When they filmed the movie Contact there the production donated some money and cleaned up the dish so it looked better in the film.
The visitor centre was a result of the above money.
Power hungry elected and unelected people try to create a war where this is none --> WWI
Germany lose of WWI and surrender cause hyperflation and resentment --> Rise of Hitler
End of WWII and splitting up the wins --> Cold War
End of Cold War and need to continue the military-industrial complex --> War on Terror
People quote the Bible like we quote Shakespeare. Beautiful words about the world we live in.
Now if you're stupid enough to think it's a historical document then you're on your own.
>> Also, it appears to be an advert for Clinton. Would have been nice to see this party-neutral. Ah well.
Maybe if you only saw the first half of the movie. The other half paints her as a opportunistic corporate shrill that will sell her own mother to get into the presidential race. Since the movie is about nationalising the health industry in America, and H. Clinton was the only one to bring this up in the last 20 years, I would have been surprised that Moore would have not mentioned her
Personally, I loved the movie. His best since Bowling. I also think a lot of the French and British will complain in their own respective countries about how it paints their health system as pixies and fairies. But, the conclusions are still correct. (For instance a few nights ago the BBC showed a documentary about how dirty/unclean hospitals are in England and the huge cases of MRSA related deaths due to this. They also showed how other countries dealt with MRSA. They didn't pick America. They picked Denmark (or was it the Netherlands?) where, the biggest hospital there, has 0 deaths from MRSA.)
"CO2 has always lagged temperature changes by 800 years."
Umm...no. Sometimes it has, sometimes it hasn't. This is one of those times.
Just go to the newscientist article please and not just make things up from the top of your head. (Yes, water vapour is the main cause of global warming. Guess what, the scientists know that too.)
It's listed on the Dutch stock exchange and its main office is in Ghent, Belgium, Europe.
They have an office in Boston but most of the developers and infrastructure for the US is done in Lebanon, NH.
I kinda wonder how much research was done on the article if they can't get even the simple stuff right. What's next,
"Microsoft, a Silicon Valley company, is launching its new operating system..."
Looking at Mendel's early work on genetics is also "iffy".
All research starts of as iffy - instruments aren't very sophisticated, ideas are a bit vague etc etc etc
But looking at this early work and extrapolating to everyone elses isn't very scientific
>> If I were an MP3 player manufacturer, here is how I would look at it: the number one online store for music has been closed to me thus far, but it is just now opening up >> and becoming a resource I can capitalize on to sell players... if I support AAC with my player.
At last someone has got it! Who-hoo!
I can go to sleep now and/or stop reading...hard to decide.:)
A lot of people are missing the point. It's not about the money or whether or not you pay a different price for a song in the UK or Spain.
The matter is that I can not buy a song in the Spainish iTunes with my UK credit card. This is definitely against the EU rules of free trade.
As an aside: I live on the continent and buy books from amazon.co.uk. I used to buy books from amazon.com but I had to pay import duty (occasionally - yeah they were inconsistent). Paying import duty is a hindrance to the flow of goods and services but since the book was from outside of the EU, the law doesn't apply.
On the other hand, if the post office/customs tried to do that with the books I bought from amazon.co.uk I could/would take their arses to court and I would win 100%.
The EU wants to remove the hindrance most of us have with say buying a song in the Japanses iTunes if I only had a US credit card WITHIN THE EU.
It's not up to him to make all the decisions since it's not him that is taking the risk if the thing doesn't give the right answer or says the transaction is done when it hasn't. You want him to make the decisions that people higher up should be. Decisions need to be made by the person who has the risk. Sure testing, documentation, hell, even code-writing is his job, but then to insult him about his abilities and then talk about how fucken difficult the thing is is a bit back-handed.
You even mention him needing a good project manager (PM). Well if he hasn't got a PM then wouldn't the advice be "get a good PM" (not just calling him a troll).
I've seen too many projects die because the software engineer is a "yes" man. "yes, I can do that", "sure, i can fit that in". Whenever I see a developer do that I worry. Because if he's saying that to me he's probably saying that to all the other PMs and bosses and so wasting time on projects he's not allocated to. So the guy works day and nigh and on weekends and when the big roll-out comes he's so crashed and burnt he can't even think straight let alone fix the last few bugs.
