Old wheels just transfer sliding friction to a controllably-greased axle. Wheel 1.1 is different in principle, with friction-free roller bearings in the axle. "Grandpa rolled things on logs, so put the logs in the bearings".
Older folk will remember the standard Business School case-study of 'Singer' sewing machines. They once even owned forests, to secure the best wood for the traditional bases. Then it all went wrong: opposite reason from Kodak - their product lasted forever, and no one needed replacements. But the fundamental error is believing that your 'distinctive competence' is your technology, or your vertical integration, when so often it is something quite different and unexpected.
Watch out for the US abuse now 'debuting': to 'reach out' to someone, when what they mean is merely to 'make contact'. It's spreading like the plague, you'll hear it tomorrow.
Bought a cheap Playbook for the wife, to pair with her 'phone. She loves it - who am I to argue? She didn't want the big i-Pad the daughters bought. 'Horses for courses'. Tablets for girls.
When I did time in China, nothing happened. (Sure there was lots of software in the bicycle market, and about half those CDs did what it said on the cover). My lasting impression though was that Chinese people, at all levels, already knew a lot more than I had gone to tell them, and had a more disciplined structure for making the best of it. Can't see them bothering to spy.
Well I loved my mainframe in the '60s. On the nightshift you could keep your cocao hot on top of the CPU, and if things went wrong you could try your hand at 'core alters' from the console (quicker than repunching some cards).
Britain's highest-level meeting, the 'Privy Council', has for centuries been stand-up only. All HM Queen ever says there is "assent", and that certainly keeps it quick too.
My daughter 'designs websites'. She makes good money, but doesn't seem to know much about html. Essentially, she agrees with SME clients 'how it should look', (and what stats they will require) and contracts a virtual gang of guys to code it the way she specifies. Just demonstrates that 'good taste rules OK', and the distaff can have a dominant USP.
Back in the day, APL portable terminals with acoustic couplers predated laptops, you could work from home. LISP seemed well worth learning, then Prolog was fun. Nowadays, UML seems mandatory but it doesn't really 'execute'. Question was: what to teach in schools - got to be intuitive, practical, but must teach fundamentals. Excel isn't it.
'Code', yes, but code in what? I was a 'programmer' when young, and it was a great relief when COBOL came along and we could just write down what we wanted done (and then 'compile' on 2 tape units). Halcyon days. Now even with a house full of PCs and Linux things you can't do anything new without mastering syntax more abstruse than Algol or Fortran ever was.
"...NI has contributed product solutions to some of the most advanced projects including the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and tokamak fusion device control systems. Additionally, the Leonardo Corporation has intentions to incorporate NI tools in its control system." - So they might sell him a reliable ammeter? We should celebrate!
As a Brit worker, I get generous holidays (US: 'vacations') and am forced to take them. But the company policy is 'One Life' - treat your co-workers as kindly as family, take your work enthusiasms home to your own family: there shouldn't be a strain. The training doesn't suit me (prefer Jekyll/Hyde personas), but it's a good point - maybe USians do this naturally, so need less time off?
I did French fluently, and the French just smiled. I failed German, but tried, and all the best Germans have technical English (as do all Nordics) so we had great meetings. Now it's nice to 'make the effort' over coffee, but English is what you need when in session, anywhere. Good, unambiguous English. Focus on that.
Eight PCs in this house. One (offline) is stuck on Win98, but it's only used for playing Scrabble. One (the newest netbook) came with Windows7. It's not bad, but there are some UI annoyances if all-day reactions are honed to XP (notably, Explorer). I wouldn't ever buy new licenses for the other six - most don't have much memory, nor do I fancy reinstalling everything after a clean upgrade. Can't switch to fun-time Linux as it won't run many years' worth of expensive and protected applications (e.g. full OED).
A partial analogy in the UK: if you choose to pay all your BT (ex-monopoly 'British Telecom') charges on time by bank transfer, you must pay an extra fee to their collection agency. You can only avoid this by giving instructions to your bank to pay them whatever they ask for (and BTW, they ask later than you would have paid on first billing date).
