but I'm an amateur at this stuff. I look at the page that lists the improvements and don't see anything that addresses the power regression that affects battery charge life in laptops. Or am I wrong (please...)?
even if you knew there would be no extra compensation? If it makes your or other's jobs easier, it was worth writing it. You need to broaden your thinking.
What makes you think that every detail of a job is spelled out in the job description you saw when you were hired? Sticking strictly to that job description is like only wearing 15 pieces of flair. You may be meeting the requirements of the job without writing the app you wrote, but when the poo hits the fan and IT people start getting kicked to the curb, the people who keep their jobs are the ones who wear more than 15 pieces of flair. Your app is like putting on another 10 pieces of flair. By writing that app you've demonstrated that you take the job seriously and you have useful skills (above your pay grade). That sort of thing sometimes leads to new jobs with new responsibilities and more $. Don't blow it.
Clearly the housing market collapse and attendant stock market crash were a result of the big banks suffering from too much government oversight/regulation.
The problem IS money. Businesses consider the "contributions" (read payoffs) to politicians an investment from which they expect a return. If they did not gain some competitive advantage, or tax reduction much greater than the payoffs they make, or "protection" for their outdated business models (copyrights, etc.) they would stop making the payoffs.
why should the internet be any different? Hell, half of them come from states where their constituents think ID is a "scientific theory" on equal footing with evolution. And don't get me started on the whole global warming conspiracy... and fluoridation of water... and...
that. I sometimes try to "sing" along with Tibetan monks and Tuuvan throat singers and can occasionally get the extra resonance going, but that vocal fry thing must take a lot of practice to be able to do it. I always assumed that the stuff in Britney Spears records was done by electronic manipulation. Where are the women in the study learning how to do it and where and when do they practice?
The decision to pay lawyers instead of engineers is never an easy one, but Apple, you made the calculations and made your decision and with it you've taken the crown from the former Symbol-of-all-that-is-wrong-in-America, Microsoft. Congratulations! I look forward to the future that you will allow to happen...
Nonsense. What you're suggesting means that we can never know about anything from past experience, similar experience, or even logical thought processes. You can know some things without having to keep retesting them. For example, if you put a loaded gun to your head and pull the trigger anyone who knows what a gun is/does knows that you will be killed. There is no need to test this concept. It is 100% knowable without testing as are many others.
Many of the things the myth busters test can be 100% accurately predicted, especially when they test some of the ridiculous, impossible internet myths sent in by viewers.
A large percentage of what they do on the show is strictly for entertainment value. Many of the so-called myths they test, and the methods they devise to test them, are completely predictable by anyone with any common sense, yet they perform the "tests" anyway because they involve entertaining car wrecks, explosions, fire balls, or Adam ending up in pain and/or puking.
I don't know if this particular incident occurred while testing something unpredictable or whether simply doing something entertaining, but either way, the lawyers have been hired and the suits will fly. The police, the production company, Adam, Jamie, and every other member of the cast who was present, the state of Ca., and the TV channel that sponsors/airs their show will all be sued for actual damages + compensation for PTSD + punitive damages. There will even be a suit over who gets possession of the cannon ball- the myth-busters, the PD bomb squad, the city, the state, the homeowner, or the van owner. If either the homeowner or the van owner win it will promptly be placed on ebay- hopefully they'll be smart enough to get Adam, Jamie, and the rest of the gang to autograph it first...
problems, even with people whose native language is English.
I was in India several years ago with my with my wife who became ill during the trip. I told my host that my wife was experiencing some stomach problems and I'd like to get her some medicine. I then spent several frustrating minutes trying to understand the difference between a "stomach problem" and "stomach trouble" and the different medicines to treat them.
moving pretty fast. Hard to believe cells that are not normally motile (bone marrow stem cells) would beat cells that are exquisitely evolved for high speed locomotion. Come to think of it, paramecium can move pretty fast, too.
I paid for part of my new career education and used student loans for the rest. I didn't take any Grad Plus loans at 8.5% (ouch!) but I did take government subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loans at about 6.75%. That's just nuts. Student loans are the most secure loan there is, especially for health sciences, yet we get charged usurious rates. A couple years ago we saw how insecure home mortgage loans are, and een after the mortgage market meltdown with millions of foreclosures, you can get a home mortgage for under 4%. Don't want to pay it back? Declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is no protection from student loan creditors, yet we have to pay ridiculously high interest rates. The interest rate is supposed to reflect the risk. Where's the risk in making a loan to a medical or dental student?
and made it to 45 YO before the push to management/marketing started in earnest. I had no interest in either so tried to stay in engineering. Layoffs ensued. I went back to school and now I'm a dentist.
