I will note for the record that I saw my boss**3 (3 management levels above me and I work for a huge company) wearing clothes about on those lines when he was visiting the area this week.
If you have to work under someone and deal with customers, you probably will have to be assimilated, because that's just better for business.
I would agree with that. Maybe that's why I prefer email as a primary contact point.
Otherwise, you only dress nice because it's comfortable and helps you fit in. :/
No. You dress nicely if you are single to impress the attractive [insert-your-preferred-gender]s around you in the workplace. As a male, a starched collar and a nice tie does go a long ways in that area...
According to wikipedia, intergalactic space is 2.71 Kelvin. I would assume that they mean "100th the temperature of intergalactic space"
Oh, good. Did Wikipedia also not bother to explain how temperature was an exponential scale of measure similar to sound volume (dB) and the Richter scale for earthquakes?
The amount of energy required to go from 1K to 2K is different from that required to go from 2K to 3K.
100 times colder makes sense, just scale it for whatever the exponential factor is.
That's a red herring. If either of your parents is a US citizen when you're born, then so are you.
That's a question I'm very interested in having a clear answer on. Are my sons (who were born of foreign national mother on foreign soil) eligible to ever become President?
Recall that McCain had a similar suit over his birth in the Panama Canal zone on a military base.
Why doesn't Obama just produce the documentation (if he has it)? Everyone else has to.
I can't help but suspect that if Obama had more stereotypically African features---you know what I mean---that he would not be in the position he is in now.
I do not buy all of that, as I am not convinced Obama is his own man, but certainly he gives much different speech in impromptu sessions (all the "uh" hesitations, his own admission that he is not effective in 1-on-1 communications) versus prepared speeches and his own VP candidate has gone on record (twice!) as saying that once he gets into office his poll numbers will go down and we will not like what he does... at first. Between a teleprompter and careful coaching, I think he may be achieving the hypnotic effect described in that paper.
Anybody who has a real job(or anybody who has read Cosmopolitan magazine) knows that every corporation has implicit and explicit dress codes. "Dress like your boss does" is a common saying for a reason.
Yeah, probably good advice in a lot of cases.
I am very selective about jobs I take. I do not wear suits and ties and I do not do Microsoft Windows. That limits, somewhat, the kind of jobs I find myself in, but I've never had a problem with dress codes[1].
It possibly also depends upon experience. Earlier in my career I made the promise that I would start wearing a tie to work if I was promoted and did so after the promotion for a long time. For whatever reason, my advancement after that was very fast.
It also depends upon the company. I was contracting for McDonnell Douglas in a division that got swallowed up by EDS in the early 1990s. The dress code (applied to manager types in our group only at first) was truly draconian. It not only specified things like the permissable range of shades of blue skirts that women were allowed to wear, it specified the distance that said skirts were allowed to stray away from the knee and tie colors/styles and a lot of other crap like that.
It was kind of summed up by a remark I heard from one of the EDS technical guys who had come in to assimilate us - "The customers say, hey, that guy may be a total idiot, but he sure is a sharp dresser!"
Take that for what you will.
[1] I've seen stricter enforcement of dress codes in weekend amateur tournament bowling clubs than I have experienced at work.
I know americans only learn about rights specific to america but try reading the UDoHR some time
I have. Hands down, I prefer the US Bill of Rights. The fundamental problem with UDoHR is that it presumes that authority passes down from government, when in fact, a proper model has authority emanating from individuals to the government and rights coming from $DIET(Y|IES)[1].
doesn't matter where you live, it applies to you.
Sure it does and not necessarily. It is not the law of the land (yet) in the US and many places ignore it altogether.
[1] Perform a different substitution if you are atheist or agnostic. Whether or not you deny the existence of gods or doubt them, it does not nullify the rights they bestow upon you.
There is a reason that, e.g., America's founders did not view a popularly elected government with unlimited unauthority as a suitable safeguard of liberty, and instead set up an almost totally hamstrung government and then, when that was clearly on the road to failure from lack of sufficient authority to get things done, a more powerful but still tightly restricted government.
