Comment Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this (Score 1) 839
...and the light on top (vertical hang) or to the left (horizontal hang) is *red*. That's actually law too, IIRC.
...and the light on top (vertical hang) or to the left (horizontal hang) is *red*. That's actually law too, IIRC.
What he said.
Most engineers are too narrowly educated. As a result, they're ill-equipped to construct counter-arguments when they encounter a line of non-engineering bullshit.
I recall a conversation I had with my department chair as an undergrad (I ran into him on the T). He was considering altering the curriculum and adding a slate of new technical requirements, but it would have to be at the expense of humanities requirements. I advocated instead expanding the program to a five-year degree instead, because I felt (and feel) that an education in humanities is vital for all science and engineering students--if only because they teach students how to *explain things to others*, something that's so incredibly important once you're out in the real world working as a science or engineering professional.
And since the null-termination cert *doesn't chain to an EV provider* it's not much of an exploit, really. No green bar, not safe.
It's actually called "base rate fallacy."
Or do you mean for a job?
The two are not necessarily the same.
I found languages like Lisp, Prolog, and Smalltalk to be of the most use for learning the science. These are not your sweatshop languages, though.
On the plus side, if you learn the science, learning a new language isn't tough.
Failure of a current government to perform is not the same thing as government *as an institution* being incapable of performing.
Feel free to propose an alternative to a government that accomplishes this task and doesn't rely on proven-ineffective industry self-policing and yet *isn't* just government by another name.
I hope you won't mind if I don't wait around.
You're right, they aren't. But under a truly 'free' market as defined by our libertarian friends, you have no recourse if any of them happen.
The issue isn't free markets it's, *fair* markets. Only the gov't keeps markets fair. Free markets are like anarchies; they immediately devolve into strong-man rule--in market terms, that's cartels and monopolies. The history of abuse by business in the absence of gov't enforced rules is long, and at this point should be obvious to anyone.
Spoken like a man who's never been seriously ill. Or poor. Or fired without cause. Or blackballed. Or discriminated against.
A free market does have a point: to set prices. That's it. The 'invisible hand' is a delusion, and the anyone who thinks such a system inevitably maximizes efficiency needs to (a) define his terms, and (b) google the phrase 'local maxima.'
Allegedly, Clippy annoyed people into looking in the help files to figure out how to turn him off. That led them to discover that the help file actually was helpful. This reduced the give-away service calls by some measured percent.
Probably not Clippy's intended purpose, but there you go.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
