I was one of them. When I was 12 I wanted to get a PhD in astrophysics and work for NASA. It wasn't the lack of sexy in science that made me change majors in undergrad, it was calc based physics at 8AM my first semester of college, followed by honors calculus with theory at noon. Bad scheduling on the part of the university did far more to kill my interest in STEM than the lack of female mentoring. I'd probably have had my PhD in physics just in time for NASA to start shutting down if it wasn't for my inadequate alarm clock!
The range of these vehicles and the cost are secondary considerations for me - how does it charge? I need a giant electric pad in the garage so I can just drive over it and have the car charge itself, or else at some point I absolutely will forget to charge my car overnight.
Of course. If you apply for a job expecting to live in one city, and they say "Actually, this position is based out of this other city" and you'll have to move to another state or province entirely, then the application wasn't clear and of course people will turn it down. That happened to a friend of mine - she applied for a job in California, but then was relocated by the company to Georgia.
There's a reason that a professional sommelier is something yet to be replaced by a computer. Gastronomy is a young science, but an ancient art. Modernist Cuisine is cool and all, but if I want something that tastes good, I'm more likely to trust someone using a recipe perfected over several generations or even several centuries.
I first heard about it a decade ago. I think in "Scientific American" before Disney bought it out. That, and one of the early hard science fiction books of my youth presented this particular superstring theory as the explanation for dark matter, as the parallel worlds interact via gravitation but not electromagnetics.
"The best way to insure the money goes to artists? Buy it directly from their website or at their live shows." $10 to iTunes with Apple taking their $3 of that, or $10 at the concert where the only cost to the artist for the physical CD is $1?
I have a feeling this letter is going to come up in my project management class tonight, seeing how my professor is a colleague of Mr. Lowery...
They didn't involve my office in the process at all. They knew they wanted to dump their big ERP for something else, but they chose a cloud based SaaS solution and we warned them that it was probably not a good idea considering their size. Now we get tech support calls almost every day complaining that the SaaS website is frozen, and all we can do is shrug and call the SaaS company's support line because we have no control over it. My boss didn't want to tell them "I told you so" but...
Well, not all technical writers are created equal. Someone who was trained to write grant requests for the school's horticulture department may not be the best fit for an IT department. You still need to have someone who can recognize an SQL query and point out that you forgot to include a unit test for one of your classes.
I'm on mailing lists for about a dozen major vendors, such as NewEgg. I keep an eye out for sales and specials on products I need, and then I grab them when I see them. (Like 8 gigs of RAM for $50.) Since I get these through my email, I do get them via my mobile phone. The actual ads that occasionally pop up on my phone courtesy of my carrier are all for crap like University of Phoenix or Zynga games.
The "arsenic based bacteria" which were supposed to revolutionize the way we viewed biology didn't even turn out to be a hoax, but bad science. Although, after RTFA, it looks as if these scientists are being a bit more cautious before making outrageous declarations.
The sentence implies that the South has been a drag on the US since the US was founded, not since the "South" was founded. Aside from a few isolated bright spots in history, this is pretty much true.
Even controlling for age, college towns and research institutions also have a lot of older, well-educated folks hanging around, living and working in the community. My husband finished his PhD at the local Research I, but liked the town so much he accepted a job at a smaller state university one town over so we could continue to live in our old college town. Big biotech companies are always around the big research institutes as well; they don't call it Research Triangle up in NC for nothing.
I'm actually looking forward to the DBZ Kinect game, of all things, because they incorporated the signature poses of the main moves into the battles. Firing off a Kamehameha sure looks like a ton of fun.
Their real competition in this space is Amazon, and they don't even seem to be addressing that. The majority of cloud work I've done lately has been using AWS instances. Yes, Salesforce has the big name for enterprise class ERP apps, but the big data crunching, file distribution, and work all seems to be happening with AWS these days.
No day in physics class was more fun than the lab involving calculating the angle of trajectory of toy cars and them smashing them into stuff. If you did the math just right, your car would fly across the track in a perfect arc and then knock over a tennis ball propped up on a paper cup. (Or, more likely, knock the entire cup and tennis ball assembly clean off the table.)
A lot of it boils down to kids never learning to apply themselves. I coasted along lazily in math class until I hit integral calculus, which was a giant brick wall to me. Everything else I had understood at both a logical and fundamental level, whereas with three dimensional solids I understood the concepts but the math was not something I instantly grasped. This really fucked me over; I'd never learned how to study math because I never had to before. I think if I had been challenged in an accelerated program I would have picked up those critical skills and been better prepared. As it was, I had to learn how to actually study math from scratch.
