Jerry and George get caught urinating in the parking garage and, independently, they use their imprisonment in a red prison as an excuse for why the security guard should let them go.
I don't know which BMW you were comparing with, but mine has the exact same controls you mentioned: Dials for volume and temperature, and buttons for seek and fan.
I don't agree with the GP that "iDrive...gets top marks for minimizing driver distraction" either, but your assessment about requiring a screen and having a dozen buttons is wrong.
In the Z4 I rented, I couldn't figure out how to turn the damn screen of... you should be able to turn off the backligfht at night!!
It can be turned off (or dimmed) in my 2007 BMW under Settings | Display, if memory serves. (Settings is accessed by pressing the dial down, rather than "bumping" it like all the other menus.) I mapped that function to one of the steering wheel controls for the precise reason you gave, so with a press of the button it turns on/off at night.
The site belongs to "a creative director who’s had...a long history with Apple," and the blog includes this gem: "I can’t even say this without feeling awful [these ads feel] like something Best Buy would do."
My wife is a grade school teacher and sees the results of this coddling. In just one example, she played a math game with her class and gave the winner a small prize. Most of the kids had a lot of fun and learned something too; but what took her by surprise is that some of the kids began crying. She asked them why, and [paraphrased] it was because they'd been raised with the belief that "everyone's a winner." They had never "lost" before, and it was devastating to them / they didn't know how to respond.
Apple has had its share of failures, reminds me of the Apple Lisa.
It's bemusing you had to go back 30 years to be reminded of an Apple failure.;)
I dislike Apple (as a company) even more than Microsoft now, but your statement just underscores how successful Apple has been in the past decade. Microsoft? Not so much.
Just over a year ago, I posted (by request) some truths - was quickly lynched by several thousand users, branded a liar and a troll and forced out of the community.
No kidding: Around here, most the cars sporting enviro stickers are old Honda compacts with a broken muffler and blue smoke (i.e. oil) pouring out the tailpipe.
Corbett's correct: Sadly, it's better to just hit the other car [in the given situation] than to risk losing control trying to avoid contact. I was in a similar situation, and both the cop and insurance adjuster wistfully informed me that.
Several inaccuracies in the review. Off the top of my head:
* Chat channels are not called Fellowships, your team/group is * Burglars are not main the DSP class, hunters and champions are * As others have pointed out, deeds/virtues are not unique to LotRO * The explanation of the crafting system was all wrong
But otherwise I agree with his assessment of the game.
I got a call from the hiring manager that they weren't continuing on because they didn't like the way I "thought"... But I sure wish I knew what the heck that meant.
Instead of wishing, you should email/call back and ask. I've been rejected for a job for similar reasons, but I emailed and asked for details why and what I could do to improve. The manager was impressed and hired me for a different but parallel position because I showed I cared, and that I could take constructive criticsm and wanted to improve myself.
If nothing else, it would give you peace of mind instead of wondering "what if" -- maybe the answer would confirm you wouldn't have wanted to work there anyways.
What patch did you use? I have an ATI x800 XL, and Catalyst 6.6 was the last version that S3 worked. I've tried all the Catalyst versions since then, up through 7.3 or 7.4, and S3 still doesn't work with that card.
CORBA was a great idea implemented complexly. People don't like complex.
Interesting point because it reminds me that even geeks, not just Joe Sixpack, reject complexity. Cases in point:
Remember SGML and X.500? Complex standards that have been completely upstaged by their darling, "dumbed down" children, XML and LDAP; to the point that the ancestors are all but forgotten.
I'm not a programmer [...] I would think 5000 lines in a year would be about a fifth of what a developer should be producing
It seems counter-intuitive, but good developers actually produce less lines of code than medicore or bad programmers. "Work smarter, not harder" has become a cliche, but it applies to good programmers:
As an example, bad programmers repeatedly cut & paste code to "reuse" functionality, but a competent programmer would write it as a single function/method, and a good developer may create it as a library/superclass/service that can also be reused by others.
Good programmers spend more time thinking before they code (design), and as a result they produce less lines of code but more efficient code.
Kind of like telling me there is a difference between the can of soup with a pretty label and the can that has a white label that says "chicken noodle".
Actually, there are differences: In my experience, comparable generics tend to be "worse" in terms of calories, fat, sodium, etc. Sometimes the differences are negligible (e.g. 100 calories v. 110 calories), but I've seen generics with up to twice the amount of fat as their branded counterpart.
The real point of your post stands, of course — I'm just bringing this up for anyone concerned about nutrition. (Which admittedly means I'm posting on the wrong website...)
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Probably this:
http://www.contextis.com/resou...
I hope there's a free trial for the movie, so I can try it out before committing to a subscription.
Jerry and George get caught urinating in the parking garage and, independently, they use their imprisonment in a red prison as an excuse for why the security guard should let them go.
It's not really porn they're watching -- it's terrorist missives encrypted in image files.
I don't know which BMW you were comparing with, but mine has the exact same controls you mentioned: Dials for volume and temperature, and buttons for seek and fan.
