I have found out about people liying on their CV (it only takes 5 minutes, my record is 30 seconds: two questions and it was all clear all was made up).
In a former company HR would not accept future applications that were known liars and the job agaency would received heavy criticism, in case they would send several offenders any commercial relationship could cease (it happened to one agancy that was clearly not doing the most basic screening at all).
The only thing all interviewers have noticed in my resume is my hobbies.
Playing piano at a proficient level, opera, chess, latin american literature, Japanese cinema and Linux (way back when it was a rarity) got people to remember who I was.
For example, when I go to the store, I know I can buy a pound of ground beef. I know about how much of that I will eat, and I can make a judgement about prices, because I have a good visualization of what it is.
Alas, in places using the metric system you buy half a kg of ground beef and you know how much you would eat. Or one kg, or whatever.
You are beyond redemption, but there is no need to subject young children to a life of pain and misery.
In a place using metric you use metric for everything, it is not uncommon for merchants to handle figures and measurements in their heads with ease, the scientist uses the same frame of reference when he goes to the supermarket or when he is designing the latest WMD.
You don't need to convert between meters and kilometers because eveidnetly they measure things of differents orders of magnitude. It ls like asking why the distance between Houston and NY is not given in inches. Well, doh!.
Nevertheless, when the conversion is necessary, it is dead simple: move the decimal point 3 places.
You always have a rules with centimeters and millimeters marked, it is not like we live in ancient Greece and thus we need to refer to Euclides.
You need to serve pint measures? Why? In places using the metric system you serve half liters, quarter of liters if required.
All the "problems" you see in the metric system are just nonsense made up. When it comes to precise calculations made with ease there is no doubt which system is superior.
Myanmar is not recognized by many nations for good reason: it is the name imposed by the ruling military junta (SLORC, google for it, it is truly Orwellian) that amongst some niecites have keeped Aung San Su Yi, the democractic leader of the winner of the last clean elections, on house arrest for most of the past 15 years.
People do not get it, cinema is about acting and cinematography.
Somebody (most of pople) like Lord of the Rings? (that funnily enough is a re-hash of Richard Wagner's work) Fine. That does not make it the best movie, specially if judged by people that have half a clue about technical and historical aspects of cinema making.
And also good, consistent historylines that don't jump around like a rabbit with schizophrenia?
You heathen, this is/. were electronic puppets deserve Oscars to the best actor and form reigns supreme over substance when it comes to movies (interesting that you noticed that movies with rich human interaction are not favoured by the/. crowd).
I would even learn to program (shudder), but the Pandora box is open, they can't sue free software out of existence.
It may take a while for idiots to realize this, but in a free society there is no way you can forbid somebody to share their work with others as they see fit.
Colombian drug trafickers are well known for improving their local communities, normally contributing to worthy causes like building schools and churches.
I think I need not to say any more to show how laughably flawed your logic is.
It is not like I was forced to buy MS software when I did not know any better.
It is not like I have been forced to spend sleepless nights during panic sessions while the WIntel admins were frantically patching their virus incubators.
It is not like I see my friends frustration trying to rip a CD to MP3 format just to be told that they should rip to WIndows propietary format.
We would like to uphold the long honoured tradition in the Western world of peer reviewable work and collaborative effort when it comes to a scientific or technical endeavour.
We would like to see how the software we rely upon for our livelyhood works.
We are not sympathetic of companies that break the law in order to maximize their profits.
But we are the bad people somehow, whe are fanatics because we have the balls to have principles and to point the finger in the direction of people that clearly lack moral when conducting themselves.
No wonder politicians in the US and many other places are becoming indistiguishable one from each other, they just reflect the apathy of the general population and how to have convictions of any kind, supported by a sound phylosophical context, is seen by some as fanaticism.
I guess every single person that claimed the emperor had no clothes has been classed a fanatic.
.... remind her that you don't go around asking her to change things around the house.
If you do, then the compromise should be that you will stop doing that if she stops messing with your stuff.
Honestly, some times you have to say no, and make clear how unfair it is to be told how to put things like a child,
Now, if you do not ever do anything to keey the house tidy then, yeah, sucki it up and follow the advice of other/.ers around here that are obviously more accomodating that I would ever be:-)
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F1 starts web browser.
F2 starts terminal.
and so on.
Fialing that I invoke the program from the command line.
How difficult is that?
Unfortunately Windows makes it difficult and messy to do simple tasks under the false pretense that point and click is user firenldy.
Perhaps because I know better and my personal email address has been in yahoo.com for the last 7 years?
Why should they send a portfolio if they are being asked specifically for a CV???
I have found out about people liying on their CV (it only takes 5 minutes, my record is 30 seconds: two questions and it was all clear all was made up).
In a former company HR would not accept future applications that were known liars and the job agaency would received heavy criticism, in case they would send several offenders any commercial relationship could cease (it happened to one agancy that was clearly not doing the most basic screening at all).
Both sets of hobbies look equally enjoyable and show a balance between work and life out of work.
