That may be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. I can infer that you were the victim of a keying in the past, and are using this argument to avoid admitting you created the situation where someone felt justified in doing it. If you didn't create such a situation, and your car was vandalized randomly, you'd be a lot more indignant. If you haven't been keyed at all, then you wouldn't be judging others so definitively for doing it. And if you haven't been keyed, but you came up with this "defective character" thesis ab initio, then that's the case where this becomes one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
Here's the thing: Steve Jobs, tying up handicapped parking spaces at his own company, instead of FILLING THEM WITH HANDICAPPED WORKERS AND ISSUING HIMSELF A SPACE OF HIS OWN, is about the douchiest thing I've ever heard of. I'd fucking FILM myself keying his car, then email it to him. Let him try to collect for the repairs. The Streisand Effect would be the coup de grace in that plot. It's not treating him all that well now, anyway.
You have confirmed that you are a frothing jackass: 1. I have not been the victim of keying but have been with someone who discovered that his car had been keyed for no discernible reason. I am interested in learning how keying cars is beneficial to society. Is it OK if I practice on your car? 2. Combatting a perceived wrong with another wrong is the sign of poor character. Where is the justice in your approach? What is the incentive to act righteously in the future? Also, if you think that using vulgar language and caps lock helps you make your point, you should reconsider. Your rebuttal reads as if written by a ten year old. 3. Not everything is about Steve Jobs. My point is that keying cars is an absolute wrong. Let go of your rage already. Find some outlet and vent in a healthy manner. 4. If my post is truly "one of the stupidest things I've ever read" then I suggest you cut back on your internet forum activity lest you suffer (additional) lasting damage.
5. Please try to have a pleasant day and refrain from raging on somebody's property.
HP certainly shot themselves in the foot with this. Who in their right mind would consider a HP computer if even they aren't confident about them?
My very large defense contractor employer had already arranged for acquiring machines from HP months before the news of HP abandoning the PC business broke. Two weeks ago I traded in a Dell D630 for an HP Elitebook 8440p. The Elitebook does not seem particularly elite compared to my 2006 vintage Macbook Pro, but it does look nicer and is thinner than the replaced Dell. I don't care for the 16:9 aspect ratio and the keyboard has very little resistive spring force, so I fat-finger far more often than on anything else, including ruggedized keyboards from iKey and the like. Also, why is it that only Apple laptops have a trackpad which has seen any progress in a decade?
Your question still stands, but the answers will be revealed over the next 12 months as large corporations execute their tech refresh strategies.
I don't care who is the owner of the car or whatever the offense is - keying a car is bad form. Many worked hard to design & build that car and its form is a testament to their efforts as well as the values of the car's owner. Keying a car only shows your defective character.
Basically same story here: Parents were too lazy to submit FAFSA (I wasn't assertive enough to see it through). Accepted to Rose-Hulman, ended up enlisted instead, which lasted 11 years. Completed my BSEE a few years after that, taking on a debt of $11K in 3 years of school including 1 very heavy summer term / 120 or so credits. Total bill was 49.5K (thanks, Montgomery GI Bill). Maybe I should have left after my first enlistment, but I had some great assignments.
Anyways, if what you want to do with your life requires a college education, then you'll find a way.
BTW, community college can get you part of the way to a bachelors degree for (sometimes much) less expense than a big school. I have attended classes at Monterey Peninsula College and the in-state student costs were very, very low (like eleven dollars per credit) in the late 90s; guess they still are low today. Schools in Ohio seem to be much more expensive.
what is the return on investment? these days we have IP KVM's and integrated light out from HP that give you access to a server from a cell phone if need be. how much is this gizmo going to cost compared to existing solutions and how is it going to save our employers money?
To answer your first question, it seems good for Intel to make the CPU the bottleneck again, that way we finally feel the need to buy new CPUs. As for home use, my MiL's current, C2D 3.06GHz, iMac does not seem appreciably faster than my C2D (Merom) 2.33GHz Macbook Pro which I have had since October of 2006. My informal Handbrake benchmark (crunching video is my only real use for fast computer gear these days) is out of whack due to a recent switch to 64bit Handbrake and 64-bit nightly build of VLC, but they seem to be in the same league, definitely not worlds apart as a 3.5 year difference in tech should have yielded.
