No, only the pedantic types with an axe to grind, time on their hands, and karma to whore will actually ask how thick the sheet will be. The rest of us will assume "somewhere in the general vicinity of normal window or auto glass", since that's what the phrase "as thick as a sheet of glass" usually means.
News flash - Companies imply things that are untrue in order to sell their products. Companies think nothing of misleading with phrases like 'up to' or by bumping prices up then discounting them back to normal and pretending it's a special sale discount.
Don't make me say that 'assume' makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Ban everything except models of calculator you know don't do wifi. Tell all students what the allowed models are far in advance of the exam and optionally buy a few to lend to students who can't afford their own.
What are you testing in this exam anyway? How much the students understand or who can come up with the smartest way to offload their brain functions to a machine?
Gartner have a long history of predicting all sorts of things. Sadly their predictions are no more accurate than asking/dev/urandom. It's not that they are rubbish, it's that they try to predict the unpredictable. Gartner only exists for PHB types who take their guidance from anyone with a bigger budget than themselves, not for educated people who make their own predictions.
...the only option to do is to hire people (properly with low intelligence no one else could bare the job) and train them to patrol the streets looking for people eating hot dogs and listening to ipods...
I know those people. My last employer had a herd of them hanging around the stair wells telling people off if they didn't hold the hand rail. They had another herd handing around outside telling people off for walking on the same grass people play football on after work.
The world doesn't need those kind of people. And multinationals suck.
I'm a bit shocked they worked well at all? I saw one in a shop ages ago and it just didn't look powerful enough to pick up much.
Do you use it on carpet or wood floors? How does it deal with going around dining table and chairs? Does it miss the edges of the room out? Thanks. I may get one.
I have one and it works perfectly. It does take some time to clean a room due to taking an erratic path around the room modeled on the way insects move but it does at least as good a job as a human with a vacuum cleaner would. If you get shoe laces and loose nokia chargers off the floor it will work around everything else. Changing from hard floors to carpet just works but it can't do deep pile carpets. It has a little spinning brush that gets right up to wall edges, in that regard it's way better than a manual vacuum cleaner. It also gets under beds and sofas no problem.
I talked to a Microsoft recruiter once. They asked from "If you were a recruiter and your next interviewee had no phone number on his/her resume what would you do to get it?" to "Do you know about boats? (I said no) Then, how would you build one?".
I proposed a set of solutions, but apparently they didn't like them. What gives?
Interesting. I'd be tempted to go low-tech and suggest 'ask him' and 'find someone who knows about boats and ask him' as answers. I don't think there is a more pragmatic answer. Most likely I would not get a job offer either.
I gave up on big companies after working for a well known oil multinational only to find it was impossible to get anything done without justifying every tiny step to a whole bunch of clueless losers who don't understand any of it.
If the division is profitable enough, then they don't want the newbies to fully understand what is going on...tribal knowledge is job security.
That may well happen but it's not what I meant. Dumbass managers would prevent me from upgrading the Linux kernel on a production machine that froze once every two weeks. They didn't believe upgrading the kernel to the latest distributer version was safe. They were not thinking about job security, they just had a total lack of knowledge about the systems they were meant to be managing.
Career managers only know passing the blame and taking the credit for the work of others. Technical people who get promoted to management soon loose their skills and end up more or less like career managers. There are far too few exceptions.
Yes, and job interviews are often like dating: a scripted, mechanical jump through hoops in which questions are asked and only the canned, standard answers are accepted. They want to see that you're not a weirdo or a kook and that you're properly assimilated, using the right keywords, spinning negative experience into positive, etc.
Assimilated is right. Most multinationals are full of clueless middle managers who look for people like themselves, everything else scares them. I gave up on big companies after working for a well known oil multinational only to find it was impossible to get anything done without justifying every tiny step to a whole bunch of clueless losers who don't understand any of it.
In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors.The fools were too dumb to know what they were approving. When I told them they just brushed their ignorance under the carpet and carried on with the same ignorant change control process.
I'll bet the dumb recruitment agencies survive because most huge companies only want dumb, untalented, middle manager drones.
Small companies are the only way to go. Once the 'professional manager' types get a foodhold any company is screwed.
Linkedin should be that better process. Sadly people give out recommendations like confetti. I've worked with a sociopath and a lazy slimeball ( two people ) who both got good recommendations on there.
If you can't even trust personal recommendations recruiting anyone will be a very hard process.
