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I'm sorry that your job, livelihood, and future hang in the balance on one interview. Perhaps you should consider nursing. You can move almost anywhere in the country and get a job, even if you give a lousy interview. Although, your expertise and actions can mean the difference between life and death. That's kind of high pressure. Maybe you should just stick with your original plan to become a farmer.
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What's high pressure about an interview? If you go into that room not thinking straight, umm, you need to keep interviewing until you're not so nervous.
If you can't think on the spot, maybe you should be a farmer. Or maybe Google isn't for you.
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That's all well and good, but I'm guessing Google has no use for an employee who gets his insight during idle moments. If a person's brain freezes during an interview, how exactly can this person be relied upon? To put it another way, how do you propose Google determine your expertise? Give you a list of questions and then walk with you to the soda machine and sit with you while you stare out a window? Or should Google simply do away with questioning and turn to the occult for answers?
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>that period between the time I get into bed and the time I actually fall asleep
Are you saying Google should place a bed in every cubicle, or that employees should live in on-site apartments? There aren't too many employers who would pin their productivity on the frequency of your naps.
No, I said making a big public announcement of that sort is advertising a deficiency, not that building the index is bad. It's negative public relations. Read before criticizing.
Hey, at least you're seeing the stories about yellow ribbons on broadcast TV. When 500,000 (or more) people march on Washington or New York or wherever, and I don't live in that state, I have to read independent news web sites to find out what happened. Pathetic.
You're joking, right? Bush is not desperate to fix the election. All he needs is a team of monkeys and widespread adoption of electronic voting. Oh, wait. Democrats better start guarding their local zoos.
Sorry dude, but Hussein provided volumes of proof on paper as demanded and inspectors had finally achieved free reign. The U.S. censored much of this material before providing it to the United Nations, then invaded Iraq as they had planned all along. We now know Hussein didn't have squat and had obeyed the WMD dismantling that Pappy required of him in the '90s. It didn't matter what proof Iraq provided to President Twitchy because Twitchy was dead set on invasion. We now know what the CIA knew all along, that Iraq was a neutered kitten -- a mighty cry, posing no threat except to its own tail. The only thing Twitchy has accomplished with his two invasions is giving terrorists a second wind and wildly successful inspiration for recruitment. America is 100 times less safe because of this administration.
Why isn't anything being done about it? Oh come on. Neocons control all three branches of the government and own the fourth estate. If ya'll aren't scared by now, you haven't been paying attention. The fact that President Twitchy's support didn't evaporate after his revealing performance during the debate is enough to show you how completely uninvolved and clueless the voting public has become. So, let's recap.
#1 Govt 0wn3d.
#2 Media 0wn3d.
#3 People herded like sheep.
The only people alarmed are, uh, the rest of the world's population.
That kid does have a problem if you and/or his parents refer to his vision condition as a "problem." The only problem is a world that is slow to awaken to the understanding that the man-made world can be designed for universal access. Technology only makes it all the more easier. The possibilities open up as soon as you discard the idea that the kid is broken and begin to realize it is the world that is in fact backward. I'm sure you'll get a lot of good suggestions for stopgap measures. That's what the solutions really are. If you're buying special products and technology to substitute for tools used by sighted people, it's a stopgap product.
One day we won't have to buy "special" products or "special" software to do and access the visual world. One day manufacturers will approach the world with all of man's senses considered. Your PDA will have a speech option by default. The web sites you visit will be accessible by design. People won't see visually-impaired people as less than themselves. Teach that kid that he can do anything, and expect him to wow you.
Google doesn't need to make money from Google News. As other engines begin to match Google's search usefulness, Googles needs more perks to keep it attractive.
Correct. My primary e-mail accounts have been spam-free for 3 years, since I started watching where and how I give people and web sites my address. Through a few simple measures you can protect a new address without the need for spam filters, with no need to hinder your regular personal and professional correspondence (assuming you don't correspond with spammers).
The *only* spam I receive on my permanent accounts is an occassional worm-sent e-mail and a guessed-address spam every 3 or 4 months (and those have never led to more spam).
People who piss and moan about spam (basically everyone) are refusing to accept that they live in a dangerous world. There was a time when people left their front door and windows unlocked. An ounce of prevention is worth a billion pounds of cure, in terms of spam.
I'll never support an authentication system that costs me more money to send e-mail because I have zero need for an authentication system.
People who don't use throw-away accounts for risky correspondence are having anonymous sex without a condom. Go ahead, mod me down because you don't believe me and think spam is just the cost of doing business on the Internet. It's not.
The best store gives me a license of ownership for the music I purchased. Not a file. Not physical media. The music will not use DRM because DRM only hinders my legal, future use of the music I purchased.
I will never knowingly buy DRM music. If DRM is the future, then I will be saving oodles of money soon. Every time I listen to a DRM tune it would remind me that corporations own my property, not me. I don't like being a corporate slave.
