Plus, there isn't exactly a "Chinese" language, there are different dialects all over the country, and people from different regions can't exactly communicate with one another in their native tongues.
Russia is fairly unique in that they managed to push a fairly uniform Russian language across its entire landmass, and to a lesser extent over the USSR. It would be interesting if China could manage to follow suit, but they have orders of magnitude more population to do it with. Of course, the former USSR satellites have started trying to forget their Russian and relearn their native languages, so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
100 years isn't so interesting, maybe after a 1000 years.
By then English shall have fragmented into a bunch of different dialects, quite distinguishable from each other. Even today, try getting a Brit and a Texan into the same room and see if they can communicate. English will just become the root for a bunch of new languages, like Latin was the basis for the Romance languages.
Perhaps there was some convergence during the brief period of broadcast media over the last century, but even that is fragmenting into smaller groups as people tune in to more localized youtube channels... you won't have everyone tuning into a single "impartial" news source anymore with anchors with relatively neutral accents from the midwest.
People like using language to separate themselves from each other.
Huh, I'm super-nearsighted (~ -4.5), which I understood was caused by my eyeballs being too long so my retina is behind the focal plane, and I had always sort of hoped that when I get a bet older and more farsighted it would sort of right itself... I take it that's not going to happen?
Just got some Google Cardboard last week and was hoping I'd someday just be able to use something like that as an ocular implant, and have superhuman vision like Geordi Laforge from ST:TNG. But I was sort of frustrated to find that I had to wear my glasses with the biconvex lenses that came with that too.
Oh well, here's to paying lots more for vision coverage for the next few decades:/
Love your sig, you're welcome on my lawn too. Aw, who am I kidding, I'm just renting it.
I've only heard great things from people who have had the laser eye surgery, and that's great. But it's not for me.
* I have something of a fetish for people with glasses. I don't know why, since I'm not into any other kind of "jewelry" functional or not, but anyone wearing glasses (with the exception of the big bug-eyed fashion sunglasses that sometimes go into style) is an instant turn-on. I realized this when I became pretty distraught when my wife decided to have the LASIK procedure done.... though it might also have been because she made this decision suddenly and we had to pay for it all out of pocket immediately, when if she had just planned it a month or two sooner we could have set up an HSA account to pay for it pre-tax.
* Watching her go under the knife for the procedure was unbearable (yes, they use knives and clamps directly on your eyelids and eyeballs... the lasers just swoop in briefly to reshape your cornea before they glue your eye back together). I am not at all squeamish when it comes to blood and guts and pain tolerance with other medical stuff, but something about knives and clamps on a conscious human eyeball for several minutes is just... just...
* They did mention that it would affect her night vision. And she yells at me about being nearly blind while driving around country roads at night. I think she was like this before too, but it could only be worse now. I like being able to drive around at night, and do some amateur astronomy, and stuff like that.
* I'm super-nearsighted (-4.5 or so), but I still like to do a lot of detailed work with my naked eye. Being able to take my glasses off and look at a computer part or a scale model or a family member up close feels like having super-human vision powers in comparison. I don't really want to be able to give up that ability to examine something up close with the naked eye.
* Conversely, there are times when stuff around me is happening, and it's stressful and I can just whip my glasses off and put everything into soft focus, sort of like Zaphod Beeblebrox's anti-stress sunglasses. OK, I'm stretching here, but (takes off ocular implants) deal with it.
Sure, there are those moments of frustration when I can't find my glasses, or I step on them, or they fall apart while I'm trying to drive or fly or scuba dive. Maybe I'll try contacts someday. But I mostly just feel like glasses are a part of me now, and probably only moreso once ocular projector HUDs become more prevalent.
you pi fanbois need to quit raising that hobbyist toy as a viable solution to people of the normal real world's needs. The processor performance is like a Pentium 2 at 250MHz, it only supports some hundreds of meg of ram, and the graphics performance is abysmal being like systems of 12 years ago. $80 can buy a multi-core system that will have tens of times the power of a raspberry
I agree... the Pi might be great for embedded applications, but too many people want to stick a keyboard/mouse/monitor on them and use them like a computer, and then whine about the challenges of ARM. Just get an netbook or even a low-end phone/tablet if you want a touchscreen! They'll even be cheaper than the Pi when you figure in the cost of cables, power supplies, peripherals... a case, a half-decent SD card... the Pi really comes with nothing.
