In some other countries where most have manual transmissions, drivers are trained to place the car into neutral and engage the handbrake at a red light. That at least makes this a somewhat safer practice.
Never heard of it, never seen any of my parents, friends or relatives do it. Typically at an intersection the car will be in 1st gear, clutch pressed with left foot, right foot on the brakes, certainly no hand brake. The only time I intentionally stick it in neutral while driving is if there's a significant wait that makes it less hassle to put it in neutral, release the clutch, press the clutch and put it back in 1st when the light changes. The only time I'd use the hand brake is for starting in a steep hillside, then you put the hand brake on, start giving gas and release the clutch so the car will immediately go forward when you release the hand brake. Otherwise you might bump into the car behind you.
I took my drivers test in Canada with an automatic but I used to drive a manual and I never used the hand-brake except when learning on hills. Once I learned how to hold the car with the clutch in 1st, I stopped using the hand-brake. For everything else, I would just use both the brake and the clutch, never the hand-brake.
It is not the job of police to enforce EVERY law. The concept is called "selective enforcement" and result in things like cops issuing warnings, issuing a verbal scolding, or choosing not to cite at all for some things.
One question is often asked at interviews for police work is, "You catch your mother speeding. Do you give her a ticket?"
The proper answer is, "no". Departments don't want people who would give their own mother a speeding ticket. Contrary to popular belief, departments want thinking human beings, not robocops.
What's funny about this is that if you were asked this for a job at a corporation, the proper answer would be "yes". So, you are supposed to be willing to sell out you're own mother for capitalism but not if she breaks the law....:-P
That is something I never thought I would hear someone say slashdot.
The only population where Windows has a poor reputation is with UNIX and Apple geeks (i.e. a large portion of Slashdot). If Windows was half as bad as some believe, the world would have come to a crashing halt by now. Love or hate the GUI if you want, but Windows 7/8 is a reliable OS.
I bought a bunch of HP Touchpads during the firesale. It was a great tablet, just no OS support after HP dumped them and the WebOS developers. Cyanogenmod, while not supporting all of the hardware (i.e. video camera), enabled Android and access to all of the apps, games, etc. to an abandoned platform. I gave a number of Touchpads away as Christmas gifts that year.
I've since moved on to the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity. ASUS provides a utility to unlock their devices. I am running CROMI-X (a slightly modified version of the Asus stock Android) so I haven't had need of Cyanogenmod since switching.
I've thought of this too every time I try to swat a fly that found its way into my house. Flies seem to be able to do aerial maneuvers in reaction to threats that you would think impossible given their tiny brains. I often wondered if it wasn't that they were so quick, but that (to them) I was moving so slow. This might also explain why they seem to like buzzing right by me when I'm trying to kill them. They're taunting the big creature moving in slow motion. "You think you can catch me? I'm right in front of you. Nope. Now I'm over here. Over here. Over here. Too slow. Try and catch me." *zips into another room*
Funny, I have no problem catching flies, even the tiny fruit flies. Perhaps it comes with all of that practice swatting mosquitoes and deer flies as a kid. Now, catching a fly with chop-sticks (Karate Kid) is an entirely different thing. I can't even catch food with chop-sticks unless I sharpen the ends with a pocket knife... (grin)
Either way, missing 3 months of 50% of the RAM production from Hynix from this FAB is going to hurt us. It is not just a case of the price going up due to diminished supply: lack of supply will impact production of devices using that RAM, and the inability to get supply because it's grabbed up by people with more margin to shrink out will leave some manufacturers with no RAM.
If you were to hypothetically project a 3 month supply gap window on, for example, all Intel mobile processors, as a result of a simultaneous attack on a, relatively speaking, small number of FAB targets (all that actually necessary is breaking the clean room viability; no loss of life required), you can see what that would do to economies which relied on that production not being interrupted.
