That's the beauty of the religious argument as you note in the asterisk:P
It doesn't matter if GOD is irrelevant in this world. The ultimate relevancy shows up when you die, when no proof can be gathered. You know those places always being talked about (Hell/Heaven). It's a flawless improvable system .
You're obviously joking, but I see this ridicule about biblical beliefs way too often.
Let's start with the hypothesis that GOD said 'poof' and the Earth was made exactly 2000 years ago. It must have been created in some initial state. This initial state includes rocks, sand, water, trees... Why could fossils not have been part of this initial state?
The initial state can in fact be anything. You can even say God started the universe by created the initial energy in the big bang. It is all very consistent with religion. GOD cannot be proven or disproven. Science can never contradict the existence of GOD.
By all means mock belief in GOD:) But there is nothing more intelligent/scientific about disbelief.
People need to look back at their elementary/highschool school math/science. How much of your advanced engineering or math degree are you going to be able to convey to students?
Teaching is much more about managing the classroom than about pouring knowledge into the kids. Teachers only enable students to learn.
In almost any subject, I'd take a teacher who knows how to handle children; knows how to deal with parents; knows how to present material; knows how to organize their time; is enthusiastic to get the children involved
Rather than a teacher who knows his/her field in depth
BTW...I also taught highschool so I know. But I definitely would only teach in the tech department. That's the only place I found in the school which was void of politics. Presumably, that's because most of them have actually been in the real work force for years before entering teaching. Somehow I think that would be a really good idea...give credit to those who have worked in their industry. Start them off at a higher grade level.
I attended a public elementary school in Africa. The teachers got paid crap, but it was based on the old British system. It provided an excellent basis for mathematics and science to the point that when I moved to Canada, I didn't have to learn anything new in these subjects for several years.
Maybe learning has very little to do with the teacher. Maybe learning has more to do with the curriculum. Maybe learning has more to do with caring about your education. Maybe learning has more to do with classroom obedience (at least in the early years). Maybe learning has more to do with your home environment.
I've commented on this before. For math and science in elementary/highschool, you don't need an expert in the field to teach it. You're not designing or creating anything new. Sure, all kids are unique, but as a class, they're the same year after year. You just need someone to present the material that the class should learn.
Spend the money on social programs and teaching assistants.
While the car/highway analogy is great...why do we have toll roads? Because governments increasingly don't want to fund huge expensive public infrastructure. They want the private sector to shoulder the risk and the financial burden. Not to mention the bureaucracy and just keeping government as small as possible.
So I'm very much a fan of forcing these carrier type networks to separate their business into 2 parts. Ideally, they would even be 2 separate companies. 1. the network itself 2. services they provide on that network
Any business should map out what their charges are for the network itself and how much they're making from services. If they don't, they shouldn't be involved in this large scale project. As far as I'm concerned, this should be done for all networks (cell phone companies included) Then let all the other companies fight it out at the service level. It's worked wonders for me. I'd probably be paying 40 dollars a month for a VOIP phone if Bell had not opened its lines. Now I pay less than 20.
Is it just me or is there a shortage in every field?
I'm in Canada, and this is what I hear
Doctors...shortage Massage therapists...shortage (saw there is one in British Columbia for some reason) Engineers...shortage Trades people...shortage Nurses...shortage
So what jobs are people doing? Is this not a general problem of an aging rich population. There's just not enough people to do all the work that needs to be done to satisfy our rich western lifestyle. Thats why we need immigrants/illegals/h1b visas.
Now on another level, there is software engineering. Every company I've worked for can't find enough good engineers. Would they hire older people? Nope. Would they hire someone in a different specialty and retrain them? Nope? Would they locate to more urban locations where there's more people (New York, Toronto...) Nope. It's as if these companies want to defy all the normal rules of business. They expect the worker to be everything for them.
So what is a smart Canadian/American supposed to do. 1. Work in the medical profession where there is always a job (doctor, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, teacher...) 2. Get a nice comfortable government job 3. slave away in a field where you wakeup one morning and see Alcatel laying off 12000 people; outsourcing jobs to India/China and not earning nearly enough money when compared to a doctor; real lack of vacation time; Sure there's a chance you'll work for the right startup and strike it rich, but for 99% of people, it'll just be another regular job.
But then again...why should all the development for the information age be in the United States or Canada?
