Most engineers know next to nothing about marketing and sales... to the degree that they actually despise interacting with customers.
True, but contrarily to MBA, engineers tend to be able to learn.
So true! And compared to engineering business stuff is dead easy to pick up! At university I used a fairly large chunk of my "free electives" taking business courses. Holy crap were they easy. I earned A's in all of them with a tiny fraction of the effort required to earn a B or C grade in any engineering class. My university's College of Business was highly rated so it's not like I was taking shit classes. The classes I took were 95% filled with business majors and it was so easy to outperform them it wasn't funny. I would bet my life that anyone else from the EE or CS department would have found them equally as easy. The business students simply weren't the same caliber as the engineering students. Disclaimer: Our EE and CS programs were in the top 5 in the nation.
What you do in business classes (and as a business exec)? You solve problems. The problems aren't in code or silicon; they're in companies and organizations. Business is hacking on organizations and markets. What are geeks good at? Hacking on things to solve problems. Whether the medium to be hacked is electronic, mechanical, algorithmic, or organizational it makes no difference. Once a geek understands the rules of the medium he can hack (problems solve) in a way that others who lack the same logical thinking and problem solving ability can not.
Which shouldn't be a reason to get rid of the internet. It should be a reason to go get laid so you stop obsessing about it. A) Get a hooker. OR B) screw your wife/girlfriend. If shes not willing, see A). OR C) Go out and find a girlfriend. If you can't get one see A).
You assume that watching porn / wanking to porn is somehow a substitute for sex. Porn is not a suitable substitute for sex and sex is not a suitable substitute for porn. They are completely different things.
They're cheap and safe. They have a water reservoir and a diamond blade. The blade stays wet during cutting so none of that nasty fiberglass gets into the air. Ceramic tiles must be cut this way otherwise they give off ceramic dust which causes silicosis.
I don't agree with this *at all*. You may have not looked into the dispute thing of paypal. In fact, it's the buyer which is safe in Paypal, and the seller having all the difficulties when a buyer is doing a claim or dispute. In fact, I'd recommend using paypal for anything unsafe if you are a buyer, and I would recommend all possible care for sellers.
You are advising people to get robbed here. They don't protect the seller or buyer, they protect themselves.
I've been using ebay since before Paypal existed. I have hundreds of transactions under my belt as both a buyer and a seller. I continue to buy and sell to this day. The unholy ebay/payal machine is so heavily in favor of buyers it's ridiculous. I never, ever worry about buying anything. I do worry about sales. On expensive items I worry a lot! The buyer/seller power imbalance is so bad I've cut my selling down to things that I absolutely can not get rid of any other way.
...then continuous code reviews are great. Keep two sets of eyeballs on the code *as you write it*. Yes, the antisocial archetype hates pair programming, but it simply works, even if it is uncomfortable (as code reviews often are).
What the hell is wrong with people in the software industry? In any other industry you'd be laughed out of the room for promoting this hokum. If pair programming is such a great idea then why not pair lawyering, pair bus driving, pair accounting, etc. Before anyone mentions that lawyers and accounts often do work in teams, remember that working in teams and the "pair" concept are entirely different beasts.
The reason the mainland Chinese engage in such behaviour are varied and manifold. Some say it's because they've been poor for a long time, and there's a Chinese saying that when you riches are "short", your moral/principles are likewise short (it doesn't quite translate well from Chinese).
The guys making the executive decisions to substitute high dangerous materials for the correct ones in large scale manufacturing are hardly hurting for money. The industrial bigwigs in China are far "richer" than those anywhere else in the world because everything in their country is so damn cheap. Check out the documentary "The People's Republic of Capitalism." In once scene they show an entire rack of belts in a high end shop. Every belt costs over $600. To the upper crust of Chinese society that's a pittance.
The big difference between Western countries and China, though, is that Chinese government is not afraid to exercise as much control over their markets as needed. If their bankers fail them, they'll line the bankers against the wall, not bail them out.
Not true! China is held hostage by the capitalists just as much, if not more so, than The West. One example: Bribes are big problem in China today. So much so that government officials caught taking bribes from industry are sometime executed or more often get life in prison. What happens to the capitalists caught bribing the officials? Absolutely nothing! The Chinese government is afraid to touch them! China need to expand it's economy 10% yearly. To do it they need the capitalists. Both sides know it and as a result the government doesn't dare do anything that might offend the capitalists.