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I'm sorry that your job, livelihood, and future hang in the balance on one interview. Perhaps you should consider nursing. You can move almost anywhere in the country and get a job, even if you give a lousy interview. Although, your expertise and actions can mean the difference between life and death. That's kind of high pressure. Maybe you should just stick with your original plan to become a farmer.
What's high pressure about an interview? If you go into that room not thinking straight, umm, you need to keep interviewing until you're not so nervous. If you can't think on the spot, maybe you should be a farmer. Or maybe Google isn't for you.
That's all well and good, but I'm guessing Google has no use for an employee who gets his insight during idle moments. If a person's brain freezes during an interview, how exactly can this person be relied upon? To put it another way, how do you propose Google determine your expertise? Give you a list of questions and then walk with you to the soda machine and sit with you while you stare out a window? Or should Google simply do away with questioning and turn to the occult for answers?
>that period between the time I get into bed and the time I actually fall asleep
Are you saying Google should place a bed in every cubicle, or that employees should live in on-site apartments? There aren't too many employers who would pin their productivity on the frequency of your naps.
Except I'm using Firefox 1.0 and see none of what's being described here. No suggestions. It works the same as regular Google. How boring.
What possible use is there for a computer except to entertain me with screensaver images?
Ummm, no. The planet is completely open to settlement. If you establish conservation areas you are restricting settlement, not "freeing up" anything.
Ahhh, teach kids to enjoy hard work... so they can... what? Work 80 hours a week for The Man? No thanks!
No, I said making a big public announcement of that sort is advertising a deficiency, not that building the index is bad. It's negative public relations. Read before criticizing.
"Oh, if you just added several billion pages, were you giving me crap before? How many more billions of pages are you not indexing right now?"
Google's announcement merely gives its users reason to question the size and comprehensiveness of Google's index.
Hey, at least you're seeing the stories about yellow ribbons on broadcast TV. When 500,000 (or more) people march on Washington or New York or wherever, and I don't live in that state, I have to read independent news web sites to find out what happened. Pathetic.
Have we given up? No. Big Media simply avoids reporting on most protests.
I predict a rise in church attendance.
Don't blame us if you haven't bought your own flying car yet. Cheap bastard.
I pity the moderator who worships George Lucas. Geez, you act like I killed your father or something.
It's a sad day when people receive awards merely for having lived 60 years.
You're joking, right? Bush is not desperate to fix the election. All he needs is a team of monkeys and widespread adoption of electronic voting. Oh, wait. Democrats better start guarding their local zoos.
I made that point with the sheep and debate response references. You do have sheep in Britain, don't you?
Sorry dude, but Hussein provided volumes of proof on paper as demanded and inspectors had finally achieved free reign. The U.S. censored much of this material before providing it to the United Nations, then invaded Iraq as they had planned all along. We now know Hussein didn't have squat and had obeyed the WMD dismantling that Pappy required of him in the '90s. It didn't matter what proof Iraq provided to President Twitchy because Twitchy was dead set on invasion. We now know what the CIA knew all along, that Iraq was a neutered kitten -- a mighty cry, posing no threat except to its own tail. The only thing Twitchy has accomplished with his two invasions is giving terrorists a second wind and wildly successful inspiration for recruitment. America is 100 times less safe because of this administration.
#1 Govt 0wn3d.
#2 Media 0wn3d.
#3 People herded like sheep.
The only people alarmed are, uh, the rest of the world's population.
That kid does have a problem if you and/or his parents refer to his vision condition as a "problem." The only problem is a world that is slow to awaken to the understanding that the man-made world can be designed for universal access. Technology only makes it all the more easier. The possibilities open up as soon as you discard the idea that the kid is broken and begin to realize it is the world that is in fact backward. I'm sure you'll get a lot of good suggestions for stopgap measures. That's what the solutions really are. If you're buying special products and technology to substitute for tools used by sighted people, it's a stopgap product.
One day we won't have to buy "special" products or "special" software to do and access the visual world. One day manufacturers will approach the world with all of man's senses considered. Your PDA will have a speech option by default. The web sites you visit will be accessible by design. People won't see visually-impaired people as less than themselves. Teach that kid that he can do anything, and expect him to wow you.
Google doesn't need to make money from Google News. As other engines begin to match Google's search usefulness, Googles needs more perks to keep it attractive.
The *only* spam I receive on my permanent accounts is an occassional worm-sent e-mail and a guessed-address spam every 3 or 4 months (and those have never led to more spam).
People who piss and moan about spam (basically everyone) are refusing to accept that they live in a dangerous world. There was a time when people left their front door and windows unlocked. An ounce of prevention is worth a billion pounds of cure, in terms of spam.
I'll never support an authentication system that costs me more money to send e-mail because I have zero need for an authentication system.
People who don't use throw-away accounts for risky correspondence are having anonymous sex without a condom. Go ahead, mod me down because you don't believe me and think spam is just the cost of doing business on the Internet. It's not.
I will never knowingly buy DRM music. If DRM is the future, then I will be saving oodles of money soon. Every time I listen to a DRM tune it would remind me that corporations own my property, not me. I don't like being a corporate slave.