Never underestimate the power to set office workers minds at ease by wearing blue and carrying a ladder.
Or carrying a professional-style camera around along with a fake laminate "press pass". It's less about class and more about appearing like you're supposed to be there.
While some may say it doesn't qualify as a "remake", Henry Moseley's work resulted in the reorganization of the periodic table by atomic number, as opposed to Mendeleev's table, which went by atomic weight and chemical properties. Unfortunately, Moseley was killed at the age of 27 while fighting in World War I.
The strange thing is that high school chemistry books that I've taught from treat Mendeleev as a sort of Socrates/demigod figure, yet make no mention of Moseley's contributions, which really advanced chemistry. We wouldn't know anything about the inner workings of the atom if we didn't know and understand atomic numbers.
As for this new poster... it would be something I'd put up on the wall of my classroom to attract attention and give students a new way of looking at the elements, but for any serious work, we'd still have to use the standard periodic table. There's nothing wrong with looking at the elements in a new way, but that doesn't mean it will be useful beyond generating interest in science.
You are quite correct, in fact, this is the only way people make money in the stock market.
The fact that this was modded "Informative" can only be explained by time-travelers coming back in time to clue us in on how screwed the stock market is about to be.
Your attempt at being politically correct was actually not only politically INcorrect, but it also displayed your vast ignorance and American-centered views.
Wow - pot, kettle, black! I guess that's what I get for quoting an American movie on a english-speaking forum based in the United States. Sure, it has international readership, but one ought to be able to quote a semi-popular American movie without being called ignorant.
My company used to have the attitude that their well firewalled network + NAT was nice and secure. And it was, until someone plugged an infected laptop into the network (I think it was blaster, could be wrong).
The same thing happened to us at the high school where I worked, only it was a guy from the company that does our Cisco VoIP phone support, and it was Nachi/Welchia. After several days of sending kids around with CD-Rs of SP4 and Stinger (our antivirus program would clean but not patch), we still detected it on our network. Turns out the only Win2K machines we hadn't patched were the Cisco voicemail and call manager servers, all of which were infected with the worm and hammering it out over gigabit ethernet. We first detected the problem when people complained about not being able to check their voicemail, and after we cleaned all of the unpatched and improperly configured machines, they were the only ones left.
The lesson learned, of course, is that you can't assume that a third party will set up or maintain things properly, especially our own students workstations that we were told had been set up properly with Windows Update. Once we took over support for those machines from the company that sold us the machines and had it out with the VoIP support guys, we didn't have any more problems (including spyware).
AMD is a company, and given the need, which I'm sure is already there, they would increase production capabilities.
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The idea that AMD cannot in the future (one year folks, a long time) fullfill added production requirements is astounding.
Then perhaps you'd like to explain why Apple is dropping IBM, one of the largest companies in the business? By your logic, a company the size of IBM never should have had production issues, and Apple would still be partnered with them. Obviously there's more to a company's ability (or desire) to increase production than just their size.
Past employers cannot legally give any information beyond "This person worked here from xx to xx".
You are going to have to cite a statue for that one. I'm incredibly dubious of the claim that I'd be in violation of the law to say more then "this person worked here". I'm unaware of any legal princepal of "Employee-Employer Privacy". Heard of it in the case of laywers and doctors, but never in the case of my boss. I'm fairly confident they can say if you were terminated with cause or not (that's got a legal definition, I'm unaware of all of the details).
For the IT Business class I teach, another teacher and I brought in a manager from GE Aircraft Engines through a program called Junior Achievement, which aims to teach students business skills by providing them with ongoing sessions with someone in the business world. When we were working with him on writing and improving resumes, one of my students asked about the "References" portion of a resume, and he said that there's pretty much no point to putting that on a resume any more. He's done some hiring at GE, and any reference he'd called recently said what the grandparent poster said: HR would only confirm that the person worked from one point in time to another, and refused to go into any further details.
