I was gonna be all "blah blah IQ tests don't actually measure intelligence so it's a bad way to do hiring" - but for a draftsman, when you're going to do all the training on the job, it's actually not bad.
Most of what passes as "good" vodka, at least here in Canada, is pretty bad. It's not supposed to mean filtered a billion times, it's supposed to mean it tastes good. I didn't really get what vodka was about until I was given a bottle of Luksusowa, which is delicious on the rocks or even just as a straight sipping drink.
I'm with you about whiskey though. I have a hard time finding good bourbon (though had the pleasure of drinking some good ones over Christmas) so I mostly stick to scotch. Mmmmmmm....
As to what is the difference - try it and see for yourself. The key difference is that Everclear and water tastes like watered-down Everclear, and good vodka is delicious.
Same here. At my school keyboarding was a 9th grade "business" credit, as a vestige of the old secretarial program.
The standard was the same as in the summary - 30 words per minute. I finished the course being able to type 95wpm and earned the "academic" achievement award. It definitely wasn't worthless, though - I easily doubled or tripled my typing speed over the course of the year, which has done me more good than a lot of the things I learned in more "serious" courses.
What I find exceptionally absurd about this is that author of the article, Riyad Kalla, is complaining about fake reviews on Amazon, but the TFA has a link to another article in the "related articles" section, by the same author, celebrating that Denon one you mention. So he finds fake reviews hilarious, except when he doesn't. And writes articles about them in both cases.
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From my experience there usually is, but they don't document it very well.
For example, I have a Samsung TV with a PC hooked up by HDMI. To turn off overscan and rescaling, I have to go into the menu to rename the input and rename that HDMI port "DVI/PC". Everything in the UI suggests that's just the name I'll see on the input menu, and for every other combination of input type and possible name I've tried, that's all it is. The manufacturer's docs say I should do this when connecting a PC but don't say anything as to why. But the problem isn't that there's no option to do this, just that the option seems to be deliberately buried.
I imagine many other TV manufacturers have similarly stupid systems.
When Android games are 1 dollar and still pirated heavily it is hard to believe that those pirates would have paid for the data plan but not bought any games. Pirates should not be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to software that is affordable.
Any games? You're probably right. But a specific game? I dunno... there are lots of things in this world I wouldn't pay a dollar for but would gladly accept for free. The fact that I'll pay a dollar for some things does not make this any less true.
He made the comment on a news broadcast, so that makes no sense. It was a glib comment. He's a regular commentator on CBC News Network, and making glib comments is WHAT HE DOES.
And this guy's an adviser to the Canadian PM? What kind of advice does he provide? "Well, sir, I think you should grow wings and save the internet or at least threaten to break its kneecaps if it doesn't shape up."
Former adviser. Media outside of Canada likes to leave that part out, I guess because it makes it seem like our government is reacting to WikiLeaks.
No one in Canada takes him seriously, he just goes on CBC and says outrageous things. It's pretty amusing that he was taken seriously internationally.
But when was the Bible not translated? Ulfilas translated it to Gothic in the 4th century, and there are English and French translations from later in the middle ages. A quick wiki search shows up that the ban on translation was made by Pope Gregory IX in the 13th century, and it doesn't seem to have stopped much.
Maybe "translating" really means "owning" and people didn't own it because it was prohibitively expensive until the printing press. If you can't afford a book, what does it matter what language it's in?
Also, what does this have to do with TFA? I'll be quiet now.
Obviously you've never talked with a Francophone from northern Ontario. There only thing that was inaccurate that he said "en le Montreal" instead of "en le North Bay".
Thankfully I exaggerate, but that element of Canadian society definitely has it's home in the CPC - look at Stockwell Day, cabinet minister and young earth creationist.
The Conservative base, like it seems to be in many countries, is split between the social conservative religious wackos and the fiscal conservative "yay oil, boo climate" wackos. This move is brilliant (in a very cynical way) because it plays to both - but like most of Cabinet's actions these days, doesn't appeal to anyone else.
Yup, exactly this. The Harper administration has for the past few years been increasingly exerting control on how the public service disseminates information to the public. In the past (before 2007) a bureaucrat usually only needed the approval of their direct supervisor to respond to media inquiries, unless the topic was particularly sensitive. Now it the system of Message Event Proposals created in 2007, approval frequently needs to come directly from the Prime Minister's Office, even for totally routine and innocuous communications.
I think the biggest problem is, reports on the last ice age might offend the Conservative Party's core supporters - who know that there's no such thing as 13,000 years ago, and even if there was there'd be both dinosaurs and cavemen at the same time.
Jeez, I thought "lazy" [outside of where it was necessary] was the right word as you can't by definition plagiarize your OWN WORKS.
