Ever sat through a roll call in a class of 250 students? I had an instructor actually try to take attendance like that in one of those huge lecture classes, and I was about ready to hang myself before he was halfway finished.
The problem is the stimulus concentrated way too much on giving out block grants to a ridiculously wide array of projects. FDR's stimulus plans in the 1930s, by contrast, were tightly controlled government projects that resulted in large public works projects that never would have been done otherwise. It's amazing how much of the basic infrastructure in this country, particularly in the national parks, was built in the 1930s. People were able to work, and things were built that benefited the nation as a whole. This stimulus is so broad it's basically just giving away money for the pet projects of anyone who can write a convincing grant application. It's almost as bad as the tax "rebates" that everyone ended up spending on cheap Chinese-made crap at Wal-Mart during the Bush administration.
These rovers are great, and there's no denying the incredible engineering and workmanship that went into them. However, given the speed they are capable of traveling and the limited equipment they have on board, I can't help thinking that all the science they've accomplished over these many years could have been done in about 3 days by an actual human. A human can walk much faster than these rovers can travel, and a human is capable of interpreting data without having to wait 30 minutes each way for communications from the Earth.
The robots may be much cheaper, but a human on the surface of the planet would be much more efficient.
Gravel? When I was in elementary school the entire playground was covered in asphalt. Flying off the merry go round meant losing a good chunk of your skin as you slid across it, and yet we still all hung on to the very edge for dear life.
Those metal slides were also far superior to the plastic ones with the steel rivets that they have now. The slides today are basically static electricity collecting devices with the occasional steel discharge point to make sure kids get plenty of static shocks on the way down.
Plus, Google has always been about doing what other companies have done before, only bigger and better. Enron used shady energy trading practices to cause rolling blackouts in California. Google will improve on this process to cause rolling blackouts nationwide.
Treat the interview the same way you would treat a technical discussion among coworkers: keep it light and relaxed, but make sure you know what you're talking about. It's often difficult to be relaxed in an interview, especially if you're currently unemployed and it's the first interview you've had in months. However, being a nervous wreck who can't answer any questions without stammering will sink you faster than anything, even if you are technically competent. Try to tell yourself that, although you might want this particular job, not getting it isn't the end of the world. There will always be other opportunities. It may be hard to convince yourself of that, but unless you're actually living in your car and you just sold your left shoe for a loaf of bread, it's probably more true than you realize.
Interviewers, especially in the technical interview, are looking for people they want to work with. This means they want people who are technically competent, but more importantly people who they can get along with. The better you are at being the kind of person most people (at least most people in your field) can get along with, the better off you'll be.
The US has a very long coastline and also a giant section in the middle of the country that gets a lot of wind and is relatively sparsely populated. We have plenty of good locations to put turbines, we just lack the political will to get it done.
From what I understand, the objection of the Indian tribes was that it might disturb ancient burial grounds that are on land that used to be above water but now isn't. I find it hard to believe they've kept track of where any of those burial grounds are since they've presumably been underwater for many decades, but I suppose we could find them by burying dead pets in the ocean floor and seeing which ones come back to life, then simply avoiding those areas.
They use one of those Pringles can antennae, except instead of a Pringles can they use the fuselage of the aircraft. It's not difficult, the trick is attaching your laptop to the outer metal skin of the airplane. You can do it yourself, you just need to take a power drill or something of that nature on to the plane...don't worry, just explain to the security guys what it's for, they'll be okay with it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't modern airliners basically fly themselves once they're at cruising altitude? What are these pilots supposed to do, stare at the unchanging instruments for hours until their eyes glaze over and they pass out? Checking every gauge on the instrument panel every 5 seconds for 8 hours during a transoceanic flight might sound exciting to most of us, but I bet it isn't as great as it's cracked up to be.
It says spoiler free in the title, but then the subtitle says "spoiler light". As we all know, "light" is a word that's not regulated by the FDA, so it's impossible to determine how much spoiler content actually exists in a review using that term, other than that it contains fewer spoiler than one marked "regular" or "full spoiler" or something of that nature.