Oh, noze... Limited supplies of new Apple iPhones, Samsung phones/tablets, Xbox One, and PS 4's just before Christmas!!! Oh, the painnnnnn.... Society will come crashing down around us... (grin)
I know it isn't always cool to support Apple, but I have to say that there are a lot of things that were just fads before they came in and did it right. Even if they didn't get it right, they normally did something to do it better, or to make it popular.
Look at how many mp3 players there were before the iPod...
Lots... Creative and Rio had lineups of MP3 players in the late 90's that were being sold in stores. The iPod wasn't released until 2001. A better question is when did MP3 players go mainstream? Then we get into the chicken and the egg discussion. Did Apple ride the MP3 wave that was already building or was it the "cool" factor of iPods that made MP3 players mainstream? Personally, I think that MP3 players would have gone mainstream without Apple, but Apple did have impeccable timing.
As far back as Sun Tsu, experts in strategy have written that the worst thing you can do to a military force is make them fight in a swap. That's just as important today. A "battle suit" that does nothing more than keep a soldier comfortable and disease-free in a swap would be a vast strategic advantage. It's as big a deal as the whole concept of drones.
Get that working, and an Iron Man suit might be nice in specific cases, but you've already got 90% without armor and weapon links.
I think that you meant "swamp" not "swap"... Though I have seen how testy housewives can get at swap meets... (grin)
As an example, we're trying to get a data transfer application that uses a non-standard port to work through our firewall. The current test setup has no data that can even be remotely considered "sensitive" (e.g., test files are "lorem ipsum" or similar). But, before the port can be opened to see if the protocol will work at all, we needed to recompile some libraries to force the user of higher strength encryption. Now, our testing is hampered by the "too many changes" problem...is the config file for the app on both ends correct, does the encryption sync up, is the port open, is any IDS/traffic shaper/etc. causing a problem, etc. The correct way to test would have been to just open the port with a restriction on the outside IP address, and then we could just use the app with default config (no security, etc.), and make changes to get to a production config that met the security requirements. At that point, the firewall rule could be changed to allow the connections from arbitrary IP addresses we will eventually need.
But, because security has a veto on everything, we're spending a lot more time trying to figure out what is causing issues. A proper security group would understand when rules can be bent or broken (and even allow rules to be permanently changed), instead of blindly applying rules that they might not even have had a hand in creating (depending on turnover within the organization).
It's the wrong way to go about configuring/testing the application... You should be testing the application in an isolated test environment and not on the production network. In fact, you could have gone to the firewall guys to install a test firewall in the test environment to iron all of these things out. The application should be fully developed, tested, and configured before you even think about connecting it to the Internet. It sounds like the implementation team wanted to take a shortcut and "just deploy it" without any consideration for security, etc... My opinion is that you're blaming the firewall guys because you didn't do you're homework...
Maybe now Nestle will sell the same KitKat bars in the US as they do in Canada. KitKat bars in the US have a candy chocolate coating. In Canada, and in the rest of the world, they use milk chocolate. Plus, they have a KitKat chunky... more milk chocolatey goodness...
Keep that math in your brain for the next "Overpaid CEO" argument.
So, you're only argument is that at $325 per employee, the CEO is a bargain? That's a crap argument. Everyone knows that you negotiate for a car based on the the total cost, not the monthly payment. Most CEO's are well overpaid for the value that the bring to the table. What's worse is they get guaranteed money even if they are fired for failing. On top of that, if the is a public company, that's money being taken away from shareholder value.
As for the $$$ per employee, I'm willing to bet that $325 or even $12.50 per employee would end up in the economy much quicker than if it was given to the CEO, generating more economic activity. In fact, one of the reasons why the economy has stalled is because the middle-class is shrinking. "According to PolitiFact and others, 400 Americans now own more than 50% of the net wealth of the United States." -Wealth in the US Wiki Yeah, lets continue this trend by over-paying CEO's...
At worst, being on the list should mean you're subject to a full search of your luggage and person to make sure you're not carrying explosives or weapons. Not that you can't fly at all.
