I've gotten a half dozen calls and they were all great. Approaches I have taken include
1) Getting panicky because I can't find the Start button. "Did the virus make it go away?" Then asking if having a Mac was the reason I can't find it.
2) Asking if the virus was the reason I had so many pictures of naked men doing disgusting things to other naked men
3) Asking the female scammer if she was married. "Would you like to marry me?" she asked. "I dunno, we should get to know each other. What's your email address?" She gave me something that seemed sort of reasonable but it didn't actually work. What a surprise
4) Not being able to find the right key because I kept mixing up left from right, and top from bottom.
5) Asking "Are you proud of your job? Is this really the best job you could get? We know you are scamming people. Would your mother be proud of you?"
I can't wait for the next call.
Why not get a watch that shows the correct time on Mars? This fellow made some watches for the JPL Mars Exploration Rover team and I think that he sells them to the public too.
As the fiance of the new project technologist on TPF, I can think of several excellent reasons for the project. One that springs to mind immediately is that we are looking to buy a house in Pasadena and it would be much more difficult with just my salary.
My experience (Ph.D. in applied mathematics, and employment at a mathematical consulting firm) is that researchers only use their favorite package and will rarely use anything else, despite the fact that their favorite may not be appropriate for the job at hand. To that end, I use Mathematica for nearly all my prototyping, except for brief excursions to Matlab which is much better at image analysis. But both of these have speed issues, and when it came down to serious buisness I would often roll my own C,C++ or FORTRAN code for the problem at hand.
I'm extremely surprised that the company didn't let you know up front that a credit check would be part of the pre-employment screening. Their ommission is likely to give you some wiggle room I would expect.
A successful credit check was required (as well as the results of my peeing into a cup) before my current company would even consider offering me a job. I didn't balk at all, my credit is in great shape and it is standard operating procedure in my industry (defense) and has been for quite a while. It was accomplished by a third party firm who just say "OK" or "Not OK" to my HR department. My understanding is that the actual report never went into my file.
I used to work for a Radio Shack dealer store and the pressure to get the addresses was constant because we got money from Radio Shack for each address we provided. When I was taken to task about my low address count one day, my buddy was offered up as an example: HE got over 90%. So I asked him how he did it. His secret? He used to copy random names down from the phonebook when the store was slow!
is actually Caltech, but a few street signs around here have it as Cal Tech.
As for the topic at hand, even though iSync isn't out yet, the web page is up here and they promise it will here in September. The apple news sites (spymac.com) say it should be available at the time of the Paris show.
This topic reminds me of a recent Ann Landers letter. The writer mentioned her fear of math, and how the community college she was going to was requiring her to take math she "wouldn't use". She closed by wondering if Ann thought this made sense. Ann agreed that it made no sense to force a person to take "advanced math classes, like Algebra" if they weren't going to use it.
Since when is Algebra advanced math? That sort of attitude doesn't help this country at all. I was going to write Ann a reply letter, but since she was already dead I didn't bother.
Disclaimer: I'm currently working on a Ph.D. in applied mathematics
A Ph.D/M.D. colleague of mine one remarked that a doctor is nothing more than a walking database. You tell him your symptoms, he'll look up the possible problems in his head and give you a potential solution. That being said, it is only natural that some doctors might be threatened by the idea they can be so easily replaced.
but having something that big in space is out of the question. With a paradigm shift however, the problem is solved. Check out the DART which consists of two parabolically curved sheets (2D) instead of one large dish (3D). Because it consists of sheets you could just roll the material out of a shuttle onto a framework constructed in space. They are currently building precision small scale prototypes of this at JPL , and they are talking about making them very very big.
My girlfriend's sister is editor of Buisness China, a Shanghai based Economist publication (in English) which comes out every fortnight. She is always having to watch out for her freelancers lifting articles from other English language sources. The freelancers figure that they are so far off the beaten track they can get away with it. But they quickly find out how much she reads.
I'm running 10.1.4 with a non pirated version of Office X and I've had no problems with the SR after using it for 30 minutes. But I have yet to try anything difficult...like add clip art for instance.
My first M500 started acting up after 3 weeks. It would get stuck in a permanent "input" mode and think that it was getting tapped in the middle right of the screen. Software and hardware resets didn't help, so I took it back to the place of purchase and got another. I'm going on 5 months with the new one and it is fine, even after a nasty drop which caused the memory card to fly out.
