Yeah, because no great man was ever accused of infidelity and still considered "great", right?
Seriously, people's personal lives and who they're sleeping with have, and should have, very little impact on how they are viewed by society in the long term.
The guy may be a dick as a husband, but that doesn't demean what he's done professionally. Inflating credentials is a bit more shady but without further investigation, I'm inclined to give the guy the benefit of the doubt on this one.
400 years ago it was fantasy for man to fly like a bird. Technology has a way of interchanging fantasy and reality. It takes time, but it happens. We are just taking our first baby steps... or perhaps just learning to roll over in our crib before we crawl.
While I generally agree with your sentiment, trying to speak French in Paris is just asking for being treated poorly. It's the only place I've ever been where trying to speak the native language (or even speaking it relatively well but not natively) didn't garner better help and hospitality. In fact, it was quite the opposite. They automatically assumed something negative (I can't actually say what the people were thinking) and immediately started speaking to us as loudly as possible in English. I'm not sure why the change in volume, but the change in attitude was quite obvious.
That would work well, if "Google" hadn't become synonymous with searching the web. In order to expand their business into other areas, they need a new trademark to do it, otherwise people will be too easily confused or would think the product is just for searching, which they can already do with Google.
Besides, Chrome is shiny and looks good on things. Isn't Google that really big number no human can actually comprehend the size of realistically?
Anyone concerned about leaving anything to his family would most certainly be concerned about the IRS. I have no idea what he was involved in but if it's large enough it's very easy to see why it could affect his decision. Better to check out and have the debt "erased". The IRS doesn't always do that, but sometimes they do. Furthermore, when you consider the cost involved in a terminal disease like lung cancer, it just adds more weight to the whole thing.
Not to belittle librarians, but I've never found any that could help me beyond the Dewey Decimal System or whatever particular system that library used. Asking for where to get further research was basically, "Here are the tools we have and how you do a rudimentary search using them. Good luck." It's gotten better over the years because now we can search multiple types of materials in one place instead of going to the card catalog, and the periodicals catalog, and the "Academic research" catalog ad nauseum. That has actually made librarians less relevant though, not more so.
I am a far more adept searcher than most of the librarians I've met, simply because I know what I'm looking for, more or less.
I ask you then, why it is that every library I've been to in the last 10 years can tell me the last 20 books I've checked out. Is it just because it's stored under my name rather than under the book title? Wouldn't that be sufficient enough in a "legal" investigation?
You're aware that carriers and other large ships are specifically designed to take multiple direct hits without sinking, right? Other than that, you have to get within range of the ship to actually do damage, and the combination of aircraft on the carrier and guns on battleships that accompany carriers make that a fairly difficult prospect.
If you launch a ballistic missile from a semi-long range you may hit it, but you'd be very lucky to do so with modern defense systems deployed in carrier groups.
Riiiiiight. You're not too familiar with subpoena are you. They deliberately make them as vague as possible so they can use them as a large net. This helps to prevent some of that abuse.
If you're "contractually obligated" to be on call while on vacation, I submit that you should be looking for a new job. There is no job where that is reasonable. Any other situation where you're traveling for work, taking a personal laptop is your own choice and isn't that much of an inconvenience.
Why in hell would you need "accessories for both"? Even if they're a PC and a Mac most accessories will work with both. Carrying two laptops is a bit difficult, but one stays in your hotel and the other goes with you to wherever you're working while on travel. If by accessories you mean extra batteries, or carry cases, then I suppose that makes sense.
I check my company laptop in my checked bag (it's covered by my employer's insurance as well as CC insurance from Amex corporate card) and I hand carry my personal laptop. I don't do work on the plane, just a personal policy.
Your well established precedent is far from universal. Employees are routinely walked out of workplaces and their personal effects given to them later. There are any number of legitimate reasons for this, the most obvious being malicious intent by the (former) employee. I've seen this happen (legally) in every company I've worked for over the last 10 years.
That depends on what country you're in when you do it. Plenty of places have laws against "naming" a competitor for good or bad in your advertisements.
Which is exactly why solar panels haven't really taken off. People believe the hype that they cost more than they can return so they aren't worth it. Fact is there is far more at stake than just the dollar but people who worry about the dollar (IE people with money to lose by large scale consumer conversion to solar or wind) focus on the easy math and discount the more technical numbers and true value of these systems. It's easy to see, even here on slashdot, that some people have something against solar, for whatever their reasons.
It's also important to note that it isn't a magic bullet. That's the other fallacy that seems to be constantly spread. One size doesn't fit all and there is no single solution that works everywhere all the time. Solar panels aren't going to do as well in Seattle as they do in LA. Wind isn't going to do as well in NYC as it will in Nebraska. Simple hybrid solutions are the best we can come up with and expect to make any real gains.
