2 weeks notice is the absolute minimum considered acceptable for any job beyond flipping and frying things. If you flake out on an employer it will follow you to your next employer.
Only true for us trenchworkers. Once you're in the executive offices, things differ. Particularly if you're known in the industry by all the other executives. Nobody is going to refuse to hire Marissa Mayer for the CEO slot (and I doubt she'll ever consider anything less again) because she didn't give 2 weeks notice to Google.
Ballmer doesn't have to suck up to the board, only to Bill Gates.
Their last conversation probably went something like: BillyG: "Ah, don't worry Steve, I'm pretty sure even you can't bankrupt Microsoft within Melinda's and my lifetime."
SteveB: "What? What are you saying? Hey! CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!"
As a police officer in Los Angeles, I'm bothered by all the anti-police sentiment and posts portraying cops as fascist brutes just waiting to violate people's rights.
As a police officer in Los Angeles, you're either a fascist brute or covering for any number of them. Because when a cop does something wrong in front of any number of other cops, none of those cops sees anything. So either a department is 100% squeaky clean (demonstrably false, as cops get caught on occasion), or every cop is at least covering up misconduct if not participating directly.
Most police vehicles have cameras with microphones attached to each officer. We don't mind as it overwhelmingly helps us against bogus complaints or allegations. It gives us documented evidence that we didn't have before.
Of course, if the allegation is legitimate, the tape comes up missing or blank. Odd, that.
If they want to record the cops doing what they believe is wrong, I honestly don't see why the police cannot publicly post a warning to other officers in what seems to be a mostly harmless joking way.
Then by the same token, perhaps the people recording the cops should post pictures of the cops engaged in stop-and-frisk, with their heads framed by a reticule, along with the home addresses of said cops. Just a warning in a harmless, joking way.
Universities don't do collections. You pay what they think you owe, then you graduate. No money, no degree. The story smells funny, which almost always means that we don't know the whole story.
If you graduate before they decide you owe them more, then they'll do collections. Happens fairly often, because bursars often embody ruthlessness tempered by incompetence.
That's probably what happened here -- he was paid up by ordinary standards, but after he graduated someone noticed the discrepancy in time attended, and decided to make an issue of it.
It might affect human life, though. Not extinction level of course, but we've got good evidence that a hypothetical regional war with around 50 warheads of around the power of the Nagasaki bomb would bring with it a "nuclear autumn". A very large volcano blowing up a couple of hundred years ago brought "the year without a summer", this kind of regional war would bring "the decade without a summer".
50 little 20kt warheads like that wouldn't make a dent, except locally. Tambora was about a gigaton, and close to optimum for tossing particles into the stratosphere.
By the way, ED Viagra was due to expire in 2012, but with the "new" pulminary hypertension effect, the patent now expires in 2020. Who knows what use they'll find for it in 2019?
It's the other way around; the pulmonary hypertension effect was first -- and the patent still expires this year, so generic sildenafil citrate should be available before the expiration of the patent on using it to treat ED.
I think patenting the use of an existing drug is total bullshit -- it turns doctors making off-label prescriptions of generic sildenafil citrate for ED into patent violators, which is absurd. But much about the patent system is absurd.
AFAIK, electrical pylons are used all over the world for the long-distance transmission of electricity using high-voltage. Although an eye-sore, this appears to be the most economical solution to the problem. These towers are so tall and strong that, aside from the odd collision with a balloon, or a small aircraft, nothing much seems to affect them.
I'm afraid that's not true. Tornadoes destroy them pretty regularly. Blizzards wreck them occasionally. The Montreal ice storm of 1998 coated many with ice and they collapsed under the weight. And this storm took some down too.
"could have been made" in the USA? Isn't that setting the bar rather low?
That's not a standard, that's a true statement. If you claimed your nymsake car was "Made in the USA" and I opened the hood and found that the fuel injection system was of a model made in two factories, one in Germany and one in the US, wouldn't it make sense for me to check which of those two it was made in before claiming the car was not, in fact, "Made in the USA"
Not trying to justify any hate, but maybe it should read assembled in the USA? Also, is there a threshold for electronics to meet for made in the USA?