Perhaps students aren't as dumb as people think they are.
But let's see here. You could work your behind off getting a degree in software engineering and earn a good wage, but have to work 60 hours a week, in a cube taking crap from management and clients and deadlines; not doing much of the work you think you'd love and always under the looming threat of being laid off.
Or, you can get a nice stable job in healthcare or education or with the government. Paid a good wage with good benefits and security and actually be a social person.
Indeed. The glory days are over and kids are smart enough to understand that you work to live, not live to work. Leave that to the guys in India right? I wonder where the 'A' students are going to go?
So many crimes are committed within the confines of the homes. Child/wife abuse, Pedophilia, Drug dealing... Will someone please think of the women and children and install cameras in every home?
I already converted to using only online mail a long time ago. It used to be hotmail. Now it is mixed with gmail.
I haven't lost any email and I trust gmail much more to do proper backups than myself. That said, most of the email is transient. It's nice to save it, but most of the time, personal email is not critical to keep. Obviously corporations are a bit different. The only things I do try to keep a personal copy of are documents, pictures.... Pictures/documents, I'll burn to a cd or upload to a website. Other common stuff, I keep backed up on a usb stick.
Security wise. Theres some concerns; but I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of that for the convenience.
There's a lot of people saying "what's the problem? Who wouldn't want their own products showing up first? Name me one company that wouldn't do it?...If you don't like Google results, then use Yahoo or MSN..."
Those are all true and valid. Yet search engines are the gateway to the internet. We do need to watch over it to make sure markets remain reasonably separate. Sure there's always choice, just like theres choice for other people to use other OS, carriers...Most of the time this is done in fields where there is a monopoly (telecommunications...), but many of the concerns are shared here. What if they block/push down results to upcoming competitors? What if they keep dead links of competitor sites up longer on purpose...I don't really see a problem right now, but I wouldn't say it can't ever happen.
Oh god. That is about the worst. It's even more frustrating on regular roads with traffic lights. I take the same road everyday, so I know which lights will stop me. I try to time it so I don't have to stop to keep the smooth flow of traffic. Damn the idiot that races to stop at a red light! Damn him even more if he takes the last open lane! Damn him even more when he turn out to be slow!
I sometimes wonder if introducing traffic lights onto on ramps would do anything. It's pretty bad when you have a traffic jam, and you only make it worse by tossing more cars into the mix.
I look at my process list. There's a hell of a lot of processes and threads. Even without any special programming for any given application, you still get the very handy benefit of less context switching. Maybe even 1 process per core:P I'll take that anyday.
And just where do you think intelligence comes from?
Do you think we're born with it and that's it? We're well pass Eugenics. Sure, genetics give people an advantage. No matter how hard I work out, I'll probably never be as big as Arnold. But I guarantee you with enough work and effort, I could get quite powerful. The same is true for education. Not everyone can be an Einstein, but with enough work, training, teaching...anyone can be reasonably smart.
But we need to start early. It's sad that the most critical years of a child's education is often left neglected and unassisted by the educational system. We're not working against nature. We're working against a system.
well lower class sizes would serve a similar purpose to hiring more teaching assistants. I'm all for that. They would definitely have a better chance of learning.
Ultimately though, I would put more emphasis on the greater social needs, especially at a younger age. Actually, one of the worst things I've heard (as a Canadian) is when politicians like Harper (conservative) say things like "We should not spend money on universal daycare. Parents know what's best of their kids. So we give them a child tax credit." Sure, it may get votes...but too many parents don't have the time and/or knowledge to parent/educate properly. It's at that very critical young age that the kids need the most help in their education that they actually get the least. By the time a child gets to highschool,they're basically set in their ways. They may develop/change social habits, but their talents are basically set.
As all people know, the problem lies in education.
I am a teacher, so let me be the first to say, higher pay (as nice as it would be) is not the answer. Just what would the higher pay attract? More skilled people whose skills would be used where? What part of the high school curriculum needs an expert in the field? It can't be in the actual subject matter; where anyone with advanced knowledge would have be dumned down to be compatible with the rest of the kids. Sure, you might need a couple experts to write guidelines or the curriculum, but it's not required for the average teacher.