And even for embedded applications, you'd probably first want to ask yourself if you can get away with using Arduinos instead.
Huh, tell me more... I have the ~$100 Samsung ML-2851D B&W laser printer, and it works great under Linux, full duplexing and all. It's even easier to install the printer drivers in Linux than in Windows / MacOSX.
Wife would like to upgrade it to a color laser someday... I realize some of the Samsung multifunction printers will be a PITA with Linux, but there's gotta be a color version of this thing somewhere...
Heh, funny you should mention that... a substantial chunk of my work at just about every company I've ever worked for was to serve as a communications conduit between the networking group and the mere mortals who were just trying to get their app deployed.
I'd be brought in to certain projects fairly late when everyone was all flustered and fuming because their app wasn't working and the network guys WEREN'T HELPING them. Then I'd sift through all their app and tease out all of their port connectivity requirements and add those details to their architecture diagrams. Then I'd rifle through the Network group's documentation tree and fill out the firewall request forms with the proper CIDR notation if necessary. While they were working on those tickets, I'd whip up some quick connectivity tests with nmap and netcat, and find and help the network tech fix any typos that might have snuck in before going back to the app team and having them try again. Then I spend some quality time smoothing their feathers with stories about how the networking team has been in super high demand since the security group tightened the thumbscrews since the DDoS worm attack 5 years ago and how it's a thankless job because they only get any visibility when there's a problem and how things would go much smoother next time when everyone's "engaged in the process" much earlier but it was an emergency demo so whatever. So the project becomes a last-minute success story and kudos go all around, instead of the app team whining up the management chain that they missed their deadline because the networking group wouldn't work with them.
Yes, I am the CCNA whisperer, and I appreciate the hard work that you do and want to buy you a drink the next time you're in town.
you sound like a person who talks about work instead of DOING work.
eh, I usually rank pretty well on the metrics for both tickets closed and SLOC relative to my team.
Besides, the managers say it's OK to spend a small percentage of time reflecting on your work environment to try to identify what works and what doesn't. Then it's nice when you already have a comprehensive, well thought-out answer handy when they inevitably ask you how you'd like things arranged when your team is shuffled over to the new office space and how much more useful you'll be if you're sitting far away from your boss, next to the cute redhead in the CRM team.
Space is so big that BILLIONS of years will pass before we even see the light shining from a sun in a different galaxy. No. The time it takes for light to reach us from another star is exactly equal to the distance from here to the star measured in light years. (Remember, a light year is the distance light travels in one year.) As an example, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away, so we're seeing it by light that started its journey here 2.5 million years ago, not billions of years as you so ignorantly state. Please learn something about what you're talking about before you make a fool of yourself. Again.
It's commonly accepted that the most distant galaxies we can currently see are up to about 14 billion light years away... it's complicated since everything is still moving http://www.kurzweilai.net/most...
Sheesh, I had to scroll down FAR to find someone else who didn't mind open office plans...
For me, working in an office is about maximizing Communication. Cubes and even conference rooms get in the way of communication, isolating and dividing groups so that they start wandering off in different directions and ends up creating more work to get everyone back on the same page.
Yes, distraction is an issue. But an important part of cognitive function is to be able to filter out distractions when you do need extended periods of hyperfocus. This is pretty easily handled with headphones and some discipline. My coworkers are polite enough not to approach someone who looks like they're "in the zone" and attach their comments and questions to their work tickets (woo documentation) and/or wait until standup to discuss things that need more eyeballs - usually things are resolved much faster that way anyway (as long as it's timeboxed not to waste the time of the entire team).
Plus, your workspace is very much a showcase of your work, personality, and work habits, and I find it way easier to display it on the open planform "science fair" office than in the empty nest "cube farm" booth format.
In the name of improving communication, I would even go so far as to split team members up and spread them around the office so they can better mingle with other groups in your supply / input / process / output / customer chain. After all, your teammates should already have a good deal of sync with each other, since they attend meetings together more frequently and back each other up on the same projects, so it's more beneficial to maximize inter-team communication by spreading your group out to keep tabs on the other groups in your office. They can do a better job passively filtering information discussed by other teams, helping keep track of the pulse of other groups so you have some advanced notice of when a deadline might slip or an important milestone is coming up. I always find it a greater waste of time when, after every 6 mo. reorg, they try to shuffle around everyone's seats so teams are seated near each other in a cluster by their current manager so they can "better collaborate" with each other, like they weren't going to be able to find a convenient way to do so anyway.