I think the half-life of tech workers int he US is going to get even shorter. I'm not suggesting to my son that he study engineering as I did. He doesn't seem to be interested and I don't think it is a secure way to make a living any more. Instead I am advising him to do what my brother did- start up your own business of whatever type interests you. My brother distills Vodka and Gin. I figure he's got about 10 more years at the rate he's going until Seagrams buys him out with private-jet money.
My mouse worked in 2.2. After messing with 2.2 a little I went to see how I missed ICS. Then I discovered that the site does things sort of upside down- newer releases are near the bottom of the page, not the top. I DL'd and tried to install ICS and it puked and wouldn't install. I'm too much of a dweeb to figure out how to fix it. I'll just wait a week or so and try again with a newer release.
I loaded Android 2.2.2 from the site in a virtual machine in my Asus AMD laptop and found networking (wifi) not working. I'll look around for ICS and see if it's working in there. Didn't test sound. No idea about hardware acceleration.
I am far from an expert on this stuff- just someone who tinkers with OSes, virtual machines, etc., so go easy with the flame thrower.
you can come to America and live on a floating prison. I'm not sure what sort of abject misery you'd have to be coming from to make living/working on a prison ship seem like a good idea.
I've been on boats around the bay and off the coast and I can tell you that about 30% of the time there won't be any work getting done because everyone will be hanging over the rails puking their guts out.
genetics research. She worked with a geneticist (PhD) who was a fundamentalist, bible-toting Christian who didn't believe in evolution. She said he was absolutely brilliant when it came to genetics. No one who worked with him could ever figure out how he squared his genetics knowledge with his religious beliefs. Evolution is at the very core of genetics, or is it the other way around? Anyway, he was a very strange person.
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No, as I understand it, it is actually in the kernel. I think the problem was found in Ubuntu simply because it's the most popular (?) linux distro.
but I'm an amateur at this stuff. I look at the page that lists the improvements and don't see anything that addresses the power regression that affects battery charge life in laptops. Or am I wrong (please...)?
And I'll celebrate when Windows drops below 1%.
even if you knew there would be no extra compensation? If it makes your or other's jobs easier, it was worth writing it. You need to broaden your thinking.
What makes you think that every detail of a job is spelled out in the job description you saw when you were hired? Sticking strictly to that job description is like only wearing 15 pieces of flair. You may be meeting the requirements of the job without writing the app you wrote, but when the poo hits the fan and IT people start getting kicked to the curb, the people who keep their jobs are the ones who wear more than 15 pieces of flair. Your app is like putting on another 10 pieces of flair. By writing that app you've demonstrated that you take the job seriously and you have useful skills (above your pay grade). That sort of thing sometimes leads to new jobs with new responsibilities and more $. Don't blow it.
Clearly the housing market collapse and attendant stock market crash were a result of the big banks suffering from too much government oversight/regulation.
Or not.
Doh!
The problem IS money. Businesses consider the "contributions" (read payoffs) to politicians an investment from which they expect a return. If they did not gain some competitive advantage, or tax reduction much greater than the payoffs they make, or "protection" for their outdated business models (copyrights, etc.) they would stop making the payoffs.
You may choose to live your life by fortune cookie quips, but I prefer a little more meat in my politics.
why should the internet be any different? Hell, half of them come from states where their constituents think ID is a "scientific theory" on equal footing with evolution. And don't get me started on the whole global warming conspiracy... and fluoridation of water... and ...
And they're streaming video with it 33% of the time? Hmmm.
You can hear it on some old Beck discs, not nearly as much as Britney Spears uses it, but it is there.
that. I sometimes try to "sing" along with Tibetan monks and Tuuvan throat singers and can occasionally get the extra resonance going, but that vocal fry thing must take a lot of practice to be able to do it. I always assumed that the stuff in Britney Spears records was done by electronic manipulation. Where are the women in the study learning how to do it and where and when do they practice?
The decision to pay lawyers instead of engineers is never an easy one, but Apple, you made the calculations and made your decision and with it you've taken the crown from the former Symbol-of-all-that-is-wrong-in-America, Microsoft. Congratulations! I look forward to the future that you will allow to happen...
Those guys have "deep pockets" and this event happened in California. The lawyers are circling like hungry sharks even as I type this.
