I noticed it about ten+ years ago when rappers/hip-hop artists used it to mean that they released a new album. It didn't take long before hip-hop slang became just American slang and artists of every genre started using it as if saying "release" was too effete. Now everyone says drop. I thought it sounded odd when it was just a hip-hop thing and even more odd now that it has been thoroughly appropriated by those quite far removed from that culture.
"while Mexican wages have risen by less than 50 percent in U.S. dollar terms, contrary to our long-standing misconception that their labors were being slaved."
Mexican wages rising less than China's doesn't mean that they're wages aren't still low. Where are you getting this misconception about misconceptions? It's not in the linked article.
But if MIT is assumed to be so inferior due to lack of "evidence," then why are they being cited just as much as, if not more than, their superiors? Regardless of "publish or perish," MIT is getting the mentions when these outside researchers could be citing Princeton (since they're assumed to be better), no?
The article also mentions relatively high numbers of "articles cited by outside researchers in the last five years." Surely that is some indicator of quality.
Not washing jeans regularly has been the advice from fashion pros forever. I'm not a fashionable person but I do know that frequent washing will make them fade pretty fast and I want to keep my blue jeans blue. For many years I've only been washing them when they smell or got something on them. Honestly, I can only think of one time when they have smelled bad, otherwise I manage to spill some food on them like once or twice a year. I think I only have four pairs in rotation at the moment.
Exactly. This is another made up scare. The NetworkWorld article linked says the danger isn't in the DDOS attack but in the possibility that the evil hackers will "pivot" and probe for information. When they do that, vital life support systems assumed to be connected to the internet will malfunction because they presumably can't handle someone browsing for whatever actionable information NetworkWorld assumes Anonymous is after.
I've had luck by emailing Michael Dell himself. I had bought my mother an All-in-One that failed within a couple months, due to harddrive failure. After getting dicked around by support who insisted that the warranty was expired, even going so far as to manually change it so the next time I went online it showed expired. I had a previous screenshot of the warranty with my tag number from their website and a dated invoice, sent that to big ole Mike with some choice words about how I will never buy another Dell and advise against anyone else doing so (being that I'm the "tech guy" amongst my family and friends). I finished the email with "Thanks for nothing!"
The next day I was contacted by Executive Customer Support and scheduled someone to come to me to replace the harddrive.
Foobar2000 can handle VST with an addon (there seem to be a couple competing options). You may be able to customize the interface to function as you describe also but I've never tried that.
So the NSA was completely useless before they were spying on all of us? How did they do their jobs before these unconstitutional programs? What an ass.
This. Very much this. I have an EE. I remember when I graduated almost ten years ago Raytheon was one of the bigger employers of engineers in the area (still is). I had friends who refused to work for them or BAE or any of the other defense contractors for moral reasons. Others specifically wanted to be in those companies to contribute to the protection of US lives. Everyone has their own opinion of right and wrong when it comes to defense, engineers are not excluded from this.
What a second, according to the benevolent corporations and their supporters, H-1Bs make the same amount of money as citizens and are more competent, that's why they were hired in the first place! The H-1B system could never be abused in such a fashion! For shame, sir!
Americans had 3D printers for a while. Using them for guns is more recent and became a big part of what made them widely known due to the sensational aspect making the media finally take note. So no, not the first thing we did with the tech.
Advanced? It was fictional. It didn't do a damn thing but reduce vision and cause headaches.
"It’s pretty much a living hell... 85 to 90 per cent of my vision is taken away when the VISOR goes on... I bumped into everything the first season – Light stands, overhead microphones, cables at my feet – I tripped over it all... So it’s a sort of conundrum – the blind man, who puts on the VISOR and sees much more than everyone else around him, when the actor actually does that he’s turned into a blind person. Then there was the pain. In the second season, we re-designed the VISOR and made it heavier and the way we actually affixed it was that we screwed it, we literally screwed it into my head and so there were screws that we would turn and there were flanges on the inside that would press into my temples and so after fifteen or twenty minutes of that I got headaches. So I had a daily headache for about six years. Which was also no fun."
You're mostly right. The major brands in North America are crap; but there are some good smaller brands. Taza is great, Trader Joes has some good stuff too, I know there are others I'm forgetting. Fortunately we can get Ritter Sport here too. Unfortunately, most would rather eat terrible quality milk chocolate.
They know almost nothing about me. The only section with any data was the first, characteristic data. And they got my education and politics wrong. Nothing on housing, cars, shopping, economic data, or household interests. I must be doing something right since I'm a heavy Facebook/Amazon/Google user.
So your employer is unwilling to train anyone anymore. Younger programmers are just supposed to pop out of college with intimate knowledge of anything and everything that may have been in production for the past several decades?
I guess it's not too surprising how the "experts" here at/. are either completely dismissing the article or haven't even bothered to read it. Par for the course, I suppose. Some people are lazy and eat crap, this is true. But some of those people look fit as hell or are just skinny. Some exercise and follow a proper diet and are still overweight. To say that obesity is only caused by lazy over-eaters is to deny reality, all you have to do is open your eyes and take a look around. We've had articles for years mentioning the adverse affects of processed foods and chemicals ending up in our food and water, why is it so hard to believe them?
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Perhaps you should read the article, it isn't very long. The kid loved it.
I noticed it about ten+ years ago when rappers/hip-hop artists used it to mean that they released a new album. It didn't take long before hip-hop slang became just American slang and artists of every genre started using it as if saying "release" was too effete. Now everyone says drop. I thought it sounded odd when it was just a hip-hop thing and even more odd now that it has been thoroughly appropriated by those quite far removed from that culture.
