The original Atkins diet could cause a dangerous crash. The more modern form you mentioned is a bit more cautious about reducing carbs. And while it's true we eat way too many processed and refined grains in the Western diet, there's nothing wrong with unprocessed whole grains like quinoa.
I had low vitamin D and it had nothing to do with diet. I'm fair skinned and burn easily and I avoid the sun like the plague. I was prescribed 10 minutes of sunshine a day by doctor in addition to massive doses of vitamin D to try to get my serum levels up.
I like the system of the company I work at. Did the company meet all its goals? Everybody gets a bonus! Then the management team gets more bonus if they achieved all their goals. Company had a terrible year? Well, sorry, no money for anyone.
Not to sound too much like a Micro$oft fangirl, but the primary reason that Windows still dominates the enterprise sector in desktops and productivity is because Microsoft is about as good as predicting what businesses want as Apple is good at predicting what individuals want. The Outlook/Lync/Sharepoint integration is simply well executed, and I can't think of any combo of FOSS that can perform in a business environment in quite the same way. "Hey, so and so uploaded the wrong version of a file. He's yellow and unavailable for IM, I'll go send them an email. Oh wait, his calendar says he's out to lunch until two. I'll wait until he's back and ping him them." Ten seconds of time to determine the best course of action. And time is moneyl.
Did MS blatantly steal a lot of that stuff from other companies? Of course. Did any of the other companies integrate everything quite so seamlessly? Nope.
It's not like they're posting the sheet music or the guitar chords, let alone any kind of recording. If you don't already know the tune, the lyrics aren't going to help you understand the actual music. And since singers are so mush-mouthed these days, you need the lyrics to avoid accidentally creating new mondegreens.
Does iTunes even include the lyrics when you buy a song?
Back in my Systems Analysis class. You don't just ask the user what he wants. You ask what he does, and then you sit and watch him do it for a few hours. Maybe take notes. Ask questions. Get comfortable with what they're doing. And once you feel comfortable, ask if you can "drive" their existing applications for a bit.
I would never have found out about a critical missing feature in the new application I'm working on if I didn't make a point to have my morning coffee with the local power user of the app. She was dealing with complaint phone calls from customers that day, and it turns out we had no real means of tracking the complaints. That should be requirement #1 for a CMS application!
I think it's that the Tesla is a fairly low profile car. Higher profile cars and trucks are able to safely pass over road debris that would destroy any sports car.
In the late eighties, my mother's Ford LTD caught on fire in the parking lot of the grocery store. She'd pulled into a spot and was about to get a cart from the rack outside when someone tapped her on the arm and said, "Ma'am, I think your car is on fire."
Her father had been an engineer for Ford, and I think he was more heartbroken about the situation than she was.
At least the "Garrisons" are different from FFXI's Garrison, which was one of their very first group events and no one has done it since 2004. (18 people defending a fort from an attack... at an arbitrarily low level cap. Sure, let's force level 75s to drop to level 20 for this event!) It's a shame, too, since Garrison was the only source for the mannequin body parts required to have your own mannequin inside your Mog House.
Just because it isn't tech related, doesn't mean it's irrelevant for nerds. Most of us either did too much touching or too little as children, and grew up the way we are as a result of that.
I wouldn't be surprised. They also had a lot of logistical challenges due to the location (intersection of two busy one way streets, ew) and the age of the building itself (well over a hundred years old, probably approaching 150 years.) They also decided to do improvements to the sound components and stage lighting - if you have to rebuild, why not go better at the same time? The final bill was over a million dollars, but the result was a better venue with great sound and about double the people capacity. I've gone to a few concerts since the rebuild and it's a marked improvement overall.
It would have been way cheaper to bulldoze and start from scratch, but they wanted to keep the original brick walls. (Just after the fire, the iconic movie marquee outside said "Ouch" - at least it survived!)
Fire insurance is usually inadequate to cover the total losses. It'll cover the value of the building as-is, and the loss of the hardware and physical items things were stored on. If they want to rebuild on the same site, it will often cost a lot more depending on the condition of the building.
In Athens, GA, the Georgia Theater burned down a few years back. They opted to rebuild on-site and use as much of the shell of the old building as possible, but fire insurance covered maybe half of the final cost because the old building was about fifty years out of code and needed major work anyway. They're still accepting donations to help out with the cost of the rebuild, and probably will owe on the new mortgage for a long, long time.
Our local indie video store closed down earlier this year. It was a shame - they specialized in art house and out of print things. I guess since many of the "out of print" got digitized and are now available on-demand from Netflix or Amazon, their last little niche was gone, too.
That was the exact same reaction I had. I thought they died when they initially filed for bankruptcy. I had no idea they had emerged out of the other side.
