The philosophy works under the assumption that everyone in business is a decent human being. That is patently untrue. While some savvy businessmen are also great guys, most successful businessmen are cuthroat heartless bastards that would sell their grandma for another 2% profit margin boost to the bottom line.
Which is silly because ISPs should be doing that anyway, unless you're specifically paying for a separate VoIP service. That is classified as telephone traffic and prioritized for quality of service as a result.
Funny, I got all those things in my middle school and high school classes. The difference was I actually paid attention in class. Daily aerobics and later ballet in high school? Check. Balanced lunches, even if they were overcooked? Check. Balancing a checkbook? That was 7th grade math class. Check. Basic child raising skills? 12th grade anatomy class. We carried around bags of sugar for six weeks, kept a "feeding" journal, and would fail if our bag of sugar had tears or leaks at the end (child abuse!). Politics? 9th grade civics class, 10th grade economics class. About the only thing missing was "protecting the environment" - that was sort of included but not explicitly taught. So maybe in biology class?
If even one person running an application calls tech support and says, "I just got a database error, do you want a screen shot?" instead of "My computer broke and my screen went blank, can you come fix it?" it'll have done its job.
Never underestimate the capacity for 12 human beings to get confused about language and spend 20 minutes discussion exactly what a "public place" means and why it's different from a private place.
There's also the fact that many female authors steer clear of the genre of pure SF/F and just write sci-fi flavored romance novels instead. They know they're welcome in that genre.
The thing about a terrorism attack, though, is that one of the known terrorist organizations would need to be taking credit for it for any of these to be plausible. If ISIS came out today and said, "Haha he was secretly one of us BE AFRAID" then it'd most certainly be reclassed from murder suicide to terrorism. But if a lone dude does it, and no organization claims credit for it, the murder-suicide theory will be the only logical one. Terrorism works by publicity of actions.
That's a good idea. Rapid shedding of altitude should automatically pop the lock. Say, 20,000 feet descent in under 5 minutes. That is very clearly not normal behavior of a large plane, which takes 30 minutes to reach cruising altitude of 30K+ feet, usually in small increments of 1000 feet every 2-3 minutes after the initial rise.
If the plane really is crashing due to catastrophe, popping the lock on the cabin door won't make a difference. If it's crashing because the pilot saw a vision of Jesus who told him to kill everyone on board, it might save the plane.
I was pretty swiftly disabused of that notion after I was hired for my first job. It's kind of made me scared even as I'm searching for something new. Now I know I'm not that great - I'm merely average, or maybe just barely above average at best. How am I supposed to convince an employer that I'm worth their time and money?
I'm in the same boat - I consider myself one of the first Millennials, mostly because I identify more with them than I do Gen X. That 1980 cutoff is really unfair (I was a month too early.) I think a better definition is "grew up with computers." If you were the kid programming your parent's VCR when you were 7, you're probably more Millennial than GenX.
Some of them are legit, but they are a fraction of the degrees issued there, and the graduates immediately flee to America or elsewhere in the world where they'll get taken seriously. The senior architect at our company was born in Mumbai, but got a real degree, moved here, got US citizenship, and is now raising his seven kids on a 20 acre farm.
I saw that. Gamification at its finest. So iNotSexist could potentially include "used a program that passed the Becthtel coding test" for 50 bonus points!
It's precisely because I DON'T live in fear of the government that I'm annoyed with him. Even some of the liberal wing of the country has given up on trying to ban guns entirely and is focusing more on gun education and home firearm safety.
Happened in FFXI too. Giant ant race took over an entire island. Displaced the Galka and forced them into slavery for 200 years for the Bastokans that took them in.
I was being facetious. I permit myself some free reading time while on the treadmill, and eat a tasty protein bar as my reward for a workout (those things are like candy bars, but I guess with more vitamins.) Despite this, I'd still rather not go to the gym every day because it's such a bother. Especially now that the weather is warming up where I live. I'd much rather go on a hike, or do exercise disguised as something fun.
She said that anything that is classified isn't handled via email at all, but via secure diplomatic channels and cables, which are all done via the State department and on record.
