They want to hire actual wirters for a Star Wars movie? That's got to be a first.
It's propably going to center around their kids. Oh wow. The stuff way, way before the Republic would be much more interesting.
Star Wars: Jar-Jar Hugs U.
This whole thing should be taken with a grain of salt.
You need to take population density into account. More people, more assholes, more asshole tweets.
Also the sample size is awfully small. So small in fact that multiple counts may weigh in much more significantly than they should.
Also not all twits are tied to a geolocation.
You also need to compare it to how the population is composed.
In fact you shouldn't use this data if you want to find out which states are more unpleasant than others. You could say that most asshats live near the coast. But given that that's where the majority of the US population is living that's not even newsworthy.
But the approach certainly is promising. Just don't try to use it to prove there is intelligent life on this planet. That's what SETI is for. So far no response from planet Earth:(
If you dismantle the whole thing then you might find a Tegra3 soc. The layer of tears and disappointment is sandwiched between the gorgeous exterior and the hardware.
That snippet alone would have explained about eveything. Why was this omitted in the submission? So basically Sony built a system that relied completely on a service provided by Macrovision and the customers got completely screwed over?
I find it hard to see any age discrimination in my post. I value experience but we can't afford the wage expectations. We spilt there with a mutual sense of regret. Do you genuinely think I LIKE breaking in some foolish 20something who thinks he has already seen everything? It takes years to get them to a point where I don't have to pick up the pieces in the wake of their learning process.
I carefully chose why I said that there wasn't anything new in the past 20 years. You chose my starting point since a couple of innovations really took off then. I'm talking of what came AFTER that. And yes, I do remember the September that never ended.
Son, part of my position is due to my abilty to read stuff.
The risk if they fail isn't actually that high. A lot of companies and institutions have just finished/started phasing out XP for 7. So I don't think MS planned to sell a lot of licenses to those. The real clever thing is the fusion of laptop and notebook that is yet to come(Windows RT will propably be a distant third; people are propably already locked in Google Play and iTunes) and that is a smart move.
The next gen laptop will resemle the Transformer line of Asus. iPad 3 owners look up whenever I unpack my Prime. Imagining this with a 13" screen and an I7 actually makes me happy in the pants.
I wonder how long those go on one charge. The Prime lasts for a day(if you include a humon sleep cycle and the keyboard/battery thing).
Funfact: hoking up a tablet to an LCD projector and controlling the presentation with a PS3 DualShock controller does turn a couple of heads. Especially when "accidently" activating Sonic in the down-time. Everybody likes Sonic.
I think an OS that is also controllable on a touch screen is a smart move. But I won't use that particular feature on my desktop. My arms aren't that long and watching Star Trek does require very little interaction. And there always are the perils of Cat Interference.
Why would we need that much more electric energy in the winter? Sure, it's a lot darker outside and we might play more Angry Birds. But I can't see how this should have an impact of more than +20%. Also I fail to see what your arithmetic gymastics are supposed to achieve?
Yes, well, we also worry about where to get nuclear fuel and what to do about it when it is spent and how it gets there. You need to take a broader view when you want to tackle a problem as a whole.
Your blanket statements that don't even seem to be your own don't buy you no brownie points with us, comrade.
You don't need an AC in Germany. We have mild summers and mild winters. So there goes one major factor.
But there is also the cultural factor. For instance every fridge, washing machine, anything that remotely uses power has a big fat sticker with the energy efficiency class on its side. Nobody likes to buy something with a B on it when you can spend a bit more that says A.
This goes even further. We use so little water that lakc of water seriously threatens our drains. So the utilities started to flush them.
Most of the cars you see in the inner cities are quite small. And a lot of them are highly fuel efficient. Bigger cars used for commuting are diesel powered. You'll see a lot of Blue Motion Volkswagen that are so fuel efficient they put a Prius to shame.
The head of our government is a physicist. That propably also helps. They tend not to be that easily bullshittable. She can do the maths herself. Also one of our states is governed by the Green party.
Great. Create another account for another useless thing because I don't already have enough of those.
If you worry about taking your settings and profiles with you STORE THEM ON THE DAMN DEVICE! It works for the N52TE which they bought from Belkin and that thing allows you to save all stored profiles back on your HD.
Why add another layer of complexity on configuration software? Especially if that extra layer includes stuff you can't control(like internet connectivity) and adds a single point of failure for all your customers. Maintenance of that cloud thing can't cost less than adding lokal storage to your devices. Unless of course you skimp on the high-availability requirement.
Congrats! You screwed up on every design aspect with that new and great scheme just to ad the "cloud" buzzword to your marketing blurb.
The 9th Rule of Acquisition says "Opportunity plus instinct equals profit."