I have done some moving around as an airman, let me tell you that the heat in AZ is no joke. I was stationed in Tucson after a year in Korea (comparable to FL for humidity and heat in the summer, if you mean that the longest you may be dry is for 20 seconds after toweling off after a cold shower). Stopped drinking alcoholic beverages as I was not 21 yet. No joke, I arrived in Tucson in May and found myself hungover like all the time until I learned to carry water with me everywhere.
Ok, now get used to Tucson (110-ish) and visit Phoenix. Holy shit it is hot there! As soon as you see the signs for the Chandler exits you realize that there is a difference between the two cities. Saudi Arabia (Al Kharj) wasn't all that bad coming from Tucson.
Now I live in OH, and it is basically cold all the time (to me). Summers can be pretty humid. Winter sucks hard.
This is not just a tablet computer, this is a big-ass iPod
This is also exactly why so many slashdotters hate the thing. It's nothing more than an ipod so big I can't even fit it in my pocket. Why in the world would I want that?
Because your argument against the iPad is basically a repeat of others' rants, and because the argument itself is just plain pathetic, I hope that in the very near future clothes with an iPad-sized pocket dominate so that for the next ten years you will be able to show us all how contrary you are simply by having an empty iPad pocket.
The 1.8 million fares represent a tiny fraction of a total 360 million trips over the 26-month period in question.
Taxi drivers are people. People make mistakes. One mistake per two hundred trips does not seem unreasonable, especially considering that the frequency of incidents per driver probably follows a power-law distribution and the median number of mistakes per driver is likely much lower. Another way of looking at it is that 25% of drivers didn't make a single mistake in more than two years of driving.
I agree. Surgeons are people, as are engineers, airline pilots, lawyers, nurses, construction workers, and pretty much any other kind of worker. Who cares if they are dishonest or make mistakes once every 200 tasks?
Back to the topic: I have never experienced dishonesty with Korean cab drivers in two tours and a number of side trips there. Regular cabs (not the deluxe cabs) are very affordable. US armed forces members take note: Korean cabs are less expensive than AAFES cabs.
My last tour at Osan I took a cab to base nearly every morning once there was enough snow and ice to make walking from the Korea Telecom building (very near where I lived) to the main gate. Also took a cab for every trip to the landromat. And on many other occasions.
Of course it helps if you speak Korean; it always blows their minds when a caucasian speaks their language. This means adhering to conventions of respect which are not taught in bars.
Well, it seems like you have found an opportunity for a new business. Good luck with finding free engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution services. Maybe you need to benefit from economy of scale. You may be able to expand your market by promoting free rock concerts at crowded subway stations.
That raises a good point: If I launch a missile at my enemy or an unfortunate neighbor, and the missile's internal computer uses GPL software, then do I have to include a copy of the GPL source code (or make an offer to provide the code by mail) somewhere in the payload?
"If you can compile this then you are one lucky SOB"
Just hypothetical; I don't design, build, or launch missiles professionally or otherwise:\
When the hell are phone manufacturers going to provide microphone feedback so you can hear your own voice in the earpiece? It's not like it's hard. (And I'm not talking about the half-second-delay echo of my own voice that I sometimes get on AT&T)
Exactly. Also, if the phone detects that your voice is much much louder than the ambient noise it should howl in the speaker's ear. Rudeness should exhibit self-inductance.
If the person on the other end can't hear you then they can reposition their handset or increase the volume.
In late Nov. last year I was called by LockMart for an interview for an entry level hardware engineer position. I had been looking elsewhere since May after graduating with a BSEE and with 3.39 GPA. Early in the morning of the interview we received the first major snow of the winter. I ended up stuck on the highway, 18 miles from the interview, for nearly 4 hours. I called to let my contact know I was going to get there when I could get there.
That day I interviewed with several people from about 11:30 until 4:00. Lunch was provided. All the interviewers were understanding of the delay and were professionally courteous. No one had any overt smug attitude, and now that I have been working with them for over a year, I can say that they did not at all act out of character for the interview.
That evening I received a phone call from one of the managers that the interview was well received and that if I wanted the position that HR would be notified that I was the candidate of their choice.
Is there anything special about me that allowed me to land a nice job with little trouble with a MegaCorp at the height of the recession? Attention to detail, self confidence, and a can-do attitude which indicated that although I had a successful 11 years of service in the Air Force in an unrelated career field (linguist), I understood that I have no relevant experience in engineering and was willing to do a lot of [desk-bound] grunt work and learn how they conduct business.
