I think whining constitutes "talking to another human"
and certanly seems to constitute 98% of most "professional" communications.
so, if job interviews were based on reality rather than some infantile fantasy world whining and snarking would actually good things to do in a job interview as it would show you fitted in to the corporate culture
was how I ended a skype interview for a job in New Zealand.
"you Western Australian's eat gold and shit diamonds, why would want to come to some backwater like (name of city) for half the pay"
OK so the organisation was losing a lot of their staff left right and centre to mining companies in the Australian city I live in but do you really want to work for someone who talks down one of the most beautiful rural cities in the world
do goth surfers exist? oh hell yeh (or at least they did in the 80's when Goth was a lot less narrowly defined than it is now days)... not a big sub culture but they exist/existed within the ever so slightly larger sub group of "happy goths";)
as for biker surfers transporting boards.... they have a whole customising sub culture that solves that problem the most famous of which revolves around Deus ex Machina's shops in Sydney, Bali, LA and now I believe Milan (I think that last one's more a "fashion" thing there than a biker surfer subculture thing) google "deus ex machina drovers dog" for one example but the guys I hung around just used good old fashioned sidecar rigs.
or biker goths...
or biker surfers
or goth surfers
all four of which would be "tribes" I've hung out with over the years.
at one point in the 80's and 90's if you had to pin me down to a "tribe" then "biker goth" would be about as good (and not a particularly good "good") and you could narrow it down to.
Now I just belong to that tribe called "boring old farts who love to tell the youth how much more authentic we were back in our day"
not really the card details are often at the "land of the free" end rather than their homeland, from students I talk to from these countries, the credit card is set up with a relative some where in the US/Europe/Australia, so often it's a credit card in the UK or Australia buying goods in the US to go where the student is at home with his computer - somewhere like Burma etc.
or your trying to buy something your own, possibly less than enlightened, government doesn't want you to buy... you know like a banned book or DVD . you know stuff like that.
Wait, is Slashdot masking out the word "cunt" now??
no I was making a joke.... the self censorship was meant to show that obviously the C word is still found offensive is many parts of the english speaking world where as "fanny" is just funny way of saying a ladies front bum, doubly funny in the context of hearing/reading north americans describe the back bum.
Americans can say "Fanny Pack" on the interwebbies but we non yanks can't say the same thing rephrased as "c*** bag"?
damn that's some serious linguistics cultural imperialism
pffttt don't even need that - with my North Face Boulder shirt I can fit my iPad mini in one pocket and my Samsung phaplet in the other... OK so I look like I've got chicken plates or asymmetrical cubist boobs.... but hey I'm a dork... I mean a IT professional.... why would I care what I looked like:)
... I can't even think why you'd want to "holster" a tablet... but for a very discreet tablet shoulder/messenger style bag try find a shop with the now discontinued smaller Crumpler "Herbas" it has no padding but will protect from scratches and minor bumps.
however given everyone, including the management suits seems to carry some sort of backpack/laptop/camera/carryon bag these days having a discreet bag is so different it's almost indiscreet.
guess there must be people who check their phone every minute (or more) to make up for people like me who turn our phone off when we're relaxing on a holiday. mines plugged in and charging but on airplane mode right now and will stay there for the rest of the day as I go out for lunch (may as well the restaurant I'm going to is in a rural area with no phone reception (at least not for my carrier))
why? - were you planning on going back to school so you can take them up on that... I'm sure you can afford another trip to Bangkok and save the eduction department the time and effort teaching cocksucking 101 just for your benefit
back, way back, like late 70's early 80's back, I remember my father and other teachers talking trying to introduce at least a single year of manditory asian language studies for high schools. At the time only 2 government schools in the entire state were teaching Japanese and maybe 1 or 2 teaching Chinese (Mandarin) and 1 teaching Indonesian. These were only offered in high schools, apart from what would now be called ESL classes for migrant kids there were _no_ language programs in any government primary schools (talk about a pedagogical disaster... yes lets wait for them to hit 13 before we teach them a second language.... effin' brilliant).