Your moogie obviously hasn't taught you in between chewing your toothgrubs. You definitely don't have the lobes. You have been corrupted by those humon concepts like decency. The FCA liquidators are on their way to bankrupt you.
I will open the brain-casket of the typical HR drone to lay bare the green diseased bit of meat that does their decision making.
They PRETEND that they hire talent to shoulder the future of the company for the next few millennia. They genuinely think they contribute to the process of getting the right person for the right job and keep them as long as possible. A high fluctuation obviously is not ideal for a company that works on collective knowledge. And even a minimum-wager will need some training and will only pay off after some time.
In reality HR is the last nail in the coffin of any company. The name "human resources" alone has a slightly green(of the Soylent variety) sheen. And they are masters of red tape. Their euphemisms are mind-boggling. Firing will be called "letting you go". As if they reluctantly give you up because they don't want to be too possessing. They'll make sure that at no point at any time you will have the right team for the right job. They vigourously defend mediocrity over excellence and have active anti-team building measures in place just in case you might actually have a functional team in the near future.
But their paperwork is always in order. They've got binders full of humans neatly pressed into paper-thin conforming little drones organized in alphabetical order.
I'm in the fortunate position to do my own hiring and firing.
...and this is exactly the reason why corporate HR has trouble hiring past 60. Your best bet is to be open about it IF you even get an interview.
I don't know about the situation in the US but a mandatory retirement age(which the US may or may not have) solves this bit of the problem. No need to ask in that case. You are perfectly capable to do the job but are disqualified since the prospective employer doesn't know how long they get to keep you. But they can't ask you since they might get sued. That's a catch-22 they are in if I ever saw one.
So self-employed contractual work is propably the safest way to go.
That's partly true when it comes to wanting to be hired by some corporate entity. But those tend to have an HR department that WON'T hire anybody past 40 when they can get 20somethings.
This is the bit that has always amazed me. Our sector thrives on experience and there hasn't been anything genuinely new these past 20 years. Only the jargon and the syntax of the languages ever changed.
The only reason why I never employ somebody past 40 is because we can't pay the kind of money they expect. So you may have to scale back on that. No kind of certification trumps the kind of resume you could send.
Also you may have to disclose your retirement plans. And one possible cause making you unemployable are insurance premiums. Disclose you have your own healthcare plan and don't need that from your prospective employer. Perhaps your best option would be to go freelance? Corporate HR tends to be stupid when it comes to hiring.
Oh wow, yes, that guy was a pot FIEND! He was an enemy to all things hemp and he burned them on great funary pyres. He exterminated the stuff and purged it in righteous fires. AND it helped him to put up with Byron.
Write something while doped. Cut it up and rearrange the words. Publish.
I find I don't magically become William S. Burroughs simply by taking the right stuff. But I do agree on drugs removing the brain's BS filters - which propably got installed there by a lifetime of education by "sensible" people. But don't count on it. Sometimes a Spongebob marathon and cold pizza is all you'll get out of it:D
So, the trick is to do something while you are doped and think it is awesome while you are doped.
There's got to be some Dunning-Kruger in that somewhere. I wish people would stop doing that. Drugs don't have magical properties. They can be fun and that porpably is their only use outside of medication. Pot is NOT a harmless alternative to alcohol since prolonged abuse of both will fuxor your brain. They are drugs. Treat them as that. Know when and were to take them and learn to stay the hell away frome some of them.
Woah! LSD is a scary thing since it fuxors your brain and not only the pleasure centers. I dare you to complete some 90ies style shoot them up while on pot. Let's say Xenon 2. You'd propably not even get past the first worm things on level 1. Even coffee impairs my ability to conquer those.
Why is it that everybody searches for the magical stuff one can take that makes one smarter? Smoke pot, be clever. Sit in hut, inhale smoke, speak with spirits, learn secrits of teh world. Recreational drugs are fine and dandy when they are taken for recreation. Just don't try to justify them with "They Make Me Like Superman!". It works for Asterix. But he was French and you are not.
Uuuuh. I wouldn't field Brian Wilson to support that argument.
Write something clever while doped. Read that when sobered up. At that point your only excuse will be that you obviously were off your rocker:P
That being said, I truly do believe that it helps relaxing while not at work. It will only help you directly at work when your job is to devour tons of pizza.
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They want to hire actual wirters for a Star Wars movie? That's got to be a first.
It's propably going to center around their kids. Oh wow. The stuff way, way before the Republic would be much more interesting.
Star Wars: Jar-Jar Hugs U.
Pass.
This whole thing should be taken with a grain of salt.
:(
You need to take population density into account. More people, more assholes, more asshole tweets.
Also the sample size is awfully small. So small in fact that multiple counts may weigh in much more significantly than they should.
