I drive an old Mercedes, with mechanical fuel injection and well...mechanical everything. The active safety is good, (I've upgraded the brakes and suspension) and Merc were among the first to design-in crumple zones, so passive not too bad. OK, I've no airbags...
Not being a nutty survivalist, just like having a car where I can fix everything myself, and no fucker with an EMP device, or anything else for that matter, is going to stop me.
Cost over the years (including fuel?), less than replacing it regularly with something "better".
You're both kidding, right? Nobody serious, intelligent and - yes - educated would pretend that a meaningful post-grad qualification in either subject could be gained from reading just one book. Or even many books. Having done both, I'm certain that the contributions of my lecturers and fellow-students were far more important than the texts. And of course, just not technically..the social aspect is equally important.
Truely "news for Nerds". Brings back fond memories of building 'scope and staring at the skies with my father. This man has drive, dedication and the ability to both conceptualise and physically realise his dreams.
Instead of bullshit "surveys" with no-longer-funny "CoboyNeal" options, here's a serious suggestion - how about we instigate the/. annual "Nerd" awards?
Fuck it, this is going way offtopic, but I don't care...categories anyone?
"IIRC its about the same size and shape as a Tesla S"
Not really; plus of course the Lotus was/is also lighter and with worse passive safety.
But a far, far better car, in my opinion. (Tried one - have always loved straight sixes with their perfect primary and secondary balance). At the time, eveyone focused on its power and top speed, taking for granted the usual Lotus magic on suspension and hence steering, braking and handling. I nearly bought the car I tested - it was £5K a few years ago. When I look at their proces now, I weep.
Wonder how much a Tesla will be worth in 20 years? Damn-all, I suspect. (But then again, I'm clearly not one to listen to for car investments).
I know it's popular to rubbish Adobe here, but this report, if true, would seem to justify the Adobe-hate. And I say this as someone who has happily used many of their products over the years, (although less so, lately).
Yes, we all know security is hard, but if you're a leading tech company with internal safeguards so lax that one breach can leak both user IDs and source code well, frankly, you're shit.
I think it would be best to have a firing squad composed of the jury that found someone guilty and imposed the death penalty. If you have the guts to condemn someone to die, I think you should also have the guts to execute that penalty.
(and yes, I also think that every non-vegetarian should be willing to butcher an animal)
There's a flaw in your argument. I've shot and prepared animals for food for my family, never for sport. It's not pleasant, but if you're hungry, you get through it.
I'd be prepared to shoot someone attacking me or my family with deadly intent, or in a wider sense my (imperfect) democratic country.
But this is emphatically not what the situation that jurors are in. We've thankfully replaced lynch mobs with due process. Your suggestion would end up with juries being packed with people wanting to legally kill.
Well, assuming they get the R&D effort to refine them, presumably whatever you like, at the appropriate price point. A fixable issue methinks, if the basic technology works, as it seems to.
Could be nice way of sidestepping the Chinese and their "rare earth" near-monopoly.
(Although my old electrostatic speakers do that too, and sound fantastic. Not sure the voltages involved would scale to ear buds powered by mobile devices, tho')
So plenty of BMW (Bitching, Moaning & Whining) in this thread. But it's actualy a good idea. Since there's absolutely nothing, repeat nothing, to stop Apple or anyone else having a micro-USB port on their device AND another connector. Like Lightening, or whatever else they want.... Then bundling the specific cable/charger, (with better specs, high amps etc. if required) into the package. Again, if they want, and customer is prepared to pay. What's the marginal cost of having two connectors, especially for a product costing upwards of $500, $750? Damn all.
Well, I'm surprised that the tinfoil-hatted aren't all over this one. Serious point, what happens when big gov or a carefully crafted malware apps gets all iPhone users prints?
It's mainly the ongoing impact of German reunification. A lot of the old East is still an economic wasteland, sucking huge amounts of cash. There's even a special "temporary" payroll tax, still in place, to cover the cost. The westerners hate it...
Hi, European here; our economies are all crippled by massive debt burdens and punitive tax rates caused mainly by excessive government spending. Yes, much of that's on good stuff like education and healthcare, but a lot also goes to massively-bloated do-nothing Govt or quasi-gov institutions... We also spend plenty of money (as a percent of GDP) on the military...
Well, plenty of high-education intuitions here n Europe charge high fees, and even the 'free' ones have charges. So sadly, regarding the top post, kids prostituting themselves to pay for their tuition are not rare. That's in addition to the ones doing it just to stay alive, of course. Many parts of Europe are far from being the Socialist paradise that some would have you believe.