Contrast this with another lead I had been pursuing at the time: a small NASA contractor interviewed me for a test engineer position. This was/is my dream job, setting up tests for the NASA scientists. I toured the facilities and was all but shaking with desire to work there. The managers were friendly if not a bit short about asking questions. The young (well, younger than me, anyways) engineer they sent to show me the facilities and interview me seemed unenthusiastic about interviewing me. After about an hour or so of walking & talking (more looking around than conversing, unfortunately), we prepared to return to the manager's office. At that time he basically let me know that he thought I was playing the field for interviews (I had been unemployed since graduating several months earlier), ostensibly to grab the highest salary offered. I told him I was not bullshitting (at that point I knew he was going to torpedo my candidacy) that I really wanted the job.
The hiring manager let me know that they were going to weigh their options and get back to me within 3 weeks. I sent a good thank-you letter, reiterating my strong desire to work there. He failed to call within a month, so I sent email reminding him that I was still interested. He claimed that with Obama's election that their capacity to take on new workers was unknown (NASA being a political / budgetary football, I guess) and that he'd get back to me when he knew what was going to happen. About a week or so later I noticed that the position disappeared from their website; I called to ascertain the status of the position and the guy basically blew up at me over the phone.
A week later I was called to see if I wanted to interview with LockMart, and the rest is [recent] history.
So there, AC, if you think that mega-corp interviewers are arrogant, then you may be meeting with jerks or you may have some sensitivity / self-confidence issues.
. Whoops! All this was in late 2008, not last year.
In late Nov. last year I was called by LockMart for an interview for an entry level hardware engineer position. I had been looking elsewhere since May after graduating with a BSEE and with 3.39 GPA. Early in the morning of the interview we received the first major snow of the winter. I ended up stuck on the highway, 18 miles from the interview, for nearly 4 hours. I called to let my contact know I was going to get there when I could get there.
That day I interviewed with several people from about 11:30 until 4:00. Lunch was provided. All the interviewers were understanding of the delay and were professionally courteous. No one had any overt smug attitude, and now that I have been working with them for over a year, I can say that they did not at all act out of character for the interview.
That evening I received a phone call from one of the managers that the interview was well received and that if I wanted the position that HR would be notified that I was the candidate of their choice.
Is there anything special about me that allowed me to land a nice job with little trouble with a MegaCorp at the height of the recession? Attention to detail, self confidence, and a can-do attitude which indicated that although I had a successful 11 years of service in the Air Force in an unrelated career field (linguist), I understood that I have no relevant experience in engineering and was willing to do a lot of [desk-bound] grunt work and learn how they conduct business.
Contrast this with another lead I had been pursuing at the time: a small NASA contractor interviewed me for a test engineer position. This was/is my dream job, setting up tests for the NASA scientists. I toured the facilities and was all but shaking with desire to work there. The managers were friendly if not a bit short about asking questions. The young (well, younger than me, anyways) engineer they sent to show me the facilities and interview me seemed unenthusiastic about interviewing me. After about an hour or so of walking & talking (more looking around than conversing, unfortunately), we prepared to return to the manager's office. At that time he basically let me know that he thought I was playing the field for interviews (I had been unemployed since graduating several months earlier), ostensibly to grab the highest salary offered. I told him I was not bullshitting (at that point I knew he was going to torpedo my candidacy) that I really wanted the job.
The hiring manager let me know that they were going to weigh their options and get back to me within 3 weeks. I sent a good thank-you letter, reiterating my strong desire to work there. He failed to call within a month, so I sent email reminding him that I was still interested. He claimed that with Obama's election that their capacity to take on new workers was unknown (NASA being a political / budgetary football, I guess) and that he'd get back to me when he knew what was going to happen. About a week or so later I noticed that the position disappeared from their website; I called to ascertain the status of the position and the guy basically blew up at me over the phone.
A week later I was called to see if I wanted to interview with LockMart, and the rest is [recent] history.
So there, AC, if you think that mega-corp interviewers are arrogant, then you may be meeting with jerks or you may have some sensitivity / self-confidence issues.
nope, ipconfig doesn't address the situation. The "authenticate with WPA" option simply disappears from the pulldown menu, only Open and WEP remain until the connection is completely deleted and re-established. Happens roughly 4x per year.
Yeah. Because pilots are superhuman and never have to take a piss or eat something.
Piddle packs and packed lunches. Port-o-john & shower curtain for sit-down work. If we as a society require the kind of security that our leaders profess we need, then our airframe designers must make room for accommodating these features. They are good enough for C-130 aircrew.