Also not all twits are tied to a geolocation.
You also need to compare it to how the population is composed.
In fact you shouldn't use this data if you want to find out which states are more unpleasant than others. You could say that most asshats live near the coast. But given that that's where the majority of the US population is living that's not even newsworthy.
But the approach certainly is promising. Just don't try to use it to prove there is intelligent life on this planet. That's what SETI is for. So far no response from planet Earth
If you dismantle the whole thing then you might find a Tegra3 soc. The layer of tears and disappointment is sandwiched between the gorgeous exterior and the hardware.
I would say that this story might be a bit over-sensationalist.
Well, now that Microsoft wants to compete with Apple, they'll have to deal with over-sensationalist news as well.
Let me be the first to suggest "Covergate". ;)
Sorry, you don't get to make up a name. Since a keyboard and MS are involved A20 Gate is assigned by default.
Rovi (corporation) used to be called Macrovision.
That snippet alone would have explained about eveything. Why was this omitted in the submission? So basically Sony built a system that relied completely on a service provided by Macrovision and the customers got completely screwed over?
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I find it hard to see any age discrimination in my post. I value experience but we can't afford the wage expectations. We spilt there with a mutual sense of regret. Do you genuinely think I LIKE breaking in some foolish 20something who thinks he has already seen everything? It takes years to get them to a point where I don't have to pick up the pieces in the wake of their learning process.
I carefully chose why I said that there wasn't anything new in the past 20 years. You chose my starting point since a couple of innovations really took off then. I'm talking of what came AFTER that. And yes, I do remember the September that never ended.
Son, part of my position is due to my abilty to read stuff.
The risk if they fail isn't actually that high. A lot of companies and institutions have just finished/started phasing out XP for 7. So I don't think MS planned to sell a lot of licenses to those. The real clever thing is the fusion of laptop and notebook that is yet to come(Windows RT will propably be a distant third; people are propably already locked in Google Play and iTunes) and that is a smart move.
The next gen laptop will resemle the Transformer line of Asus. iPad 3 owners look up whenever I unpack my Prime. Imagining this with a 13" screen and an I7 actually makes me happy in the pants.
I wonder how long those go on one charge. The Prime lasts for a day(if you include a humon sleep cycle and the keyboard/battery thing).
Funfact: hoking up a tablet to an LCD projector and controlling the presentation with a PS3 DualShock controller does turn a couple of heads. Especially when "accidently" activating Sonic in the down-time. Everybody likes Sonic.
I think an OS that is also controllable on a touch screen is a smart move. But I won't use that particular feature on my desktop. My arms aren't that long and watching Star Trek does require very little interaction. And there always are the perils of Cat Interference.
We didn't have to give up any luxury for that.
Sincerely,
Germany
Why would we need that much more electric energy in the winter? Sure, it's a lot darker outside and we might play more Angry Birds. But I can't see how this should have an impact of more than +20%. Also I fail to see what your arithmetic gymastics are supposed to achieve?
Yes, well, we also worry about where to get nuclear fuel and what to do about it when it is spent and how it gets there. You need to take a broader view when you want to tackle a problem as a whole.
Your blanket statements that don't even seem to be your own don't buy you no brownie points with us, comrade.
You don't need an AC in Germany. We have mild summers and mild winters. So there goes one major factor.
But there is also the cultural factor. For instance every fridge, washing machine, anything that remotely uses power has a big fat sticker with the energy efficiency class on its side. Nobody likes to buy something with a B on it when you can spend a bit more that says A.
This goes even further. We use so little water that lakc of water seriously threatens our drains. So the utilities started to flush them.
Most of the cars you see in the inner cities are quite small. And a lot of them are highly fuel efficient. Bigger cars used for commuting are diesel powered. You'll see a lot of Blue Motion Volkswagen that are so fuel efficient they put a Prius to shame.
The head of our government is a physicist. That propably also helps. They tend not to be that easily bullshittable. She can do the maths herself. Also one of our states is governed by the Green party.
Everybody suffers from that. That's why you will find that a lot of people vote against their best interest.
But this does NOT explain John Major since nothing ever will.
Great. Create another account for another useless thing because I don't already have enough of those.
If you worry about taking your settings and profiles with you STORE THEM ON THE DAMN DEVICE! It works for the N52TE which they bought from Belkin and that thing allows you to save all stored profiles back on your HD.
Why add another layer of complexity on configuration software? Especially if that extra layer includes stuff you can't control(like internet connectivity) and adds a single point of failure for all your customers. Maintenance of that cloud thing can't cost less than adding lokal storage to your devices. Unless of course you skimp on the high-availability requirement.
