His interview is a joke. One of his excuses is they caught him on a "bad day". Well, the correspondence that ended up on PA lasted almost two weeks. The guy has a lot of bad days that last weeks/months.
I can relate to all those situations. I've been on teams with other members being dicks, I've been a dick on teams and I also snowboard. In my experience, on competitive teams, the biggest factor to people being poor teammates is chemistry. I've had teams with skilled players and we can't gel together and it just becomes a huge point of frustration. I've been on teams with mediocre overall skill level and we've played well together and it's a lot of fun.
However, in youth teams there is an extra dynamic of the parents. Once you get into competitive adult sports people tend to police themselves - if they don't work together the team breaks up and tries with other people until they get a mix of the right teammates. This is true with pro sports as well. In youth sports, unless you move you are stuck with a group of teammates and parents, which can be a very bad situation. That's why I tend to agree with most people that youth sports need to chill out.
I read through a lot of the comments but this one took the words out of my keyboard. I've never really used many Apple products for various reasons but I don't get the hatred of OR love-affair with Steve Jobs. I recently had someone tell me he was "a genuinely good guy". Someone who had never met the guy and had only read about him. I didn't say anything in response because I honestly don't know but it annoyed me that someone could make a judgement about a person like that. I know how Apple has changed the industry and I also know bits about him having what looks like ego problems. Some good, some bad, overall a net positive.
I hope his biography brings people down to earth - from both sides.
There's a lot of negativity, and not undeserved, in this thread, and there's been a lot of overly-glowing obits for Steve Jobs over the past 3 weeks, but I personally think the truth lies in between.
I think Steve Jobs did have a lot of very good, positive impact on society. I think the Apple II computer, then the Macs, helped push along adoption and innovation. I think a lot of people *did* "borrow" good ideas from Steve/Apple. I think as others point out, Steve didn't fully appreciate the extent to which he "borrowed" good ideas from others. That is in general the nature of innovation. Doing something which other people have done, but doing it slightly differently, hopefully better.
I think Steve did a great thing by pushing the music, movie, and TV industries to making legal downloads available. Without iTunes Music Store, there may well not be an Amazon MP3 store, Google Music, Ubuntu One and many others, or perhaps not as soon.
Steve Jobs did make innovations which improved the "State of the Art" in computing, and make it accessible to just about everyone, which helped drive the industry as a whole.
In the end, I can neither completely hate nor completely love Steve Jobs - there are things about the man I really do admire, and things I think were much less admirable, but on balance, I think the world is really better off for Steve Jobs's life in it.
And the article says the store was torn down and replaced by a bank. The real story says that when they returned 5 days later, they overshot the fake apple store by two blocks and the author jokingly says he thought it was replaced by a bank in that short amount of time. Which was just an exaggeration on how fast things change there. They then found the fake apple store and took pictures.
As an HVAC engineer I was interested in the cooling design and then subsequently disappointed. The system is very simple, which is good. However, the only reason it can be that simple is the local climate. This type of cooling system would have a lot of trouble operating in nearly all of the U.S. The location in Oregon is unique because it has both relatively cool temperature and dry humidity extremes. At many other locations they would need some way to cool and dehumidify, which evaporative cooling cannot do. It could work in a hot and dry climate but you might end up using a LOT of water.
6.5% makes that example look terrifying. At the current 4.5% (or lower) rates that saves you 45k in the 30 year example. 4% at 15 years saves you 19k on the example and you are now "paying" 33k to get a house 11 years early. 2.2k per year. On a house. And in most markets, there is almost no room for housing prices to go lower. That house in 11 years is going to be worth at least as much as it is now, most likely more.
Also, I assume you aren't living for free wherever you are now? Are you renting? Might as well burn that money. Rent on a 100k house in my area is going to be in the 750-900 range - BUY A HOUSE. If you are living for free and can tolerate the situation, then do that and save.
No one I know uses twitter to update on mundane activities. I'm sure some people do but that's far from the standard twitter account. It should be replaced with the businesses who follow you after you accidentally use one of their 'keywords' in an attempt to get you to read their crap.