If anything, I'd much rather have the money spent on hiring teaching assistants to help with class discipline and kids with special needs. Sad fact is 99% of a teachers job is spent trying to think of things to keep the kids occupied than on actually teaching them, because the kids have no discipline. Not to mention teaching to a curriculum that is just not kept on par with grade promotion. You can't focus on this year's curriculum because they didn't learn half of what they were supposed to learn from last years curriculum. Yeah, we should fail half the class; but you can't do that.
They will not get the benefit of education without first wanting to learn. It's just amazing how many kids in high school still think they're doing the teacher a favor by coming to class. I could see that behavior in elementary school...but it's totally unacceptable in high school. But you can't blame half the kids. Many of them come from broken homes..parents who don't give a rats behind...over protective parents.
You want a solution. 1. Fix the social problems in general. 2. More teaching assistants. 3. Place kids in streams earlier and enforce the limits heavily.
Its actually a very real practical statement in todays world. I don't want to overly politicize it, but when discussing the third world and all its problems, many western people feel comfortable saying 'they're brainwashed.' They can analyze Africans/arabs/asians like they do any other organism. How could they commit this genocide or evil act..."they were brainwashed"
But when it comes to their societies, they refuse to acknowledge even the existence of external influence as if Western people have total free will. I've always found that quite interesting and actually quite dangerous when it comes to media.
If a person is blind (arrogant?) enough to believe that the media they expose themselves to doesn't affect them, they essentially have no free will.
But if one does acknowledge that media does influence them, only then can one have free will.
Take largely uneducated population Shove them through an 'IT' education Get high quality programmers?
I don't think so. There are some really smart people in India and China, but there's not enough of them to take over the market. There's not enough here in Canada or the USA to say the least. Design is really is one of those areas that will be spread around the world and cannot be 'globalized'.
Just imagine trying to hire someone in India. You know the system is corrupt and people can get through school just by knowing people and cheating rampant. IT is seen as a means out of poverty. You get 25 million applications:P How on earth do you filter all that out to find the few qualified people? How do you rapidly build an IT capable work force? Many of whom have not had a proper basic education.
Centers of technology (Silicon Valley, Ottawa...) will NEVER be able to be self sustaining. They will always need to IMPORT or cease being a super-centre, and spread to other regions. Every region only producers a certain number of truly capable people in each field.
A lot of this has to do with the hyper growth IT experienced in the late 90s. A lot of under qualified people got into those early positions. Being a Canadian, I can tell you the Nortel story. They hired a ridiculous number of people. I've met more than a few. At least 2 in each Canadian tech company:P Some bright; others dum as a post. Yet they all command a fairly high salary.
I've been fortunate. I graduated about 2 years ago, and jobs have been okay. I take it in stride, but it can be frustrating when you see some 'not so quality' people making much more just because they graduated before the bubble burst.
Also a big factor is networking. Most jobs are gotten because you know someone. Heck, the best part of university was getting to know people...who end up working...who end up being able to get you the interview. This can also work against some really smart people, as they cannot get their foot in the door. Whats great about engineering people is we try to help each other out...This is even more so with Indian/Chinese people. It does have it's down side though, as often not the most qualified person gets the job.
How about they bypass the ripping process and just include the mp3s in a folder on the cd. Hey, maybe they could give us a single CD with all the works of an artist on mp3...Toss on their top videos and interviews in DivX format.
Nah, better to just release an actual CD, with some nice art. No point providing us with convenience of not having to rip or download, or hunt around for files.
Going away from the strict definition of what is a 'fuel' versus a 'battery', ultimately they're all just way of storing energy and then extracting it.
You want a better battery? From a black box approach, isn't that what a fuel cell is? A portable device that can release electricity. Put in an electrolysis machine and seal the thing completely, and you've got a rechargeable battery:)
Personally, I'm all about the compressed air car (http://www.theaircar.com/):) Seems like a pretty good way to store energy (safe and reliable). It won't go far, but you can attach a generator to it.
I think people are overestimating the quantity of intelligent workers. Are there great Indian and Chinese engineers? Of course. Are they enough to do all the major design work in the world? Nope. Furthermore, the very factors that makes China or India great for manufacturing, work against it for high quality engineering jobs. With such high rates of poverty and 'IT' seen as a way to make money, you get a lot of poor quality people graduating through the system. Some get by through cheating (see article about Chinese student getting surgical implants to cheat on tests...), others just lack the passion to do good work, and some just get by via the corruption.
