In many ways, the system has been messed with, as this list of "proprietary MIDI implementations" from just one company shows.
https://yamaha.io/2W9qFwO
One hopes that the new standard will address these implementations.
The latest beta release of Skype Android uses your contact directory and separates those who have Skype and those who don't. You can add phone numbers directly into this.
I don't beta test the Windows release, but it does seem that the only way to do this is to import your entire contact directory somehow. I agree this is very clumsy and I hope they add back the ability to create a separate directory inside Skype.
Otherwise, worst case, you can always just dial manually inside Skype, but that is also kind of clumsy.
Goldman Sachs, the central bank of South Korea, the central bank of Japan and others are treating bitcoin as a commodity, not a currency. Except regular commodities such as gold have a lot more liquidity than bitcoin, so it's kind of a second-class commodity. Like tulips, for example.
There is a regular maglev that operates from Shanghai airport to Pudong that regularly reaches 431 km/h (I know because I took a picture of the speedometer when I took this train last month).
Long-term Singapore residents go in and out of the country at the airport by scanning their passports, and then pressing on the fingerprint panel. Takes about 20 seconds total, and there is never a line-up.
However, facial recognition is much more difficult, and I have personally experienced failures at borders testing this (particularly, in 2014 in Israel, where I was redirected to a human). I assume the technology they talk about for Dubai isn't just vaporware, but I think facial recognition software has a way to go before something like they describe becomes a realistic plan.
I have a 55" 4K LG monitor that I use for my PC. I sit slightly more than one arm's length away from the screen. I think the curvature adds something to it, but I can't say for sure because I'm not about to test it by comparing it to a flat 55" 4K monitor. Mainly I think the curvature is a currently-fashionable design aesthetic for screens.
I work for a European multi-national. Some of my colleagues (sometimes the French ones too) are on all the time, and some colleagues are on-call during working hours only, and who take a month off every year (even some Americans!), during which time they are not available for anything.
1) I see no correlation between competence/getting things done and being on all the time.
2) Those who are on all the time tend to to be much more personally invested in work outcomes, so they are the ones who blow up every time some little thing doesn't go exactly their way. Overall, this makes these colleagues more difficult to accomplish things with, and I prefer the ones who have lives outside the company.
This is basic time management. Of course, being asked (and paid) to be on call in case of an emergency is a different matter: I'm talking about normal work projects.
The term "layoff" is also a euphemism, originally suggesting a seasonal...uh...layoff, with a return planned. So the meaning has now morphed, the euphemism has lost its magic power among the marketing types, and they need to go on and find new ways to murder the English language.
"gives the impression of improved brain performance without really delivering it"
Not too sure about that. I went off caffeine for six months once, then took a trip overseas (8 hours time difference) and had to drive 6 hours on arrival. At dusk, I noticed I was literally falling asleep at the wheel and drifting across lanes. So I pulled over to a coffee place, had my first coffee in six months, and it was like magic. No more drifting into opposing traffic.
Not really realistic, considering that a real monkey would get p-d off after a few minutes and start throwing feces at the page, and eating the pages of other monkeys. From what I saw, his virtual monkeys don't do that.
Call centers in India have good reason to Americanize (not "neutralize") the accents of the workers there. But the Arizona case reminds me of my grandfather, who was born and raised in a certain rural area of Canada, and got a job teaching in the same area. So if ever there was a local accent, it was my grandfather's. But some fool administrator with a Scottish brogue so thick nobody could understand him sat in on one of my grandfather's classes and marked him for his "foreign" accent, which in his ignorance he didn't recognize as a local variant.
I sincerely hope nobody is doing something like that in Arizona.
At a certain point, people stop focusing on their dreams and start focusing more on memories. And by the time they turn 50, it's memories of memories. So it isn't a "complexity" issue, it's what happens when people coast in life too much and let the synapses atrophy.
I have had too many students tell me an electron that passes through a weak field will end up with a velocity of something times 10 to the 9th power m/sec....faster than the speed of light. So even with ease of conversion between units, it is very easy to screw up if your brain is not turned on.
