One thing I've noticed as a passenger is that the most dangerous-feeling aspect of flying right now seems to be the winding security line itself.
Hardly surprising. Thousands of people packed tighter than they will be on board, all it would take is one suicide bomber (you know how much explosive and shrapnel can be packed into a roller bag? Never mind nerve gas.) to wipe out more people than have died in the USA to air travel since commercial flight began.
But don't worry. If it ever happens, TSA will adopt new procedures that will have people go through a security examination checkpoint before getting into the security line.
This is just a stupid typical politician move to get people to pay attention to them. This is also why we can't have a balanced budget: Instead of taking away useless programs, they decide to cut funding from things that people will complain the loudest about, that way they can keep all of their pet projects.
Add up Social Security, Medicare, interest on the debt, the Defense Department, and Veteran's Affairs. Subtract tax revenues. You're already way into red ink. I'm not counting the CDC, FEMA, FDA, NIH, or any of the other nickle-and-dime line items.
So, according to your definition of "useless programs," which would you propose to cut? Social Security? Medicare? Veterans Affairs? Do please be specific.
My first experience with the newer thin seats was on Continental maybe ten years ago. Within fifteen minutes of sitting down, half the muscles in my back were spasming. The only position I could stand was leaning far forward with my elbows on my knees. After that, I refused to fly Continental except for one case where the usual emergency reschedule landed me on one flying from Atlanta to Phoenix. Spent the whole trip "in the position" -- and I noticed that there were several others, incuding the woman next to me. We compared notes, same story.
And if anyone tells you that packing in more passengers side-by-side won't be noticable, you can bet that either they always fly in first class or are damned small people. As is, put three men of even average size next to each other in a row and at least one of them has to lean forward or twist sideways to make room for all of the shoulder width. Never mind sitting next to someone who weighs 400 pounds and insists on putting the seat arms up so she can overflow into your lap.
the ones with a serious interest in cookies were the students. Anyone care to guess the relative risk of a mouse vs. a human, as seen by an Oreo in the study?
* I owe the employer as much notice as they normally give in severance. In some cases this has been months; so be it.
* I tell the new employer that I cannot in good conscience promise to start earlier than reasonable notice would allow. If they can't deal, I'm better off not working for them.
* On the other hand, if I suspect that the current employer is likely to hand me a check and have Security bring my personal items I might suggest the possibility to new employer that this might happen and inquire as to whether they would want me to start earlier in that case.
This is pretty much historical in my case; my current employer hasn't laid anyone off since 2007. One of the rare ones, for certain. I'm not planning to take another job, either -- not much point since I'll be retiring in a few years.
The usual destination for exotic semiconductors: no way to build a good gate dielectric or field dielectric. In other words, not manufacturable in volume.
At 3.5Ghz light travels 8.6cm per clock cycle. A thousand time performance improvement would mean ~86 micrometers.
And have losses of more than 20 dB depending on the materials used for interconnect. Which means that the signal would have either be rebuffered every few microns or recovered at the receiver with something comparable to PCI Express but a thousand times faster.
Of course, most of the delay that limits clock speeds now is in the interconnect and not the switching devices. We're already using copper conductors and low-K dielectrics, so the next step is going to have to be superconducting interconnects.
To the BBC it's news. Any closer and it's old news.
Going to school in Phoenix in the 50s, there was always someone out with valley fever. About like the flu: you're out for a few days to maybe a couple of weeks, and you may not even know it wasn't the flu.
After that, the only time you're likely to be reminded of it is when the doc looks at a chest X-ray and asks if you've been in the area long.
The "I Swear It's All True" requirement is to say that you are authorized by the copyright holder to send out the notice, not that the item actually infringes.
Which is all dandy until you demand the takedown of something that any lawyer doing the most basic due diligence would know was not theirs. Which has happened countless times, some of them reported on/.
That's the kind of shit that should lead to the lawyer being disciplined. But don't. And if you want to look for things that are seriously screwed up with the USA today, you can start there since it's already on the table.
I'll be very interested to see you use that argument when HR calls you in for a little talk about "hostile work environments." Do let us know how it goes.
Right because with all the scantily clad booth babes running around, the adolescent boys are going to jump on
the random, fully dressed, gamer girl.