Maybe not many are familiar with the 70V audio systems. Don't mod parent down or freak out about using 24AWG speaker line (phone, Cat 5, etc) without doing some research.
iTunes, Airport Express, and iPod Touch with (free) Remote app here. Works great, not particularly expensive. I'm not really contributing anything other than giving one more bit of anecdotal evidence that Apple delivers on usability.
I have been a subscriber to Armstrong OneWire for cable internet for the last 5 years and the bandwidth has not changed at all. You would think that the price would drop, but it has remained constant, too.
Where I live in Ohio there is no incentive to invest in BB networks. There is no real competition.
I was a language instructor as a SSgt in the USAF at the defense language institute Korean school in Monterey, CA. One of my students, an Army Special Forces SFC with Thai language experience (I have none), was participating in a creative role play involving numbers and vocabulary commonly used with numbers.
He put on his army trench coat (class b uniform day) stood in front of the class, and proceeded to act like a guy who sells watches on the street. His sales pitch (for a tv commercial, I guess) went fairly well until he started to give his 555-nnnn phone number in Thai rather than Korean.
The other students an I who had been concentrating keenly to figure out just what the hell the student SFC had been saying were totally taken by surprise by what we heard and a good laugh was had by all. The SFC was clearly working hard to communicate his free-form message (compared to many other lessons which concentrate on formatted language transactions such as greetings, weather reports, etc.), and it was quite a scene when he slipped into another language.
According to TFA, Brown has been employed as a screener since 2002. How much has he already sold?
Are there more sophisticated screeners in organized crime?
I'm so disgusted we pay people to waste our time, harass us, and steal from us. I'm looking at you, dept. of homeland security and TSA. Go out and get productive jobs, you leaches.
I change my preference based on whether I need more plastic bags for small trash bins. Sometimes it is nice to have a paper bag which generally takes a regular shape in the trunk for efficient loading. For small loads plastic is great with the hooks in the lid of the trunk.
Generally we bring our own bags (but sometimes they're in the other car). It is nice that some places give a discount. Aldi's charges for bags you don't bring, Beuhler's gives a discount for each bag you bring. However, Marc's in NE Ohio has the flimsiest bags in the world. Prices are fine, but you must BYOBags.
End of fall term, release of new game consoles- gamecube and xbox games are cheap, i have time before spring term starts. Bought lego star wars, halo (yes, never played it) paper mario: 1000 year door, and several others for $20 or less. Saw player's choice on box, figured must be good. Paper Mario was a lot of fun, the badge system really made the rpg much more interesting than it would have otherwise.
Wife is not a gamer. She tried lego star wars, is very good at it- far better than I am. Two person cooperative play with penalty-free drop-in/out makes the game brilliant, I wish there were more with co-op mode. I agree about the variety. Also, the podracing/collision avoidance "scenes" are just the right length in duration- there is another star wars game, maybe came with the xbox, where the podrace part was punishment, lego star wars is not like that (much).The story mode is very short, blew through episodes 1 and 2 in a long evening of play. However, it does follow the movies very well. This is a must have for fans of Star Wars and Legos, no doubt. I am mildly interested in either, and find the game well worth the $20.
Got a wii yesterday. Live in the middle of nowhere, camping/making daily store runs is not gonna happen, so I camped the wii tracker pages and ordered the TRU #2 bundle last Friday. Comes with games I don't want, but does come with a wii. And Zelda. Also got RRR and a bunch of extra controllers (when I was commuting to the city for school). Wii sports is so much fun! I don't have much of an aptitude for sports in general, and don't ever look forward to madden et all, but Nintendo did it right. This is definitely going with me on visits to friends and family for a long time.
***Incredibly vague Zelda spoilers ahead****
I have played zelda for about 5 hours-- just got into the first dungeon (in the forest after collecting about 8 things). It looks to be as immersive as anyone could ask. I have avoided any spoilers up to this point and am avoiding seeking help, just the wife and I solving the puzzles. Experience with previous Zelda titles makes one feel right at home. Combat is... similar to wind waker, but different. Aiming missile weapons with the wiimote is great. Swordplay can be reduced to jerking the controller, doesn't matter since at this point enemies are still very weak (i have 3 hearts in my life gauge) and link has not "learned" many techniques.
***Spoiler mode off***
You and your wife are without a doubt gonna love gaming on the wii.
