Learning how something works is respectable. Deliberately screwing it up with the knowledge of how it works? Not at all. If someone is considered / considers his- or herself a "Black Hat" hacker, you need to think about what they're learning from you, and how that will affect your business. 99.9% of the time, that's not a risk worth taking. On the other hand if someone has an in-depth knowledge of a specific subject and they're responsible enough not to use that inappropriately, they're someone you want to take.
Seriously. I learned it in 7th grade health. I'm a sophomore comp sci major at a major research university. I don't know if it's "real" meditation, but it works. You don't need to spend an hour doing it. You don't even need to spend 15 minutes. Only about 5.
Here's a sort of crash course based on what I've found works best for me as a short break in those gruelling 3 (or more) hour exams:
Sit up. Close your eyes. Take deep slow breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Let your body feel all the feelings you ignored (one at a time), moving from the bottom up. Feel the shoes on your feet all the way up to the hair on your head that your body ignored. Don't smell things if you know they're not cool. Taste if you can. Listen to the tiny sounds in the room. Make sure you're still taking deep slow breaths. Think yourself through it. Think about how irrational it is to panic. Think about how even if you don't get a perfect score, in the long run, it won't matter that much. Now come out of it just as slowly as you went into it: put out your irrational thoughts. Let go of the feelings you were just paying attention to. Breathe normally. Open your eyes. Go at your test again.
It may sound like a crock, and it did to me at first, but it may work.
Their study of 4,012 adults in the twenty largest U.S. cities found that 41% of respondents start the day by checking their email.
You check your answering machine when you come home from work, don't you? I wonder how many people are addicted to answering machines.
On the average, respondents admitted to checking their email five times a day.
I check my e-mail around 50 times: Whenever I'm on the computer Thunderbird checks every 5 minutes. I'm not addicted to e-mail, but the point of it is quick communication, right? What's the point if it takes you two days to reply? At that rate you can call the person when you get around to it, or in some cases snail mail them.
So heavily that one quarter of respondents won't go more than two or three days without it.
See above.
The thing with e-mail is that in most cases you need to actively check it. You check your mail as often as it comes, why not e-mail? You usually check your voicemail when it comes, so why not e-mail? Addicted? Hardly.
Anyone else see the posibility that this could be used by a twin with less-than-correct intentions? I know a set of twins who don't get along at all...they look almost exactly alike, but act completely different.
I work at a Panera, as I said in a different part of this topic...At our bakery-cafe, we allow people to come in just to hang around, just for the free Wi-Fi, or whatever....
Also, the dough is never frozen: it's delivered fresh every single day. Everything is baked fresh every single day.
And if it were a fast-food place, then yes it'd be expensive. It is a restaurant, not a grease-joint.
I work for Panera Bread. Let me say that it is no surprise to me that we're the biggest provider of Free Wi-Fi. I've only been with the company for a month and I can see why people go there: the great food, and the great environment. The free Wi-Fi draws even more people. Not to be a salesman, but if you haven't gone to a Panera Bread, try it.
First of all, let me say that I'm only 18, but I've had a small share of management.
I was a head cashier in a retail store where I worked for a year and a half. I was a cashier for 8 months before I was promoted. There were about a dozen cashiers, usually with 3 on nights, 4-8 on weekends. It was my responsibility to make sure that everyone had something to do, and that they worked within the "LP" (Loss Prevention) standards. The first few weeks as a head cashier, I made it clear that the front end would be clean every night, and that there would almost always be something to do.
I would do all the jobs they had to do for cleaning, did anything they did. I did everything I expected them to do. If someone did something especially well, I cut them some slack the next night. I thanked them at the end of each night. I only checked how they did their jobs once in a while to make sure they weren't slacking off. Every night I made sure that the front end was the first cleaned so when closing time came, we were ready to leave. If other departments needed help, I or another cashier would help.
Now that they had gotten used to me and what I like, I didn't need to tell them anymore. It was "Mike, I'm gonna go get the vacuum and clean the vestibule," "Mike, I'll do the hangars tonight since XXXXX did them last night." Then one day, I said, "Ryan, could you clean the end caps?" He had already done them.
One night we had a call out, and we were particularly busy. We didn't have a chance to clean: the other departments helped us.
All you have to do is treat the people who you are entrusted with managing with respect and show them what you would like done. Once they know what needs to get done, they'll get it done. Like another poster said, most people want to do their job well. All you need to do is let them know that you expect them to do their jobs, and that them doing their jobs directly results in a reward for them and the company.
As a current physics student (crazy physics idiot #3 actually) in IB HL Physics, I've gotta say this: It's all about the teachers. The teachers can make it interesting, or they can make it hell. One teacher in my school is the nicest person in the world, but she can't teach. The two physics teachers I've had are great. They encourage us to do experiments.