If you really need privacy, grab a break-out room, or work from home that day. But for the most part, I find that work sucks more when there's not enough communication, as opposed to when there's insufficient time for hyperfocus work (assuming your manager is doing a decent job shielding you from the BS, which I know is by no means a given).
Mostly managers complain about open floor plans because they have to actually prove that they have an entire day's worth of work to do and justify their salary.
What, does it become obvious how quickly they can complete their MBWA circuit?
Well, I've lived in cold climates and hot climates... Everyone has a different approach to staying comfortable. It takes years (YEARS) to transition between them, but it's possible... I think you would have acclimated to the Japanese approach after a few more years. I don't think your early childhood experiences really matter.
I grew up mostly in New England, which has decent extremes in either direction... I think similar to Japan. There's maybe 2 perfect weeks in fall when the temperatures are "just right" to comfortably keep the windows open... the rest of the time, you either have the heat or A/C on (the 2 perfect weeks in spring usually has too much pollen).
I've lived a few years in Thailand, and it takes time to: 1. learn to surrender to the heat. You can't fight the heat like you fight the cold. 2. let your blood thin out. After a few years, your blood thins out to help radiate away heat. You also eventually fine tune your perspiration so you can stay slightly moist and somewhat cool without dripping buckets.
Then I moved to the Pacific NW, which is usually wet and cold by New England standards. We eventually learned: 1. most people have an internal energy that just keeps them going 2. more layers of clothing is the norm - socks and sweaters stay on indoors. But the clothing also comes off at a lower threshold too (>60 F is T-shirt weather!) 3. wet = cold; dry = warm was the mantra for camping back in New England, but that pretty much goes out the window in the PacNW. Your body temperature just is what it is and you stay nihilistically detached from it.
So I'd say it's more about expanding your range than it is about trying to recreate the conditions of your childhood. Maybe head out to a Korean sauna sometime and see how long you can spend in the different rooms (cold, hot, sweltering, etc.), and see what you can do to adjust to each extreme. Yes, constant climate control has narrowed our range, but it doesn't take that much self-training to push the envelope back out again.
I like cold, I sleep without a blanket (just a sheet), I walk outdoors without a jacket most of the year, but the only problem I never solved is hands and feet. Exposed to cold, their temperature tend to adjust to external temperature, which hurts with temperature below 10 degree Celsius.
That's natural... your hands and feet have a high surface area to volume ratio, so they naturally serve as radiators to help help regulate your core temperature.
When you're hot, the capillaries in your hands and feet will bring blood to the surface, helping you cool off. When you're cold, circulation decreases so less blood flows to your hands and feet to help maintain more heat in your core.
So for people who overheat and start sweating under their blankets, all they really need to do is let their hands and feet stick out from under the blanket and let the bodies better regulate their core temperature naturally.
For your case, I'm afraid you ought to just try wearing a vest to raise your core temperature just enough that your body has to start pushing warm blood out to your hands and feet to shed off the excess heat.
Fahrenheit is really a stupid scale: It was originally planned to have only unsigned values, and have three (fucking three!) fixpoints. Everybody knows that a line in the eucledian plane is determined already by two of its points.
Please dear americans, adopt reasonable measures.
The best explanation I've heard is that Fahrenheit is a 0 - 100 scale for essentially the coldest and warmest air temperatures typically faced in the middle of Europe. Given the euro-centric nature of this and related studies, Fahrenheit fits fine.
Yeah, if you're doing any type of science or engineering, a Kelvin / Rankine scale would be more useful. If you're freezing or boiling water at STP, sure, whip out your Centigrade scale, but otherwise, it's just as arbitrary.
That, and Asians also have had a few thousand more years of agricultural society compared to hunter/gatherer Westerners. Food grows everywhere and is available year-round, so southeast asian bodies haven't exactly had to evolve the "pack it away for the winter!" approach to carbs.
Yeah, I'm with you here. I'm sure it's more likely that this is a PR stunt gone wild and we all fell for it. Even the POTUS fell for it. Before this, I hadn't even heard of the studio, much less the movie.
Let's see...