Not exactly, but they get all the pussy they can handle and then some. Age doesn't seem to matter much either. 45 and wanting a 20 year old? No problem!
Forgot to mention that this only applies if you're a professional, have a job and money.
Not exactly, but they get all the pussy they can handle and then some. Age doesn't seem to matter much either. 45 and wanting a 20 year old? No problem!
For a universe that's supposed to be half-Chinese, Firefly sure doesn't have any Asians.
So who were the people grilling dog meat under the "hot dogs" sign in the marketplace descended from when Shepherd Book was walking around trying to figure out which ship to take?
(No, it;s not a myth. Asians eat dog meat. I know two women (chinese parents) who were tricked by their parents into eating it when they went back for a visit.)
One time a Chinese coworker was sharing favorite recipes. She started into one, stopped, looked disturbed, and said "Sorry! I forgot you Americans don't eat dog!"
Then there was the time a bbq rib cart was parked outside the office. Being a huge bbq fan I bought a rack for lunch. It was given to me on a big open plate/dish thing without a lid. I left a trail of shocked, gasping, traumatized Indians marking my path from the front door to my desk! One guy covered his mouth and literally ran off.
I remember the 1980s when everybody said that you'll need to learn Japanese. In popular culture the Japanese were shown as our future overlords.
They were saying the same thing in the 90's when I was in college. The government was actually paying doctoral students to take classes in Japanese. Of course, that went nowhere. It's clear now that Japanese will never dominate science or business.
Chinese will go the same way. Besides, Chinese is too much of a disaster to subject it to the world at large. It's almost as bad as English!
why? So I can save a few bucks on some shit PCB's while giving the knockoff capital of the world the blueprints?
Maybe its just me, but that sounds pretty fucking dumb
Spot on! Anyone who has any experience dealing with Chinese electronics companies knows that they WILL fuck you if you don't contract independent, non-Chinese QA folks to work on-site. There's a whole industry devoted to doing this type of QA work inside China. The QA contractors have the language skills. You don't need them.
If you're not working at a volume large enough to have your own QA guys/gals looking over your Chinese production line YOU ARE FUCKED. Your product may be good in the beginning but fun things will happen...
One of their favorites is to find out which electrical components can be removed from your design and still have most of the widgets (mostly) work. They usually wait a little while before trying this stunt. You discover it when some large fraction of your last shipment of widgets don't work or perform out of spec. Your engineers grab a pallet of widgets and open them up. Inside they find unpopulated component locations or possibly a completely redesigned board. (PCB area and pads == money you know!)
The other fun thing that can happen: Virtually identical clones of you product appear overnight. Inside the clones you find that the microcontroller/cpu is running the firmware that you wrote. The circuit is yours but modified to use cheaper/inferior components wherever possible. The clone makers liberally apply the "remove parts until it stops working and then put that last part back in" method of cost reduction.
Moral of the story: Unless you are one of the big guys who can afford to hire independent QA folks on the ground in China, have your shit built in the USA, Canada, or EU.
It's not so much that these "heritage-macho" types are using straight razors so much as they don't really have a lot to shave.
They might own a straight razor, and have it placed just so on their dresser next to a bone-handled shaving brush, but they are certainly not using them.
Check out the shaving forums (yes, there are such things!) Plenty of guys actually use straight razors on a daily basis. Many more have gone the Double Edge route though.
I was interested in trying out straight razors -- was getting tired of the waste and hassle of cartridges. Are straight razors difficult or dangerous? What are the pros and cons?
Are straight razors any good?
I mean can they leave my face as smooth as a 5 bladed modern disposable?
Double Edge Safety Razors, which is what the summary probably meant, are AWESOME. I have horribly tough, thick whiskers and was never able to get a good shave with premium multi-blade disposables. I didn't even reuse the damn things.
I get a kick-ass perfectly smooth shave using a Double Edge Safety Razor and I reuse the same blade for a month. You have to buy decent blades but even premium DE (double edged) blades are dirt cheap compared to disposables. I bought 100 for $20 shipped last time.