Three of my friends and I wanted to take pictures of exploding balloons. So, we built a circuit to trigger a flash (a strobe actually), and borrowed a camera. We got some amazing pictures out of it (http://www.benza.us/group4/. See second- and third-to-last), while at the same time ended up with extra credit we never intended on. We even ended up doing a short lesson on it.
To make physics cool, all you need are teachers who make it fun. When it's fun, it's cool.
Prior to the balloons, we made a potato cannon. Our next project is a ballistic pendulum...If that's not bringing cool and physics together, I don't know what is.
If they say the Web or the Internet then they'ld [sic] be wrong. The internet was started 35 years ago by DARPA. ..
Not necessarily. Yes, the internet was invented 35 years ago, but so were hearing aids. Modern hearing aids are on there so, a Modern internet could also be on the list.
...because America isn't safe with toys that strengthen the spacial ability of people's minds on shelves...right?
Oh, now I get it!!! Homeland Security is so vastly affected by Rubik's cubes...It teaches kids about how 'cells' can connect and communicate with each other, how positions of power can shift around, and finally how to throw something (a Rubik's cube now, a person later) against a wall.
Thank God for Homeland Security! It's nice to see that someone in government is doing their job!
"Such weapons would easy eclipse nuclear weapons in power, e.g., 1 gram of antimatter would equal 23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy."
Sorry, but that tells us nothing. Apples and Oranges. First we're given a measure of nuclear power, then we're given a measure of combustion power. They can't easily be compared, unless you know that 1 nuke = X space shuttle fuel tanks (lets get out of junior high...)...
Slashdot is probably read my a mostly American crowd, and only can bring down small servers. But considering the importantarticles being posted today, we may have a few "large chunks" on their way down.
The games make practically no money. The sale of tickets is purely to eliminate people mobbing events. Think of the income the Olympics will bring to Athens. Thousands of hotel reservations, mostly price gouged. Millions of meals to serve. Transportation for all the spectators. The point is that you can't go to Athens any time soon without spending thousands on hotels, food, transportation, extras, tickets, and all that.
That isn't amazingly useful. Think back to your Physics class...Torque? Torque is cheap (when you have a big pole). You couldn't use it for anything significant to the operation of a car since most of the bolts there need to be torqued, usually to something more than 30+ ft/lbs. Big things are sometimes torqued to 500+ft/lbs. Lets work with 30ft/lbs.
Assuming the head of this thing has a whopping 1" radius from the center of the bolt, that's 360 lbs of force the fastner needs to apply. And the largest volume that this fastener will take up? 3.14 in^3? 6.28?
These screws will only be useful for detailing unless they can tap power magically from anywhere they want.
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Almost all new ATMs have a headphone jack on them.
Learning how something works is respectable. Deliberately screwing it up with the knowledge of how it works? Not at all. If someone is considered / considers his- or herself a "Black Hat" hacker, you need to think about what they're learning from you, and how that will affect your business. 99.9% of the time, that's not a risk worth taking. On the other hand if someone has an in-depth knowledge of a specific subject and they're responsible enough not to use that inappropriately, they're someone you want to take.
Space tourism has gone too far!
What wacky stuff have you done that makes no obvious sense, but just works?
Ask Slashdot.
(...though I'm not quite sure it works...)
Seriously. I learned it in 7th grade health. I'm a sophomore comp sci major at a major research university. I don't know if it's "real" meditation, but it works. You don't need to spend an hour doing it. You don't even need to spend 15 minutes. Only about 5.
Here's a sort of crash course based on what I've found works best for me as a short break in those gruelling 3 (or more) hour exams:
Sit up. Close your eyes. Take deep slow breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Let your body feel all the feelings you ignored (one at a time), moving from the bottom up. Feel the shoes on your feet all the way up to the hair on your head that your body ignored. Don't smell things if you know they're not cool. Taste if you can. Listen to the tiny sounds in the room. Make sure you're still taking deep slow breaths. Think yourself through it. Think about how irrational it is to panic. Think about how even if you don't get a perfect score, in the long run, it won't matter that much. Now come out of it just as slowly as you went into it: put out your irrational thoughts. Let go of the feelings you were just paying attention to. Breathe normally. Open your eyes. Go at your test again.
It may sound like a crock, and it did to me at first, but it may work.
...Will it come with a hot coffee "feature?"
You check your answering machine when you come home from work, don't you? I wonder how many people are addicted to answering machines.
On the average, respondents admitted to checking their email five times a day.
I check my e-mail around 50 times: Whenever I'm on the computer Thunderbird checks every 5 minutes. I'm not addicted to e-mail, but the point of it is quick communication, right? What's the point if it takes you two days to reply? At that rate you can call the person when you get around to it, or in some cases snail mail them.
So heavily that one quarter of respondents won't go more than two or three days without it.
See above.
