Its common practice to refer to urban myths by the claim made. Hence a discussion about a claim that a recruiter was told not to hire WoW players would be titled in reference to that claim even though the discussion proceeds to prove that claim inaccurate.
Apparantly you missed the huge disclaimer below that.
ATTENTION READERS:
If you were linked here from another site, odds are they got the story wrong. Since columnists and bloggers on the internet can't read, we're going to put this in "simple" speak for any future people that want to write about this anecdotal forum post:
1. Tale was having a conversation with someone at lunch.
2. It was not a job interview, he has a job in online media. Though, apparently almost everyone who wrote about this story should not have a job in online media.
3. This was merely a brief comment in a conversation.
4. Tale is not in America. He is in Australia.
5. This is a single recruiter who said this, not some company or some massive employer, just one dude. Just ONE DUDE.
And yet you classify a sports team as productive? I'd much rather hire a guy who plays video games than plays football, yet society tends to fawn over sports heros when they are usually dumb as rocks and one trick ponies.
I remember a back when I was looking into the Marines I talked a lot to their officer recruiters. I can't remember exactly how it was said but once they told me something kind of interesting. The gist of it was that they would rather sign on a kid who spent his youth playing computer games than the football captain, because physical strength atrophies so the captain is probably fat by now already and they can get you into shape anyway. Gaming, on the other hand, was a far better training for tactical planning, spatial awareness, cooperation, and equipment use. Driving a tank is much more like playing a video game than catching a ball.
Depends on what the cargo is. Theoretically the ISS could have a shuttle to rendezvous, get the pizza, and bring it back. There doesn't necessarily have to be a direct connection.
Does he make his income from owning an apartment building or selling wooden shoes? Sounds to me like he keeps it open more out of family obligation than as a money maker.
Thats BS. There are plenty of people who work in such "unprofitable" markets. Plumbing, which you reference, can be very profitable. I happen to know someone who owns a family plumbing business, they do quite well. I see plumbing trucks driving around all the time. Seems someone is doing it and making money, which blows your massive over-generalization out of the water.
Hospitals are mostly public non-profit institutions where nobody cares about the profit. Anything left over is just reinvested into new equipment and nobody gets big bonuses anyway. There are private hospitals, but those are mostly research oriented.
You seem to be mostly talking out of your butt out of your dislike of America. You have no idea what it is really like.
They didnt invent something that fixes the problem. That concept was around long before the technology to do so. They just invented one (or more) ways to accomplish that concept. If someone comes along and designs something that does the same thing in a completely different method, then that is their invention and not yous.
Functionality is not a technology, it's a concept. The means to accomplish that functionality is technology. When the concept is as obvious as a preview on a camera, it shouldn't be patentable. It's just common sense.
is how long the iPhone and such have been on the market already. If someone markets a product in violation of your patent, especially when it is so popular as the iPhone, then you best ship up pretty quick and get it cleared up instead of waiting a couple years to make a fuss. That just shows that you finally realized you could make a quick buck and not that you just realized the patent was being violated.
It seems to me the advantage of ghostery over noscript is that (as I understand it) it has a database to identify what the javascript and urls are. I use noscript occasionally, never used ghostery though so idk
I didnt catch it it mentioned if the 40% is a technological limit or something they chose to make the screen more visible. A way to adjust the transparancy on the fly would be awesome.
If I remember correctly Facebook used to require some sort of verifiable email address issued from a school or work domain. They wouldn't accept hotmail/yahoo/gmail accounts specifically so people couldn't easily spam the site like this. I don't know if they still do.
ammendum I'm not saying we need to go to peices worrying about terrorism, but it is a valid national security concern. Saying that it isnt is like saying we dont need vaccinations anymore because nobody is dying of measles anymore.
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Its common practice to refer to urban myths by the claim made. Hence a discussion about a claim that a recruiter was told not to hire WoW players would be titled in reference to that claim even though the discussion proceeds to prove that claim inaccurate.
