It is now looking like they were going 45MPH or so and coming up to a 15MPH turn. Just beyond that turn was the place they were returning to. This is one of the hardest cars ever to control, and there are rumors of power steering fluid on the street, which could mean that it had just failed.
I was reading stuff about this on Jalopnik, and even the test driver for this car was scared by it.
Former world rally champion and Porsche test driver Walter Rohrl told Drive the new Porsche supercar is "the first car in my life that I drive and I feel scared".
Earlier this year, Rohrl said, the engineering team was about to cancel a day's testing at the famous Nurburgring circuit because of wet weather. But, Rohrl said, when he insisted the car had to be tested in slippery conditions, he discovered the car's daunting performance.
"I came back into the pits and I was white," Rohrl said. "I immediately said to the engineers that we need one button for the wet and one button for the dry", referring to the need for a traction control switch.
This car is so hard to control that you have to give it your attention 110% of the time or it will bite you in the ass. Jay Leno spun one at 180+ MPH on the track.
Probably when the tape has to constantly rewind to keep up with a slow CPU. I experienced this back around 1990 with a 68K Unix clone system that used SCSI1 to talk to 8"x4" data cartridge tapes. In addition to sounding awful (it's probably every bit as hard on the tape drive as it sounds), it completely fucks over your data throughput.
Seeing as how it would be pretty easy to install an RFID reader on a PC, I'm going to guess that someone already patented it, wants too much money for it, and it won't expire for another ten years or so.
Given that I'm the hiring manager I asked if we could revise the list. And I narrowed it down to:
Thank you, I salute you. Now if only we could get the million other managers with reqs open* to call bullshit on HR types with over-inflated egos stuffing reqs with buzzword bingo that has nothing to do with what is actually needed for the position.
*with an exception for the <5% being over-specific because a specific person is in mind and the public posting is just a formality
Yes, but people are actually buying the DS and 3DS, so it is worth the effort with them. The Vita? Tough luck unless you're aiming for the Japan market.
They sour the milk for Hershey's too, and I like their chocolate. The legend is that old man Hershey had a tanker car full of milk that went sour and he was too cheap to throw it out. It ended up making the chocolate better.
I've asked said people what they think of ascorbic acid, to which most of them effectively say they'd avoid anything containing it.
Do you also ask people if they are worried about Dihydrogen Monoxide and if we should end the suffrage of women? Also, protip: it's not an amino acid, it's vitamin C.
You know what "fortified with iron" means, right? It means they mix in a bunch of iron filings into the cereal. Crush some up and stick a magnet into it if you don't believe me.
The real joke there of course is that "a guy" would watch Dr. Oz, as his show is clearly aimed at women. The early afternoon time slot just confirms it.
I winced inside when I saw Daily Milk mentioned. It is Almost Entirely Unlike Chocolate[tm]. I went on a one-week trip to London many years ago, and those things infested all the tube stations. It was like something out of a Dr. Who episode, maybe one written by Douglas Adams.
Yes, there is a reason Cadbury is all but banished from the US except for novelty chocolate around Easter, when you need to satisfy your primal instinct to bite off a bunny's ears, and you don't care how mundane of a chocolate the bunny is made from. For comparison, that's also the season when we in the US willingly eat large quantities of that chocolate substitute known as carob.
It is apparently also much easier to steal, or have you not noticed all the buttcoin articles on/. over the past few months where there is a major heist or a trading company vanishes with millions of dollars worth? I even saw something today where someone threw out his computer with a bitcoin wallet on the hard drive (not backed up, of course) and now he wants it back (duh).
3. Only list your last ~10 years of work experience.
I'm going to reiterate this here. Sure, keep a separate text file with all your work experience, salary levels, etc., that you can print out and use to quickly fill in a job application form. But that's not what you want to put out for the world to see. One of the things an employer wants to see is that you don't have any unexplained gaps in the past 10 years or so, like you might be hiding something. (Like, say, being in prison.) Beyond 10 years, they really don't care.
In my case, I was self-sufficient living off of money from a shareware program back in the mid '90s, and got tired of explaining it all the time. I was sure glad when I had enough employment experience to drop it from my resume and job application forms. I do have some time when I was living off of savings from 2006-2010, but it started off as a "sabbatical" and then the economy tanked. Even then, I got two jobs from cold calls during that time, including my current one, and will happily explain how I was able to get jobs to come to me during a bad economy, when I wasn't actively looking for employment.
