This is because 95% of jobs using a computer require the ability to carry out simple tasks learned through memory, and only very few require knowledge of computer fundamentals.
Just what we need: A nation of underachievers.
What happens when the narrow skillset of that 95% is suddenly outdated? Since they have no foundation to build new skills, they go back to school to be "retooled." This takes time and money, both of which are usually in short supply when your "simple tasks" are no longer in demand.
The problem with your analogy is that it is extremely short-sighted. Good for business, where people are thrown away like Kleenex, bad for the people being thrown out.
Could you imagine if a certain grade school decided, "Hey. I have a good idea! Let's use Linux on all our computers here.". The children learn and get aquainted with Linux then get into Jr. High - Uh oh, now the students from that grade school are way behind.
The reason for this is because we really don't teach computing fundamentals. We teach computer technology through rote memory. Go ahead, pick up any Windows application textbook. You will find many enumerated lists on how to accomplish Task A, with lots of pretty graphics with pointing arrows. By the time the student is done with such a book, they know exactly how to perform Tasks A, X, Y, and Z--and nothing more.
We are building a society of automatons, with little in the way of reasoning ability. A big shame.
You're pulled over one night for having a headlight out. A quick computer check shows you having visitied 4 bars that evening. Reasonable suspicion indicates that you may have been drinking. The cop's BAC meter is giving off-base responses, so the cop decides to exercise his perogative to take you in for suspicion of DWI.
You're taken to the county jail; a wrecker is dispatched to pick up your vehicle. You sit in the tank for several hours with all the other riff-raff, hoping to God no one takes a liking to your shoes. You're denied a phone call, because you haven't been booked yet. Finally, the jail supervisor gets to your case, but since it's been several hours, the supervisor decides if there was any alcohol before, it's all but metabolized, and there are bigger fish to fry in the tank with you. So they let you go.
Since you're downtown, you have to call a cab to take you to the wrecker station, which is of course all the way across town. After a hefty taxi fare, paid in cash, you walk up to the window to pick up your car. Oh, they tell you, you'll need a release from the PD to do that. Plus, we only take cash. By now dawn is breaking, and you wish to God you hadn't volunteered to be a designated driver for your friends.
Very heavy, more momentum when you write (meaning you don't need to work as hard). Buy one of those little foam gizmos that slips on the barrel, and you'll have a fine writing instrument. They're warranted for life.
Important: Just to be clear, it's ok to talk about the leak and the possible implications, however we'll nuke you and your family if you even make the most slight clever hint of where to download it or even screenshots of it.
I stand corrected...when I posted, I didn't realize HP had *finally* released the 49.
That said, I stand behind my assertion that the TI-83+ with the RPN update is a superior combination. Possibly more so than the HP-48, which interface to the graphing functions leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm afraid you're out of luck if you're looking for a new HP graphing calc. The HP32SII is nice, and there are still some sources around the internet (Amazon used to carry them), but it doesn't graph. The TI-83+ isn't a bad graphing calc, especially if you install this,
a slick RPN emulator...it preserves all the functionality of the TI-83+ while giving you the standard 4-register stack-based RPN functionality.
Simply respond to your own post here on/. with your e-mail address./. is a spam magnet. The majority of spam I receive is from an e-mail address I used to use here that I quit using over a year ago.
Do not use Verisign's root servers. The zone files for.com and.net are available. (requires significant resources, but I am sure someone out there, such as larger ISPs will do this)
OpenNIC performs this very service with volunteer labor, a globally-distributed set of root servers, and several other alternative roots as well. Don't continue to be a slave to the machine.
So this is what is probably going to distort you statistic. While people are maybe going to think twice before a rape or stealing something, someone who is scared has more chance to pull then trigger then just force the person to go away.
I agree 100%. In concealed handgun training courses, the point is made over and over again that you use a firearm only to "stop the threat." As one instructor told a class I was in, if someone is robbing your house, and he has your TV in both hands, the worst thing you can do is order him at gunpoint to drop it. Now he has two hands free to pull a weapon. Let him take the TV; you've accomplished your purpose by stopping/removing the threat.
Unfortunately, governments feel the need to keep track of who has had training, after which it's only a small jump to registering gun owners and their firearms. And without violating Godwin's Law, I think we all know how easy it is to disarm a population once you know who is armed and who isn't.
It's too bad the media doesn't choose to focus on incidents in which crimes are thwarted by the mere presence of a handgun. Of course, "Robber Told to Take a Hike By Armed Homeowner" isn't exactly something that makes headlines.
