You can thank my 286 for the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interfaces (I had systems with RS232 and AT before then but the PS/2 was the first system I had as my own). I had a 10Mhz 286 in there with a full megabyte of RAM. Windows 3.1 looked pretty spectacular on that VGA monitor, even if it could hardly run anything inside of it. I think my HD (on a MCA interface) was 30MB; I had one 3.5" floppy as well. Both the PC and the monitor had some seriously heavy duty mechanical power switches.
Perhaps ever better it was my first exposure to the IBM model M keyboards. I marveled at how indestructible it was after it fell off my desk with all the keys falling off, only to work just fine once I put them back on. Simultaneously others marveled at how loud it was when I typed on it.
I kept some of the software (such as the original SimCity for DOS), though I really should have kept the keyboard.
So google might as we take a swing at it? I have seen plenty of different programs out there designed to make it easier for companies to screen applications, and the truth is none of them work. Every last one is fucking worthless; discarding too many good applicants and letting too many awful ones through. To make it worse the HR people almost universally have zero understanding of how it works or why it doesn't work, which only increases the failure rate.
Granted google is orders of magnitude better at NLP than the companies that have been selling this shitty software for all these years, but that doesn't mean they'll get it right, either.
Hasn't GNOME been the default GUI for Ubuntu for years? You can still install other ones - and the Kubuntu release has KDE as default - but I don't recall there being another default for the base install.
They'll get pretty well zero sympathy from anyone who has any power to improve their situation. The government is still overrun by people drunk on power from November and looking for a chance to attack the unions. If they want to keep their jobs they'll have to tough it out at least until the current administration falls apart - though that may well not be far into the future.
A google maps search suggests one can drive Chicago -> Louisville in under 5 hours. Was the crew needed before the following morning? United could have hired a driver for them and avoided all this (or they could have put the displaced passengers in a car with some money and still had them in Louisville before the next flight would have gotten them there).
Union-busting is very much in fashion again. Add to that the fact that people get a lot of their entertainment and "news" online where very little writing is involved, and the writers would be severely overplaying their hand to call for another strike right now.
The summary seems to suggest that but the title is vague. It would arguably be an even bigger bombshell if they were developing a GPU to compete with NVIDIA and ATI on the desktop market.
It seems that all Trump wants to do is undo anything that Obama is credited for doing. If he can't do that, he'll settle for putting his name at the bottom of something that Obama already did so he gets credit for it. And if that doesn't work he'll make sure the media is paying more attention to his latest controversy so we don't remember his most recent failures.
Indeed it seems that Trump's agenda is primarily self-promotion. Being as that has been his primary business since his first step inside the wrestling ring years ago (and arguably his best business venture ever) this shouldn't be much of a surprise.
Every time I am forced to interact with Windows Server 2012 I feel a little more violated by Microsoft. Every thing that I need to do with it is just a little more difficult and obtuse than it was in Server 2008, with not a single benefit for it anywhere that I can find.
Several democrats who ran for state senate had this as part of their platform. This was an issue that was brought up at multiple caucuses across the state and in the state convention as well. The only surprise is that their were some republicans who were willing to favor people over profit on this vote and join with the democrats.
There are quite a few of the GOP MN state legislators that are more moderate (at least the ones from my area).
We do have an interesting collection of ducks from the 2016 election. Ultimately though as was the case nationwide, the overwhelming majority of candidates anywhere who ran for re-election were rewarded with another term. Hence which the balance shifted slightly the overall composition changed little.
The state GOP controls both the House and Senate, but they can't simply push their agenda too hard due to Governor Dayton's veto power.
Correct. The state GOP does not have enough votes in either chamber this session to override a veto on a straight party-line vote. They do have the option to do nothing and shut down the state government (which they have done before) though. It will be an interesting dance.
The internet has no borders but your ISP is an established business and operates somewhere. If you are using an ISP that is based in MN (as most Minnesotans are) then they have to abide by this law. Of course facebook, google, and others are located elsewhere, but they are also not ISPs. The very headline here explicitly states ISPs.
Several democrats who ran for state senate had this as part of their platform. This was an issue that was brought up at multiple caucuses across the state and in the state convention as well. The only surprise is that their were some republicans who were willing to favor people over profit on this vote and join with the democrats.
Schwartz broke the law by physically entering a space that he knew to be off-limits. Schwartz was a coward who took his own life instead of facing trial. This guy is a hero by comparison, Schwartz had unresolved issues and does not deserve the martyrdom that he has been granted.
You are discrediting this man's efforts by pretending that Schwartz is on his level.
A large part of the loudest talking heads in Washington can't see the acronym ISS without crapping themselves about ISIS in the same instant. Add to that the fact that NASA has had - since its inception - an additional mission to understand the earth's atmosphere (which includes monitoring global temperature) and it's game over. Even once President Trump's administration itself crashes and burns out early we'll be left with the same group of idiots calling the shots from 1600 Pennsylvania; there is no hope any time soon.
Actually, the kid was smart enough to figure out the unlocking thing and then ask Siri for help. I'm just surprised that dialing 999 (or 911) is beyond him.
He probably saw his mom unlock the phone and use Siri many times before. However, being as he is only 4 years old he might not have known to call 999, or which number on the keypad was 9 when it came up. Some 4 year olds can read the numbers 0-9 but not all. Stringing together the right 3-digit sequence of numbers is not a small task at that age.
This strike, had it been called while President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama was in office, would have likely ended in no progress for either side, with the workers going back to the same shitty situation they walked out from (ultimately a loss for the workers as they would see no raise while their cost of living increases). That would have been bad timing.
Now we have a GOP that is still drunk on power calling the shots in DC. These workers might as well go take a long walk off a short pier at this point. I would be surprised if they are able to return to any jobs at all. There is no protection left for them, and if they thought otherwise they will soon find how wrong they are.
To be fair, Mercator's projection - whether it had any kind of agenda in favor of minimizing Africa or not - ran up against some serious geography and geometry problems. Africa is the largest continent that crosses the equator, and a large amount of its land mass is relatively close to the equator. By comparison, North America does not traverse the equator at all, nor does Europe, Asia, or Australia. As it was pointed out in the summary, Greenland appears near the size of Africa in this projection but that reflects the projection itself more than anything.
As we were all (hopefully) taught in school, any map projection will be a compromise. After all, we're trying to take the surface of a round object and display it on a flat surface.
I see the insurance industry as being on par with lawyers and used car salesmen when it comes to honesty. It's rather telling just how much the public sees them as atrociously dishonest as we see when this one is promising to strive for honesty.
The headline makes it sound as if Slashdot itself deserves credit for this. Hopefully readers here are smart enough to know that is not the case, but it should be made clear that "we" does not include anyone who works with or is affiliated in any way with Slashdot.
I've met more Genetic Engineers than Generic Engineers in my professional life. I'm not even sure where a "Generic" Engineer would come from. Every engineer I've encountered lately has some sort of descriptor before their title.
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You can thank my 286 for the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interfaces (I had systems with RS232 and AT before then but the PS/2 was the first system I had as my own). I had a 10Mhz 286 in there with a full megabyte of RAM. Windows 3.1 looked pretty spectacular on that VGA monitor, even if it could hardly run anything inside of it. I think my HD (on a MCA interface) was 30MB; I had one 3.5" floppy as well. Both the PC and the monitor had some seriously heavy duty mechanical power switches.
Perhaps ever better it was my first exposure to the IBM model M keyboards. I marveled at how indestructible it was after it fell off my desk with all the keys falling off, only to work just fine once I put them back on. Simultaneously others marveled at how loud it was when I typed on it.
I kept some of the software (such as the original SimCity for DOS), though I really should have kept the keyboard.
So google might as we take a swing at it? I have seen plenty of different programs out there designed to make it easier for companies to screen applications, and the truth is none of them work. Every last one is fucking worthless; discarding too many good applicants and letting too many awful ones through. To make it worse the HR people almost universally have zero understanding of how it works or why it doesn't work, which only increases the failure rate.
Granted google is orders of magnitude better at NLP than the companies that have been selling this shitty software for all these years, but that doesn't mean they'll get it right, either.
Hasn't GNOME been the default GUI for Ubuntu for years? You can still install other ones - and the Kubuntu release has KDE as default - but I don't recall there being another default for the base install.
They'll get pretty well zero sympathy from anyone who has any power to improve their situation. The government is still overrun by people drunk on power from November and looking for a chance to attack the unions. If they want to keep their jobs they'll have to tough it out at least until the current administration falls apart - though that may well not be far into the future.
A google maps search suggests one can drive Chicago -> Louisville in under 5 hours. Was the crew needed before the following morning? United could have hired a driver for them and avoided all this (or they could have put the displaced passengers in a car with some money and still had them in Louisville before the next flight would have gotten them there).
We seem to fall just as much for confident narcissists as charismatic ones.
Union-busting is very much in fashion again. Add to that the fact that people get a lot of their entertainment and "news" online where very little writing is involved, and the writers would be severely overplaying their hand to call for another strike right now.
The summary seems to suggest that but the title is vague. It would arguably be an even bigger bombshell if they were developing a GPU to compete with NVIDIA and ATI on the desktop market.
I heard today that President Trump was resigning!
He won't joke about it because it won't be funny when he actually does resign. That, and he has no sense of humor any ways.
... then I realized they were just pranking us.
It seems that all Trump wants to do is undo anything that Obama is credited for doing. If he can't do that, he'll settle for putting his name at the bottom of something that Obama already did so he gets credit for it. And if that doesn't work he'll make sure the media is paying more attention to his latest controversy so we don't remember his most recent failures.
