admit that it's about as scientific as phrenology or astrology.
I'll tell you that very few ideas get set aside because of a response at a conference. It just doesn't happen. Scientists are a skeptical bunch, and they expect to be shown a cynical eye when they present, otherwise they're in the wrong profession. Normally, you can get published somewhere if you've got legitimate research, the people with trouble are the ones that don't think peer review is important or are doing something that's wholly unscientific. Worst case is that you can always publish yourself online.
Funding you do have a point about, but the sorts of people who run into that problem tend to be the ones that haven't thought out what and why they want to conduct the research. It's unusual for legitimate research to be completely without funding, normally it's a matter of going to the right potential donor.
Loans, I'm not sure, but scholarships definitely do. Because the reps will claim that people get scholarships to get the cost down. Well, as it happens the financial aid department may or may not be able to help you, and you're still dealing with the resulting costs of a school that likely assumes everybody has some sort of scholarship opportunities.
That's bureaucracy. I couldn't get work study in college, which was the only viable means of having employment during the school year, because I hadn't had it the first year I was in school. I had a friend whose father received several promotions in one year and as a result couldn't qualify for financial aid even though his parents didn't have the money. And another whose parents weren't well off, but had grandparents who were loaded and paid for everything, she got financial aid. Nothing against her, that's just the way that t he system is set up around here.
Around here there are calculations about how much your parents are supposed to pitch in, good luck if they can't or won't do it.
I think that's typical. And believe me it's a lot of work for the institutions to maintain that in a workable way. I know that at the local community college the computer science instructors regularly are on sabbatical to make sure that the courses are in sync with what the local 4 year institution is teaching and expecting.
Amen to that. I remember taking Java and Autocad (different classes obviously) and in both cases the instructor had to spend a lot of time teaching basic computer skills. I ended up nearly failing Autocad in large part because the instructor spent so much time teaching basic computing skills that there wasn't time to actually cover the course material. Or get clarification about the expectations for various projects.
I wonder what sort of a person thinks they can program or use a complicated computer program if they don't know how to install a program in Windows? It doesn't get that much easier.
Actually, it's all in how you parlay it. I know of some companies that preferentially hire liberal arts students because they can at least be trained. Companies that need actual meaningful thought tend to go for liberal arts students first, unless they're poorly run or have a need for specialists.
The bigger issue is that colleges focus very little on helping students transition from college life to work life. It's understandable for small schools, my current one only has a couple hundred students at any given time and so doesn't have the resources. But it's also tightly focused enough on a high demand field that it's not going to be much of a problem when people graduate the next year. People are still going to be needing to learn English as a second language.
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That reminds me of a story I heard a long time ago about a technologist. I've got no idea if it ever happened as I can't recall where I heard it. He was brought in to fix a mainframe that had started to go wonky. He looks the machine over and asks some questions. Then he goes over and wonks the thing with his fist. This of course solves the problem, but the person that hired him wants to know why he should pay for so little work. The technologist replies, you're not paying me to hit your machine, you're knowing where to hit your machine.
Which is the point, the tools are out there, there's lots of free ones that do the job, but what you're typically paying for is the knowledge of which part of the system to wonk.
As has been pointed out by others, in the past you couldn't auto-translate it into another language and back. You lose virtually all of the identifiable information that would help them analyze the document like that.
OTOH, that's more efficient than the old system of cutting letters out of the newspaper.
Except that monitors tend to last a lot longer than video cards do. Even during the 90s, the monitors would typically outlast several generations worth of videocards. It was a bit less one sided when the LCDs first came out, but at this point there's little point for most people to upgrade again if they buy a quality monitor.
You're frequently better off getting a second screen than going larger than 24". Hell even with a 20" screen it's likely better to get a second one. Unfortunately, most systems don't seem to handle multiple monitors very well. Meaning that if I'm playing a game on my primary screen, the OS doesn't know to put a screen saver on the other and restrict the mouse to the game screen. I haven't seen any WMs that handle that well, regardless of OS. And don't get me started with times when the screens aren't the same size.
And they're releasing source as their legal department signs off on it. So at least in theory they should be better integrated at some point in the future.
Because we all know that console gamers never pirate games...
That wasn't why we criticized Apple for refusing to support Flash, we criticized it because it was another instance of Apple telling their customers what they can do with their property. I think most of us support anything that makes Flash less viable.
And unfortunately, Adobe and Macromedia's efforts to make Flash too bloated to run on any existing system seems to have failed...
And how can drugs be illegal if there's a guy that sells them in the local park. Just because they're out there doesn't change the legality. In this case the testing hasn't been completed, most likely it either doesn't have that impact or the devices will be yanked. The FCC doesn't allow devices to interfere in that way, so I'm guessing that somebody screwed up in evaluating them.
North Korea has large nuclear weapons. I doubt many exist, but they're large enough that it would be difficult for them to be used other than on themselves. They're still way too large to be mounted on a missile. Even if they had any of sufficient reliability.
