While I agree with your point it's not unheard of in English. For example, why does inflammable mean flammable? "in" as a prefix usually means "not" but for some reason the rule was broken in this case.
Most credit card companies work such that if a credit card is used fraudulently the merchant will lose their money. Many use the CCV code to help validate the card online. If they don't require a CCV code then somebody could more easily use the card fraudulently which would leave the merchant liable. Essentially some merchants don't require it because they're unaware of this or don't think it's worth the implementation cost.
I've never understood how schizophrenia got equated with having multiple personalities. I've known many schizophrenics because schizophrenia runs in my family and not a single one of them has multiple personalities.
Do you also have access to the entire codebase and network involved? If not there is still some faith involved that the code on the other end won't throw out the submitted comment. You can understand the theory behind how many things work but without personally seeing the design you still can't verify that it works the way you think.
You can fire for poor performance and consistently failing this impairment test could easily count as poor performance. There are definitely negatives to this but inability to fire employees would not be one of them.
Google does allow you to quantitatively assess the impact. You can pretty easily tell when someone came to your site through a Google ad and what they did while they were there. I'm sure many people don't assess the data in any meaningful matter but Google does make that data available to use.
I think you really missed the point of the post and focused on the literal translation of the words posted. I think Pojut meant that a business can be posting a significant profit without growth and still be fine. If you're running a one-man business with a profit of $500,000 but no longer growing I think that's fairly successful. If you want to grow the business to be larger then go ahead but that doesn't mean the business is slowly dying.
Wegmans is a great Grocery store. I'm originally from their home town (Rochester, NY) and recently moved to a small town where they opened up a few years ago. In the town I'm currently in their biggest problem is that people assume they're more expensive than the other stores. This is largely because they have a very nice shopping experience. I'm constantly telling people to actually compare the price they pay and they inevitably spend roughly the same amount of money for a MUCH better experience.
Did you get to the in person interviews? They work on a unanimous system. Everyone that interviews you has to like you for the position or no hire. I've been through two in person interviews with Google and got filtered out at this stage.
I have a similar story that's even worse. I traveled once with a camera hooked up to an electrical box and some conduit in my bag. They actually did question it among themselves but let the camera through without verifying what it was. I overheard the following conversation as they scanned my bag.
Agent A: "Hey can you come here?"
Agent B: "Yeah, what's up?"
Agent A: "You know what this is?"
[Agents puzzling over it for a bit]
Agent B: "I have no idea.. send it through"
Of the transportation modes you listed the only one really suitable for long trips is trains. That could be another part of the explanation, people don't usually use cars and buses for very long trips which should be more likely to have accidents occur purely by virtue of them being longer.
If I remember correctly on the basis of time spent traveling, planes and cars have a similar death rate. So you're just as likely to die from one hour in a plane as you are from one hour in a car. For planes the takeoff and landing are especially dangerous, for a car the entire trip is roughly the same amount of danger (assuming road conditions, etc... are equal)
If everyone is ultimately only concerned about themselves how do you explain concern and worry for a complete stranger? Take the massive outpouring of sympathy and help for people hurt by natural disasters. Most people donating their time and money have no connection whatsoever with the people they are helping yet they still feel concern.
He didn't say the people don't exist, just that there aren't many Americans with those qualifications. When I was in college a VAST majority of grad students with a focus on something technical were Indian and Chinese. If the ratios from my school were at all typical then I can easily believe that qualified Americans are tough to find.
According to the article the system for detecting recording equipment is already in place. This is a new addition to the system to record audience reactions.
So very true. I was a CS and Math major. Math could be frustrating at times because I'd spend all night and about 10 sheets of paper coming up with a proof. Once I condensed it all down it was about half a page. It's all about finding the correct approach.
Wireless vs wired has almost no bearing on whether or not you can use up a 250 GB bandwidth limit. The bandwidth available to wifi is typically much higher than the internet bandwidth itself.