Agreed. And reasons why they implemented the Electoral College (which deliberately dilutes the votes from the most populous areas), did NOT implement a national bank and forbid direct election of Senators (which was sadly repealed around the same time that the privately owned Fed and the IR"S" were created).
The two party system evolved fairly quickly after George Washington stepped out, but it has been a bad idea implemented poorly all along. This most recent election cycle has been notable for the dearth of candidates[1] possessing the most basic of traditional American values and displaying more than a room temperature IQ.
So now we're left with a "choice" between a man who was in the past a war hero, but currently exhibits symptoms of dementia and a man who has no past that he cares to reveal and is likely not even eligible to run for the office (why did he not provide any of the basic identity documents that the Democrat lawyer Berg asked him to produce in a lawsuit? - I have to prove I am a US citizen by producing documentation before I am allowed employment. Why is Obama exempt?).
Sigh.
[1] One could that Warren G. Harding's http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh29.html election year of 1920 was worse (my US history in CA high school class in the 1970's instructor used Warren G. Harding as the shining example of mediocrity), but I think that's unfair. Actually, I think if McCain used the quote in the whitehouse.gov bio attributed to Harding, he'd rise a couple of % points in the polls.
Or issuing tickets for people chewing gum outdoors (repealed not so long ago, though) and caning juveniles who spray paint graffiti in public places.
Oh wait, those are actually good laws... (I like Singapore, very clean place with well-mannered people like Tokyo and not at all like a comparably sized city in the US).
I'm in favor of the death penalty as a general principle, but not as it's being used now. Neither Timothy McVeigh nor Saddam Hussein should have been killed as quickly as they were.
All of you people considering voting Barry-O ought to consider the fact that Joe the Plumber is being brought up on informal charges not at all unlike this Afghan student's case. The student questioned national (and religious) law, Joe the Plumber questioned the Messiah's planned changes to law.
I'm disappointed this is only electronics. I was expecting to see something like they do in Japan. When trucks go into reverse, they call out in Japanese "I'm a truck backing up, be careful!" or something like that.
It would have been more fun if it was a real voice saying, "I'm a motorcycle in your blind spot, do not run into me!"
Yes, it's a shame that this time-honored tradition of good programming will be lost to humanity. Back in the days, when people still knew how to program...
That's called "progress". When was the last time any large program was written in assembly language for a modern processor?
Even though I'm old, I'm still too young to have really experienced the kind of memory budgets that required people to fit BASIC interpreters in 4k of memory, with enough space left over so programmers could actually program something with it. My first substantial programming experience was on an Apple ][ with 32k of memory.
It's definitely a mixed blessing, but given that the smallest component of development cost is writing new code and the largest is maintenance, it is easy to see why things have gone the way they have.
Sigh, don't remind me. Actually, punching holes in the diskette cover to get two-sided out of one-sided disks was not actually a good idea. Single sided disks do not have the opposite side tested. I never lost data from it, but I was lucky.
I still recall the verbal lashing I got at my first professional computer related job over that (almost 28 years ago)...
However, the US government is still restrained by the US Constititution when it comes to US citizens.
Eh? I guess I do not understand your point at all.
The Monroe Doctrine said stay of our backyard and we'll leave you alone. The Bush Doctrine says if I don't like what I think you're thinking, I'm going to kick the shit out of you. Foreign policy has never had a basis in the constitution other than setting up the broadest of guidelines for such.
And as all the recent attacks on the Bill of Rights demonstrates - gun grabbing, the "Patriot" act, civil forfeiture, warrantless spying, etc. the US Government rarely bothers to restrain itself to the constitution.
I find this difficult to believe. "Screenshots or it didn't happen."
If he kept all his virtual stuff, deleted all his characters, then cancelled the account all within a few minutes, that I might believe. It would not surprise me that Blizzard would keep data on deleted characters around for awhile in case of an accident - it's only two mouse clicks to delete months of "work" (I would be more than happy to have that delete character button on the select character screen be buried in a twisty maze of menus all alike, or even only available via a direct request to a GM). A recent patch indicated how much Blizzard wants to keep dead accounts viable for resurrection.
