Actually, she obtained a high-visibility job that put her in the position to affect thousands of lives by being damn good at it.
Actually, and in short, she obtained the job by lying and she was good at it, but it's impossible to know whether somebody else would have been better at the same job, simply because there is nobody else to have had the exact same job.
And the fact that she was good at it seems quite understandable. From the very little amount of facts we are presented with, it seems that she was willing to do even ethically questionable things to achieve her goals.
I don't want to have to explain genital
herpes, erectile dysfunction, unprotected sexual intercouse or any
of the other nastiness in those ads to my 7 year old
It's interesting how this seems to be about your lack of comfort explaining things to the kid. Would it be easier to explain the flu, allergies, or Parkinson's?
Google's Map/Reduce is not an answer to everything (in the same way map() and reduce() do not make a generic programming system/language by themselves). Some problems fall into this category, but things can get trickier if you want to make it generic. Saying that this "makes distributed grid computing possible" is an overstatement.
Both follow the space program and both say that money and politics have firmly grounded NASA in 1960's science with little to no possibility to explore new options.
[...] So before I visit a museum, I'd look into varied options from some of today's best minds based upon current or evolving technologies.
Now why would the nice folks for which the politics business is already working risk their jobs and look for people who actually know stuff?
Newtonian gravity came about because Newton had an idea and then used math to express it. Relativity came about because Einstein had an idea and then used math to express it. Quantum physics came about in a similar fashion. An idea (or ideas) and then math to express it (them).
Not exactly. Some important parts of Quantum Mechanics came about by finding the right formula that fits the data, then figuring out what it means. Black body radiation (the problem that has led Planck to introduce the notion of quanta) is a very good example. The Bohr model (an important catalyst for QM) came about in order to explain the Rydberg formula. The Uncertainty Principle, too, came out nicely from Schrodinger's equation, first by being a simple formula.
You are oversimplifying complex things.
In Romania, they used to have this exact system (admission exams). They now switched to a HS grade system for admission, and most universities do not have an exam any more. They also normalized the grading system in High Schools. The result is a far worse system in which good High Schools do not give lower grades any more in order to not lower their students' chances of getting into college, and consequently the students are more superficial, because they can easily get a high grade.
In an exam-based system you do have problematic elements, the outliers, but overall the system tends to work fairly well. The new system suffers from systemic problems that will only be visible after a few generations, when it's too late to change things. In short it builds generations of superficial students for which "legal cheating" is a ongoing life exercise. Take a look at education in the US for a good example.
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Actually, she obtained a high-visibility job that put her in the position to affect thousands of lives by being damn good at it.
Actually, and in short, she obtained the job by lying and she was good at it, but it's impossible to know whether somebody else would have been better at the same job, simply because there is nobody else to have had the exact same job.
And the fact that she was good at it seems quite understandable. From the very little amount of facts we are presented with, it seems that she was willing to do even ethically questionable things to achieve her goals.
I don't want to have to explain genital herpes, erectile dysfunction, unprotected sexual intercouse or any of the other nastiness in those ads to my 7 year old
It's interesting how this seems to be about your lack of comfort explaining things to the kid. Would it be easier to explain the flu, allergies, or Parkinson's?
Google's Map/Reduce is not an answer to everything (in the same way map() and reduce() do not make a generic programming system/language by themselves). Some problems fall into this category, but things can get trickier if you want to make it generic. Saying that this "makes distributed grid computing possible" is an overstatement.
Both follow the space program and both say that money and politics have firmly grounded NASA in 1960's science with little to no possibility to explore new options.
[...] So before I visit a museum, I'd look into varied options from some of today's best minds based upon current or evolving technologies.
Now why would the nice folks for which the politics business is already working risk their jobs and look for people who actually know stuff?
Newtonian gravity came about because Newton had an idea and then used math to express it. Relativity came about because Einstein had an idea and then used math to express it. Quantum physics came about in a similar fashion. An idea (or ideas) and then math to express it (them).
Not exactly. Some important parts of Quantum Mechanics came about by finding the right formula that fits the data, then figuring out what it means. Black body radiation (the problem that has led Planck to introduce the notion of quanta) is a very good example. The Bohr model (an important catalyst for QM) came about in order to explain the Rydberg formula. The Uncertainty Principle, too, came out nicely from Schrodinger's equation, first by being a simple formula.
You are oversimplifying complex things. In Romania, they used to have this exact system (admission exams). They now switched to a HS grade system for admission, and most universities do not have an exam any more. They also normalized the grading system in High Schools. The result is a far worse system in which good High Schools do not give lower grades any more in order to not lower their students' chances of getting into college, and consequently the students are more superficial, because they can easily get a high grade. In an exam-based system you do have problematic elements, the outliers, but overall the system tends to work fairly well. The new system suffers from systemic problems that will only be visible after a few generations, when it's too late to change things. In short it builds generations of superficial students for which "legal cheating" is a ongoing life exercise. Take a look at education in the US for a good example.
So you're arguing that some random pre-defined behavior in reading files is better than a flexible and modular approach?
Anyone know if this can be adapted for the Thinkpad's active protection system?
a rm_using_HDAPS
Here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Script_for_theft_al