Gee, I didn't expect to discuss Machiavellian arts here;)
Speaking for myself, I tend to be good at solving programming problems. I can also absorb a system that has been conceived by highly appreciated and lauded and abstract the essence so that a better performing and easier to maintain system results. I do that because computer languages sort of make sense to me. Of course I also have a formal degree.
What I see is that certain people just know how to make a group work. Apparently just by being present they seem to hack it. Just as programming languages make sense to me, to them communicating with people is second nature.
Having said that, after years of dealing with people I sort of learned the trade too and I have come to a respectable level in communicating with people. The difference is that the natural born managers almost never develop shortcomings in technical areas. Whether they eventually need it is yet another matter.
Lets just clear something up right now, gun bans have NEVER worked and will NEVER work because of one simple flaw in the logic. you see criminals? DON'T FOLLOW LAWS which is why they are called criminals, fucking duh!
Dude, get out of your basement and take a trip to western Europe. Experience gun bans with less crime than in the US before being a naysayer.
I've always felt that performing well in school is less a measure of intelligence and more a measure of one's ability to follow rules, complete assigned tasks, get along with teachers and classmates, and behave in socially acceptable ways. It even seems like highly intelligent people often perform worse-than-average in school because high intelligence often comes along with lower-than-average social skills (or a disinterest in adhering to social norms).
Naah. Intelligence is often coupled to solving mathematic problems. I claim that social skills also take intelligence. A less measurable one perhaps but still.
Sure. When skills are beyond doubt there is that je ne sais quoi that lets you and the prospect resonate or at least give you an intense and good feeling.
My main car most likely has technology in it that is 17 years old. My leisure car only has a decent ECU of about 10 years old and the mechanical technology varies from 30 to 50 years. Still I can easily maintain that very few other cars or even motorcycles will be able to overtake me on mountain passes and also provide the sheer pleasure the little leisure car does.
What I mean to say is that new technology per-se isn't a guarantee for your itch to be scratched. I'd be pleased to eventually buy a newer main car with technology that may be 8 years old.
Also, Maria has strong Christian association and hence sells better to ameri^H^H^H^Hreligious zealots. JosefDB and BabyJesusDB would also be serious contenders. Praise the lord! Amen.
It's far from free. You simply pay with your personal information instead of your wallet.
I agree with you partly. It's not that you can go into a shop and pay the loaf of bread with a bunch of "personal information". Google goes through great lengths to analyse your information and make it more valuable. Whether Google is ethical about it is for this discussion besides the point.
Google users don't pay in any currency. Usually issues with Google services are well documented and I take that is in order to minimise support costs. IMHO if you use a service for which you don't pay with money and you need someone to search and read you documents because you're too lazy to do that yourself, then pay them to do so. And otherwise seek and pay for a service that suits you best.
Stap my vitals! Jolly rotten I say.
Still I hope he got to shag the old gal. You know, for old times sake and all that rot. And, of course, to sort of compensate for the troubles he went through. I mean, the old spouse will never believe him anyway, so he might as well. And with considerable vim I say!
IIRC she also wanted to give BT the go ahead to roll out a national fibre optic network in the 80s too, but was defeated by a legal ruling from the competition commission.
We'd have been so far ahead of our time if she'd got her way on that one.
Indeed you assume I'm British. But I'm not. I lived in the Netherlands for quite some time, where I came into contact with British contractors. They motivated me to do the "daring" thing and to sell my skills for 4 times the price I was getting then. That's how much positive influence Mrs. Thatcher had on me, a regular guy that likes to do his job well.
More Britishness rubbed off and I genuinely started to appreciate the Brits. Keep in mind that when I was in NL I was mostly surrounded by left wingers that listened to UB40 and thought little of Thatcher. Sod prejudice!
This is geek news because she created the conditions where IT professionals could sell their skills at a decent price. If you were in commercial IT between 1985 and 2005 and you didn't even try to become self employed, then you should ask yourself whether you missed something.
I am aware that the deregulation of the financial market went too far. However, I maintain that if Mrs. Thatcher wouldn't have exercised her influence, the UK would not have thrived as it did.
A colleague of mine proudly takes his tablet to the can. Never mind the wanking, it's his hygiene that bothers me. Won't touch that or any other tablet/smart phone with a barge pole. At least regular keyboards are not often brought into the loo.
Cheap hydrogen? This lad here only settles for premium. Not only are the atoms more shiny but all my my friends use it and I really want to be part of the in crowd.
You have to admire the sheer cheek. Sure, he's a loony and puts people's life at risk. Nonetheless, not even remotely hindered by any kind of empathy, this idiot pushes on. In a different setting his career would have sky rocketed.
Where I live prices are sky high. I grumble at it a bit and I do buy from abroad. However, it is to me a sign that the economy I live in can bear the price. As a matter of fact, beginning of may I will take a trip to England to buy tyres for my car. No kidding!