That sounds dumb though. The people who really want to quit and stay quit first give away all their non-soulbound stuff to guildies, in which case they might be able to get their characters back, but they would be carrying nothing in game, making restarting a most unpleasant experience.
For a desktop, you don't need more than, say, a week of uptime.
I can prove you wrong.
If you work at a business large enough to have a janitorial staff, is the janitorial staff allowed to touch anything on top of your desk?
I find it highly convenient and time saving that my desktop machine maintains state for months at a time. I value my time and it is unproductive for me to wait for a machine to reboot (and restore state to all the things I need to have up and running). Same as it is unproductive to have the janitorial staff touch anything on my desk.
I predict that once Microsoft Windows stabilizes to the point where enterprise use stays up for months at a time, y'all will discover a use for it.
I've found it most convenient that my virtual desktop, as with my physical desktop never changes unless I do something to change it.
Really? I'd heard a while back, that WoW ran faster on a Mac running windows than it did with OS X... Is this no longer the case, or was I misinformed to begin with?
I've never done that kind of comparison as I will never install Microsoft Windows on my Mac, but I am much more impressed with it on the Mac than I was on Microsoft Windows XP. The sound sounds better, the video is better and I do not have those annoying involuntary SHIFT-TAB slow crashes and inevitable deaths that I always had with Microsoft Windows.
I have no problem with that, but that is not what he wrote.
A subscription MMO would have lapsed, and I would likely have lost my characters or their gear.
Having the "likely" in there does not make it any less an idiotic, untrue and almost slanderous statement. He qualified it with "This is why I don't play WoW." and that does make it slander, or at least undeserved flame bait. It's not true.
Oh and I *have* had direct experience with the enforcement of Blizzard rules. I bought my wife a subscription (while she's pregnant, she's staying in a country outside of the "officially" supported WoW zone) and she happened to play on a pirate server (I do not know all the details, except that I got angry with her and told her she should not have done that) and eventually when I was able to fix her account, that character got deleted with a stern email message from Blizzard. The account was not deleted nor was mine, which was on the same CC number. Only the offensive character was deleted.
I have found Blizzard to be extremely fair in enforcing fair play rules. *Extremely fair*.
I wish they supported a native Linux client, and I will push them every way I know how to enable that, but in the meantime, I appreciate their support for MacOS X, Unix is Unix, and I love their games and so does my wife. And unlike gaming companies like EA, Blizzard *cares* about its customers and lets us know constantly how much it cares about us.
That's what you guys say every time. My rough estimate (I do not do Microsoft Windows) is that you are currently up to the level of mid 1980s Unix System V/R2 in stability (months of uptime at a time if you know what not to do). Some day you will catch up.
You have a lot of work to do on your filesystems^H though. Required periodic defragmentation is like so obsolete...
Just think if they had not thrown all that money at the Xbox mess and instead invested even half of those wasted billions on supporting PC game developers.
Just think about what would be different if they put that kind of money into QA in their OS division... At the rate the large company I am working is moving, they'll be transitioned to Microsoft Vista at least a year or two after Microsoft Windows 7 is released (unless guys like me who are supporting transition to Linux win in the meantime).
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The only thing a Draenei wandering aimlessly in Winterspring feels is the crash of my Felguard's axe against its skull before I burn it to cinders.
Kronakai kristor! (you asshole).
I think I'm going to send my wife after you. She gets her jollies killing hordies, I'm more of a carebear type.
For the Alliance!
Call me a troll if you must ...
Get thee back to Orgrimmar, Darkspear swine!
, but this is 'news for nerds'. Why not just give us the temperature in Kelvin?
You must be new here.
3) Technical - Comfortable, nice looking clothes, probably collared shirt and khakis.
I prefer t-shirts, but whatever.
I will note for the record that I saw my boss**3 (3 management levels above me and I work for a huge company) wearing clothes about on those lines when he was visiting the area this week.
If you have to work under someone and deal with customers, you probably will have to be assimilated, because that's just better for business.
I would agree with that. Maybe that's why I prefer email as a primary contact point.
