The actual statements don't contradict what you're saying. The "ooh, it's extra-terrestrial!" appears to be spin. What the Russians are saying (via translation) appears to be:
-these bacteria weren't in ISS at launch
-these bacteria somehow got into the exosphere, survived there, and ended up on the ISS.
I am not an astrobiologist, but I thought high-altitude bacteria survival was established, or at least expected.
Billionaire whining that he can't buy the critics he used his wealth to destroy in the first place. One of the more despicable things I've seen in my life. (And there's been a lot of competition for that lately.)
College graduates carry student loan debt they need to service. That means they're more financially vulnerable and less able to walk away from their job. It's like a free ball and chain manacled to their wage slaves. Sure, it's doesn't stop them from leaving, but it's surely a hindrance.
One is now a paleoclimatologist specializing in tree rings, the other a historical hydrologist. Between one thing and another, I still get together with them a couple times a year. When climate change/global warming comes up in the course of conversation, they have a lot to say, but one thing comes through quite clearly even when they don't say it outright. (And they have both said it outright to me at different times.) They're scared. And despite both being married, neither has any children.
Make of my anecdote what you will.
For me, it's ThinkPad or nothing, just for the keyboard. I cannot stand modern laptop keyboards. I still use an X220 specifically for the keyboard, and greeted with great joy the news that there will soon be a new, classic-style ThinkPad release.
Oh, didn't you hear? You can buy the new iVowels for only $199 per device.
Soon they'll be launching iTalk;-) which will be a proprietary language necessary for the use of all iCrap (and essential as a caste indicator). It'll be based in equal parts on Esperanto and Scientology.
"We will immediately repeal and replace Obamacare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare! ~Candidate Donald Trump, Feb 9, 2016.
The train to Denver International Airport starts next week. It's the first of four lines opening this year in the metro area. But none of them will go to Boulder and Longmont, even though residents there have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes with the promise of getting rail service
Former Longmont Mayor Julia Pirnack is firmly in the no-compromise camp. She is trying to get $5,000 together so that a former Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler can explore whether anyone can viably sue the Regional Transportation District for the lack of a train in Longmont.
Pirnack said in an interview earlier this month that since she was one of the people who pushed for Longmont to vote for FasTracks in 2004, she feels that RTD made a liar out of her because the commuter line promised in the FasTracks plan is currently not planned to reach Longmont until 2042.
Doubtless they're planning on finishing the Great Colorado Hyperloop sometime in the latter part of the aeon.
Not to target you personally, but "the credibility of their rules needed to be protected" is a stupid and lame reason to fire someone. In the long run, *rule* is completely irrelevant. What's important is the goal the rule is trying to achieve - not leaking any product info early.
Now, maybe pour encourager les autres firings will actually achieve that. But I doubt it. From what I read, they're firing him for making a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes, even big ones. The key is to keep employees who learn from their mistakes, so that you don't end up paying the cost of a different employee maing the same mistake again. Now, maybe this was one of several incidents (and they don't need to all be leaks), but I didn't see any evidence of that.
What it really send a message about is a draconian corporate culture. It tells other employees to live in fear. And random fear at that. Robert Powell, the engineer who lost a prototype iPhone at a bar years ago, still appears to be employed there according to LinkedIn. So now it looks more like a campaign of terror than "rule enforcement".
"Like many other patents, there's no guarantee that Amazon will actually create a product based on the design. It could merely be an attempt to stop competitors from doing so."
I miss a great deal from family members and old friends from school because I refuse to touch facebook. I've stuck with my decision, and certainly won't change it now, but say there is no cost is wrong.
I have to wonder if not having unfettered access to the infosphere isn't part of why they ended up as Trumpers in the first place. Right-wing talk radio rots your brain, but if its all you have to listen to for news...
It's also an indicator for how neglected "rural" America is in other ways.
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I have to agree. This isn't news for nerds. It isn't stuff that matters. It's the sort of crap I used to see on the "History" channel.
Thank you, slashdot editors, for the reminder that this site has jumped the shark and I should not be wasting my time here.
How much should they get for selling their students into slavery to our corporate overlords? Because we're just haggling about the price.
It's not "fraud" when the people in power do it, you see.
The actual statements don't contradict what you're saying. The "ooh, it's extra-terrestrial!" appears to be spin. What the Russians are saying (via translation) appears to be: -these bacteria weren't in ISS at launch -these bacteria somehow got into the exosphere, survived there, and ended up on the ISS. I am not an astrobiologist, but I thought high-altitude bacteria survival was established, or at least expected.
