Bah humbug. I used to send balloons (and radiosondes) to 30km+ high twice a day for work. A normal commercial weather balloon will regularly reach up to 35km high (~10hPa).
I should get around to doing something with the A3000T sitting under my desk, even if it is just to suck my old emails off it. Wonder if it still boots?
By cooking over a low heat first you ensure that the meat is cooked evenly throughout, and then you sear the outside over a very hot grill. Otherwise you end up with raw inside and black outside. By searing last you get the flavour and evenly cooked meat.
You do know that Tomi rewrites history and he himself pointed out that Nokia was screwed before Elop took over? He conveniently forgets that fact in his one man campaign against Elop.
Agile is hard. All good development practices are hard. TDD is hard, XP is hard.
Just get over all the goddam crying and do it. Most of the talk about the failures of agile are about the equivalent of stuffing your face full of chocolate cake and then crying "why oh why can't I ever lose weight"..
The point of Agile is that you are supposed to be a team. If you couldn't give a shit what your teammate is doing in the daily standup then you have failed already.
Before joining in the beating maybe you should actually check who is involved. I think these people know the issues about the naming of astronomical bodies...
Dr. Alan Stern. Alan is an aerospace consultant and an Associate Vice President at the Southwest Research Institute, a large non-profit R&D institution with over 3400 employees, and operates a successful private aerospace consulting practice. Formerly, he directed all science program and missions at NASA.
That was the whole point. They basically turned breaking the terms of service of a web site into a federal offence. So, yes, you all would be criminals.
Was it really the flu they caught, or just a common cold? Most people have no idea of the difference.
People die from the flu. If you have the flu you can get sick, really sick. It is not just the sniffles. You don't necessarily get the flu shot to protect yourself. You get it to protect the weakest around us, the already ill, the old, or the very young. For those getting the flu can be a death sentence. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/Pages/communityImmunity.aspx
I saw a graph recently (I think it was in Sciam), which showed that in a hospital setting the nurses were the central contact point between everyone. That is, nurses had more contacts per day with other staff and patients than anyone else in the hospital.
I think that should effectively label nurses as "super-spreaders" in that environment. http://contagions.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/what-is-a-super-spreader/ Anything that reduces the risk of hospital infections should be mandatory, and that includes washing hands between every patient.
Something that doesn't seem to have been mentioned explicitly is that DHCP has to be turned off on all access points/wireless routers. There must be only one central DHCP server for the entire network.
But as mentioned, this is part of the spec. I only realised the same thing last year though, so it was nice to be able to remove my 4 different SSIDs from my home network and just use one.
The only down side is that it isn't obvious which AP is in use by any particular device (g or n) or if any AP has died. But unless it causes noticeable problems I don't really care.
You, as a team, should be planning the tasks and working on them together. You disappearing for two months to "solve" all the problems yourself is the problem.
Many years ago I used to let weather balloons go for a living. They were all filled with hydrogen and I never managed to blow anything up by _accident_:-).
Of course hydrogen is pretty damn flammable and even a small amount makes a nice bang, so I really wouldn't want to use it in anything that involved carrying people.
These recent stories about teams getting to 30km+ with their balloons and being all over the news makes me laugh as well. I used to do that twice a day. The only thing missing back then were the miniature cameras.
The temperature in the stratosphere rises with height (a temperature inversion) due to the ozone layer capturing UV radiation. Of course with the pressure being about 8hPa or less at those altitudes the temperature is pretty much abstract.
Wishful thinking. They were dead man walking already.
The board must have known they were coasting on momentum alone and the shit was about to start. Sure they were growing, but they were growing far less than the market. Elop came in just as the momentum ran out and the dive started.
They are nearing the bottom of the dive now and the only interesting thing is whether they can pull out before they hit the bottom. There are signs it is starting to level out, but it will be a close call.
About the only stupid thing I can attribute to Elop is that he should have known that internal private memo would leak.
I have a Lumia 800 and have used Symbian for years. I also have an iPad3 and use an iPhone occasionally.
1. The UI is fine. I don't miss anything compared to the other devices. 2. I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Compatibility with what? 3. Potential?! My Nokia N8 used to be totally empty by 7pm AND I WASN'T EVEN USING IT. The 800 probably lasts 2 days at least. 4. I already have dozens of more apps from the 1st tier services than I ever had on Symbian 5. Who gives a crap, Google, Bing, it is all the same. And there is a Google app for those anal enough to require it.
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Lawn ornament deer?!
Two words, infra red.
Bah humbug. I used to send balloons (and radiosondes) to 30km+ high twice a day for work. A normal commercial weather balloon will regularly reach up to 35km high (~10hPa).
I should get around to doing something with the A3000T sitting under my desk, even if it is just to suck my old emails off it. Wonder if it still boots?
By cooking over a low heat first you ensure that the meat is cooked evenly throughout, and then you sear the outside over a very hot grill. Otherwise you end up with raw inside and black outside. By searing last you get the flavour and evenly cooked meat.
Uh, Danskebank anyone?
You still need Java to complete any online purchases using them as your bank, including credit card.
They only just recently got rid of the need for Java in their web banking as well.
You do know that Tomi rewrites history and he himself pointed out that Nokia was screwed before Elop took over? He conveniently forgets that fact in his one man campaign against Elop.
http://dominiescommunicate.wordpress.com/
You do realize that the size of the pixels on the 1020 are about the same as those on the iPhone5 and the Galaxy S4?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7142/some-thoughts-about-the-lumia-1020-camera-system
Sort of invalidates your entire rant.
