with that bottle of gypsy tears I extracted at great personal risk? What about all those dead black cats I that were also very difficult and risky to acquire? I have almost a gallon of virgin's sweat. Now how am I going to unload it?
rest of the world are pulling so far ahead of us. We are stupid and deserve to have our economy in the toilet.
What could be stronger proof of a broken political system?
While the rest of the world respects and encourages study and learning, our politicians pander to the lowest element. Educated and intelligent people are viewed with suspicion.
We need to adopt some minimal qualifications for education, intelligence, and personal integrity in politicians and voters alike. The inmates are running the asylum.
Let me explain how this works (having gone through an IPO at a company where I worked years ago):
1) founders of company want to generate some cash. 2) founders hire a bunch of execs and engineers promising the company will go public and everyone wiil get options at pre IPO price. 3) dopes take the jobs. 4) company goes public, stock price soars, people start dreaming about what they will do with their newly minted wealth. 5) reality sets in- founders are the only ones able to exercise their options, everyone else has to wait to be vested in 5 years. 6) founders sell off their stock, generating the cash they sought, leave everyone else twisting in the wind. 7) Now-wiser execs realize their options won't ever be worth anything and jump off the sinking ship while they can.
It has been done so many times you'd think people would be wise to this scam by now, but it keeps working over and over.
All tablets with wifi and/or 3G/4G and smart phones are listening/tracking devices. They come with extra capabilities so that we will voluntarily carry them around. If they didn't there would have to be some law passed requiring that we do so. Welcome to the 21st century!
You'd better smash your cell phone, disconnect your wifi system at home, and stop using credit cards.
While I agree that when it comes to displays, bigger is generally better, until we have technology that makes a 13" tablet weigh about the same as current 7" tablets they just won't be practical. It's definitely coming, but it's going to take a few more years.
My Nexus 7 fits in the side-leg pockets of my cargo pants (yes, I still wear those). Only problem is that when you sit it puts some tension on the fabric, pulling the Nexus 7 against the edge of the pocket and operating the power button. I discovered this when the Nexus 7 started making all sort of noises due to the power button and touch screen being activated inside my pocket.
You don't have to write down what is said, only make marks that reference slide changes, mentions of test material, and the occasional equation of drawing copied from the board, etc. I put two years worth of "notes" in one notebook.
The paper is cheap and it will take you a long time to use it up. You get 4 notebooks for $20 (last time I bought notebooks, maybe 2 years ago). I'm about 1/2 way through one and the other three are waiting for me to fill them with drawings, notes about projects, and ideas for new projects. The dot pattern covers the entire sheet, front and rear, so you can fit a LOT of stuff on a page if you ignore the lines.
I went through a year of my didactic classes in dental school using a livescribe pen exclusively. Almost all lectures were done with power point so my notes mostly consisted of writing down slide numbers whenever a slide was changed. The pen links the text to the audio so when i review the ppts if I wanted to know what was being said while a particular slide was on-screen I could just tap the slide number int he notes and get the info straight from the horse's mouth. Whenever the work test was mentioned in the context of "this is going to be on the test", I wrote the word "test". If someone asked a good question and/or received a good answer I wrote "listen". The other thing that is great is the software on the computer searches your handwritten text and highlights wherever you wrote the searched-for text. When I want to find all those instances of the word "test" in my notes, the desktop software finds them for me and I can click and hear all the relevant info without having to listen to two hours of lecture.
It really made studying and note taking easy and was completely reliable. My 1 GB pen held about 3 weeks worth of all-day, every-day lectures.
I still use the pen for my "engineering" notebook so I'll have copies of whatever I write on ym computer.
if they didn't absolutely have to. I lived there for 4 years of dental school. It's too hot to move about 8 months of the year, all the plants have thorns, all the insects sting, all the reptiles are poisonous. There's no water. This is a message from the universe telling you that human beings don't belong there.
Of all the places to be in Az, I never understood why people would have settled in that god-forsaken valley. 100 miles away there are decent climates at higher altitudes.
My problem has always been with the eternal boot-up times, especially in consideration of how often the system has to be shut down and restarted for band-aid patches for security. I don't mean the MS advertised boot-up time to the log-in screen. I mean the actual time that it takes the HDD to quit cherchunking so I can actually start to work on something. Yeah I get a log-in screen in 30 seconds, but I can't actually do anything on the system for 2 minutes.
MS's approach to improving boot time seems to be in redefining the term "boot time" rather than actually doing something to speed it up. Speed up text rendering? Really? Gee, thanks.
Some guys got arrested for dealing in counterfeit phone cards- they figured out how to duplicate them and started doing so en masse, selling them on the streets and train platforms around Tokyo. Ultimately a judge ruled that it was not a violation of law to duplicate or even sell the cards. It was only illegal to use them. Shortly thereafter you could see guys standing in front of police boxes, selling the cards to anyone walking by. Shortly after that NTT got rid of the phones that used those cards.