Congrats! You screwed up on every design aspect with that new and great scheme just to ad the "cloud" buzzword to your marketing blurb.
The 9th Rule of Acquisition says "Opportunity plus instinct equals profit."
Your moogie obviously hasn't taught you in between chewing your toothgrubs. You definitely don't have the lobes. You have been corrupted by those humon concepts like decency. The FCA liquidators are on their way to bankrupt you.
I will open the brain-casket of the typical HR drone to lay bare the green diseased bit of meat that does their decision making.
They PRETEND that they hire talent to shoulder the future of the company for the next few millennia. They genuinely think they contribute to the process of getting the right person for the right job and keep them as long as possible. A high fluctuation obviously is not ideal for a company that works on collective knowledge. And even a minimum-wager will need some training and will only pay off after some time.
In reality HR is the last nail in the coffin of any company. The name "human resources" alone has a slightly green(of the Soylent variety) sheen. And they are masters of red tape. Their euphemisms are mind-boggling. Firing will be called "letting you go". As if they reluctantly give you up because they don't want to be too possessing. They'll make sure that at no point at any time you will have the right team for the right job. They vigourously defend mediocrity over excellence and have active anti-team building measures in place just in case you might actually have a functional team in the near future.
But their paperwork is always in order. They've got binders full of humans neatly pressed into paper-thin conforming little drones organized in alphabetical order.
I'm in the fortunate position to do my own hiring and firing.
End of rant.
Absolutely real. And you sir have a future in politics. lol ;p
I always thought I had it in me. But then I discovered I couldn't deliver the lines and keep a straight face :(
...and this is exactly the reason why corporate HR has trouble hiring past 60. Your best bet is to be open about it IF you even get an interview.
I don't know about the situation in the US but a mandatory retirement age(which the US may or may not have) solves this bit of the problem. No need to ask in that case.
You are perfectly capable to do the job but are disqualified since the prospective employer doesn't know how long they get to keep you. But they can't ask you since they might get sued. That's a catch-22 they are in if I ever saw one.
So self-employed contractual work is propably the safest way to go.
That's partly true when it comes to wanting to be hired by some corporate entity. But those tend to have an HR department that WON'T hire anybody past 40 when they can get 20somethings.
Contracting is the better option.
This is the bit that has always amazed me. Our sector thrives on experience and there hasn't been anything genuinely new these past 20 years. Only the jargon and the syntax of the languages ever changed.
The only reason why I never employ somebody past 40 is because we can't pay the kind of money they expect. So you may have to scale back on that. No kind of certification trumps the kind of resume you could send.
Also you may have to disclose your retirement plans. And one possible cause making you unemployable are insurance premiums. Disclose you have your own healthcare plan and don't need that from your prospective employer. Perhaps your best option would be to go freelance? Corporate HR tends to be stupid when it comes to hiring.
Oh wow, yes, that guy was a pot FIEND! He was an enemy to all things hemp and he burned them on great funary pyres. He exterminated the stuff and purged it in righteous fires. AND it helped him to put up with Byron.
Worked for him. It doesn't work for me.
Write something while doped. Cut it up and rearrange the words. Publish.
:D
I find I don't magically become William S. Burroughs simply by taking the right stuff. But I do agree on drugs removing the brain's BS filters - which propably got installed there by a lifetime of education by "sensible" people. But don't count on it. Sometimes a Spongebob marathon and cold pizza is all you'll get out of it
So, the trick is to do something while you are doped and think it is awesome while you are doped.
There's got to be some Dunning-Kruger in that somewhere.
I wish people would stop doing that. Drugs don't have magical properties. They can be fun and that porpably is their only use outside of medication. Pot is NOT a harmless alternative to alcohol since prolonged abuse of both will fuxor your brain. They are drugs. Treat them as that. Know when and were to take them and learn to stay the hell away frome some of them.
Woah! LSD is a scary thing since it fuxors your brain and not only the pleasure centers. I dare you to complete some 90ies style shoot them up while on pot. Let's say Xenon 2. You'd propably not even get past the first worm things on level 1. Even coffee impairs my ability to conquer those.
Why is it that everybody searches for the magical stuff one can take that makes one smarter? Smoke pot, be clever. Sit in hut, inhale smoke, speak with spirits, learn secrits of teh world. Recreational drugs are fine and dandy when they are taken for recreation. Just don't try to justify them with "They Make Me Like Superman!". It works for Asterix. But he was French and you are not.
Uuuuh. I wouldn't field Brian Wilson to support that argument.
:P
Write something clever while doped. Read that when sobered up. At that point your only excuse will be that you obviously were off your rocker
That being said, I truly do believe that it helps relaxing while not at work. It will only help you directly at work when your job is to devour tons of pizza.