Assuming 30 days in a month that 250GB limit would be reached with a consistent throughput of just over 100 KBps. If you can't push that over your wireless connection then you have something seriously wrong in your network setup.
That could be true but more groups will need to look into this before an answer could be determined either way. Science doesn't work by one scientist saying "Look what I did! It works, just trust me". Independent verification is a very important of the scientific method.
I read the article and the only study I saw mentioned giving people the power to assign tasks to a group. The less responsible ones (read villains) assigned more tasks while the more responsible ones (read heroes) took on more tasks themselves.
If that's what their conclusion are based on then they're obviously making some massive leaps in order to determine who would become super villains
I AM a gamer and the study was clearly flawed from the beginning. Not only that I graduated from the University of Rochester. The test pitted FPS games against The Sims 2. The thing they tested for was ability to determine what ear a sound playing through headphones came from and determining the direction that a group of dots was moving. The primary issues are:
1) They only had one control game and determined that FPS games improved decision making ability while other types did not.
2) The tests that they did are clearly skills needed to be successful in an FPS. Quickly picking out movement direction, speed, and location along with spatial location of audio cues.
In short, this study suffers from some serious design flaws and doesn't prove much aside from the fact that FPS games help develop skills that are very useful in FPS games. Nothing regarding generic decision making can be concluded.
Stereo vision is far less important to people than most think. Beyond a short distance (I've heard values ranging from 10-30 feet) we don't rely on stereo vision for depth perception at all because our eyes are so close together. The angular difference between the two images becomes too small for our brain to accurately measure.
Bit of a nitpick here. There's a difference between a dairy allergy and lactose intolerance. With lactose intolerance you get an upset stomach. With an allergy you immune system attacks the protein in dairy. This usually results in a rash or swelling. In the worst cases (like my wife) you can die from exposure.
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While I agree with your point it's not unheard of in English. For example, why does inflammable mean flammable? "in" as a prefix usually means "not" but for some reason the rule was broken in this case.
Most credit card companies work such that if a credit card is used fraudulently the merchant will lose their money. Many use the CCV code to help validate the card online. If they don't require a CCV code then somebody could more easily use the card fraudulently which would leave the merchant liable. Essentially some merchants don't require it because they're unaware of this or don't think it's worth the implementation cost.
I've never understood how schizophrenia got equated with having multiple personalities. I've known many schizophrenics because schizophrenia runs in my family and not a single one of them has multiple personalities.
Do you also have access to the entire codebase and network involved? If not there is still some faith involved that the code on the other end won't throw out the submitted comment. You can understand the theory behind how many things work but without personally seeing the design you still can't verify that it works the way you think.
You can fire for poor performance and consistently failing this impairment test could easily count as poor performance. There are definitely negatives to this but inability to fire employees would not be one of them.
Google does allow you to quantitatively assess the impact. You can pretty easily tell when someone came to your site through a Google ad and what they did while they were there. I'm sure many people don't assess the data in any meaningful matter but Google does make that data available to use.
I think you really missed the point of the post and focused on the literal translation of the words posted. I think Pojut meant that a business can be posting a significant profit without growth and still be fine. If you're running a one-man business with a profit of $500,000 but no longer growing I think that's fairly successful. If you want to grow the business to be larger then go ahead but that doesn't mean the business is slowly dying.
Wegmans is a great Grocery store. I'm originally from their home town (Rochester, NY) and recently moved to a small town where they opened up a few years ago. In the town I'm currently in their biggest problem is that people assume they're more expensive than the other stores. This is largely because they have a very nice shopping experience. I'm constantly telling people to actually compare the price they pay and they inevitably spend roughly the same amount of money for a MUCH better experience.
Did you get to the in person interviews? They work on a unanimous system. Everyone that interviews you has to like you for the position or no hire. I've been through two in person interviews with Google and got filtered out at this stage.
I have a similar story that's even worse. I traveled once with a camera hooked up to an electrical box and some conduit in my bag. They actually did question it among themselves but let the camera through without verifying what it was. I overheard the following conversation as they scanned my bag.
