http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q

Can PLoP Boot Manager work around this?

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html

You got it, thanks. And these are real situations as others have said.

And if a child sees a normal part of the human anatomy why should that be a crime? Because you don't like it. Don't try to tell me that the mere sight of a human penis will irreversibly damage a child. It's a sick society that demonizes a pat of the human body so successfully.

The UDHR is not legally binding and there are no signatories. The US routinely ignores such international toothless efforts.

That could create more problems than it solves. Unfortunately, your average citizen just doesn't have the skills to evaluate the pros and cons of every single issue. That is the sad failing of democracy. Joe Citizen seems to use a limited set of retarded tools to make voting decisions, such as what the media or institutions (eg churches) tell him. You only have to look at quagmired, emotive but sensible issues like banning the death penalty, drug decriminalization, gun control, and criminal justice/penal system reform. The right way to go on those issues has been validated by countless studies - even proven in implementation in other countries - but rational thought is simply ignored in the popularity contest and the old "against" arguments marketed as truth.

All speculation on the brain possibly having quantum properties is complete nonsense based on equivocation and quasi-religious hoo-hah.

That may be so, but Einstein thought this was possible. Not one given to equivocation or quasi-religious hoo-hah. There are plenty of macroscopically detectable effects of quantum phenomena.

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But I find younger team members (and managers) do not always take the long view and don't listen hard enough to good advice. This is particularly important when thinking strategy. Getting ahead of where the technology diffusion curve is going is incredibly difficult but surely is often the key to hitting the big time. Companies should be planning two years ahead of what they are doing now instead of always merely reacting to things. Evaluating the potential for long shots and possible industry futures is important but how many small companies do it? When it does get done, the process tends to be locked up in one department with a few people only since those few managers (usually 40yo+) are the ones who are supposed to be the strategists doing "ideation". [Aside: apparently age begets wisdom in managers only]. To my mind, I'd prefer to encourage input from all including the most junior staff member instead of having them sit in stunned silence, politics preventing them from contributing. Yes people will say a fair bit of wild crap but that's to be expected and even praised in a brainstorming session.

As I've got older I do cringe when I remember my own buzzword compliance in youth. It's a way of trying to seem sophisticated and to belong to the cool kids, which is almost of no importance past 45 years old. I remember my music teacher telling my mother as a kid that no-one grows up until they are at least 30. Now I know what she meant.

Industries of different types have a way of enforcing buzzword compliance. Buzzwords are connected to money.

That's even way older than me :=). I entered the industry in my late 40s but as a manager rather than coder, so I was able to demonstrate management skills gained in other (technical) industries. I could, if I wished, probably do some coding for my company though I'm ok as is. We have some top gun coders who may well snort with derision at my less-experienced code.

Care to hint how you got hired as a new coder at 52? How did you demonstrate that you should be hired with just a bit of PHP an SQL?

Because all applied maths or stats students (and hence many physics, engineering and chemistry students by extension as well as comp sci students) used to have to learn structured programming in Fortran. Fortran is still used in mathematical modeling - it runs fast and a lot of old code can be recycled - but I've read for that it is increasingly being replaced for that by C and other suitable number crunching languages. I seriously doubt that maths majors still make everything look like Fortran code these days.

[old fart] In my day at my old alma mater you sat in a hot little stuffy room and watched a series of excruciatingly tedious videos about how to program in Fortran *before* the semester proper started. Fortran was considered too easy to be worth teaching by the applied maths dept. But it was also considered an indispensable, basic tool and they marked down cruelly any code that had anything amiss at all, and we did not have a universe of code snippets and tutorials on the web from which to copy and paste.[/old fart]

Programming is developing algorithms and data structures and that is mathematics. Realizing those in code form just takes practice and experience with a language. You want maths grads with good grades who also have shown skill/interest/passion to code beyond what they had to do for school (eg hobby projects, open source) but that rule should also apply to all new recruits.

As has been posted many times, Google prefer to hire maths majors over comp sci majors. They say they have superior problem solving skills. That wouldn't surprise me - if you've studied maths at a high level, particularly hard core maths like theoretical physics - then you must have developed some good conceptual, analytic and problem solving chops. Everything is mathematics.

Slashdot should delete crap posts. I agree Slashdot has gone way downhill and it's mystifying where all these cretins and imbeciles come from or why they bother posting here at all. Slashdot needs to work an algorithm that identifies and deletes crap posts eg any post that simply says "Eat my butt" is auto deleted. All posts modded -1 should be auto evaluated for deletion as well.

Or, if you're not making money, you might as well get across the code base of a significant open source project and start sending them patches. If you pick a project that is key (or will be key) to something, and you build your worth with that project until you are a respected team member, you've almost certainly made yourself highly employable. Or: write documentation, no-one wants to do that. I know one very famous coder who started that way.

That depends on what you're coding.