Maybe, but then if something does go wrong who gets the legal liability? The Airline. So, even if the government cleared someone to fly, the Airline cannot be forced to board you. What Airline is willing to take that risk? In fact, there have been a number of people that Airlines have deemed "suspicious" that they have removed from flights even after they cleared security. Pretty much all of them have been later cleared and flown on other flights with no problems.
Doesn't mean that "gamers" won't buy this stuff... People are stupid when it comes to buying components. Only have 1 video card? Not overclocking your CPU? Only one hard drive? Yeah let's just get this 750W supply just in case.
A 750W power supply isn't that ridiculous. Eventually I bought a new 550W power supply and all the problems went away. Maybe the "reputable brand" of my 450W power supply wasn't actually reputable, or maybe some element inside had degraded over time, but power supply problems are the most frustrating kinds of problems to solve if you are assuming that X watts should be enough. I'm not made of money, but I'm going to buy the best power supply I can afford in the future.
Since when is a $70 to $90 part considered a luxury high-end part? If you has said a $300 water-cooler, I would have agreed with you.
I'll grant you that for a single CPU system with a single hard-drive that a 750W power supply is overkill. However, you need to remember that cheap PSUs do not always provide the power that they are rated at, having a larger PSU provides room for expansion, and having a larger PSU doesn't usually use any more energy as you are drawing the power that the system requires (not the full capability of the PSU) and efficiency is fairly even across different sized PSUs.
I have an 850W power supply. I have a single i7 CPU but I have two high end graphics cards, 6 hard-drives, a PCI Soundblaster card, and a PCI RAID card. Right now, my system is using 225W because it is basically idling while I type but the power usage goes up pretty quickly when playing Far Cry 3.
It's really common sense: if you know your buddy is kind of a dumbass about such things, don't text him when you know he's driving. I already have people I apply this rule to.
No, it's not... It doesn't matter if he is a dumbass or not. You are not legally responsible for his behavior. He is.
I applaud your efforts at being a good friend but, in my opinion, that does not diminish his personal legal responsibility to operate a car in a safe manner in any way. Nor does that transfer his legal responsibility to you.
but this is just as nonsensical as the court ruling about knowingly texting someone while they are driving
Well, if you put it like that, then yeah, the court's decision would be nonsensical. But the court didn't say that. The court said that you share responsibility if you have good reasons to believe the text receiver is not merely driving, but will read the text while driving.
Which is commonsense. You don't get an out for something you initiate simply because the mechanism you're relying upon involves someone else being irresponsible. And the court's not making you solely responsible, but it isn't letting you off the hook either.... If you're texting people knowing they're reading those texts while driving, then you're an irresponsible jerk. The driver's irresponsible too, but you know they're reading those messages, and you're sending the messages anyway. Don't pretend it's got nothing to do with you.
No... it's still utter nonsense. No matter what a texter does, they cannot force you to pick up the phone.
It's like saying that a cute girl is responsible for your bad driving because she is walking down the road in the summer wearing shorts and a bikini top looking hot. Based on the logic above, she would hold some responsibility simply because she knows that guys would be driving down the road looking at her, causing accidents.
No one in their right mind would hold the girl responsible, in whole or in part, for your actions or any accidents caused by your actions. The same applies to people texting you. No one in their right mind would expect you to reply to their texts while driving, even if they knew that you were. They would expect you to find a safe place to pull over. It's your responsibility to drive safely and no one can force you to text back while driving....
Bringing a delicious peanut butter sandwich to work for lunch is totally innocuous. Doing so with the full knowledge that Bob from Accounting is lethally allergic is...not..
What? Sorry, but this is just as nonsensical as the court ruling about knowingly texting someone while they are driving. This is about the continued abdication of personal responsibility. When you get behind the wheel of a car, anything you do is your responsibility.
Exactly. Here's the paper. It says right there that the students who multi-tasked while taking notes did worse and that some of the participants didn't even adhere to the instructions for their group, i.e., they surfed and screwed around when they weren't supposed to. And then did poorly on a quiz. Gee, who saw that coming?
