Except for the fact that, generally, resumes are solicited for job openings and you are therefore not "advertising". You are responding, which is something entirely different.
"I also notice that no appliance I own in the USA uses insulation on the live pins of the plug to prevent accidental shocks when the plug is slightly out of the socket, none of the sockets contain safety shutters and that 110V cords to high wattage appliances such as vacuum cleaners get warm and the lights change brightness when I switch such appliances on and off.">/i>
You've either got really crappy wiring in your house, or your house is very old and not up to modern codes. There is no reason for lights to dim when you turn on any sort of appliance in a modern house. As for chords getting hot, I suggest you look at the quality of the chord on your equipment, not the sockets themselves. If the chord for vacuum gets hot, it is either not built from the correct gauge wire for the intended power, or there's a short in it somewhere causing a problem. That has nothing to do with the sockets in US households.
That said, I have never particularly thought any of the sockets were better than others whether I was in the US, Europe or Asia. They all accomplish the expected task of getting power to what I need. There is no need for any sort of "nationalist" attitude about any of them... they're just different, none necessarily better than the other.
How is this even news? IE7 has been in the wild for at least 6 months, perhaps a year (I don't use it so I don't know exactly) so of course IE6 market share is going to be dropping. From what I can tell more and more people are migrating to IE7 and it's a reasonably decent browser now. Why is anyone comparing anything, be it Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, or anything else, to IE6 now?
When pleading guilty in the USA there is still a trial, just as you indicated. It's just much faster and cheaper on the taxpayer to prosecute the case because the defendant doesn't try to argue his case, he just says "yeah, you got me" and then is sentenced. Cases are faster and therefore you "save the cost of a trial". The wording is simply not accurate to what really happens.
Please show me where scanners, radio receivers, or spectrum analyzers are illegal. (I'm assuming you mean in the USA.)
I can go buy any of these things (several from my local Radio Shack) without any such concerns. I routinely purchase equipment like this and have never once been asked for any kind of license.
Radar detectors are also not illegal except in a couple States and they're quite readily attainable in any of those states where they aren't illegal.
Why shouldn't I be on the phone talking to someone giving while using the GPS to find their location in the woods? There are plenty of examples for your scenario that don't include driving. This is one of the best points that can be made for the survival of the market.
There are plenty of applications where standalone GPS is still necessary. Tracking of a mobile fleet of trucks, for example. Or planes using it for position information in conjunction with INS systems. Hikers/campers/outdoorspeople who don't have cell coverage. International travel where people don't have cell coverage. Lots and lots of reasons standalone GPS isn't going anywhere in the near future.
Most non-management jobs are important, but replaceable. It's just a fact of life. On top of this fact, we have an economy where there is a surplus of talent and employees.
In any company of 100 or more employees, the same can be said for most management positions, arguably all management positions. CEOs get replaced all the time. Middle management is very easily replaced internally or externally, as a general rule. There are, of course, exceptions where certain individuals really are crucial, but they are few and far between except in very small companies.
I forgot to mention, this is about Geeks, not Nerds. There is a difference, despite what Hollywood wants you to believe. I think we're all fairly familiar with the nuances of someone geeky versus nerdy...
Nerds have at least an edge, though, that they are more and more becoming the seat of economic power as technology makes more and more of us rich. We also have the benefit of being part of that already dominant male population (at least many of us do) so we're not starting out in an all-negative position that women had to start from.
It varies by time and place, I suppose. In my high school experience (mid-80's, Denver) "student-athlete" was almost an oxymoron, as a matter of unwritten but well-understood policy. The few students who did excel both academically and athletically ran into just enormous amounts of bullshit from the school and from other students. And from everything I've heard since then, I suspect my experience was a lot more typical than yours, but of course I don't know for sure.
Which is completely contradictory to my '86-'90 high school experience in Maine and South Dakota (moreso in Maine) where nearly all of the athletes were also the top ranked students. All of the teachers and staff expected the athletes to excel and all of my honors classes were completely filled with athletes with a couple minor exceptions (a couple students not a couple classes.)