Otherwise, you only dress nice because it's comfortable and helps you fit in. : /
No. You dress nicely if you are single to impress the attractive [insert-your-preferred-gender]s around you in the workplace. As a male, a starched collar and a nice tie does go a long ways in that area ...
According to wikipedia, intergalactic space is 2.71 Kelvin. I would assume that they mean "100th the temperature of intergalactic space"
Oh, good. Did Wikipedia also not bother to explain how temperature was an exponential scale of measure similar to sound volume (dB) and the Richter scale for earthquakes?
The amount of energy required to go from 1K to 2K is different from that required to go from 2K to 3K.
100 times colder makes sense, just scale it for whatever the exponential factor is.
That's a red herring. If either of your parents is a US citizen when you're born, then so are you.
That's a question I'm very interested in having a clear answer on. Are my sons (who were born of foreign national mother on foreign soil) eligible to ever become President?
Recall that McCain had a similar suit over his birth in the Panama Canal zone on a military base.
Why doesn't Obama just produce the documentation (if he has it)? Everyone else has to.
I can't help but suspect that if Obama had more stereotypically African features---you know what I mean---that he would not be in the position he is in now.
Actually, I suspect the answer to his popularity lies somewhere in this paper http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama's_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf
I do not buy all of that, as I am not convinced Obama is his own man, but certainly he gives much different speech in impromptu sessions (all the "uh" hesitations, his own admission that he is not effective in 1-on-1 communications) versus prepared speeches and his own VP candidate has gone on record (twice!) as saying that once he gets into office his poll numbers will go down and we will not like what he does ... at first. Between a teleprompter and careful coaching, I think he may be achieving the hypnotic effect described in that paper.
Maybe if I placed a picture of angry eyes on my cubicle everyone would keep away...
I put up a printout of my level 70 Hunter toting an Ornate Khorium Rifle in my cube. Hasn't helped me. :-(
Anybody who has a real job(or anybody who has read Cosmopolitan magazine) knows that every corporation has implicit and explicit dress codes. "Dress like your boss does" is a common saying for a reason.
Yeah, probably good advice in a lot of cases.
I am very selective about jobs I take. I do not wear suits and ties and I do not do Microsoft Windows. That limits, somewhat, the kind of jobs I find myself in, but I've never had a problem with dress codes[1].
It possibly also depends upon experience. Earlier in my career I made the promise that I would start wearing a tie to work if I was promoted and did so after the promotion for a long time. For whatever reason, my advancement after that was very fast.
It also depends upon the company. I was contracting for McDonnell Douglas in a division that got swallowed up by EDS in the early 1990s. The dress code (applied to manager types in our group only at first) was truly draconian. It not only specified things like the permissable range of shades of blue skirts that women were allowed to wear, it specified the distance that said skirts were allowed to stray away from the knee and tie colors/styles and a lot of other crap like that.
It was kind of summed up by a remark I heard from one of the EDS technical guys who had come in to assimilate us - "The customers say, hey, that guy may be a total idiot, but he sure is a sharp dresser!"
Take that for what you will.
[1] I've seen stricter enforcement of dress codes in weekend amateur tournament bowling clubs than I have experienced at work.
I know americans only learn about rights specific to america but try reading the UDoHR some time
I have. Hands down, I prefer the US Bill of Rights. The fundamental problem with UDoHR is that it presumes that authority passes down from government, when in fact, a proper model has authority emanating from individuals to the government and rights coming from $DIET(Y|IES)[1].
doesn't matter where you live, it applies to you.
Sure it does and not necessarily. It is not the law of the land (yet) in the US and many places ignore it altogether.
[1] Perform a different substitution if you are atheist or agnostic. Whether or not you deny the existence of gods or doubt them, it does not nullify the rights they bestow upon you.
There is a reason that, e.g., America's founders did not view a popularly elected government with unlimited unauthority as a suitable safeguard of liberty, and instead set up an almost totally hamstrung government and then, when that was clearly on the road to failure from lack of sufficient authority to get things done, a more powerful but still tightly restricted government.