* Sony was already in panic mode after their security breach. This sure took the new spotlight off of that.
* OK, movie is coming out now... oh, no, no it isn't, it's too dangerous! ("ooh, forbidden fruit! No one wants to SEE a BANNED movie, do you?")
* media goes nuts. POTUS makes a statement. NK kicked off the internets.
* OK, sure, you can watch the movie, but ONLY in SELECT THEATERS NEAR YOU!
* Sounds like NK pretty much held to their party line of "huh? We didn't do it! But whatever it was, I bet you deserved it, you capitalist swine!"
Quit trolling, GP never said anything about the US being a paragon of free speech protections.
Yep. The US Government is usually far behind most technological trends, but you can bet there's a good reason that the US has been archiving every tweet to the Library of Congress. They may not be using it for witchhunts right at this moment, but you can bet your keister it's gonna be trawled big-time for political fodder whenever it's expedient to perform a good ol' fashioned character assassination or simply to throw someone in jail.
I suppose this thread is as as close as I'll get... Anyone else have high CPU displaying Slashdot on Safari?
I usually keep/. open all day in a tab, but lately I've occasionally been getting/. tabs burning through all of my CPU on some tabs, according to ActivityMonitor. I assume it has something to do with the new ads, since it's intermittent, but it's been difficult to flag exactly which ad content has been causing this. Just updated to Safari 8.0.2 this morning, and it's still occurring.
Usually use Safari instead of Chrome since the battery life is supposedly better, but certainly not with this issue:P But at this point, I'd sooner stop keeping/. open than change browsers.:/
Yep... we did Yellowstone a few years ago, and it was certainly the most crowded, commercialized, and overrated national park we've visited.
Yellowstone covers 2,219,791 acres. You didn't see Yellowstone, you saw the crowded, commercialized, and famous segments of Yellowstone. I spent a week hiking there one year and the only other people within 3 miles of the trails I took were the rest of the group I went with. Also, I know there is MUCH more to Yellowstone than I've seen in about 4 visits (each roughly a week long, and each geographically overlapping only on visiting the Old Faithful Inn once each trip).
True that... we only spent 2 days driving around the main loop and didn't have time for a real hike, since we still had the rest of Wyoming between us and our flight out. But still, the fact remains that we wanted to spend more time at just about all the parks we visited (RMNP, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Arches, Canyonlands, National Reef, Fruita, Zion), but after a day at Yellowstone we just wanted to get back out to Grand Teton NP. I'm sure the wilderness away from the beaten path are awesome, but it's probably going to be some time before we bother trying to go back.
Yep... we did Yellowstone a few years ago, and it was certainly the most crowded, commercialized, and overrated national park we've visited.
OTOH, it's also the park most likely to self-correct when the supervolcano blows, so there might be some value in allowing it to keep it's most-visited status if only to reduce traffic to other national parks.
We went there as part of a big loop, flying in/out of Denver and taking 2 weeks to camp at every national / state park, from RMNP to Zion, then up to Yellowstone. The parks in Colorado and southern Utah were amazing, as was Grand Teton NP just south of Yellowstone. Yellowstone was all traffic, no camping availability (had to hit the most expensive motel I've ever stayed at on the Montana side... to be fair our timing was bad and we arrived on the weekend), and the attractions were neat, but not much more impressive than anything we had already seen in Iceland. OK, OK, the jumping mud pits were extremely cute, but the geysers and hot pools in Iceland were much more regular and impressive, especially Geysir where you could walk right up to within a few feet, with nothing but a little velvet rope between you and the maw, and it would go off every 5 minutes instead of an hour like Ol' Faithful (which, admittedly, we didn't wait for).
But of course, even in Iceland, there was another geyser a few meters away that was cordoned off and shut down, because it was also clogged up with trash and junk that people had tossed in to try to trigger an eruption.
Hey apple, use your own products to fix this mess.
They did... all of their products are completely sealed and unserviceable. Otherwise you'd be opening them up and finding all of the "Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese iPhone factory!" messages inside.
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Plus, there isn't exactly a "Chinese" language, there are different dialects all over the country, and people from different regions can't exactly communicate with one another in their native tongues.
Russia is fairly unique in that they managed to push a fairly uniform Russian language across its entire landmass, and to a lesser extent over the USSR. It would be interesting if China could manage to follow suit, but they have orders of magnitude more population to do it with. Of course, the former USSR satellites have started trying to forget their Russian and relearn their native languages, so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
100 years isn't so interesting, maybe after a 1000 years.
