Per neighborhood? You haven't ever tried to use these before have you? Maybe you could do one per family, but certainly not one per neighborhood. These types of water filters are usually quite slow to produce water, though the newer ones are far better than just a few years ago.
Or for that price they could buy quantities of 3 to 5 similar products that have been on the market for years. Will they work the same? Probably not, but they will do the job and will do so for far more people. MSR, Katadyn, Aqua, SteriPen, and plenty of other manufacturers all have models that cost less than $100. Katadyn even has one that looks almost identical to the one in the article that only costs $45.
Damn near every major outdoor manufacturer that produces camp cook sets and the like have some form of water filter. This isn't particularly new, or special except the amount of time the filter lasts. If (and I stress if) it works as well as it says it's a good thing because it's easier to use than most other modern filter systems too, but at that price I don't see it getting much commercial use. It's simply too expensive.
Easier said than done. When you absolutely love what you do, it is nearly impossible to turn it off when you leave the office.
So because you "absolutely love what you do" you aren't capable of doing anything else? And that somehow justifies your assertion that "fair is fair" when you use company assets for personal business? There is no trade-off being observed except the trade-off you make, putting your company ahead of your personal life. That's a choice you made but it has no bearing on the topic at hand. Just because you choose to allow work to dominate your life doesn't mean your employer expects you to do so, and by no means gives you authority to use company assets as you see fit.
Yes, but most of these engineers have a lot less impact at their company than I do at mine. I have the opportunity to influence the direction my company takes (in regards to technology). I also mentor and train other engineers. These things require a bit more than 40-hours/week.
I'm happy that you feel you're more important to your company than the rest of us are to ours. I disagree, however, that "these things require a bit more than 40 hours/week. I work as a technical lead/program manager where I'm at, and I have people I mentor as well as but the only time I need to work more than 40 hours per week is when I choose to. I suspect the same is true for you.
We all make choices, whether we get in and work or we stand around the coffee machine chatting for half an hour etc. These all impact the rest of our lives but it still doesn't change the situation, that using company assets for personal use isn't a "fair is fair" situation because the company doesn't require you to do these things that take up extra time. You make choices. Trade-off or not, they still don't qualify as a good excuse for saying "I work too hard so I'm justified."
Remember too, that I essentially agree that a reasonable level of personal stuff done with company assets is acceptable.
Simple solution to that is to pee through a shirt or something, removing some of the particulates. Let the rest sit for a while and then cyphon the liquid off the top, because most of the particulates will have settled to the bottom. Sure, it still smells bad, but the majority of the bad things are not in the liquid you do get. It's not a great solution, but it helps.
Another thing to consider is you don't really need that much water to survive, and in the ozarks, there are plenty of other ways of getting water. A solar still is the simplest, but there are other ways.
We don't have passwords to protect employee privacy, we have passwords to protect company information. Sometimes that company proprietary or company sensitive information includes employee information, but that's not the reasons employees have passwords.
Please give examples of companies that don't state this in their employee introduction sessions that also give routine computer access to their employees. I have yet to see any employer who didn't have specific written policies about this.
You aren't expected to allow work to invade your personal time. You have allowed it to do so by not saying no. It's not hard to turn off the pager/cell phone, whatever, when you leave the office. There are literally hundreds of thousands of "salaried software engineers" who aren't on call 24/7.
That's not to say I disagree with you that a reasonable amount of personal activity on company time should be tolerated, just that your excuse sucks.
I'm guessing you haven't done too much reading out loud with children, but I can guarantee you that every kid I've ever read outloud with (which is an admittedly small number of 20-30) was indeed guessing words regularly. Especially when reading new things.
Sounding out a word doesn't automatically create some sort of magical understanding of meaning, though it can occasionally help. As for "we're never entirely lost, even in a sea of unfamiliar words" I'd wager that's about equivalent for children taught using any method. If you know some words you will be able to infer meanings of others. If you don't know any of the words, your phonetics simply won't make any damn difference.
Interesting manipulation. I had assumed you pulled it from somewhere. Pedantic nag, it's "cart before the horse" not "course".
I have an 11 year old daughter and she has been in 4 different school systems (we move a lot) and was only taught "whole language" reading in one place (supplemented by phonics at home when she was 3 and 4) so I wasn't aware it was a big issue. The only other kids I know that were taught "whole language" method were in that particular school district and they didn't seem to be having very much trouble while reading in class. Perhaps it was because they already knew how to read, but they certainly seemed to understand (as much as any other kids do) what they were reading.
I think it's easier for children to learn phonetically because it breaks things into smaller parts, but I don't know that it's any better or worse. I also don't know that the article mentioned will do anything to address that issue.
