It shouldn't matter. One of Wikipedia's philosophies seems to be "verifiability above truthfulness". Meaning that for something to be true is not good enough, it has to be verifiable. A contributor/editor's credentials are irrelevant as Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
You're absolutely right.
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I really wish Gates would stop touting the H-1B program as the solution to a lack of American scientists and engineers. All it does is allow companies to pay scientists and engineers low wages by pumping up the labor supply. This is a clear case where the interests of the companies are in stark opposition to the interests of America.
If America wants to stay competitive, force these companies to start paying real salaries for scientists and engineers. People will seek these career fields if the salaries are right, and the supply problem will go away.
I understand how confusing relativity is, believe me. But there is a key piece to understanding it that is missing from the newtonian mechanics that you clearly have a good grasp of. It is that you and I are perceiving time so differently that we have two completely different observations with regards to how fast different objects are traveling. You see the velocity difference between you and the train as being 5mph. I see that difference as being MUCH MUCH smaller. The phenomena is called time dilation.
Your idea would work if time was constant and the earth worked purely according to Newtonian physics. But alas, it doesn't. Part of Einstein's theory of relativity is that if you're almost to the speed of light you can't really do anything to put you over. You can only approach C (the speed of light).
Like, say you are traveling at 1 mph less than the speed of light in relation to me, and you throw a ball at 80 mph (in relation to you) forward. How fast would the ball appear to be going relative to me? Well, using Einstein's Theory of Relativity we would find that the ball would be traveling at a speed of 670,616,628.384 mph, or 0.99999999850884 the speed of light.
That is why Cisco credentials don't last forever. They have to be renewed or else they expire. This way you can be reasonably assured that a certified individual isn't more than three years behind on the present standards.
My 8th grade science project was to see who could predict the weather the best. I collected forecasts and then compared them to actual meteorological conditions. I totally forget what my findings were but it is too bad Slashdot wasn't around back then, I could have had some great publicity.:)
Simple. The current state of technology in regards to human imagination makes it many times easier to think up of good ideas or improvements for computer software than it takes to create or implement them. Thus the requirements for developers are often made by the ones with the ideas with no idea of the costs (in terms of time or money) involved in making those ideas a reality.
Joe Sacks says "Gee, it would be a great idea of our flight tracking program also tracked fuel usage and recommended fuel loads to minimize weight on subsequent flights". See? It only took Joe all of about three minutes to think that up. He figures that a reasonable amount of time to implement this idea is one or two days. After all, those "computer guys" are pretty smart and can "do anything".
Two days later Joe receives a report that the "project" is over budget (needed to check with the FAA on this one, that cost money) and overdue.
Sure, you could just say that these problems need good project management. But seriously the problem is that these "problems" are not considered worthy of project management. It only took Joe three minutes to think the idea up...why should he hire a project manager for *THAT*. It's not like he's building a new hangar.
I really enjoyed Birth of the Federation and I think it is the best Star Trek to be made yet. However, my biggest complaint was that it lacked a real storyline. But at the same time, that would make it a lot like Armada, which was okay but the story made the game quite limiting (same goes for Starfleet Command).
Give me BOTF with tons of side-missions (maybe patterned off of real Star Trek episodes like "The Chase"), and I'd be a happy camper.
What sweet revenge after the failed antitrust case; try and lobby a foreign court into being easy on Microsoft knowing they'll do the precise opposite.
Could you explain to me what the current problem we're trying to fix is? That is what seems to be missing from all of the "we need a less US-centric alternative to ICANN" complaints.
For many of us, the cost of using Quicken also involves switching to financial institutions who pay Intuit's.QFX ransom. You do know what.QFX is, right? It is.OFX (an XML-based transactions format) with a couple of Quicken-specific tags that tells quicken that the bank is paid up. It used to be not a big deal since you could use.QIF files to import transactions. But starting in 2005, that is no longer an option.
Try and call up Quicken and ask them why...both as a financial institution and as a customer. You will get all sorts of laughable excuses like ".QFX makes the files you get from your bank more secure", or "we don't use OFX because it isn't secure". As if their additions to the file makes it secure (it doesn't, not even from a integrity standpoint because every customer gets the same, or similiar tags).
I am not a VMware employee. The virtual machines you create in VMware Server have the advantage that they can be modified to run on ESX Server, and vice versa. Its kinda nice starting out with Vmware Server and then, when you budget gets approved, not have to reload those servers from scratch.
OS.X isn't meant to have broad hardware support beyond the Apple hardware line for obvious reasons so bringing it up as if that was a shortcoming of OS.X in comparison with Windows and Linux is pretty pointless.
I don't think its pointless. How many USB printers does Linux support vs. Apple?
My experience has not been that Linux supports 'far more hardware out of the box that Windows'.
I believe what is meant by "out of the box" is the drivers that come with the operating system. This excludes any drivers that have to be downloaded from the vendor's website.
Normally, no. The article mentioned setting up a software RAID 5 array. This still probably wouldn't overwhelm a half-decent processor (400mhz+), unless one of the drives had to be replaced. Then the processor will be swamped while it recovers.
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And the point the parent was trying to make is how did those people become smarter? Was it nature or nurture?
It shouldn't matter. One of Wikipedia's philosophies seems to be "verifiability above truthfulness". Meaning that for something to be true is not good enough, it has to be verifiable. A contributor/editor's credentials are irrelevant as Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
You're absolutely right.
I really wish Gates would stop touting the H-1B program as the solution to a lack of American scientists and engineers. All it does is allow companies to pay scientists and engineers low wages by pumping up the labor supply. This is a clear case where the interests of the companies are in stark opposition to the interests of America.