Definitely.
Agile is hard. All good development practices are hard. TDD is hard, XP is hard.
Just get over all the goddam crying and do it. Most of the talk about the failures of agile are about the equivalent of stuffing your face full of chocolate cake and then crying "why oh why can't I ever lose weight"..
The point of Agile is that you are supposed to be a team. If you couldn't give a shit what your teammate is doing in the daily standup then you have failed already.
Before joining in the beating maybe you should actually check who is involved. I think these people know the issues about the naming of astronomical bodies...
Dr. Alan Stern. Alan is an aerospace consultant and an Associate Vice President at the Southwest Research Institute, a large non-profit R&D institution with over 3400 employees, and operates a successful private aerospace consulting practice. Formerly, he directed all science program and missions at NASA.
No. Simply, no. Why the fuck do people keep getting this wrong?
Atheism is the lack of belief that there is a creator.
I don't know why it is so hard for people to understand that fact.
One of my favourite quotes is exactly about this.
"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position". - Bill Maher
That was the whole point. They basically turned breaking the terms of service of a web site into a federal offence. So, yes, you all would be criminals.
Nice trick those graphs.
Symbian was already tanking in Q2 2010, nearly a full year before the famous memo and Android had already passed Symbian in market share by the time of the memo. They were screwed no matter what.
http://dominiescommunicate.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/android_bypasses_symbian.png
Was it really the flu they caught, or just a common cold? Most people have no idea of the difference.
People die from the flu. If you have the flu you can get sick, really sick. It is not just the sniffles. You don't necessarily get the flu shot to protect yourself. You get it to protect the weakest around us, the already ill, the old, or the very young. For those getting the flu can be a death sentence. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/Pages/communityImmunity.aspx
Yes the current vaccines are bit hit or miss, usually a hit though. But on the other hand it is no conspiracy. There are many teams working right now on a universal lifetime influenza vaccination, but it is a damn difficult problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Prospects_for_universal_flu_vaccines
I saw a graph recently (I think it was in Sciam), which showed that in a hospital setting the nurses were the central contact point between everyone. That is, nurses had more contacts per day with other staff and patients than anyone else in the hospital.
I think that should effectively label nurses as "super-spreaders" in that environment. http://contagions.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/what-is-a-super-spreader/
Anything that reduces the risk of hospital infections should be mandatory, and that includes washing hands between every patient.
Something that doesn't seem to have been mentioned explicitly is that DHCP has to be turned off on all access points/wireless routers. There must be only one central DHCP server for the entire network.
But as mentioned, this is part of the spec. I only realised the same thing last year though, so it was nice to be able to remove my 4 different SSIDs from my home network and just use one.
The only down side is that it isn't obvious which AP is in use by any particular device (g or n) or if any AP has died. But unless it causes noticeable problems I don't really care.
I remember them building one site in the early 2000's in Espoo, Finland. Soon after it was completed they sold it and leased it back.
They have been doing this for years.
They are not, and have never been, interested in owning their properties. The head office was pretty much an exception.
I hate to break it to you, but that isn't agile.
You, as a team, should be planning the tasks and working on them together. You disappearing for two months to "solve" all the problems yourself is the problem.
Many years ago I used to let weather balloons go for a living. They were all filled with hydrogen and I never managed to blow anything up by _accident_ :-).
Of course hydrogen is pretty damn flammable and even a small amount makes a nice bang, so I really wouldn't want to use it in anything that involved carrying people.
These recent stories about teams getting to 30km+ with their balloons and being all over the news makes me laugh as well. I used to do that twice a day. The only thing missing back then were the miniature cameras.
The temperature was most likely correct.
The temperature in the stratosphere rises with height (a temperature inversion) due to the ozone layer capturing UV radiation. Of course with the pressure being about 8hPa or less at those altitudes the temperature is pretty much abstract.
Wishful thinking. They were dead man walking already.
The board must have known they were coasting on momentum alone and the shit was about to start. Sure they were growing, but they were growing far less than the market. Elop came in just as the momentum ran out and the dive started.
They are nearing the bottom of the dive now and the only interesting thing is whether they can pull out before they hit the bottom. There are signs it is starting to level out, but it will be a close call.
About the only stupid thing I can attribute to Elop is that he should have known that internal private memo would leak.
The smartest saying related to things like this I ever heard was "Trust science, not scientists."
http://www.virology.ws/2011/09/27/trust-science-not-scientists/
I don't care about the site (except as one source of new app announcements), but the data doesn't lie.
So your third hand experience trumps my first hand experience?!
Someone should tell users in Finland they shouldn't be buying Windows Phones.
http://wmpoweruser.com/statcounterwindows-phone-crosses-the-10-installed-base-mark-in-finland/
I call bollocks.
I have a Lumia 800 and have used Symbian for years. I also have an iPad3 and use an iPhone occasionally.
1. The UI is fine. I don't miss anything compared to the other devices.
2. I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Compatibility with what?
3. Potential?! My Nokia N8 used to be totally empty by 7pm AND I WASN'T EVEN USING IT. The 800 probably lasts 2 days at least.
4. I already have dozens of more apps from the 1st tier services than I ever had on Symbian
5. Who gives a crap, Google, Bing, it is all the same. And there is a Google app for those anal enough to require it.