Similar situation to me. By the time I was in 8th grade, my literature/reading instructor gave up and just sent me off to the library to write on Fridays when everyone else was doing reading comprehension instruction. Unfortunately, the school system didn't permit skipping grades without unanimous approval from teachers as well as parental consent, and my mother thought I'd be better off simply trying for one of the specialty magnet schools in town for high school. She was probably right, as far as socialization was concerned; I was just another smart kid in a sea of smart kids, and it took me down a few pegs while at the same time allowing for the proper level of intellectual stimulation. But I could have just as easily jumped to the local state college and done just fine at 15 or 16.
Nope, doesn't work, or at least it didn't work with my motherboard's onboard sound. Believe me, I tried everything, including a live session with an nVidia support tech who was also ultimately stumped. My end solution was a $30 card with HDMI out, since all that system does is run to the TV and play AVI files. Problem solved, but it still annoyed me greatly that nVidia never fixed that bug.
These days they test writing as well, so while the random bubble generator method would help you with the first two scores, you'd be totally SOL on the third part if you'd never learned how to write a generic five paragraph essay.
Yup. That's how my high school chemistry and physics classes went as well. There were two officially sanctioned formula sheets in physics, the "Zach" sheet and the "Josh" sheet, both compiled by previous students. You could bring the sheets and anything you had programmed into your calculator. If you didn't understand which formulas to use and how to apply them to the word problems, you were screwed anyway.
nVidia has the mother of all driver bugs and they've refused to fix it for years. If you run a DVI to HDMI cable from an nVidia card with no native HDMI support, the driver recognizes the HDMI cable anyway, assumes it can run sound, and attempts to run sound via the nonexistent sound chip on the video card. In essence, it overrides the onboard sound and sometimes even a discrete sound card in the computer. Since native HDMI support was introduced in newer cards, nVidia has felt no need to address this glitch in their older cards. I ended up recycling an otherwise perfectly good GeForce 9800 GT because the computer it was in was hooked up to the 40" television, but any time I had the video card driver installed I had no sound!
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I was one of them. When I was 12 I wanted to get a PhD in astrophysics and work for NASA. It wasn't the lack of sexy in science that made me change majors in undergrad, it was calc based physics at 8AM my first semester of college, followed by honors calculus with theory at noon. Bad scheduling on the part of the university did far more to kill my interest in STEM than the lack of female mentoring. I'd probably have had my PhD in physics just in time for NASA to start shutting down if it wasn't for my inadequate alarm clock!
The range of these vehicles and the cost are secondary considerations for me - how does it charge? I need a giant electric pad in the garage so I can just drive over it and have the car charge itself, or else at some point I absolutely will forget to charge my car overnight.
Of course. If you apply for a job expecting to live in one city, and they say "Actually, this position is based out of this other city" and you'll have to move to another state or province entirely, then the application wasn't clear and of course people will turn it down. That happened to a friend of mine - she applied for a job in California, but then was relocated by the company to Georgia.
There's a reason that a professional sommelier is something yet to be replaced by a computer. Gastronomy is a young science, but an ancient art. Modernist Cuisine is cool and all, but if I want something that tastes good, I'm more likely to trust someone using a recipe perfected over several generations or even several centuries.
I first heard about it a decade ago. I think in "Scientific American" before Disney bought it out. That, and one of the early hard science fiction books of my youth presented this particular superstring theory as the explanation for dark matter, as the parallel worlds interact via gravitation but not electromagnetics.
"The best way to insure the money goes to artists? Buy it directly from their website or at their live shows." $10 to iTunes with Apple taking their $3 of that, or $10 at the concert where the only cost to the artist for the physical CD is $1?
I have a feeling this letter is going to come up in my project management class tonight, seeing how my professor is a colleague of Mr. Lowery...
-- instead of teaching them how to actually think.
As soon as a politician with no scientific qualifications weighs in, however, I reserve the right to be annoyed.
They didn't involve my office in the process at all. They knew they wanted to dump their big ERP for something else, but they chose a cloud based SaaS solution and we warned them that it was probably not a good idea considering their size. Now we get tech support calls almost every day complaining that the SaaS website is frozen, and all we can do is shrug and call the SaaS company's support line because we have no control over it. My boss didn't want to tell them "I told you so" but...
Well, not all technical writers are created equal. Someone who was trained to write grant requests for the school's horticulture department may not be the best fit for an IT department. You still need to have someone who can recognize an SQL query and point out that you forgot to include a unit test for one of your classes.