Those few state schools that taught asian languages where "gifted" schools, seated in high income areas competing against Anglican Church run elite grammar schools and, unless you got in on a language or music scholarship had very limited intake outside their defined intake suburbs, so... good luck getting in if you were outside their watershed, I was only 4 klm away from the one teaching Japanese and still couldn't get entry. So if you were a state school student you were left with French, but usually due to class size limits the school only only offered it to you if you got straight As and one of the top 20 English students.
Or maybe, if you were in an area with high migrant kids, you could study Greek and Italian... but only if you were of Greek or Italian decent.... even though it taught standardised Greek and Italian, not the parochial regional dialects that the usual migrant families spoke at home.... so the reasons for those limits on intake that were?....
I guess Bill is still drinking the Redmond Coolaid... if you can use an iPad you can use the app store, if you can't work out how to do that... maybe you should send it back for a refund.
There's not exactly a dearth of word processing programs for the iPad, yeh you have to pay to get one of the good ones but hey! you legally have to pay for the bloatware called MS Office (which I would never want on a tablet of any brand or OS). Transferring documents between iPad desktop should be more transparent but that's more slack arsed cloud vendors, including iCloud, than anything inherent with the iPad.
As for the keyboard? I sit in meetings with dozens of people who, like me, have had no problem learning to use the screen keypad efficiently enough for good note taking.
however if I'm the designated minute taker at what I know it's going to be an extra long and verbose meeting I sometimes break out the Bluetooth keyboard (which was brought for controlling my laptop from a distance in training classes, using it with a tablet is just an occasional bonus utility)
exactly, or as I'd put it, I'll vote with my wallet.
Despite living within 6 Klm of the CBD of my state's capital city my only available internet option is 3g/4g broadband, and I'm in a reception shadow for that, AND of course every house here is trying to use that one cell tower, I can only (and only just) play online stuff like turn based games that have low bandwidth and can handle a large degree of latency (WoW lagged bad enough for me to throw in my subscription when I moved here (and nothing of any value was lost) but 9 months TF2 & Tribes free has not been fun).
So I guess me and a hundred or more households in my suburb will be holding on to our old "playable off line" consoles and PC games for a while yet.
may I gently rib my co-employee and say "well duh Stephan, so the paranoid get paranoid being told that they are paranoid and blame the people that tell them they are paranoid? like we never saw that one coming"
a lot of travel wear has zip up pockets hidden behind the main pocket e.g. both my North Peak Horizon Utility pants and Vigilante brand travel jeans have a second pocket pocket that my slim wallet slips in to and then I've had sewn in a pocket that is attached to the inside that my passport goes in to.
and even better pack something like Ex Officio underwear so "two weeks worth" of underwear is 2 pairs, the one your wearing now and the one you washed and let dry overnight (or let dry in an hour in warmer climes) at your previous stop.
my main technical backpack is a colour of bright purple (approx. pantone 226 PC) that only a pride parade participant would willingly wear..... my god it almost fluoresces coming down the luggage belt, I'm glad its a backpack so I never have to look at it if I have a hangover when I'm carrying it.
there will always be at least one person say something like "you'll never lose that bag". if any one was to do a bunk with it they may as well scream "LOOK AT ME I HAVE STOLEN YOUR BAG" there would be no hiding.
sometimes you get lucky sometimes you don't, My experience in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand were rather different with bags rummaged through on both train and bus journeys, in all these cases the only thing of any financial value in the pack were my XXL clothes and size 13 1/2 hiking boots... which they, for some reason, didn't steal (not sure if there's no market for them or realising that someone that big might go all Hulk "cloberin time" on the train/bus .
some countries even carrying a screwdriver on your person is reason enough to be arrested, god help you if you actually used it as a weapon or threatened to use as a weapon.... even given that you will get released with the help of consular staff you DO NOT want to spend time in a police cell, in a lot of countries you would be far far better off being robbed than preventing it and then spending even a couple days in a hell hole police cell.
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I think whining constitutes "talking to another human" and certanly seems to constitute 98% of most "professional" communications.
so, if job interviews were based on reality rather than some infantile fantasy world whining and snarking would actually good things to do in a job interview as it would show you fitted in to the corporate culture
was how I ended a skype interview for a job in New Zealand.
