Comment That is just wonderful! (Score 1) 434
That is so great! Now can we have real news?
That is so great! Now can we have real news?
This article has a racist subtext. I have also seen extremely unskilled programmers from the US at the > $100/hr level. There are countless federal projects that fail with cost overruns for any number of reasons. Choosing US programmers does not guarantee success. I think ultimately companies need to realize that software development is very hard and you just can't randomly hire/contract programmers and expect success. Top programmers are hard to find and expensive no matter what country look at.
Mobile phones are just another platform to experience gaming. Mobile platforms are becoming more like gaming consoles. With technologies like wireless display (WiDi), etc you may be able to run a virtual xbox 360 straight from a mobile device on to the display of your choice. Good times!
Let me guess you are white. I dare you to ask any black person if white privilege does not exist. I bet you will have a tough time finding one. But in your mind they are all liars or lazy. I hate the "black people are just lazy" narrative. It's a really tired old lie you people keep telling yourselves.
At last count it was 111.
Dude turn off the filter and grep for the n-word on this forum. It will open your eyes!
How about you observe the amount of people use the n-word on this forum. Then tell me that the tech world is open. It is a sad joke.
Please stop the race-bait articles Slashdot. I can't take it anymore. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. You know who you are. >:-(
It seems you have an agenda against Black people and fear lawsuits, but what does giving IQ tests to janitors have to do with the STEM drop out rate?
You did not read that article correctly. Duke Power initially used segregation to weed out Black job applicants. When the Civil Rights Act prevented segregation they instituted IQ tests to weed out Black applicants who did not have the same education opportunities at the time. The IQ tests did not have anything to do with the job. The Civil Rights Act does not ban IQ tests.
Another politician is not going save us. To think otherwise would be intellectually dishonest.
I see a lot of well educated engineers coming into the field that have terrible problem solving skills. I am sure they have great grades but they can't solve their way out of a card board box. I am not exactly sure this weak student elimination thing is working out very well.
I agree with the idea that sticking everyone into a four year program is counter productive. Problem is the longer the program the more expensive the cost is to the student.
Steve Jobs, RIP
I don't mean to make this seem like a joke, but every time Slashdot posts about race there is a whole slew of White people coming out of the wood-works claiming that racism is not the problem? And then form a defense out of the following...
A. Affirmative Action is the problem Black people can't be trusted.
B. Black people are not smart enough and thus can't be qualified.
C. Black people score lower on academic tests, and if they did well they did not deserve the grade. See (A)
D. How come my Asian friend is so smart and you are so dumb.
E. Let me pull out my statistics textbook: if you are Black, then you are dumb. QED.
Then sprinkle it with:
A. Oh BTW I am not racist,.. racist rant..., racism is bad
B. I voted for Obama, how could I be racist?
C. I have a Black friend somewhere! I call him by the N word and he loves it. How can I be racist?
D. Look at all of the Black Athletes this proves that genetics determine everything about a person. And since Black people don't have Neanderthal DNA...
E. Oh don't mind my friends dropping the N-word on that other post. He is just an anomaly.
Then pat yourself on the back for proving that 500 years of social engineering is meaningless and get modded up. Brillant because the next article will be about how social engineering causes somebody to hand over millions of SSN to a stealthy hacker.
I think there is a sick person who posts these flame bait articles on Slashdot. I am calling you out! You post these articles and wait for hundreds of responses and then you revel in the racist commentary. It does not make sense otherwise. If Slashdot cared about race they would have auto tagged the racists or blocked Anonymous cowards spewing racial epithets.
Let me put it into perspective for you guys. If you were Black, and you had to read that the government has be rejecting your best and brightest because of your race and then log into Slashdot and read through the most offensive racist rants. You would have quite a shitty day. Now imagine that you had to interact with a bunch of people who pretend to be your friends when talking face-to-face and then they log on to Slashdot and drop the N bomb uncontrollably. Then you will have a better understanding of what being Black is like.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.