By then English shall have fragmented into a bunch of different dialects, quite distinguishable from each other. Even today, try getting a Brit and a Texan into the same room and see if they can communicate. English will just become the root for a bunch of new languages, like Latin was the basis for the Romance languages.
Perhaps there was some convergence during the brief period of broadcast media over the last century, but even that is fragmenting into smaller groups as people tune in to more localized youtube channels... you won't have everyone tuning into a single "impartial" news source anymore with anchors with relatively neutral accents from the midwest.
People like using language to separate themselves from each other.
Huh, I'm super-nearsighted (~ -4.5), which I understood was caused by my eyeballs being too long so my retina is behind the focal plane, and I had always sort of hoped that when I get a bet older and more farsighted it would sort of right itself... I take it that's not going to happen?
Just got some Google Cardboard last week and was hoping I'd someday just be able to use something like that as an ocular implant, and have superhuman vision like Geordi Laforge from ST:TNG. But I was sort of frustrated to find that I had to wear my glasses with the biconvex lenses that came with that too.
Oh well, here's to paying lots more for vision coverage for the next few decades :/
Love your sig, you're welcome on my lawn too. Aw, who am I kidding, I'm just renting it.
I've only heard great things from people who have had the laser eye surgery, and that's great. But it's not for me.
* I have something of a fetish for people with glasses. I don't know why, since I'm not into any other kind of "jewelry" functional or not, but anyone wearing glasses (with the exception of the big bug-eyed fashion sunglasses that sometimes go into style) is an instant turn-on. I realized this when I became pretty distraught when my wife decided to have the LASIK procedure done. ... though it might also have been because she made this decision suddenly and we had to pay for it all out of pocket immediately, when if she had just planned it a month or two sooner we could have set up an HSA account to pay for it pre-tax.
* Watching her go under the knife for the procedure was unbearable (yes, they use knives and clamps directly on your eyelids and eyeballs... the lasers just swoop in briefly to reshape your cornea before they glue your eye back together). I am not at all squeamish when it comes to blood and guts and pain tolerance with other medical stuff, but something about knives and clamps on a conscious human eyeball for several minutes is just... just...
* They did mention that it would affect her night vision. And she yells at me about being nearly blind while driving around country roads at night. I think she was like this before too, but it could only be worse now. I like being able to drive around at night, and do some amateur astronomy, and stuff like that.
* I'm super-nearsighted (-4.5 or so), but I still like to do a lot of detailed work with my naked eye. Being able to take my glasses off and look at a computer part or a scale model or a family member up close feels like having super-human vision powers in comparison. I don't really want to be able to give up that ability to examine something up close with the naked eye.
* Conversely, there are times when stuff around me is happening, and it's stressful and I can just whip my glasses off and put everything into soft focus, sort of like Zaphod Beeblebrox's anti-stress sunglasses. OK, I'm stretching here, but (takes off ocular implants) deal with it.
Sure, there are those moments of frustration when I can't find my glasses, or I step on them, or they fall apart while I'm trying to drive or fly or scuba dive. Maybe I'll try contacts someday. But I mostly just feel like glasses are a part of me now, and probably only moreso once ocular projector HUDs become more prevalent.
you pi fanbois need to quit raising that hobbyist toy as a viable solution to people of the normal real world's needs. The processor performance is like a Pentium 2 at 250MHz, it only supports some hundreds of meg of ram, and the graphics performance is abysmal being like systems of 12 years ago. $80 can buy a multi-core system that will have tens of times the power of a raspberry
I agree... the Pi might be great for embedded applications, but too many people want to stick a keyboard/mouse/monitor on them and use them like a computer, and then whine about the challenges of ARM. Just get an netbook or even a low-end phone/tablet if you want a touchscreen! They'll even be cheaper than the Pi when you figure in the cost of cables, power supplies, peripherals... a case, a half-decent SD card... the Pi really comes with nothing.
And even for embedded applications, you'd probably first want to ask yourself if you can get away with using Arduinos instead.
Huh, tell me more... I have the ~$100 Samsung ML-2851D B&W laser printer, and it works great under Linux, full duplexing and all. It's even easier to install the printer drivers in Linux than in Windows / MacOSX.