Billionaire whining that he can't buy the critics he used his wealth to destroy in the first place. One of the more despicable things I've seen in my life. (And there's been a lot of competition for that lately.)
College graduates carry student loan debt they need to service. That means they're more financially vulnerable and less able to walk away from their job. It's like a free ball and chain manacled to their wage slaves. Sure, it's doesn't stop them from leaving, but it's surely a hindrance.
Smells like... oligarchy. Some day, this country's gonna end...
One is now a paleoclimatologist specializing in tree rings, the other a historical hydrologist. Between one thing and another, I still get together with them a couple times a year. When climate change/global warming comes up in the course of conversation, they have a lot to say, but one thing comes through quite clearly even when they don't say it outright. (And they have both said it outright to me at different times.) They're scared. And despite both being married, neither has any children. Make of my anecdote what you will.
While I do understand they're basically under they're own control, I just can't bring myself to have anything to do with supporting Dell.
For me, it's ThinkPad or nothing, just for the keyboard. I cannot stand modern laptop keyboards. I still use an X220 specifically for the keyboard, and greeted with great joy the news that there will soon be a new, classic-style ThinkPad release.
My grandfather gave me this crazy high tech invention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
immediately
that this is fallout from them trying to replace the dots over all 'i's with tiny little Apple logos?
Oh, didn't you hear? You can buy the new iVowels for only $199 per device.
Soon they'll be launching iTalk ;-) which will be a proprietary language necessary for the use of all iCrap (and essential as a caste indicator). It'll be based in equal parts on Esperanto and Scientology.
"We will immediately repeal and replace Obamacare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare! ~Candidate Donald Trump, Feb 9, 2016.
Such flagrant and legally accepted abuse of the idea of intellectual property by CBS make me feel justified for holding it in utter contempt.
Um.... I think you underestimate the incompetence of the people likely to be involved. Last year:http://www.cpr.org/news/story/trains-boulder-longmont-still-far-will-be-finished-rtd-says
The train to Denver International Airport starts next week. It's the first of four lines opening this year in the metro area. But none of them will go to Boulder and Longmont, even though residents there have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes with the promise of getting rail service
This year: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/23/longmont-long-delayed-fastracks-line/
Former Longmont Mayor Julia Pirnack is firmly in the no-compromise camp. She is trying to get $5,000 together so that a former Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler can explore whether anyone can viably sue the Regional Transportation District for the lack of a train in Longmont. Pirnack said in an interview earlier this month that since she was one of the people who pushed for Longmont to vote for FasTracks in 2004, she feels that RTD made a liar out of her because the commuter line promised in the FasTracks plan is currently not planned to reach Longmont until 2042.
Doubtless they're planning on finishing the Great Colorado Hyperloop sometime in the latter part of the aeon.
Not to target you personally, but "the credibility of their rules needed to be protected" is a stupid and lame reason to fire someone. In the long run, *rule* is completely irrelevant. What's important is the goal the rule is trying to achieve - not leaking any product info early.
Now, maybe pour encourager les autres firings will actually achieve that. But I doubt it. From what I read, they're firing him for making a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes, even big ones. The key is to keep employees who learn from their mistakes, so that you don't end up paying the cost of a different employee maing the same mistake again. Now, maybe this was one of several incidents (and they don't need to all be leaks), but I didn't see any evidence of that.
What it really send a message about is a draconian corporate culture. It tells other employees to live in fear. And random fear at that. Robert Powell, the engineer who lost a prototype iPhone at a bar years ago, still appears to be employed there according to LinkedIn. So now it looks more like a campaign of terror than "rule enforcement".
Give them this and in 10 years they'll be whining about how unfair it is that they need a warrant to read your mind.
See my name.
"Like many other patents, there's no guarantee that Amazon will actually create a product based on the design. It could merely be an attempt to stop competitors from doing so."
We're imitating them. Only our guy is a self made billionaire who talks tough and tells it like it is. And whose image is less real than Putin's.
It culminated on Nov 8, 2016. And it is so well done that most Americans don't even realize we're under attack.
I miss a great deal from family members and old friends from school because I refuse to touch facebook. I've stuck with my decision, and certainly won't change it now, but say there is no cost is wrong.
I have to wonder if not having unfettered access to the infosphere isn't part of why they ended up as Trumpers in the first place. Right-wing talk radio rots your brain, but if its all you have to listen to for news...
It's also an indicator for how neglected "rural" America is in other ways.