The thing with e-mail is that in most cases you need to actively check it. You check your mail as often as it comes, why not e-mail? You usually check your voicemail when it comes, so why not e-mail? Addicted? Hardly.
Apparently Soviet Russia has a beowulf cluster of hackers who plan the following:
1. Hack
2. ?
3. Profit!
(The sad thing is, all of these jokes apply.)
How about moving the switch from "Alarm" to "Off?"
Anyone else see the posibility that this could be used by a twin with less-than-correct intentions? I know a set of twins who don't get along at all...they look almost exactly alike, but act completely different.
They didn't...at least at the one I work at....you can still order it, but the pesto sauce is replaced with balsamic...
Also, the dough is never frozen: it's delivered fresh every single day. Everything is baked fresh every single day.
And if it were a fast-food place, then yes it'd be expensive. It is a restaurant, not a grease-joint.
I work for Panera Bread. Let me say that it is no surprise to me that we're the biggest provider of Free Wi-Fi. I've only been with the company for a month and I can see why people go there: the great food, and the great environment. The free Wi-Fi draws even more people. Not to be a salesman, but if you haven't gone to a Panera Bread, try it.
I was a head cashier in a retail store where I worked for a year and a half. I was a cashier for 8 months before I was promoted. There were about a dozen cashiers, usually with 3 on nights, 4-8 on weekends. It was my responsibility to make sure that everyone had something to do, and that they worked within the "LP" (Loss Prevention) standards. The first few weeks as a head cashier, I made it clear that the front end would be clean every night, and that there would almost always be something to do.
I would do all the jobs they had to do for cleaning, did anything they did. I did everything I expected them to do. If someone did something especially well, I cut them some slack the next night. I thanked them at the end of each night. I only checked how they did their jobs once in a while to make sure they weren't slacking off. Every night I made sure that the front end was the first cleaned so when closing time came, we were ready to leave. If other departments needed help, I or another cashier would help.
Now that they had gotten used to me and what I like, I didn't need to tell them anymore. It was "Mike, I'm gonna go get the vacuum and clean the vestibule," "Mike, I'll do the hangars tonight since XXXXX did them last night." Then one day, I said, "Ryan, could you clean the end caps?" He had already done them.
One night we had a call out, and we were particularly busy. We didn't have a chance to clean: the other departments helped us.
All you have to do is treat the people who you are entrusted with managing with respect and show them what you would like done. Once they know what needs to get done, they'll get it done. Like another poster said, most people want to do their job well. All you need to do is let them know that you expect them to do their jobs, and that them doing their jobs directly results in a reward for them and the company.
Three of my friends and I wanted to take pictures of exploding balloons. So, we built a circuit to trigger a flash (a strobe actually), and borrowed a camera. We got some amazing pictures out of it (http://www.benza.us/group4/. See second- and third-to-last), while at the same time ended up with extra credit we never intended on. We even ended up doing a short lesson on it.
To make physics cool, all you need are teachers who make it fun. When it's fun, it's cool.
Prior to the balloons, we made a potato cannon. Our next project is a ballistic pendulum...If that's not bringing cool and physics together, I don't know what is.
Wow...I feel like an idiot now....I guess I should read the whole thing first...
Whoops
If they say the Web or the Internet then they'ld [sic] be wrong. The internet was started 35 years ago by DARPA. . .
Not necessarily. Yes, the internet was invented 35 years ago, but so were hearing aids. Modern hearing aids are on there so, a Modern internet could also be on the list.
Oh, now I get it!!! Homeland Security is so vastly affected by Rubik's cubes...It teaches kids about how 'cells' can connect and communicate with each other, how positions of power can shift around, and finally how to throw something (a Rubik's cube now, a person later) against a wall.
Thank God for Homeland Security! It's nice to see that someone in government is doing their job!
Sorry, but that tells us nothing. Apples and Oranges. First we're given a measure of nuclear power, then we're given a measure of combustion power. They can't easily be compared, unless you know that 1 nuke = X space shuttle fuel tanks (lets get out of junior high...)...
Slashdot is probably read my a mostly American crowd, and only can bring down small servers. But considering the important articles being posted today, we may have a few "large chunks" on their way down.
The games make practically no money. The sale of tickets is purely to eliminate people mobbing events. Think of the income the Olympics will bring to Athens. Thousands of hotel reservations, mostly price gouged. Millions of meals to serve. Transportation for all the spectators. The point is that you can't go to Athens any time soon without spending thousands on hotels, food, transportation, extras, tickets, and all that.
Assuming the head of this thing has a whopping 1" radius from the center of the bolt, that's 360 lbs of force the fastner needs to apply. And the largest volume that this fastener will take up? 3.14 in^3? 6.28?
These screws will only be useful for detailing unless they can tap power magically from anywhere they want.
I was tempted to say, "Decidedly short"...