At another point in the school year, we had a recruiter from a technical school come in, and it happened that he was also an IT headhunter. We asked about job hunting and resume tips, and he agreed that there was no point in putting any references on a resume, because all it did was waste space that could be used to describe your job skills, since HR departments were afraid of getting sued for saying something bad about someone.
There's an application called Software Update that checks in the background at a schedule you set through the System Preferences application. Then, if there's an update, Software Update opens and shows you a dialog and a description of each patch or updated application, and can select or deselect updates via checkboxes. You can also disable updates so they never show up again (for example, I've disabled the iSight update because I don't have Apple's webcam).
Just click Install and it grabs and installs all the selected updates, but only after you enter the username of a user with root privileges (usually the first username added to the system) and the appropriate password.
The really nice thing about Software Update is that once you enter your username and password, it does everything else automatically, including restarting your system if necessary. That's a lot different from Microsoft's updaters, which often require separate EULAs and confirmations. Apple's EULAs are either shown before the downloading begins, or the first time you run the updated version of an application. Pretty slick!
As for patch frequency, it really depends - sometimes you have lots of little security updates, and once every month or two you get a big update that kicks the revision number up by one. Those revision updates usually require small patches, unfortunately.
"There aren't any [citizen militias]", you say? Well, if you are a male between the ages of 17 and 45 (I assume you are a U.S. citizen from the wording of your post), you are a member of the citizen militia of the United States. Don't believe me? Look here: USC Title 10, Chapter 13, Section 311.
Great, I knew W. was going to figure out a way to send more of us to Iraq without calling it a "draft". After all, not calling it a draft has worked pretty well with the Reserves and the National Guard so far.
What a crock of shit! You are making a horrible generalization. How about "arguing with a libertarian is always a waste of time" or "arguing with a senior citizen is always a waste of time."
You're right, those are better generalizations. Thanks, kid!
I didn't say Sony had that first. I said it was a Playstation feature that Nintendo later used itself, to illustrate the mistake that it was to use cartridges.
The irony is that Sony had partnered with Nintendo to develop an optical drive for the Super Nintendo, and when Nintendo got cold feet, Sony took what they'd learned and created the Playstation. Microsoft did the same thing, partnering with Nintendo to learn about game system development, but pulled out of the agreement to create their own game system. The main difference is who broke up with whom: Nintendo dumped Sony, causing Sony to create the PS; Microsoft dumped Nintendo, suggesting they went into the relationship with less-than-honest intentions.
Wouldn't it be funny if they did have a space program and just haven't bothered coming back?
Rumor has it they're coming back at the end of April to build an intergalactic bypass, and that they've written some really awful poetry for the occasion.
Every nick in their armor is one more chance someone else might realize that the Internet has blown the doors off content distribution business models.
I think the Napster debacle pretty much proved that the RIAA is at best obsolete, and at worst, obstructionist. Anyone in the music industry who hasn't figured out that out by now either never will or is living in a state of denial.
Consider this: on one of my regular drives, it's not unusual for me to be pulled over, asked for identification, where I was coming from, and where I'm headed to, and if the officer doesn't like my answers (or I decline to answer), I get to wait until they've checked my ID and vehicle information over.
Are you sure you're not black, driving through Kentucky? Everyone I've ever seen pulled over on the highway in Kentucky was black.
Were it not for this post I might have ended up driving through Ohio, been caught in a freak April snowstorm and attempted to affix chains to my car. And then I might have gotten a ticket.
If you're joking about freak April snowstorms, then you've obviously never lived in Ohio. I live near Cincinnati, and we've had snow anywhere from October to April, and t-shirt & shorts weather at any time of the year. It is certainly a nice day outside today - much nicer than the lows in the 30s F we had over the weekend. I think it was last fall that we had a 40 F degree difference in highs from one day to the next.
The best part is how the rapid weather changes combined with the humidity (especially southwestern Ohio) can cause regular sinus infections! I finally got my first sinus infection in my mid-20s, and my doctor told me he was very surprised that I had lived in this area my entire life and never had one before.
