I too work at a place where my management is promoted from the ranks of geeks. The problem? Geeks often don't make good managers. People skills are often lacking; they try to maintain that role of geek (which they were great at) and fail at the additional duties of managing.
I'm not saying it can't be done, and i agree that Having a manager that understands technical details can be great. Having one that understands how to really manage people is 100x more useful.
Anti-feminist isn't really the correct way of saying it, given the skewed views of feminism. Rand Paul really is more broadly anti-female rights period.
I'm curious, since you brought up the comparison: which feminist movement promotes/practices violence and hate to the levels equal to the kkk and black panthers? Most of the 'radical' feminist groups and demonstrations I've heard of pushed for things like an equal rights amendment, equal pay, etc. the extreme radicals push for egalitarianism more than anything. The most extreme demonstrations i can find via google relate to women protesting shirtless for a gender neutral society.
Or any other human really. You think that our cats and dogs are the real contributors? How about us? I propose a study of the overall carbon emissions of a human on average.
As this still doesn't stop anyone from swapping out the pills from a valid rfid'd bottle, the fda's next step will be to demand that an rfid be embedded into each pill.
if we had listened to Bill Gates in the first place, the memory in a PC would have never exceeded 640K, and we wouldn't have 90% of the computer problems we have today.
Actually the best phone I had was a Sony. Of course, it was a much older model (bought it in 94 I believe). Anyway, the only reason I ended up retiring it was that it had been dropped one to many times. But that sucker lasted me like 9-10 years.
If the rumors are true, then this is another perfect example of a company that is willing to sacrifice quality in order to save a buck. Maybe they realized that their revenue was going down b/c they made them too good?
Dude, that thing is totally going to scare the crap out of 1st graders. Is the slogan going to be "if lemmiwinks catches you downloading software he's going to steal your soul and bite your freaking head off" Seriously, that thing looks completely posessed.
Hmm, let's add not bombing the f*ck out of a country because our leader wanted to? A civilized society would have kept on the course of nonviolent action and only acted when all nonviolent avenues had been exhausted.
Actually, the article stated that Best Buy thought 'firing' customers was a bit extreme and would rather look into other avenues to make a profit off of people. From the sounds of previous messages, it sounds as if that 'other' method is basic bullying 101.
What's funny about this is the wasting of an employees time is counted as a bad mark against people. Every time I've ever gone to Best Buy I pretty much have to beat their employees off with a stick. Sounds as if they need to look into how their employees spend their time before they look to how the customer spends his.
We're working with Visa, which will move from magnetic stripes to contact smart cards and eventually to contactless smart cards (they'll be scanned from a distance, vs. cards that have to be swiped).
Just what I need, a credit card that anyone can scan without it ever leaving my pants! Yet another way Visa is ensuring their customers receive a quality screwing.
No, they aren't suing their customers, they're suing the ones that support their customers--the ones that bought a legal product from a company: CRN: Can suing customers, as you've said you will, be good for any vendor?
McBride: First it's not our customers. I would say we're suing end users.
Regardless of whether or not there is SCO code in Linux, this whole nonchalant attitude of suing the end users reallys worries me either way. So if I buy a product from a company, and that company did something illegal in order to produce that product, this means that I am going to get sued for using the product? So lets say Viewsonic steals a chip design from Sony's trinitron design--this would mean that Sony can now sue all people who bought the monitor with that stolen chip. Very ludicrous imho, of course, the whole SCO ploy is ludicrous.
And those shows that aren't crap they seem to pull as quickly as they put up. Take NBC's Boomtown and Kingpin. I personally felt that they were fairly unique and compelling for broadcast television (Boomtown especially, with it's storytelling through multiple perspectives, kind of like Pulp Fiction). However, the network execs didn't think so and pulled them before their respective seasons even fully began.
So the solution? What it's been in the software industry for awhile (but still seldom implemented;): - replace the corporate execs, marketers, and other respective people 'running' the show with people who actually believe that the populace truly desires shows that make people think instead of something flashy, gaudy, and overall just plain mindless.
that we are all just a bunch of space monkey's sitting in our hydrogen bubbles just outside of an event horizon dreaming that we are humans dreaming that we are caught in some mind controlling machine dreaming that we are just a bunch of rodents on a dock dreaming that we are dogs chasing cats dreaming that we are dolphins chasing tuna dreaming that we are cats chasing dogs dreaming that we are just a bunch of space monkeys sitting in hydrogen bubbles just outside of an event horizon.
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Maybe this was the real reason behind the name: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/unicorn-poop-cookies-214011/
With the exception of Kansas City of course: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57589981-93/google-fiber-spawns-startup-renaissance-in-kansas-city/
I too work at a place where my management is promoted from the ranks of geeks. The problem? Geeks often don't make good managers. People skills are often lacking; they try to maintain that role of geek (which they were great at) and fail at the additional duties of managing.
I'm not saying it can't be done, and i agree that Having a manager that understands technical details can be great. Having one that understands how to really manage people is 100x more useful.
Anti-feminist isn't really the correct way of saying it, given the skewed views of feminism. Rand Paul really is more broadly anti-female rights period.