"while Mexican wages have risen by less than 50 percent in U.S. dollar terms, contrary to our long-standing misconception that their labors were being slaved."
Mexican wages rising less than China's doesn't mean that they're wages aren't still low. Where are you getting this misconception about misconceptions? It's not in the linked article.
Who is skirting? If you want to ask them, then go ask them. This is just a discussion forum, not affiliated with MIT.
But if MIT is assumed to be so inferior due to lack of "evidence," then why are they being cited just as much as, if not more than, their superiors? Regardless of "publish or perish," MIT is getting the mentions when these outside researchers could be citing Princeton (since they're assumed to be better), no?
The article also mentions relatively high numbers of "articles cited by outside researchers in the last five years." Surely that is some indicator of quality.
Not washing jeans regularly has been the advice from fashion pros forever. I'm not a fashionable person but I do know that frequent washing will make them fade pretty fast and I want to keep my blue jeans blue. For many years I've only been washing them when they smell or got something on them. Honestly, I can only think of one time when they have smelled bad, otherwise I manage to spill some food on them like once or twice a year. I think I only have four pairs in rotation at the moment.
That's because they stole brain juice from Zenimax!
Exactly. This is another made up scare. The NetworkWorld article linked says the danger isn't in the DDOS attack but in the possibility that the evil hackers will "pivot" and probe for information. When they do that, vital life support systems assumed to be connected to the internet will malfunction because they presumably can't handle someone browsing for whatever actionable information NetworkWorld assumes Anonymous is after.
I've had luck by emailing Michael Dell himself. I had bought my mother an All-in-One that failed within a couple months, due to harddrive failure. After getting dicked around by support who insisted that the warranty was expired, even going so far as to manually change it so the next time I went online it showed expired. I had a previous screenshot of the warranty with my tag number from their website and a dated invoice, sent that to big ole Mike with some choice words about how I will never buy another Dell and advise against anyone else doing so (being that I'm the "tech guy" amongst my family and friends). I finished the email with "Thanks for nothing!" The next day I was contacted by Executive Customer Support and scheduled someone to come to me to replace the harddrive.
Wow. Such disappoint. Much lecture. So sad.
Foobar2000 can handle VST with an addon (there seem to be a couple competing options). You may be able to customize the interface to function as you describe also but I've never tried that.
I submit that anyone who believe in 24/96 FLAC for home listening isn't a real audiophile, maybe audio-hardware-phile.
Yes they are. http://condommonologues.com/condom-size-chart/
So the NSA was completely useless before they were spying on all of us? How did they do their jobs before these unconstitutional programs? What an ass.
This. Very much this. I have an EE. I remember when I graduated almost ten years ago Raytheon was one of the bigger employers of engineers in the area (still is). I had friends who refused to work for them or BAE or any of the other defense contractors for moral reasons. Others specifically wanted to be in those companies to contribute to the protection of US lives. Everyone has their own opinion of right and wrong when it comes to defense, engineers are not excluded from this.
What a second, according to the benevolent corporations and their supporters, H-1Bs make the same amount of money as citizens and are more competent, that's why they were hired in the first place! The H-1B system could never be abused in such a fashion! For shame, sir!
Americans had 3D printers for a while. Using them for guns is more recent and became a big part of what made them widely known due to the sensational aspect making the media finally take note. So no, not the first thing we did with the tech.
Advanced? It was fictional. It didn't do a damn thing but reduce vision and cause headaches. "It’s pretty much a living hell... 85 to 90 per cent of my vision is taken away when the VISOR goes on... I bumped into everything the first season – Light stands, overhead microphones, cables at my feet – I tripped over it all... So it’s a sort of conundrum – the blind man, who puts on the VISOR and sees much more than everyone else around him, when the actor actually does that he’s turned into a blind person. Then there was the pain. In the second season, we re-designed the VISOR and made it heavier and the way we actually affixed it was that we screwed it, we literally screwed it into my head and so there were screws that we would turn and there were flanges on the inside that would press into my temples and so after fifteen or twenty minutes of that I got headaches. So I had a daily headache for about six years. Which was also no fun."
News for Nerds, not Geeks. You can keep the sci-fi, I'll take the sci.
You're mostly right. The major brands in North America are crap; but there are some good smaller brands. Taza is great, Trader Joes has some good stuff too, I know there are others I'm forgetting. Fortunately we can get Ritter Sport here too. Unfortunately, most would rather eat terrible quality milk chocolate.
They know almost nothing about me. The only section with any data was the first, characteristic data. And they got my education and politics wrong. Nothing on housing, cars, shopping, economic data, or household interests. I must be doing something right since I'm a heavy Facebook/Amazon/Google user.
We should absolutely punish Kissinger. In fact, that's a good place to start.
So your employer is unwilling to train anyone anymore. Younger programmers are just supposed to pop out of college with intimate knowledge of anything and everything that may have been in production for the past several decades?
I guess it's not too surprising how the "experts" here at /. are either completely dismissing the article or haven't even bothered to read it. Par for the course, I suppose. Some people are lazy and eat crap, this is true. But some of those people look fit as hell or are just skinny. Some exercise and follow a proper diet and are still overweight. To say that obesity is only caused by lazy over-eaters is to deny reality, all you have to do is open your eyes and take a look around. We've had articles for years mentioning the adverse affects of processed foods and chemicals ending up in our food and water, why is it so hard to believe them?