As you indicated, it's about time and place. I do think Hollywood and television perpetuate the dying stereotype though, because it creates "conflict" which is what drives stories. As a writer I've been told many many times "you have to have more conflict in your writing otherwise people won't care". That may or may not be true, but it's the formula that has been successful so it's going to continue to be used.
Why not type it fXy=intgrl -inf,inf,fx,ydy... omit a lot of your structure and unnecessary letters and typing equations becomes much quicker. If you're actually going back and looking at them later you can fill it out a bit with parentheses where appropriate, etc.
Weight and balance for a single cockpit camera can easily be calculated and isn't very expensive at all. Besides, this has to be done every time anything is changed on an aircraft be it a new radio or a different set of antennas or whatever. It's not particularly difficult or expensive unless you actually CG every single plane individually.
Who cares?! Seriously, pilots who neglect their jobs and the rules such as these two did deserve to lose their seniority and their jobs! We're not talking about misfiling a report somewhere, we're talking about negligently ignoring basic flight safety rules and then ignoring radio comms. Missing some comms is one thing, but ignoring them for over an hour is another matter entirely.
My question is at what point are airlines going to put cameras in the cockpit for "flight safety"? I mean, seriously. It wouldn't be very difficult to tie a stream into the flight recording system. This would prevent a whole lot of misconduct on planes, and answer a lot of questions when things go wrong.
1) This is complete crap. Even if they were expected to "do this on their own time", which is possible, that doesn't imply do it while they're flying... which isn't their own time. Even busy people have way more "personal time" than they admit. But who the hell wants to do this kind of crap in their personal time? I suspect there was training time made available that the pilot either couldn't or didn't make use of for whatever reason and didn't want to reschedule official training time.
2) The detour isn't what people are making a big deal about, it happens all the time for various reasons. The only reason people are making a big deal is the fact that the pilots were blatantly ignoring safety rules that are there for a reason.
An honest mistake?! Seriously? Completely disregarding flight procedures (on various levels) for personal "training" is blatant misconduct and at the absolute minimum they should be fired. There's a reason there are two pilots in a cockpit and they violated several standing rules of commercial flight. I'll be surprised if they can ever fly commercial planes again.
Modern Jet liners fly plenty fast enough that jet fighters, of any type, wouldn't have any great issue maintaining an escort without resorting to silliness. They were flying an Airbus A320, which is effectively the same size and capability aircraft as the refueling aircraft that jet fighters use to get fuel during flight.
Yes they have to slow somewhat from their normal cruise speeds, but it's not so significant that it's difficult to do.
The problem with auto-dimming lights at home is people don't like them. They are intrusive and turn on garishly bright lights when you don't want them, or turn off lights when you do want them (like while reading a book, for example).
We have automatic lights in a lot of the offices at my work, and they invariably get disabled by the occupants because they come on and go off at the wrong times.
A programmable thermostat does that just fine, though. We have 4 settings on our 30 year old thermostat. Wake, leave, return, and sleep. We can set different times for each day of the week for these settings and the temperature range I set is usually about 10 degrees different throughout the four settings. I have a nearly 2000 square foot house and spend about $75 a month on my utilities, even with old drafty windows and doors (which are getting replaced this year).
And all of that came with the 30 year old house. Your example is the only compelling example I've ever heard for automation, except laziness, and it's been done for many many years without the need for expensive gadgets. The thermostat in my house can be replaced with a more modern one (if I felt the need) for less than $20.
This is pretty much standard operating procedure for corporations from "mom and pop" all the way up the chain to multi-billion dollar businesses. It's been this way for decades and will continue to be this way.
This wouldn't be any kind of news if it weren't MS.
I don't like most George W. Bush's policies much either, but he is not the grand scapegoat that so many people have made him out to be.
That can be said for any politician. None are to blame and all are to blame. That's the problem with the current system... nobody stands up and says "this is my fault" and takes responsibility. They're all trying to get reelected and live off the welfare state. Make no mistake, politicians are the worst welfare abusers in this country.
No, this country was born hating taxes without any rights or say as to how those taxes are being used. Being a US citizen doesn't automatically imply a hatred of tax, and shouldn't.
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Except for the fact that, generally, resumes are solicited for job openings and you are therefore not "advertising". You are responding, which is something entirely different.