Meanwhile, outside the classroom or engineering firm, it is very unusual to have to convert from miles to inches for anything practical, or for that matter from km to mm.
The point about exports is also incorrect. The US and Canada are each others' largest trading partners, and I see no serious issues due to the fact that one country uses metric and the other doesn't.
Finally, if a country converts, there is still the matter of legacy measurements, especially in areas like real estate, so the population needs to learn both metric, US units, plus the conversion factors between the two. So the argument that metric is simpler in this case won't hold.
About 15 years ago I worked in a Japanese office where the database had its own scripting language. The company that created the database had translated all the keywords into Japanese and made it so that it would display correctly, so IF --> , etc.
Further, you could flip back and forth between English and Japanese versions easily and not have problems with the compiler. But not one of the Japanese programmers used the Japanese version. They thought it was just weird, and they'd already learned how to use IF in English anyway.
I suspect using non-ASCII symbols is a solution without a problem.
There's something strange about this. How to make atomic weapons is not that difficult, and certainly not secret. Any 14-year-old with an interest in physics and chemistry has enough information to do this. The tough part is that you need a medium-sized country with the infrastructure and budget to refine the materials and manufacture to high specifications.
They are just stating the policy of the church as is always has been (that the funeral is a well-defined service not meant to be a wake or memorial of the life of the deceased), and noting that celebrations or memorials of the person's life can be held at a separate celebration or even at a separate mass. It's also known that the church has not been enforcing its own policies in some parishes. Possibly the real news is that the NY Times reporter is so ignorant of the Catholic church that he thinks this is all newsworthy.
An employment-based green card is very expensive, so it makes sense that MS would only give it to a few of their H1Bs. My company did sponsor my green card, and it cost them about $50,000. And in one of life's twists, I had to leave the US for family reasons soon after I received the green card, so all that effort was for nothing.
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In many ways, the system has been messed with, as this list of "proprietary MIDI implementations" from just one company shows. https://yamaha.io/2W9qFwO One hopes that the new standard will address these implementations.
Wow. And maybe after this, they can finally figure out how to make a decent search function for Outlook.
The latest beta release of Skype Android uses your contact directory and separates those who have Skype and those who don't. You can add phone numbers directly into this. I don't beta test the Windows release, but it does seem that the only way to do this is to import your entire contact directory somehow. I agree this is very clumsy and I hope they add back the ability to create a separate directory inside Skype. Otherwise, worst case, you can always just dial manually inside Skype, but that is also kind of clumsy.
Goldman Sachs, the central bank of South Korea, the central bank of Japan and others are treating bitcoin as a commodity, not a currency. Except regular commodities such as gold have a lot more liquidity than bitcoin, so it's kind of a second-class commodity. Like tulips, for example.
There is a regular maglev that operates from Shanghai airport to Pudong that regularly reaches 431 km/h (I know because I took a picture of the speedometer when I took this train last month).
Long-term Singapore residents go in and out of the country at the airport by scanning their passports, and then pressing on the fingerprint panel. Takes about 20 seconds total, and there is never a line-up. However, facial recognition is much more difficult, and I have personally experienced failures at borders testing this (particularly, in 2014 in Israel, where I was redirected to a human). I assume the technology they talk about for Dubai isn't just vaporware, but I think facial recognition software has a way to go before something like they describe becomes a realistic plan.
I have a 55" 4K LG monitor that I use for my PC. I sit slightly more than one arm's length away from the screen. I think the curvature adds something to it, but I can't say for sure because I'm not about to test it by comparing it to a flat 55" 4K monitor. Mainly I think the curvature is a currently-fashionable design aesthetic for screens.
I work for a European multi-national. Some of my colleagues (sometimes the French ones too) are on all the time, and some colleagues are on-call during working hours only, and who take a month off every year (even some Americans!), during which time they are not available for anything. 1) I see no correlation between competence/getting things done and being on all the time. 2) Those who are on all the time tend to to be much more personally invested in work outcomes, so they are the ones who blow up every time some little thing doesn't go exactly their way. Overall, this makes these colleagues more difficult to accomplish things with, and I prefer the ones who have lives outside the company. This is basic time management. Of course, being asked (and paid) to be on call in case of an emergency is a different matter: I'm talking about normal work projects.