You'd almost say that it is normal, sound business practice to get the most out of your products. For my car tyres it actually is sound and clean business practice as anyone could import those tyres and offer them to me at a lower price. But nobody really bothers because the market for this type of tyre is small.
If MS, Adobe and Apple would "allow" parallel imports (which I think they won't be to keen on) then nothing would be wrong here. I suspect however that should you open a shop in the US to resell the software products to Australia, that you'd have a pretty hard time. Volume rebates and supply would most likely turn out to be disappointing.
The only option is to push globalisation further and to put penalties on uncompetitive behaviour. That would also have the side effect that, say, 3rd world countries would have easier entrance to our food market.
I can't neither get my weight down enough nor my condition high enough to bike to work. Somehow the 500m (1500 ft) difference in height has gotten too much for me. So I took up swimming. 3 to 4 times a week 40 minutes of exercising. Without killing myself and without ruining my ligaments. I feel good and I knew that I would! And nice. Try it.
Clearly POV is the killer application. I have seen one or two samples of it's outcome by various artists, who mostly remain anonymous, and are merely recognizable by the occasional body part coming, into view.
Use one real monitor, a real keyboard and a real mouse and switch between applications using Alt-Tab or something equivalent. Colleagues of mine switch constantly between the two and take significantly more time to switch context. Constantly dragging windows from one monitor to the other is really silly and IMHO illustrates how you aren't in control of your environment.
YMMV but, in any case, consider the cost of context switches and minimize that.
Also, in my experience, changing position frequently allows me to view things from different perspective. And for me that not only has positive physical consequences. My mind remains healthier -or so I believe- and pressure points on my body vary.
I like the Wii U because I get to see more of my teenage son. He's at an age where he's either out with his buddies or spending time with his girlfriend. (I come in as the financial enabler.) He plays Call of Duty on the controller -which he actually prefers it to the 46'' TV- and stays with us as the bluetooth connection doesn't reach his room. And yes, we talk. Not perfect, but decent family time considering his age.
I know where he's coming from. Once I was young an behaved like he does now.
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Gee, I didn't expect to discuss Machiavellian arts here;)
Speaking for myself, I tend to be good at solving programming problems. I can also absorb a system that has been conceived by highly appreciated and lauded and abstract the essence so that a better performing and easier to maintain system results. I do that because computer languages sort of make sense to me. Of course I also have a formal degree.
What I see is that certain people just know how to make a group work. Apparently just by being present they seem to hack it. Just as programming languages make sense to me, to them communicating with people is second nature.
Having said that, after years of dealing with people I sort of learned the trade too and I have come to a respectable level in communicating with people. The difference is that the natural born managers almost never develop shortcomings in technical areas. Whether they eventually need it is yet another matter.
Lets just clear something up right now, gun bans have NEVER worked and will NEVER work because of one simple flaw in the logic. you see criminals? DON'T FOLLOW LAWS which is why they are called criminals, fucking duh!
Dude, get out of your basement and take a trip to western Europe. Experience gun bans with less crime than in the US before being a naysayer.
I've always felt that performing well in school is less a measure of intelligence and more a measure of one's ability to follow rules, complete assigned tasks, get along with teachers and classmates, and behave in socially acceptable ways. It even seems like highly intelligent people often perform worse-than-average in school because high intelligence often comes along with lower-than-average social skills (or a disinterest in adhering to social norms).
Naah. Intelligence is often coupled to solving mathematic problems. I claim that social skills also take intelligence. A less measurable one perhaps but still.
Sure. When skills are beyond doubt there is that je ne sais quoi that lets you and the prospect resonate or at least give you an intense and good feeling.
My main car most likely has technology in it that is 17 years old. My leisure car only has a decent ECU of about 10 years old and the mechanical technology varies from 30 to 50 years. Still I can easily maintain that very few other cars or even motorcycles will be able to overtake me on mountain passes and also provide the sheer pleasure the little leisure car does.
What I mean to say is that new technology per-se isn't a guarantee for your itch to be scratched. I'd be pleased to eventually buy a newer main car with technology that may be 8 years old.
Also, Maria has strong Christian association and hence sells better to ameri^H^H^H^Hreligious zealots. JosefDB and BabyJesusDB would also be serious contenders. Praise the lord! Amen.
It's far from free. You simply pay with your personal information instead of your wallet.
I agree with you partly. It's not that you can go into a shop and pay the loaf of bread with a bunch of "personal information". Google goes through great lengths to analyse your information and make it more valuable. Whether Google is ethical about it is for this discussion besides the point.
Google users don't pay in any currency. Usually issues with Google services are well documented and I take that is in order to minimise support costs. IMHO if you use a service for which you don't pay with money and you need someone to search and read you documents because you're too lazy to do that yourself, then pay them to do so. And otherwise seek and pay for a service that suits you best.