"I also notice that no appliance I own in the USA uses insulation on the live pins of the plug to prevent accidental shocks when the plug is slightly out of the socket, none of the sockets contain safety shutters and that 110V cords to high wattage appliances such as vacuum cleaners get warm and the lights change brightness when I switch such appliances on and off.">/i>
You've either got really crappy wiring in your house, or your house is very old and not up to modern codes. There is no reason for lights to dim when you turn on any sort of appliance in a modern house. As for chords getting hot, I suggest you look at the quality of the chord on your equipment, not the sockets themselves. If the chord for vacuum gets hot, it is either not built from the correct gauge wire for the intended power, or there's a short in it somewhere causing a problem. That has nothing to do with the sockets in US households.
That said, I have never particularly thought any of the sockets were better than others whether I was in the US, Europe or Asia. They all accomplish the expected task of getting power to what I need. There is no need for any sort of "nationalist" attitude about any of them... they're just different, none necessarily better than the other.
How is this even news? IE7 has been in the wild for at least 6 months, perhaps a year (I don't use it so I don't know exactly) so of course IE6 market share is going to be dropping. From what I can tell more and more people are migrating to IE7 and it's a reasonably decent browser now. Why is anyone comparing anything, be it Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, or anything else, to IE6 now?
When pleading guilty in the USA there is still a trial, just as you indicated. It's just much faster and cheaper on the taxpayer to prosecute the case because the defendant doesn't try to argue his case, he just says "yeah, you got me" and then is sentenced. Cases are faster and therefore you "save the cost of a trial". The wording is simply not accurate to what really happens.
Please show me where scanners, radio receivers, or spectrum analyzers are illegal. (I'm assuming you mean in the USA.)
I can go buy any of these things (several from my local Radio Shack) without any such concerns. I routinely purchase equipment like this and have never once been asked for any kind of license.
Radar detectors are also not illegal except in a couple States and they're quite readily attainable in any of those states where they aren't illegal.
Why shouldn't I be on the phone talking to someone giving while using the GPS to find their location in the woods? There are plenty of examples for your scenario that don't include driving. This is one of the best points that can be made for the survival of the market.
There are plenty of applications where standalone GPS is still necessary. Tracking of a mobile fleet of trucks, for example. Or planes using it for position information in conjunction with INS systems. Hikers/campers/outdoorspeople who don't have cell coverage. International travel where people don't have cell coverage. Lots and lots of reasons standalone GPS isn't going anywhere in the near future.
Most non-management jobs are important, but replaceable. It's just a fact of life. On top of this fact, we have an economy where there is a surplus of talent and employees.
In any company of 100 or more employees, the same can be said for most management positions, arguably all management positions. CEOs get replaced all the time. Middle management is very easily replaced internally or externally, as a general rule. There are, of course, exceptions where certain individuals really are crucial, but they are few and far between except in very small companies.
I forgot to mention, this is about Geeks, not Nerds. There is a difference, despite what Hollywood wants you to believe. I think we're all fairly familiar with the nuances of someone geeky versus nerdy...
Nerds have at least an edge, though, that they are more and more becoming the seat of economic power as technology makes more and more of us rich. We also have the benefit of being part of that already dominant male population (at least many of us do) so we're not starting out in an all-negative position that women had to start from.
It varies by time and place, I suppose. In my high school experience (mid-80's, Denver) "student-athlete" was almost an oxymoron, as a matter of unwritten but well-understood policy. The few students who did excel both academically and athletically ran into just enormous amounts of bullshit from the school and from other students. And from everything I've heard since then, I suspect my experience was a lot more typical than yours, but of course I don't know for sure.
Which is completely contradictory to my '86-'90 high school experience in Maine and South Dakota (moreso in Maine) where nearly all of the athletes were also the top ranked students. All of the teachers and staff expected the athletes to excel and all of my honors classes were completely filled with athletes with a couple minor exceptions (a couple students not a couple classes.)
As you indicated, it's about time and place. I do think Hollywood and television perpetuate the dying stereotype though, because it creates "conflict" which is what drives stories. As a writer I've been told many many times "you have to have more conflict in your writing otherwise people won't care". That may or may not be true, but it's the formula that has been successful so it's going to continue to be used.