It should be no surprise to anyone who has dealt with job agencies that they are only after their commission. They don't understand IT in any meaningful way and can't tell a monkey from a genius. They are corporate BS artists.
Having said that sorting one good guy from a few thousand applicants is very, very time consuming.
It's all good and great, but it's not going to do much damage to the US forces.
Have you considered that it's not meant to take out a US invasion force?
Iran spent many years fighting Iraq, a country with more or less equivalent technology and training. This weapon might have been been pretty effective against Iraq. Letting neighboring countries know they have this may make those countries a little less likely to start a war with Iran.
It doesn't fucking matter how you choose to fight us, we will win, because we're better than you.
At a cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives each year are you really winning?
Is winning even worth it if you have to sell your economy to the Chinese little by little just to keep going? The national debt is the real war you should be fighting.
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Is it is ludicrous, please explain why.
The guy is criticizing the summary so I'll just attack that. It claims they want to 'draw fuel from the air itself', that means extracting carbon and hydrogen from the air and somehow assembling it into a long chain hydrocarbon. There is very little carbon in air and what there is will take a lot of energy to extract from carbon dioxide. Any hydrogen in air is held in water and again will take a lot of energy to extract.
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but can be transformed from one form into another" (I know this doesn't hold true especially under Einstien's equation E = mc2)
Yes it does. The fact that energy and mass are the same thing doesn't prove you can make energy.
So if we are going to spend the energy doing "work" by travelling, then it begs the question...
Don't start that again. Have you really not read begthequestion.info yet?
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Is "thickness" an important feature nowadays ?
Thinkness is the single most defining attribute of windows users.
No, only the pedantic types with an axe to grind, time on their hands, and karma to whore will actually ask how thick the sheet will be. The rest of us will assume "somewhere in the general vicinity of normal window or auto glass", since that's what the phrase "as thick as a sheet of glass" usually means.
News flash - Companies imply things that are untrue in order to sell their products. Companies think nothing of misleading with phrases like 'up to' or by bumping prices up then discounting them back to normal and pretending it's a special sale discount.
Don't make me say that 'assume' makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Are those the same years as in 'Spam Will Be Solved In 2 Years'?
What's that in _earth_ years?
Ban everything except models of calculator you know don't do wifi. Tell all students what the allowed models are far in advance of the exam and optionally buy a few to lend to students who can't afford their own.
What are you testing in this exam anyway? How much the students understand or who can come up with the smartest way to offload their brain functions to a machine?
Gartner have a long history of predicting all sorts of things. Sadly their predictions are no more accurate than asking /dev/urandom. It's not that they are rubbish, it's that they try to predict the unpredictable. Gartner only exists for PHB types who take their guidance from anyone with a bigger budget than themselves, not for educated people who make their own predictions.
Tell me when I proper company starts making these things and I'll take a look at them.
Everything I ever brought from Acer broke. That includes 9 out of 10 TFT monitors I brought for work. It's just not worth dealing with them.
...the only option to do is to hire people (properly with low intelligence no one else could bare the job) and train them to patrol the streets looking for people eating hot dogs and listening to ipods...
I know those people. My last employer had a herd of them hanging around the stair wells telling people off if they didn't hold the hand rail. They had another herd handing around outside telling people off for walking on the same grass people play football on after work.
The world doesn't need those kind of people. And multinationals suck.
Yup - and guess what? It'll be a politician.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
Too many people miss the obvious point that no matter what you vote for the top jobs always go to people schooled in lying.
I'm a bit shocked they worked well at all? I saw one in a shop ages ago and it just didn't look powerful enough to pick up much.
Do you use it on carpet or wood floors? How does it deal with going around dining table and chairs? Does it miss the edges of the room out? Thanks. I may get one.
I have one and it works perfectly. It does take some time to clean a room due to taking an erratic path around the room modeled on the way insects move but it does at least as good a job as a human with a vacuum cleaner would. If you get shoe laces and loose nokia chargers off the floor it will work around everything else. Changing from hard floors to carpet just works but it can't do deep pile carpets. It has a little spinning brush that gets right up to wall edges, in that regard it's way better than a manual vacuum cleaner. It also gets under beds and sofas no problem.
I consider mine a really good purchase.
I talked to a Microsoft recruiter once. They asked from "If you were a recruiter and your next interviewee had no phone number on his/her resume what would you do to get it?" to "Do you know about boats? (I said no) Then, how would you build one?".