Your job as a software engineer is to also stand your ground, say, "*You* need to prioritize the tasks you want me to do", "*You* need to give me the financial algorithms in a way I can implement them" etc etc. That's what's fucken hard. The other shit is easy:)
Scrum/Agile approach might be what you need since the feedback cycles force your client (the product owner) to think about what you misunderstood and what the product should become.
I am still surprised that people actually believe that you can have a specification written before even a line of code of written. No one is that smart and thoughtful. You need to break down what needs to be into big chunks and get your product owner to prioritize. What I like about Scrum is that it brings all the shit that usually happens at the end of a product cycle to the front of the product cycle. It forces the product owner to think about what they really need and what they expect (i.e. all the discussions about what the definition of "done" is). The hardest thing about Scrum for developers is for them to underachieve in deliverables. We've been spending all our dot.com boom period saying yes to everything without thinking about the consequences.
So my advice, whether or not you want to use Scrum, is to have tight feedback loops. Plan weekly demos (Scrum prefers monthly) of what you have done given the specs you've received. If there are disagreements you can then ask what they had in mind instead (which leads nicely to a discussion about what they perceive "done" means).
But all good methodologies have one thing in common: the product owner needs to work fucken hard too. It can't just be "here you go, I'll see you in 3 months time." Pretty much all methodologies fail when the product owner can't see why they need to work so hard ("prioritize my list of tasks?", "we need to free up these resources?", "can't the project manager do this?" etc etc)
my 2 cents worth
That's it? The 1000 or more scientists, with no funding from the UN, create a report that is verified by 2000 other, non-UN funded, scientists and you say it's a UN report.
The IPCC report is the evidence I have. Where's yours?
Correct. The GP post got it wrong. Maybe he was confusing democracy with consensus. Science isn't a democracy, but it is heavily based on consensus.
That's why you get the line "scientists agree on".
Science in the end are just a bunch of experts who have a good thorough knowledge of particular things.
Expertise is the end result of science. But not all expertise is science, of course.
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"Some Christian grew their arm back!" Ok I'm born again.
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>> God doesn't heal amputees I love that. "Birth is a miracle!" No, it's just having babies. "Some Christian grew their arm back!" Ok I'm born again.
When they filmed the movie Contact there the production donated some money and cleaned up the dish so it looked better in the film. The visitor centre was a result of the above money.
It's a comment section. What do you want, fucken War and Peace :)
Germany lose of WWI and surrender cause hyperflation and resentment --> Rise of Hitler
End of WWII and splitting up the wins --> Cold War
End of Cold War and need to continue the military-industrial complex --> War on Terror
Do you get it now?
The trouble with text books is that they don't have the right emphasis. Stick to visual aids and use text books for exercises and proofs.
Isn't there 4 player co-op?
People quote the Bible like we quote Shakespeare. Beautiful words about the world we live in. Now if you're stupid enough to think it's a historical document then you're on your own.
Or go to the bible: McGee's "On food and cooking"
Maybe if you only saw the first half of the movie. The other half paints her as a opportunistic corporate shrill that will sell her own mother to get into the presidential race. Since the movie is about nationalising the health industry in America, and H. Clinton was the only one to bring this up in the last 20 years, I would have been surprised that Moore would have not mentioned her
Personally, I loved the movie. His best since Bowling. I also think a lot of the French and British will complain in their own respective countries about how it paints their health system as pixies and fairies. But, the conclusions are still correct. (For instance a few nights ago the BBC showed a documentary about how dirty/unclean hospitals are in England and the huge cases of MRSA related deaths due to this. They also showed how other countries dealt with MRSA. They didn't pick America. They picked Denmark (or was it the Netherlands?) where, the biggest hospital there, has 0 deaths from MRSA.)
Umm...no. Sometimes it has, sometimes it hasn't. This is one of those times.
Just go to the newscientist article please and not just make things up from the top of your head. (Yes, water vapour is the main cause of global warming. Guess what, the scientists know that too.)