In the academic world you can. Why do you think authors cite themselves, when referring to research they've previously published? If you couldn't plagiarize your OWN WORKS, they wouldn't bother to do so - at least if being lazy was the prime motivation for plagiarism.
I was going to post exactly this. The sample Google Chrome image in the article is immediately obvious as a fake because real Chrome warning pages have proper subject-verb agreement and don't have character encoding images. I imagine Firefox warning pages don't have the two buttons overlapping.
I'm really forced to wonder this about a lot of malware and phishing scams - I somewhat frequently get e-mails telling me I won an "iPhone-4G" on "Facebooks", how hard it is to get those right?
At the same time, I think you hit on exactly why they don't bother with this. The bottom side of the intelligence bell curve is still half of the people who will see the page, and they are the same people who are more likely to fall for it even when there are no errors with the English. I imagine it simply doesn't pay to shell out any amount of money for proofreading.
You'll never find him if you limit the search to Albert. He could just as easily be Alan or Alfred, in which case the robots will get us before you're even half way through all the Alberts in the phone book.
I am a software tester. I find bugs. I document them thoroughly. When I get a chance to poke around in a release, often most of the bugs I've found are still present.
Bug-fix development, especially close to release time, is all about triage. That late in the process, the goal isn't to have the software be bug free - far too late for that - but rather to fix the very worst ones. Unfixed bugs either get patched in the future or sit around as known issues, which hopefully the support team is made aware of.
It's not being cheap, and it's not being wasteful - at a certain point you can't afford to delay the release any further.
I believe this is a drug-addled reference to the phrase in section 3 of the Java license agreement: "You acknowledge that Licensed Software is not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility."
I don't know about bluetooth, but for lots of applications USB serial ports won't work because USB operates at 5V and serial is supposed to be 12V.
Some devices handle the far-below-spec voltage gracefully, but results are unpredictable at best. But that's ok, I've got my trusty PCI serial card... oh.
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I was gonna be all "blah blah IQ tests don't actually measure intelligence so it's a bad way to do hiring" - but for a draftsman, when you're going to do all the training on the job, it's actually not bad.
I'm still gonna sue, though.
Most of what passes as "good" vodka, at least here in Canada, is pretty bad. It's not supposed to mean filtered a billion times, it's supposed to mean it tastes good. I didn't really get what vodka was about until I was given a bottle of Luksusowa, which is delicious on the rocks or even just as a straight sipping drink.
I'm with you about whiskey though. I have a hard time finding good bourbon (though had the pleasure of drinking some good ones over Christmas) so I mostly stick to scotch. Mmmmmmm....
That's incredibly depressing.
No, you can't.
As to what is the difference - try it and see for yourself. The key difference is that Everclear and water tastes like watered-down Everclear, and good vodka is delicious.
Same here. At my school keyboarding was a 9th grade "business" credit, as a vestige of the old secretarial program.
The standard was the same as in the summary - 30 words per minute. I finished the course being able to type 95wpm and earned the "academic" achievement award. It definitely wasn't worthless, though - I easily doubled or tripled my typing speed over the course of the year, which has done me more good than a lot of the things I learned in more "serious" courses.
What I find exceptionally absurd about this is that author of the article, Riyad Kalla, is complaining about fake reviews on Amazon, but the TFA has a link to another article in the "related articles" section, by the same author, celebrating that Denon one you mention. So he finds fake reviews hilarious, except when he doesn't. And writes articles about them in both cases.
From my experience there usually is, but they don't document it very well.
For example, I have a Samsung TV with a PC hooked up by HDMI. To turn off overscan and rescaling, I have to go into the menu to rename the input and rename that HDMI port "DVI/PC". Everything in the UI suggests that's just the name I'll see on the input menu, and for every other combination of input type and possible name I've tried, that's all it is. The manufacturer's docs say I should do this when connecting a PC but don't say anything as to why. But the problem isn't that there's no option to do this, just that the option seems to be deliberately buried.
I imagine many other TV manufacturers have similarly stupid systems.
When Android games are 1 dollar and still pirated heavily it is hard to believe that those pirates would have paid for the data plan but not bought any games. Pirates should not be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to software that is affordable.
Any games? You're probably right. But a specific game? I dunno... there are lots of things in this world I wouldn't pay a dollar for but would gladly accept for free. The fact that I'll pay a dollar for some things does not make this any less true.
Hey Vatican, what part of Thou Shalt Not Steal did you misunderstand?!
Oooh ooh, I got this one!
Turns out software piracy isn't theft after all! I mean, if the Vatican does it... they've never broken any commandments, have they?
OK, I concede that not every source got it wrong.