Why is it that we believe that we can multi-task? In regards to work, humans cannot do true multi-tasking. We are either concentrating on performing one task or are are task switching by concentrating on multiple tasks in much smaller time slices. People are lauded for being multi-taskers, but the end result is that they end up doing more than one thing poorly, as we see in the study results.
"There's no shortage of skilled CS workers, just a shortage of companies willing to pay them decently" and are willing to train them.
There, fixed that for you. College is not about learning specific job skills which expire in 3 years, it's about learning a larger scope of skills that will stick with you throughout your career. Companies complain about a specific set of skills not being available in the marketplace and are unwilling to train or mentor graduates. Instead they go the green card route...
"The NSA's sniffing is legally comparable to a police dragnet checking door-to-door for a suspect - it infringes privacy, but the impact on any particular person's life isn't unreasonable."
No, it's more like tracking your car with a GPS everywhere you go.
Going door-to-door doesn't generate any data that is stored for future use and says nothing about who you talk to or associate with.
Going door-to-door would be more like being phoned and recording whether you picked up or not (door answered?) and the phone number dialed (your address).
The only BOSE system that I have ever had was in my Murano. Unfortunately, it was integrated with the environmental system controls, so it took 8 years before Metra came out with a kit to replace it. Finally I was able to replace it with a Kenwood head unit and Infinity Reference speakers. The difference was like night and day.
Summer is for golfing, boating, kayaking, beach, swimming, BBQs, vacation, reading for fun, and watching summer blockbusters (when it's raining).
I agree that most of us do not have two months off as we work for a living, but most of us do take vacation time at this time of year. In addition, I would rather spend my evenings and weekends outdoors during the summer working on my golf swing or enjoying a BBQ with friends and family.
Summer is short enough (at least int he North East). Leave training for the cold winter months...
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In some other countries where most have manual transmissions, drivers are trained to place the car into neutral and engage the handbrake at a red light. That at least makes this a somewhat safer practice.
Never heard of it, never seen any of my parents, friends or relatives do it. Typically at an intersection the car will be in 1st gear, clutch pressed with left foot, right foot on the brakes, certainly no hand brake. The only time I intentionally stick it in neutral while driving is if there's a significant wait that makes it less hassle to put it in neutral, release the clutch, press the clutch and put it back in 1st when the light changes. The only time I'd use the hand brake is for starting in a steep hillside, then you put the hand brake on, start giving gas and release the clutch so the car will immediately go forward when you release the hand brake. Otherwise you might bump into the car behind you.
I took my drivers test in Canada with an automatic but I used to drive a manual and I never used the hand-brake except when learning on hills. Once I learned how to hold the car with the clutch in 1st, I stopped using the hand-brake. For everything else, I would just use both the brake and the clutch, never the hand-brake.
It is not the job of police to enforce EVERY law. The concept is called "selective enforcement" and result in things like cops issuing warnings, issuing a verbal scolding, or choosing not to cite at all for some things.
One question is often asked at interviews for police work is, "You catch your mother speeding. Do you give her a ticket?"
The proper answer is, "no". Departments don't want people who would give their own mother a speeding ticket. Contrary to popular belief, departments want thinking human beings, not robocops.
What's funny about this is that if you were asked this for a job at a corporation, the proper answer would be "yes". So, you are supposed to be willing to sell out you're own mother for capitalism but not if she breaks the law.... :-P
This is Slashdot. We keep hackers' hours. If you're lucky, 30% are awake, and 5% are functional.
This seems to be true at any given time of day... (grin)
Unless the topic has something to do with UNIX, Apple, or basements.... (evil grin)
Windows has a good reputation
That is something I never thought I would hear someone say slashdot.
The only population where Windows has a poor reputation is with UNIX and Apple geeks (i.e. a large portion of Slashdot). If Windows was half as bad as some believe, the world would have come to a crashing halt by now. Love or hate the GUI if you want, but Windows 7/8 is a reliable OS.
I bought a bunch of HP Touchpads during the firesale. It was a great tablet, just no OS support after HP dumped them and the WebOS developers. Cyanogenmod, while not supporting all of the hardware (i.e. video camera), enabled Android and access to all of the apps, games, etc. to an abandoned platform. I gave a number of Touchpads away as Christmas gifts that year.