Nonsense. What you're suggesting means that we can never know about anything from past experience, similar experience, or even logical thought processes. You can know some things without having to keep retesting them. For example, if you put a loaded gun to your head and pull the trigger anyone who knows what a gun is/does knows that you will be killed. There is no need to test this concept. It is 100% knowable without testing as are many others.
Many of the things the myth busters test can be 100% accurately predicted, especially when they test some of the ridiculous, impossible internet myths sent in by viewers.
A large percentage of what they do on the show is strictly for entertainment value. Many of the so-called myths they test, and the methods they devise to test them, are completely predictable by anyone with any common sense, yet they perform the "tests" anyway because they involve entertaining car wrecks, explosions, fire balls, or Adam ending up in pain and/or puking.
I don't know if this particular incident occurred while testing something unpredictable or whether simply doing something entertaining, but either way, the lawyers have been hired and the suits will fly. The police, the production company, Adam, Jamie, and every other member of the cast who was present, the state of Ca., and the TV channel that sponsors/airs their show will all be sued for actual damages + compensation for PTSD + punitive damages. There will even be a suit over who gets possession of the cannon ball- the myth-busters, the PD bomb squad, the city, the state, the homeowner, or the van owner. If either the homeowner or the van owner win it will promptly be placed on ebay- hopefully they'll be smart enough to get Adam, Jamie, and the rest of the gang to autograph it first...
problems, even with people whose native language is English.
I was in India several years ago with my with my wife who became ill during the trip. I told my host that my wife was experiencing some stomach problems and I'd like to get her some medicine. I then spent several frustrating minutes trying to understand the difference between a "stomach problem" and "stomach trouble" and the different medicines to treat them.
moving pretty fast. Hard to believe cells that are not normally motile (bone marrow stem cells) would beat cells that are exquisitely evolved for high speed locomotion. Come to think of it, paramecium can move pretty fast, too.
I paid for part of my new career education and used student loans for the rest. I didn't take any Grad Plus loans at 8.5% (ouch!) but I did take government subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loans at about 6.75%. That's just nuts. Student loans are the most secure loan there is, especially for health sciences, yet we get charged usurious rates. A couple years ago we saw how insecure home mortgage loans are, and een after the mortgage market meltdown with millions of foreclosures, you can get a home mortgage for under 4%. Don't want to pay it back? Declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is no protection from student loan creditors, yet we have to pay ridiculously high interest rates. The interest rate is supposed to reflect the risk. Where's the risk in making a loan to a medical or dental student?
Rant over. I feel a little better now.
and made it to 45 YO before the push to management/marketing started in earnest. I had no interest in either so tried to stay in engineering. Layoffs ensued. I went back to school and now I'm a dentist.
I think the half-life of tech workers int he US is going to get even shorter. I'm not suggesting to my son that he study engineering as I did. He doesn't seem to be interested and I don't think it is a secure way to make a living any more. Instead I am advising him to do what my brother did- start up your own business of whatever type interests you. My brother distills Vodka and Gin. I figure he's got about 10 more years at the rate he's going until Seagrams buys him out with private-jet money.
Cooperium!
My mouse worked in 2.2. After messing with 2.2 a little I went to see how I missed ICS. Then I discovered that the site does things sort of upside down- newer releases are near the bottom of the page, not the top. I DL'd and tried to install ICS and it puked and wouldn't install. I'm too much of a dweeb to figure out how to fix it. I'll just wait a week or so and try again with a newer release.
I loaded Android 2.2.2 from the site in a virtual machine in my Asus AMD laptop and found networking (wifi) not working. I'll look around for ICS and see if it's working in there. Didn't test sound. No idea about hardware acceleration.
I am far from an expert on this stuff- just someone who tinkers with OSes, virtual machines, etc., so go easy with the flame thrower.
you can come to America and live on a floating prison. I'm not sure what sort of abject misery you'd have to be coming from to make living/working on a prison ship seem like a good idea.
I've been on boats around the bay and off the coast and I can tell you that about 30% of the time there won't be any work getting done because everyone will be hanging over the rails puking their guts out.
genetics research. She worked with a geneticist (PhD) who was a fundamentalist, bible-toting Christian who didn't believe in evolution. She said he was absolutely brilliant when it came to genetics. No one who worked with him could ever figure out how he squared his genetics knowledge with his religious beliefs. Evolution is at the very core of genetics, or is it the other way around? Anyway, he was a very strange person.
If you have nothing to do with religious extremists you are definitely NOT one of the masses.