That was my first thought too. If she didn't even HAVE an email address issued by the state department, then someone dropped the ball downstream and the entire IT department needs to be fired. Requesting a network based email address takes someone in Exchange about two minutes. Whatever email solution they have, there's no excuse for not creating an email address for every employee that works there.
Now, if she had one assigned and just didn't want to use it, but if she never had one assigned at all that's gross negligence.
The amount of time it will take to complete a project is inversely proportional to the perceived difficulty of the project. This also applies to tasks and deliverables within the project. The project that you think will be easy and fast will be neither. The project that you think is going to be a tangled nightmare will turn out to have some surprising shortcuts and simplifications that make it not so bad.
Part of this is the stupid human trick factor - if we think something is going to be difficult, we approach it differently and with more caution. As a result we're more able to identify things to make the project go smoother. Conversely, if we think something is going to be easy, it's because we've only determined one path to approaching it, and if that path turns out to be non-viable, we have an immediate delay as we scramble to find other solutions that will work.
There's also the psychological factor at play for the customer - if we say something is going to be ghastly and difficult and will take us a long time ( because we think it will) but then turn around and deliver it ahead of schedule and under budget, we look good and feel good. This does not work if you say something will be ghastly and difficult but secretly think it will be easy and fast, however.
Going to agree on this. The most important memory I have with my father was the time he took me to an observatory. We stayed up until 3AM watching the stars. It was the first time I had seen the night sky without light pollution. He encouraged me when I said I wanted to work for NASA, but it was this action that I remember the most. An hour of driving, a few gallons of gas, and a free Saturday night at a state park observatory - I never felt as loved, cherished, or supported as I did that night. I lost my father when I was 21.
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The philosophy works under the assumption that everyone in business is a decent human being. That is patently untrue. While some savvy businessmen are also great guys, most successful businessmen are cuthroat heartless bastards that would sell their grandma for another 2% profit margin boost to the bottom line.
Which is silly because ISPs should be doing that anyway, unless you're specifically paying for a separate VoIP service. That is classified as telephone traffic and prioritized for quality of service as a result.
Funny, I got all those things in my middle school and high school classes. The difference was I actually paid attention in class. Daily aerobics and later ballet in high school? Check. Balanced lunches, even if they were overcooked? Check. Balancing a checkbook? That was 7th grade math class. Check. Basic child raising skills? 12th grade anatomy class. We carried around bags of sugar for six weeks, kept a "feeding" journal, and would fail if our bag of sugar had tears or leaks at the end (child abuse!). Politics? 9th grade civics class, 10th grade economics class. About the only thing missing was "protecting the environment" - that was sort of included but not explicitly taught. So maybe in biology class?
If even one person running an application calls tech support and says, "I just got a database error, do you want a screen shot?" instead of "My computer broke and my screen went blank, can you come fix it?" it'll have done its job.
Never underestimate the capacity for 12 human beings to get confused about language and spend 20 minutes discussion exactly what a "public place" means and why it's different from a private place.
There's also the fact that many female authors steer clear of the genre of pure SF/F and just write sci-fi flavored romance novels instead. They know they're welcome in that genre.
The thing about a terrorism attack, though, is that one of the known terrorist organizations would need to be taking credit for it for any of these to be plausible. If ISIS came out today and said, "Haha he was secretly one of us BE AFRAID" then it'd most certainly be reclassed from murder suicide to terrorism. But if a lone dude does it, and no organization claims credit for it, the murder-suicide theory will be the only logical one. Terrorism works by publicity of actions.
That's a good idea. Rapid shedding of altitude should automatically pop the lock. Say, 20,000 feet descent in under 5 minutes. That is very clearly not normal behavior of a large plane, which takes 30 minutes to reach cruising altitude of 30K+ feet, usually in small increments of 1000 feet every 2-3 minutes after the initial rise. If the plane really is crashing due to catastrophe, popping the lock on the cabin door won't make a difference. If it's crashing because the pilot saw a vision of Jesus who told him to kill everyone on board, it might save the plane.