Because the market for the iPhone is obviously people traveling aboard boat to foriegn lands all the time. Be serious. This is a flaw, but it certainly doesn't make the iphone "not ready to sell". There are always stupid functions (I think off should be off, not "sleep") that need tweaking but you can't say that one stupid user means the product isn't ready for market. Nothing would ever be sold.
Hate to disappoint you but Korean and Japanese both have alphabetic systems. Yes they also use Chinese characters (rarely for Korean) but they do have alphabets and they're both completely phonetic. IE the same letters always make the same sounds within a given structure.
Almost anyone who reads a lot exhibits the bahavior you seem to think makes you peculiar. Damn near every person I've ever met who's speaking a second (or beyond) language has the same issue and almost all children who read with any sort of regularity mispronounce words because they've never heard them before. It has more to do with processing language as a whole than with phonetics versus something else.
The article isn't talking about "learning to read" though, it's talking about how we read. It makes no distinction at all about how we learn to read, and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with "whole language" method versus phonetic method.
By the way, I've never seen your example before and the only word I had trouble with was "Adults" in the first sentence. Once I saw it repeated, however, the context made sense and it was fairly obvious what the paragraph was saying. As for children "basically guessing at what words mean" that's been the case for as long as children have been learning to read. Just ask any child what words mean as they're reading and much (not most but much) of the time you'll find they aren't sure and guess.
Everyobody gets burned at some point in their life. At least everybody that actually tries to find some sort of love. That doesn't negate the fact that you can develop intimacy with someone (whether you "really know them" or not) from a distance.
The problem is that people mistake intimacy for love and they're not the same thing. I'm intimate with many of my friends (emotionally and a couple of them physically at one point or another in our relationship) but that doesn't mean I'm in love with them. It's being honest with yourself and your partner that makes carries intimacy into the realm of "true love" and "truly knowing someone".
Recognizing that someone isn't perfect and being able to deal with it are signs that you've actually matured to the point where you're capable of sustaining a relationship, long distance or otherwise. One experience you've had doesn't discount the thousands of other people who have developed intimate relationships that did in fact work out.
I think you will find that when situations like yours arise, it's because people are too caught up in what is commonly called "new relationship energy" and forget that the other person involved is human. With flaws and foibles and needs that might not perfectly meet yours. One way to lessen the impact of that is to be honest, with yourself and the other person, about who you are and what you need, from the start. Don't say "I'm okay with no sex" if you really want sex every day. It's not honest. Similarly don't say "I want sex every day" if you don't. Learning to communicate in person is the most important thing to keeping a relationship strong and successful.
You may not have "really known" each other but it doesn't discount the intimacy you created before you actually lived together. It doesn't discount what you felt, and what you wanted from the relationship, which is what intimacy is. It's comfort with someone and willingness to learn more about them, teach them more about you etc etc. It's sharing yourself, emotionally, whether face to face, or across the globe.
I think you'll find that more women keep "diaries" than men, which would be a better correlation. Most of the women I know that "blog" are actually treating it as an online diary that happens to get feedback from other people occasionally. Society has taught women to write down their secrets and feelings for a long time. Now that sites like myspace, facebook, livejournal, etc. have become popular it's no surprise that women are transitioning from private hard-copy diaries to semi-private online diaries.
I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, fanbois are annoying, but to say this isn't a direct copy of the iPhone is a little myopic. The "Executive VP" of the company even said they copied with pride.
One other thing I'd like to add, is that in all the times I've been to traffic court, there is never a DA present. Just you (and a room full of other ticketed persons), the judge, and the cop (if they bother to show up). I've specifically told a judge, "Yes sir, I was speeding, I have no excuse" and gotten my ticket waived entirely. I've also told a judge, "Yes ma'am I was speeding. I'd been driving for 20 hours at that point and was just trying to get home before I fell asleep." I got told "You should have stopped and taken a nap" and then had to pay court costs ($40) but no ticket on record.
Like I said, admitting guilt doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's all a matter of how you treat people. In my experience, treating them with a little respect goes a lot further than treating them like a "public servant".
I'll disagree, having gotten out of several tickets in NY by doing exactly that. Don't know if they were all State Troopers, or some "local" but some of them definitely were state troopers. And the tickets my family got definitely didn't have anything of the sort written on them. As with most things, YMMV, obviously but I'll still say that being a smartass is more harm than good. You can effectively say "I think so, how fast did you have me at" without ever incriminating yourself and still be polite without making yourself sound like an arrogant jerk.
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Per neighborhood? You haven't ever tried to use these before have you? Maybe you could do one per family, but certainly not one per neighborhood. These types of water filters are usually quite slow to produce water, though the newer ones are far better than just a few years ago.
