oh, a bit like McLaren's new electric car... looks great, it's practically silent.
Until the 385lb battery runs flat after six miles.
Not to worry, though, because it also has a 2.something litre V8 hooked up to a generator! AND THE DRIVETRAIN!
I think someone fucked up there in the design department. "Build us an electric car." "OK, we'll just sneak in a petrol engine and a fuckoff big red button on the dash, nobody'll know..."
AC is bang on. A diploma only means that when you took a three hour exam you had the ability to recall from memory, something you read in a textbook. It does not make you smart any more than donning a black cotton belt makes you Pat Morita's stunt double. Only innate skill, common sense and most importantly, experience (in ANY field) will not only get you hired right off the bat but will more likely ensure retention than a college degree and no work history.
Anecdotally, I have received resumés, over many years and in two industries: ICT consultation and law. Of all the ICT speculative applications I ever received, I called ONE for interview in 2004. He was a pleasant guy, about 25, had nothing past a few average-grade GCSEs under his belt but he had worked since the age of 13 (paper round), later in a warehouse until he was 20, then food retail. He wanted in on the ICT racket. I called him in because he printed his resumé on a home built printer (he even supplied a polaroid of it!), on a computer he built himself, using a word processor he coded himself from the ground up. OK, he didn't have a college degree, he didn't have anything resembling even a vocational ticket in computing, but he had two things I was looking for: the drive and determination to achieve, and the willingness to learn and demonstrable *experience* in problem solving. I mentored him for three years and to this day he's still consulting.
There is a reason why an employer likes to see the word a team player on a CV, it is because team players help each other and turn all the computer network experts into non-idiots.
Not quite. The key phrase "team player" indicates an ability to identify the skillsets of work colleagues and to delegate work according to those skills, not according to office politics; it's a human resources management tool, not a primer on how to win friends.
In my experience, a good boss who isn't technically minded will take advice and just let the tech-heads get on with it, and look forward to a viable result*. If there's more than one boff in the mix, a good boss will take regular updates and stir the pot as necessary. Sometimes that will involve some firing and hiring of new blood. If it takes an unsolicited approach by an employee to make the boss aware outside of a regular departmental meeting that something is wrong, then he isn't a very effective boss. This goes both ways: if you have a complaint, document EVERYTHING, who did what when and what the result was, summarise it, summarise the summary and take it to the next meeting.
*that's what I do. I'm no code monkey, if I need something to spin I don't know or particularly care about the mechanics behind it, I just want the spinny thing to spin. That's why I surround myself with people who know the shit I don't.
um... nope, it wasn't, I was being serious like "CIA running disruption ops in the Middle East including enabling al Qaeda rebel groups" serious... but hey...:)
stop the transactions, you hurt the value. This is a Fed operation, because they can't control it they're trying to destroy it and make it look like script kiddies. So fucking transparent...
"Basil, this coffee tastes like shit!" "...it is shit, Austin." "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?...and this isn't actually that bad... a bit nutty..."
moving controls off the main unit is an absolute abortion of a design decision. Case in point: the Grundig MD-P1 personal minidisc player. All the controls are are on a pod, the only control on the unit itself is a mechanical eject. It works great until the cable splits, then you have a paperweight unless you want to fork out for a spare control pod - which is also the only way to connect a pair of headphones.
I have a MotoRAZR V3i and a V3r, I'm pretty sure you guys can't be referring to either of those as "worst phone ever" because frankly, they're the best phones ever.
My brother has one of those Chinese phone watches that does everything - even has a camera, SIM and MicroSD in it, and it's about the same size as my Breitling Navitimer. Maybe a smidge thicker. He also has a Tag Heuer analogue watch that has motion charging built into it. I'm pretty sure I can combine the two and get a patent on the corners...
660.32C melts aluminium, this temperature is fairly easily attainable in a domestic furnace (eg a garden incinerator or wood stove, a blacksmith's forge if you're of such a mind as to have one of these). OK, just doing a melt-n-pour into ingots leaves you with a variable-purity alloy containing 99.9 aluminium, the rest a mix of palladium, platinum and chromium, but that's still useful (and being ready melted in your own furnace guarantees you the data is gone forever, and you have full chain of custody of the data until it dies). That said it is more expensive to recycle aluminium than it is to refine it from bauxite (tho if it's there, right?), reflected in the abysmal value of scrap aluminium and even considering the fact that following a major bauxite find in Western Australia in the middle of last year the arse fell right out of the scrap aluminium market.
kind of expensive on ammo as well... I prefer my Air Arms Mistral.22 or my Webley Stingray.177. Quiet, accurate and a tin of 500.22 pellets weighs the same as a pair of 32-round 5.56x45mm box magazines.