Exactly. Anyone who's had to deal with trying to get an internal development organization to update anything knows how painful it can be. Absent a clear and urgent need expressed from corporate executive management, they'll put your concerns on the back burner forever, especially if they also develop for external paying clients. So, if you have a tool that's only used internally, updates to that tool can take many months or even years to get done. Meanwhile, the poor downtrodden IT guys have to support the ancient monstrosity the whole company depends on but no one wants to spend the time or money updating because it doesn't immediately generate revenue. Thus, we get stuck with IE6 years beyond when it should have been retired.
Probably, but I already spent a considerable amount of time doing (non-web) development earlier in my career. Didn't care for it. These days I do system architecture more than day to day operations, which isn't quite as aggravating.
The solution to your problem is simple: do all three. Go up to the mountains with your girlfriend, tell your friend to meet you there. Find a coffee shop you and your girlfriend can hang out at and sit there with her for a few minutes. Then, tell her you're having some gastrointestinal distress from some bad shrimp you ate the night before, and excuse yourself. Run up to the slopes, and snowboard down the mountain with your friend, then hop in the car and burn rubber down to wherever Nimoy is hanging out. Hang out there for a few minutes, then book it back to the coffee shop, sneak in the back way, into the bathroom, flush a few times, and go back and sit down with your girlfriend. After a minute or two, repeat the whole process.
If Three's Company has taught me anything, this should work at least until the second commercial break.
I love computers. I wouldn't have gotten into the field if I didn't love them. The ones I hate are the developers who write the shitty bug-ridden code that gets loaded onto computers that I have to support.
Maybe since the ending speech (according to the link) was all about intimidation and fear, Comedy Central thought it would be too blatantly hypocritical to actually air it.
According to the statement by Matt and Trey, the final speech (which in the broadcast version was nothing but an extremely long beep) didn't even mention Muhammed, it was about intimidation and fear. Comedy Central really went way overboard on the censoring of this episode. Hopefully whenever their current contract expires they can take South Park to a network that isn't run by a bunch of gutless cowards (if such a thing even exists anymore).
Personally, I thought the whole two-part episode kind of sucked anyway, but the overzealous censoring of the second part was just ridiculous.
Sure, everyone wants games that play well. On the other hand, the games that make the money are the ones that look graphically impressive on a 30-second trailer. Sure, a game can take off later through word of mouth, but initial sales are critical if you don't want the company to shelve the whole project as a failure before word of mouth has a chance to work its magic. Initial sales are pretty much entirely based on how good a game looks.
Just make it a habit to engage whatever cognitive functions you most want to retain, and you will retain them much longer than any of your peers who do not make a similar effort.
Well then, I should retain my cognitive ability to quickly search out, view, and later remove all traces of Internet porn until I'm 250 years old.
I don't know about anyone else, but my primary fear is that my kids would see it and tell one of their friends at school about it. This then gets overheard by a parent with a huge stick up their ass who goes and tells anyone she can find that I'm letting my children watch porn, and before I know it I'm on the sex offender registry and my kids have a new family because this whole country always has a huge kneejerk overreaction whenever sex and children are mentioned in the same paragraph.
In short, it's not that I don't think my kids could handle porn, it's that everyone else couldn't handle the idea that my kids were exposed to porn.
We've never had any sort of passive entertainment device in our car other than the radio, and I refuse to put one in or buy a car that includes one. We regularly go on 10-hour road trips to visit the grandparents, and we have two kids (8 and 10). It was a little difficult with the occasional tantrums when they were younger, but they've now done exactly what I hoped they would do: learned to entertain themselves. They have their journals, sketchpads, puzzle books, coloring books, and regular old reading books, and they can keep themselves busy the entire time. I much prefer this to having them being zombified by a stack of DVDs for 10 hours straight.
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Ever sat through a roll call in a class of 250 students? I had an instructor actually try to take attendance like that in one of those huge lecture classes, and I was about ready to hang myself before he was halfway finished.