I bumped into two guys who graduated a year before I did from the fine arts school, and both are big wigs in tech startups (one is the CEO.) I'm not a big wig nor do I work for a tech startup, but I'm doing quite well. I worked with a graduate from the comprehensive school at my last job.... Last I heard she was working as a front desk assistant at a health clinic for $13/hour. I don't know what her track was at the comprehensive school, but I do know she was in the National Guard for a long time.
I'm darn proud of my Honda Accord with 213K miles on it.
That was the same thought I had as well. I decided to hold off on a PS4 because they'll lop off a hundred dollars in a year, but a Wii might actually be a reasonable investment. I blame my parents for starting me on that pattern - I was stuck playing an Atari 7800 until around 1992.
Well, a comprehensive high school still does. The first high school I went to had an auto mechanic class and a practice hair dressing salon for electives. Unfortunately since they had such a broad focus, they had little funding left over for the more frivolous things in life - e.g. art and music. When I switched to the fine arts school, I lost out on the opportunity to take any more shop classes, but I gained the opportunity to take studio art and ballet. Fair trade to me. (Didn't hurt that the fine arts school was all honors classes and had a 100% graduation rate, unlike the comprehensive school I left.)
Well, some of it. I went to a fine arts high school and I heard from some old classmates that they've started teaching web design in the art classes there - including HTML and lower end web programming. Considering how many of us ended up in IT that may not be a bad idea. Previously, the only tech stuff they taught was theater lighting.
My team mate and I discovered that the Cepheid variable we were supposed to be studying in astronomy back in 1998 was actually a binary star system. The prof got credit, of course, but it was enough to make me feel as though I had Contributed To Astronomy.
I used to be obsessive about having mirrored backups to an external drive. Over the years, I realized that my personal computer is not a business server and doesn't need to be treated like one. So my backup plan keeps only the most critical files in Drop Box, and the less critical stuff (things that can be re-downloaded, re-installed, or remade) gets packed up once a week in Windows backup.
So my suggestion is have two external hard drives for large format media and keep one in a safe deposit box at the bank, and rotate them out any time you need to back up something new (e.g. new install file, new batch of movies, or whatever.) For small files that get updated regularly, like documents or photos, then a cloud solution is still best.
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The latest version of this is like a concentrated peanut butter, called "Plumpy Nut." I giggle every time I hear about it.
The original Atkins diet could cause a dangerous crash. The more modern form you mentioned is a bit more cautious about reducing carbs. And while it's true we eat way too many processed and refined grains in the Western diet, there's nothing wrong with unprocessed whole grains like quinoa.
I had low vitamin D and it had nothing to do with diet. I'm fair skinned and burn easily and I avoid the sun like the plague. I was prescribed 10 minutes of sunshine a day by doctor in addition to massive doses of vitamin D to try to get my serum levels up.
I like the system of the company I work at. Did the company meet all its goals? Everybody gets a bonus! Then the management team gets more bonus if they achieved all their goals. Company had a terrible year? Well, sorry, no money for anyone.
Not to sound too much like a Micro$oft fangirl, but the primary reason that Windows still dominates the enterprise sector in desktops and productivity is because Microsoft is about as good as predicting what businesses want as Apple is good at predicting what individuals want. The Outlook/Lync/Sharepoint integration is simply well executed, and I can't think of any combo of FOSS that can perform in a business environment in quite the same way. "Hey, so and so uploaded the wrong version of a file. He's yellow and unavailable for IM, I'll go send them an email. Oh wait, his calendar says he's out to lunch until two. I'll wait until he's back and ping him them." Ten seconds of time to determine the best course of action. And time is moneyl.
Did MS blatantly steal a lot of that stuff from other companies? Of course. Did any of the other companies integrate everything quite so seamlessly? Nope.
It's not like they're posting the sheet music or the guitar chords, let alone any kind of recording. If you don't already know the tune, the lyrics aren't going to help you understand the actual music. And since singers are so mush-mouthed these days, you need the lyrics to avoid accidentally creating new mondegreens.
Does iTunes even include the lyrics when you buy a song?
My favorite one in recent memory was a user complaining of the computer making a constant beep. It turned out he had a book resting on the keyboard.
Back in my Systems Analysis class. You don't just ask the user what he wants. You ask what he does, and then you sit and watch him do it for a few hours. Maybe take notes. Ask questions. Get comfortable with what they're doing. And once you feel comfortable, ask if you can "drive" their existing applications for a bit.
I would never have found out about a critical missing feature in the new application I'm working on if I didn't make a point to have my morning coffee with the local power user of the app. She was dealing with complaint phone calls from customers that day, and it turns out we had no real means of tracking the complaints. That should be requirement #1 for a CMS application!
I think it's that the Tesla is a fairly low profile car. Higher profile cars and trucks are able to safely pass over road debris that would destroy any sports car.