I'm curious, since you brought up the comparison: which feminist movement promotes/practices violence and hate to the levels equal to the kkk and black panthers? Most of the 'radical' feminist groups and demonstrations I've heard of pushed for things like an equal rights amendment, equal pay, etc. the extreme radicals push for egalitarianism more than anything. The most extreme demonstrations i can find via google relate to women protesting shirtless for a gender neutral society.
Except that it can handle up to 1080p over hdmi with this adapter:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD826ZM/A/lightning-digital-av-adapter?fnode=45
Granted, it does require an adapter, but then again, so does micro USB:
http://www.amazon.com/Menotek-Adapter-IMPROVED-Protocol-Sensation/dp/B005F9W6DU
I didn't think they actually meant that they were _taking_ ideas from folks...well I guess there's the truth in marketing.
Or any other human really. You think that our cats and dogs are the real contributors? How about us? I propose a study of the overall carbon emissions of a human on average.
Too bad they weren't doing this in Tesla's day.
Because until now, most people hadn't heard of it?
;)
I'm being a horrible sarcastic person here, and not asking a genuine question
As this still doesn't stop anyone from swapping out the pills from a valid rfid'd bottle, the fda's next step will be to demand that an rfid be embedded into each pill.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/r-97-3 1/
This appears to go more into depth from a technological standpoint.
Seems to be using the retina like a CRT uses a phosphor screen.
BBC has an article on it as well.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3647437.s
if we had listened to Bill Gates in the first place, the memory in a PC would have never exceeded 640K, and we wouldn't have 90% of the computer problems we have today.
Actually the best phone I had was a Sony. Of course, it was a much older model (bought it in 94 I believe). Anyway, the only reason I ended up retiring it was that it had been dropped one to many times. But that sucker lasted me like 9-10 years.
If the rumors are true, then this is another perfect example of a company that is willing to sacrifice quality in order to save a buck. Maybe they realized that their revenue was going down b/c they made them too good?
Dude, that thing is totally going to scare the crap out of 1st graders. Is the slogan going to be "if lemmiwinks catches you downloading software he's going to steal your soul and bite your freaking head off" Seriously, that thing looks completely posessed.
they just haven't quite gotten around to trademarking the Whitehouse yet.
I could see something like some marker, possibly an rfid tag of some sort embedded in the road, that the box reads the speed limit off of.
of course, if you're one of those folks that drive 80-100+mph whenever possible, then you'd be screwed either way.
Go work for the RIAA or MPAA, and keep doing things the way you were doing them. At least that way, you can claim some good from your mistakes
Hmm, let's add not bombing the f*ck out of a country because our leader wanted to? A civilized society would have kept on the course of nonviolent action and only acted when all nonviolent avenues had been exhausted.
Actually, the article stated that Best Buy thought 'firing' customers was a bit extreme and would rather look into other avenues to make a profit off of people. From the sounds of previous messages, it sounds as if that 'other' method is basic bullying 101.
What's funny about this is the wasting of an employees time is counted as a bad mark against people. Every time I've ever gone to Best Buy I pretty much have to beat their employees off with a stick. Sounds as if they need to look into how their employees spend their time before they look to how the customer spends his.
We're working with Visa, which will move from magnetic stripes to contact smart cards and eventually to contactless smart cards (they'll be scanned from a distance, vs. cards that have to be swiped).
Just what I need, a credit card that anyone can scan without it ever leaving my pants! Yet another way Visa is ensuring their customers receive a quality screwing.
and the standards of what it means to be human and decent are cranked down yet another notch
CRN: Can suing customers, as you've said you will, be good for any vendor?
McBride: First it's not our customers. I would say we're suing end users.
Regardless of whether or not there is SCO code in Linux, this whole nonchalant attitude of suing the end users reallys worries me either way. So if I buy a product from a company, and that company did something illegal in order to produce that product, this means that I am going to get sued for using the product? So lets say Viewsonic steals a chip design from Sony's trinitron design--this would mean that Sony can now sue all people who bought the monitor with that stolen chip. Very ludicrous imho, of course, the whole SCO ploy is ludicrous.
And those shows that aren't crap they seem to pull as quickly as they put up. Take NBC's Boomtown and Kingpin. I personally felt that they were fairly unique and compelling for broadcast television (Boomtown especially, with it's storytelling through multiple perspectives, kind of like Pulp Fiction). However, the network execs didn't think so and pulled them before their respective seasons even fully began.
;) :
So the solution? What it's been in the software industry for awhile (but still seldom implemented
- replace the corporate execs, marketers, and other respective people 'running' the show with people who actually believe that the populace truly desires shows that make people think instead of something flashy, gaudy, and overall just plain mindless.
that we are all just a bunch of space monkey's sitting in our hydrogen bubbles just outside of an event horizon dreaming that we are humans dreaming that we are caught in some mind controlling machine dreaming that we are just a bunch of rodents on a dock dreaming that we are dogs chasing cats dreaming that we are dolphins chasing tuna dreaming that we are cats chasing dogs dreaming that we are just a bunch of space monkeys sitting in hydrogen bubbles just outside of an event horizon.