Yes. Plenty of companies honor lifetime warranties, and certainly they honor 25 year warranties on parts they know will last even longer than that. Especially when you factor in the point you made that most consumers won't even bother to try after a certain point because for the most part it's cheaper (in terms of the consumer's time) to buy a new one.
You're "less than sanguine about reality reflecting the 25 year claims"? Seriously? There is a ton of data to support those claims from old technology cells. Newer technologies are only getting better.
If you realized that this is a grid-tied system you either failed to understand what that means or you're just arguing for the sake of argument.
Poor people receive transplants all the time in the US. In fact I know of several, personally, and I'm not related to the medical field in any way. I have several friends, one of whom has a daughter with a transplanted heart (at the age of 1) and another adult with a transplanted kidney. I have a friend of a friend with a transplanted liver. These people all made less than $40K (yes I know not "poor") and the family with the daughter was literally all ready in debt nearly $100K from her previous hospital bills.
Being able to afford a liver transplant without going into debt is nice, but it has no bearing on whether or not you get the transplant. If you're next on the list to receive and you type-match then you receive. If you happen to have enough money to be on multiple lists, that's the only way you can legally use your money to your advantage in the USA's system.
That's nice. How many banks are going to give you a loan (last minute I might add) for a flight taking you to your potential death? How many loan officers give loans to people with the expectation that the person has a better than 80% chance of dying in the next year? Get real. 80% of people couldn't afford that, and you know it.
All your rant has nothing to do with Steve Jobs' productivity. No one ever said anyone else was less of human being because they weren't CEO of a big company.
Steve Jobs has been hugely productive in the sense that the poster mentioned, his company (that he co-founded with 1 other person if I remember correctly) has produced thousands of jobs, helped revolutionize our society into a "post industrial" society (yes that has happened mostly over the last 30 years) and has influenced that society in more than just technology.
Very few people put on a desert island alone would have much impact on society... because it takes more than one person to make a society. As for the plumbers etc, sure they're very important and no body is denying that. But to say they've had the same impact as Steve Jobs is simply short-sighted.
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Yeah, because no great man was ever accused of infidelity and still considered "great", right?
Seriously, people's personal lives and who they're sleeping with have, and should have, very little impact on how they are viewed by society in the long term.
The guy may be a dick as a husband, but that doesn't demean what he's done professionally. Inflating credentials is a bit more shady but without further investigation, I'm inclined to give the guy the benefit of the doubt on this one.
400 years ago it was fantasy for man to fly like a bird. Technology has a way of interchanging fantasy and reality. It takes time, but it happens. We are just taking our first baby steps... or perhaps just learning to roll over in our crib before we crawl.
I think that would be unlaid not unladen.
While I generally agree with your sentiment, trying to speak French in Paris is just asking for being treated poorly. It's the only place I've ever been where trying to speak the native language (or even speaking it relatively well but not natively) didn't garner better help and hospitality. In fact, it was quite the opposite. They automatically assumed something negative (I can't actually say what the people were thinking) and immediately started speaking to us as loudly as possible in English. I'm not sure why the change in volume, but the change in attitude was quite obvious.
Why is it a bit surprising when Sony are almost always the most expensive when comparing specs?
That would work well, if "Google" hadn't become synonymous with searching the web. In order to expand their business into other areas, they need a new trademark to do it, otherwise people will be too easily confused or would think the product is just for searching, which they can already do with Google.
Besides, Chrome is shiny and looks good on things. Isn't Google that really big number no human can actually comprehend the size of realistically?
Anyone concerned about leaving anything to his family would most certainly be concerned about the IRS. I have no idea what he was involved in but if it's large enough it's very easy to see why it could affect his decision. Better to check out and have the debt "erased". The IRS doesn't always do that, but sometimes they do. Furthermore, when you consider the cost involved in a terminal disease like lung cancer, it just adds more weight to the whole thing.
Not to belittle librarians, but I've never found any that could help me beyond the Dewey Decimal System or whatever particular system that library used. Asking for where to get further research was basically, "Here are the tools we have and how you do a rudimentary search using them. Good luck." It's gotten better over the years because now we can search multiple types of materials in one place instead of going to the card catalog, and the periodicals catalog, and the "Academic research" catalog ad nauseum. That has actually made librarians less relevant though, not more so.
I am a far more adept searcher than most of the librarians I've met, simply because I know what I'm looking for, more or less.
I ask you then, why it is that every library I've been to in the last 10 years can tell me the last 20 books I've checked out. Is it just because it's stored under my name rather than under the book title? Wouldn't that be sufficient enough in a "legal" investigation?