Someone who has coding chops but whose happy place is 50 pages deep in documentation.
I'm on mailing lists for about a dozen major vendors, such as NewEgg. I keep an eye out for sales and specials on products I need, and then I grab them when I see them. (Like 8 gigs of RAM for $50.) Since I get these through my email, I do get them via my mobile phone. The actual ads that occasionally pop up on my phone courtesy of my carrier are all for crap like University of Phoenix or Zynga games.
The "arsenic based bacteria" which were supposed to revolutionize the way we viewed biology didn't even turn out to be a hoax, but bad science. Although, after RTFA, it looks as if these scientists are being a bit more cautious before making outrageous declarations.
The sentence implies that the South has been a drag on the US since the US was founded, not since the "South" was founded. Aside from a few isolated bright spots in history, this is pretty much true.
Even controlling for age, college towns and research institutions also have a lot of older, well-educated folks hanging around, living and working in the community. My husband finished his PhD at the local Research I, but liked the town so much he accepted a job at a smaller state university one town over so we could continue to live in our old college town. Big biotech companies are always around the big research institutes as well; they don't call it Research Triangle up in NC for nothing.
I'm actually looking forward to the DBZ Kinect game, of all things, because they incorporated the signature poses of the main moves into the battles. Firing off a Kamehameha sure looks like a ton of fun.
Their real competition in this space is Amazon, and they don't even seem to be addressing that. The majority of cloud work I've done lately has been using AWS instances. Yes, Salesforce has the big name for enterprise class ERP apps, but the big data crunching, file distribution, and work all seems to be happening with AWS these days.
No day in physics class was more fun than the lab involving calculating the angle of trajectory of toy cars and them smashing them into stuff. If you did the math just right, your car would fly across the track in a perfect arc and then knock over a tennis ball propped up on a paper cup. (Or, more likely, knock the entire cup and tennis ball assembly clean off the table.)
I used to work in marketing. I have ways of getting to the people I need to get to.
A lot of it boils down to kids never learning to apply themselves. I coasted along lazily in math class until I hit integral calculus, which was a giant brick wall to me. Everything else I had understood at both a logical and fundamental level, whereas with three dimensional solids I understood the concepts but the math was not something I instantly grasped. This really fucked me over; I'd never learned how to study math because I never had to before. I think if I had been challenged in an accelerated program I would have picked up those critical skills and been better prepared. As it was, I had to learn how to actually study math from scratch.
Similar situation to me. By the time I was in 8th grade, my literature/reading instructor gave up and just sent me off to the library to write on Fridays when everyone else was doing reading comprehension instruction. Unfortunately, the school system didn't permit skipping grades without unanimous approval from teachers as well as parental consent, and my mother thought I'd be better off simply trying for one of the specialty magnet schools in town for high school. She was probably right, as far as socialization was concerned; I was just another smart kid in a sea of smart kids, and it took me down a few pegs while at the same time allowing for the proper level of intellectual stimulation. But I could have just as easily jumped to the local state college and done just fine at 15 or 16.
Nope, doesn't work, or at least it didn't work with my motherboard's onboard sound. Believe me, I tried everything, including a live session with an nVidia support tech who was also ultimately stumped. My end solution was a $30 card with HDMI out, since all that system does is run to the TV and play AVI files. Problem solved, but it still annoyed me greatly that nVidia never fixed that bug.
These days they test writing as well, so while the random bubble generator method would help you with the first two scores, you'd be totally SOL on the third part if you'd never learned how to write a generic five paragraph essay.
Yup. That's how my high school chemistry and physics classes went as well. There were two officially sanctioned formula sheets in physics, the "Zach" sheet and the "Josh" sheet, both compiled by previous students. You could bring the sheets and anything you had programmed into your calculator. If you didn't understand which formulas to use and how to apply them to the word problems, you were screwed anyway.
nVidia has the mother of all driver bugs and they've refused to fix it for years. If you run a DVI to HDMI cable from an nVidia card with no native HDMI support, the driver recognizes the HDMI cable anyway, assumes it can run sound, and attempts to run sound via the nonexistent sound chip on the video card. In essence, it overrides the onboard sound and sometimes even a discrete sound card in the computer. Since native HDMI support was introduced in newer cards, nVidia has felt no need to address this glitch in their older cards. I ended up recycling an otherwise perfectly good GeForce 9800 GT because the computer it was in was hooked up to the 40" television, but any time I had the video card driver installed I had no sound!