"you Western Australian's eat gold and shit diamonds, why would want to come to some backwater like (name of city) for half the pay"
OK so the organisation was losing a lot of their staff left right and centre to mining companies in the Australian city I live in but do you really want to work for someone who talks down one of the most beautiful rural cities in the world
do goth surfers exist? oh hell yeh (or at least they did in the 80's when Goth was a lot less narrowly defined than it is now days) ... not a big sub culture but they exist/existed within the ever so slightly larger sub group of "happy goths" ;)
as for biker surfers transporting boards.... they have a whole customising sub culture that solves that problem the most famous of which revolves around Deus ex Machina's shops in Sydney, Bali, LA and now I believe Milan (I think that last one's more a "fashion" thing there than a biker surfer subculture thing) google "deus ex machina drovers dog" for one example but the guys I hung around just used good old fashioned sidecar rigs.
or biker goths...
or biker surfers
or goth surfers
all four of which would be "tribes" I've hung out with over the years.
at one point in the 80's and 90's if you had to pin me down to a "tribe" then "biker goth" would be about as good (and not a particularly good "good") and you could narrow it down to.
Now I just belong to that tribe called "boring old farts who love to tell the youth how much more authentic we were back in our day"
"!norealcrime" tag? ... what sad and damning indictment of the kind of fktards that text and drive, may the vehicular homicide you cause be your own.
not really the card details are often at the "land of the free" end rather than their homeland, from students I talk to from these countries, the credit card is set up with a relative some where in the US/Europe/Australia, so often it's a credit card in the UK or Australia buying goods in the US to go where the student is at home with his computer - somewhere like Burma etc.
or your trying to buy something your own, possibly less than enlightened, government doesn't want you to buy... you know like a banned book or DVD . you know stuff like that.
because If as an Australian I want to remove a post on a Japanese site I can get some embarrassing post scrubbed clean?
Wait, is Slashdot masking out the word "cunt" now??
no I was making a joke.... the self censorship was meant to show that obviously the C word is still found offensive is many parts of the english speaking world where as "fanny" is just funny way of saying a ladies front bum, doubly funny in the context of hearing/reading north americans describe the back bum.
Americans can say "Fanny Pack" on the interwebbies but we non yanks can't say the same thing rephrased as "c*** bag"?
damn that's some serious linguistics cultural imperialism
pffttt don't even need that - with my North Face Boulder shirt I can fit my iPad mini in one pocket and my Samsung phaplet in the other... OK so I look like I've got chicken plates or asymmetrical cubist boobs.... but hey I'm a dork... I mean a IT professional .... why would I care what I looked like :)
... I can't even think why you'd want to "holster" a tablet... but for a very discreet tablet shoulder/messenger style bag try find a shop with the now discontinued smaller Crumpler "Herbas" it has no padding but will protect from scratches and minor bumps.
however given everyone, including the management suits seems to carry some sort of backpack/laptop/camera/carryon bag these days having a discreet bag is so different it's almost indiscreet.
guess there must be people who check their phone every minute (or more) to make up for people like me who turn our phone off when we're relaxing on a holiday. mines plugged in and charging but on airplane mode right now and will stay there for the rest of the day as I go out for lunch (may as well the restaurant I'm going to is in a rural area with no phone reception (at least not for my carrier))
which is why Hindu is on the list of the 4 key "Priority" languages.
why? - were you planning on going back to school so you can take them up on that... I'm sure you can afford another trip to Bangkok and save the eduction department the time and effort teaching cocksucking 101 just for your benefit
back, way back, like late 70's early 80's back, I remember my father and other teachers talking trying to introduce at least a single year of manditory asian language studies for high schools. At the time only 2 government schools in the entire state were teaching Japanese and maybe 1 or 2 teaching Chinese (Mandarin) and 1 teaching Indonesian. These were only offered in high schools, apart from what would now be called ESL classes for migrant kids there were _no_ language programs in any government primary schools (talk about a pedagogical disaster... yes lets wait for them to hit 13 before we teach them a second language.... effin' brilliant).