The term "layoff" is also a euphemism, originally suggesting a seasonal...uh...layoff, with a return planned. So the meaning has now morphed, the euphemism has lost its magic power among the marketing types, and they need to go on and find new ways to murder the English language.
...I checked, and I already have enough cheap-looking plastic smartphone cases.
"gives the impression of improved brain performance without really delivering it" Not too sure about that. I went off caffeine for six months once, then took a trip overseas (8 hours time difference) and had to drive 6 hours on arrival. At dusk, I noticed I was literally falling asleep at the wheel and drifting across lanes. So I pulled over to a coffee place, had my first coffee in six months, and it was like magic. No more drifting into opposing traffic.
Not really realistic, considering that a real monkey would get p-d off after a few minutes and start throwing feces at the page, and eating the pages of other monkeys. From what I saw, his virtual monkeys don't do that.
Call centers in India have good reason to Americanize (not "neutralize") the accents of the workers there. But the Arizona case reminds me of my grandfather, who was born and raised in a certain rural area of Canada, and got a job teaching in the same area. So if ever there was a local accent, it was my grandfather's. But some fool administrator with a Scottish brogue so thick nobody could understand him sat in on one of my grandfather's classes and marked him for his "foreign" accent, which in his ignorance he didn't recognize as a local variant. I sincerely hope nobody is doing something like that in Arizona.
At a certain point, people stop focusing on their dreams and start focusing more on memories. And by the time they turn 50, it's memories of memories. So it isn't a "complexity" issue, it's what happens when people coast in life too much and let the synapses atrophy.
Right. Everyone get on Google Voice with funny unnatural accents, unusual intonation and non-native grammar! Let's skew their data.
I have had too many students tell me an electron that passes through a weak field will end up with a velocity of something times 10 to the 9th power m/sec....faster than the speed of light. So even with ease of conversion between units, it is very easy to screw up if your brain is not turned on. Meanwhile, outside the classroom or engineering firm, it is very unusual to have to convert from miles to inches for anything practical, or for that matter from km to mm. The point about exports is also incorrect. The US and Canada are each others' largest trading partners, and I see no serious issues due to the fact that one country uses metric and the other doesn't. Finally, if a country converts, there is still the matter of legacy measurements, especially in areas like real estate, so the population needs to learn both metric, US units, plus the conversion factors between the two. So the argument that metric is simpler in this case won't hold.
Sorry, Japan labor laws mandate 10 days of paid leave, not 20.
About 15 years ago I worked in a Japanese office where the database had its own scripting language. The company that created the database had translated all the keywords into Japanese and made it so that it would display correctly, so IF --> , etc. Further, you could flip back and forth between English and Japanese versions easily and not have problems with the compiler. But not one of the Japanese programmers used the Japanese version. They thought it was just weird, and they'd already learned how to use IF in English anyway. I suspect using non-ASCII symbols is a solution without a problem.
There's something strange about this. How to make atomic weapons is not that difficult, and certainly not secret. Any 14-year-old with an interest in physics and chemistry has enough information to do this. The tough part is that you need a medium-sized country with the infrastructure and budget to refine the materials and manufacture to high specifications.
They are just stating the policy of the church as is always has been (that the funeral is a well-defined service not meant to be a wake or memorial of the life of the deceased), and noting that celebrations or memorials of the person's life can be held at a separate celebration or even at a separate mass. It's also known that the church has not been enforcing its own policies in some parishes. Possibly the real news is that the NY Times reporter is so ignorant of the Catholic church that he thinks this is all newsworthy.
An employment-based green card is very expensive, so it makes sense that MS would only give it to a few of their H1Bs. My company did sponsor my green card, and it cost them about $50,000. And in one of life's twists, I had to leave the US for family reasons soon after I received the green card, so all that effort was for nothing.
Yeah, 20 years ago there was similar pseudo-science published in Japan claiming that Americans were specially built to eat hamburgers.