Not to mention it appears they are still using voodoo like having to degauss drives instead of simply wiping them.
Degaussing is only useful if you don't intend to use the drive again, considering the vulnerability of controller chips and servo tracks to strong EMP renders drives useless.
That's not half of it. There is also this bit:
A computer monitor that might have some top-secret images left on it?
Seriously? How does stupidity of this level actually make it to the real world?>
Burn-in. A common problem on CRTs and on early OLED screens (I just ditched a CRT with an image coldburned into the screen (you could actually make out what it was with the monitor turned off), and I have an mp3/media player that plays video on a 1.1" OLED - which has the player screen permanently burned in. Actually, somewhere around I have an old TFT panel from a Dell laptop that also seems to have burned...)
I've never come across a hard drive with a stepper motor actuated arm. Care to cite a model number for me?
(I have a Quantum Fireball 5.25" 40MB drive that uses a voice coil actuator and two very strong rare-earth magnets to move the heads, the exact same technology used in my Hitachi Deskstars and in my 1TB Seagate 7200.12 SATA).
Of course, I stand to be corrected on this, but: model numbers, please, none of this "You're a fuckin' idiot!" bullshit.
I don't usually respond to ACs, but you take the biscuit of one who completely fucking misses the point of the parent post.
I didn't mention anything about manifest destiny, you did. What I was alluding to was the fact that the similarities between Lunar samples and Terran samples was essentially the same, implying that they originated from the same place.
To piss all over your claim, there is no trace of heavy elements in the Sun - the heaviest element so far detected in the solar spectrum has been oxygen, the most abundant non-hydrogen/helium element being carbon. Elements heavier than iron are found nowhere else but supernova remnants and in the rock of nth generation planetary systems. During the accretion process, heavier elements are drawn towards the centre of the system to form rocky planets, lighter elements either into the star itself or to the outer regions forming gas giants and smaller ice bodies. Ergo, the distribution of proportion of elements throughout the Universe is ANYTHING BUT uniform.
But of course you knew all that, didn't you, because you're a smart fucker, aren't you.
it was a visual inspection, in situ, of Lunar regolith that added weight to the theory of Lunar origin being a result of an impact event on Earth.
How does this benefit all of humanity? Well, it adds credibility to the many and repeated proposals to exploit the Lunar surface for mineral resources which are demonstrably similar to the proportions found here on Earth, with obvious exceptions being fossil fuels. There is a wealth undreamed of, of such elements as gold, silver, uranium, thorium, lithium, platinum, silicon, lead, even the much lighter and exotic elements such as helium-3 (which alone occurs in quantities enough to solve the energy demand until the sun dies), just waiting for Humanity to quit with the fighting over specific claims over resources on this planet. When (if) that ever comes to pass, then we will be one step closer to expanding our influence for good or bad across the rest of the Solar system.
maybe you'd like to tell Softonic that their software isn't what it says on the tin, and further inform the developer of StudioLine that his photo manager plugin for irfanview isn't as described, either.
no, it is a real problem whether they're paternal or maternal half-siblings. Maternal half siblings share a higher risk of autistic spectrum disorders than paternal ones, while the risk for full siblings (it has happened, and very recently in England) is orders of magnitude higher. The risk is vastly increased of various genetic disorders, miscarriages etc., in cases where full siblings are separated and forcibly adopted, in which cases their early life records are erased or substituted to make it harder for them to find their biological families.
Lesson: in the slightest issue of doubt, get a DNA profile done. Failure to do so when there is a question of parentage can bring serious even tragic consequences.
The couple have already had the money, the State are clawing it back from him.
This is really nothing more than a CSA claim gone by the book, based on the assumption that the waiver he signed isn't worth the paper it was written on, and the Department have gone with it and designated him an absent, deadbeat father.
Rightly or wrongly. My personal opinion on the matter is as irrelevant as it is ill-informed on the nuances of Kansas State law.
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oh, a bit like McLaren's new electric car... looks great, it's practically silent.
Until the 385lb battery runs flat after six miles.
Not to worry, though, because it also has a 2.something litre V8 hooked up to a generator! AND THE DRIVETRAIN!