"f_X(x) = integral(-infinity, infinity, f(x,y) dy)"
Why not type it fXy=intgrl -inf,inf,fx,ydy... omit a lot of your structure and unnecessary letters and typing equations becomes much quicker. If you're actually going back and looking at them later you can fill it out a bit with parentheses where appropriate, etc.
At that point it might have been called an "honest mistake" but that's not what happened, according to the pilots' story.
Weight and balance for a single cockpit camera can easily be calculated and isn't very expensive at all. Besides, this has to be done every time anything is changed on an aircraft be it a new radio or a different set of antennas or whatever. It's not particularly difficult or expensive unless you actually CG every single plane individually.
Who cares?! Seriously, pilots who neglect their jobs and the rules such as these two did deserve to lose their seniority and their jobs! We're not talking about misfiling a report somewhere, we're talking about negligently ignoring basic flight safety rules and then ignoring radio comms. Missing some comms is one thing, but ignoring them for over an hour is another matter entirely.
My question is at what point are airlines going to put cameras in the cockpit for "flight safety"? I mean, seriously. It wouldn't be very difficult to tie a stream into the flight recording system. This would prevent a whole lot of misconduct on planes, and answer a lot of questions when things go wrong.
1) This is complete crap. Even if they were expected to "do this on their own time", which is possible, that doesn't imply do it while they're flying... which isn't their own time. Even busy people have way more "personal time" than they admit. But who the hell wants to do this kind of crap in their personal time? I suspect there was training time made available that the pilot either couldn't or didn't make use of for whatever reason and didn't want to reschedule official training time.
2) The detour isn't what people are making a big deal about, it happens all the time for various reasons. The only reason people are making a big deal is the fact that the pilots were blatantly ignoring safety rules that are there for a reason.
An honest mistake?! Seriously? Completely disregarding flight procedures (on various levels) for personal "training" is blatant misconduct and at the absolute minimum they should be fired. There's a reason there are two pilots in a cockpit and they violated several standing rules of commercial flight. I'll be surprised if they can ever fly commercial planes again.
Modern Jet liners fly plenty fast enough that jet fighters, of any type, wouldn't have any great issue maintaining an escort without resorting to silliness. They were flying an Airbus A320, which is effectively the same size and capability aircraft as the refueling aircraft that jet fighters use to get fuel during flight.
Yes they have to slow somewhat from their normal cruise speeds, but it's not so significant that it's difficult to do.
Again, completely controllable with programmable thermostats. Now you just have multiples to deal with, or one really fancy one, for multiple zones.
The problem with auto-dimming lights at home is people don't like them. They are intrusive and turn on garishly bright lights when you don't want them, or turn off lights when you do want them (like while reading a book, for example).
We have automatic lights in a lot of the offices at my work, and they invariably get disabled by the occupants because they come on and go off at the wrong times.
A programmable thermostat does that just fine, though. We have 4 settings on our 30 year old thermostat. Wake, leave, return, and sleep. We can set different times for each day of the week for these settings and the temperature range I set is usually about 10 degrees different throughout the four settings. I have a nearly 2000 square foot house and spend about $75 a month on my utilities, even with old drafty windows and doors (which are getting replaced this year).
And all of that came with the 30 year old house. Your example is the only compelling example I've ever heard for automation, except laziness, and it's been done for many many years without the need for expensive gadgets. The thermostat in my house can be replaced with a more modern one (if I felt the need) for less than $20.
This is pretty much standard operating procedure for corporations from "mom and pop" all the way up the chain to multi-billion dollar businesses. It's been this way for decades and will continue to be this way.
This wouldn't be any kind of news if it weren't MS.
I don't like most George W. Bush's policies much either, but he is not the grand scapegoat that so many people have made him out to be.
That can be said for any politician. None are to blame and all are to blame. That's the problem with the current system... nobody stands up and says "this is my fault" and takes responsibility. They're all trying to get reelected and live off the welfare state. Make no mistake, politicians are the worst welfare abusers in this country.
No, this country was born hating taxes without any rights or say as to how those taxes are being used. Being a US citizen doesn't automatically imply a hatred of tax, and shouldn't.