The FTC standard is that "all or virtually all" the components are made in the USA. And if you look at iFixit, you find that virtually all the major components were or could have been made in the USA; they didn't check the lot numbers to see if the parts which are made in multiple countries were, in fact, made in the US. While in general if you order a bunch of parts from a supplier you get them from wherever the supplier chooses to send them from, I'm sure that's negotiable.
(Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on the Nexus Q)
What would be really interesting would be a simple consumer level tool to detect DPI with crypto interception... So at least you know how much your ISP loves you....
Just use a browser. Theoretically your ISP could intercept all the ways you could acquire a browser over their network and install their cert in each, but you could use a browser acquired elsewhere. Then go to any secure site and if you get a certificate warning, be suspicious.
America's problem is not insufficient road capacity. Its problem is settlement patterns. Single-use-zoning ordinances make it illegal to open a corner store in a residential neighbourhood in many American cities. These kinds of big government regulations force people to drive between their daily needs,
No. Nice try, but no. In most areas where there are traffic jams, commuting traffic is sufficient to cause traffic jams. It's not all those people going to the store, except in a few relatively uncommon instances (such as large malls around Christmas time).
If there were more urban cores with mixed-use development to cater for the singletons and people who want a more walkable environment then it would make a huge impact on fuel consumption by eliminating millions of daily car journeys in the first place.
It might make some impact on fuel consumption. But not on traffic, unless you could get at the commuting trips. Which not only requires walkable developments, but walkable developments where people work where they live. Which isn't going to happen, by and large.
Dropped out: Gates and Allen. Jobs and Wozniak. Ellison. Zuckerberg.
On the other hand, if you don't want to drop out, you could go to Stanford, as Hewlett & Packard (HP), Bosack and Lerner (Cisco), and Brin and Page (Google) did.
More to the point, what patents on Wi-Fi would be in play that aren't automatically licensed when you buy the appropriate hardware? Maybe I'm naive, but I thought all of the important IP was implemented in silicon, and the license was satisfied by the chip manufacturer.
They get sneaky about this. They'll patent both the new hardware containing the actual inventive stuff, and the combination of that hardware with all and sundry. Then they claim that when you buy the hardware, you still need a separate license to combine it with any of the things they claim. It's like buying a fancy new unobtainium hammer, and finding out they've also patented hitting nails with said hammer in order to fasten materials together, so you need a license for that.
When it comes to STL algorithms, you may have been right before C++11/C++0x. Now, with lambda functions, the standard algorithms are genuinely brilliant. Modern IDEs should support debugging the lambdas as well.
If I wanted to use LISP, I would have used LISP. Not some bastardized lambda extension glommed onto an overgrown object-oriented extension to a procedural language.
Oh I know this one! Is the answer: "Being unable to access the carry flag" ?
Correct. How are you supposed to write a short CRC-calculating routine without access to the carry flag? (or, and I'm looking at you nvidia, a multiprecision integer library)
Unless you've been living under a rock, you get stories about the health benefit of tea all the time. Alcohol, too, though usually with caveats not backed up by the data. Nutritionists and public health people are generally ascetics, though, so stories about something that people like to consume being good for you are often downplayed or ignored.
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Only true for us trenchworkers. Once you're in the executive offices, things differ. Particularly if you're known in the industry by all the other executives. Nobody is going to refuse to hire Marissa Mayer for the CEO slot (and I doubt she'll ever consider anything less again) because she didn't give 2 weeks notice to Google.
Their last conversation probably went something like:
BillyG: "Ah, don't worry Steve, I'm pretty sure even you can't bankrupt Microsoft within Melinda's and my lifetime."
SteveB: "What? What are you saying? Hey! CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!"
All arrested for child endangerment.
In NYC, a Big Wheel beats the bus. That's not a fluke, either; I've beaten the M14 just walking.
As a police officer in Los Angeles, you're either a fascist brute or covering for any number of them. Because when a cop does something wrong in front of any number of other cops, none of those cops sees anything. So either a department is 100% squeaky clean (demonstrably false, as cops get caught on occasion), or every cop is at least covering up misconduct if not participating directly.
Of course, if the allegation is legitimate, the tape comes up missing or blank. Odd, that.