I've since moved on to the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity. ASUS provides a utility to unlock their devices. I am running CROMI-X (a slightly modified version of the Asus stock Android) so I haven't had need of Cyanogenmod since switching.
I've thought of this too every time I try to swat a fly that found its way into my house. Flies seem to be able to do aerial maneuvers in reaction to threats that you would think impossible given their tiny brains. I often wondered if it wasn't that they were so quick, but that (to them) I was moving so slow. This might also explain why they seem to like buzzing right by me when I'm trying to kill them. They're taunting the big creature moving in slow motion. "You think you can catch me? I'm right in front of you. Nope. Now I'm over here. Over here. Over here. Too slow. Try and catch me." *zips into another room*
Funny, I have no problem catching flies, even the tiny fruit flies. Perhaps it comes with all of that practice swatting mosquitoes and deer flies as a kid. Now, catching a fly with chop-sticks (Karate Kid) is an entirely different thing. I can't even catch food with chop-sticks unless I sharpen the ends with a pocket knife... (grin)
Either way, missing 3 months of 50% of the RAM production from Hynix from this FAB is going to hurt us. It is not just a case of the price going up due to diminished supply: lack of supply will impact production of devices using that RAM, and the inability to get supply because it's grabbed up by people with more margin to shrink out will leave some manufacturers with no RAM.
If you were to hypothetically project a 3 month supply gap window on, for example, all Intel mobile processors, as a result of a simultaneous attack on a, relatively speaking, small number of FAB targets (all that actually necessary is breaking the clean room viability; no loss of life required), you can see what that would do to economies which relied on that production not being interrupted.
Oh, noze... Limited supplies of new Apple iPhones, Samsung phones/tablets, Xbox One, and PS 4's just before Christmas!!! Oh, the painnnnnn.... Society will come crashing down around us... (grin)
I know it isn't always cool to support Apple, but I have to say that there are a lot of things that were just fads before they came in and did it right. Even if they didn't get it right, they normally did something to do it better, or to make it popular.
Look at how many mp3 players there were before the iPod...
Lots... Creative and Rio had lineups of MP3 players in the late 90's that were being sold in stores. The iPod wasn't released until 2001. A better question is when did MP3 players go mainstream? Then we get into the chicken and the egg discussion. Did Apple ride the MP3 wave that was already building or was it the "cool" factor of iPods that made MP3 players mainstream? Personally, I think that MP3 players would have gone mainstream without Apple, but Apple did have impeccable timing.
As far back as Sun Tsu, experts in strategy have written that the worst thing you can do to a military force is make them fight in a swap. That's just as important today. A "battle suit" that does nothing more than keep a soldier comfortable and disease-free in a swap would be a vast strategic advantage. It's as big a deal as the whole concept of drones.
Get that working, and an Iron Man suit might be nice in specific cases, but you've already got 90% without armor and weapon links.
I think that you meant "swamp" not "swap"... Though I have seen how testy housewives can get at swap meets... (grin)
As an example, we're trying to get a data transfer application that uses a non-standard port to work through our firewall. The current test setup has no data that can even be remotely considered "sensitive" (e.g., test files are "lorem ipsum" or similar). But, before the port can be opened to see if the protocol will work at all, we needed to recompile some libraries to force the user of higher strength encryption. Now, our testing is hampered by the "too many changes" problem...is the config file for the app on both ends correct, does the encryption sync up, is the port open, is any IDS/traffic shaper/etc. causing a problem, etc. The correct way to test would have been to just open the port with a restriction on the outside IP address, and then we could just use the app with default config (no security, etc.), and make changes to get to a production config that met the security requirements. At that point, the firewall rule could be changed to allow the connections from arbitrary IP addresses we will eventually need.
But, because security has a veto on everything, we're spending a lot more time trying to figure out what is causing issues. A proper security group would understand when rules can be bent or broken (and even allow rules to be permanently changed), instead of blindly applying rules that they might not even have had a hand in creating (depending on turnover within the organization).