That is the impression the word leaves, yes. No regular underscore for you. You get RED SHARPIE!
If you're expected to do VoIP and some very database intensive stuff, then yeah, VPNs over high latency lines suck.
I was pretty swiftly disabused of that notion after I was hired for my first job. It's kind of made me scared even as I'm searching for something new. Now I know I'm not that great - I'm merely average, or maybe just barely above average at best. How am I supposed to convince an employer that I'm worth their time and money?
I'm in the same boat - I consider myself one of the first Millennials, mostly because I identify more with them than I do Gen X. That 1980 cutoff is really unfair (I was a month too early.) I think a better definition is "grew up with computers." If you were the kid programming your parent's VCR when you were 7, you're probably more Millennial than GenX.
Some of them are legit, but they are a fraction of the degrees issued there, and the graduates immediately flee to America or elsewhere in the world where they'll get taken seriously. The senior architect at our company was born in Mumbai, but got a real degree, moved here, got US citizenship, and is now raising his seven kids on a 20 acre farm.
I saw that. Gamification at its finest. So iNotSexist could potentially include "used a program that passed the Becthtel coding test" for 50 bonus points!
Most artists consider it an honor to have Weird Al do a parody of their work.
It's precisely because I DON'T live in fear of the government that I'm annoyed with him. Even some of the liberal wing of the country has given up on trying to ban guns entirely and is focusing more on gun education and home firearm safety.
Happened in FFXI too. Giant ant race took over an entire island. Displaced the Galka and forced them into slavery for 200 years for the Bastokans that took them in.
I didn't say on public record. I'm also sure the NSA has a backup copy too.
I was being facetious. I permit myself some free reading time while on the treadmill, and eat a tasty protein bar as my reward for a workout (those things are like candy bars, but I guess with more vitamins.) Despite this, I'd still rather not go to the gym every day because it's such a bother. Especially now that the weather is warming up where I live. I'd much rather go on a hike, or do exercise disguised as something fun.
The State Department IT wouldn't let her have two accounts on her Blackberry. She answered that question from a reporter after the official presser.
She said that anything that is classified isn't handled via email at all, but via secure diplomatic channels and cables, which are all done via the State department and on record.
Can someone zap the pleasure centers in my brain while I'm looking at a picture of a treadmill? Or better yet, am ON a treadmill?
That was my first thought too. If she didn't even HAVE an email address issued by the state department, then someone dropped the ball downstream and the entire IT department needs to be fired. Requesting a network based email address takes someone in Exchange about two minutes. Whatever email solution they have, there's no excuse for not creating an email address for every employee that works there.
Now, if she had one assigned and just didn't want to use it, but if she never had one assigned at all that's gross negligence.
The amount of time it will take to complete a project is inversely proportional to the perceived difficulty of the project. This also applies to tasks and deliverables within the project. The project that you think will be easy and fast will be neither. The project that you think is going to be a tangled nightmare will turn out to have some surprising shortcuts and simplifications that make it not so bad.
Part of this is the stupid human trick factor - if we think something is going to be difficult, we approach it differently and with more caution. As a result we're more able to identify things to make the project go smoother. Conversely, if we think something is going to be easy, it's because we've only determined one path to approaching it, and if that path turns out to be non-viable, we have an immediate delay as we scramble to find other solutions that will work.
There's also the psychological factor at play for the customer - if we say something is going to be ghastly and difficult and will take us a long time ( because we think it will) but then turn around and deliver it ahead of schedule and under budget, we look good and feel good. This does not work if you say something will be ghastly and difficult but secretly think it will be easy and fast, however.
Going to agree on this. The most important memory I have with my father was the time he took me to an observatory. We stayed up until 3AM watching the stars. It was the first time I had seen the night sky without light pollution. He encouraged me when I said I wanted to work for NASA, but it was this action that I remember the most. An hour of driving, a few gallons of gas, and a free Saturday night at a state park observatory - I never felt as loved, cherished, or supported as I did that night. I lost my father when I was 21.