All would boil down to skills IMHO.
The only thing all interviewers have noticed in my resume is my hobbies.
Playing piano at a proficient level, opera, chess, latin american literature, Japanese cinema and Linux (way back when it was a rarity) got people to remember who I was.
The point is that people proficient with the SI system can make a calculation of similar complexity with easy.
People familiar with the English (Imperial, whatever) system will struggle in many instances because it lacks any logic whatsoever.
For example, when I go to the store, I know I can buy a pound of ground beef. I know about how much of that I will eat, and I can make a judgement about prices, because I have a good visualization of what it is.
Alas, in places using the metric system you buy half a kg of ground beef and you know how much you would eat. Or one kg, or whatever.
You are beyond redemption, but there is no need to subject young children to a life of pain and misery.
In a place using metric you use metric for everything, it is not uncommon for merchants to handle figures and measurements in their heads with ease, the scientist uses the same frame of reference when he goes to the supermarket or when he is designing the latest WMD.
What a load of rubish.
You don't need to convert between meters and kilometers because eveidnetly they measure things of differents orders of magnitude. It ls like asking why the distance between Houston and NY is not given in inches. Well, doh!.
Nevertheless, when the conversion is necessary, it is dead simple: move the decimal point 3 places.
You always have a rules with centimeters and millimeters marked, it is not like we live in ancient Greece and thus we need to refer to Euclides.
You need to serve pint measures? Why? In places using the metric system you serve half liters, quarter of liters if required.
All the "problems" you see in the metric system are just nonsense made up. When it comes to precise calculations made with ease there is no doubt which system is superior.
Myanmar is not recognized by many nations for good reason: it is the name imposed by the ruling military junta (SLORC, google for it, it is truly Orwellian) that amongst some niecites have keeped Aung San Su Yi, the democractic leader of the winner of the last clean elections, on house arrest for most of the past 15 years.
People do not get it, cinema is about acting and cinematography.
Somebody (most of pople) like Lord of the Rings? (that funnily enough is a re-hash of Richard Wagner's work) Fine. That does not make it the best movie, specially if judged by people that have half a clue about technical and historical aspects of cinema making.
Are you demanding, *grasp*, good acting?
/. were electronic puppets deserve Oscars to the best actor and form reigns supreme over substance when it comes to movies (interesting that you noticed that movies with rich human interaction are not favoured by the /. crowd).
In a movie?
And good dialogues? Grasp again, in a movie?
And also good, consistent historylines that don't jump around like a rabbit with schizophrenia?
You heathen, this is
Time my dear slashbot.
Time puts everything in place and perspective.
Is that the only measure you have for artistic merit?
I would even learn to program (shudder), but the Pandora box is open, they can't sue free software out of existence.
It may take a while for idiots to realize this, but in a free society there is no way you can forbid somebody to share their work with others as they see fit.
What about personal responsibility in how you run a company?
Colombian drug trafickers are well known for improving their local communities, normally contributing to worthy causes like building schools and churches.
I think I need not to say any more to show how laughably flawed your logic is.
It is not like I was forced to buy MS software when I did not know any better.
It is not like I have been forced to spend sleepless nights during panic sessions while the WIntel admins were frantically patching their virus incubators.
It is not like I see my friends frustration trying to rip a CD to MP3 format just to be told that they should rip to WIndows propietary format.
And, and, and... etc.
No, personal? Never! Why should I?
TIme awards the person of the year award to the individual that had the most influence in a given year.
Nobody can claim that Herr Hitler was not the most influential man not only for a year, but at least for 5 or 6 until his empire of terror collapsed.
We would like to uphold the long honoured tradition in the Western world of peer reviewable work and collaborative effort when it comes to a scientific or technical endeavour.
We would like to see how the software we rely upon for our livelyhood works.
We are not sympathetic of companies that break the law in order to maximize their profits.
But we are the bad people somehow, whe are fanatics because we have the balls to have principles and to point the finger in the direction of people that clearly lack moral when conducting themselves.
No wonder politicians in the US and many other places are becoming indistiguishable one from each other, they just reflect the apathy of the general population and how to have convictions of any kind, supported by a sound phylosophical context, is seen by some as fanaticism.
I guess every single person that claimed the emperor had no clothes has been classed a fanatic.
Lets honour all those that have broken the law in order to satisfy their greed.
Way to go man, justify greed no matter the means.
Way to go.
.... you just don't see it.
You paid for it and come here to proudly show to us the miserable failure that filtering is.
Filtering is not the solution, it is a stop gap measure at best.
.... remind her that you don't go around asking her to change things around the house.
/.ers around here that are obviously more accomodating that I would ever be :-)
If you do, then the compromise should be that you will stop doing that if she stops messing with your stuff.
Honestly, some times you have to say no, and make clear how unfair it is to be told how to put things like a child,
Now, if you do not ever do anything to keey the house tidy then, yeah, sucki it up and follow the advice of other
Buy the combo with your favourite keyboard and do not use the rodent.
How difficult is that?