Wife would like to upgrade it to a color laser someday... I realize some of the Samsung multifunction printers will be a PITA with Linux, but there's gotta be a color version of this thing somewhere...
Heh, funny you should mention that... a substantial chunk of my work at just about every company I've ever worked for was to serve as a communications conduit between the networking group and the mere mortals who were just trying to get their app deployed.
I'd be brought in to certain projects fairly late when everyone was all flustered and fuming because their app wasn't working and the network guys WEREN'T HELPING them. Then I'd sift through all their app and tease out all of their port connectivity requirements and add those details to their architecture diagrams. Then I'd rifle through the Network group's documentation tree and fill out the firewall request forms with the proper CIDR notation if necessary. While they were working on those tickets, I'd whip up some quick connectivity tests with nmap and netcat, and find and help the network tech fix any typos that might have snuck in before going back to the app team and having them try again. Then I spend some quality time smoothing their feathers with stories about how the networking team has been in super high demand since the security group tightened the thumbscrews since the DDoS worm attack 5 years ago and how it's a thankless job because they only get any visibility when there's a problem and how things would go much smoother next time when everyone's "engaged in the process" much earlier but it was an emergency demo so whatever. So the project becomes a last-minute success story and kudos go all around, instead of the app team whining up the management chain that they missed their deadline because the networking group wouldn't work with them.
Yes, I am the CCNA whisperer, and I appreciate the hard work that you do and want to buy you a drink the next time you're in town.
you sound like a person who talks about work instead of DOING work.
eh, I usually rank pretty well on the metrics for both tickets closed and SLOC relative to my team.
Besides, the managers say it's OK to spend a small percentage of time reflecting on your work environment to try to identify what works and what doesn't. Then it's nice when you already have a comprehensive, well thought-out answer handy when they inevitably ask you how you'd like things arranged when your team is shuffled over to the new office space and how much more useful you'll be if you're sitting far away from your boss, next to the cute redhead in the CRM team.
What was this thread about again?
Space is so big that BILLIONS of years will pass before we even see the light shining from a sun in a different galaxy.
No. The time it takes for light to reach us from another star is exactly equal to the distance from here to the star measured in light years. (Remember, a light year is the distance light travels in one year.) As an example, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away, so we're seeing it by light that started its journey here 2.5 million years ago, not billions of years as you so ignorantly state. Please learn something about what you're talking about before you make a fool of yourself. Again.
It's commonly accepted that the most distant galaxies we can currently see are up to about 14 billion light years away... it's complicated since everything is still moving
http://www.kurzweilai.net/most...
Sheesh, I had to scroll down FAR to find someone else who didn't mind open office plans...
For me, working in an office is about maximizing Communication. Cubes and even conference rooms get in the way of communication, isolating and dividing groups so that they start wandering off in different directions and ends up creating more work to get everyone back on the same page.
Yes, distraction is an issue. But an important part of cognitive function is to be able to filter out distractions when you do need extended periods of hyperfocus. This is pretty easily handled with headphones and some discipline. My coworkers are polite enough not to approach someone who looks like they're "in the zone" and attach their comments and questions to their work tickets (woo documentation) and/or wait until standup to discuss things that need more eyeballs - usually things are resolved much faster that way anyway (as long as it's timeboxed not to waste the time of the entire team).
Plus, your workspace is very much a showcase of your work, personality, and work habits, and I find it way easier to display it on the open planform "science fair" office than in the empty nest "cube farm" booth format.
In the name of improving communication, I would even go so far as to split team members up and spread them around the office so they can better mingle with other groups in your supply / input / process / output / customer chain. After all, your teammates should already have a good deal of sync with each other, since they attend meetings together more frequently and back each other up on the same projects, so it's more beneficial to maximize inter-team communication by spreading your group out to keep tabs on the other groups in your office. They can do a better job passively filtering information discussed by other teams, helping keep track of the pulse of other groups so you have some advanced notice of when a deadline might slip or an important milestone is coming up. I always find it a greater waste of time when, after every 6 mo. reorg, they try to shuffle around everyone's seats so teams are seated near each other in a cluster by their current manager so they can "better collaborate" with each other, like they weren't going to be able to find a convenient way to do so anyway.