They deal with that at the beginning of Postal the one movie that Uwe Bolle directed which was actually worth watching.
But does it blend?
Getting an engineer laid, duh.
Yes, but then you just take the phone and give it back at the end of the day, or require a parent to come in to collect it. Or at least that's how it used to be done in the schools I went to. No privacy problems since the school doesn't go through the contents of the phone.
I've had a knife at the neck, but never a gun pointed at me. And I've had it comparatively worse than most Americans. You should provide a citation about the cameras because it's not true. The UK has 1 camera for every 14 citizens and we don't have anywhere near that many here. I know the building I used to work security in had only a handful to keep track of a huge amount of space and thousands of people on a daily basis. And we had more than the other buildings in the downtown core.
I'd agree with you if A the transfer were free and B data was more expensive than SMS. As it is they're price gouging for something that doesn't cost them anything to provide, and in extreme cases have been willing to extend thousands of dollars worth of credit to allow people to be further gouged.
Indeed, it's a great scam they have going. A bunch of idiots paying exorbitant prices for something which costs the carrier basically nothing to provide.
It's a lot more complicated than that. Sure you can break it down to variables, but what exactly does that get you? How do you calculate like likelihood of a dropped pass when neither team is used to playing in the cold? Or the likelihood of a QB being sacked as a result of environmental conditions when considering that aspect of blitzing?
Plus, you're not going to see a computer calling an onside kick to start the first half like in that Packers game last season against the Patriots. A lot of coaching has to do with gaining and retaining tempo, it's really not easy to teach a computer that.
It's particularly bad for medications which have little to know market in the developed world. Sometimes governments of poorer nations will threaten to dissolve the companies IP rights if they don't lower the cost. Sometimes it works, but often it doesn't because a lot of the time the companies don't have to be working on medications to solve those problems, there's poor profitability and they aren't under any sort of legal requirement to sell medications at a loss.
Antibiotics tend to be in a similar situation, they cost a lot to develop, they don't really last very long and at the end of the day they likely wouldn't be working on it at all if they didn't need the PR.
It might not be nice, but anybody that's claiming that evolution is wrong or that climate change doesn't exist has a responsibility to put up actual evidence. Sure I'm a bit gruff, but I have yet to meet anybody that is a creationist or a climate change skeptic that's capable of justifying it, and none of them have any actual evidence to cite. At some point you have to admit that it's about as scientific as phrenology or astrology.
I'll tell you that very few ideas get set aside because of a response at a conference. It just doesn't happen. Scientists are a skeptical bunch, and they expect to be shown a cynical eye when they present, otherwise they're in the wrong profession. Normally, you can get published somewhere if you've got legitimate research, the people with trouble are the ones that don't think peer review is important or are doing something that's wholly unscientific. Worst case is that you can always publish yourself online.
Funding you do have a point about, but the sorts of people who run into that problem tend to be the ones that haven't thought out what and why they want to conduct the research. It's unusual for legitimate research to be completely without funding, normally it's a matter of going to the right potential donor.
Loans, I'm not sure, but scholarships definitely do. Because the reps will claim that people get scholarships to get the cost down. Well, as it happens the financial aid department may or may not be able to help you, and you're still dealing with the resulting costs of a school that likely assumes everybody has some sort of scholarship opportunities.
That's bureaucracy. I couldn't get work study in college, which was the only viable means of having employment during the school year, because I hadn't had it the first year I was in school. I had a friend whose father received several promotions in one year and as a result couldn't qualify for financial aid even though his parents didn't have the money. And another whose parents weren't well off, but had grandparents who were loaded and paid for everything, she got financial aid. Nothing against her, that's just the way that t he system is set up around here.
Around here there are calculations about how much your parents are supposed to pitch in, good luck if they can't or won't do it.
I think that's typical. And believe me it's a lot of work for the institutions to maintain that in a workable way. I know that at the local community college the computer science instructors regularly are on sabbatical to make sure that the courses are in sync with what the local 4 year institution is teaching and expecting.
Amen to that. I remember taking Java and Autocad (different classes obviously) and in both cases the instructor had to spend a lot of time teaching basic computer skills. I ended up nearly failing Autocad in large part because the instructor spent so much time teaching basic computing skills that there wasn't time to actually cover the course material. Or get clarification about the expectations for various projects.
I wonder what sort of a person thinks they can program or use a complicated computer program if they don't know how to install a program in Windows? It doesn't get that much easier.
Actually, it's all in how you parlay it. I know of some companies that preferentially hire liberal arts students because they can at least be trained. Companies that need actual meaningful thought tend to go for liberal arts students first, unless they're poorly run or have a need for specialists.
The bigger issue is that colleges focus very little on helping students transition from college life to work life. It's understandable for small schools, my current one only has a couple hundred students at any given time and so doesn't have the resources. But it's also tightly focused enough on a high demand field that it's not going to be much of a problem when people graduate the next year. People are still going to be needing to learn English as a second language.