I don't agree with the GP that "iDrive...gets top marks for minimizing driver distraction" either, but your assessment about requiring a screen and having a dozen buttons is wrong.
In the Z4 I rented, I couldn't figure out how to turn the damn screen of... you should be able to turn off the backligfht at night!!
It can be turned off (or dimmed) in my 2007 BMW under Settings | Display, if memory serves. (Settings is accessed by pressing the dial down, rather than "bumping" it like all the other menus.) I mapped that function to one of the steering wheel controls for the precise reason you gave, so with a press of the button it turns on/off at night.
http://kensegall.com/2012/07/new-mac-ads-landing-with-a-serious-thud/
The site belongs to "a creative director who’s had...a long history with Apple," and the blog includes this gem: "I can’t even say this without feeling awful [these ads feel] like something Best Buy would do."
My wife is a grade school teacher and sees the results of this coddling. In just one example, she played a math game with her class and gave the winner a small prize. Most of the kids had a lot of fun and learned something too; but what took her by surprise is that some of the kids began crying. She asked them why, and [paraphrased] it was because they'd been raised with the belief that "everyone's a winner." They had never "lost" before, and it was devastating to them / they didn't know how to respond.
Apple has had its share of failures, reminds me of the Apple Lisa.
It's bemusing you had to go back 30 years to be reminded of an Apple failure. ;)
I dislike Apple (as a company) even more than Microsoft now, but your statement just underscores how successful Apple has been in the past decade. Microsoft? Not so much.
I was going to post the same thing. It's not uncommon to have sites that also limit your password to letters & numbers only.
(As an aside, the most heinous are the websites where you Forgot your password? and they email it right back to you in plaintext.)
Just over a year ago, I posted (by request) some truths - was quickly lynched by several thousand users, branded a liar and a troll and forced out of the community.
What were the truths?
I hold them to be self-evident.
Check your Google Apps release track:
http://whatsnew.googleapps.com/release-tracks
I'd mod you "Interesting" if I could, I've always wondered why bikers seem so rev-happy.
Have you seen the bumper stickers, "My kid can beat up your honor student" :D
No kidding: Around here, most the cars sporting enviro stickers are old Honda compacts with a broken muffler and blue smoke (i.e. oil) pouring out the tailpipe.
Corbett's correct: Sadly, it's better to just hit the other car [in the given situation] than to risk losing control trying to avoid contact. I was in a similar situation, and both the cop and insurance adjuster wistfully informed me that.
This is a very fascinating interview -- RTFA, the current discussions here do it disservice.
Several inaccuracies in the review. Off the top of my head:
* Chat channels are not called Fellowships, your team/group is
* Burglars are not main the DSP class, hunters and champions are
* As others have pointed out, deeds/virtues are not unique to LotRO
* The explanation of the crafting system was all wrong
But otherwise I agree with his assessment of the game.
So easy a cave man could hack it.
I got a call from the hiring manager that they weren't continuing on because they didn't like the way I "thought"...
But I sure wish I knew what the heck that meant.
Instead of wishing, you should email/call back and ask. I've been rejected for a job for similar reasons, but I emailed and asked for details why and what I could do to improve. The manager was impressed and hired me for a different but parallel position because I showed I cared, and that I could take constructive criticsm and wanted to improve myself.
If nothing else, it would give you peace of mind instead of wondering "what if" -- maybe the answer would confirm you wouldn't have wanted to work there anyways.
What patch did you use? I have an ATI x800 XL, and Catalyst 6.6 was the last version that S3 worked. I've tried all the Catalyst versions since then, up through 7.3 or 7.4, and S3 still doesn't work with that card.
CORBA was a great idea implemented complexly. People don't like complex.
Interesting point because it reminds me that even geeks, not just Joe Sixpack, reject complexity. Cases in point:
Remember SGML and X.500? Complex standards that have been completely upstaged by their darling, "dumbed down" children, XML and LDAP; to the point that the ancestors are all but forgotten.
Maybe his superfluous proliferation of bold text obscures a hidden message.
I'm not a programmer [...] I would think 5000 lines in a year would be about a fifth of what a developer should be producing
It seems counter-intuitive, but good developers actually produce less lines of code than medicore or bad programmers. "Work smarter, not harder" has become a cliche, but it applies to good programmers:
As an example, bad programmers repeatedly cut & paste code to "reuse" functionality, but a competent programmer would write it as a single function/method, and a good developer may create it as a library/superclass/service that can also be reused by others.
Good programmers spend more time thinking before they code (design), and as a result they produce less lines of code but more efficient code.
Kind of like telling me there is a difference between the can of soup with a pretty label and the can that has a white label that says "chicken noodle".
Actually, there are differences: In my experience, comparable generics tend to be "worse" in terms of calories, fat, sodium, etc. Sometimes the differences are negligible (e.g. 100 calories v. 110 calories), but I've seen generics with up to twice the amount of fat as their branded counterpart.
The real point of your post stands, of course — I'm just bringing this up for anyone concerned about nutrition. (Which admittedly means I'm posting on the wrong website...)