For one, I spend much more when I go see the movie with my wife if you factor in drink and food, parking and travel.
Not to mention with twins under two years, we had to bend over backwards to go see Deadpool. And yes, not waiting too long is important. On the one hand you want to be able to discuss it with others as long as the memory is still fresh and on the other, you do know people are dicks on the internet, yes? Spoilers are a major issue.
Not to mention that you never know whether you'll have a douchebag in the room at public venues.
You can see the color thing from another point of view: Half the population is wired correctly and sees grayscale and the other half have a brain deficiency that lets their brains interpret color where there is none.
As you said, we know that the spectrum of light comes at different wavelengths but color only exists in the ratio where we have defined them as such. Seeing as animals have other light receptors and see the world differently to begin with, the whole point becomes moot in every aspect except the example you mentioned: We've started to use our brain wiring to differentiate between the wavelengths and make that useful (as in making stop signs more visible to most).
As to your belief in god: No scientist I would ever respect has something against you believing in god. The problem only begins where you put something unprovable over provable facts. It escalates where you can't shut up about it to people who clearly are biologically unable to perceive what you can't shut up about (at worst it's like telling a blind person every morning what he's missing because he didn't see the sunrise). And at worst we start having a problem when you think your "knowledge" gives you the right to MAKE us believe. One way or another.
If your belief in god is important to you and helps you through life, hey, all the more power to you. However, the rest of us have to make do without that, which is tough enough, so you might at least have the common decency to not rub it in.
By 'you' I'm referring to a certain type of religious people, not you personally.
Around here, Seagate 6TB disks cost 50ish % more than WD Red NAS and Hitachi disks are yet more expensive. So all these graphs are basically in line with the old adage "You get what you pay for".
The comment about Seagate's SMART being more on point seems to make those disks a nice compromise.
Funny enough, considering there is this saying in Switzerland: "Sie geit oder sie geit ned." (where "Sie geit" sounds awfully close to "Seagate") which roughly translates to "It works or it doesn't" and is a stab at the sometimes abysmal failure rates they had back when.
The summary said something about pitiful CPU and memory configurations in router hardware. I just went to the Soekris website... For that kind of money one builds passable gaming rigs not 1.6 GHz with 2 gigs of RAM.
Still better to have high salary. 1. You earn more while it lasts 2. If you're worth the money, you'll be very safe in a well managed company. 3. If you're not worth your money, you shouldn't be paid said money. 4. If you're worth it and they fire you for it, it's a bad company and you shouldn't WANT to be working for them. 5. If there's a chance you'll lose everything without a job, your country is bad and you should help change that.
I know it's not as simple to pull off, but we're seeing now what happens if everyone just rolls over and licks boot at the threat of losing the job...
Well, my insurance company pays about 60k a year for me to be able to go more than 10 meters from a toilet. Also the 30 to 40 shits of diarhea a day are a pretty strong indicator.
First off, please use less emoticons... your posts look like they came from a hyperactive kid at an anime convention.
however, that's not what I'm sighing about. See, I was like you as a teenager. No alcohol, no tobacco and no drugs. You say you can have fun without these things? Great! Don't consume them. Don't get all "I'm better than thou" on us, because we can actually have fun BOTH ways. That makes us superior (at least mathematically).
I drinks.3l of beer per sitting and that occurs perhaps once a month. When I drink hard liquor, it's whiskey or rum beyond fifteen years of age, usually, and it's in the.02l range. Occurance perhaps once a month on average as well.
This evening I will be watching Star Wars and I'll be doing it with a beer or two in my belly. Why? Because that way, my brain will finally STFU about all that's going to be wrong with the movie. I'll just be able to enjoy it like back when I was a kid and didn't have all this knowledge of the real world, a keen eye for inconsistencies and expectations of quality.
Sometimes, shutting of some levels of mental acuity is a godsend! Sure, if you have to do it all the time, it's gonna be a problem. However, having 18 month old twins, I can tell you that there have been a few times where a beer has helped us go to sleep instead of thinking about giving em up for adoption.