Japan has some weird laws. Someone once told me, and I don't know if it is true, that Japanese laws don't say what you can't do, they say what you can do. If there isn't a law specifically allowing something, then you can't legally do whatever it is.
The packaging was simple, artistically adorned, and it fit together tightly. That tells me there was some very precise work done in manufacturing that package- someone cared enough about what they were doing to make the package fit the product well. That's my first impression of the Nexus 7, and after using the device for a couple hours over the last couple days I have to say that first impression was spot-on. The device is well made. Android seems to be a great OS (at least it isn't -ugh- Windows!).
I've seen all the silly you-tube gadget-pron videos compilations of inept fools struggling with the packaging. I don't know where they found all those dopes but they are definitely not the sort of people whose opinions I trust about tech products. What sort of dope sets up a camera to tape a package opening and doesn't have a knife handy to cut through tape?
CEOs of tech companies don't want to pay taxes or decent wages and benefits and want a large pool of educated people to hire from. They have a two part strategy: (1) work deals to avoid paying taxes thus screwing Americans out of a decent education (California is a great example), and resulting in "not enough qualified applicants",which justifies (2) expanding the H1B visa program.
H1B visa workers are essentially slaves. They have to accept whatever pay and working conditions they are given because if they don't like either they have to go back where they came from. It's perfect for tech employers. The extra 65000 slaves per year coming into the US drives down the wages and benefits for American workers who have to compete against people coming from 3rd world hell-holes.
I used to be an engineer and worked for HP, TI, Motorola and a couple other companies. I've seen how the companies conspire to fix wages and benefits and I've seen and known several H1B slaves. I saw the writing on the wall several years ago and went back to school and became a dentist. Engineering is a dead end in the US. If you're in school for engineering now I'd start thinking about doing something else.
I have always and will continue to bitch about Windows. With each new release of windows the paid-for press and bloggers gush about how "they got it right this time" and each time it turns to crap.
Now we're on the cusp of the Windows 8 release and the usual gushing is going on.
If that "theory" were true we might be a lot smarter as a species by now. Somewhere along the way some degenerative mutations must have occurred and become dominant. Maybe early man, like so many modern men, found that it was easier to procreate with less intelligent women.
It's because all the iPhones (at least gen 1, 2, 3, and I don't know about 4) don't work worth a crap for voice and people have given up trying unless it's absolutely necessary. My wife has an iPhone 2 on AT&T in Riverside, Ca., and the chances of completing a call with her are about 1 in 20. Friends with iPhones in dental school in Mesa, Az. were also the same way.
Yeah, I know- they are all just ignoring my calls because I'm such an a-hole...
IT guys know that if they recommend MS they'll have plenty of work for years to come. There's all those security patches, problems created by updates, etc. that they will have to fix. Every time a new version of the beloved Office suite is released, they'll have to patch all those computers for compatibility with the old Office suite. Microsoft is probably responsible for more employment in the US than any other company.
If they recommend linux, the corporate IT dept will be reduced to 3 guys handling mainly new machine set-ups and taking support calls from CEOs about dead machines (is it plugged in/switched on?)
working, the Casio GS1300B is ultimately cool. 5 motors, analog display, atomic time sync, solar powered, count down timer that makes it run backwards, water and shock resist, and it looks nice too. You can read the time at a glance and know that it is absolutely correct. Since I got mine I stopped looking for any other watch. I picked mine up at a Saks 5th Ave outlet store for $240.
I worked for HP in the bay area about 15 years ago. Every year at annual raise time they herded us engineers into a room and made a presentation about how their HR people had sat down with the HR people from Intel, Apple, Cisco, and every other engineering employer in the bay area to define job titles and benefits, including salaries. They told us this as if it was a good thing. Then they'd announce the amount of that year's raise and everyone would cheer and I was flabbergasted. What they had just told us was that they were conspiring to fix salaries and benefits so don't bother looking for a job elsewhere- you're not going to get any better deals.
The next time you can't understand why you don't get more than 10 days vacation even though you've got 15 years experience at your previous job, thank this sort of collusion. This is why I have not made any attempt to push my son towards an engineering "career". Engineering isn't a career any more. It's a job and you are about as valuable to the company as the guy who sweeps the floors at night.
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with that bottle of gypsy tears I extracted at great personal risk? What about all those dead black cats I that were also very difficult and risky to acquire? I have almost a gallon of virgin's sweat. Now how am I going to unload it?
rest of the world are pulling so far ahead of us. We are stupid and deserve to have our economy in the toilet.
What could be stronger proof of a broken political system?