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I've gotten a half dozen calls and they were all great. Approaches I have taken include 1) Getting panicky because I can't find the Start button. "Did the virus make it go away?" Then asking if having a Mac was the reason I can't find it. 2) Asking if the virus was the reason I had so many pictures of naked men doing disgusting things to other naked men 3) Asking the female scammer if she was married. "Would you like to marry me?" she asked. "I dunno, we should get to know each other. What's your email address?" She gave me something that seemed sort of reasonable but it didn't actually work. What a surprise 4) Not being able to find the right key because I kept mixing up left from right, and top from bottom. 5) Asking "Are you proud of your job? Is this really the best job you could get? We know you are scamming people. Would your mother be proud of you?" I can't wait for the next call.
Why not get a watch that shows the correct time on Mars? This fellow made some watches for the JPL Mars Exploration Rover team and I think that he sells them to the public too.
The Terrestrial Planet Finder is the next big mission to look for..umm..terrestrial planets.
As the fiance of the new project technologist on TPF, I can think of several excellent reasons for the project. One that springs to mind immediately is that we are looking to buy a house in Pasadena and it would be much more difficult with just my salary.
My experience (Ph.D. in applied mathematics, and employment at a mathematical consulting firm) is that researchers only use their favorite package and will rarely use anything else, despite the fact that their favorite may not be appropriate for the job at hand. To that end, I use Mathematica for nearly all my prototyping, except for brief excursions to Matlab which is much better at image analysis. But both of these have speed issues, and when it came down to serious buisness I would often roll my own C,C++ or FORTRAN code for the problem at hand.
I'm extremely surprised that the company didn't let you know up front that a credit check would be part of the pre-employment screening. Their ommission is likely to give you some wiggle room I would expect. A successful credit check was required (as well as the results of my peeing into a cup) before my current company would even consider offering me a job. I didn't balk at all, my credit is in great shape and it is standard operating procedure in my industry (defense) and has been for quite a while. It was accomplished by a third party firm who just say "OK" or "Not OK" to my HR department. My understanding is that the actual report never went into my file.
I used to work for a Radio Shack dealer store and the pressure to get the addresses was constant because we got money from Radio Shack for each address we provided. When I was taken to task about my low address count one day, my buddy was offered up as an example: HE got over 90%. So I asked him how he did it. His secret? He used to copy random names down from the phonebook when the store was slow!
is actually Caltech, but a few street signs around here have it as Cal Tech. As for the topic at hand, even though iSync isn't out yet, the web page is up here and they promise it will here in September. The apple news sites (spymac.com) say it should be available at the time of the Paris show.
There is an article about this in a recent LA Weekly that some might find interesting:
Properly, 'Haiku'
Concerns weather or seasons
When will people learn?
Since when is Algebra advanced math? That sort of attitude doesn't help this country at all. I was going to write Ann a reply letter, but since she was already dead I didn't bother.
Disclaimer: I'm currently working on a Ph.D. in applied mathematics
A Ph.D/M.D. colleague of mine one remarked that a doctor is nothing more than a walking database. You tell him your symptoms, he'll look up the possible problems in his head and give you a potential solution. That being said, it is only natural that some doctors might be threatened by the idea they can be so easily replaced.
but having something that big in space is out of the question. With a paradigm shift however, the problem is solved. Check out the DART which consists of two parabolically curved sheets (2D) instead of one large dish (3D). Because it consists of sheets you could just roll the material out of a shuttle onto a framework constructed in space. They are currently building precision small scale prototypes of this at JPL , and they are talking about making them very very big.
My girlfriend's sister is editor of Buisness China, a Shanghai based Economist publication (in English) which comes out every fortnight. She is always having to watch out for her freelancers lifting articles from other English language sources. The freelancers figure that they are so far off the beaten track they can get away with it. But they quickly find out how much she reads.
I'm running 10.1.4 with a non pirated version of Office X and I've had no problems with the SR after using it for 30 minutes. But I have yet to try anything difficult...like add clip art for instance.
My first M500 started acting up after 3 weeks. It would get stuck in a permanent "input" mode and think that it was getting tapped in the middle right of the screen. Software and hardware resets didn't help, so I took it back to the place of purchase and got another. I'm going on 5 months with the new one and it is fine, even after a nasty drop which caused the memory card to fly out.
Sample return may not be the most efficient thing to do, but JPL has a few groups working on how to do it .