I think someone fucked up there in the design department. "Build us an electric car." "OK, we'll just sneak in a petrol engine and a fuckoff big red button on the dash, nobody'll know..."
AC is bang on. A diploma only means that when you took a three hour exam you had the ability to recall from memory, something you read in a textbook. It does not make you smart any more than donning a black cotton belt makes you Pat Morita's stunt double. Only innate skill, common sense and most importantly, experience (in ANY field) will not only get you hired right off the bat but will more likely ensure retention than a college degree and no work history.
Anecdotally, I have received resumés, over many years and in two industries: ICT consultation and law. Of all the ICT speculative applications I ever received, I called ONE for interview in 2004. He was a pleasant guy, about 25, had nothing past a few average-grade GCSEs under his belt but he had worked since the age of 13 (paper round), later in a warehouse until he was 20, then food retail. He wanted in on the ICT racket. I called him in because he printed his resumé on a home built printer (he even supplied a polaroid of it!), on a computer he built himself, using a word processor he coded himself from the ground up. OK, he didn't have a college degree, he didn't have anything resembling even a vocational ticket in computing, but he had two things I was looking for: the drive and determination to achieve, and the willingness to learn and demonstrable *experience* in problem solving. I mentored him for three years and to this day he's still consulting.
There is a reason why an employer likes to see the word a team player on a CV, it is because team players help each other and turn all the computer network experts into non-idiots.
Not quite. The key phrase "team player" indicates an ability to identify the skillsets of work colleagues and to delegate work according to those skills, not according to office politics; it's a human resources management tool, not a primer on how to win friends.
In my experience, a good boss who isn't technically minded will take advice and just let the tech-heads get on with it, and look forward to a viable result*. If there's more than one boff in the mix, a good boss will take regular updates and stir the pot as necessary. Sometimes that will involve some firing and hiring of new blood. If it takes an unsolicited approach by an employee to make the boss aware outside of a regular departmental meeting that something is wrong, then he isn't a very effective boss. This goes both ways: if you have a complaint, document EVERYTHING, who did what when and what the result was, summarise it, summarise the summary and take it to the next meeting.
*that's what I do. I'm no code monkey, if I need something to spin I don't know or particularly care about the mechanics behind it, I just want the spinny thing to spin. That's why I surround myself with people who know the shit I don't.
um... nope, it wasn't, I was being serious like "CIA running disruption ops in the Middle East including enabling al Qaeda rebel groups" serious... but hey... :)
Not specifically, but you could search for Synchronar, Nepro, Sicura, Cristalonic, Alba, Seiko and Citizen...
stop the transactions, you hurt the value. This is a Fed operation, because they can't control it they're trying to destroy it and make it look like script kiddies. So fucking transparent...
"Basil, this coffee tastes like shit!" ...and this isn't actually that bad... a bit nutty..."
"...it is shit, Austin."
"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
an optimistic 175/400 = 0.44 W output ... For comparison: a typical idle phone uses about 50mW of energy
Apple has patents on putting solar into a display.
Really?? Prior art on commercially available solar embedded displays goes back to the 70's...
moving controls off the main unit is an absolute abortion of a design decision. Case in point: the Grundig MD-P1 personal minidisc player. All the controls are are on a pod, the only control on the unit itself is a mechanical eject. It works great until the cable splits, then you have a paperweight unless you want to fork out for a spare control pod - which is also the only way to connect a pair of headphones.
(source: had one)
I have a MotoRAZR V3i and a V3r, I'm pretty sure you guys can't be referring to either of those as "worst phone ever" because frankly, they're the best phones ever.
My brother has one of those Chinese phone watches that does everything - even has a camera, SIM and MicroSD in it, and it's about the same size as my Breitling Navitimer. Maybe a smidge thicker. He also has a Tag Heuer analogue watch that has motion charging built into it. I'm pretty sure I can combine the two and get a patent on the corners...
660.32C melts aluminium, this temperature is fairly easily attainable in a domestic furnace (eg a garden incinerator or wood stove, a blacksmith's forge if you're of such a mind as to have one of these). OK, just doing a melt-n-pour into ingots leaves you with a variable-purity alloy containing 99.9 aluminium, the rest a mix of palladium, platinum and chromium, but that's still useful (and being ready melted in your own furnace guarantees you the data is gone forever, and you have full chain of custody of the data until it dies). That said it is more expensive to recycle aluminium than it is to refine it from bauxite (tho if it's there, right?), reflected in the abysmal value of scrap aluminium and even considering the fact that following a major bauxite find in Western Australia in the middle of last year the arse fell right out of the scrap aluminium market.
ah, cool. I might even have one of those around somewhere...
kind of expensive on ammo as well... I prefer my Air Arms Mistral .22 or my Webley Stingray .177. Quiet, accurate and a tin of 500 .22 pellets weighs the same as a pair of 32-round 5.56x45mm box magazines.