Or for that price they could buy quantities of 3 to 5 similar products that have been on the market for years. Will they work the same? Probably not, but they will do the job and will do so for far more people. MSR, Katadyn, Aqua, SteriPen, and plenty of other manufacturers all have models that cost less than $100. Katadyn even has one that looks almost identical to the one in the article that only costs $45.
Damn near every major outdoor manufacturer that produces camp cook sets and the like have some form of water filter. This isn't particularly new, or special except the amount of time the filter lasts. If (and I stress if) it works as well as it says it's a good thing because it's easier to use than most other modern filter systems too, but at that price I don't see it getting much commercial use. It's simply too expensive.
Easier said than done. When you absolutely love what you do, it is nearly impossible to turn it off when you leave the office.
So because you "absolutely love what you do" you aren't capable of doing anything else? And that somehow justifies your assertion that "fair is fair" when you use company assets for personal business? There is no trade-off being observed except the trade-off you make, putting your company ahead of your personal life. That's a choice you made but it has no bearing on the topic at hand. Just because you choose to allow work to dominate your life doesn't mean your employer expects you to do so, and by no means gives you authority to use company assets as you see fit.
Yes, but most of these engineers have a lot less impact at their company than I do at mine. I have the opportunity to influence the direction my company takes (in regards to technology). I also mentor and train other engineers. These things require a bit more than 40-hours/week.
I'm happy that you feel you're more important to your company than the rest of us are to ours. I disagree, however, that "these things require a bit more than 40 hours/week. I work as a technical lead/program manager where I'm at, and I have people I mentor as well as but the only time I need to work more than 40 hours per week is when I choose to. I suspect the same is true for you.
We all make choices, whether we get in and work or we stand around the coffee machine chatting for half an hour etc. These all impact the rest of our lives but it still doesn't change the situation, that using company assets for personal use isn't a "fair is fair" situation because the company doesn't require you to do these things that take up extra time. You make choices. Trade-off or not, they still don't qualify as a good excuse for saying "I work too hard so I'm justified."
Remember too, that I essentially agree that a reasonable level of personal stuff done with company assets is acceptable.
Simple solution to that is to pee through a shirt or something, removing some of the particulates. Let the rest sit for a while and then cyphon the liquid off the top, because most of the particulates will have settled to the bottom. Sure, it still smells bad, but the majority of the bad things are not in the liquid you do get. It's not a great solution, but it helps.
Another thing to consider is you don't really need that much water to survive, and in the ozarks, there are plenty of other ways of getting water. A solar still is the simplest, but there are other ways.
We don't have passwords to protect employee privacy, we have passwords to protect company information. Sometimes that company proprietary or company sensitive information includes employee information, but that's not the reasons employees have passwords.
Please give examples of companies that don't state this in their employee introduction sessions that also give routine computer access to their employees. I have yet to see any employer who didn't have specific written policies about this.
You aren't expected to allow work to invade your personal time. You have allowed it to do so by not saying no. It's not hard to turn off the pager/cell phone, whatever, when you leave the office. There are literally hundreds of thousands of "salaried software engineers" who aren't on call 24/7.
That's not to say I disagree with you that a reasonable amount of personal activity on company time should be tolerated, just that your excuse sucks.
Your name isn't right. It should be "BadpunGuy".
I'm guessing you haven't done too much reading out loud with children, but I can guarantee you that every kid I've ever read outloud with (which is an admittedly small number of 20-30) was indeed guessing words regularly. Especially when reading new things.
Sounding out a word doesn't automatically create some sort of magical understanding of meaning, though it can occasionally help. As for "we're never entirely lost, even in a sea of unfamiliar words" I'd wager that's about equivalent for children taught using any method. If you know some words you will be able to infer meanings of others. If you don't know any of the words, your phonetics simply won't make any damn difference.
Interesting manipulation. I had assumed you pulled it from somewhere. Pedantic nag, it's "cart before the horse" not "course".
I have an 11 year old daughter and she has been in 4 different school systems (we move a lot) and was only taught "whole language" reading in one place (supplemented by phonics at home when she was 3 and 4) so I wasn't aware it was a big issue. The only other kids I know that were taught "whole language" method were in that particular school district and they didn't seem to be having very much trouble while reading in class. Perhaps it was because they already knew how to read, but they certainly seemed to understand (as much as any other kids do) what they were reading.
I think it's easier for children to learn phonetically because it breaks things into smaller parts, but I don't know that it's any better or worse. I also don't know that the article mentioned will do anything to address that issue.
Because the market for the iPhone is obviously people traveling aboard boat to foriegn lands all the time. Be serious. This is a flaw, but it certainly doesn't make the iphone "not ready to sell". There are always stupid functions (I think off should be off, not "sleep") that need tweaking but you can't say that one stupid user means the product isn't ready for market. Nothing would ever be sold.