If they can continue to grope a pre-schooler who is clearly terrified and screaming "NO DON'T TOUCH ME!", they clearly already have a working heart extractor somewhere.
1) You then don't have to carry around tens of gigs of data with you wherever you go.
Tens of gigs? That may suffice for people who aren't into music. Serious music lovers need way more space than a USB stick or SDHC card can provide. Who wants to drag a traditional spinning hard disk around on a daily basis?
Curiosity will sport two identical single board computers (SBC's) for redundancy. The CPU's are radiation hardened variants of the PowerPC 750 that run at 200mhz. The single board computers sport 256k of EEPROM, 256mb of DRAM, and 2gb of flash and draw 10 watts. They can withstand 1,000 gray and temperature ranges between –55C and 70C. The boards have been in production since 2001 and are already running on a number of other NASA projects.
It always amazes me that NASA gets by with 10 year old (or more!) computing tech on their projects. When you're in space radiation and temperature tolerance are what it's all about.
Because of the lower range you'd have to have charging stations, and thus high voltage lines EVERYWHERE - in parking lots at work, at hotels, and also at gas stations.
I have some news for you... There are already "high voltage" lines everywhere. The power lines that are strung along streets are not 110V/220V. That's why utility poles have all those big gray cans on them. Those are transformers that convert from the distribution voltage down to residential 220V. The distribution voltage is typically 2,400V to 34,500V.
In 10 years i would expect it to have a range of zero, unless you changed the batteries on schedule.
I expect that in 10 years time gasoline powered cars will have a range of 0 for everyone but the upper income folks. No one else will be able to afford to fill their cars with 25 gallons of gas a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
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but I know how to look good in a suit (not a good looking lad, but keeping yourself in shape along with a trip to a tailor makes all the difference),
Looking good in a suit? A required "skill" for management? Seriously? No wonder the world is lining up to kick our asses in the marketplace.
Most engineers know next to nothing about marketing and sales... to the degree that they actually despise interacting with customers.
True, but contrarily to MBA, engineers tend to be able to learn.
So true! And compared to engineering business stuff is dead easy to pick up! At university I used a fairly large chunk of my "free electives" taking business courses. Holy crap were they easy. I earned A's in all of them with a tiny fraction of the effort required to earn a B or C grade in any engineering class. My university's College of Business was highly rated so it's not like I was taking shit classes. The classes I took were 95% filled with business majors and it was so easy to outperform them it wasn't funny. I would bet my life that anyone else from the EE or CS department would have found them equally as easy. The business students simply weren't the same caliber as the engineering students. Disclaimer: Our EE and CS programs were in the top 5 in the nation.
What you do in business classes (and as a business exec)? You solve problems. The problems aren't in code or silicon; they're in companies and organizations. Business is hacking on organizations and markets. What are geeks good at? Hacking on things to solve problems. Whether the medium to be hacked is electronic, mechanical, algorithmic, or organizational it makes no difference. Once a geek understands the rules of the medium he can hack (problems solve) in a way that others who lack the same logical thinking and problem solving ability can not.
Which shouldn't be a reason to get rid of the internet. It should be a reason to go get laid so you stop obsessing about it. A) Get a hooker. OR B) screw your wife/girlfriend. If shes not willing, see A). OR C) Go out and find a girlfriend. If you can't get one see A).
You assume that watching porn / wanking to porn is somehow a substitute for sex. Porn is not a suitable substitute for sex and sex is not a suitable substitute for porn. They are completely different things.
A reason is that orkut is FULL of low-brow content. "Orkutization" is used as a verb to define the rise of low-brow content in a given service.
Can you explain what you mean by "low-brow"?
Are we talking porn? Just uninteresting garbage? Spam?
Racism is big on Orkut.
You want a wet tile saw like these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/4-inch-tile-saw-with-wet-tray-3733.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/7-inch-portable-wet-cutting-tile-saw-40315.html
They're cheap and safe. They have a water reservoir and a diamond blade. The blade stays wet during cutting so none of that nasty fiberglass gets into the air. Ceramic tiles must be cut this way otherwise they give off ceramic dust which causes silicosis.