If you really need privacy, grab a break-out room, or work from home that day. But for the most part, I find that work sucks more when there's not enough communication, as opposed to when there's insufficient time for hyperfocus work (assuming your manager is doing a decent job shielding you from the BS, which I know is by no means a given).
Mostly managers complain about open floor plans because they have to actually prove that they have an entire day's worth of work to do and justify their salary.
What, does it become obvious how quickly they can complete their MBWA circuit?
Well, I've lived in cold climates and hot climates... Everyone has a different approach to staying comfortable. It takes years (YEARS) to transition between them, but it's possible... I think you would have acclimated to the Japanese approach after a few more years. I don't think your early childhood experiences really matter.
I grew up mostly in New England, which has decent extremes in either direction... I think similar to Japan. There's maybe 2 perfect weeks in fall when the temperatures are "just right" to comfortably keep the windows open... the rest of the time, you either have the heat or A/C on (the 2 perfect weeks in spring usually has too much pollen).
I've lived a few years in Thailand, and it takes time to:
1. learn to surrender to the heat. You can't fight the heat like you fight the cold.
2. let your blood thin out. After a few years, your blood thins out to help radiate away heat. You also eventually fine tune your perspiration so you can stay slightly moist and somewhat cool without dripping buckets.
Then I moved to the Pacific NW, which is usually wet and cold by New England standards. We eventually learned:
1. most people have an internal energy that just keeps them going
2. more layers of clothing is the norm - socks and sweaters stay on indoors. But the clothing also comes off at a lower threshold too (>60 F is T-shirt weather!)
3. wet = cold; dry = warm was the mantra for camping back in New England, but that pretty much goes out the window in the PacNW. Your body temperature just is what it is and you stay nihilistically detached from it.
So I'd say it's more about expanding your range than it is about trying to recreate the conditions of your childhood. Maybe head out to a Korean sauna sometime and see how long you can spend in the different rooms (cold, hot, sweltering, etc.), and see what you can do to adjust to each extreme. Yes, constant climate control has narrowed our range, but it doesn't take that much self-training to push the envelope back out again.
I like cold, I sleep without a blanket (just a sheet), I walk outdoors without a jacket most of the year, but the only problem I never solved is hands and feet. Exposed to cold, their temperature tend to adjust to external temperature, which hurts with temperature below 10 degree Celsius.
That's natural... your hands and feet have a high surface area to volume ratio, so they naturally serve as radiators to help help regulate your core temperature.
When you're hot, the capillaries in your hands and feet will bring blood to the surface, helping you cool off. When you're cold, circulation decreases so less blood flows to your hands and feet to help maintain more heat in your core.
So for people who overheat and start sweating under their blankets, all they really need to do is let their hands and feet stick out from under the blanket and let the bodies better regulate their core temperature naturally.
For your case, I'm afraid you ought to just try wearing a vest to raise your core temperature just enough that your body has to start pushing warm blood out to your hands and feet to shed off the excess heat.
Fahrenheit is really a stupid scale: It was originally planned to have only unsigned values, and have three (fucking three!) fixpoints. Everybody knows that a line in the eucledian plane is determined already by two of its points.
Please dear americans, adopt reasonable measures.
The best explanation I've heard is that Fahrenheit is a 0 - 100 scale for essentially the coldest and warmest air temperatures typically faced in the middle of Europe. Given the euro-centric nature of this and related studies, Fahrenheit fits fine.
Yeah, if you're doing any type of science or engineering, a Kelvin / Rankine scale would be more useful. If you're freezing or boiling water at STP, sure, whip out your Centigrade scale, but otherwise, it's just as arbitrary.
Compare typical Thai food to American food.
That, and Asians also have had a few thousand more years of agricultural society compared to hunter/gatherer Westerners. Food grows everywhere and is available year-round, so southeast asian bodies haven't exactly had to evolve the "pack it away for the winter!" approach to carbs.
Yeah, I'm with you here. I'm sure it's more likely that this is a PR stunt gone wild and we all fell for it. Even the POTUS fell for it. Before this, I hadn't even heard of the studio, much less the movie.
Let's see...
* Sony was already in panic mode after their security breach. This sure took the new spotlight off of that.
* OK, movie is coming out now... oh, no, no it isn't, it's too dangerous! ("ooh, forbidden fruit! No one wants to SEE a BANNED movie, do you?")
* media goes nuts. POTUS makes a statement. NK kicked off the internets.