But some of them definitely did. I found a bunch more but most are not in English.
He made the comment on a news broadcast, so that makes no sense. It was a glib comment. He's a regular commentator on CBC News Network, and making glib comments is WHAT HE DOES.
And this guy's an adviser to the Canadian PM? What kind of advice does he provide? "Well, sir, I think you should grow wings and save the internet or at least threaten to break its kneecaps if it doesn't shape up."
Former adviser. Media outside of Canada likes to leave that part out, I guess because it makes it seem like our government is reacting to WikiLeaks.
No one in Canada takes him seriously, he just goes on CBC and says outrageous things. It's pretty amusing that he was taken seriously internationally.
Good thing Bob Pisano is neither a legislator nor a judge!
The First Amendment was also not intended as a shield for people who call the MPAA a gang of turd-burglars, but here we are.
But when was the Bible not translated? Ulfilas translated it to Gothic in the 4th century, and there are English and French translations from later in the middle ages. A quick wiki search shows up that the ban on translation was made by Pope Gregory IX in the 13th century, and it doesn't seem to have stopped much.
Maybe "translating" really means "owning" and people didn't own it because it was prohibitively expensive until the printing press. If you can't afford a book, what does it matter what language it's in?
Also, what does this have to do with TFA? I'll be quiet now.
Obviously you've never talked with a Francophone from northern Ontario. There only thing that was inaccurate that he said "en le Montreal" instead of "en le North Bay".
Don't be dumb on the internet. Got it, thanks.
Never would have figured that out on my own.
Thankfully I exaggerate, but that element of Canadian society definitely has it's home in the CPC - look at Stockwell Day, cabinet minister and young earth creationist.
The Conservative base, like it seems to be in many countries, is split between the social conservative religious wackos and the fiscal conservative "yay oil, boo climate" wackos. This move is brilliant (in a very cynical way) because it plays to both - but like most of Cabinet's actions these days, doesn't appeal to anyone else.
Yup, exactly this. The Harper administration has for the past few years been increasingly exerting control on how the public service disseminates information to the public. In the past (before 2007) a bureaucrat usually only needed the approval of their direct supervisor to respond to media inquiries, unless the topic was particularly sensitive. Now it the system of Message Event Proposals created in 2007, approval frequently needs to come directly from the Prime Minister's Office, even for totally routine and innocuous communications.
I think the biggest problem is, reports on the last ice age might offend the Conservative Party's core supporters - who know that there's no such thing as 13,000 years ago, and even if there was there'd be both dinosaurs and cavemen at the same time.
Jeez, I thought "lazy" [outside of where it was necessary] was the right word as you can't by definition plagiarize your OWN WORKS.
In the academic world you can. Why do you think authors cite themselves, when referring to research they've previously published? If you couldn't plagiarize your OWN WORKS, they wouldn't bother to do so - at least if being lazy was the prime motivation for plagiarism.
Real Safari users use Chrome.
I was going to post exactly this. The sample Google Chrome image in the article is immediately obvious as a fake because real Chrome warning pages have proper subject-verb agreement and don't have character encoding images. I imagine Firefox warning pages don't have the two buttons overlapping.
I'm really forced to wonder this about a lot of malware and phishing scams - I somewhat frequently get e-mails telling me I won an "iPhone-4G" on "Facebooks", how hard it is to get those right?
At the same time, I think you hit on exactly why they don't bother with this. The bottom side of the intelligence bell curve is still half of the people who will see the page, and they are the same people who are more likely to fall for it even when there are no errors with the English. I imagine it simply doesn't pay to shell out any amount of money for proofreading.
You'll never find him if you limit the search to Albert. He could just as easily be Alan or Alfred, in which case the robots will get us before you're even half way through all the Alberts in the phone book.
I am a software tester. I find bugs. I document them thoroughly. When I get a chance to poke around in a release, often most of the bugs I've found are still present.
Bug-fix development, especially close to release time, is all about triage. That late in the process, the goal isn't to have the software be bug free - far too late for that - but rather to fix the very worst ones. Unfixed bugs either get patched in the future or sit around as known issues, which hopefully the support team is made aware of.
It's not being cheap, and it's not being wasteful - at a certain point you can't afford to delay the release any further.
I believe this is a drug-addled reference to the phrase in section 3 of the Java license agreement: "You acknowledge that Licensed Software is not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility."
What that has to do with jailbreaking, however...
I don't know about bluetooth, but for lots of applications USB serial ports won't work because USB operates at 5V and serial is supposed to be 12V.
Some devices handle the far-below-spec voltage gracefully, but results are unpredictable at best. But that's ok, I've got my trusty PCI serial card... oh.