Comment Re:What!? No mention of War Games! (Score 1) 165
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For kids of the 1980s this movie was first exposure towards the medium. Additionally it heralded the dawn of the hacker and government misunderstanding of the hacker capabilities -- specifically some of the problems Kevin Mitnick faced. Really surprised it wasn't mentioned.
All that needs to be said...
Pick any two what? I think you need to list 3 things for us to pick two from.,..
Having watched this bitcoin project/program/scheme (whatever) unfold the last couple years it seems like a money making fraud scheme. I still don't fully understand how it works, it's extremely confusing to actually try to use the "currency", why someone can just say a bitcoin is worth X dollars, and you can create money by "mining" for it with a graphics card. It feels like something created by criminal entities which will eventually collapse or found to be fraudulent....
I think sneaker-net is funny phrase from the days of 10baseT networking being slower than just copying to another media and walking it over. Also used when the stupid networking just wouldn't work...
No, I do not. If you read my comment the first sentence addresses this...
Huh? Did you even read my comment?
Lawyers study as long as Doctors, get as many loans, and make less. Most Law School grads make under $50k. Vets are worse. It's harder to get into vet school then MedSchool, the coursework is harder (you have to know medical care for multiple organisms), the loans just as bad, and $50k is a really good salary for a Vet. Hell do you think ANY humanities PhD is ever gonna pay off his student loans?
I would have a lot more sympathy for American Doctors if their foreign counterparts didn't make do with a much less pay. Luxembourg is an incredibly expensive country to live in, yet their Doctors make 30% less then our doctors. Yeah we overpay our MBAs, and MPHs, but it's very hard for me to sympathize with a guy who does the exact same job as a Doctor from Winnipeg for $40,000 more and complains he isn't paid enough.
I disagree as your facts appear to be incorrect.
1. Lawyers have 3 years of school and no residency. Doctors have 4 year schooling, 4 years of residency, and more residency if they specialize. Cardiologists often don't finish training until their mid-30s. I don't follow how you say they study "as long"? They aren't even close to similar.
2. You're not comparing properly. In Canada med schools are far less than the US ones. About 1/3 less according to the article. Thus, the society subsidizes some of the costs of their training. So they don't have large loans with interest to pay off which enables them to be paid less...
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2011/06/01/should-med-school-be-free-in-canada/
You know I am sick and tired of everyone blaming doctors for the cost of healthcare in the US. When in fact, doctors salaries are a miniscule portion of US healthcare, especially compared to drugs and device costs and hospital CEO pay! Doctors should be paid MORE. Yes I said it, more! What other profession do you study at least 12 years before you make a decent salary, take on at least $250k in school loans, and work 12 hour days for your entire career?
Yes doctors make good money but it's far less than other folks in the US make who are far less deserving. How about addressing the seriously disgusting salaries on wall street? Should a computer nerd working in Morgan's computer risk group really be making $500k which is FAR more than the majority of doctors? What about the asshole investment bankers making millions at Goldman figuring out new ways to screw every US citizen out of a couple of pennies. Meanwhile the doctor is someone who makes you feel better and often will save your life.
p.s. I am not a doctor. I just work with a lot of them and see how hard a life they have nowadays.
In Vietnam, the US made the mistake to only prepare for the "big war" against the USSR, ignoring minor conflicts that might appear. Planes didn't get guns anymore because "modern air combat will be fought beyond visual range. Then politicians came up with the stupidity that enemy planes first have to be visually identified. Not to mention that the long range air-to-air missiles of the time were unreliable at best and required an active lock (yeah, it's a really bright idea to fly straight towards and enemy plane coming at you with its weapons pointed your way...). In a nutshell, the USA relied on technology that was simply not ready to fill the role it should, coupled with political stupidity of epic dimensions.
So what they said in the movie Top Gun during the training school about pilots losing the art of dogfighting in Vietnam was true??
Rajesh Koothrappali: Come on, Sheldon. The world is filled with people doing things outside; let's go outside. Outside is good.
Sheldon Cooper: If outside is so good, why has mankind spent thousands of years trying to perfect inside?
Rajesh Koothrappali: I don't know. It's a marketing scheme.
Maybe it's that javascript engines don't matter as much anymore? Chrome loads pages and responds so much faster than Firefox. I would like to use Firefox, but it's a dramatic difference in performance between the two browser. Can anyone explain why?
Wow, didn't ever know that... surprised I didn't hear of it. I remember liking Win95 a lot because networking and winsock was part of it instead of having to do add ons for dialing onto the internet with Win 311!
With 95 you were given the choice of using the new explorer interface or the old task man interface that 3.11 used... Many users chose to stick with the old ui.
Really?? First I ever heard of this...
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