* OK, sure, you can watch the movie, but ONLY in SELECT THEATERS NEAR YOU!
* Sounds like NK pretty much held to their party line of "huh? We didn't do it! But whatever it was, I bet you deserved it, you capitalist swine!"
suckers :P
Quit trolling, GP never said anything about the US being a paragon of free speech protections.
Yep. The US Government is usually far behind most technological trends, but you can bet there's a good reason that the US has been archiving every tweet to the Library of Congress. They may not be using it for witchhunts right at this moment, but you can bet your keister it's gonna be trawled big-time for political fodder whenever it's expedient to perform a good ol' fashioned character assassination or simply to throw someone in jail.
BTW, I just checked my Safari Power Saver settings, so it's not that...
http://mac-fusion.com/manage-t...
(I only have plugins enabled on Youtube and SpeedTest.net)
I suppose this thread is as as close as I'll get... Anyone else have high CPU displaying Slashdot on Safari?
I usually keep /. open all day in a tab, but lately I've occasionally been getting /. tabs burning through all of my CPU on some tabs, according to ActivityMonitor. I assume it has something to do with the new ads, since it's intermittent, but it's been difficult to flag exactly which ad content has been causing this. Just updated to Safari 8.0.2 this morning, and it's still occurring.
Usually use Safari instead of Chrome since the battery life is supposedly better, but certainly not with this issue :P But at this point, I'd sooner stop keeping /. open than change browsers. :/
Geysir was clogged in the 1950s before the jet age, so it probably wasn't too very many American tourists.
Iceland destroyed half their geysers all by themselves for geothermal power plants:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyo...
The US made a strong showing too, but both are far behind New Zealand.
Yep... we did Yellowstone a few years ago, and it was certainly the most crowded, commercialized, and overrated national park we've visited.
Yellowstone covers 2,219,791 acres. You didn't see Yellowstone, you saw the crowded, commercialized, and famous segments of Yellowstone. I spent a week hiking there one year and the only other people within 3 miles of the trails I took were the rest of the group I went with. Also, I know there is MUCH more to Yellowstone than I've seen in about 4 visits (each roughly a week long, and each geographically overlapping only on visiting the Old Faithful Inn once each trip).
True that... we only spent 2 days driving around the main loop and didn't have time for a real hike, since we still had the rest of Wyoming between us and our flight out. But still, the fact remains that we wanted to spend more time at just about all the parks we visited (RMNP, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Arches, Canyonlands, National Reef, Fruita, Zion), but after a day at Yellowstone we just wanted to get back out to Grand Teton NP. I'm sure the wilderness away from the beaten path are awesome, but it's probably going to be some time before we bother trying to go back.
Yep... we did Yellowstone a few years ago, and it was certainly the most crowded, commercialized, and overrated national park we've visited.
OTOH, it's also the park most likely to self-correct when the supervolcano blows, so there might be some value in allowing it to keep it's most-visited status if only to reduce traffic to other national parks.
We went there as part of a big loop, flying in/out of Denver and taking 2 weeks to camp at every national / state park, from RMNP to Zion, then up to Yellowstone. The parks in Colorado and southern Utah were amazing, as was Grand Teton NP just south of Yellowstone. Yellowstone was all traffic, no camping availability (had to hit the most expensive motel I've ever stayed at on the Montana side... to be fair our timing was bad and we arrived on the weekend), and the attractions were neat, but not much more impressive than anything we had already seen in Iceland. OK, OK, the jumping mud pits were extremely cute, but the geysers and hot pools in Iceland were much more regular and impressive, especially Geysir where you could walk right up to within a few feet, with nothing but a little velvet rope between you and the maw, and it would go off every 5 minutes instead of an hour like Ol' Faithful (which, admittedly, we didn't wait for).
But of course, even in Iceland, there was another geyser a few meters away that was cordoned off and shut down, because it was also clogged up with trash and junk that people had tossed in to try to trigger an eruption.
http://xkcd.com/323/
It's only off by a factor of 2... good enough for experimental physics, I suppose.
Hey apple, use your own products to fix this mess.
They did... all of their products are completely sealed and unserviceable. Otherwise you'd be opening them up and finding all of the "Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese iPhone factory!" messages inside.
I'm not sure I see what you did there...
Oh, now I do. Not sure where you're going with this, though..