.... even though it taught standardised Greek and Italian, not the parochial regional dialects that the usual migrant families spoke at home .... so the reasons for those limits on intake that were?....
Those few state schools that taught asian languages where "gifted" schools, seated in high income areas competing against Anglican Church run elite grammar schools and, unless you got in on a language or music scholarship had very limited intake outside their defined intake suburbs, so... good luck getting in if you were outside their watershed, I was only 4 klm away from the one teaching Japanese and still couldn't get entry. So if you were a state school student you were left with French, but usually due to class size limits the school only only offered it to you if you got straight As and one of the top 20 English students.
Or maybe, if you were in an area with high migrant kids, you could study Greek and Italian... but only if you were of Greek or Italian decent
I guess Bill is still drinking the Redmond Coolaid... if you can use an iPad you can use the app store, if you can't work out how to do that... maybe you should send it back for a refund.
There's not exactly a dearth of word processing programs for the iPad, yeh you have to pay to get one of the good ones but hey! you legally have to pay for the bloatware called MS Office (which I would never want on a tablet of any brand or OS). Transferring documents between iPad desktop should be more transparent but that's more slack arsed cloud vendors, including iCloud, than anything inherent with the iPad.
As for the keyboard? I sit in meetings with dozens of people who, like me, have had no problem learning to use the screen keypad efficiently enough for good note taking.
however if I'm the designated minute taker at what I know it's going to be an extra long and verbose meeting I sometimes break out the Bluetooth keyboard (which was brought for controlling my laptop from a distance in training classes, using it with a tablet is just an occasional bonus utility)
exactly, or as I'd put it, I'll vote with my wallet.
Despite living within 6 Klm of the CBD of my state's capital city my only available internet option is 3g/4g broadband, and I'm in a reception shadow for that, AND of course every house here is trying to use that one cell tower, I can only (and only just) play online stuff like turn based games that have low bandwidth and can handle a large degree of latency (WoW lagged bad enough for me to throw in my subscription when I moved here (and nothing of any value was lost) but 9 months TF2 & Tribes free has not been fun).
So I guess me and a hundred or more households in my suburb will be holding on to our old "playable off line" consoles and PC games for a while yet.
may I gently rib my co-employee and say "well duh Stephan, so the paranoid get paranoid being told that they are paranoid and blame the people that tell them they are paranoid? like we never saw that one coming"
a lot of travel wear has zip up pockets hidden behind the main pocket e.g. both my North Peak Horizon Utility pants and Vigilante brand travel jeans have a second pocket pocket that my slim wallet slips in to and then I've had sewn in a pocket that is attached to the inside that my passport goes in to.
and even better pack something like Ex Officio underwear so "two weeks worth" of underwear is 2 pairs, the one your wearing now and the one you washed and let dry overnight (or let dry in an hour in warmer climes) at your previous stop.
my main technical backpack is a colour of bright purple (approx. pantone 226 PC) that only a pride parade participant would willingly wear..... my god it almost fluoresces coming down the luggage belt, I'm glad its a backpack so I never have to look at it if I have a hangover when I'm carrying it. there will always be at least one person say something like "you'll never lose that bag". if any one was to do a bunk with it they may as well scream "LOOK AT ME I HAVE STOLEN YOUR BAG" there would be no hiding.
sometimes you get lucky sometimes you don't, My experience in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand were rather different with bags rummaged through on both train and bus journeys, in all these cases the only thing of any financial value in the pack were my XXL clothes and size 13 1/2 hiking boots... which they, for some reason, didn't steal (not sure if there's no market for them or realising that someone that big might go all Hulk "cloberin time" on the train/bus .
Everyone will assume your whole life is cheap and ugly and not worth stealing.
story of my life brother, story of my life
some countries even carrying a screwdriver on your person is reason enough to be arrested, god help you if you actually used it as a weapon or threatened to use as a weapon.... even given that you will get released with the help of consular staff you DO NOT want to spend time in a police cell, in a lot of countries you would be far far better off being robbed than preventing it and then spending even a couple days in a hell hole police cell.