Comment Re:"Computing's Narrow Focus"? (Score 1) 329
European master degrees and PhDs. Note though that biology was the largest science subject at my university (Cph) almost twice as many students as CS.
European master degrees and PhDs. Note though that biology was the largest science subject at my university (Cph) almost twice as many students as CS.
"Computing's Narrow Focus"? Get a degree in petroleum geology or structural engineering if you want a narrow focus. Or pick the wrong field in biology. I know a woman who got a PhD in an area of microbiology that turned out to be a dead end. She ended up managing a coffee shop.
The last has probably nothing to do with her choice of subject. Most biology students end up as unskilled workers. I have several friends who have studied biology, and the job market for them while big is way too small for the sheer number of biologists educated.
In the rest of the world we use twice the voltage. In the EU 200 to 250V is standard.
I just checked my vacuum cleaner. It is 2300W. Jesus, no wonder I never turn it up to max. That thing sucks. Hard.
A petition with 13 signatures is not worth mentioning. Any idiot can set one up.
You mean any idiot with 12 idiot friends.
You make it sound like the new testamant.
Industry is much better than individuals at handling chemicals safely.
Can be, especially if it is economically beneficial for them or they are forced to do so by the government. If not, they are naturally inclined to do much worse.
Your analysis is only partly correct; you've missed out on all the other business software they make tons of money on. MS is only highly profitable because of their business software, and the usage of their software in offices: Windows, Office, Sharepoint, Windows Server, SQL Server, etc etc. The place where they're failing abysmally is with consumers: they still sell (desktop) Windows of course, but they probably don't make much money with the home versions, and people aren't buying new PCs that much any more, and instead are buying smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android). MS's consumer offerings are ignored or laughed at: Surface, Windows Phone, etc. haven't done well. Xbox doesn't look like it's doing all that well any more either.
Basically, if MS cut out most of the consumer ventures, they'd be far more profitable. But there's definitely a tie-in there: people like to use software at work that they're familiar with, so if MS abandons the consumer space altogether, it wouldn't be long before companies shift to something else for their desktops, and then the rest of the MS infrastructure would crumble too.
So they are slowly becoming the IBM of the software industry?
So, when will they sell the consumer parts to a Chinese company?
Really Carewolf? Really?
That was not me. I don't troll.
...using c. Although I do like to comment thusly, and so prefer a compiler that understands at least basic c++:
// comment I like to stay as close to the metal as I can get. I'd use assembler, but many of my projects are cross platform, so c it is.
End of Line terminated comments ("//") actually are in the C spec as part of C99. And while it did take GCC a little while for that to be accepted in C mode...
What on Earth are you talking about?? Using C++ comments in C was a GCC extension that made it into C99.
So any store that only carries Organic foods is censoring?
No, but if food was speech, then yes, it would be. Though we usually don't use the term censorship when the selection criteria becomes that broad. A book store not carrying a few specific books is censoring, but a bookstore only carrying science fiction would be better described as filtering, though the store does the same thing only much more aggresively.
Wouldn't it more useful for it to be set in silicone?
Assuming you mean silicon, then; no - Setting things in stone is better than writing them in the sand.
Ebola is not as infectious as the flu.
Yet.
So, right now there's at least few thousand people carrying the virus. At least a few of them probably have other cold/flu viruses in their systems. If both Ebola and flu infect the same cell, they can exchange genetic information, potentially resulting in a much more easily transmitted strain of Ebola. The more people that are infected, the greater the chance such genetic exchange could occur. It wouldn't take much for Ebola to become a first world threat.
Ebola is less infectious than HIV and has infected orders of magnitudes fewer people for much shorter periods of time. While it could happen, chances are airborne AIDS is more likely than Ebola, in other words, go back to sleep dear, you were just having a nightmare.
Did you ever use the toilet at work? - ever had issues of a bad stomach doing the rounds? any idea how many people don't wash their hands after taking a piss? -people you shook hands with. I'd not bet my life on this scenario being impossible.
Ebola is not as infectious as the flu. Absolute none of those scenarios would be able to transmit the disease. So yes, you are safe.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.