Check out the Women in Engineering forums on "hostile work environment" specifically with regard to professional conferences -- then come back and explain why gamers' get-togethers are so much better.
It so absolutely makes business sense to repel half of your target market (and more than that of your potential target market) in order to pursue a small marginal edge in your existing customer base
Why not? It's how politics has worked for years...
And is a trap that (for instance) the Republican leadership have just started to recognize. Not that that makes it any easier to escape, mind.
Well, that or maybe the corporate management are indulging themselves at the expense of the business itself. But we know that that never happens.
Well, they by and far are making profit. How's living in mom's basement going for you? If this was one or two companies, I might say you have something, but when it's almost every company in the industry doing it... and they're not suddenly going the way of the do-do bird... there may be a flaw in your cunning deductions.
Learn the concept of "disruption." Whole industries can (and often have) gone for decades doing things poorly because they all do it poorly. Detroit automakers among others come to mind. And then someone comes along and doesn't play that game and the good ol' boys get chewed up bad. Ignoring a chance to tap into a large potential market usually qualifies as "badly."
As for the attempted argumentum ad hominem, nice try. My mother died last year at the age of 85, and we never had a basement. Although I'm planning to include one in the house I'm building to retire to. It'll be handy for when the grandchildren come to visit.
There are all sorts of areas where "no" counts more than "I want." If you're posting to/. without knowing plenty of examples already, I won't bother you by trying to explain the concept.
Pardon my ignorance, by why is it repulsive to see attractive people at product promotion booths?
It isn't. Never doubt the advantage that people with regular features, good teeth, good grooming, etc. have in every aspect of life. Which is not remotely the same thing as being reminded that your primary value in present company depends on your marketing value as a sex object.
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Wait a minute -- I thought all those climate scientists were just echoing the party line to keep getting rich on grant money?
One thing I've noticed as a passenger is that the most dangerous-feeling aspect of flying right now seems to be the winding security line itself.
Hardly surprising. Thousands of people packed tighter than they will be on board, all it would take is one suicide bomber (you know how much explosive and shrapnel can be packed into a roller bag? Never mind nerve gas.) to wipe out more people than have died in the USA to air travel since commercial flight began.
But don't worry. If it ever happens, TSA will adopt new procedures that will have people go through a security examination checkpoint before getting into the security line.
We don't have to.
This is just a stupid typical politician move to get people to pay attention to them. This is also why we can't have a balanced budget: Instead of taking away useless programs, they decide to cut funding from things that people will complain the loudest about, that way they can keep all of their pet projects.
Add up Social Security, Medicare, interest on the debt, the Defense Department, and Veteran's Affairs. Subtract tax revenues. You're already way into red ink. I'm not counting the CDC, FEMA, FDA, NIH, or any of the other nickle-and-dime line items.
So, according to your definition of "useless programs," which would you propose to cut? Social Security? Medicare? Veterans Affairs? Do please be specific.
My first experience with the newer thin seats was on Continental maybe ten years ago. Within fifteen minutes of sitting down, half the muscles in my back were spasming. The only position I could stand was leaning far forward with my elbows on my knees. After that, I refused to fly Continental except for one case where the usual emergency reschedule landed me on one flying from Atlanta to Phoenix. Spent the whole trip "in the position" -- and I noticed that there were several others, incuding the woman next to me. We compared notes, same story.
And if anyone tells you that packing in more passengers side-by-side won't be noticable, you can bet that either they always fly in first class or are damned small people. As is, put three men of even average size next to each other in a row and at least one of them has to lean forward or twist sideways to make room for all of the shoulder width. Never mind sitting next to someone who weighs 400 pounds and insists on putting the seat arms up so she can overflow into your lap.
the ones with a serious interest in cookies were the students. Anyone care to guess the relative risk of a mouse vs. a human, as seen by an Oreo in the study?
I do need (semi) portability, as long as it's good for line-of-sight use on pigeons.
The one time the issue came up it was seven weeks, and the new employer was OK with that.
My own personal policy:
This is pretty much historical in my case; my current employer hasn't laid anyone off since 2007. One of the rare ones, for certain. I'm not planning to take another job, either -- not much point since I'll be retiring in a few years.