Actually, according to the article. it was not shown primarily because of comments made by and fear of backlash from religious fundamentalists. Since you appear to have trouble understanding the article itself, I'll go ahead and bold the important parts for you:
Carol Murray, director of marketing for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum decided not to offer the movie after showing it to a sample audience, a practice often followed by managers of Imax theaters. Ms. Murray said 137 people participated in the survey, and while some thought it was well done, "some people said it was blasphemous."
In their written comments, she explained, they made statements like "I really hate it when the theory of evolution is presented as fact," or "I don't agree with their presentation of human existence."
On other criteria, like narration and music, the film did not score as well as other films, Ms. Murray said, and over all, it did not receive high marks, so she recommended that the museum pass.
"If it's not going to draw a crowd and it is going to create controversy," she said, "from a marketing standpoint I cannot make a recommendation" to show it.
In interviews, officials at other Imax theaters said they had similarly decided against the film for fear of offending some audiences.
"We have definitely a lot more creation public than evolution public," said Lisa Buzzelli, who directs the Charleston Imax Theater in South Carolina, a commercial theater next to the Charleston Aquarium. Her theater had not ruled out ever showing "Volcanoes," Ms. Buzzelli said, "but being in the Bible Belt, the movie does have a lot to do with evolution, and we weigh that carefully."
Pietro Serapiglia, who handles distribution for the producer Stephen Low of Montreal, whose company made the film, said officials at other theaters told him they could not book the movie "for religious reasons," because it had "evolutionary overtones" or "would not go well with the Christian community" or because "the evolution stuff is a problem."
So you either didn't read TFA, or you're full of shit. Imagine that, a fundamentalist trying to distort the argument by claiming they're being attacked! I've never encountered that sort of thing - not on TV, not on AM radio, and certainly not on the internet!
Can't you people leave us nerds alone and let us have our science the way it's meant to be - hard facts developed from data collected by rigorous experimentation and open, critical peer review. Or are you still afraid that we're going to somehow find a way to "disprove" the existence of God? I can assure you, should such a thing occur (and I don't believe it will), it won't be through IMAX movies.
C'mon guys, either make the hair (1) really weird (the female actors seem to have this down), or (2) mind-bendingly conservative (pick something that hasn't changed in 1500 years, like shaving it all off). At least stop using Tiger Teen Beat as your model.
Have you seen George Lucas's hair? Is it any wonder they all look like Jack from Three's Company?
I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but one of my favorite things now and then is to load one of the LJ Image Theft pages that are out there. It grabs the last 200 images posted to LiveJournal, and even though it's largely quizilla results and photos of teenage girls attempting to convey some sort of random emotion, occasionally some interesting memes occur. Recently, when Hunter S. Thompson died, a bunch of people posted photos of him or from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and one linked to his piece "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", which I probably never would have read had I not stumbled across it through LJ Image Theft.
However, it's important to note that some people post some pretty weird shit on LiveJournal - especially the Russians! - so it's not always work safe. Actually, sometimes that's what makes it so interesting - you can almost put your finger on the pulse of what's going on in people's heads across the world by scanning through the photos, and the time of day makes a difference, too. For example, St. Patrick's Day is coming up, so I'm sure there are going to be more and more images with shamrocks and leprechauns in them. Needless to say, Valentine's Day was an interesting one as well - lots of broken heart graphics and photos with faces scribbled out. Just get used to seeing this photo of a cat passed out next to a bottle of booze, because it's in there every other time I load the script.
There are other ways to find stuff on the net. This is a perfect example of where a directory, such as DMOZ or Yahoo, is going to get you better results than a search engine.
Yahoo is a directory? I thought all they provided was email, news, Java games and unreliable stock market messageboards.
I'm being sarcastic of course, but comparing today's Yahoo to the one that was hosted at akebono.stanford.edu 10 years ago, it's very difficult to see its directory roots these days.
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Or carrying a professional-style camera around along with a fake laminate "press pass". It's less about class and more about appearing like you're supposed to be there.
The strange thing is that high school chemistry books that I've taught from treat Mendeleev as a sort of Socrates/demigod figure, yet make no mention of Moseley's contributions, which really advanced chemistry. We wouldn't know anything about the inner workings of the atom if we didn't know and understand atomic numbers.
As for this new poster... it would be something I'd put up on the wall of my classroom to attract attention and give students a new way of looking at the elements, but for any serious work, we'd still have to use the standard periodic table. There's nothing wrong with looking at the elements in a new way, but that doesn't mean it will be useful beyond generating interest in science.
RIP Phil Hartman. He would be having a field day with this.
I didn't think Funny mods affected your karma. At least, that's what I'd always been told.
The fact that this was modded "Informative" can only be explained by time-travelers coming back in time to clue us in on how screwed the stock market is about to be.
Wow - pot, kettle, black! I guess that's what I get for quoting an American movie on a english-speaking forum based in the United States. Sure, it has international readership, but one ought to be able to quote a semi-popular American movie without being called ignorant.
The same thing happened to us at the high school where I worked, only it was a guy from the company that does our Cisco VoIP phone support, and it was Nachi/Welchia. After several days of sending kids around with CD-Rs of SP4 and Stinger (our antivirus program would clean but not patch), we still detected it on our network. Turns out the only Win2K machines we hadn't patched were the Cisco voicemail and call manager servers, all of which were infected with the worm and hammering it out over gigabit ethernet. We first detected the problem when people complained about not being able to check their voicemail, and after we cleaned all of the unpatched and improperly configured machines, they were the only ones left.
The lesson learned, of course, is that you can't assume that a third party will set up or maintain things properly, especially our own students workstations that we were told had been set up properly with Windows Update. Once we took over support for those machines from the company that sold us the machines and had it out with the VoIP support guys, we didn't have any more problems (including spyware).
Dude, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature... Asian-American, please.
If you think that's bad, just remember that there are kids in high school now who were born in the 90s.
AMD is a company, and given the need, which I'm sure is already there, they would increase production capabilities.
The idea that AMD cannot in the future (one year folks, a long time) fullfill added production requirements is astounding.
Then perhaps you'd like to explain why Apple is dropping IBM, one of the largest companies in the business? By your logic, a company the size of IBM never should have had production issues, and Apple would still be partnered with them. Obviously there's more to a company's ability (or desire) to increase production than just their size.
You are going to have to cite a statue for that one. I'm incredibly dubious of the claim that I'd be in violation of the law to say more then "this person worked here". I'm unaware of any legal princepal of "Employee-Employer Privacy". Heard of it in the case of laywers and doctors, but never in the case of my boss. I'm fairly confident they can say if you were terminated with cause or not (that's got a legal definition, I'm unaware of all of the details).
For the IT Business class I teach, another teacher and I brought in a manager from GE Aircraft Engines through a program called Junior Achievement, which aims to teach students business skills by providing them with ongoing sessions with someone in the business world. When we were working with him on writing and improving resumes, one of my students asked about the "References" portion of a resume, and he said that there's pretty much no point to putting that on a resume any more. He's done some hiring at GE, and any reference he'd called recently said what the grandparent poster said: HR would only confirm that the person worked from one point in time to another, and refused to go into any further details.
At another point in the school year, we had a recruiter from a technical school come in, and it happened that he was also an IT headhunter. We asked about job hunting and resume tips, and he agreed that there was no point in putting any references on a resume, because all it did was waste space that could be used to describe your job skills, since HR departments were afraid of getting sued for saying something bad about someone.
If you've ever administrated an NT server before, you know that sometimes pouring blood into it is the only appropriate solution.
Just click Install and it grabs and installs all the selected updates, but only after you enter the username of a user with root privileges (usually the first username added to the system) and the appropriate password.
The really nice thing about Software Update is that once you enter your username and password, it does everything else automatically, including restarting your system if necessary. That's a lot different from Microsoft's updaters, which often require separate EULAs and confirmations. Apple's EULAs are either shown before the downloading begins, or the first time you run the updated version of an application. Pretty slick!
As for patch frequency, it really depends - sometimes you have lots of little security updates, and once every month or two you get a big update that kicks the revision number up by one. Those revision updates usually require small patches, unfortunately.
Great, I knew W. was going to figure out a way to send more of us to Iraq without calling it a "draft". After all, not calling it a draft has worked pretty well with the Reserves and the National Guard so far.
You're right, those are better generalizations. Thanks, kid!
The irony is that Sony had partnered with Nintendo to develop an optical drive for the Super Nintendo, and when Nintendo got cold feet, Sony took what they'd learned and created the Playstation. Microsoft did the same thing, partnering with Nintendo to learn about game system development, but pulled out of the agreement to create their own game system. The main difference is who broke up with whom: Nintendo dumped Sony, causing Sony to create the PS; Microsoft dumped Nintendo, suggesting they went into the relationship with less-than-honest intentions.
Rumor has it they're coming back at the end of April to build an intergalactic bypass, and that they've written some really awful poetry for the occasion.
I think the Napster debacle pretty much proved that the RIAA is at best obsolete, and at worst, obstructionist. Anyone in the music industry who hasn't figured out that out by now either never will or is living in a state of denial.
Are you sure you're not black, driving through Kentucky? Everyone I've ever seen pulled over on the highway in Kentucky was black.
If you're joking about freak April snowstorms, then you've obviously never lived in Ohio. I live near Cincinnati, and we've had snow anywhere from October to April, and t-shirt & shorts weather at any time of the year. It is certainly a nice day outside today - much nicer than the lows in the 30s F we had over the weekend. I think it was last fall that we had a 40 F degree difference in highs from one day to the next.
The best part is how the rapid weather changes combined with the humidity (especially southwestern Ohio) can cause regular sinus infections! I finally got my first sinus infection in my mid-20s, and my doctor told me he was very surprised that I had lived in this area my entire life and never had one before.
Actually, according to the article. it was not shown primarily because of comments made by and fear of backlash from religious fundamentalists. Since you appear to have trouble understanding the article itself, I'll go ahead and bold the important parts for you:
So you either didn't read TFA, or you're full of shit. Imagine that, a fundamentalist trying to distort the argument by claiming they're being attacked! I've never encountered that sort of thing - not on TV, not on AM radio, and certainly not on the internet!
Can't you people leave us nerds alone and let us have our science the way it's meant to be - hard facts developed from data collected by rigorous experimentation and open, critical peer review. Or are you still afraid that we're going to somehow find a way to "disprove" the existence of God? I can assure you, should such a thing occur (and I don't believe it will), it won't be through IMAX movies.
No, but they copyrighted it.
Have you seen George Lucas's hair? Is it any wonder they all look like Jack from Three's Company?
However, it's important to note that some people post some pretty weird shit on LiveJournal - especially the Russians! - so it's not always work safe. Actually, sometimes that's what makes it so interesting - you can almost put your finger on the pulse of what's going on in people's heads across the world by scanning through the photos, and the time of day makes a difference, too. For example, St. Patrick's Day is coming up, so I'm sure there are going to be more and more images with shamrocks and leprechauns in them. Needless to say, Valentine's Day was an interesting one as well - lots of broken heart graphics and photos with faces scribbled out. Just get used to seeing this photo of a cat passed out next to a bottle of booze, because it's in there every other time I load the script.
Yahoo is a directory? I thought all they provided was email, news, Java games and unreliable stock market messageboards.
I'm being sarcastic of course, but comparing today's Yahoo to the one that was hosted at akebono.stanford.edu 10 years ago, it's very difficult to see its directory roots these days.