Agreed. And reasons why they implemented the Electoral College (which deliberately dilutes the votes from the most populous areas), did NOT implement a national bank and forbid direct election of Senators (which was sadly repealed around the same time that the privately owned Fed and the IR"S" were created).
The two party system evolved fairly quickly after George Washington stepped out, but it has been a bad idea implemented poorly all along. This most recent election cycle has been notable for the dearth of candidates[1] possessing the most basic of traditional American values and displaying more than a room temperature IQ.
So now we're left with a "choice" between a man who was in the past a war hero, but currently exhibits symptoms of dementia and a man who has no past that he cares to reveal and is likely not even eligible to run for the office (why did he not provide any of the basic identity documents that the Democrat lawyer Berg asked him to produce in a lawsuit? - I have to prove I am a US citizen by producing documentation before I am allowed employment. Why is Obama exempt?).
Sigh.
[1] One could that Warren G. Harding's
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh29.html
election year of 1920 was worse (my US history in CA high school class in the 1970's instructor used Warren G. Harding as the shining example of mediocrity), but I think that's unfair. Actually, I think if McCain used the quote in the whitehouse.gov bio attributed to Harding, he'd rise a couple of % points in the polls.
Or issuing tickets for people chewing gum outdoors (repealed not so long ago, though) and caning juveniles who spray paint graffiti in public places.
Oh wait, those are actually good laws ... (I like Singapore, very clean place with well-mannered people like Tokyo and not at all like a comparably sized city in the US).
I'm in favor of the death penalty as a general principle, but not as it's being used now. Neither Timothy McVeigh nor Saddam Hussein should have been killed as quickly as they were.
All of you people considering voting Barry-O ought to consider the fact that Joe the Plumber is being brought up on informal charges not at all unlike this Afghan student's case. The student questioned national (and religious) law, Joe the Plumber questioned the Messiah's planned changes to law.
I'm disappointed this is only electronics. I was expecting to see something like they do in Japan. When trucks go into reverse, they call out in Japanese "I'm a truck backing up, be careful!" or something like that.
It would have been more fun if it was a real voice saying, "I'm a motorcycle in your blind spot, do not run into me!"
Yes, it's a shame that this time-honored tradition of good programming will be lost to humanity. Back in the days, when people still knew how to program ...
That's called "progress". When was the last time any large program was written in assembly language for a modern processor?
Even though I'm old, I'm still too young to have really experienced the kind of memory budgets that required people to fit BASIC interpreters in 4k of memory, with enough space left over so programmers could actually program something with it. My first substantial programming experience was on an Apple ][ with 32k of memory.
It's definitely a mixed blessing, but given that the smallest component of development cost is writing new code and the largest is maintenance, it is easy to see why things have gone the way they have.
Boy... We are old.
Sigh, don't remind me. Actually, punching holes in the diskette cover to get two-sided out of one-sided disks was not actually a good idea. Single sided disks do not have the opposite side tested. I never lost data from it, but I was lucky.
I still recall the verbal lashing I got at my first professional computer related job over that (almost 28 years ago) ...
it says it runs windows.
TFA unlike the TFS says it only comes with Microsoft Windows and only "interoperates" with Linux.
As for me, I welcome our new CX1 botnet member overlords!
You must be new here, actually you both must be new here.
However, the US government is still restrained by the US Constititution when it comes to US citizens.
Eh? I guess I do not understand your point at all.
The Monroe Doctrine said stay of our backyard and we'll leave you alone. The Bush Doctrine says if I don't like what I think you're thinking, I'm going to kick the shit out of you. Foreign policy has never had a basis in the constitution other than setting up the broadest of guidelines for such.
And as all the recent attacks on the Bill of Rights demonstrates - gun grabbing, the "Patriot" act, civil forfeiture, warrantless spying, etc. the US Government rarely bothers to restrain itself to the constitution.
Do you have a point?
Or even characters that you yourself deleted.
I find this difficult to believe. "Screenshots or it didn't happen."
