- and it's stuff you could do on your own - then it's already not worth it. If you're capable of learning it on your, which it seems you are, then my suggestion would be to put that money toward self-teaching, and then taking certification tests. No one will give a rat's ass that you have an associate's degree in IT from a for-profit technical school, but they'll drool all over your resume if you put just one semester's worth of tuition towards stuff like the CCNA or the MCSA.
The stop lights around here have an extra flashing white light that exists on red but not on green. It's stupidly bright. I wonder if it's because of the photo enforcement? Makes the non-color-blind pay more attention, too.
When your lab is often only open from midnight to 6AM, you might find yourself saying "screw it" and just staying at the office overnight. The solution to this isn't to tell the grad students to get used to it; it's to encourage them to keep better track of their hours, and if they've hit 40+ by Thursday night, go ahead and take a three day weekend. They've done their time for the school at that point.
I'll be a bit forgiving because it is just a prototype, but if they want women to actually wear it, it needs to look less like a life vest and more like modern lingerie. Perhaps they could hire a designer from one of the big bra companies to come tidy it up for them?
It depends on the bra. If they are the wrong type, or fitted wrong, they are extremely uncomfortable. Also, they tend to break with alarming frequency (most good bras have a half life of about a year) and broken bras end up poking you in annoying places.
Seriously. It's a sports bra. You know when I wear sports bras? NEVER. Because they are uncomfortable, ugly, and offer little actual support for anyone bigger than an A cup. For ladies with higher letters in the alphabet, it'd be a useless tank top. I'm glad TFA says it probably just needs to be worn a few hours a day. Maybe when I sleep at night (although my husband will probably grumble about that.)
Nothing in the actual app itself. If you have a credits page, put "In loving memory of..." at the very bottom of the page. No one reads the credits unless the know of the the developers anyway, and those folks will probably be pleased to see a note of dedication to a grandma at the bottom.
People don't always buy phones because of specific features any more - they buy it because of the brand and because it is the latest model from that brand. People will buy the Nexus instead of the Apple regardless of the specifics of its search functions.
I have a fairly cheap Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard. The keys are gently bent in an arc, so you have some of the benefits of an ergo keyboard, but without the weird split, and it takes little adaptation to continue touch typing just like any other qwerty keyboard. It's cheap, although not that durable, and it is a joy to type on.
If that's the direction Microsoft wants to take their products, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
We learned everything from basic PC hardware (back when computers had numbered slots, instead of named ones) to intro programming. But my high schools were much further behind. I learned to type on an electric typewriter, and at my second high school, a fine arts school, all we had was a mac lab with a dot matrix printer, where we learned to use a word processor. It wasn't until I went to college that I really learned how to use a computer (and build or repair one) and 90% of that was self taught.
I remember my best friend winning a custom gaming system in a contest. Beautiful gaming rig, in a Cosmos case with graphics decals on the side.... They shipped it in a plain cardboard box with no padding. Not even the original box the case had shipped in. When we booted it up the first time, it blue screened pretty badly. We had to send it back and admonish the company that ordered it for the contest for massive FAIL.
Oh my gosh. You're the first person besides myself I've heard has the allergy. (Hell, many smokers have told me I'm making it up!) I start coughing, feel rather ill, and eventually get nauseous and vomit with extended exposure to second hand smoke. Pure tobacco smoke doesn't bother me; I love the smell of a walk-in humidor. It's whatever extra chemicals they add specifically to cigarettes, and I think the paper in them, that makes me so sick.
That said, I agree. I don't care if people smoke at home (although I wish they wouldn't wear leather jackets while they do it because the stench clings.) I don't care if they smoke in their car. I just don't want to have to walk through it on a public sidewalk, for the same reason I wouldn't want to step in a puddle of urine on a public sidewalk.
As I walk along a sidewalk, I can tell exactly where someone smoked a cigarette, and gauge about how long ago it was from the staleness. That shit lingers for 24 hours, at least. (It really annoys me when I smell it inside a closed space, such as a mall, where smoking has been prohibited for decades.)
I am with you here. I am allergic to the tar and additives in cigarettes (plain pipe smoke doesn't bother me) and being around smoke for any length of time makes me quite ill. But I don't think it needs to be illegal. Just kept out of public spaces.
We ordered a $2,000 Linux based backup server, which came with exactly 11 pages of setup documentation, most of which is screenshots. It included such gems as, "Now set up the network" and had a screenshot of the link to the networking page. Then it went on to the next section. While most of the fields on that page were self explanatory, there was no mention of the fact that only one NIC was supposed to be set up; the second is set up only if/when you need to run a virtual server as the backup, and not on that networking page, but on the page where you set up the server! Two hours of a tech support call later, someone finally figured out that was the issue.