Still, I think it's the remote work requirement that's the real problem for submitter. Over the past five years or so, telecommuting has fallen out of favor with companies. Even when they are willing to allow it, the company still needs to have proper infrastructure for it (VPN support, etc.) Unless you're a top-gun hotshot with a reputation (and not just the word "kickass" on your resume), you need to either be able to live where you can commute to work daily, or be willing to take a temporary relocation job living out of an extended-stay monthly suites hotel for a few months.
You also need to know where the jobs are. Submitter has implied in another post that he only really knows about Silicon Valley, where he doesn't want to be (and I can agree) but not about other parts of the US (like Austin or RTP). He also implied that he has some kind of circumstances for wanting to be where he is, but not what they are. (Family member in bad health? Divorced and staying near the kids for visitation? Underwater mortgage?)
Search engines and browser pre-caching may trigger GET requests accidentally, so having a 'delete' action be a GET request, for example, would be bad.
There's few things more funny than seeing someone's database get wiped out by googlebot following all those nice shiny buttons with "&action=delete" or something similar in their target URL.
Why do you think that Silicon Valley is the only place to go? There are places outside the People's Republic of California with a lot of tech jobs. For instance, Austin, Dallas, and Houston. My current job (of over 3 years so far) I got from a recruiter cold-calling me.
The problem with recycling is that you need a product coming out of the recycling center that someone wants to buy. Metals are no problem, especially aluminum, which requires a lot more energy to get it out of ore. Soda can aluminum is a finely-tuned alloy, making it even better to be recycled into more soda cans. Paper can be shredded and have the color bleached out of it to make more paper. Glass needs to be sorted by color, and you normally can recycle only bottles and jars, not Pyrex or sheet glass. But paper and glass are still barely worth the cost of recycling (due to there being too much of them sent in for recycling) unless you subsidize it.
Most types of plastics just get shredded and compressed, or even burned. Because you can't just melt off the coloring as slag like you can with metal, you generally can't re-use them for what they were before. Some can get pressed with sawdust to make really nice deck planking, some can be made into that crappy polyester fabric that they make the most common "reusable" shopping bags out of these days, but without the plastic first being sorted by type, you just have a bunch of crap that's easier to burn than to do much of anything useful with it.
Most Americans can't visualize it because of a 20th century invention called the "subdivision". That's where a property developer takes a large tract of land, builds a couple of hundred houses on it, with twisty streets so you can't see more than a couple of blocks away, and limits access to the main roads in one or two places (a specific variant called a pod subdivision), thus meaning most people have to go a mile or two through the maze just to get out of the subdivision.
All business development is along the main road. If you are lucky, a supermarket will build at that intersection. If you aren't lucky, the supermarket is a few miles down the main road, and you get a "convenience store", which is small and has a limited inventory for twice the price. If you are driving, it isn't too far, but you can't just cut across other people's yards when walking, because all the houses get a fenced-in back yard when they are built. In any case, the businesses get a fence between them and the houses to prevent, um, "unsavory persons" from having an easy way in and out, usually mandated by zoning laws*. The walk thus becomes far enough that it's not worth the bother, and you just get in the car to go those three to five miles. And your place of employment is going to be nowhere nearby, so it's not like it's along your way when you were already walking.
Europe, like older US cities, usually in the northeast, was built up long enough ago before this became common.
tl;dr: Most modern American neighborhoods are designed to be actively hostile to pedestrians trying to get anywhere.
*actually zoning is probably the real cause of why subdivisions exist
I bought one of the last 17" MBPs when the Retinas were announced, and downgraded it to 10.6.8. (That was not trivial, you have to find 10.6.6 (?) on TPB, then update it.) Then I upgraded it to 16GB RAM.
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It is now looking like they were going 45MPH or so and coming up to a 15MPH turn. Just beyond that turn was the place they were returning to. This is one of the hardest cars ever to control, and there are rumors of power steering fluid on the street, which could mean that it had just failed.
He wasn't the one driving.* And the driver had actual racing experience. This is simply a car that's that hard to drive.