If he kept all his virtual stuff, deleted all his characters, then cancelled the account all within a few minutes, that I might believe. It would not surprise me that Blizzard would keep data on deleted characters around for awhile in case of an accident - it's only two mouse clicks to delete months of "work" (I would be more than happy to have that delete character button on the select character screen be buried in a twisty maze of menus all alike, or even only available via a direct request to a GM). A recent patch indicated how much Blizzard wants to keep dead accounts viable for resurrection.
That sounds dumb though. The people who really want to quit and stay quit first give away all their non-soulbound stuff to guildies, in which case they might be able to get their characters back, but they would be carrying nothing in game, making restarting a most unpleasant experience.
Can you please clarify?
For a desktop, you don't need more than, say, a week of uptime.
I can prove you wrong.
If you work at a business large enough to have a janitorial staff, is the janitorial staff allowed to touch anything on top of your desk?
I find it highly convenient and time saving that my desktop machine maintains state for months at a time. I value my time and it is unproductive for me to wait for a machine to reboot (and restore state to all the things I need to have up and running). Same as it is unproductive to have the janitorial staff touch anything on my desk.
I predict that once Microsoft Windows stabilizes to the point where enterprise use stays up for months at a time, y'all will discover a use for it.
I've found it most convenient that my virtual desktop, as with my physical desktop never changes unless I do something to change it.
Really? I'd heard a while back, that WoW ran faster on a Mac running windows than it did with OS X... Is this no longer the case, or was I misinformed to begin with?
I've never done that kind of comparison as I will never install Microsoft Windows on my Mac, but I am much more impressed with it on the Mac than I was on Microsoft Windows XP. The sound sounds better, the video is better and I do not have those annoying involuntary SHIFT-TAB slow crashes and inevitable deaths that I always had with Microsoft Windows.
With all due respect there are not a huge number of things that really honestly require a Mac these days.
To paraphrase Joe Biden, "two words - World of Warcraft."
WoW really rocks on a Mac. As a Draenei in Winterspring on a Mac you can almost feel the snow beneath your hooves ...
"The differences between OS X and Windows are far more significant than any spec I discuss in this article.
Oh, but it's very simple. Unix (4 legs) good, not Unix (2 legs) bad.
He OBVIOUSLY isn't interested in playing WoW.
I have no problem with that, but that is not what he wrote.
A subscription MMO would have lapsed, and I would likely have lost my characters or their gear.
Having the "likely" in there does not make it any less an idiotic, untrue and almost slanderous statement. He qualified it with "This is why I don't play WoW." and that does make it slander, or at least undeserved flame bait. It's not true.
Oh and I *have* had direct experience with the enforcement of Blizzard rules. I bought my wife a subscription (while she's pregnant, she's staying in a country outside of the "officially" supported WoW zone) and she happened to play on a pirate server (I do not know all the details, except that I got angry with her and told her she should not have done that) and eventually when I was able to fix her account, that character got deleted with a stern email message from Blizzard. The account was not deleted nor was mine, which was on the same CC number. Only the offensive character was deleted.
I have found Blizzard to be extremely fair in enforcing fair play rules. *Extremely fair*.
I wish they supported a native Linux client, and I will push them every way I know how to enable that, but in the meantime, I appreciate their support for MacOS X, Unix is Unix, and I love their games and so does my wife. And unlike gaming companies like EA, Blizzard *cares* about its customers and lets us know constantly how much it cares about us.
Vista is the best OS Microsoft has ever put out.
Rock solid stability.
That's what you guys say every time. My rough estimate (I do not do Microsoft Windows) is that you are currently up to the level of mid 1980s Unix System V/R2 in stability (months of uptime at a time if you know what not to do). Some day you will catch up.
You have a lot of work to do on your filesystems^H though. Required periodic defragmentation is like so obsolete ...
Just think if they had not thrown all that money at the Xbox mess and instead invested even half of those wasted billions on supporting PC game developers.
Just think about what would be different if they put that kind of money into QA in their OS division ... At the rate the large company I am working is moving, they'll be transitioned to Microsoft Vista at least a year or two after Microsoft Windows 7 is released (unless guys like me who are supporting transition to Linux win in the meantime).