I started smoking the pipe a few weeks ago for medicinal reasons. You heard me. Medicinal. I have ulcerative colitis and after suffering for two years tobacco gave me a big boost on the way to recovery. I smoke half a pipe about once a week.
These substances are tools. Used with caution and precision, they will enhance your life just as much as cooking your food does. If you only consume cheapo "industrial grade" products (such as frozen dinners or fast food), it's gonna be bad for you. However, the stress that you don't reduce by omitting drugs is gonna kill you too.
In Switzerland, you are required by law to help if you see a person in danger. However, it is understood that you are to make sure that you can operate safely first. It makes no sense to go in with the best intentions only to produce a second victim for the firefighters to rescue.
Thinking that further, it is clear that your car cannot take responisibilty for other participants in traffic since it cannot control them. It will save your life at all cost. Now if the decision lies between possible injury of yourself and death of another, you WILL take a broken leg and cracked ribs.
Human nature dictates that self-preservation comes first. Nothing will ever change that on any kind of broad, fundamental level.
I find that usability has declined greatly since my Desire Z. I truly wish I had the means to design my own smartphone. It would look a lot like a Nokia Communicator 9500...
I'm not quite sure I can feel as upbeat about a man who is at least partially responsible for landing MySQL in the hands of Oracle. You know that same company that tries to slip you the Yahoo whenever you install Java.
Not to mension the milking of customers that they do whenever they change their licensing racket.
I think you and a lot of others are missing the point. They are not doing this to fix all model S cars out there. They are doing this to find out, whether other cars even have a problem there and to finally find out what it might be.
Tesla doesn't even know yet whether there is a problem worthy of a recall and yet they are not willing to wait for another belt to come undone, which might never even happen. They don't jeopardize their customers life and proactively do a recall.
That's what's special about this situation. If I recall, GM had to be dragged by the ear to fix a problem they knew about when they delivered their cars and even after loss of life.
I'm not saying Tesla is praiseworthy for doing the right thing. However just by following minimal standards of ethics, they managed to set themselves apart. This news casts shame on a lot of their competition...
And this is different on earth? You never know what situation you'll find if you have to flee a place. On the contrary, there is evidence that humans can be better at living together despite differences when there is no alternative.
Offspring can always find a reason to blame the parents if something goes wrong.
Keeping people alive you know are faulty is kinda senseless unless you have ways to fix the problems.
I know this attitude is harsh and frankly, I myself probably wouldn't have made the cut either... but seeing as we're 8 billion getting more feeble with every generation... I don't know... this just doesn't seem like a very good trend.
As others have mentioned, whether a manager is technically inclined or not doesn't have all that much impact on whether he's good.
As a German psychologist and management trainer once said, most people either have people skills or organizational/technical skills. A good manager/boss needs both. And guess what, only about 10% of the population have an affinity for both.
This basically means that for every nine employees, you can have only one manager! And since you usually have more than one layer of management, you need beyond nine people per lowest management body to make that cut. I don't know about the US but in Switzerland, we sometimes designate a teamleader to a two man team.
There are just not enough competent people in existence to fill that many management roles. Simple as that. Simplify management structures. Use only those managers who actually can manage and weed out the donkey droppings. But seeing as, obviously, 50% of people are below average and some of those suck massively, that's going to be hard.
If you're trying to be sarcastic... don't. A lot of people that could potentially have died are saved by hospitals, that is true enough, but also a lot of people pick up a few minor side-effects (death among them) in hospitals.
Hospitals are like a Grand Central Station for germs and doctors are human and make mistakes... Especially when they've been working for 24 hours straight...
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For one, I spend much more when I go see the movie with my wife if you factor in drink and food, parking and travel.
Not to mention with twins under two years, we had to bend over backwards to go see Deadpool. And yes, not waiting too long is important. On the one hand you want to be able to discuss it with others as long as the memory is still fresh and on the other, you do know people are dicks on the internet, yes? Spoilers are a major issue.
Not to mention that you never know whether you'll have a douchebag in the room at public venues.