Indeed it seems that Trump's agenda is primarily self-promotion. Being as that has been his primary business since his first step inside the wrestling ring years ago (and arguably his best business venture ever) this shouldn't be much of a surprise.
Every time I am forced to interact with Windows Server 2012 I feel a little more violated by Microsoft. Every thing that I need to do with it is just a little more difficult and obtuse than it was in Server 2008, with not a single benefit for it anywhere that I can find.
Several democrats who ran for state senate had this as part of their platform. This was an issue that was brought up at multiple caucuses across the state and in the state convention as well. The only surprise is that their were some republicans who were willing to favor people over profit on this vote and join with the democrats.
There are quite a few of the GOP MN state legislators that are more moderate (at least the ones from my area).
We do have an interesting collection of ducks from the 2016 election. Ultimately though as was the case nationwide, the overwhelming majority of candidates anywhere who ran for re-election were rewarded with another term. Hence which the balance shifted slightly the overall composition changed little.
The state GOP controls both the House and Senate, but they can't simply push their agenda too hard due to Governor Dayton's veto power.
Correct. The state GOP does not have enough votes in either chamber this session to override a veto on a straight party-line vote. They do have the option to do nothing and shut down the state government (which they have done before) though. It will be an interesting dance.
The internet has no borders but your ISP is an established business and operates somewhere. If you are using an ISP that is based in MN (as most Minnesotans are) then they have to abide by this law. Of course facebook, google, and others are located elsewhere, but they are also not ISPs. The very headline here explicitly states ISPs.
Several democrats who ran for state senate had this as part of their platform. This was an issue that was brought up at multiple caucuses across the state and in the state convention as well. The only surprise is that their were some republicans who were willing to favor people over profit on this vote and join with the democrats.
Schwartz broke the law by physically entering a space that he knew to be off-limits. Schwartz was a coward who took his own life instead of facing trial. This guy is a hero by comparison, Schwartz had unresolved issues and does not deserve the martyrdom that he has been granted.
You are discrediting this man's efforts by pretending that Schwartz is on his level.
... yeah, didn't think so.
Hell we just gave an internet troll the nuclear codes. Now all the other trolls online have something even greater to aspire to.
A large part of the loudest talking heads in Washington can't see the acronym ISS without crapping themselves about ISIS in the same instant. Add to that the fact that NASA has had - since its inception - an additional mission to understand the earth's atmosphere (which includes monitoring global temperature) and it's game over. Even once President Trump's administration itself crashes and burns out early we'll be left with the same group of idiots calling the shots from 1600 Pennsylvania; there is no hope any time soon.
Actually, the kid was smart enough to figure out the unlocking thing and then ask Siri for help. I'm just surprised that dialing 999 (or 911) is beyond him.
He probably saw his mom unlock the phone and use Siri many times before. However, being as he is only 4 years old he might not have known to call 999, or which number on the keypad was 9 when it came up. Some 4 year olds can read the numbers 0-9 but not all. Stringing together the right 3-digit sequence of numbers is not a small task at that age.
This strike, had it been called while President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama was in office, would have likely ended in no progress for either side, with the workers going back to the same shitty situation they walked out from (ultimately a loss for the workers as they would see no raise while their cost of living increases). That would have been bad timing.
Now we have a GOP that is still drunk on power calling the shots in DC. These workers might as well go take a long walk off a short pier at this point. I would be surprised if they are able to return to any jobs at all. There is no protection left for them, and if they thought otherwise they will soon find how wrong they are.
So teenagers have the same drug problems as the general population, then?
To be fair, Mercator's projection - whether it had any kind of agenda in favor of minimizing Africa or not - ran up against some serious geography and geometry problems. Africa is the largest continent that crosses the equator, and a large amount of its land mass is relatively close to the equator. By comparison, North America does not traverse the equator at all, nor does Europe, Asia, or Australia. As it was pointed out in the summary, Greenland appears near the size of Africa in this projection but that reflects the projection itself more than anything.
As we were all (hopefully) taught in school, any map projection will be a compromise. After all, we're trying to take the surface of a round object and display it on a flat surface.
I see the insurance industry as being on par with lawyers and used car salesmen when it comes to honesty. It's rather telling just how much the public sees them as atrociously dishonest as we see when this one is promising to strive for honesty.
The headline makes it sound as if Slashdot itself deserves credit for this. Hopefully readers here are smart enough to know that is not the case, but it should be made clear that "we" does not include anyone who works with or is affiliated in any way with Slashdot.
I've met more Genetic Engineers than Generic Engineers in my professional life. I'm not even sure where a "Generic" Engineer would come from. Every engineer I've encountered lately has some sort of descriptor before their title.