You're aware that carriers and other large ships are specifically designed to take multiple direct hits without sinking, right? Other than that, you have to get within range of the ship to actually do damage, and the combination of aircraft on the carrier and guns on battleships that accompany carriers make that a fairly difficult prospect.
If you launch a ballistic missile from a semi-long range you may hit it, but you'd be very lucky to do so with modern defense systems deployed in carrier groups.
Riiiiiight. You're not too familiar with subpoena are you. They deliberately make them as vague as possible so they can use them as a large net. This helps to prevent some of that abuse.
If you're "contractually obligated" to be on call while on vacation, I submit that you should be looking for a new job. There is no job where that is reasonable. Any other situation where you're traveling for work, taking a personal laptop is your own choice and isn't that much of an inconvenience.
Why in hell would you need "accessories for both"? Even if they're a PC and a Mac most accessories will work with both. Carrying two laptops is a bit difficult, but one stays in your hotel and the other goes with you to wherever you're working while on travel. If by accessories you mean extra batteries, or carry cases, then I suppose that makes sense.
I check my company laptop in my checked bag (it's covered by my employer's insurance as well as CC insurance from Amex corporate card) and I hand carry my personal laptop. I don't do work on the plane, just a personal policy.
You've made it easier to separate, but you still haven't proven it doesn't belong to the company.
The only good solution is to have your employer buy you a new laptop and keep it separate from your personal stuff.
Your well established precedent is far from universal. Employees are routinely walked out of workplaces and their personal effects given to them later. There are any number of legitimate reasons for this, the most obvious being malicious intent by the (former) employee. I've seen this happen (legally) in every company I've worked for over the last 10 years.
It's a park built on top of an old rubbish dump, actually.
That depends on what country you're in when you do it. Plenty of places have laws against "naming" a competitor for good or bad in your advertisements.
How does that prevent them from deleting things the next time you go shopping?
The problem is that they have the ability to do that in the first place.
Which is exactly why solar panels haven't really taken off. People believe the hype that they cost more than they can return so they aren't worth it. Fact is there is far more at stake than just the dollar but people who worry about the dollar (IE people with money to lose by large scale consumer conversion to solar or wind) focus on the easy math and discount the more technical numbers and true value of these systems. It's easy to see, even here on slashdot, that some people have something against solar, for whatever their reasons.
It's also important to note that it isn't a magic bullet. That's the other fallacy that seems to be constantly spread. One size doesn't fit all and there is no single solution that works everywhere all the time. Solar panels aren't going to do as well in Seattle as they do in LA. Wind isn't going to do as well in NYC as it will in Nebraska. Simple hybrid solutions are the best we can come up with and expect to make any real gains.
Yes. Plenty of companies honor lifetime warranties, and certainly they honor 25 year warranties on parts they know will last even longer than that. Especially when you factor in the point you made that most consumers won't even bother to try after a certain point because for the most part it's cheaper (in terms of the consumer's time) to buy a new one.
You're "less than sanguine about reality reflecting the 25 year claims"? Seriously? There is a ton of data to support those claims from old technology cells. Newer technologies are only getting better.
If you realized that this is a grid-tied system you either failed to understand what that means or you're just arguing for the sake of argument.
Poor people receive transplants all the time in the US. In fact I know of several, personally, and I'm not related to the medical field in any way. I have several friends, one of whom has a daughter with a transplanted heart (at the age of 1) and another adult with a transplanted kidney. I have a friend of a friend with a transplanted liver. These people all made less than $40K (yes I know not "poor") and the family with the daughter was literally all ready in debt nearly $100K from her previous hospital bills.
Being able to afford a liver transplant without going into debt is nice, but it has no bearing on whether or not you get the transplant. If you're next on the list to receive and you type-match then you receive. If you happen to have enough money to be on multiple lists, that's the only way you can legally use your money to your advantage in the USA's system.
That's nice. How many banks are going to give you a loan (last minute I might add) for a flight taking you to your potential death? How many loan officers give loans to people with the expectation that the person has a better than 80% chance of dying in the next year? Get real. 80% of people couldn't afford that, and you know it.
All your rant has nothing to do with Steve Jobs' productivity. No one ever said anyone else was less of human being because they weren't CEO of a big company.
Steve Jobs has been hugely productive in the sense that the poster mentioned, his company (that he co-founded with 1 other person if I remember correctly) has produced thousands of jobs, helped revolutionize our society into a "post industrial" society (yes that has happened mostly over the last 30 years) and has influenced that society in more than just technology.
Very few people put on a desert island alone would have much impact on society... because it takes more than one person to make a society. As for the plumbers etc, sure they're very important and no body is denying that. But to say they've had the same impact as Steve Jobs is simply short-sighted.