The problem is the stimulus concentrated way too much on giving out block grants to a ridiculously wide array of projects. FDR's stimulus plans in the 1930s, by contrast, were tightly controlled government projects that resulted in large public works projects that never would have been done otherwise. It's amazing how much of the basic infrastructure in this country, particularly in the national parks, was built in the 1930s. People were able to work, and things were built that benefited the nation as a whole. This stimulus is so broad it's basically just giving away money for the pet projects of anyone who can write a convincing grant application. It's almost as bad as the tax "rebates" that everyone ended up spending on cheap Chinese-made crap at Wal-Mart during the Bush administration.
These rovers are great, and there's no denying the incredible engineering and workmanship that went into them. However, given the speed they are capable of traveling and the limited equipment they have on board, I can't help thinking that all the science they've accomplished over these many years could have been done in about 3 days by an actual human. A human can walk much faster than these rovers can travel, and a human is capable of interpreting data without having to wait 30 minutes each way for communications from the Earth.
The robots may be much cheaper, but a human on the surface of the planet would be much more efficient.
Gravel? When I was in elementary school the entire playground was covered in asphalt. Flying off the merry go round meant losing a good chunk of your skin as you slid across it, and yet we still all hung on to the very edge for dear life.
Those metal slides were also far superior to the plastic ones with the steel rivets that they have now. The slides today are basically static electricity collecting devices with the occasional steel discharge point to make sure kids get plenty of static shocks on the way down.
Plus, Google has always been about doing what other companies have done before, only bigger and better. Enron used shady energy trading practices to cause rolling blackouts in California. Google will improve on this process to cause rolling blackouts nationwide.
Treat the interview the same way you would treat a technical discussion among coworkers: keep it light and relaxed, but make sure you know what you're talking about. It's often difficult to be relaxed in an interview, especially if you're currently unemployed and it's the first interview you've had in months. However, being a nervous wreck who can't answer any questions without stammering will sink you faster than anything, even if you are technically competent. Try to tell yourself that, although you might want this particular job, not getting it isn't the end of the world. There will always be other opportunities. It may be hard to convince yourself of that, but unless you're actually living in your car and you just sold your left shoe for a loaf of bread, it's probably more true than you realize.
Interviewers, especially in the technical interview, are looking for people they want to work with. This means they want people who are technically competent, but more importantly people who they can get along with. The better you are at being the kind of person most people (at least most people in your field) can get along with, the better off you'll be.
Well, a century consists of many decades. So there!
The US has a very long coastline and also a giant section in the middle of the country that gets a lot of wind and is relatively sparsely populated. We have plenty of good locations to put turbines, we just lack the political will to get it done.
From what I understand, the objection of the Indian tribes was that it might disturb ancient burial grounds that are on land that used to be above water but now isn't. I find it hard to believe they've kept track of where any of those burial grounds are since they've presumably been underwater for many decades, but I suppose we could find them by burying dead pets in the ocean floor and seeing which ones come back to life, then simply avoiding those areas.
They use one of those Pringles can antennae, except instead of a Pringles can they use the fuselage of the aircraft. It's not difficult, the trick is attaching your laptop to the outer metal skin of the airplane. You can do it yourself, you just need to take a power drill or something of that nature on to the plane...don't worry, just explain to the security guys what it's for, they'll be okay with it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't modern airliners basically fly themselves once they're at cruising altitude? What are these pilots supposed to do, stare at the unchanging instruments for hours until their eyes glaze over and they pass out? Checking every gauge on the instrument panel every 5 seconds for 8 hours during a transoceanic flight might sound exciting to most of us, but I bet it isn't as great as it's cracked up to be.
Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.
Damn, talk about a lesson this country badly needs to learn. Oh wait, he was talking about Power Point bullets...never mind.
It says spoiler free in the title, but then the subtitle says "spoiler light". As we all know, "light" is a word that's not regulated by the FDA, so it's impossible to determine how much spoiler content actually exists in a review using that term, other than that it contains fewer spoiler than one marked "regular" or "full spoiler" or something of that nature.