Dude, any GPU will do just fine at 8x. Or how do you think SLI would work otherwise? The beefiest gamerboards have 20 PCIe lanes max.
Never saw Dredd. Watchmen would have been a good candidate too.
You can see the color thing from another point of view: Half the population is wired correctly and sees grayscale and the other half have a brain deficiency that lets their brains interpret color where there is none.
As you said, we know that the spectrum of light comes at different wavelengths but color only exists in the ratio where we have defined them as such. Seeing as animals have other light receptors and see the world differently to begin with, the whole point becomes moot in every aspect except the example you mentioned: We've started to use our brain wiring to differentiate between the wavelengths and make that useful (as in making stop signs more visible to most).
As to your belief in god: No scientist I would ever respect has something against you believing in god. The problem only begins where you put something unprovable over provable facts. It escalates where you can't shut up about it to people who clearly are biologically unable to perceive what you can't shut up about (at worst it's like telling a blind person every morning what he's missing because he didn't see the sunrise).
And at worst we start having a problem when you think your "knowledge" gives you the right to MAKE us believe. One way or another.
If your belief in god is important to you and helps you through life, hey, all the more power to you. However, the rest of us have to make do without that, which is tough enough, so you might at least have the common decency to not rub it in.
By 'you' I'm referring to a certain type of religious people, not you personally.
Around here, Seagate 6TB disks cost 50ish % more than WD Red NAS and Hitachi disks are yet more expensive. So all these graphs are basically in line with the old adage "You get what you pay for".
The comment about Seagate's SMART being more on point seems to make those disks a nice compromise.
Funny enough, considering there is this saying in Switzerland: "Sie geit oder sie geit ned." (where "Sie geit" sounds awfully close to "Seagate") which roughly translates to "It works or it doesn't" and is a stab at the sometimes abysmal failure rates they had back when.
The summary said something about pitiful CPU and memory configurations in router hardware. I just went to the Soekris website... For that kind of money one builds passable gaming rigs not 1.6 GHz with 2 gigs of RAM.
Hoover wanted his personal army, nothing more.
Still better to have high salary.
1. You earn more while it lasts
2. If you're worth the money, you'll be very safe in a well managed company.
3. If you're not worth your money, you shouldn't be paid said money.
4. If you're worth it and they fire you for it, it's a bad company and you shouldn't WANT to be working for them.
5. If there's a chance you'll lose everything without a job, your country is bad and you should help change that.
I know it's not as simple to pull off, but we're seeing now what happens if everyone just rolls over and licks boot at the threat of losing the job...
Well, my insurance company pays about 60k a year for me to be able to go more than 10 meters from a toilet. Also the 30 to 40 shits of diarhea a day are a pretty strong indicator.
*sigh*
First off, please use less emoticons... your posts look like they came from a hyperactive kid at an anime convention.
however, that's not what I'm sighing about. See, I was like you as a teenager. No alcohol, no tobacco and no drugs. You say you can have fun without these things? Great! Don't consume them. Don't get all "I'm better than thou" on us, because we can actually have fun BOTH ways. That makes us superior (at least mathematically).
I drinks .3l of beer per sitting and that occurs perhaps once a month. When I drink hard liquor, it's whiskey or rum beyond fifteen years of age, usually, and it's in the .02l range. Occurance perhaps once a month on average as well.
This evening I will be watching Star Wars and I'll be doing it with a beer or two in my belly. Why? Because that way, my brain will finally STFU about all that's going to be wrong with the movie. I'll just be able to enjoy it like back when I was a kid and didn't have all this knowledge of the real world, a keen eye for inconsistencies and expectations of quality.
Sometimes, shutting of some levels of mental acuity is a godsend! Sure, if you have to do it all the time, it's gonna be a problem. However, having 18 month old twins, I can tell you that there have been a few times where a beer has helped us go to sleep instead of thinking about giving em up for adoption.
I started smoking the pipe a few weeks ago for medicinal reasons. You heard me. Medicinal. I have ulcerative colitis and after suffering for two years tobacco gave me a big boost on the way to recovery. I smoke half a pipe about once a week.