It's the wrong way to go about configuring/testing the application... You should be testing the application in an isolated test environment and not on the production network. In fact, you could have gone to the firewall guys to install a test firewall in the test environment to iron all of these things out. The application should be fully developed, tested, and configured before you even think about connecting it to the Internet. It sounds like the implementation team wanted to take a shortcut and "just deploy it" without any consideration for security, etc... My opinion is that you're blaming the firewall guys because you didn't do you're homework...
Maybe now Nestle will sell the same KitKat bars in the US as they do in Canada. KitKat bars in the US have a candy chocolate coating. In Canada, and in the rest of the world, they use milk chocolate. Plus, they have a KitKat chunky... more milk chocolatey goodness...
$3,250,000 / 10,000 = $325 per employee.
Keep that math in your brain for the next "Overpaid CEO" argument.
So, you're only argument is that at $325 per employee, the CEO is a bargain? That's a crap argument. Everyone knows that you negotiate for a car based on the the total cost, not the monthly payment. Most CEO's are well overpaid for the value that the bring to the table. What's worse is they get guaranteed money even if they are fired for failing. On top of that, if the is a public company, that's money being taken away from shareholder value.
As for the $$$ per employee, I'm willing to bet that $325 or even $12.50 per employee would end up in the economy much quicker than if it was given to the CEO, generating more economic activity. In fact, one of the reasons why the economy has stalled is because the middle-class is shrinking. "According to PolitiFact and others, 400 Americans now own more than 50% of the net wealth of the United States." -Wealth in the US Wiki Yeah, lets continue this trend by over-paying CEO's...
At worst, being on the list should mean you're subject to a full search of your luggage and person to make sure you're not carrying explosives or weapons. Not that you can't fly at all.
Maybe, but then if something does go wrong who gets the legal liability? The Airline. So, even if the government cleared someone to fly, the Airline cannot be forced to board you. What Airline is willing to take that risk? In fact, there have been a number of people that Airlines have deemed "suspicious" that they have removed from flights even after they cleared security. Pretty much all of them have been later cleared and flown on other flights with no problems.
Doesn't mean that "gamers" won't buy this stuff... People are stupid when it comes to buying components. Only have 1 video card? Not overclocking your CPU? Only one hard drive? Yeah let's just get this 750W supply just in case.
A 750W power supply isn't that ridiculous. Eventually I bought a new 550W power supply and all the problems went away. Maybe the "reputable brand" of my 450W power supply wasn't actually reputable, or maybe some element inside had degraded over time, but power supply problems are the most frustrating kinds of problems to solve if you are assuming that X watts should be enough. I'm not made of money, but I'm going to buy the best power supply I can afford in the future.
Since when is a $70 to $90 part considered a luxury high-end part? If you has said a $300 water-cooler, I would have agreed with you.
I'll grant you that for a single CPU system with a single hard-drive that a 750W power supply is overkill. However, you need to remember that cheap PSUs do not always provide the power that they are rated at, having a larger PSU provides room for expansion, and having a larger PSU doesn't usually use any more energy as you are drawing the power that the system requires (not the full capability of the PSU) and efficiency is fairly even across different sized PSUs.
I have an 850W power supply. I have a single i7 CPU but I have two high end graphics cards, 6 hard-drives, a PCI Soundblaster card, and a PCI RAID card. Right now, my system is using 225W because it is basically idling while I type but the power usage goes up pretty quickly when playing Far Cry 3.
If you want to find out what you should have for a power supply, check this out: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine
It's really common sense: if you know your buddy is kind of a dumbass about such things, don't text him when you know he's driving. I already have people I apply this rule to.
No, it's not... It doesn't matter if he is a dumbass or not. You are not legally responsible for his behavior. He is.
I applaud your efforts at being a good friend but, in my opinion, that does not diminish his personal legal responsibility to operate a car in a safe manner in any way. Nor does that transfer his legal responsibility to you.