If America wants to stay competitive, force these companies to start paying real salaries for scientists and engineers. People will seek these career fields if the salaries are right, and the supply problem will go away.
1. Serve the Public Trust
2. Protect the Innocent
3. Uphold the Law
Uh, there is a fourth one but I can't....seem....to locate it...at the moment.
"That's no moon"
I understand how confusing relativity is, believe me. But there is a key piece to understanding it that is missing from the newtonian mechanics that you clearly have a good grasp of. It is that you and I are perceiving time so differently that we have two completely different observations with regards to how fast different objects are traveling. You see the velocity difference between you and the train as being 5mph. I see that difference as being MUCH MUCH smaller. The phenomena is called time dilation.
Your idea would work if time was constant and the earth worked purely according to Newtonian physics. But alas, it doesn't. Part of Einstein's theory of relativity is that if you're almost to the speed of light you can't really do anything to put you over. You can only approach C (the speed of light).
Like, say you are traveling at 1 mph less than the speed of light in relation to me, and you throw a ball at 80 mph (in relation to you) forward. How fast would the ball appear to be going relative to me? Well, using Einstein's Theory of Relativity we would find that the ball would be traveling at a speed of 670,616,628.384 mph, or 0.99999999850884 the speed of light.
Yeah. What WOULD Einstein say?
Who said anything about taking? Someone gave it to them. Breaking a buyer-seller agreement is a breech of contract, a civil tort. Not a theft.
That is why Cisco credentials don't last forever. They have to be renewed or else they expire. This way you can be reasonably assured that a certified individual isn't more than three years behind on the present standards.
My 8th grade science project was to see who could predict the weather the best. I collected forecasts and then compared them to actual meteorological conditions. I totally forget what my findings were but it is too bad Slashdot wasn't around back then, I could have had some great publicity. :)
Also, we're targeting the students more than the schools themselves, the schools are just a vehicle for distribution.
For a minute there I forgot we were talking about OO.org CDs, and not drugs.
What Makes Software Development So Hard?
Simple. The current state of technology in regards to human imagination makes it many times easier to think up of good ideas or improvements for computer software than it takes to create or implement them. Thus the requirements for developers are often made by the ones with the ideas with no idea of the costs (in terms of time or money) involved in making those ideas a reality.
Joe Sacks says "Gee, it would be a great idea of our flight tracking program also tracked fuel usage and recommended fuel loads to minimize weight on subsequent flights". See? It only took Joe all of about three minutes to think that up. He figures that a reasonable amount of time to implement this idea is one or two days. After all, those "computer guys" are pretty smart and can "do anything".
Two days later Joe receives a report that the "project" is over budget (needed to check with the FAA on this one, that cost money) and overdue.
Sure, you could just say that these problems need good project management. But seriously the problem is that these "problems" are not considered worthy of project management. It only took Joe three minutes to think the idea up...why should he hire a project manager for *THAT*. It's not like he's building a new hangar.
I really enjoyed Birth of the Federation and I think it is the best Star Trek to be made yet. However, my biggest complaint was that it lacked a real storyline. But at the same time, that would make it a lot like Armada, which was okay but the story made the game quite limiting (same goes for Starfleet Command).
Give me BOTF with tons of side-missions (maybe patterned off of real Star Trek episodes like "The Chase"), and I'd be a happy camper.
I mean the result of, RESULT OF! Oh good lord.
Seriously, is there anything happening in the arctic or antarctic regions that IS NOT the cause of Global Warming?
What sweet revenge after the failed antitrust case; try and lobby a foreign court into being easy on Microsoft knowing they'll do the precise opposite.
Could you explain to me what the current problem we're trying to fix is? That is what seems to be missing from all of the "we need a less US-centric alternative to ICANN" complaints.
DOH!
Thats what I get for reading slashdot while eating, while talking on the phone!
Not to mention a Robert F. Kennedy thing.
For many of us, the cost of using Quicken also involves switching to financial institutions who pay Intuit's .QFX ransom. You do know what .QFX is, right? It is .OFX (an XML-based transactions format) with a couple of Quicken-specific tags that tells quicken that the bank is paid up. It used to be not a big deal since you could use .QIF files to import transactions. But starting in 2005, that is no longer an option.
Try and call up Quicken and ask them why...both as a financial institution and as a customer. You will get all sorts of laughable excuses like ".QFX makes the files you get from your bank more secure", or "we don't use OFX because it isn't secure". As if their additions to the file makes it secure (it doesn't, not even from a integrity standpoint because every customer gets the same, or similiar tags).
I am not a VMware employee. The virtual machines you create in VMware Server have the advantage that they can be modified to run on ESX Server, and vice versa. Its kinda nice starting out with Vmware Server and then, when you budget gets approved, not have to reload those servers from scratch.
OS.X isn't meant to have broad hardware support beyond the Apple hardware line for obvious reasons so bringing it up as if that was a shortcoming of OS.X in comparison with Windows and Linux is pretty pointless.
I don't think its pointless. How many USB printers does Linux support vs. Apple?
My experience has not been that Linux supports 'far more hardware out of the box that Windows'.
I believe what is meant by "out of the box" is the drivers that come with the operating system. This excludes any drivers that have to be downloaded from the vendor's website.
Maybe you should wait until you're on 2000 or 2003 before you start criticising that man's defense of the Vista.
Normally, no. The article mentioned setting up a software RAID 5 array. This still probably wouldn't overwhelm a half-decent processor (400mhz+), unless one of the drives had to be replaced. Then the processor will be swamped while it recovers.