These substances are tools. Used with caution and precision, they will enhance your life just as much as cooking your food does. If you only consume cheapo "industrial grade" products (such as frozen dinners or fast food), it's gonna be bad for you. However, the stress that you don't reduce by omitting drugs is gonna kill you too.
There is no winning when you try to live healthy.
In Switzerland, you are required by law to help if you see a person in danger. However, it is understood that you are to make sure that you can operate safely first. It makes no sense to go in with the best intentions only to produce a second victim for the firefighters to rescue.
Thinking that further, it is clear that your car cannot take responisibilty for other participants in traffic since it cannot control them. It will save your life at all cost. Now if the decision lies between possible injury of yourself and death of another, you WILL take a broken leg and cracked ribs.
Human nature dictates that self-preservation comes first. Nothing will ever change that on any kind of broad, fundamental level.
Now I know how users must feel when I try to explain virtualization. I know most of these words but it is very hard to makse sense out of them.
Really? So you regularly encounter people stuck in them? Or did you mean they can't navigate it in the most efficient way? There's a difference there.
I find that usability has declined greatly since my Desire Z. I truly wish I had the means to design my own smartphone. It would look a lot like a Nokia Communicator 9500...
I agree, let's stop it with this prohibition bullshit.
I'm not quite sure I can feel as upbeat about a man who is at least partially responsible for landing MySQL in the hands of Oracle. You know that same company that tries to slip you the Yahoo whenever you install Java.
Not to mension the milking of customers that they do whenever they change their licensing racket.
I think you and a lot of others are missing the point. They are not doing this to fix all model S cars out there. They are doing this to find out, whether other cars even have a problem there and to finally find out what it might be.
Tesla doesn't even know yet whether there is a problem worthy of a recall and yet they are not willing to wait for another belt to come undone, which might never even happen. They don't jeopardize their customers life and proactively do a recall.
That's what's special about this situation. If I recall, GM had to be dragged by the ear to fix a problem they knew about when they delivered their cars and even after loss of life.
I'm not saying Tesla is praiseworthy for doing the right thing. However just by following minimal standards of ethics, they managed to set themselves apart. This news casts shame on a lot of their competition...
And this is different on earth? You never know what situation you'll find if you have to flee a place. On the contrary, there is evidence that humans can be better at living together despite differences when there is no alternative.
Offspring can always find a reason to blame the parents if something goes wrong.
I'm not sure why. It does not seem implausible that a crew for a generational ship could be found.
"Never" is a dangerous word to use around people with an understanding of the scientific method.
So in your world accessing an open website with default credentials counts as 'cracking'?
Keeping people alive you know are faulty is kinda senseless unless you have ways to fix the problems.
I know this attitude is harsh and frankly, I myself probably wouldn't have made the cut either... but seeing as we're 8 billion getting more feeble with every generation... I don't know... this just doesn't seem like a very good trend.
As others have mentioned, whether a manager is technically inclined or not doesn't have all that much impact on whether he's good.
As a German psychologist and management trainer once said, most people either have people skills or organizational/technical skills. A good manager/boss needs both. And guess what, only about 10% of the population have an affinity for both.
This basically means that for every nine employees, you can have only one manager! And since you usually have more than one layer of management, you need beyond nine people per lowest management body to make that cut. I don't know about the US but in Switzerland, we sometimes designate a teamleader to a two man team.
There are just not enough competent people in existence to fill that many management roles. Simple as that. Simplify management structures. Use only those managers who actually can manage and weed out the donkey droppings. But seeing as, obviously, 50% of people are below average and some of those suck massively, that's going to be hard.
Winterkorn gets a bonus of 30 mil Euros for going. Yeah, I bet he feels really punished.
If you're trying to be sarcastic... don't. A lot of people that could potentially have died are saved by hospitals, that is true enough, but also a lot of people pick up a few minor side-effects (death among them) in hospitals.
Hospitals are like a Grand Central Station for germs and doctors are human and make mistakes... Especially when they've been working for 24 hours straight...