My thought exactly. Why come up with a more efficient solution for your staff / volunteers to move the ice from the truck to the customer, when you can just make the customer do it. Which they'll happily do, since they're there anyways, and it will get them out the door and iced faster.
"I'm not sure I'd bother wearing it after the first few days even if it was given to me."
This is what will kill them. Lots of people might end up with a smart watch, but with out a compelling reason to wear and use them, very few will upgrade to a second one. The cellphone / tablet industry only survives at its current levels on the folks who feel the need to upgrade every six months; the wearable tech folks are going to have to do something to recycle their customers the same way, or they've got a limited market.
Man, no matter how many times they try to upgrade it with fruit "beers" and wine coolers and Ruddy Steer mocktails and all the rest, I've got to say that good ole-fashioned malted barley with a smidge of hops is still the best.
I wonder if you could legally take your driver's license test in a self-driving vehicle. You'd still have to have your hands on the wheel, and check your mirrors before (the car) changing lanes, but I don't know if there are any rules that would actually prohibit your not being in control of the vehicle.
Mind you, they'll have to teach the thing to parallel park...
In the case of anything but the most limited of exchanges, my house wasn't going to be worrying about ionizing radiation, it was going to _be_ physics dust settling in a glassy crater. The "watching the mushroom clouds" line was purely for show; there wasn't going to be anyone around to watch.
I grew up in the middle of Silicon Valley - a major techno-industrial center wedged between a fairly major military base and two major population centers. As part of my Boy Scouts Disaster Preparedness merit badge, we had to explain our plan in case of a nuclear war being declared. I told them "kick back on the roof in a lounge chair and watch the mushroom clouds go up."
There was a brief pause, and the instructor said "Fair enough."
I think Amarok has a fantastic user interface and helps me manage my files well. My only complaint is that it crashes about 50% of the time if I ask it to actually play music. Apart from that its great.
Strangely, the interface that Apple designed for Windows-based systems is orders of magnitude stupider than the one they designed for MacOS. Its almost like they didn't like Microsoft or something. I'm sure its a coincidence.
Of course their interface for Linux is "use our crappy window manager or die", so I guess I shouldn't complain.
That was the quote that grabbed my eye too. And while I agree with your interpretation, I can't help but also note that this is scientiffic evidence that achievement in our education system is not highly correlated with understanding of the subject materials...
Truth (but alas, no mod points.) Though the close correspondence between the two in the research would seem to initially imply that there are a minimal number of confounding factors. If you tell me there is a statistically significant link between scores on test A and trait B, the simplest conclusion is that test A tests for trait B. Doesn't make it true; just the simplest answer. Any longer train of logic requires more assumptions and/or discrepancies to explain away. Case in point; if we assume IQ tests measure pattern matching and noise filtering and X, then we have to explain why we don't (if we don't) have a bunch of people who are lousy at pattern matching, but score high on IQ tests anyways (because they're good at X). There are lots of perfectly sensible answers for that, but we'd better go find one.
Of course, if we _do_ have a bunch of people like that that need explaining, then its good evidence for the existence of one or more X's...
The goal of a user interface is to make it easy for a user to do _what they want_. If the thing you made it easy to do is what they wanted done, then it isn't possible for it to be too good. If you made it easy for them to do something they didn't want done by mistake, then its not "too good", its not good enough.
UUnfortunately the site was crashed 20 minutes later by illiterate 16-year-olds shouting "For the Emperor!"... and then served by lawyers from GW 20 minutes after that.
So depressed people with god feel better when they talk to someone who isn't a priest for a change.
And that's just when they have a nice chat with someone with a degree in pseudo-scientiffic mumbo-jumbo - imagine how much better they'd feel if they talked to a real scientist!
Thats a joke, right? Disney has been the go-to standard for megacorp entertainment since before my father was born. And I'm _old_. They're famous for animation sweatshops, bombproof contracts to retain control and leave the artists with nothing, draconian limits on the rights of their employees, and building enormous theme parks to sell toys of characters from 20-minute shorts. Heck, Disney lobbyists almost single-handedly rewrote American copyright law to keep their iron grip on Bigears McMoneymill.
They're just doing their jobs - making money for their shareholders - so I don't actually blame them for any of it... but I sure as heck wouldn't hold them up as an example of a "smallish moderate corporation" that was in any way acting differently if they tried to "cash in" on Star Wars.
Its not that terrible of a timeline... if you've already got a good story to tell.
I'm a bit concerned by the fact that the first thing I've heard about the movies is their release schedule. Probably they're just keeping things mostly under their hats for the moment, but it still reeks a bit of a mismatch of priorities. Like the freshman in college who proudly states they want to get married before they're 25... and doesn't have a girl/boyfriend.
You get paid by the hour, right? So make sure you charge for the hours you spend training.
Even if training is not your usual balliwick, I'd say in this instance it was good practice to take the job. You're ensuring a happy customer from a job you've already started. If you're concerned about ending up in an endless cycle of training, set a time limit from the outset if thats all you're doing for them.
The danger though is getting blamed for a poor outcome if your trainee breaks things. If you have concerns about the quality of any code written by the new guy, make sure you voice them politely and unemotionally, and in documentable form. If they continue to have him write code and you think that code is substandard, tell them why, and then asked to be released from the project because you can no longer control the quality of the outcome.
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He coulda got a brand new iMac for no more than half that.
My thought exactly. Why come up with a more efficient solution for your staff / volunteers to move the ice from the truck to the customer, when you can just make the customer do it. Which they'll happily do, since they're there anyways, and it will get them out the door and iced faster.
"I'm not sure I'd bother wearing it after the first few days even if it was given to me."