When a crony of Hitler's boasted at table "I get all my best ideas in the bath", Goebbels commented: "Then you should take more baths, Herr Doktor". True story.
Yes well obviously it should fly home if it could, or at least nosedive from height. But if there had been a defect (or if the datastream was hacked) you'd expect a backup to destroy sensitive parts. Not too hard to specify. They did it for bombsights in WWII.
Wouldn't you expect that n hours after failing to receive commands, and if no coded 'safe' key input, a self-destruct system would trip in? Check that thing for ticking, guys; remember HMS Campbeltown!
The Royal Wedding was good TV - we were on The Mall, but definitely saw more of it on our pocket TV with the picnic. In 2012 they're switching off the analogue signal, and I doubt if portable TVs will get digital reliably (if useless DAB radio is anything to go by). In fairness, we also thought Mr O's inauguration was good, even by satellite. Apollo launches have always been fun, but I remember the moon landings were not in colour.
He said that water (implying buying it in bottles) is not necessary to maintain 'hydration' (whatever that means) in the interests of health. Like, you can drink tea or fill a cup at the watercooler. He meant you can't make an advertising health claim that running around like a big baby with a plastic bottle and teat is better for you than having a drink when you feel like it
Don't believe it - why would they say that? Look at the edge definition. These are overlays - you couldn't be that consistent on bumpy ground with whitewash. Particularly obvious on the 'airfields', someone's used a special marker-pen on the photos.
Yes: look quite far to the northeast and you see what look like two airports. But they aren't, despite being surrounded by vehicle tracks. Someone has 'inked in' the main structure, but not all of it. So Google is simply using images whaich have had various things superimposed. Still interesting to guess what the folk with the markers were doing with the photos.
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Old wheels just transfer sliding friction to a controllably-greased axle. Wheel 1.1 is different in principle, with friction-free roller bearings in the axle. "Grandpa rolled things on logs, so put the logs in the bearings".
Older folk will remember the standard Business School case-study of 'Singer' sewing machines. They once even owned forests, to secure the best wood for the traditional bases. Then it all went wrong: opposite reason from Kodak - their product lasted forever, and no one needed replacements. But the fundamental error is believing that your 'distinctive competence' is your technology, or your vertical integration, when so often it is something quite different and unexpected.
Watch out for the US abuse now 'debuting': to 'reach out' to someone, when what they mean is merely to 'make contact'. It's spreading like the plague, you'll hear it tomorrow.
Bought a cheap Playbook for the wife, to pair with her 'phone. She loves it - who am I to argue? She didn't want the big i-Pad the daughters bought. 'Horses for courses'. Tablets for girls.
When I did time in China, nothing happened. (Sure there was lots of software in the bicycle market, and about half those CDs did what it said on the cover). My lasting impression though was that Chinese people, at all levels, already knew a lot more than I had gone to tell them, and had a more disciplined structure for making the best of it. Can't see them bothering to spy.
Well I loved my mainframe in the '60s. On the nightshift you could keep your cocao hot on top of the CPU, and if things went wrong you could try your hand at 'core alters' from the console (quicker than repunching some cards).
Britain's highest-level meeting, the 'Privy Council', has for centuries been stand-up only. All HM Queen ever says there is "assent", and that certainly keeps it quick too.
The animation shows that he missed the rock as usual, but sideswiped it with the stern as he turned away too hard.
The RAF tried to burn the 'Torrey Canyon'. 42 bombs and no fire (OK, it was crude).
My daughter 'designs websites'. She makes good money, but doesn't seem to know much about html. Essentially, she agrees with SME clients 'how it should look', (and what stats they will require) and contracts a virtual gang of guys to code it the way she specifies. Just demonstrates that 'good taste rules OK', and the distaff can have a dominant USP.