While the rest of the world respects and encourages study and learning, our politicians pander to the lowest element. Educated and intelligent people are viewed with suspicion.
We need to adopt some minimal qualifications for education, intelligence, and personal integrity in politicians and voters alike. The inmates are running the asylum.
Damn! Where are the Peanuts when you need them?
Let me explain how this works (having gone through an IPO at a company where I worked years ago):
1) founders of company want to generate some cash.
2) founders hire a bunch of execs and engineers promising the company will go public and everyone wiil get options at pre IPO price.
3) dopes take the jobs.
4) company goes public, stock price soars, people start dreaming about what they will do with their newly minted wealth.
5) reality sets in- founders are the only ones able to exercise their options, everyone else has to wait to be vested in 5 years.
6) founders sell off their stock, generating the cash they sought, leave everyone else twisting in the wind.
7) Now-wiser execs realize their options won't ever be worth anything and jump off the sinking ship while they can.
It has been done so many times you'd think people would be wise to this scam by now, but it keeps working over and over.
All tablets with wifi and/or 3G/4G and smart phones are listening/tracking devices. They come with extra capabilities so that we will voluntarily carry them around. If they didn't there would have to be some law passed requiring that we do so. Welcome to the 21st century!
You'd better smash your cell phone, disconnect your wifi system at home, and stop using credit cards.
While I agree that when it comes to displays, bigger is generally better, until we have technology that makes a 13" tablet weigh about the same as current 7" tablets they just won't be practical. It's definitely coming, but it's going to take a few more years.
My Nexus 7 fits in the side-leg pockets of my cargo pants (yes, I still wear those). Only problem is that when you sit it puts some tension on the fabric, pulling the Nexus 7 against the edge of the pocket and operating the power button. I discovered this when the Nexus 7 started making all sort of noises due to the power button and touch screen being activated inside my pocket.
You don't have to write down what is said, only make marks that reference slide changes, mentions of test material, and the occasional equation of drawing copied from the board, etc. I put two years worth of "notes" in one notebook.
The paper is cheap and it will take you a long time to use it up. You get 4 notebooks for $20 (last time I bought notebooks, maybe 2 years ago). I'm about 1/2 way through one and the other three are waiting for me to fill them with drawings, notes about projects, and ideas for new projects. The dot pattern covers the entire sheet, front and rear, so you can fit a LOT of stuff on a page if you ignore the lines.
I went through a year of my didactic classes in dental school using a livescribe pen exclusively. Almost all lectures were done with power point so my notes mostly consisted of writing down slide numbers whenever a slide was changed. The pen links the text to the audio so when i review the ppts if I wanted to know what was being said while a particular slide was on-screen I could just tap the slide number int he notes and get the info straight from the horse's mouth. Whenever the work test was mentioned in the context of "this is going to be on the test", I wrote the word "test". If someone asked a good question and/or received a good answer I wrote "listen". The other thing that is great is the software on the computer searches your handwritten text and highlights wherever you wrote the searched-for text. When I want to find all those instances of the word "test" in my notes, the desktop software finds them for me and I can click and hear all the relevant info without having to listen to two hours of lecture.
It really made studying and note taking easy and was completely reliable. My 1 GB pen held about 3 weeks worth of all-day, every-day lectures.
I still use the pen for my "engineering" notebook so I'll have copies of whatever I write on ym computer.
if they didn't absolutely have to. I lived there for 4 years of dental school. It's too hot to move about 8 months of the year, all the plants have thorns, all the insects sting, all the reptiles are poisonous. There's no water. This is a message from the universe telling you that human beings don't belong there.
Of all the places to be in Az, I never understood why people would have settled in that god-forsaken valley. 100 miles away there are decent climates at higher altitudes.
Further proof of the stupidity of humans...
plug the damned things in? Is it really worth the loss of efficiency of the wireless charging scheme?
My problem has always been with the eternal boot-up times, especially in consideration of how often the system has to be shut down and restarted for band-aid patches for security. I don't mean the MS advertised boot-up time to the log-in screen. I mean the actual time that it takes the HDD to quit cherchunking so I can actually start to work on something. Yeah I get a log-in screen in 30 seconds, but I can't actually do anything on the system for 2 minutes.
MS's approach to improving boot time seems to be in redefining the term "boot time" rather than actually doing something to speed it up. Speed up text rendering? Really? Gee, thanks.
Some guys got arrested for dealing in counterfeit phone cards- they figured out how to duplicate them and started doing so en masse, selling them on the streets and train platforms around Tokyo. Ultimately a judge ruled that it was not a violation of law to duplicate or even sell the cards. It was only illegal to use them. Shortly thereafter you could see guys standing in front of police boxes, selling the cards to anyone walking by. Shortly after that NTT got rid of the phones that used those cards.