This is what will kill them. Lots of people might end up with a smart watch, but with out a compelling reason to wear and use them, very few will upgrade to a second one. The cellphone / tablet industry only survives at its current levels on the folks who feel the need to upgrade every six months; the wearable tech folks are going to have to do something to recycle their customers the same way, or they've got a limited market.
Man, no matter how many times they try to upgrade it with fruit "beers" and wine coolers and Ruddy Steer mocktails and all the rest, I've got to say that good ole-fashioned malted barley with a smidge of hops is still the best.
I wonder if you could legally take your driver's license test in a self-driving vehicle. You'd still have to have your hands on the wheel, and check your mirrors before (the car) changing lanes, but I don't know if there are any rules that would actually prohibit your not being in control of the vehicle.
Mind you, they'll have to teach the thing to parallel park...
Any one or more of:
Time Travel.
Teleportation.
Anti-gravity.
A pricetag of $0.
In the case of anything but the most limited of exchanges, my house wasn't going to be worrying about ionizing radiation, it was going to _be_ physics dust settling in a glassy crater. The "watching the mushroom clouds" line was purely for show; there wasn't going to be anyone around to watch.
I'm not sure that a poncho would help.
I grew up in the middle of Silicon Valley - a major techno-industrial center wedged between a fairly major military base and two major population centers. As part of my Boy Scouts Disaster Preparedness merit badge, we had to explain our plan in case of a nuclear war being declared. I told them "kick back on the roof in a lounge chair and watch the mushroom clouds go up."
There was a brief pause, and the instructor said "Fair enough."
"Have you got change for $100 mil? I don't really carry small change."
I think Amarok has a fantastic user interface and helps me manage my files well. My only complaint is that it crashes about 50% of the time if I ask it to actually play music. Apart from that its great.
Strangely, the interface that Apple designed for Windows-based systems is orders of magnitude stupider than the one they designed for MacOS. Its almost like they didn't like Microsoft or something. I'm sure its a coincidence.
Of course their interface for Linux is "use our crappy window manager or die", so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Alt Headline: Pedophiles Fail Turing Test.
That was the quote that grabbed my eye too. And while I agree with your interpretation, I can't help but also note that this is scientiffic evidence that achievement in our education system is not highly correlated with understanding of the subject materials...
...because he is as dumb as a box of hammers.
What? We didn't say we'd tell you _how_ he was wrong, just _why_.
Truth (but alas, no mod points.) Though the close correspondence between the two in the research would seem to initially imply that there are a minimal number of confounding factors. If you tell me there is a statistically significant link between scores on test A and trait B, the simplest conclusion is that test A tests for trait B. Doesn't make it true; just the simplest answer. Any longer train of logic requires more assumptions and/or discrepancies to explain away. Case in point; if we assume IQ tests measure pattern matching and noise filtering and X, then we have to explain why we don't (if we don't) have a bunch of people who are lousy at pattern matching, but score high on IQ tests anyways (because they're good at X). There are lots of perfectly sensible answers for that, but we'd better go find one.
Of course, if we _do_ have a bunch of people like that that need explaining, then its good evidence for the existence of one or more X's...
That's a high 6 3/8ths, Imperial.
The goal of a user interface is to make it easy for a user to do _what they want_. If the thing you made it easy to do is what they wanted done, then it isn't possible for it to be too good. If you made it easy for them to do something they didn't want done by mistake, then its not "too good", its not good enough.
'The relationship between IQ and motion suppression points to the fundamental cognitive processes that underlie intelligence'
Or, IQ tests don't test anything but pattern matching / the ability to filter noise in the first place.
UUnfortunately the site was crashed 20 minutes later by illiterate 16-year-olds shouting "For the Emperor!"... and then served by lawyers from GW 20 minutes after that.
Nah; smart people are generally mad.
(The voices in my head told me so.)
So depressed people with god feel better when they talk to someone who isn't a priest for a change.
And that's just when they have a nice chat with someone with a degree in pseudo-scientiffic mumbo-jumbo - imagine how much better they'd feel if they talked to a real scientist!
We're on a mission from God.
Thats a joke, right? Disney has been the go-to standard for megacorp entertainment since before my father was born. And I'm _old_. They're famous for animation sweatshops, bombproof contracts to retain control and leave the artists with nothing, draconian limits on the rights of their employees, and building enormous theme parks to sell toys of characters from 20-minute shorts. Heck, Disney lobbyists almost single-handedly rewrote American copyright law to keep their iron grip on Bigears McMoneymill.
They're just doing their jobs - making money for their shareholders - so I don't actually blame them for any of it... but I sure as heck wouldn't hold them up as an example of a "smallish moderate corporation" that was in any way acting differently if they tried to "cash in" on Star Wars.
Its not that terrible of a timeline... if you've already got a good story to tell.
I'm a bit concerned by the fact that the first thing I've heard about the movies is their release schedule. Probably they're just keeping things mostly under their hats for the moment, but it still reeks a bit of a mismatch of priorities. Like the freshman in college who proudly states they want to get married before they're 25... and doesn't have a girl/boyfriend.
You get paid by the hour, right? So make sure you charge for the hours you spend training.
Even if training is not your usual balliwick, I'd say in this instance it was good practice to take the job. You're ensuring a happy customer from a job you've already started. If you're concerned about ending up in an endless cycle of training, set a time limit from the outset if thats all you're doing for them.
The danger though is getting blamed for a poor outcome if your trainee breaks things. If you have concerns about the quality of any code written by the new guy, make sure you voice them politely and unemotionally, and in documentable form. If they continue to have him write code and you think that code is substandard, tell them why, and then asked to be released from the project because you can no longer control the quality of the outcome.