I actually started out a physics major in college, and drifted over into English because Honors Calculus II with Theory kicked my hiney. (All my own fault: I spent my labs spinning equations around the axis and looking at the pretty pictures instead of learning the math behind it.) Not all English majors are automatically technologically deficient, especially ones who opted for a rigorous science and technology curriculum for their electives. I somehow finished with a minor in botany, which did nothing to help me find a job but everything to help me understand lab science and its specialized jargon.
Former English and journalism majors, who are not always the best programmers but are very very good at explaining how a program works (or ought to work), should be inside every IT company and department on the planet. When I'm not monitoring servers (e.g. watching paint dry), which is my formal job description, I'm writing down everything from internal business processes to how-to installation guides on software for specific networks. My happy place is about fifty pages deep in a Word file.
I've helped fund a lot of self published comic books, a painting series about the Wall Street Meltdown, and other artistic endeavors. Every one I have funded has so far resulted in a tangible product in my hands, usually signed by the artist (with extra sketches).
But I shy away from ones that are involved in things that are purely software oriented,or based on any technology higher than the iPod Nano wristwatch converter (with the exception of indie games from already established studios.) I'm still raising an eyebrow over how much money the Ouyo console managed to bring in, as I still remember the Phantom console (which turned out to be true to its name) from just last decade.
At this point, major hardware based endeavors, and large scale software endeavors from folks who aren't already in the industry, are just too iffy to bet on.
The smart ones who aren't masochists don't go into STEM. That's all. (Actually, that was the nickname for all the math theory classes at my university... "Math for Math Masochists." People who liked that class probably did go on to get their graduate degrees in math.)
Students don't go into STEM not because it isn't being pushed enough, but because they know they'll get paid more in business fields. Plain and simple. Why waste 7-8 years getting a PhD in math only to discover no university or business will hire you for math or research? Oh, but the NYSE will happily hire you on as a quant if you go into corporate finance instead, and that's a four year BA.
Someone like that is probably happier as a consultant anyway. Get paid $200 to tell people how to run their business? Brilliant Jerks are great within that role. They can go in, make things better, and then leave. They've improved the company they were hired to help, and while the company is usually better off for their work, they're also happy when they're gone. A CEO told one of my professors, whose full time role is as a consultant, that he likes his consultants "Brilliant, brief, and then gone." Brilliant Jerks are perfect for that.
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I use it because it has a clean, austere look and it loads fast. Something that no competitor has bothered with yet, as far as I can tell.
- and it's stuff you could do on your own - then it's already not worth it. If you're capable of learning it on your, which it seems you are, then my suggestion would be to put that money toward self-teaching, and then taking certification tests. No one will give a rat's ass that you have an associate's degree in IT from a for-profit technical school, but they'll drool all over your resume if you put just one semester's worth of tuition towards stuff like the CCNA or the MCSA.
The stop lights around here have an extra flashing white light that exists on red but not on green. It's stupidly bright. I wonder if it's because of the photo enforcement? Makes the non-color-blind pay more attention, too.
The Hero Rats do just as well as dogs, and they are more suited to hot and humid clients. Plus, they work for peanuts.
When your lab is often only open from midnight to 6AM, you might find yourself saying "screw it" and just staying at the office overnight. The solution to this isn't to tell the grad students to get used to it; it's to encourage them to keep better track of their hours, and if they've hit 40+ by Thursday night, go ahead and take a three day weekend. They've done their time for the school at that point.
I'll be a bit forgiving because it is just a prototype, but if they want women to actually wear it, it needs to look less like a life vest and more like modern lingerie. Perhaps they could hire a designer from one of the big bra companies to come tidy it up for them?
It depends on the bra. If they are the wrong type, or fitted wrong, they are extremely uncomfortable. Also, they tend to break with alarming frequency (most good bras have a half life of about a year) and broken bras end up poking you in annoying places.
Seriously. It's a sports bra. You know when I wear sports bras? NEVER. Because they are uncomfortable, ugly, and offer little actual support for anyone bigger than an A cup. For ladies with higher letters in the alphabet, it'd be a useless tank top. I'm glad TFA says it probably just needs to be worn a few hours a day. Maybe when I sleep at night (although my husband will probably grumble about that.)
Nothing in the actual app itself. If you have a credits page, put "In loving memory of..." at the very bottom of the page. No one reads the credits unless the know of the the developers anyway, and those folks will probably be pleased to see a note of dedication to a grandma at the bottom.
People don't always buy phones because of specific features any more - they buy it because of the brand and because it is the latest model from that brand. People will buy the Nexus instead of the Apple regardless of the specifics of its search functions.
The laws of physics don't apply to Pinkie Pie. Neither do the laws of programming.
I have a fairly cheap Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard. The keys are gently bent in an arc, so you have some of the benefits of an ergo keyboard, but without the weird split, and it takes little adaptation to continue touch typing just like any other qwerty keyboard. It's cheap, although not that durable, and it is a joy to type on.
