...there's people like me. I keep at one task until I find I'm getting distracted too easily or feel that I'm starting to get stale, then I switch to something else for a while. Repeat as needed.
It's not multitasking, but it's definitely keeping more than one ball in the air at a time. I bet this is how a lot of people work when they have a choice.
If you took out surveillance cameras located in the immediate vicinity of girls' schools, university campuses, swimming pools and strip joints, I bet the percentage would drop to about a tenth of that.
Yeah, let's waste another 40 years fucking around in Low Earth Orbit. NASA needs to hire the Duke Nukem team to help them get their useless asses in gear. The Duke wankers only spent 10 years pulling their pricks. That makes them four times less worthless than NASA.
The fact remains that most businesses won't change from XP, which runs on primitive machines, to Win7 (alias VistaLite) which still, for the most part, requires hardware upgrades. You could run a serious office with AppleWorks on a 2E, for shitsakes, and that (mercifully) went to its reward 20 years ago. Primitive spread sheet, word processor and data base...and Mail Merge. For the most part, subsequent improvements have been more devoted to eye candy (sorry...I know I'm oversimplifying a bit). The computing power of an average desk-top computer today is more than sufficient to run just about every small company in the world. Why would a guy running a body shop with a P2 give a crap about upgrading? The machine does everything he wants, and rudimentary security will stop all the nasty things from reaching his rarely-online machine.
And if you honestly believe that The Boss gives a flying fuck about whether his staff have pretty transparent windows to look at while they're figuring out how much to charge for the bumper repair, you're smoking something I'd kill to get hold of.
The average home computer has been kicking the ass of the average work computer for at least 10 years, and that situation isn't going to change any time soon. Win7 may be better than Vista. It's still going to be irrelevant until they start giving it away along with a free multi-threading P4 (which these days is worth just about as much as a bag of chips).
You're a liar. The quote is accurate. It appears at the top of page 3 of the University of Pittsburgh publication "What Employers Should Know About Hiring International Students".
A quick message to the alumni associations of these schools might have a salutary effect on this practice. Something like, "Your alma mater recommends that you Hire UnAmerican", would probably make their next fund-raising drive somewhat interesting.
Really, I'd be satisfied if they'd just start charging money and quit trying to do data mining on my social life.
If you started paying, do you really believe they wouldn't collect your money AND data mine your social life? Your innocence is refreshing.
May I suggest that if a man approaches you with a business arrangement involving African personages of royal ancestry, you consider that he may not have your best interests at heart?
Thirty years after Armstrong set foot on the moon, we're still hanging around in a tin can that can barely save itself from crashing back to Earth. Surely, NASA must be put in the same league as the Duke Nukem team for pure, wang-pulling jackoffery.
That was my point. I can't believe any competent defense council wouldn't have been standing on the guy's throat rather than let him say what he did. IANL, but even Al Capone was allowed to plead the Fifth.
I just photographed a small jazz combo playing at a local art gallery. Given the number of people passing my camera around to have a look at the pictures, it would have been extremely handy to have this device there.
And FYI, if memory serves, it has image stabilization and a small stand for when it's being used as a projector.
"...As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record..."
She's got it backwards. Aquarium algae can get a 2.0 GPA with a little training. If all the poor, dumb little chit can manage is a 2.7, then she'd be better off claiming she skipped two thirds of her classes and spent the whole last term drunk. At least that way, an employer might think she had brains and a commitment to doing the job right.
How can one not suspect that the defense was bought off by the RIAA? I can't conceive of a team of lawyers who could be so utterly incompetent by accident.
The fact that Fox News and The Sun got hosed in by this stunt comes as no surprise to me. News media by the morons and for the morons. But the Telegraph? They're normally a bit smarter than that.
Still, the fact that the news media were so easily fooled serves to illustrate how little the mainstream media understand about science and technology.
I may be unduly naive, but it seems to me that Microsoft has done just about everything it can to cripple or kill off Open Source. Under the circumstances, I'd be more than a little nervous about accepting a whack of code off them without looking very, very carefully to see whether they had an ulterior motive.
Probably just paranoia, but their track record doesn't speak well for them in this regard.
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It's not multitasking, but it's definitely keeping more than one ball in the air at a time. I bet this is how a lot of people work when they have a choice.
If you took out surveillance cameras located in the immediate vicinity of girls' schools, university campuses, swimming pools and strip joints, I bet the percentage would drop to about a tenth of that.