Back in the day, APL portable terminals with acoustic couplers predated laptops, you could work from home. LISP seemed well worth learning, then Prolog was fun. Nowadays, UML seems mandatory but it doesn't really 'execute'. Question was: what to teach in schools - got to be intuitive, practical, but must teach fundamentals. Excel isn't it.
'Code', yes, but code in what? I was a 'programmer' when young, and it was a great relief when COBOL came along and we could just write down what we wanted done (and then 'compile' on 2 tape units). Halcyon days. Now even with a house full of PCs and Linux things you can't do anything new without mastering syntax more abstruse than Algol or Fortran ever was.
"...NI has contributed product solutions to some of the most advanced projects including the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and tokamak fusion device control systems. Additionally, the Leonardo Corporation has intentions to incorporate NI tools in its control system." - So they might sell him a reliable ammeter? We should celebrate!
As a Brit worker, I get generous holidays (US: 'vacations') and am forced to take them. But the company policy is 'One Life' - treat your co-workers as kindly as family, take your work enthusiasms home to your own family: there shouldn't be a strain. The training doesn't suit me (prefer Jekyll/Hyde personas), but it's a good point - maybe USians do this naturally, so need less time off?
I did French fluently, and the French just smiled. I failed German, but tried, and all the best Germans have technical English (as do all Nordics) so we had great meetings. Now it's nice to 'make the effort' over coffee, but English is what you need when in session, anywhere. Good, unambiguous English. Focus on that.
Eight PCs in this house. One (offline) is stuck on Win98, but it's only used for playing Scrabble. One (the newest netbook) came with Windows7. It's not bad, but there are some UI annoyances if all-day reactions are honed to XP (notably, Explorer). I wouldn't ever buy new licenses for the other six - most don't have much memory, nor do I fancy reinstalling everything after a clean upgrade. Can't switch to fun-time Linux as it won't run many years' worth of expensive and protected applications (e.g. full OED).
A partial analogy in the UK: if you choose to pay all your BT (ex-monopoly 'British Telecom') charges on time by bank transfer, you must pay an extra fee to their collection agency. You can only avoid this by giving instructions to your bank to pay them whatever they ask for (and BTW, they ask later than you would have paid on first billing date).
When a crony of Hitler's boasted at table "I get all my best ideas in the bath", Goebbels commented: "Then you should take more baths, Herr Doktor". True story.
Yes well obviously it should fly home if it could, or at least nosedive from height. But if there had been a defect (or if the datastream was hacked) you'd expect a backup to destroy sensitive parts. Not too hard to specify. They did it for bombsights in WWII.
Wouldn't you expect that n hours after failing to receive commands, and if no coded 'safe' key input, a self-destruct system would trip in? Check that thing for ticking, guys; remember HMS Campbeltown!
The Royal Wedding was good TV - we were on The Mall, but definitely saw more of it on our pocket TV with the picnic. In 2012 they're switching off the analogue signal, and I doubt if portable TVs will get digital reliably (if useless DAB radio is anything to go by). In fairness, we also thought Mr O's inauguration was good, even by satellite. Apollo launches have always been fun, but I remember the moon landings were not in colour.
He said that water (implying buying it in bottles) is not necessary to maintain 'hydration' (whatever that means) in the interests of health. Like, you can drink tea or fill a cup at the watercooler. He meant you can't make an advertising health claim that running around like a big baby with a plastic bottle and teat is better for you than having a drink when you feel like it
Don't believe it - why would they say that? Look at the edge definition. These are overlays - you couldn't be that consistent on bumpy ground with whitewash. Particularly obvious on the 'airfields', someone's used a special marker-pen on the photos.
oops, northwest.
Yes: look quite far to the northeast and you see what look like two airports. But they aren't, despite being surrounded by vehicle tracks. Someone has 'inked in' the main structure, but not all of it. So Google is simply using images whaich have had various things superimposed. Still interesting to guess what the folk with the markers were doing with the photos.