*at least he wasn't when they left, unless they swapped along the way, but the fire made it a bit hard to tell who was in which seat
"Unsafe at any speed"
I was reading stuff about this on Jalopnik, and even the test driver for this car was scared by it.
Former world rally champion and Porsche test driver Walter Rohrl told Drive the new Porsche supercar is "the first car in my life that I drive and I feel scared".
Earlier this year, Rohrl said, the engineering team was about to cancel a day's testing at the famous Nurburgring circuit because of wet weather. But, Rohrl said, when he insisted the car had to be tested in slippery conditions, he discovered the car's daunting performance.
"I came back into the pits and I was white," Rohrl said. "I immediately said to the engineers that we need one button for the wet and one button for the dry", referring to the need for a traction control switch.
This car is so hard to control that you have to give it your attention 110% of the time or it will bite you in the ass. Jay Leno spun one at 180+ MPH on the track.
Probably when the tape has to constantly rewind to keep up with a slow CPU. I experienced this back around 1990 with a 68K Unix clone system that used SCSI1 to talk to 8"x4" data cartridge tapes. In addition to sounding awful (it's probably every bit as hard on the tape drive as it sounds), it completely fucks over your data throughput.
Wow, just wow.
I mean, what's a sane idea like this doing on a crackpot site like that?
Man, that Jajah the Hutt was really annoying. But I still insist that Ham Solo dialed first!
Seeing as how it would be pretty easy to install an RFID reader on a PC, I'm going to guess that someone already patented it, wants too much money for it, and it won't expire for another ten years or so.
Given that I'm the hiring manager I asked if we could revise the list. And I narrowed it down to:
Thank you, I salute you. Now if only we could get the million other managers with reqs open* to call bullshit on HR types with over-inflated egos stuffing reqs with buzzword bingo that has nothing to do with what is actually needed for the position.
*with an exception for the <5% being over-specific because a specific person is in mind and the public posting is just a formality
Yes, but people are actually buying the DS and 3DS, so it is worth the effort with them. The Vita? Tough luck unless you're aiming for the Japan market.
They sour the milk for Hershey's too, and I like their chocolate. The legend is that old man Hershey had a tanker car full of milk that went sour and he was too cheap to throw it out. It ended up making the chocolate better.
Wow, there's an idiot with mod points doesn't believe me.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=youtube%20cereal%20iron%20filings
I've asked said people what they think of ascorbic acid, to which most of them effectively say they'd avoid anything containing it.
Do you also ask people if they are worried about Dihydrogen Monoxide and if we should end the suffrage of women? Also, protip: it's not an amino acid, it's vitamin C.
You know what "fortified with iron" means, right? It means they mix in a bunch of iron filings into the cereal. Crush some up and stick a magnet into it if you don't believe me.
The real joke there of course is that "a guy" would watch Dr. Oz, as his show is clearly aimed at women. The early afternoon time slot just confirms it.
I winced inside when I saw Daily Milk mentioned. It is Almost Entirely Unlike Chocolate[tm]. I went on a one-week trip to London many years ago, and those things infested all the tube stations. It was like something out of a Dr. Who episode, maybe one written by Douglas Adams.
Yes, there is a reason Cadbury is all but banished from the US except for novelty chocolate around Easter, when you need to satisfy your primal instinct to bite off a bunny's ears, and you don't care how mundane of a chocolate the bunny is made from. For comparison, that's also the season when we in the US willingly eat large quantities of that chocolate substitute known as carob.
Meh. DC had a crack smoking mayor yeeeeears ago, and they still re-elected him.
It is apparently also much easier to steal, or have you not noticed all the buttcoin articles on /. over the past few months where there is a major heist or a trading company vanishes with millions of dollars worth? I even saw something today where someone threw out his computer with a bitcoin wallet on the hard drive (not backed up, of course) and now he wants it back (duh).
3. Only list your last ~10 years of work experience.
I'm going to reiterate this here. Sure, keep a separate text file with all your work experience, salary levels, etc., that you can print out and use to quickly fill in a job application form. But that's not what you want to put out for the world to see. One of the things an employer wants to see is that you don't have any unexplained gaps in the past 10 years or so, like you might be hiding something. (Like, say, being in prison.) Beyond 10 years, they really don't care.