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That may be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. I can infer that you were the victim of a keying in the past, and are using this argument to avoid admitting you created the situation where someone felt justified in doing it. If you didn't create such a situation, and your car was vandalized randomly, you'd be a lot more indignant. If you haven't been keyed at all, then you wouldn't be judging others so definitively for doing it. And if you haven't been keyed, but you came up with this "defective character" thesis ab initio, then that's the case where this becomes one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
Here's the thing: Steve Jobs, tying up handicapped parking spaces at his own company, instead of FILLING THEM WITH HANDICAPPED WORKERS AND ISSUING HIMSELF A SPACE OF HIS OWN, is about the douchiest thing I've ever heard of. I'd fucking FILM myself keying his car, then email it to him. Let him try to collect for the repairs. The Streisand Effect would be the coup de grace in that plot. It's not treating him all that well now, anyway.
You have confirmed that you are a frothing jackass:
1. I have not been the victim of keying but have been with someone who discovered that his car had been keyed for no discernible reason. I am interested in learning how keying cars is beneficial to society. Is it OK if I practice on your car?
2. Combatting a perceived wrong with another wrong is the sign of poor character. Where is the justice in your approach? What is the incentive to act righteously in the future? Also, if you think that using vulgar language and caps lock helps you make your point, you should reconsider. Your rebuttal reads as if written by a ten year old.
3. Not everything is about Steve Jobs. My point is that keying cars is an absolute wrong. Let go of your rage already. Find some outlet and vent in a healthy manner.
4. If my post is truly "one of the stupidest things I've ever read" then I suggest you cut back on your internet forum activity lest you suffer (additional) lasting damage.
5. Please try to have a pleasant day and refrain from raging on somebody's property.
HP certainly shot themselves in the foot with this. Who in their right mind would consider a HP computer if even they aren't confident about them?
My very large defense contractor employer had already arranged for acquiring machines from HP months before the news of HP abandoning the PC business broke. Two weeks ago I traded in a Dell D630 for an HP Elitebook 8440p. The Elitebook does not seem particularly elite compared to my 2006 vintage Macbook Pro, but it does look nicer and is thinner than the replaced Dell. I don't care for the 16:9 aspect ratio and the keyboard has very little resistive spring force, so I fat-finger far more often than on anything else, including ruggedized keyboards from iKey and the like. Also, why is it that only Apple laptops have a trackpad which has seen any progress in a decade?
Your question still stands, but the answers will be revealed over the next 12 months as large corporations execute their tech refresh strategies.
I don't care who is the owner of the car or whatever the offense is - keying a car is bad form. Many worked hard to design & build that car and its form is a testament to their efforts as well as the values of the car's owner. Keying a car only shows your defective character.
Basically same story here: Parents were too lazy to submit FAFSA (I wasn't assertive enough to see it through). Accepted to Rose-Hulman, ended up enlisted instead, which lasted 11 years. Completed my BSEE a few years after that, taking on a debt of $11K in 3 years of school including 1 very heavy summer term / 120 or so credits. Total bill was 49.5K (thanks, Montgomery GI Bill). Maybe I should have left after my first enlistment, but I had some great assignments.
Anyways, if what you want to do with your life requires a college education, then you'll find a way.
BTW, community college can get you part of the way to a bachelors degree for (sometimes much) less expense than a big school. I have attended classes at Monterey Peninsula College and the in-state student costs were very, very low (like eleven dollars per credit) in the late 90s; guess they still are low today. Schools in Ohio seem to be much more expensive.
what is the return on investment? these days we have IP KVM's and integrated light out from HP that give you access to a server from a cell phone if need be. how much is this gizmo going to cost compared to existing solutions and how is it going to save our employers money?
To answer your first question, it seems good for Intel to make the CPU the bottleneck again, that way we finally feel the need to buy new CPUs. As for home use, my MiL's current, C2D 3.06GHz, iMac does not seem appreciably faster than my C2D (Merom) 2.33GHz Macbook Pro which I have had since October of 2006. My informal Handbrake benchmark (crunching video is my only real use for fast computer gear these days) is out of whack due to a recent switch to 64bit Handbrake and 64-bit nightly build of VLC, but they seem to be in the same league, definitely not worlds apart as a 3.5 year difference in tech should have yielded.
I have done some moving around as an airman, let me tell you that the heat in AZ is no joke. I was stationed in Tucson after a year in Korea (comparable to FL for humidity and heat in the summer, if you mean that the longest you may be dry is for 20 seconds after toweling off after a cold shower). Stopped drinking alcoholic beverages as I was not 21 yet. No joke, I arrived in Tucson in May and found myself hungover like all the time until I learned to carry water with me everywhere.