I proposed a set of solutions, but apparently they didn't like them. What gives?
Interesting. I'd be tempted to go low-tech and suggest 'ask him' and 'find someone who knows about boats and ask him' as answers. I don't think there is a more pragmatic answer. Most likely I would not get a job offer either.
I gave up on big companies after working for a well known oil multinational only to find it was impossible to get anything done without justifying every tiny step to a whole bunch of clueless losers who don't understand any of it.
If the division is profitable enough, then they don't want the newbies to fully understand what is going on...tribal knowledge is job security.
That may well happen but it's not what I meant. Dumbass managers would prevent me from upgrading the Linux kernel on a production machine that froze once every two weeks. They didn't believe upgrading the kernel to the latest distributer version was safe. They were not thinking about job security, they just had a total lack of knowledge about the systems they were meant to be managing.
Career managers only know passing the blame and taking the credit for the work of others. Technical people who get promoted to management soon loose their skills and end up more or less like career managers. There are far too few exceptions.
Talking from experience? BTW, welcome back! I see the Slashdot administrators have removed you from the bitchslap list -:)
He made a good point, you didn't.
Yes, and job interviews are often like dating: a scripted, mechanical jump through hoops in which questions are asked and only the canned, standard answers are accepted. They want to see that you're not a weirdo or a kook and that you're properly assimilated, using the right keywords, spinning negative experience into positive, etc.
Assimilated is right. Most multinationals are full of clueless middle managers who look for people like themselves, everything else scares them. I gave up on big companies after working for a well known oil multinational only to find it was impossible to get anything done without justifying every tiny step to a whole bunch of clueless losers who don't understand any of it.
In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors.The fools were too dumb to know what they were approving. When I told them they just brushed their ignorance under the carpet and carried on with the same ignorant change control process.
I'll bet the dumb recruitment agencies survive because most huge companies only want dumb, untalented, middle manager drones.
Small companies are the only way to go. Once the 'professional manager' types get a foodhold any company is screwed.
...there has to be a better process for that...
Linkedin should be that better process. Sadly people give out recommendations like confetti. I've worked with a sociopath and a lazy slimeball ( two people ) who both got good recommendations on there.
If you can't even trust personal recommendations recruiting anyone will be a very hard process.
It should be no surprise to anyone who has dealt with job agencies that they are only after their commission. They don't understand IT in any meaningful way and can't tell a monkey from a genius. They are corporate BS artists.
Having said that sorting one good guy from a few thousand applicants is very, very time consuming.
It is time to swat some bugs and sober Iran up a bit.
Because more war and more national debt are America's solution to all problems.
It's all good and great, but it's not going to do much damage to the US forces.
Have you considered that it's not meant to take out a US invasion force?
Iran spent many years fighting Iraq, a country with more or less equivalent technology and training. This weapon might have been been pretty effective against Iraq. Letting neighboring countries know they have this may make those countries a little less likely to start a war with Iran.
It doesn't fucking matter how you choose to fight us, we will win, because we're better than you.
At a cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives each year are you really winning?
Is winning even worth it if you have to sell your economy to the Chinese little by little just to keep going? The national debt is the real war you should be fighting.
Remember the movie 300? Xerxes was Persian.
Hollywood movies are not historically accurate, they are entertainment not education.
Besides Persians are Iranians in the same way Romans are Europeans.
Indeed, 5 years old and no exploit.
You can't be sure of that.
Is it is ludicrous, please explain why.
The guy is criticizing the summary so I'll just attack that. It claims they want to 'draw fuel from the air itself', that means extracting carbon and hydrogen from the air and somehow assembling it into a long chain hydrocarbon. There is very little carbon in air and what there is will take a lot of energy to extract from carbon dioxide. Any hydrogen in air is held in water and again will take a lot of energy to extract.
This idea will fly like a lead balloon.
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but can be transformed from one form into another" (I know this doesn't hold true especially under Einstien's equation E = mc2)
Yes it does. The fact that energy and mass are the same thing doesn't prove you can make energy.
So if we are going to spend the energy doing "work" by travelling, then it begs the question...
Don't start that again. Have you really not read begthequestion.info yet?
How that got modded insightful I have no idea.
You don't know what happened, You have no reason to flame the guy.
It's really easy to forget that lots of people have a harder working life than us office drones.
Thanks for the wake up call.
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However, the acquisition of emails and Facebook accounts is worrying.
It's the bank login details that are worth money, not the facebook logins.