Stap my vitals! Jolly rotten I say.
Still I hope he got to shag the old gal. You know, for old times sake and all that rot. And, of course, to sort of compensate for the troubles he went through. I mean, the old spouse will never believe him anyway, so he might as well. And with considerable vim I say!
IIRC she also wanted to give BT the go ahead to roll out a national fibre optic network in the 80s too, but was defeated by a legal ruling from the competition commission.
We'd have been so far ahead of our time if she'd got her way on that one.
Indeed you assume I'm British. But I'm not. I lived in the Netherlands for quite some time, where I came into contact with British contractors. They motivated me to do the "daring" thing and to sell my skills for 4 times the price I was getting then. That's how much positive influence Mrs. Thatcher had on me, a regular guy that likes to do his job well.
More Britishness rubbed off and I genuinely started to appreciate the Brits. Keep in mind that when I was in NL I was mostly surrounded by left wingers that listened to UB40 and thought little of Thatcher. Sod prejudice!
This is geek news because she created the conditions where IT professionals could sell their skills at a decent price. If you were in commercial IT between 1985 and 2005 and you didn't even try to become self employed, then you should ask yourself whether you missed something.
I am aware that the deregulation of the financial market went too far. However, I maintain that if Mrs. Thatcher wouldn't have exercised her influence, the UK would not have thrived as it did.
You spell "a***", not "a**". For f***'s sake, learn English!
A colleague of mine proudly takes his tablet to the can. Never mind the wanking, it's his hygiene that bothers me. Won't touch that or any other tablet/smart phone with a barge pole. At least regular keyboards are not often brought into the loo.
Never suspected BlackBerry users to watch porn. Or do anything to lighten up a party for that matter.
Parchment -no less- does it for my ancient emails.
Cheap hydrogen? This lad here only settles for premium. Not only are the atoms more shiny but all my my friends use it and I really want to be part of the in crowd.
You have to admire the sheer cheek. Sure, he's a loony and puts people's life at risk. Nonetheless, not even remotely hindered by any kind of empathy, this idiot pushes on. In a different setting his career would have sky rocketed.
What?! Doing nothing AND wanking the whole day?
Where I live prices are sky high. I grumble at it a bit and I do buy from abroad. However, it is to me a sign that the economy I live in can bear the price. As a matter of fact, beginning of may I will take a trip to England to buy tyres for my car. No kidding!
You'd almost say that it is normal, sound business practice to get the most out of your products. For my car tyres it actually is sound and clean business practice as anyone could import those tyres and offer them to me at a lower price. But nobody really bothers because the market for this type of tyre is small.
If MS, Adobe and Apple would "allow" parallel imports (which I think they won't be to keen on) then nothing would be wrong here. I suspect however that should you open a shop in the US to resell the software products to Australia, that you'd have a pretty hard time. Volume rebates and supply would most likely turn out to be disappointing.
The only option is to push globalisation further and to put penalties on uncompetitive behaviour. That would also have the side effect that, say, 3rd world countries would have easier entrance to our food market.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Yank Tank full of flash drives hurtling down the Carretera Central.
It is an expensive proposition however to lay thousands of miles of pipe.
I take it'll be cheaper than to lay thousands of miles of oil pipe.
I can't neither get my weight down enough nor my condition high enough to bike to work. Somehow the 500m (1500 ft) difference in height has gotten too much for me. So I took up swimming. 3 to 4 times a week 40 minutes of exercising. Without killing myself and without ruining my ligaments. I feel good and I knew that I would! And nice. Try it.
Clearly POV is the killer application. I have seen one or two samples of it's outcome by various artists, who mostly remain anonymous, and are merely recognizable by the occasional body part coming, into view.
Use one real monitor, a real keyboard and a real mouse and switch between applications using Alt-Tab or something equivalent. Colleagues of mine switch constantly between the two and take significantly more time to switch context. Constantly dragging windows from one monitor to the other is really silly and IMHO illustrates how you aren't in control of your environment.
YMMV but, in any case, consider the cost of context switches and minimize that.
Also, in my experience, changing position frequently allows me to view things from different perspective. And for me that not only has positive physical consequences. My mind remains healthier -or so I believe- and pressure points on my body vary.
Perent here as well.
I like the Wii U because I get to see more of my teenage son. He's at an age where he's either out with his buddies or spending time with his girlfriend. (I come in as the financial enabler.) He plays Call of Duty on the controller -which he actually prefers it to the 46'' TV- and stays with us as the bluetooth connection doesn't reach his room. And yes, we talk. Not perfect, but decent family time considering his age.
I know where he's coming from. Once I was young an behaved like he does now.
I speak very good English. I learned it from a man page.
Credits partly to John Cleese.