Hate to disappoint you but Korean and Japanese both have alphabetic systems. Yes they also use Chinese characters (rarely for Korean) but they do have alphabets and they're both completely phonetic. IE the same letters always make the same sounds within a given structure.
Almost anyone who reads a lot exhibits the bahavior you seem to think makes you peculiar. Damn near every person I've ever met who's speaking a second (or beyond) language has the same issue and almost all children who read with any sort of regularity mispronounce words because they've never heard them before. It has more to do with processing language as a whole than with phonetics versus something else.
The article isn't talking about "learning to read" though, it's talking about how we read. It makes no distinction at all about how we learn to read, and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with "whole language" method versus phonetic method.
By the way, I've never seen your example before and the only word I had trouble with was "Adults" in the first sentence. Once I saw it repeated, however, the context made sense and it was fairly obvious what the paragraph was saying. As for children "basically guessing at what words mean" that's been the case for as long as children have been learning to read. Just ask any child what words mean as they're reading and much (not most but much) of the time you'll find they aren't sure and guess.
And that was almost 20 years ago for me.
This is nothing exciting and certainly isn't news.
Everyobody gets burned at some point in their life. At least everybody that actually tries to find some sort of love. That doesn't negate the fact that you can develop intimacy with someone (whether you "really know them" or not) from a distance.
The problem is that people mistake intimacy for love and they're not the same thing. I'm intimate with many of my friends (emotionally and a couple of them physically at one point or another in our relationship) but that doesn't mean I'm in love with them. It's being honest with yourself and your partner that makes carries intimacy into the realm of "true love" and "truly knowing someone".
Recognizing that someone isn't perfect and being able to deal with it are signs that you've actually matured to the point where you're capable of sustaining a relationship, long distance or otherwise. One experience you've had doesn't discount the thousands of other people who have developed intimate relationships that did in fact work out.
I think you will find that when situations like yours arise, it's because people are too caught up in what is commonly called "new relationship energy" and forget that the other person involved is human. With flaws and foibles and needs that might not perfectly meet yours. One way to lessen the impact of that is to be honest, with yourself and the other person, about who you are and what you need, from the start. Don't say "I'm okay with no sex" if you really want sex every day. It's not honest. Similarly don't say "I want sex every day" if you don't. Learning to communicate in person is the most important thing to keeping a relationship strong and successful.
You may not have "really known" each other but it doesn't discount the intimacy you created before you actually lived together. It doesn't discount what you felt, and what you wanted from the relationship, which is what intimacy is. It's comfort with someone and willingness to learn more about them, teach them more about you etc etc. It's sharing yourself, emotionally, whether face to face, or across the globe.
Intimacy has nothing to do with physicality and everything to do with emotion. Confusing the two is part of the issue the article talks about.
"These 14yr olds must have better faith in their soldering skills than I do"
Not in their soldering skills, just in their parent's credit cards. It's easy to be brave when someone else is footing the bill.
I think you'll find that more women keep "diaries" than men, which would be a better correlation. Most of the women I know that "blog" are actually treating it as an online diary that happens to get feedback from other people occasionally. Society has taught women to write down their secrets and feelings for a long time. Now that sites like myspace, facebook, livejournal, etc. have become popular it's no surprise that women are transitioning from private hard-copy diaries to semi-private online diaries.
You are aware of the Newton right? 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
Look like a Palm to you? I thought so too. Palm Pilot 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_pilot
I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, fanbois are annoying, but to say this isn't a direct copy of the iPhone is a little myopic. The "Executive VP" of the company even said they copied with pride.
Someone please mod this funny. I love Prince but I hate trying to read his lyrics or song titles. It's like her was the originator of IMspeak.
One other thing I'd like to add, is that in all the times I've been to traffic court, there is never a DA present. Just you (and a room full of other ticketed persons), the judge, and the cop (if they bother to show up). I've specifically told a judge, "Yes sir, I was speeding, I have no excuse" and gotten my ticket waived entirely. I've also told a judge, "Yes ma'am I was speeding. I'd been driving for 20 hours at that point and was just trying to get home before I fell asleep." I got told "You should have stopped and taken a nap" and then had to pay court costs ($40) but no ticket on record.
Like I said, admitting guilt doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's all a matter of how you treat people. In my experience, treating them with a little respect goes a lot further than treating them like a "public servant".
I'll disagree, having gotten out of several tickets in NY by doing exactly that. Don't know if they were all State Troopers, or some "local" but some of them definitely were state troopers. And the tickets my family got definitely didn't have anything of the sort written on them. As with most things, YMMV, obviously but I'll still say that being a smartass is more harm than good. You can effectively say "I think so, how fast did you have me at" without ever incriminating yourself and still be polite without making yourself sound like an arrogant jerk.