Then by the same token, perhaps the people recording the cops should post pictures of the cops engaged in stop-and-frisk, with their heads framed by a reticule, along with the home addresses of said cops. Just a warning in a harmless, joking way.
No bloody sharp, no bloody postincrement, and certainly no bloody "objective". Just C. Accept no substitutes.
If you graduate before they decide you owe them more, then they'll do collections. Happens fairly often, because bursars often embody ruthlessness tempered by incompetence.
That's probably what happened here -- he was paid up by ordinary standards, but after he graduated someone noticed the discrepancy in time attended, and decided to make an issue of it.
Dammit, now you're tempting me to disloyalty; a fried chicken themed cafe sounds great.
50 little 20kt warheads like that wouldn't make a dent, except locally. Tambora was about a gigaton, and close to optimum for tossing particles into the stratosphere.
The problem with your analogy is that it's the **AAs who think they're the "lovely fiance", and the pirates and customers are the smelly nerds.
It's the other way around; the pulmonary hypertension effect was first -- and the patent still expires this year, so generic sildenafil citrate should be available before the expiration of the patent on using it to treat ED.
I think patenting the use of an existing drug is total bullshit -- it turns doctors making off-label prescriptions of generic sildenafil citrate for ED into patent violators, which is absurd. But much about the patent system is absurd.
I'm afraid that's not true. Tornadoes destroy them pretty regularly. Blizzards wreck them occasionally. The Montreal ice storm of 1998 coated many with ice and they collapsed under the weight. And this storm took some down too.
That's not a standard, that's a true statement. If you claimed your nymsake car was "Made in the USA" and I opened the hood and found that the fuel injection system was of a model made in two factories, one in Germany and one in the US, wouldn't it make sense for me to check which of those two it was made in before claiming the car was not, in fact, "Made in the USA"
The FTC standard is that "all or virtually all" the components are made in the USA. And if you look at iFixit, you find that virtually all the major components were or could have been made in the USA; they didn't check the lot numbers to see if the parts which are made in multiple countries were, in fact, made in the US. While in general if you order a bunch of parts from a supplier you get them from wherever the supplier chooses to send them from, I'm sure that's negotiable.
(Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on the Nexus Q)
Just use a browser. Theoretically your ISP could intercept all the ways you could acquire a browser over their network and install their cert in each, but you could use a browser acquired elsewhere. Then go to any secure site and if you get a certificate warning, be suspicious.
No. Nice try, but no. In most areas where there are traffic jams, commuting traffic is sufficient to cause traffic jams. It's not all those people going to the store, except in a few relatively uncommon instances (such as large malls around Christmas time).
It might make some impact on fuel consumption. But not on traffic, unless you could get at the commuting trips. Which not only requires walkable developments, but walkable developments where people work where they live. Which isn't going to happen, by and large.
Dropped out: Gates and Allen. Jobs and Wozniak. Ellison. Zuckerberg.
On the other hand, if you don't want to drop out, you could go to Stanford, as Hewlett & Packard (HP), Bosack and Lerner (Cisco), and Brin and Page (Google) did.
They get sneaky about this. They'll patent both the new hardware containing the actual inventive stuff, and the combination of that hardware with all and sundry. Then they claim that when you buy the hardware, you still need a separate license to combine it with any of the things they claim. It's like buying a fancy new unobtainium hammer, and finding out they've also patented hitting nails with said hammer in order to fasten materials together, so you need a license for that.
If I wanted to use LISP, I would have used LISP. Not some bastardized lambda extension glommed onto an overgrown object-oriented extension to a procedural language.
Correct. How are you supposed to write a short CRC-calculating routine without access to the carry flag? (or, and I'm looking at you nvidia, a multiprecision integer library)
Actually, you usually want
const char foo[] = "some-literal";
The subtle difference being the behavior of &foo. Why waste any space (even read-only space) for the pointer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glass
Unless you've been living under a rock, you get stories about the health benefit of tea all the time. Alcohol, too, though usually with caveats not backed up by the data. Nutritionists and public health people are generally ascetics, though, so stories about something that people like to consume being good for you are often downplayed or ignored.
Got it in one.