Does anyone know where this went?
The usual destination for exotic semiconductors: no way to build a good gate dielectric or field dielectric. In other words, not manufacturable in volume.
At 3.5Ghz light travels 8.6cm per clock cycle. A thousand time performance improvement would mean ~86 micrometers.
And have losses of more than 20 dB depending on the materials used for interconnect. Which means that the signal would have either be rebuffered every few microns or recovered at the receiver with something comparable to PCI Express but a thousand times faster.
Of course, most of the delay that limits clock speeds now is in the interconnect and not the switching devices. We're already using copper conductors and low-K dielectrics, so the next step is going to have to be superconducting interconnects.
Until then, it's mostly a laboratory curiousity.
To the BBC it's news. Any closer and it's old news. Going to school in Phoenix in the 50s, there was always someone out with valley fever. About like the flu: you're out for a few days to maybe a couple of weeks, and you may not even know it wasn't the flu. After that, the only time you're likely to be reminded of it is when the doc looks at a chest X-ray and asks if you've been in the area long.
The "I Swear It's All True" requirement is to say that you are authorized by the copyright holder to send out the notice, not that the item actually infringes.
Which is all dandy until you demand the takedown of something that any lawyer doing the most basic due diligence would know was not theirs. Which has happened countless times, some of them reported on /.
That's the kind of shit that should lead to the lawyer being disciplined. But don't. And if you want to look for things that are seriously screwed up with the USA today, you can start there since it's already on the table.
E3 is in the US. Freedom of speech wins here.
I'll be very interested to see you use that argument when HR calls you in for a little talk about "hostile work environments." Do let us know how it goes.
Why can't people just ignore what they don't like?
Try spending a week in drag and get back to us on that.
It's only a problem for people that think there is a problem where there isn't.
And in other news, Jefferson Davis saw nothing wrong with human rights in the South.
Dang -- someone else who gets it. I'm really missing those mod points today.
Welcome to gender studies 101... you just earned yourself an 'A', dude.
Pity it ain't contagious. And me with no mod points today.
No matter what happens, you can always explain it away and get modded insightful by your peers.
And me with no mod points.
Oh, well. Every now and then I feel the obligation to tilt at windmills.
Right because with all the scantily clad booth babes running around, the adolescent boys are going to jump on the random, fully dressed, gamer girl.
Check out the Women in Engineering forums on "hostile work environment" specifically with regard to professional conferences -- then come back and explain why gamers' get-togethers are so much better.
It so absolutely makes business sense to repel half of your target market (and more than that of your potential target market) in order to pursue a small marginal edge in your existing customer base
Why not? It's how politics has worked for years...
And is a trap that (for instance) the Republican leadership have just started to recognize. Not that that makes it any easier to escape, mind.
Well, that or maybe the corporate management are indulging themselves at the expense of the business itself. But we know that that never happens.
Well, they by and far are making profit. How's living in mom's basement going for you? If this was one or two companies, I might say you have something, but when it's almost every company in the industry doing it... and they're not suddenly going the way of the do-do bird... there may be a flaw in your cunning deductions.
Learn the concept of "disruption." Whole industries can (and often have) gone for decades doing things poorly because they all do it poorly. Detroit automakers among others come to mind. And then someone comes along and doesn't play that game and the good ol' boys get chewed up bad. Ignoring a chance to tap into a large potential market usually qualifies as "badly."
As for the attempted argumentum ad hominem, nice try. My mother died last year at the age of 85, and we never had a basement. Although I'm planning to include one in the house I'm building to retire to. It'll be handy for when the grandchildren come to visit.
Why do naysayers get to decide?
There are all sorts of areas where "no" counts more than "I want." If you're posting to /. without knowing plenty of examples already, I won't bother you by trying to explain the concept.
Women aren't half the market. Don't fool yourself.
No, the difference between 45 or 46% (quoted above) and half makes all the difference.
Pardon my ignorance, by why is it repulsive to see attractive people at product promotion booths?
It isn't. Never doubt the advantage that people with regular features, good teeth, good grooming, etc. have in every aspect of life. Which is not remotely the same thing as being reminded that your primary value in present company depends on your marketing value as a sex object.