That's interesting...which study was this? Here's a study that disproves your study:
Professor John R. Lott, Jr., and David B. Mustard, in the most comprehensive study to date of RTC laws' effectiveness concluded, "When state concealed-handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell about 8 percent, rapes fell by 5 percent, and aggravated assaults fell by 7 percent. . . . Will allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns save lives? The answer is yes, it will." (Lott, More Guns, Less Crime, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998) link
Ah, here we go with the ritual random slinging of carefully selected statistics to prove some point or the other. I offer this, and invite you to make your own conclusions:
From Barclay, Tavares & Siddique, "International Comparisons of Criminal Justics Statistics, 1999" (link)
Probability of Victimization, Overall
Australia 30% England & Wales 26% Canada 24% United States 21% Japan 15%
...that people bend over backwards to accomodate companies with draconian policies like AOL? If I were running an ISP, the loss of a few customers because they suddenly discovered they could no longer send e-mail to AOL customers through no fault of my own would most likely be offset by new customers who understand that the earth does not revolve around AOL. So they're blocking incoming HTTP traffic based on referrer? Are there not more pressing problems to attend to rather than trying to please the AOL gods?
I'm not saying AOL is in the right. I'm simply saying that AOL (and companies like them) should be made to lie in the bed they make for themselves. Only when AOL customers start to be inconvenienced by AOL's own policies (rather than third parties patching together "workarounds" in a misguided attempt to protect the integrity of AOL) will they realize what AOL is up to...
An interesting thread here about how TMDA, a C/R filter, used in conjunction with SpamAssassin, can provide the best of both worlds. While TMDA is by itself effective, there seem to be some humanistic issues involving the assumption that all e-mailers are spammers unless they prove otherwise. The thread explains how Bayesian filtering can be improved by using a decent C/R filter like TMDA without alienating people that send legitimate e-mail.
Personally, I figure anyone thin-skinned enough to be insulted by my C/R filter probably isn't worth talking to anyways, but I digress...
Yeah, I know how to pronounce it. But let's say I'm talking to a friend on the phone:
"So, you really gotta check out Xouvert." "Zoo-what?" "Xouvert!" "How do you spell that?" "X-O-U-V-E-R-T" "Oh...wouldn've never guessed that on my own."
Giving projects you wish to succeed names that invite misspelling isn't a very good idea.
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A lot of people aren't reading the links
Maybe if you had posted, in your original post, links to both sides of the story things would actually make sense.
This is because 95% of jobs using a computer require the ability to carry out simple tasks learned through memory, and only very few require knowledge of computer fundamentals.
Just what we need: A nation of underachievers.
What happens when the narrow skillset of that 95% is suddenly outdated? Since they have no foundation to build new skills, they go back to school to be "retooled." This takes time and money, both of which are usually in short supply when your "simple tasks" are no longer in demand.
The problem with your analogy is that it is extremely short-sighted. Good for business, where people are thrown away like Kleenex, bad for the people being thrown out.
Could you imagine if a certain grade school decided, "Hey. I have a good idea! Let's use Linux on all our computers here.". The children learn and get aquainted with Linux then get into Jr. High - Uh oh, now the students from that grade school are way behind.
The reason for this is because we really don't teach computing fundamentals. We teach computer technology through rote memory. Go ahead, pick up any Windows application textbook. You will find many enumerated lists on how to accomplish Task A, with lots of pretty graphics with pointing arrows. By the time the student is done with such a book, they know exactly how to perform Tasks A, X, Y, and Z--and nothing more.
We are building a society of automatons, with little in the way of reasoning ability. A big shame.
Damn...now I'll have to scratch this off my list. I hate choices...
The fee for "requesting an reexamination was 2520.00 in 1999.
A fee obviously set to discourage patent reexaminations...
You're pulled over one night for having a headlight out. A quick computer check shows you having visitied 4 bars that evening. Reasonable suspicion indicates that you may have been drinking. The cop's BAC meter is giving off-base responses, so the cop decides to exercise his perogative to take you in for suspicion of DWI.
You're taken to the county jail; a wrecker is dispatched to pick up your vehicle. You sit in the tank for several hours with all the other riff-raff, hoping to God no one takes a liking to your shoes. You're denied a phone call, because you haven't been booked yet. Finally, the jail supervisor gets to your case, but since it's been several hours, the supervisor decides if there was any alcohol before, it's all but metabolized, and there are bigger fish to fry in the tank with you. So they let you go.
Since you're downtown, you have to call a cab to take you to the wrecker station, which is of course all the way across town. After a hefty taxi fare, paid in cash, you walk up to the window to pick up your car. Oh, they tell you, you'll need a release from the PD to do that. Plus, we only take cash. By now dawn is breaking, and you wish to God you hadn't volunteered to be a designated driver for your friends.
I'll keep my tinfoil hat on, thank you very much.
Or should that be "inertia" instead of "momentum"? I forgot I was on /. where most of the world's physics experts seem hang out...
Very heavy, more momentum when you write (meaning you don't need to work as hard). Buy one of those little foam gizmos that slips on the barrel, and you'll have a fine writing instrument. They're warranted for life.