Ok, now get used to Tucson (110-ish) and visit Phoenix. Holy shit it is hot there! As soon as you see the signs for the Chandler exits you realize that there is a difference between the two cities. Saudi Arabia (Al Kharj) wasn't all that bad coming from Tucson.
Now I live in OH, and it is basically cold all the time (to me). Summers can be pretty humid. Winter sucks hard.
This is also exactly why so many slashdotters hate the thing. It's nothing more than an ipod so big I can't even fit it in my pocket. Why in the world would I want that?
Because your argument against the iPad is basically a repeat of others' rants, and because the argument itself is just plain pathetic, I hope that in the very near future clothes with an iPad-sized pocket dominate so that for the next ten years you will be able to show us all how contrary you are simply by having an empty iPad pocket.
Taxi drivers are people. People make mistakes. One mistake per two hundred trips does not seem unreasonable, especially considering that the frequency of incidents per driver probably follows a power-law distribution and the median number of mistakes per driver is likely much lower. Another way of looking at it is that 25% of drivers didn't make a single mistake in more than two years of driving.
I agree. Surgeons are people, as are engineers, airline pilots, lawyers, nurses, construction workers, and pretty much any other kind of worker. Who cares if they are dishonest or make mistakes once every 200 tasks?
Back to the topic: I have never experienced dishonesty with Korean cab drivers in two tours and a number of side trips there. Regular cabs (not the deluxe cabs) are very affordable. US armed forces members take note: Korean cabs are less expensive than AAFES cabs.
My last tour at Osan I took a cab to base nearly every morning once there was enough snow and ice to make walking from the Korea Telecom building (very near where I lived) to the main gate. Also took a cab for every trip to the landromat. And on many other occasions.
Of course it helps if you speak Korean; it always blows their minds when a caucasian speaks their language. This means adhering to conventions of respect which are not taught in bars.
Well, it seems like you have found an opportunity for a new business. Good luck with finding free engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution services. Maybe you need to benefit from economy of scale. You may be able to expand your market by promoting free rock concerts at crowded subway stations.
Actually, Hello.c seems appropriate.
I wonder if the default output for stdio.h for missiles is the fuse?
That raises a good point: If I launch a missile at my enemy or an unfortunate neighbor, and the missile's internal computer uses GPL software, then do I have to include a copy of the GPL source code (or make an offer to provide the code by mail) somewhere in the payload?
"If you can compile this then you are one lucky SOB"
Just hypothetical; I don't design, build, or launch missiles professionally or otherwise :\
When the hell are phone manufacturers going to provide microphone feedback so you can hear your own voice in the earpiece? It's not like it's hard. (And I'm not talking about the half-second-delay echo of my own voice that I sometimes get on AT&T)
Exactly. Also, if the phone detects that your voice is much much louder than the ambient noise it should howl in the speaker's ear. Rudeness should exhibit self-inductance.
If the person on the other end can't hear you then they can reposition their handset or increase the volume.
No.
In late Nov. last year I was called by LockMart for an interview for an entry level hardware engineer position. I had been looking elsewhere since May after graduating with a BSEE and with 3.39 GPA. Early in the morning of the interview we received the first major snow of the winter. I ended up stuck on the highway, 18 miles from the interview, for nearly 4 hours. I called to let my contact know I was going to get there when I could get there.
That day I interviewed with several people from about 11:30 until 4:00. Lunch was provided. All the interviewers were understanding of the delay and were professionally courteous. No one had any overt smug attitude, and now that I have been working with them for over a year, I can say that they did not at all act out of character for the interview.
That evening I received a phone call from one of the managers that the interview was well received and that if I wanted the position that HR would be notified that I was the candidate of their choice.
Is there anything special about me that allowed me to land a nice job with little trouble with a MegaCorp at the height of the recession? Attention to detail, self confidence, and a can-do attitude which indicated that although I had a successful 11 years of service in the Air Force in an unrelated career field (linguist), I understood that I have no relevant experience in engineering and was willing to do a lot of [desk-bound] grunt work and learn how they conduct business.