The people voted to not have a tax for their own fire department. They instead opted to have the neighboring city provide a service for a VOLUNTARY fee since that neighboring city does not have power in Obion to 'tax' them. The agreement was: no payment, no service. I'm guessing they voted to have state or county police and whatever tax pays for them.
Secondly, if there is physical danger then they provide the service anyways (not sure what they do for billing/money in this case). I suppose he could have ran into his house and they would have had to save him. Only to a point where he was safe though, which doesn't necessarily mean the house would be saved.
FTA "Devine had a further $20,000 worth of foreign currency in his possession, she said, arguing that it was possible that the Apple executive might have other hidden sources of cash."
Next they will find he had $500,000 in dollar coins stashed in hundreds of piggybanks.
Some people touched on it already but this vaguely correlates to an article that Wired did where the author tried to start a new life. He invited basically anyone who read the article leading up to the experiment to try to find him within a certain amount of days (there may have been a cash prize, I don't recall). Anyways, he found emotionally starting a new life is as hard or harder than physically creating a new persona. The guy ended up getting caught because he was a little sloppy but it showed just how it's nearly impossible to get away from your old life.
If you wanted to get away from legal but dumb mistakes, a name change wouldn't help you what so ever unless you completely started over and never made any connections to your past (a la witness protection).
I love HoN, they really took steps to address all the downsides to DOTA, mainly being that it was tied to Warcraft III. It has a very DOTA feel to it, which League of Legends did not in my opinion. Their client is nice and the biggest surprise to me is that the people that play the game are much more educated on the game. I would play 5 DOTA games in a row where people just have NO CLUE, even 3 or 4 years after the game became popular. In HoN, this means that 5v5 games actually require teamwork to win if you are above 1500 PSR.
That said, I feel like the genre isn't really growing and that as more stand-alones come out that it will split the community
I see a trend in the comments I wanted to address. I started reading comments about B&M colleges where people were bored in the classes. If I was bored in a class or it was too easy I just didn't go or put little effort into it. I passed the class with a good grade and moved on. I "wasted" as little time as I could on the class. Now, you might say, that's like wasting money but if you are a full-time student already you can basically take as many classes as your schedule will let you. If you know you will have some easy classes, load up and take other classes. You usually still pay the same amount. Sadly, most advisors won't help you out with something simple like this. I know I ended up taking too light and easy of a load my second semester although it didn't turn out to delay my graduation.
However, if you are a part-time student or if the online university doesn't recognize "full-time" status, I can see how this would be very frustrating.
Okay, I have no knowledge of the everyday aspect of trading besides the small personal investing I do but why are they typing orders with words? Next thing we know, the DOW will be down 5000 and it will be attributed to someone accidentally typing "T" instead of "M" at the same time bumping the adjacent "r" because he can't use a keyboard with his friggin bear paws of hands.
I agree with what everyone said about Youtube except under one case - slow office internet. Our network is adequate but our internet connection is worthless. They blocked streaming media during working hours (8-12, 1-5) for that reason and it has made a large improvement navigating to webpages and sites that are work related (or not, such as slashdot). I can't stream music anymore but I am no longer frustrated by VERY slow internet when I am simply trying to look up a companies webpage or product, etc.
Now I know someone will say it this - I imagine we can get better/faster service here but that isn't my decision to make and the bandwidth issues may just be an excuse to babysit people, who knows.
I think you mean it's not a product of the government, which is correct. It is mandated by a government though (usually the State, sometimes the City) through building code. The article incorrect alludes that it's not mandated YET when, in fact, it is.
See this PDF for adoption of 90.1 as of 2004, I'm sure it's nearly all the states by now.
http://www.naima.org/pages/resources/library/pdf/MBMAP.PDF
Also, air-side economizers are being used less and less in data centers because of the introduction of humidity through high volumes of outdoor air, which is detrimental to data centers. Waterside economizers are being used much more. I'm not an expert in data center HVAC design but I am a bit confused as to why they don't want economizers specifically. In a typical design, implementing an economizer is a relatively cheap incremental cost with a short payback.
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Has he been having a rough spot for over a half of a year? See this website, which contained a post about Paul in June http://www.natesnetwork.com/Poor-customer-service
His interview is a joke. One of his excuses is they caught him on a "bad day". Well, the correspondence that ended up on PA lasted almost two weeks. The guy has a lot of bad days that last weeks/months.