Exactly. Anyone who's had to deal with trying to get an internal development organization to update anything knows how painful it can be. Absent a clear and urgent need expressed from corporate executive management, they'll put your concerns on the back burner forever, especially if they also develop for external paying clients. So, if you have a tool that's only used internally, updates to that tool can take many months or even years to get done. Meanwhile, the poor downtrodden IT guys have to support the ancient monstrosity the whole company depends on but no one wants to spend the time or money updating because it doesn't immediately generate revenue. Thus, we get stuck with IE6 years beyond when it should have been retired.
Probably, but I already spent a considerable amount of time doing (non-web) development earlier in my career. Didn't care for it. These days I do system architecture more than day to day operations, which isn't quite as aggravating.
The solution to your problem is simple: do all three. Go up to the mountains with your girlfriend, tell your friend to meet you there. Find a coffee shop you and your girlfriend can hang out at and sit there with her for a few minutes. Then, tell her you're having some gastrointestinal distress from some bad shrimp you ate the night before, and excuse yourself. Run up to the slopes, and snowboard down the mountain with your friend, then hop in the car and burn rubber down to wherever Nimoy is hanging out. Hang out there for a few minutes, then book it back to the coffee shop, sneak in the back way, into the bathroom, flush a few times, and go back and sit down with your girlfriend. After a minute or two, repeat the whole process.
If Three's Company has taught me anything, this should work at least until the second commercial break.
I love computers. I wouldn't have gotten into the field if I didn't love them. The ones I hate are the developers who write the shitty bug-ridden code that gets loaded onto computers that I have to support.
That's "Senior Equine Genetic Specimen Extraction Engineer" you troglodyte.
Maybe since the ending speech (according to the link) was all about intimidation and fear, Comedy Central thought it would be too blatantly hypocritical to actually air it.
According to the statement by Matt and Trey, the final speech (which in the broadcast version was nothing but an extremely long beep) didn't even mention Muhammed, it was about intimidation and fear. Comedy Central really went way overboard on the censoring of this episode. Hopefully whenever their current contract expires they can take South Park to a network that isn't run by a bunch of gutless cowards (if such a thing even exists anymore).
Personally, I thought the whole two-part episode kind of sucked anyway, but the overzealous censoring of the second part was just ridiculous.
Sure, everyone wants games that play well. On the other hand, the games that make the money are the ones that look graphically impressive on a 30-second trailer. Sure, a game can take off later through word of mouth, but initial sales are critical if you don't want the company to shelve the whole project as a failure before word of mouth has a chance to work its magic. Initial sales are pretty much entirely based on how good a game looks.
Just make it a habit to engage whatever cognitive functions you most want to retain, and you will retain them much longer than any of your peers who do not make a similar effort.
Well then, I should retain my cognitive ability to quickly search out, view, and later remove all traces of Internet porn until I'm 250 years old.
No more brain training. It's back to killing it slowly with beer for me.
I don't know about anyone else, but my primary fear is that my kids would see it and tell one of their friends at school about it. This then gets overheard by a parent with a huge stick up their ass who goes and tells anyone she can find that I'm letting my children watch porn, and before I know it I'm on the sex offender registry and my kids have a new family because this whole country always has a huge kneejerk overreaction whenever sex and children are mentioned in the same paragraph.
In short, it's not that I don't think my kids could handle porn, it's that everyone else couldn't handle the idea that my kids were exposed to porn.
We've never had any sort of passive entertainment device in our car other than the radio, and I refuse to put one in or buy a car that includes one. We regularly go on 10-hour road trips to visit the grandparents, and we have two kids (8 and 10). It was a little difficult with the occasional tantrums when they were younger, but they've now done exactly what I hoped they would do: learned to entertain themselves. They have their journals, sketchpads, puzzle books, coloring books, and regular old reading books, and they can keep themselves busy the entire time. I much prefer this to having them being zombified by a stack of DVDs for 10 hours straight.