Contrast this with another lead I had been pursuing at the time: a small NASA contractor interviewed me for a test engineer position. This was/is my dream job, setting up tests for the NASA scientists. I toured the facilities and was all but shaking with desire to work there. The managers were friendly if not a bit short about asking questions. The young (well, younger than me, anyways) engineer they sent to show me the facilities and interview me seemed unenthusiastic about interviewing me. After about an hour or so of walking & talking (more looking around than conversing, unfortunately), we prepared to return to the manager's office. At that time he basically let me know that he thought I was playing the field for interviews (I had been unemployed since graduating several months earlier), ostensibly to grab the highest salary offered. I told him I was not bullshitting (at that point I knew he was going to torpedo my candidacy) that I really wanted the job.
The hiring manager let me know that they were going to weigh their options and get back to me within 3 weeks. I sent a good thank-you letter, reiterating my strong desire to work there. He failed to call within a month, so I sent email reminding him that I was still interested. He claimed that with Obama's election that their capacity to take on new workers was unknown (NASA being a political / budgetary football, I guess) and that he'd get back to me when he knew what was going to happen. About a week or so later I noticed that the position disappeared from their website; I called to ascertain the status of the position and the guy basically blew up at me over the phone.
A week later I was called to see if I wanted to interview with LockMart, and the rest is [recent] history.
So there, AC, if you think that mega-corp interviewers are arrogant, then you may be meeting with jerks or you may have some sensitivity / self-confidence issues.
. Whoops! All this was in late 2008, not last year.
No.
In late Nov. last year I was called by LockMart for an interview for an entry level hardware engineer position. I had been looking elsewhere since May after graduating with a BSEE and with 3.39 GPA. Early in the morning of the interview we received the first major snow of the winter. I ended up stuck on the highway, 18 miles from the interview, for nearly 4 hours. I called to let my contact know I was going to get there when I could get there.
That day I interviewed with several people from about 11:30 until 4:00. Lunch was provided. All the interviewers were understanding of the delay and were professionally courteous. No one had any overt smug attitude, and now that I have been working with them for over a year, I can say that they did not at all act out of character for the interview.
That evening I received a phone call from one of the managers that the interview was well received and that if I wanted the position that HR would be notified that I was the candidate of their choice.
Is there anything special about me that allowed me to land a nice job with little trouble with a MegaCorp at the height of the recession? Attention to detail, self confidence, and a can-do attitude which indicated that although I had a successful 11 years of service in the Air Force in an unrelated career field (linguist), I understood that I have no relevant experience in engineering and was willing to do a lot of [desk-bound] grunt work and learn how they conduct business.
Contrast this with another lead I had been pursuing at the time: a small NASA contractor interviewed me for a test engineer position. This was/is my dream job, setting up tests for the NASA scientists. I toured the facilities and was all but shaking with desire to work there. The managers were friendly if not a bit short about asking questions. The young (well, younger than me, anyways) engineer they sent to show me the facilities and interview me seemed unenthusiastic about interviewing me. After about an hour or so of walking & talking (more looking around than conversing, unfortunately), we prepared to return to the manager's office. At that time he basically let me know that he thought I was playing the field for interviews (I had been unemployed since graduating several months earlier), ostensibly to grab the highest salary offered. I told him I was not bullshitting (at that point I knew he was going to torpedo my candidacy) that I really wanted the job.
The hiring manager let me know that they were going to weigh their options and get back to me within 3 weeks. I sent a good thank-you letter, reiterating my strong desire to work there. He failed to call within a month, so I sent email reminding him that I was still interested. He claimed that with Obama's election that their capacity to take on new workers was unknown (NASA being a political / budgetary football, I guess) and that he'd get back to me when he knew what was going to happen. About a week or so later I noticed that the position disappeared from their website; I called to ascertain the status of the position and the guy basically blew up at me over the phone.
A week later I was called to see if I wanted to interview with LockMart, and the rest is [recent] history.
So there, AC, if you think that mega-corp interviewers are arrogant, then you may be meeting with jerks or you may have some sensitivity / self-confidence issues.
nope, ipconfig doesn't address the situation. The "authenticate with WPA" option simply disappears from the pulldown menu, only Open and WEP remain until the connection is completely deleted and re-established. Happens roughly 4x per year.
Yeah. Because pilots are superhuman and never have to take a piss or eat something.
Piddle packs and packed lunches. Port-o-john & shower curtain for sit-down work. If we as a society require the kind of security that our leaders profess we need, then our airframe designers must make room for accommodating these features. They are good enough for C-130 aircrew.
Maybe not many are familiar with the 70V audio systems. Don't mod parent down or freak out about using 24AWG speaker line (phone, Cat 5, etc) without doing some research.