Agent A: "Hey can you come here?"
Agent B: "Yeah, what's up?"
Agent A: "You know what this is?"
[Agents puzzling over it for a bit]
Agent B: "I have no idea.. send it through"
I really wish this were an exaggeration.
Of the transportation modes you listed the only one really suitable for long trips is trains. That could be another part of the explanation, people don't usually use cars and buses for very long trips which should be more likely to have accidents occur purely by virtue of them being longer.
If I remember correctly on the basis of time spent traveling, planes and cars have a similar death rate. So you're just as likely to die from one hour in a plane as you are from one hour in a car. For planes the takeoff and landing are especially dangerous, for a car the entire trip is roughly the same amount of danger (assuming road conditions, etc... are equal)
If everyone is ultimately only concerned about themselves how do you explain concern and worry for a complete stranger? Take the massive outpouring of sympathy and help for people hurt by natural disasters. Most people donating their time and money have no connection whatsoever with the people they are helping yet they still feel concern.
He didn't say the people don't exist, just that there aren't many Americans with those qualifications. When I was in college a VAST majority of grad students with a focus on something technical were Indian and Chinese. If the ratios from my school were at all typical then I can easily believe that qualified Americans are tough to find.
According to the article the system for detecting recording equipment is already in place. This is a new addition to the system to record audience reactions.
So very true. I was a CS and Math major. Math could be frustrating at times because I'd spend all night and about 10 sheets of paper coming up with a proof. Once I condensed it all down it was about half a page. It's all about finding the correct approach.
Assuming 30 days in a month that 250GB limit would be reached with a consistent throughput of just over 100 KBps. If you can't push that over your wireless connection then you have something seriously wrong in your network setup.
That could be true but more groups will need to look into this before an answer could be determined either way. Science doesn't work by one scientist saying "Look what I did! It works, just trust me". Independent verification is a very important of the scientific method.
I read the article and the only study I saw mentioned giving people the power to assign tasks to a group. The less responsible ones (read villains) assigned more tasks while the more responsible ones (read heroes) took on more tasks themselves.
If that's what their conclusion are based on then they're obviously making some massive leaps in order to determine who would become super villains
What's wrong with saying PDF file? It's not like saying "ATM Machine". PDF means "Portable Document Format"
Did I miss something?
I think PopeRatzo was under the impression that it was $885 for 1,000 units instead of $885 per chip when bought in batches of 1000
I AM a gamer and the study was clearly flawed from the beginning. Not only that I graduated from the University of Rochester. The test pitted FPS games against The Sims 2. The thing they tested for was ability to determine what ear a sound playing through headphones came from and determining the direction that a group of dots was moving. The primary issues are:
1) They only had one control game and determined that FPS games improved decision making ability while other types did not.
2) The tests that they did are clearly skills needed to be successful in an FPS. Quickly picking out movement direction, speed, and location along with spatial location of audio cues.
In short, this study suffers from some serious design flaws and doesn't prove much aside from the fact that FPS games help develop skills that are very useful in FPS games. Nothing regarding generic decision making can be concluded.
Stereo vision is far less important to people than most think. Beyond a short distance (I've heard values ranging from 10-30 feet) we don't rely on stereo vision for depth perception at all because our eyes are so close together. The angular difference between the two images becomes too small for our brain to accurately measure.
As a result of the above swapping to 2D won't really have much of an effect. This pdf describes how depth perception works in much more detail http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~salmonto/vs3_materials/Lecture12.pdf
Bit of a nitpick here. There's a difference between a dairy allergy and lactose intolerance. With lactose intolerance you get an upset stomach. With an allergy you immune system attacks the protein in dairy. This usually results in a rash or swelling. In the worst cases (like my wife) you can die from exposure.
You and I might be more careful but I think you're giving a lot of people far too much credit here.
If only I could get my coworkers to stop using IDLE