Japan has some weird laws. Someone once told me, and I don't know if it is true, that Japanese laws don't say what you can't do, they say what you can do. If there isn't a law specifically allowing something, then you can't legally do whatever it is.
The packaging was simple, artistically adorned, and it fit together tightly. That tells me there was some very precise work done in manufacturing that package- someone cared enough about what they were doing to make the package fit the product well. That's my first impression of the Nexus 7, and after using the device for a couple hours over the last couple days I have to say that first impression was spot-on. The device is well made. Android seems to be a great OS (at least it isn't -ugh- Windows!).
I've seen all the silly you-tube gadget-pron videos compilations of inept fools struggling with the packaging. I don't know where they found all those dopes but they are definitely not the sort of people whose opinions I trust about tech products. What sort of dope sets up a camera to tape a package opening and doesn't have a knife handy to cut through tape?
Why do they get this stuff before we do in the US, with our world-beating health care system?
Maybe there wouldn't be enough profit for insurance companies if we had it here...
will be to turn ALL roads into toll roads, thus keeping the riff-raff out of the way of their high-speed, auto-piloted cars.
Eat the rich!
Is the whole world going insane?
CEOs of tech companies don't want to pay taxes or decent wages and benefits and want a large pool of educated people to hire from. They have a two part strategy: (1) work deals to avoid paying taxes thus screwing Americans out of a decent education (California is a great example), and resulting in "not enough qualified applicants",which justifies (2) expanding the H1B visa program.
H1B visa workers are essentially slaves. They have to accept whatever pay and working conditions they are given because if they don't like either they have to go back where they came from. It's perfect for tech employers. The extra 65000 slaves per year coming into the US drives down the wages and benefits for American workers who have to compete against people coming from 3rd world hell-holes.
I used to be an engineer and worked for HP, TI, Motorola and a couple other companies. I've seen how the companies conspire to fix wages and benefits and I've seen and known several H1B slaves. I saw the writing on the wall several years ago and went back to school and became a dentist. Engineering is a dead end in the US. If you're in school for engineering now I'd start thinking about doing something else.
I have always and will continue to bitch about Windows. With each new release of windows the paid-for press and bloggers gush about how "they got it right this time" and each time it turns to crap.
Now we're on the cusp of the Windows 8 release and the usual gushing is going on.
How can people be so dumb? Will they ever learn?
If that "theory" were true we might be a lot smarter as a species by now. Somewhere along the way some degenerative mutations must have occurred and become dominant. Maybe early man, like so many modern men, found that it was easier to procreate with less intelligent women.
It's because all the iPhones (at least gen 1, 2, 3, and I don't know about 4) don't work worth a crap for voice and people have given up trying unless it's absolutely necessary. My wife has an iPhone 2 on AT&T in Riverside, Ca., and the chances of completing a call with her are about 1 in 20. Friends with iPhones in dental school in Mesa, Az. were also the same way.
Yeah, I know- they are all just ignoring my calls because I'm such an a-hole...
Excuse me while I don my flame-proof suit...
OK, fire away!
that MS wins more corporate desktops than Linux.
IT guys know that if they recommend MS they'll have plenty of work for years to come. There's all those security patches, problems created by updates, etc. that they will have to fix. Every time a new version of the beloved Office suite is released, they'll have to patch all those computers for compatibility with the old Office suite. Microsoft is probably responsible for more employment in the US than any other company.
If they recommend linux, the corporate IT dept will be reduced to 3 guys handling mainly new machine set-ups and taking support calls from CEOs about dead machines (is it plugged in/switched on?)
working, the Casio GS1300B is ultimately cool. 5 motors, analog display, atomic time sync, solar powered, count down timer that makes it run backwards, water and shock resist, and it looks nice too. You can read the time at a glance and know that it is absolutely correct. Since I got mine I stopped looking for any other watch. I picked mine up at a Saks 5th Ave outlet store for $240.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qljXevEW2W0
I worked for HP in the bay area about 15 years ago. Every year at annual raise time they herded us engineers into a room and made a presentation about how their HR people had sat down with the HR people from Intel, Apple, Cisco, and every other engineering employer in the bay area to define job titles and benefits, including salaries. They told us this as if it was a good thing. Then they'd announce the amount of that year's raise and everyone would cheer and I was flabbergasted. What they had just told us was that they were conspiring to fix salaries and benefits so don't bother looking for a job elsewhere- you're not going to get any better deals.
The next time you can't understand why you don't get more than 10 days vacation even though you've got 15 years experience at your previous job, thank this sort of collusion. This is why I have not made any attempt to push my son towards an engineering "career". Engineering isn't a career any more. It's a job and you are about as valuable to the company as the guy who sweeps the floors at night.