Not to mention it appears they are still using voodoo like having to degauss drives instead of simply wiping them.
Degaussing is only useful if you don't intend to use the drive again, considering the vulnerability of controller chips and servo tracks to strong EMP renders drives useless.
That's not half of it. There is also this bit:
A computer monitor that might have some top-secret images left on it?
Seriously? How does stupidity of this level actually make it to the real world?>
Burn-in. A common problem on CRTs and on early OLED screens (I just ditched a CRT with an image coldburned into the screen (you could actually make out what it was with the monitor turned off), and I have an mp3/media player that plays video on a 1.1" OLED - which has the player screen permanently burned in. Actually, somewhere around I have an old TFT panel from a Dell laptop that also seems to have burned...)
I've never come across a hard drive with a stepper motor actuated arm. Care to cite a model number for me?
(I have a Quantum Fireball 5.25" 40MB drive that uses a voice coil actuator and two very strong rare-earth magnets to move the heads, the exact same technology used in my Hitachi Deskstars and in my 1TB Seagate 7200.12 SATA).
Of course, I stand to be corrected on this, but: model numbers, please, none of this "You're a fuckin' idiot!" bullshit.
I don't usually respond to ACs, but you take the biscuit of one who completely fucking misses the point of the parent post.
I didn't mention anything about manifest destiny, you did. What I was alluding to was the fact that the similarities between Lunar samples and Terran samples was essentially the same, implying that they originated from the same place.
To piss all over your claim, there is no trace of heavy elements in the Sun - the heaviest element so far detected in the solar spectrum has been oxygen, the most abundant non-hydrogen/helium element being carbon. Elements heavier than iron are found nowhere else but supernova remnants and in the rock of nth generation planetary systems. During the accretion process, heavier elements are drawn towards the centre of the system to form rocky planets, lighter elements either into the star itself or to the outer regions forming gas giants and smaller ice bodies. Ergo, the distribution of proportion of elements throughout the Universe is ANYTHING BUT uniform.
But of course you knew all that, didn't you, because you're a smart fucker, aren't you.
almost, I checked - it's Peter Lilley's secretary's notes on climate change
it was a visual inspection, in situ, of Lunar regolith that added weight to the theory of Lunar origin being a result of an impact event on Earth.
How does this benefit all of humanity? Well, it adds credibility to the many and repeated proposals to exploit the Lunar surface for mineral resources which are demonstrably similar to the proportions found here on Earth, with obvious exceptions being fossil fuels. There is a wealth undreamed of, of such elements as gold, silver, uranium, thorium, lithium, platinum, silicon, lead, even the much lighter and exotic elements such as helium-3 (which alone occurs in quantities enough to solve the energy demand until the sun dies), just waiting for Humanity to quit with the fighting over specific claims over resources on this planet. When (if) that ever comes to pass, then we will be one step closer to expanding our influence for good or bad across the rest of the Solar system.
I think it's Mxedruli forcefed through Bing Translate...
maybe you'd like to tell Softonic that their software isn't what it says on the tin, and further inform the developer of StudioLine that his photo manager plugin for irfanview isn't as described, either.
Fool.
no, it is a real problem whether they're paternal or maternal half-siblings. Maternal half siblings share a higher risk of autistic spectrum disorders than paternal ones, while the risk for full siblings (it has happened, and very recently in England) is orders of magnitude higher. The risk is vastly increased of various genetic disorders, miscarriages etc., in cases where full siblings are separated and forcibly adopted, in which cases their early life records are erased or substituted to make it harder for them to find their biological families.
Lesson: in the slightest issue of doubt, get a DNA profile done. Failure to do so when there is a question of parentage can bring serious even tragic consequences.
The couple have already had the money, the State are clawing it back from him.
This is really nothing more than a CSA claim gone by the book, based on the assumption that the waiver he signed isn't worth the paper it was written on, and the Department have gone with it and designated him an absent, deadbeat father.
Rightly or wrongly. My personal opinion on the matter is as irrelevant as it is ill-informed on the nuances of Kansas State law.
oh? Like, say, Irfanview? Not that I've ever had the urge to go looking...