In the late eighties, my mother's Ford LTD caught on fire in the parking lot of the grocery store. She'd pulled into a spot and was about to get a cart from the rack outside when someone tapped her on the arm and said, "Ma'am, I think your car is on fire."
Her father had been an engineer for Ford, and I think he was more heartbroken about the situation than she was.
At least the "Garrisons" are different from FFXI's Garrison, which was one of their very first group events and no one has done it since 2004. (18 people defending a fort from an attack... at an arbitrarily low level cap. Sure, let's force level 75s to drop to level 20 for this event!) It's a shame, too, since Garrison was the only source for the mannequin body parts required to have your own mannequin inside your Mog House.
Google really has nothing to fear from Bing, anyway.
The first time I see a story here about Lindsey Lohan getting arrested again, I'll agree with that point.
Just because it isn't tech related, doesn't mean it's irrelevant for nerds. Most of us either did too much touching or too little as children, and grew up the way we are as a result of that.
I wouldn't be surprised. They also had a lot of logistical challenges due to the location (intersection of two busy one way streets, ew) and the age of the building itself (well over a hundred years old, probably approaching 150 years.) They also decided to do improvements to the sound components and stage lighting - if you have to rebuild, why not go better at the same time? The final bill was over a million dollars, but the result was a better venue with great sound and about double the people capacity. I've gone to a few concerts since the rebuild and it's a marked improvement overall.
It would have been way cheaper to bulldoze and start from scratch, but they wanted to keep the original brick walls. (Just after the fire, the iconic movie marquee outside said "Ouch" - at least it survived!)
Fire insurance is usually inadequate to cover the total losses. It'll cover the value of the building as-is, and the loss of the hardware and physical items things were stored on. If they want to rebuild on the same site, it will often cost a lot more depending on the condition of the building.
In Athens, GA, the Georgia Theater burned down a few years back. They opted to rebuild on-site and use as much of the shell of the old building as possible, but fire insurance covered maybe half of the final cost because the old building was about fifty years out of code and needed major work anyway. They're still accepting donations to help out with the cost of the rebuild, and probably will owe on the new mortgage for a long, long time.
Our local indie video store closed down earlier this year. It was a shame - they specialized in art house and out of print things. I guess since many of the "out of print" got digitized and are now available on-demand from Netflix or Amazon, their last little niche was gone, too.
That was the exact same reaction I had. I thought they died when they initially filed for bankruptcy. I had no idea they had emerged out of the other side.
I bumped into two guys who graduated a year before I did from the fine arts school, and both are big wigs in tech startups (one is the CEO.) I'm not a big wig nor do I work for a tech startup, but I'm doing quite well. I worked with a graduate from the comprehensive school at my last job.... Last I heard she was working as a front desk assistant at a health clinic for $13/hour. I don't know what her track was at the comprehensive school, but I do know she was in the National Guard for a long time.
I'm darn proud of my Honda Accord with 213K miles on it.
That was the same thought I had as well. I decided to hold off on a PS4 because they'll lop off a hundred dollars in a year, but a Wii might actually be a reasonable investment. I blame my parents for starting me on that pattern - I was stuck playing an Atari 7800 until around 1992.
Well, a comprehensive high school still does. The first high school I went to had an auto mechanic class and a practice hair dressing salon for electives. Unfortunately since they had such a broad focus, they had little funding left over for the more frivolous things in life - e.g. art and music. When I switched to the fine arts school, I lost out on the opportunity to take any more shop classes, but I gained the opportunity to take studio art and ballet. Fair trade to me. (Didn't hurt that the fine arts school was all honors classes and had a 100% graduation rate, unlike the comprehensive school I left.)
Well, some of it. I went to a fine arts high school and I heard from some old classmates that they've started teaching web design in the art classes there - including HTML and lower end web programming. Considering how many of us ended up in IT that may not be a bad idea. Previously, the only tech stuff they taught was theater lighting.
Can't be any worse than Common Core, regardless.
My team mate and I discovered that the Cepheid variable we were supposed to be studying in astronomy back in 1998 was actually a binary star system. The prof got credit, of course, but it was enough to make me feel as though I had Contributed To Astronomy.
So, mad props to this young man. Good on ya, kid.
They could hire me, save millions, and I couldn't possibly do a worse job of running the company than they've done.
I used to be obsessive about having mirrored backups to an external drive. Over the years, I realized that my personal computer is not a business server and doesn't need to be treated like one. So my backup plan keeps only the most critical files in Drop Box, and the less critical stuff (things that can be re-downloaded, re-installed, or remade) gets packed up once a week in Windows backup.
So my suggestion is have two external hard drives for large format media and keep one in a safe deposit box at the bank, and rotate them out any time you need to back up something new (e.g. new install file, new batch of movies, or whatever.) For small files that get updated regularly, like documents or photos, then a cloud solution is still best.