In my case, I was self-sufficient living off of money from a shareware program back in the mid '90s, and got tired of explaining it all the time. I was sure glad when I had enough employment experience to drop it from my resume and job application forms. I do have some time when I was living off of savings from 2006-2010, but it started off as a "sabbatical" and then the economy tanked. Even then, I got two jobs from cold calls during that time, including my current one, and will happily explain how I was able to get jobs to come to me during a bad economy, when I wasn't actively looking for employment.
Still, I think it's the remote work requirement that's the real problem for submitter. Over the past five years or so, telecommuting has fallen out of favor with companies. Even when they are willing to allow it, the company still needs to have proper infrastructure for it (VPN support, etc.) Unless you're a top-gun hotshot with a reputation (and not just the word "kickass" on your resume), you need to either be able to live where you can commute to work daily, or be willing to take a temporary relocation job living out of an extended-stay monthly suites hotel for a few months.
You also need to know where the jobs are. Submitter has implied in another post that he only really knows about Silicon Valley, where he doesn't want to be (and I can agree) but not about other parts of the US (like Austin or RTP). He also implied that he has some kind of circumstances for wanting to be where he is, but not what they are. (Family member in bad health? Divorced and staying near the kids for visitation? Underwater mortgage?)
Search engines and browser pre-caching may trigger GET requests accidentally, so having a 'delete' action be a GET request, for example, would be bad.
There's few things more funny than seeing someone's database get wiped out by googlebot following all those nice shiny buttons with "&action=delete" or something similar in their target URL.
Why do you think that Silicon Valley is the only place to go? There are places outside the People's Republic of California with a lot of tech jobs. For instance, Austin, Dallas, and Houston. My current job (of over 3 years so far) I got from a recruiter cold-calling me.
And by the time the fecal matter hits the rotary impeller, that manager will have already jumped ship to another company.
The problem with recycling is that you need a product coming out of the recycling center that someone wants to buy. Metals are no problem, especially aluminum, which requires a lot more energy to get it out of ore. Soda can aluminum is a finely-tuned alloy, making it even better to be recycled into more soda cans. Paper can be shredded and have the color bleached out of it to make more paper. Glass needs to be sorted by color, and you normally can recycle only bottles and jars, not Pyrex or sheet glass. But paper and glass are still barely worth the cost of recycling (due to there being too much of them sent in for recycling) unless you subsidize it.
Most types of plastics just get shredded and compressed, or even burned. Because you can't just melt off the coloring as slag like you can with metal, you generally can't re-use them for what they were before. Some can get pressed with sawdust to make really nice deck planking, some can be made into that crappy polyester fabric that they make the most common "reusable" shopping bags out of these days, but without the plastic first being sorted by type, you just have a bunch of crap that's easier to burn than to do much of anything useful with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling The very fact that there are six general categories, plus a seventh "aww, fuck it" category, is a good hint that it's not trivial.
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Most Americans can't visualize it because of a 20th century invention called the "subdivision". That's where a property developer takes a large tract of land, builds a couple of hundred houses on it, with twisty streets so you can't see more than a couple of blocks away, and limits access to the main roads in one or two places (a specific variant called a pod subdivision), thus meaning most people have to go a mile or two through the maze just to get out of the subdivision.
All business development is along the main road. If you are lucky, a supermarket will build at that intersection. If you aren't lucky, the supermarket is a few miles down the main road, and you get a "convenience store", which is small and has a limited inventory for twice the price. If you are driving, it isn't too far, but you can't just cut across other people's yards when walking, because all the houses get a fenced-in back yard when they are built. In any case, the businesses get a fence between them and the houses to prevent, um, "unsavory persons" from having an easy way in and out, usually mandated by zoning laws*. The walk thus becomes far enough that it's not worth the bother, and you just get in the car to go those three to five miles. And your place of employment is going to be nowhere nearby, so it's not like it's along your way when you were already walking.
Europe, like older US cities, usually in the northeast, was built up long enough ago before this became common.
tl;dr: Most modern American neighborhoods are designed to be actively hostile to pedestrians trying to get anywhere.
*actually zoning is probably the real cause of why subdivisions exist
I bought one of the last 17" MBPs when the Retinas were announced, and downgraded it to 10.6.8. (That was not trivial, you have to find 10.6.6 (?) on TPB, then update it.) Then I upgraded it to 16GB RAM.