Imagine being a manager and trying to hire a good engineer in India or China. I really don't know how they'd do it on a large scale given the sheer number of applicants.
As far as I'm concerned these countries are just now starting to get their fair share of high end design work. For such large countries, they deserve their fair share of highend work. But its not going to be the death of our economy. A better way to look at it is the US IT industry has been far too large. Other countries have good engineers too and they are resources to be tapped. Good engineers are too hard to find for any country to have a monopoly.
Yes, they append the file length to the ORIGINAL message. Not to the message digest. I know you're an expert in cryptography, but my simple mind sees it this way. MD5.
1. Takes original message 2. Appended Message = original message plus some added bits (includes the file size) 3. Message Digest = Md5 algorithm run on the Appended Message
Would it not be simpler to just include the file size as part of the message digest itself.
1. The original message 2. Message Digest = md5 run on the original message 3. Final message digest = Message digest with original message file size appended to it
This way, the original message size is always preserved and is evidently clear. Anyone, even a simpleton like me could then be assured that attacks based on adding/deleting from a file would result in a different md5. That's all I'm saying from my laymen's reading of the MD5 specification.
Yes, they append the file length to the original message. Not to the message digest.
I know you're an expert in cryptography, but my simple mind sees it this way.
MD5.
1. Takes original message
2. Appended Message = original message plus some added bits (includes the file size)
3. Message Digest = Md5 algorithm run on the Appended Message
Would it not be simpler to just include the file size as part of the message digest itself.
1. The original message
2. Message Digest = md5 run on the original message
3. Final message digest = Message digest with original message file size appended to it
This way, the original message size is always preserved and is evidently clear. Anyone, even a simpleton like me could then be assured that attacks based on adding/deleting from a file would result in a different md5.
That's all I'm saying from my laymen's reading of the MD5 specification.
I can never quite figure out why the MD5 and SHA and all these other algorithms don't include the original message size as part of their hash. This would eliminate all attack vectors that stem from adding or deleting information from a file.
But I guess that's too simple a solution for these mathematicians.
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That's the beauty of the religious argument as you note in the asterisk
It doesn't matter if GOD is irrelevant in this world. The ultimate relevancy shows up when you die, when no proof can be gathered. You know those places always being talked about (Hell/Heaven). It's a flawless improvable system .
You're obviously joking, but I see this ridicule about biblical beliefs way too often.
:) But there is nothing more intelligent/scientific about disbelief.
Let's start with the hypothesis that GOD said 'poof' and the Earth was made exactly 2000 years ago.
It must have been created in some initial state. This initial state includes rocks, sand, water, trees...
Why could fossils not have been part of this initial state?
The initial state can in fact be anything. You can even say God started the universe by created the initial energy in the big bang. It is all very consistent with religion. GOD cannot be proven or disproven. Science can never contradict the existence of GOD.
By all means mock belief in GOD
Hit the nail right on the head.
People need to look back at their elementary/highschool school math/science. How much of your advanced engineering or math degree are you going to be able to convey to students?
Teaching is much more about managing the classroom than about pouring knowledge into the kids.
Teachers only enable students to learn.
In almost any subject, I'd take a teacher
who knows how to handle children;
knows how to deal with parents;
knows how to present material;
knows how to organize their time;
is enthusiastic to get the children involved
Rather than a teacher
who knows his/her field in depth
BTW...I also taught highschool so I know. But I definitely would only teach in the tech department. That's the only place I found in the school which was void of politics. Presumably, that's because most of them have actually been in the real work force for years before entering teaching. Somehow I think that would be a really good idea...give credit to those who have worked in their industry. Start them off at a higher grade level.
This is the line of logic. How true is it?
I attended a public elementary school in Africa. The teachers got paid crap, but it was based on the old British system.
It provided an excellent basis for mathematics and science to the point that when I moved to Canada, I didn't have to learn anything new in these subjects for several years.
Maybe learning has very little to do with the teacher.
Maybe learning has more to do with the curriculum.
Maybe learning has more to do with caring about your education.
Maybe learning has more to do with classroom obedience (at least in the early years).
Maybe learning has more to do with your home environment.
I've commented on this before. For math and science in elementary/highschool, you don't need an expert in the field to teach it. You're not designing or creating anything new. Sure, all kids are unique, but as a class, they're the same year after year. You just need someone to present the material that the class should learn.
Spend the money on social programs and teaching assistants.
While the car/highway analogy is great...why do we have toll roads? Because governments increasingly don't want to fund huge expensive public infrastructure. They want the private sector to shoulder the risk and the financial burden. Not to mention the bureaucracy and just keeping government as small as possible.
So I'm very much a fan of forcing these carrier type networks to separate their business into 2 parts.
Ideally, they would even be 2 separate companies.
1. the network itself
2. services they provide on that network
Any business should map out what their charges are for the network itself and how much they're making from services. If they don't, they shouldn't be involved in this large scale project. As far as I'm concerned, this should be done for all networks (cell phone companies included)
Then let all the other companies fight it out at the service level. It's worked wonders for me. I'd probably be paying 40 dollars a month for a VOIP phone if Bell had not opened its lines. Now I pay less than 20.
Is it just me or is there a shortage in every field?
I'm in Canada, and this is what I hear
Doctors...shortage
Massage therapists...shortage (saw there is one in British Columbia for some reason)
Engineers...shortage
Trades people...shortage
Nurses...shortage
So what jobs are people doing?
Is this not a general problem of an aging rich population. There's just not enough people to do all the work that needs to be done to satisfy our rich western lifestyle. Thats why we need immigrants/illegals/h1b visas.
Now on another level, there is software engineering. Every company I've worked for can't find enough good engineers. Would they hire older people? Nope. Would they hire someone in a different specialty and retrain them? Nope? Would they locate to more urban locations where there's more people (New York, Toronto...) Nope. It's as if these companies want to defy all the normal rules of business. They expect the worker to be everything for them.
So what is a smart Canadian/American supposed to do.
1. Work in the medical profession where there is always a job (doctor, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, teacher...)
2. Get a nice comfortable government job
3. slave away in a field where you wakeup one morning and see Alcatel laying off 12000 people; outsourcing jobs to India/China and not earning nearly enough money when compared to a doctor; real lack of vacation time; Sure there's a chance you'll work for the right startup and strike it rich, but for 99% of people, it'll just be another regular job.
But then again...why should all the development for the information age be in the United States or Canada?
Perhaps students aren't as dumb as people think they are.
But let's see here. You could work your behind off getting a degree in software engineering and earn a good wage, but have to work 60 hours a week, in a cube taking crap from management and clients and deadlines; not doing much of the work you think you'd love and always under the looming threat of being laid off.
Or, you can get a nice stable job in healthcare or education or with the government. Paid a good wage with good benefits and security and actually be a social person.
Indeed. The glory days are over and kids are smart enough to understand that you work to live, not live to work. Leave that to the guys in India right? I wonder where the 'A' students are going to go?
So many crimes are committed within the confines of the homes. Child/wife abuse, Pedophilia, Drug dealing... Will someone please think of the women and children and install cameras in every home?
I already converted to using only online mail a long time ago. It used to be hotmail. Now it is mixed with gmail.
I haven't lost any email and I trust gmail much more to do proper backups than myself. That said, most of the email is transient. It's nice to save it, but most of the time, personal email is not critical to keep. Obviously corporations are a bit different. The only things I do try to keep a personal copy of are documents, pictures.... Pictures/documents, I'll burn to a cd or upload to a website. Other common stuff, I keep backed up on a usb stick.
Security wise. Theres some concerns; but I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of that for the convenience.
There's a lot of people saying "what's the problem? Who wouldn't want their own products showing up first? Name me one company that wouldn't do it?...If you don't like Google results, then use Yahoo or MSN..."
Those are all true and valid. Yet search engines are the gateway to the internet. We do need to watch over it to make sure markets remain reasonably separate. Sure there's always choice, just like theres choice for other people to use other OS, carriers...Most of the time this is done in fields where there is a monopoly (telecommunications...), but many of the concerns are shared here. What if they block/push down results to upcoming competitors? What if they keep dead links of competitor sites up longer on purpose...I don't really see a problem right now, but I wouldn't say it can't ever happen.
Oh god. That is about the worst. It's even more frustrating on regular roads with traffic lights. I take the same road everyday, so I know which lights will stop me. I try to time it so I don't have to stop to keep the smooth flow of traffic.
Damn the idiot that races to stop at a red light!
Damn him even more if he takes the last open lane!
Damn him even more when he turn out to be slow!
I sometimes wonder if introducing traffic lights onto on ramps would do anything. It's pretty bad when you have a traffic jam, and you only make it worse by tossing more cars into the mix.
I look at my process list. There's a hell of a lot of processes and threads. Even without any special programming for any given application, you still get the very handy benefit of less context switching. Maybe even 1 process per core :P I'll take that anyday.
Not sure why you got modded down to 0.
And just where do you think intelligence comes from?
Do you think we're born with it and that's it? We're well pass Eugenics. Sure, genetics give people an advantage. No matter how hard I work out, I'll probably never be as big as Arnold. But I guarantee you with enough work and effort, I could get quite powerful. The same is true for education. Not everyone can be an Einstein, but with enough work, training, teaching...anyone can be reasonably smart.
But we need to start early. It's sad that the most critical years of a child's education is often left neglected and unassisted by the educational system. We're not working against nature. We're working against a system.
well lower class sizes would serve a similar purpose to hiring more teaching assistants.
I'm all for that. They would definitely have a better chance of learning.
Ultimately though, I would put more emphasis on the greater social needs, especially at a younger age. Actually, one of the worst things I've heard (as a Canadian) is when politicians like Harper (conservative) say things like "We should not spend money on universal daycare. Parents know what's best of their kids. So we give them a child tax credit." Sure, it may get votes...but too many parents don't have the time and/or knowledge to parent/educate properly. It's at that very critical young age that the kids need the most help in their education that they actually get the least.
By the time a child gets to highschool,they're basically set in their ways. They may develop/change social habits, but their talents are basically set.
As all people know, the problem lies in education.
I am a teacher, so let me be the first to say, higher pay (as nice as it would be) is not the answer. Just what would the higher pay attract? More skilled people whose skills would be used where? What part of the high school curriculum needs an expert in the field? It can't be in the actual subject matter; where anyone with advanced knowledge would have be dumned down to be compatible with the rest of the kids. Sure, you might need a couple experts to write guidelines or the curriculum, but it's not required for the average teacher.
If anything, I'd much rather have the money spent on hiring teaching assistants to help with class discipline and kids with special needs. Sad fact is 99% of a teachers job is spent trying to think of things to keep the kids occupied than on actually teaching them, because the kids have no discipline. Not to mention teaching to a curriculum that is just not kept on par with grade promotion. You can't focus on this year's curriculum because they didn't learn half of what they were supposed to learn from last years curriculum. Yeah, we should fail half the class; but you can't do that.
They will not get the benefit of education without first wanting to learn. It's just amazing how many kids in high school still think they're doing the teacher a favor by coming to class. I could see that behavior in elementary school...but it's totally unacceptable in high school. But you can't blame half the kids. Many of them come from broken homes..parents who don't give a rats behind...over protective parents.
You want a solution.
1. Fix the social problems in general.
2. More teaching assistants.
3. Place kids in streams earlier and enforce the limits heavily.
Its actually a very real practical statement in todays world. I don't want to overly politicize it, but when discussing the third world and all its problems, many western people feel comfortable saying 'they're brainwashed.' They can analyze Africans/arabs/asians like they do any other organism. How could they commit this genocide or evil act..."they were brainwashed"
But when it comes to their societies, they refuse to acknowledge even the existence of external influence as if Western people have total free will. I've always found that quite interesting and actually quite dangerous when it comes to media.
If a person is blind (arrogant?) enough to believe that the media they expose themselves to doesn't affect them, they essentially have no free will.
But if one does acknowledge that media does influence them, only then can one have free will.
Much like the ice cream example.
Take largely uneducated population
:P How on earth do you filter all that out to find the few qualified people?
Shove them through an 'IT' education
Get high quality programmers?
I don't think so.
There are some really smart people in India and China, but there's not enough of them to take over the market. There's not enough here in Canada or the USA to say the least. Design is really is one of those areas that will be spread around the world and cannot be 'globalized'.
Just imagine trying to hire someone in India.
You know the system is corrupt and people can get through school just by knowing people and cheating rampant.
IT is seen as a means out of poverty. You get 25 million applications
How do you rapidly build an IT capable work force? Many of whom have not had a proper basic education.
Centers of technology (Silicon Valley, Ottawa...) will NEVER be able to be self sustaining. They will always need to IMPORT or cease being a super-centre, and spread to other regions. Every region only producers a certain number of truly capable people in each field.
A lot of this has to do with the hyper growth IT experienced in the late 90s. A lot of under qualified people got into those early positions. Being a Canadian, I can tell you the Nortel story. They hired a ridiculous number of people. I've met more than a few. At least 2 in each Canadian tech company :P Some bright; others dum as a post. Yet they all command a fairly high salary.
I've been fortunate. I graduated about 2 years ago, and jobs have been okay. I take it in stride, but it can be frustrating when you see some 'not so quality' people making much more just because they graduated before the bubble burst.
Also a big factor is networking. Most jobs are gotten because you know someone. Heck, the best part of university was getting to know people...who end up working...who end up being able to get you the interview. This can also work against some really smart people, as they cannot get their foot in the door. Whats great about engineering people is we try to help each other out...This is even more so with Indian/Chinese people. It does have it's down side though, as often not the most qualified person gets the job.
How about they bypass the ripping process and just include the mp3s in a folder on the cd.
Hey, maybe they could give us a single CD with all the works of an artist on mp3...Toss on their top videos and interviews in DivX format.
Nah, better to just release an actual CD, with some nice art. No point providing us with convenience of not having to rip or download, or hunt around for files.
Going away from the strict definition of what is a 'fuel' versus a 'battery', ultimately they're all just way of storing energy and then extracting it.
:)
:) Seems like a pretty good way to store energy (safe and reliable). It won't go far, but you can attach a generator to it.
You want a better battery? From a black box approach, isn't that what a fuel cell is? A portable device that can release electricity. Put in an electrolysis machine and seal the thing completely, and you've got a rechargeable battery
Personally, I'm all about the compressed air car (http://www.theaircar.com/)
But yeah, we definitely need better batteries.
I think people are overestimating the quantity of intelligent workers. Are there great Indian and Chinese engineers? Of course. Are they enough to do all the major design work in the world? Nope. Furthermore, the very factors that makes China or India great for manufacturing, work against it for high quality engineering jobs. With such high rates of poverty and 'IT' seen as a way to make money, you get a lot of poor quality people graduating through the system. Some get by through cheating (see article about Chinese student getting surgical implants to cheat on tests...), others just lack the passion to do good work, and some just get by via the corruption. Imagine being a manager and trying to hire a good engineer in India or China. I really don't know how they'd do it on a large scale given the sheer number of applicants. As far as I'm concerned these countries are just now starting to get their fair share of high end design work. For such large countries, they deserve their fair share of highend work. But its not going to be the death of our economy. A better way to look at it is the US IT industry has been far too large. Other countries have good engineers too and they are resources to be tapped. Good engineers are too hard to find for any country to have a monopoly.
Yes, they append the file length to the ORIGINAL message. Not to the message digest.
I know you're an expert in cryptography, but my simple mind sees it this way. MD5.
1. Takes original message
2. Appended Message = original message plus some added bits (includes the file size)
3. Message Digest = Md5 algorithm run on the Appended Message
Would it not be simpler to just include the file size as part of the message digest itself.
1. The original message
2. Message Digest = md5 run on the original message
3. Final message digest = Message digest with original message file size appended to it
This way, the original message size is always preserved and is evidently clear. Anyone, even a simpleton like me could then be assured that attacks based on adding/deleting from a file would result in a different md5. That's all I'm saying from my laymen's reading of the MD5 specification.
Yes, they append the file length to the original message. Not to the message digest. I know you're an expert in cryptography, but my simple mind sees it this way. MD5. 1. Takes original message 2. Appended Message = original message plus some added bits (includes the file size) 3. Message Digest = Md5 algorithm run on the Appended Message Would it not be simpler to just include the file size as part of the message digest itself. 1. The original message 2. Message Digest = md5 run on the original message 3. Final message digest = Message digest with original message file size appended to it This way, the original message size is always preserved and is evidently clear. Anyone, even a simpleton like me could then be assured that attacks based on adding/deleting from a file would result in a different md5. That's all I'm saying from my laymen's reading of the MD5 specification.
I can never quite figure out why the MD5 and SHA and all these other algorithms don't include the original message size as part of their hash. This would eliminate all attack vectors that stem from adding or deleting information from a file. But I guess that's too simple a solution for these mathematicians.