Check out 70V systems: hook up loads of speakers, no problem. Think drive-in movie theater, Navy 1MC, etc.
iTunes, Airport Express, and iPod Touch with (free) Remote app here. Works great, not particularly expensive. I'm not really contributing anything other than giving one more bit of anecdotal evidence that Apple delivers on usability.
I have been a subscriber to Armstrong OneWire for cable internet for the last 5 years and the bandwidth has not changed at all. You would think that the price would drop, but it has remained constant, too.
Where I live in Ohio there is no incentive to invest in BB networks. There is no real competition.
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(a Thai joke)
I was a language instructor as a SSgt in the USAF at the defense language institute Korean school in Monterey, CA. One of my students, an Army Special Forces SFC with Thai language experience (I have none), was participating in a creative role play involving numbers and vocabulary commonly used with numbers.
He put on his army trench coat (class b uniform day) stood in front of the class, and proceeded to act like a guy who sells watches on the street. His sales pitch (for a tv commercial, I guess) went fairly well until he started to give his 555-nnnn phone number in Thai rather than Korean.
The other students an I who had been concentrating keenly to figure out just what the hell the student SFC had been saying were totally taken by surprise by what we heard and a good laugh was had by all. The SFC was clearly working hard to communicate his free-form message (compared to many other lessons which concentrate on formatted language transactions such as greetings, weather reports, etc.), and it was quite a scene when he slipped into another language.
Good times.
According to TFA, Brown has been employed as a screener since 2002. How much has he already sold?
Are there more sophisticated screeners in organized crime?
I'm so disgusted we pay people to waste our time, harass us, and steal from us. I'm looking at you, dept. of homeland security and TSA. Go out and get productive jobs, you leaches.
I change my preference based on whether I need more plastic bags for small trash bins. Sometimes it is nice to have a paper bag which generally takes a regular shape in the trunk for efficient loading. For small loads plastic is great with the hooks in the lid of the trunk.
Generally we bring our own bags (but sometimes they're in the other car). It is nice that some places give a discount. Aldi's charges for bags you don't bring, Beuhler's gives a discount for each bag you bring. However, Marc's in NE Ohio has the flimsiest bags in the world. Prices are fine, but you must BYOBags.
Posting late, sleepy, babbling, etc. sorry.
How sad would it be that if you still need to 'right-click' at all in the future where such replication is available.
Similar experience here.
End of fall term, release of new game consoles- gamecube and xbox games are cheap, i have time before spring term starts.
Bought lego star wars, halo (yes, never played it) paper mario: 1000 year door, and several others for $20 or less. Saw player's choice on box, figured must be good. Paper Mario was a lot of fun, the badge system really made the rpg much more interesting than it would have otherwise.
Wife is not a gamer. She tried lego star wars, is very good at it- far better than I am. Two person cooperative play with penalty-free drop-in/out makes the game brilliant, I wish there were more with co-op mode. I agree about the variety. Also, the podracing/collision avoidance "scenes" are just the right length in duration- there is another star wars game, maybe came with the xbox, where the podrace part was punishment, lego star wars is not like that (much).The story mode is very short, blew through episodes 1 and 2 in a long evening of play. However, it does follow the movies very well. This is a must have for fans of Star Wars and Legos, no doubt. I am mildly interested in either, and find the game well worth the $20.
Got a wii yesterday. Live in the middle of nowhere, camping/making daily store runs is not gonna happen, so I camped the wii tracker pages and ordered the TRU #2 bundle last Friday. Comes with games I don't want, but does come with a wii. And Zelda. Also got RRR and a bunch of extra controllers (when I was commuting to the city for school). Wii sports is so much fun! I don't have much of an aptitude for sports in general, and don't ever look forward to madden et all, but Nintendo did it right. This is definitely going with me on visits to friends and family for a long time.
***Incredibly vague Zelda spoilers ahead****
I have played zelda for about 5 hours-- just got into the first dungeon (in the forest after collecting about 8 things). It looks to be as immersive as anyone could ask. I have avoided any spoilers up to this point and am avoiding seeking help, just the wife and I solving the puzzles. Experience with previous Zelda titles makes one feel right at home. Combat is... similar to wind waker, but different. Aiming missile weapons with the wiimote is great. Swordplay can be reduced to jerking the controller, doesn't matter since at this point enemies are still very weak (i have 3 hearts in my life gauge) and link has not "learned" many techniques.
***Spoiler mode off***
You and your wife are without a doubt gonna love gaming on the wii.