Well, if you put it like that, then yeah, the court's decision would be nonsensical. But the court didn't say that. The court said that you share responsibility if you have good reasons to believe the text receiver is not merely driving, but will read the text while driving.
Which is commonsense. You don't get an out for something you initiate simply because the mechanism you're relying upon involves someone else being irresponsible. And the court's not making you solely responsible, but it isn't letting you off the hook either.... If you're texting people knowing they're reading those texts while driving, then you're an irresponsible jerk. The driver's irresponsible too, but you know they're reading those messages, and you're sending the messages anyway. Don't pretend it's got nothing to do with you.
No... it's still utter nonsense. No matter what a texter does, they cannot force you to pick up the phone.
It's like saying that a cute girl is responsible for your bad driving because she is walking down the road in the summer wearing shorts and a bikini top looking hot. Based on the logic above, she would hold some responsibility simply because she knows that guys would be driving down the road looking at her, causing accidents.
No one in their right mind would hold the girl responsible, in whole or in part, for your actions or any accidents caused by your actions. The same applies to people texting you. No one in their right mind would expect you to reply to their texts while driving, even if they knew that you were. They would expect you to find a safe place to pull over. It's your responsibility to drive safely and no one can force you to text back while driving....
Bringing a delicious peanut butter sandwich to work for lunch is totally innocuous. Doing so with the full knowledge that Bob from Accounting is lethally allergic is...not..
What? Sorry, but this is just as nonsensical as the court ruling about knowingly texting someone while they are driving. This is about the continued abdication of personal responsibility. When you get behind the wheel of a car, anything you do is your responsibility.
what is it actually good for?
"...absolutely nothing. Say it again y'all!!" Oh, wait, that's War... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv5BYEOQYLo
Exactly. Here's the paper. It says right there that the students who multi-tasked while taking notes did worse and that some of the participants didn't even adhere to the instructions for their group, i.e., they surfed and screwed around when they weren't supposed to. And then did poorly on a quiz. Gee, who saw that coming?
Why is it that we believe that we can multi-task? In regards to work, humans cannot do true multi-tasking. We are either concentrating on performing one task or are are task switching by concentrating on multiple tasks in much smaller time slices. People are lauded for being multi-taskers, but the end result is that they end up doing more than one thing poorly, as we see in the study results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking
"There's no shortage of skilled CS workers, just a shortage of companies willing to pay them decently" and are willing to train them.
There, fixed that for you. College is not about learning specific job skills which expire in 3 years, it's about learning a larger scope of skills that will stick with you throughout your career. Companies complain about a specific set of skills not being available in the marketplace and are unwilling to train or mentor graduates. Instead they go the green card route...
"The NSA's sniffing is legally comparable to a police dragnet checking door-to-door for a suspect - it infringes privacy, but the impact on any particular person's life isn't unreasonable."
No, it's more like tracking your car with a GPS everywhere you go.
Going door-to-door doesn't generate any data that is stored for future use and says nothing about who you talk to or associate with.
Going door-to-door would be more like being phoned and recording whether you picked up or not (door answered?) and the phone number dialed (your address).
No automatic filter works better than actual parenting...
The only BOSE system that I have ever had was in my Murano. Unfortunately, it was integrated with the environmental system controls, so it took 8 years before Metra came out with a kit to replace it. Finally I was able to replace it with a Kenwood head unit and Infinity Reference speakers. The difference was like night and day.
Summer is for golfing, boating, kayaking, beach, swimming, BBQs, vacation, reading for fun, and watching summer blockbusters (when it's raining).
I agree that most of us do not have two months off as we work for a living, but most of us do take vacation time at this time of year. In addition, I would rather spend my evenings and weekends outdoors during the summer working on my golf swing or enjoying a BBQ with friends and family.
Summer is short enough (at least int he North East). Leave training for the cold winter months...
Cute is attractive, soft, and loveable. In no way do these look cute! They look disturbing and evil to me...
I guess beauty, or "cuteness", really is in the eye of the beholder...