I love how the right shoot themselves in the foot all the time, trying to get a square plug into a round hole.
It's simple: news organisations are out to make money...and they'll do anything to raise the shares of their parents companies by 8/10 of a cent.
Isn't the answer Australia?
I kinda wonder how much research was done on the article if they can't get even the simple stuff right. What's next, "Microsoft, a Silicon Valley company, is launching its new operating system..."
"Bullshit" to what. All the peer reviewed articles. Anyway they answered your "questions". http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/ climate-change/dn11647
Just believe in ID, it has more prove that the stuff you pull out.
All research starts of as iffy - instruments aren't very sophisticated, ideas are a bit vague etc etc etc
But looking at this early work and extrapolating to everyone elses isn't very scientific
please mod this guy up (funny) - and i was taking this thread way too seriously
>> If I were an MP3 player manufacturer, here is how I would look at it: the number one online store for music has been closed to me thus far, but it is just now opening up >> and becoming a resource I can capitalize on to sell players... if I support AAC with my player. At last someone has got it! Who-hoo! I can go to sleep now and/or stop reading...hard to decide. :)
A lot of people are missing the point. It's not about the money or whether or not you pay a different price for a song in the UK or Spain. The matter is that I can not buy a song in the Spainish iTunes with my UK credit card. This is definitely against the EU rules of free trade. As an aside: I live on the continent and buy books from amazon.co.uk. I used to buy books from amazon.com but I had to pay import duty (occasionally - yeah they were inconsistent). Paying import duty is a hindrance to the flow of goods and services but since the book was from outside of the EU, the law doesn't apply. On the other hand, if the post office/customs tried to do that with the books I bought from amazon.co.uk I could/would take their arses to court and I would win 100%. The EU wants to remove the hindrance most of us have with say buying a song in the Japanses iTunes if I only had a US credit card WITHIN THE EU.
I wish I had mod points to give. A tip of the hat to you.
You even mention him needing a good project manager (PM). Well if he hasn't got a PM then wouldn't the advice be "get a good PM" (not just calling him a troll). I've seen too many projects die because the software engineer is a "yes" man. "yes, I can do that", "sure, i can fit that in". Whenever I see a developer do that I worry. Because if he's saying that to me he's probably saying that to all the other PMs and bosses and so wasting time on projects he's not allocated to. So the guy works day and nigh and on weekends and when the big roll-out comes he's so crashed and burnt he can't even think straight let alone fix the last few bugs.
Your job as a software engineer is to also stand your ground, say, "*You* need to prioritize the tasks you want me to do", "*You* need to give me the financial algorithms in a way I can implement them" etc etc. That's what's fucken hard. The other shit is easy :)
I am still surprised that people actually believe that you can have a specification written before even a line of code of written. No one is that smart and thoughtful. You need to break down what needs to be into big chunks and get your product owner to prioritize. What I like about Scrum is that it brings all the shit that usually happens at the end of a product cycle to the front of the product cycle. It forces the product owner to think about what they really need and what they expect (i.e. all the discussions about what the definition of "done" is). The hardest thing about Scrum for developers is for them to underachieve in deliverables. We've been spending all our dot.com boom period saying yes to everything without thinking about the consequences.
So my advice, whether or not you want to use Scrum, is to have tight feedback loops. Plan weekly demos (Scrum prefers monthly) of what you have done given the specs you've received. If there are disagreements you can then ask what they had in mind instead (which leads nicely to a discussion about what they perceive "done" means).
But all good methodologies have one thing in common: the product owner needs to work fucken hard too. It can't just be "here you go, I'll see you in 3 months time." Pretty much all methodologies fail when the product owner can't see why they need to work so hard ("prioritize my list of tasks?", "we need to free up these resources?", "can't the project manager do this?" etc etc) my 2 cents worth
That's it? The 1000 or more scientists, with no funding from the UN, create a report that is verified by 2000 other, non-UN funded, scientists and you say it's a UN report.
The IPCC report is the evidence I have. Where's yours?
Science in the end are just a bunch of experts who have a good thorough knowledge of particular things. Expertise is the end result of science. But not all expertise is science, of course.
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