ATTENTION READERS: If you were linked here from another site, odds are they got the story wrong. Since columnists and bloggers on the internet can't read, we're going to put this in "simple" speak for any future people that want to write about this anecdotal forum post: 1. Tale was having a conversation with someone at lunch. 2. It was not a job interview, he has a job in online media. Though, apparently almost everyone who wrote about this story should not have a job in online media. 3. This was merely a brief comment in a conversation. 4. Tale is not in America. He is in Australia. 5. This is a single recruiter who said this, not some company or some massive employer, just one dude. Just ONE DUDE.
And yet you classify a sports team as productive?
I'd much rather hire a guy who plays video games than plays football, yet society tends to fawn over sports heros when they are usually dumb as rocks and one trick ponies.
I remember a back when I was looking into the Marines I talked a lot to their officer recruiters. I can't remember exactly how it was said but once they told me something kind of interesting. The gist of it was that they would rather sign on a kid who spent his youth playing computer games than the football captain, because physical strength atrophies so the captain is probably fat by now already and they can get you into shape anyway. Gaming, on the other hand, was a far better training for tactical planning, spatial awareness, cooperation, and equipment use. Driving a tank is much more like playing a video game than catching a ball.
its called a monorail
Depends on what the cargo is. Theoretically the ISS could have a shuttle to rendezvous, get the pizza, and bring it back. There doesn't necessarily have to be a direct connection.
Who says it has to be stable? It just has to get high enough for the ISS to snag it.
actually i would say a space elevator is a funding problem.
Does he make his income from owning an apartment building or selling wooden shoes? Sounds to me like he keeps it open more out of family obligation than as a money maker.
Thats BS. There are plenty of people who work in such "unprofitable" markets. Plumbing, which you reference, can be very profitable. I happen to know someone who owns a family plumbing business, they do quite well. I see plumbing trucks driving around all the time. Seems someone is doing it and making money, which blows your massive over-generalization out of the water. Hospitals are mostly public non-profit institutions where nobody cares about the profit. Anything left over is just reinvested into new equipment and nobody gets big bonuses anyway. There are private hospitals, but those are mostly research oriented. You seem to be mostly talking out of your butt out of your dislike of America. You have no idea what it is really like.
They didnt invent something that fixes the problem. That concept was around long before the technology to do so. They just invented one (or more) ways to accomplish that concept. If someone comes along and designs something that does the same thing in a completely different method, then that is their invention and not yous.
Functionality is not a technology, it's a concept. The means to accomplish that functionality is technology. When the concept is as obvious as a preview on a camera, it shouldn't be patentable. It's just common sense.
is how long the iPhone and such have been on the market already. If someone markets a product in violation of your patent, especially when it is so popular as the iPhone, then you best ship up pretty quick and get it cleared up instead of waiting a couple years to make a fuss. That just shows that you finally realized you could make a quick buck and not that you just realized the patent was being violated.
It seems to me the advantage of ghostery over noscript is that (as I understand it) it has a database to identify what the javascript and urls are. I use noscript occasionally, never used ghostery though so idk
Are you sure about that?
and yet you are posting in one...
or you could get a butler
cost, flexability, brightness are all better with oled
I didnt catch it it mentioned if the 40% is a technological limit or something they chose to make the screen more visible. A way to adjust the transparancy on the fly would be awesome.
If I remember correctly Facebook used to require some sort of verifiable email address issued from a school or work domain. They wouldn't accept hotmail/yahoo/gmail accounts specifically so people couldn't easily spam the site like this. I don't know if they still do.
Duane? Are you kidding? You have to come up with 4 generic sounding names and you pick Duane??? What about Bob, Joe, John and Mike?
Wait a second... Is YOUR name Duane? Ahhh, I get it. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
I've always wondered why that is considered both a grave insult and goal of the highest order. To many it is even their life ambition.
That being considered, I don't think it is so much an insult as it is well-wishes, somewhat like "good luck" or "have a nice day".
soooo its like a shortcut to the control panel. yippeee.
Last time I checked, we are already spending millions on trying to stop car crashes, especially drunk driving, which is the biggest problem.
ammendum
I'm not saying we need to go to peices worrying about terrorism, but it is a valid national security concern. Saying that it isnt is like saying we dont need vaccinations anymore because nobody is dying of measles anymore.