Yeah, I got yer bomb-launching worm right here.
Yeah, let's waste another 40 years fucking around in Low Earth Orbit. NASA needs to hire the Duke Nukem team to help them get their useless asses in gear. The Duke wankers only spent 10 years pulling their pricks. That makes them four times less worthless than NASA.
Win7 is selling for half the price over 'ome? Does this mean UK residents are twice as smart as their American counterparts?
The fact remains that most businesses won't change from XP, which runs on primitive machines, to Win7 (alias VistaLite) which still, for the most part, requires hardware upgrades. You could run a serious office with AppleWorks on a 2E, for shitsakes, and that (mercifully) went to its reward 20 years ago. Primitive spread sheet, word processor and data base...and Mail Merge. For the most part, subsequent improvements have been more devoted to eye candy (sorry...I know I'm oversimplifying a bit). The computing power of an average desk-top computer today is more than sufficient to run just about every small company in the world. Why would a guy running a body shop with a P2 give a crap about upgrading? The machine does everything he wants, and rudimentary security will stop all the nasty things from reaching his rarely-online machine.
And if you honestly believe that The Boss gives a flying fuck about whether his staff have pretty transparent windows to look at while they're figuring out how much to charge for the bumper repair, you're smoking something I'd kill to get hold of.
The average home computer has been kicking the ass of the average work computer for at least 10 years, and that situation isn't going to change any time soon. Win7 may be better than Vista. It's still going to be irrelevant until they start giving it away along with a free multi-threading P4 (which these days is worth just about as much as a bag of chips).
Kittens and puppies work at least as well, and they're cheaper to get rid of after they've done their job.
Do I sniff a few false positives?
You're a liar. The quote is accurate. It appears at the top of page 3 of the University of Pittsburgh publication "What Employers Should Know About Hiring International Students".
A quick message to the alumni associations of these schools might have a salutary effect on this practice. Something like, "Your alma mater recommends that you Hire UnAmerican", would probably make their next fund-raising drive somewhat interesting.
Really, I'd be satisfied if they'd just start charging money and quit trying to do data mining on my social life.
If you started paying, do you really believe they wouldn't collect your money AND data mine your social life? Your innocence is refreshing.
May I suggest that if a man approaches you with a business arrangement involving African personages of royal ancestry, you consider that he may not have your best interests at heart?
I got yer bone made outta wood right here.
Isn't conversant with the OED.
Thirty years after Armstrong set foot on the moon, we're still hanging around in a tin can that can barely save itself from crashing back to Earth. Surely, NASA must be put in the same league as the Duke Nukem team for pure, wang-pulling jackoffery.
Rupert Murdoch has news sites? I thought he did right wing propaganda, self-serving lies and the occasional bare titty.
The survivors.
That was my point. I can't believe any competent defense council wouldn't have been standing on the guy's throat rather than let him say what he did. IANL, but even Al Capone was allowed to plead the Fifth.
I just photographed a small jazz combo playing at a local art gallery. Given the number of people passing my camera around to have a look at the pictures, it would have been extremely handy to have this device there.
And FYI, if memory serves, it has image stabilization and a small stand for when it's being used as a projector.
I stand corrected.
And thanks for the LOL. Great line.
"...As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record..."
She's got it backwards. Aquarium algae can get a 2.0 GPA with a little training. If all the poor, dumb little chit can manage is a 2.7, then she'd be better off claiming she skipped two thirds of her classes and spent the whole last term drunk. At least that way, an employer might think she had brains and a commitment to doing the job right.
How can one not suspect that the defense was bought off by the RIAA? I can't conceive of a team of lawyers who could be so utterly incompetent by accident.
The fact that Fox News and The Sun got hosed in by this stunt comes as no surprise to me. News media by the morons and for the morons. But the Telegraph? They're normally a bit smarter than that.
Still, the fact that the news media were so easily fooled serves to illustrate how little the mainstream media understand about science and technology.
I don't have to cook and eat a pork chop to figure out that it's rotten. The smell is enough of a clue.
I may be unduly naive, but it seems to me that Microsoft has done just about everything it can to cripple or kill off Open Source. Under the circumstances, I'd be more than a little nervous about accepting a whack of code off them without looking very, very carefully to see whether they had an ulterior motive.
Probably just paranoia, but their track record doesn't speak well for them in this regard.
So now a dose of clap is better at math than the hooker that gave it to me. Or me, for that matter. Now I feel REALLY pathetic.