If that's the direction Microsoft wants to take their products, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
We learned everything from basic PC hardware (back when computers had numbered slots, instead of named ones) to intro programming. But my high schools were much further behind. I learned to type on an electric typewriter, and at my second high school, a fine arts school, all we had was a mac lab with a dot matrix printer, where we learned to use a word processor. It wasn't until I went to college that I really learned how to use a computer (and build or repair one) and 90% of that was self taught.
I remember my best friend winning a custom gaming system in a contest. Beautiful gaming rig, in a Cosmos case with graphics decals on the side.... They shipped it in a plain cardboard box with no padding. Not even the original box the case had shipped in. When we booted it up the first time, it blue screened pretty badly. We had to send it back and admonish the company that ordered it for the contest for massive FAIL.
Oh my gosh. You're the first person besides myself I've heard has the allergy. (Hell, many smokers have told me I'm making it up!) I start coughing, feel rather ill, and eventually get nauseous and vomit with extended exposure to second hand smoke. Pure tobacco smoke doesn't bother me; I love the smell of a walk-in humidor. It's whatever extra chemicals they add specifically to cigarettes, and I think the paper in them, that makes me so sick.
That said, I agree. I don't care if people smoke at home (although I wish they wouldn't wear leather jackets while they do it because the stench clings.) I don't care if they smoke in their car. I just don't want to have to walk through it on a public sidewalk, for the same reason I wouldn't want to step in a puddle of urine on a public sidewalk.
As I walk along a sidewalk, I can tell exactly where someone smoked a cigarette, and gauge about how long ago it was from the staleness. That shit lingers for 24 hours, at least. (It really annoys me when I smell it inside a closed space, such as a mall, where smoking has been prohibited for decades.)
I am with you here. I am allergic to the tar and additives in cigarettes (plain pipe smoke doesn't bother me) and being around smoke for any length of time makes me quite ill. But I don't think it needs to be illegal. Just kept out of public spaces.
We ordered a $2,000 Linux based backup server, which came with exactly 11 pages of setup documentation, most of which is screenshots. It included such gems as, "Now set up the network" and had a screenshot of the link to the networking page. Then it went on to the next section. While most of the fields on that page were self explanatory, there was no mention of the fact that only one NIC was supposed to be set up; the second is set up only if/when you need to run a virtual server as the backup, and not on that networking page, but on the page where you set up the server! Two hours of a tech support call later, someone finally figured out that was the issue.
I actually started out a physics major in college, and drifted over into English because Honors Calculus II with Theory kicked my hiney. (All my own fault: I spent my labs spinning equations around the axis and looking at the pretty pictures instead of learning the math behind it.) Not all English majors are automatically technologically deficient, especially ones who opted for a rigorous science and technology curriculum for their electives. I somehow finished with a minor in botany, which did nothing to help me find a job but everything to help me understand lab science and its specialized jargon.
Former English and journalism majors, who are not always the best programmers but are very very good at explaining how a program works (or ought to work), should be inside every IT company and department on the planet. When I'm not monitoring servers (e.g. watching paint dry), which is my formal job description, I'm writing down everything from internal business processes to how-to installation guides on software for specific networks. My happy place is about fifty pages deep in a Word file.
I've helped fund a lot of self published comic books, a painting series about the Wall Street Meltdown, and other artistic endeavors. Every one I have funded has so far resulted in a tangible product in my hands, usually signed by the artist (with extra sketches).
But I shy away from ones that are involved in things that are purely software oriented,or based on any technology higher than the iPod Nano wristwatch converter (with the exception of indie games from already established studios.) I'm still raising an eyebrow over how much money the Ouyo console managed to bring in, as I still remember the Phantom console (which turned out to be true to its name) from just last decade.
At this point, major hardware based endeavors, and large scale software endeavors from folks who aren't already in the industry, are just too iffy to bet on.
The smart ones who aren't masochists don't go into STEM. That's all. (Actually, that was the nickname for all the math theory classes at my university... "Math for Math Masochists." People who liked that class probably did go on to get their graduate degrees in math.)
Students don't go into STEM not because it isn't being pushed enough, but because they know they'll get paid more in business fields. Plain and simple. Why waste 7-8 years getting a PhD in math only to discover no university or business will hire you for math or research? Oh, but the NYSE will happily hire you on as a quant if you go into corporate finance instead, and that's a four year BA.
Whoops, meant that as "$200/hour."
Someone like that is probably happier as a consultant anyway. Get paid $200 to tell people how to run their business? Brilliant Jerks are great within that role. They can go in, make things better, and then leave. They've improved the company they were hired to help, and while the company is usually better off for their work, they're also happy when they're gone. A CEO told one of my professors, whose full time role is as a consultant, that he likes his consultants "Brilliant, brief, and then gone." Brilliant Jerks are perfect for that.