I don't agree with this *at all*. You may have not looked into the dispute thing of paypal. In fact, it's the buyer which is safe in Paypal, and the seller having all the difficulties when a buyer is doing a claim or dispute. In fact, I'd recommend using paypal for anything unsafe if you are a buyer, and I would recommend all possible care for sellers.
You are advising people to get robbed here. They don't protect the seller or buyer, they protect themselves.
I've been using ebay since before Paypal existed. I have hundreds of transactions under my belt as both a buyer and a seller. I continue to buy and sell to this day. The unholy ebay/payal machine is so heavily in favor of buyers it's ridiculous. I never, ever worry about buying anything. I do worry about sales. On expensive items I worry a lot! The buyer/seller power imbalance is so bad I've cut my selling down to things that I absolutely can not get rid of any other way.
...then continuous code reviews are great. Keep two sets of eyeballs on the code *as you write it*. Yes, the antisocial archetype hates pair programming, but it simply works, even if it is uncomfortable (as code reviews often are).
What the hell is wrong with people in the software industry? In any other industry you'd be laughed out of the room for promoting this hokum. If pair programming is such a great idea then why not pair lawyering, pair bus driving, pair accounting, etc. Before anyone mentions that lawyers and accounts often do work in teams, remember that working in teams and the "pair" concept are entirely different beasts.
There are over 10,000 entries in my /etc/hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1, and this is the main reason why.
I changed my hosts file to send everything to 127.0.0.1. Now all I see is porn. Did I do something wrong?
The reason the mainland Chinese engage in such behaviour are varied and manifold. Some say it's because they've been poor for a long time, and there's a Chinese saying that when you riches are "short", your moral/principles are likewise short (it doesn't quite translate well from Chinese).
The guys making the executive decisions to substitute high dangerous materials for the correct ones in large scale manufacturing are hardly hurting for money. The industrial bigwigs in China are far "richer" than those anywhere else in the world because everything in their country is so damn cheap. Check out the documentary "The People's Republic of Capitalism." In once scene they show an entire rack of belts in a high end shop. Every belt costs over $600. To the upper crust of Chinese society that's a pittance.
The big difference between Western countries and China, though, is that Chinese government is not afraid to exercise as much control over their markets as needed. If their bankers fail them, they'll line the bankers against the wall, not bail them out.
Not true! China is held hostage by the capitalists just as much, if not more so, than The West. One example: Bribes are big problem in China today. So much so that government officials caught taking bribes from industry are sometime executed or more often get life in prison. What happens to the capitalists caught bribing the officials? Absolutely nothing! The Chinese government is afraid to touch them! China need to expand it's economy 10% yearly. To do it they need the capitalists. Both sides know it and as a result the government doesn't dare do anything that might offend the capitalists.
White guys are treated like rock stars in China,
Not exactly, but they get all the pussy they can handle and then some. Age doesn't seem to matter much either. 45 and wanting a 20 year old? No problem!
Forgot to mention that this only applies if you're a professional, have a job and money.
White guys are treated like rock stars in China,
Not exactly, but they get all the pussy they can handle and then some. Age doesn't seem to matter much either. 45 and wanting a 20 year old? No problem!
So who were the people grilling dog meat under the "hot dogs" sign in the marketplace descended from when Shepherd Book was walking around trying to figure out which ship to take?
(No, it;s not a myth. Asians eat dog meat. I know two women (chinese parents) who were tricked by their parents into eating it when they went back for a visit.)
One time a Chinese coworker was sharing favorite recipes. She started into one, stopped, looked disturbed, and said "Sorry! I forgot you Americans don't eat dog!"
Then there was the time a bbq rib cart was parked outside the office. Being a huge bbq fan I bought a rack for lunch. It was given to me on a big open plate/dish thing without a lid. I left a trail of shocked, gasping, traumatized Indians marking my path from the front door to my desk! One guy covered his mouth and literally ran off.
I remember the 1980s when everybody said that you'll need to learn Japanese. In popular culture the Japanese were shown as our future overlords.
They were saying the same thing in the 90's when I was in college. The government was actually paying doctoral students to take classes in Japanese. Of course, that went nowhere. It's clear now that Japanese will never dominate science or business.