As always, responsible people should ensure they check the facts before spending money. I find the Internet, including Goggle quite useful for this, actually.../sarcasm Recently I got a much better price for renting a car via a specialist site than I could on the renter's own website, and it's often the same for hotels. So yes, I can believe that you may not get the best deal if, say, Hertz partners with Google to target you. But nobody is forcing you to click on the ad... Yet.
That's a large pocket at the back of your jacket, hidden in the inside. Very easy to sew one in yourself...do a few jackets... Put some elastic at the top to stop the pocket mouth gaping, and hold the pad. Works well for me.
Don't sit back against something hard, though, or you either smash the pad, your back, or both.
I would not suggest using a purse, since as you are probably not used to carrying one, you are likely to forget it...
For sure Dirty Larry would have fired Jobs even faster than Scully did. Having said that, the road ahead for Apple looks rocky, with strong competition in the phone and tablet markets. But they have plenty of cash, and smart people. Let's see what they will come up with next. Hopefully it will be more innovative than just another screen size...
Not being unsympathetic, but if after 14 years experience in industry you've never held a position of responsibility, then there is probably a reason for it. Look into that - which you can do better than any of us here - and reflect upon it. Then you can explain it well in the next interview...
The problem seems to be that you're looking for a "better position" - good - but maybe without realising that these days everyone is told to hire "potential" as well as immediate competence.
Right or wrong? I don't know, but that's the way it is. Will be hard to get out of your rut without making some kind of effort... You could perhaps get involved with a non work-related activity which shows leadership & responsability; coaching kids football, military reserves... Or do a part-time MBA:) *ducks*
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I drive an old Mercedes, with mechanical fuel injection and well...mechanical everything.
The active safety is good, (I've upgraded the brakes and suspension) and Merc were among the first to design-in crumple zones, so passive not too bad.
OK, I've no airbags...
Not being a nutty survivalist, just like having a car where I can fix everything myself, and no fucker with an EMP device, or anything else for that matter, is going to stop me.
Cost over the years (including fuel?), less than replacing it regularly with something "better".
You're both kidding, right?
Nobody serious, intelligent and - yes - educated would pretend that a meaningful post-grad qualification in either subject could be gained from reading just one book. Or even many books.
Having done both, I'm certain that the contributions of my lecturers and fellow-students were far more important than the texts.
And of course, just not technically..the social aspect is equally important.
Bullshit. Process excellence means you deliver the quality your customer us prepared to pay for, consistently.
Hence quality us not expensive, at all.
Yeah, on the other hand learning spelling and grammar is a good investment.
Truely "news for Nerds". Brings back fond memories of building 'scope and staring at the skies with my father.
This man has drive, dedication and the ability to both conceptualise and physically realise his dreams.
Instead of bullshit "surveys" with no-longer-funny "CoboyNeal" options, here's a serious suggestion - how about we instigate the /. annual "Nerd" awards?
Fuck it, this is going way offtopic, but I don't care...categories anyone?
"IIRC its about the same size and shape as a Tesla S"
Not really; plus of course the Lotus was/is also lighter and with worse passive safety.
But a far, far better car, in my opinion. (Tried one - have always loved straight sixes with their perfect primary and secondary balance).
At the time, eveyone focused on its power and top speed, taking for granted the usual Lotus magic on suspension and hence steering, braking and handling. I nearly bought the car I tested - it was £5K a few years ago. When I look at their proces now, I weep.
Wonder how much a Tesla will be worth in 20 years? Damn-all, I suspect.
(But then again, I'm clearly not one to listen to for car investments).
I know it's popular to rubbish Adobe here, but this report, if true, would seem to justify the Adobe-hate.
And I say this as someone who has happily used many of their products over the years, (although less so, lately).
Yes, we all know security is hard, but if you're a leading tech company with internal safeguards so lax that one breach can leak both user IDs and source code well, frankly, you're shit.
Bullshit.
When you fire a gun - especially a rifle - the kick tells you if there's a projective being pushed or not.
I think it would be best to have a firing squad composed of the jury that found someone guilty and imposed the death penalty. If you have the guts to condemn someone to die, I think you should also have the guts to execute that penalty.
(and yes, I also think that every non-vegetarian should be willing to butcher an animal)
There's a flaw in your argument.
I've shot and prepared animals for food for my family, never for sport.
It's not pleasant, but if you're hungry, you get through it.
I'd be prepared to shoot someone attacking me or my family with deadly intent, or in a wider sense my (imperfect) democratic country.
But this is emphatically not what the situation that jurors are in.
We've thankfully replaced lynch mobs with due process.
Your suggestion would end up with juries being packed with people wanting to legally kill.
You're quite right.
Although the www bit was given a major shove in the right direction by TBL at CERN.
Still public money seeding things, of course.
Even if the UK, France, German whoever Govt. funded a "free" Google rival, would you trust it?
Why flamebait mods?
The guy makes some interesting points
Good point :) Ah well, the law of unintended consequences...
Wonder how cool a thing that works by heat and cooling would be to wear in your ear, tho?
Well, assuming they get the R&D effort to refine them, presumably whatever you like, at the appropriate price point.
A fixable issue methinks, if the basic technology works, as it seems to.
Could be nice way of sidestepping the Chinese and their "rare earth" near-monopoly.
(Although my old electrostatic speakers do that too, and sound fantastic. Not sure the voltages involved would scale to ear buds powered by mobile devices, tho')
So plenty of BMW (Bitching, Moaning & Whining) in this thread.
But it's actualy a good idea.
Since there's absolutely nothing, repeat nothing, to stop Apple or anyone else having a micro-USB port on their device AND another connector.
Like Lightening, or whatever else they want....
Then bundling the specific cable/charger, (with better specs, high amps etc. if required) into the package.
Again, if they want, and customer is prepared to pay.
What's the marginal cost of having two connectors, especially for a product costing upwards of $500, $750?
Damn all.
Well, I'm surprised that the tinfoil-hatted aren't all over this one.
Serious point, what happens when big gov or a carefully crafted malware apps gets all iPhone users prints?
The NSA will forward it for you...without you needing to even send it!
Indeed. But then again the same could be said of other religious followers / cultures.
India is a good / bad example.
It's mainly the ongoing impact of German reunification.
A lot of the old East is still an economic wasteland, sucking huge amounts of cash.
There's even a special "temporary" payroll tax, still in place, to cover the cost.
The westerners hate it...
Hi, European here; our economies are all crippled by massive debt burdens and punitive tax rates caused mainly by excessive government spending. Yes, much of that's on good stuff like education and healthcare, but a lot also goes to massively-bloated do-nothing Govt or quasi-gov institutions... We also spend plenty of money (as a percent of GDP) on the military...
Well, plenty of high-education intuitions here n Europe charge high fees, and even the 'free' ones have charges.
So sadly, regarding the top post, kids prostituting themselves to pay for their tuition are not rare.
That's in addition to the ones doing it just to stay alive, of course.
Many parts of Europe are far from being the Socialist paradise that some would have you believe.
As always, responsible people should ensure they check the facts before spending money. /sarcasm
I find the Internet, including Goggle quite useful for this, actually...
Recently I got a much better price for renting a car via a specialist site than I could on the renter's own website, and it's often the same for hotels.
So yes, I can believe that you may not get the best deal if, say, Hertz partners with Google to target you.
But nobody is forcing you to click on the ad...
Yet.
http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/4206516/TinyXP_Rev09_-_eXPerience
Or roll your own...
That's a large pocket at the back of your jacket, hidden in the inside.
Very easy to sew one in yourself...do a few jackets...
Put some elastic at the top to stop the pocket mouth gaping, and hold the pad.
Works well for me.
Don't sit back against something hard, though, or you either smash the pad, your back, or both.
I would not suggest using a purse, since as you are probably not used to carrying one, you are likely to forget it...
For sure Dirty Larry would have fired Jobs even faster than Scully did.
Having said that, the road ahead for Apple looks rocky, with strong competition in the phone and tablet markets.
But they have plenty of cash, and smart people. Let's see what they will come up with next.
Hopefully it will be more innovative than just another screen size...
Not being unsympathetic, but if after 14 years experience in industry you've never held a position of responsibility, then there is probably a reason for it.
Look into that - which you can do better than any of us here - and reflect upon it.
Then you can explain it well in the next interview...
The problem seems to be that you're looking for a "better position" - good - but maybe without realising that these days everyone is told to hire "potential" as well as immediate competence.
Right or wrong? I don't know, but that's the way it is. :)
Will be hard to get out of your rut without making some kind of effort...
You could perhaps get involved with a non work-related activity which shows leadership & responsability; coaching kids football, military reserves...
Or do a part-time MBA
*ducks*