I stand corrected...when I posted, I didn't realize HP had *finally* released the 49.
That said, I stand behind my assertion that the TI-83+ with the RPN update is a superior combination. Possibly more so than the HP-48, which interface to the graphing functions leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm afraid you're out of luck if you're looking for a new HP graphing calc. The HP32SII is nice, and there are still some sources around the internet (Amazon used to carry them), but it doesn't graph. The TI-83+ isn't a bad graphing calc, especially if you install this,
a slick RPN emulator...it preserves all the functionality of the TI-83+ while giving you the standard 4-register stack-based RPN functionality.
Simply respond to your own post here on /. with your e-mail address. /. is a spam magnet. The majority of spam I receive is from an e-mail address I used to use here that I quit using over a year ago.
Do not use Verisign's root servers. The zone files for .com and .net are available. (requires significant resources, but I am sure someone out there, such as larger ISPs will do this)
OpenNIC performs this very service with volunteer labor, a globally-distributed set of root servers, and several other alternative roots as well. Don't continue to be a slave to the machine.
How does your salary stack up in the post-crash economy?
Is this a trick question? How would I know how my salary stacks up if I'm not entitled to a copy of the report?
So this is what is probably going to distort you statistic. While people are maybe going to think twice before a rape or stealing something, someone who is scared has more chance to pull then trigger then just force the person to go away.
I agree 100%. In concealed handgun training courses, the point is made over and over again that you use a firearm only to "stop the threat." As one instructor told a class I was in, if someone is robbing your house, and he has your TV in both hands, the worst thing you can do is order him at gunpoint to drop it. Now he has two hands free to pull a weapon. Let him take the TV; you've accomplished your purpose by stopping/removing the threat.
Unfortunately, governments feel the need to keep track of who has had training, after which it's only a small jump to registering gun owners and their firearms. And without violating Godwin's Law, I think we all know how easy it is to disarm a population once you know who is armed and who isn't.
It's too bad the media doesn't choose to focus on incidents in which crimes are thwarted by the mere presence of a handgun. Of course, "Robber Told to Take a Hike By Armed Homeowner" isn't exactly something that makes headlines.
So who's right, and who's wrong?
Ah, here we go with the ritual random slinging of carefully selected statistics to prove some point or the other. I offer this, and invite you to make your own conclusions:
From Barclay, Tavares & Siddique, "International Comparisons of Criminal Justics Statistics, 1999" (link)
Probability of Victimization, Overall
Australia 30%
England & Wales 26%
Canada 24%
United States 21%
Japan 15%
...that people bend over backwards to accomodate companies with draconian policies like AOL? If I were running an ISP, the loss of a few customers because they suddenly discovered they could no longer send e-mail to AOL customers through no fault of my own would most likely be offset by new customers who understand that the earth does not revolve around AOL. So they're blocking incoming HTTP traffic based on referrer? Are there not more pressing problems to attend to rather than trying to please the AOL gods?
I'm not saying AOL is in the right. I'm simply saying that AOL (and companies like them) should be made to lie in the bed they make for themselves. Only when AOL customers start to be inconvenienced by AOL's own policies (rather than third parties patching together "workarounds" in a misguided attempt to protect the integrity of AOL) will they realize what AOL is up to...
Since I seriously doubt there is a My Way, TN, someone should file a "bad faith" claim with the registrar of record and just take the domain away.
...was the most recent Linux ham radio HOW-TO last updated over 7 years ago?
An interesting thread here about how TMDA, a C/R filter, used in conjunction with SpamAssassin, can provide the best of both worlds. While TMDA is by itself effective, there seem to be some humanistic issues involving the assumption that all e-mailers are spammers unless they prove otherwise. The thread explains how Bayesian filtering can be improved by using a decent C/R filter like TMDA without alienating people that send legitimate e-mail.
Personally, I figure anyone thin-skinned enough to be insulted by my C/R filter probably isn't worth talking to anyways, but I digress...
Nah, they were probably just using the ATTBI upstream routers to test with. It's a good place to find an open NTP port on most cable systems.
Thank God for the Princeton Review! Texas A&M, my alma mater, ranked in the top twenty in several categories!
Let's see...
#12 Student pray on a regular basis
#12 Alternative lifestyles not an alternative
#3 Jock schools
This is rich! My parents would be proud...
To forestall all the RTFA comments:
Yeah, I know how to pronounce it. But let's say I'm talking to a friend on the phone:
"So, you really gotta check out Xouvert."
"Zoo-what?"
"Xouvert!"
"How do you spell that?"
"X-O-U-V-E-R-T"
"Oh...wouldn've never guessed that on my own."
Giving projects you wish to succeed names that invite misspelling isn't a very good idea.
...how the hell do you pronounce it?