I can relate to all those situations. I've been on teams with other members being dicks, I've been a dick on teams and I also snowboard. In my experience, on competitive teams, the biggest factor to people being poor teammates is chemistry. I've had teams with skilled players and we can't gel together and it just becomes a huge point of frustration. I've been on teams with mediocre overall skill level and we've played well together and it's a lot of fun.
However, in youth teams there is an extra dynamic of the parents. Once you get into competitive adult sports people tend to police themselves - if they don't work together the team breaks up and tries with other people until they get a mix of the right teammates. This is true with pro sports as well. In youth sports, unless you move you are stuck with a group of teammates and parents, which can be a very bad situation. That's why I tend to agree with most people that youth sports need to chill out.
I read through a lot of the comments but this one took the words out of my keyboard. I've never really used many Apple products for various reasons but I don't get the hatred of OR love-affair with Steve Jobs. I recently had someone tell me he was "a genuinely good guy". Someone who had never met the guy and had only read about him. I didn't say anything in response because I honestly don't know but it annoyed me that someone could make a judgement about a person like that. I know how Apple has changed the industry and I also know bits about him having what looks like ego problems. Some good, some bad, overall a net positive.
I hope his biography brings people down to earth - from both sides.
There's a lot of negativity, and not undeserved, in this thread, and there's been a lot of overly-glowing obits for Steve Jobs over the past 3 weeks, but I personally think the truth lies in between.
I think Steve Jobs did have a lot of very good, positive impact on society. I think the Apple II computer, then the Macs, helped push along adoption and innovation. I think a lot of people *did* "borrow" good ideas from Steve/Apple. I think as others point out, Steve didn't fully appreciate the extent to which he "borrowed" good ideas from others. That is in general the nature of innovation. Doing something which other people have done, but doing it slightly differently, hopefully better.
I think Steve did a great thing by pushing the music, movie, and TV industries to making legal downloads available. Without iTunes Music Store, there may well not be an Amazon MP3 store, Google Music, Ubuntu One and many others, or perhaps not as soon.
Steve Jobs did make innovations which improved the "State of the Art" in computing, and make it accessible to just about everyone, which helped drive the industry as a whole.
In the end, I can neither completely hate nor completely love Steve Jobs - there are things about the man I really do admire, and things I think were much less admirable, but on balance, I think the world is really better off for Steve Jobs's life in it.
And the article says the store was torn down and replaced by a bank. The real story says that when they returned 5 days later, they overshot the fake apple store by two blocks and the author jokingly says he thought it was replaced by a bank in that short amount of time. Which was just an exaggeration on how fast things change there. They then found the fake apple store and took pictures.
As an HVAC engineer I was interested in the cooling design and then subsequently disappointed. The system is very simple, which is good. However, the only reason it can be that simple is the local climate. This type of cooling system would have a lot of trouble operating in nearly all of the U.S. The location in Oregon is unique because it has both relatively cool temperature and dry humidity extremes. At many other locations they would need some way to cool and dehumidify, which evaporative cooling cannot do. It could work in a hot and dry climate but you might end up using a LOT of water.
6.5% makes that example look terrifying. At the current 4.5% (or lower) rates that saves you 45k in the 30 year example. 4% at 15 years saves you 19k on the example and you are now "paying" 33k to get a house 11 years early. 2.2k per year. On a house. And in most markets, there is almost no room for housing prices to go lower. That house in 11 years is going to be worth at least as much as it is now, most likely more.
Also, I assume you aren't living for free wherever you are now? Are you renting? Might as well burn that money. Rent on a 100k house in my area is going to be in the 750-900 range - BUY A HOUSE. If you are living for free and can tolerate the situation, then do that and save.
Hide the hardware in the backdoor. Unfortunately, we stopped playing because she said it was too detectable.
No one I know uses twitter to update on mundane activities. I'm sure some people do but that's far from the standard twitter account. It should be replaced with the businesses who follow you after you accidentally use one of their 'keywords' in an attempt to get you to read their crap.
Just repeating some points already made:
The people voted to not have a tax for their own fire department. They instead opted to have the neighboring city provide a service for a VOLUNTARY fee since that neighboring city does not have power in Obion to 'tax' them. The agreement was: no payment, no service. I'm guessing they voted to have state or county police and whatever tax pays for them.
Secondly, if there is physical danger then they provide the service anyways (not sure what they do for billing/money in this case). I suppose he could have ran into his house and they would have had to save him. Only to a point where he was safe though, which doesn't necessarily mean the house would be saved.
FTA "Devine had a further $20,000 worth of foreign currency in his possession, she said, arguing that it was possible that the Apple executive might have other hidden sources of cash."
Next they will find he had $500,000 in dollar coins stashed in hundreds of piggybanks.
Some people touched on it already but this vaguely correlates to an article that Wired did where the author tried to start a new life. He invited basically anyone who read the article leading up to the experiment to try to find him within a certain amount of days (there may have been a cash prize, I don't recall). Anyways, he found emotionally starting a new life is as hard or harder than physically creating a new persona. The guy ended up getting caught because he was a little sloppy but it showed just how it's nearly impossible to get away from your old life.
If you wanted to get away from legal but dumb mistakes, a name change wouldn't help you what so ever unless you completely started over and never made any connections to your past (a la witness protection).
I love HoN, they really took steps to address all the downsides to DOTA, mainly being that it was tied to Warcraft III. It has a very DOTA feel to it, which League of Legends did not in my opinion. Their client is nice and the biggest surprise to me is that the people that play the game are much more educated on the game. I would play 5 DOTA games in a row where people just have NO CLUE, even 3 or 4 years after the game became popular. In HoN, this means that 5v5 games actually require teamwork to win if you are above 1500 PSR. That said, I feel like the genre isn't really growing and that as more stand-alones come out that it will split the community
How is this insightful? This is wishful thinking at best and naiveness at worst.
I see a trend in the comments I wanted to address. I started reading comments about B&M colleges where people were bored in the classes. If I was bored in a class or it was too easy I just didn't go or put little effort into it. I passed the class with a good grade and moved on. I "wasted" as little time as I could on the class. Now, you might say, that's like wasting money but if you are a full-time student already you can basically take as many classes as your schedule will let you. If you know you will have some easy classes, load up and take other classes. You usually still pay the same amount. Sadly, most advisors won't help you out with something simple like this. I know I ended up taking too light and easy of a load my second semester although it didn't turn out to delay my graduation. However, if you are a part-time student or if the online university doesn't recognize "full-time" status, I can see how this would be very frustrating.
Don't worry, the RIAA has plans to have Congress retroactively let them take your soul for themselves to prove they've always been real people.
Okay, I have no knowledge of the everyday aspect of trading besides the small personal investing I do but why are they typing orders with words? Next thing we know, the DOW will be down 5000 and it will be attributed to someone accidentally typing "T" instead of "M" at the same time bumping the adjacent "r" because he can't use a keyboard with his friggin bear paws of hands.
They should just send Arnold Schwarzenegger
I agree with what everyone said about Youtube except under one case - slow office internet. Our network is adequate but our internet connection is worthless. They blocked streaming media during working hours (8-12, 1-5) for that reason and it has made a large improvement navigating to webpages and sites that are work related (or not, such as slashdot). I can't stream music anymore but I am no longer frustrated by VERY slow internet when I am simply trying to look up a companies webpage or product, etc. Now I know someone will say it this - I imagine we can get better/faster service here but that isn't my decision to make and the bandwidth issues may just be an excuse to babysit people, who knows.
I think you mean it's not a product of the government, which is correct. It is mandated by a government though (usually the State, sometimes the City) through building code. The article incorrect alludes that it's not mandated YET when, in fact, it is. See this PDF for adoption of 90.1 as of 2004, I'm sure it's nearly all the states by now. http://www.naima.org/pages/resources/library/pdf/MBMAP.PDF Also, air-side economizers are being used less and less in data centers because of the introduction of humidity through high volumes of outdoor air, which is detrimental to data centers. Waterside economizers are being used much more. I'm not an expert in data center HVAC design but I am a bit confused as to why they don't want economizers specifically. In a typical design, implementing an economizer is a relatively cheap incremental cost with a short payback.