Chinese will go the same way. Besides, Chinese is too much of a disaster to subject it to the world at large. It's almost as bad as English!
why? So I can save a few bucks on some shit PCB's while giving the knockoff capital of the world the blueprints? Maybe its just me, but that sounds pretty fucking dumb
Spot on! Anyone who has any experience dealing with Chinese electronics companies knows that they WILL fuck you if you don't contract independent, non-Chinese QA folks to work on-site. There's a whole industry devoted to doing this type of QA work inside China. The QA contractors have the language skills. You don't need them.
If you're not working at a volume large enough to have your own QA guys/gals looking over your Chinese production line YOU ARE FUCKED. Your product may be good in the beginning but fun things will happen...
One of their favorites is to find out which electrical components can be removed from your design and still have most of the widgets (mostly) work. They usually wait a little while before trying this stunt. You discover it when some large fraction of your last shipment of widgets don't work or perform out of spec. Your engineers grab a pallet of widgets and open them up. Inside they find unpopulated component locations or possibly a completely redesigned board. (PCB area and pads == money you know!)
The other fun thing that can happen: Virtually identical clones of you product appear overnight. Inside the clones you find that the microcontroller/cpu is running the firmware that you wrote. The circuit is yours but modified to use cheaper/inferior components wherever possible. The clone makers liberally apply the "remove parts until it stops working and then put that last part back in" method of cost reduction.
Moral of the story: Unless you are one of the big guys who can afford to hire independent QA folks on the ground in China, have your shit built in the USA, Canada, or EU.
It's not so much that these "heritage-macho" types are using straight razors so much as they don't really have a lot to shave.
They might own a straight razor, and have it placed just so on their dresser next to a bone-handled shaving brush, but they are certainly not using them.
Check out the shaving forums (yes, there are such things!) Plenty of guys actually use straight razors on a daily basis. Many more have gone the Double Edge route though.
I was interested in trying out straight razors -- was getting tired of the waste and hassle of cartridges. Are straight razors difficult or dangerous? What are the pros and cons?
See my post below http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2305926&cid=36688700
Are straight razors any good? I mean can they leave my face as smooth as a 5 bladed modern disposable?
Double Edge Safety Razors, which is what the summary probably meant, are AWESOME. I have horribly tough, thick whiskers and was never able to get a good shave with premium multi-blade disposables. I didn't even reuse the damn things.
I get a kick-ass perfectly smooth shave using a Double Edge Safety Razor and I reuse the same blade for a month. You have to buy decent blades but even premium DE (double edged) blades are dirt cheap compared to disposables. I bought 100 for $20 shipped last time.
How long until this stuff makes it's way into panties?
If they can continue to grope a pre-schooler who is clearly terrified and screaming "NO DON'T TOUCH ME!", they clearly already have a working heart extractor somewhere.
They borrow the Vatican's.
The marketing department can save your job. Be nice to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo -- Bill Hicks on marketing
1) You then don't have to carry around tens of gigs of data with you wherever you go.
Tens of gigs? That may suffice for people who aren't into music. Serious music lovers need way more space than a USB stick or SDHC card can provide. Who wants to drag a traditional spinning hard disk around on a daily basis?
Curiosity will sport two identical single board computers (SBC's) for redundancy. The CPU's are radiation hardened variants of the PowerPC 750 that run at 200mhz. The single board computers sport 256k of EEPROM, 256mb of DRAM, and 2gb of flash and draw 10 watts. They can withstand 1,000 gray and temperature ranges between –55C and 70C. The boards have been in production since 2001 and are already running on a number of other NASA projects.
It always amazes me that NASA gets by with 10 year old (or more!) computing tech on their projects. When you're in space radiation and temperature tolerance are what it's all about.
Because of the lower range you'd have to have charging stations, and thus high voltage lines EVERYWHERE - in parking lots at work, at hotels, and also at gas stations.
I have some news for you... There are already "high voltage" lines everywhere. The power lines that are strung along streets are not 110V/220V. That's why utility poles have all those big gray cans on them. Those are transformers that convert from the distribution voltage down to residential 220V. The distribution voltage is typically 2,400V to 34,500V.
In 10 years i would expect it to have a range of zero, unless you changed the batteries on schedule.
I expect that in 10 years time gasoline powered cars will have a range of 0 for everyone but the upper income folks. No one else will be able to afford to fill their cars with 25 gallons of gas a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil