....or Sandra Boyton (sp?) books or anything like that. Read her those fun stories about Thing 1 and Thing 2 or dog parties or singing pigs. Don't worry about how your daughter will learn about what you do (assuming you're still doing that when she's old enough to really understand). My older son is 4 and a half, and he's never really asked or wondered what I do.
You'll have an opportunity to explain it to her hands-on when she's older. When she's playing on the computer and something goes wrong, you can "fix" it and say that you make computers work....or write a simple game or whatever it is you do. When my son eventually asks me, I'll show him some simple chemistry experiments (ie, baking soda and vinegar to make a rocket) to explain what I do.
To this day, I still remember my dad using forks and spoons to teach me how PNP and NPN transistors work (he specialized in electronics in the Navy). That, more than any book, gave me an idea into what he did for a living.
I wanted to try that new OpenBeer, but the packaging was so damn secure that I couldn't open the bottle. I then thought about DragonFly Beer, but I'm not too comfortable with the ingredients.
Uh, shouldn't any for-profit company want to grab the largest market share they can? Of course they want to be #1. That's good business.
Actually, no. Companies that go for market share often lose sight of the most important thing: profitability. Granted, getting the most market share can lead to economies of scale, but the costs to get that market share (from reduced prices, marketing expenses, etc.) can easily swallow any increase in profits. This is one of the reasons why slashing prices to gain market share almost always results in lower profits.
Smart, successful companies know when to walk away from market share in order to maintain profitability. Dumb ones blindly go for the "sell at a loss and make it up on volume" mantra.
....with their 4-6 weeks of vacations and holidays each year. We work about 25% more per year than do most Europeans.
I really do not understand why we Americans have let ourselves be brainwashed into SweatShopAmerica.
My employer does a fair amount of business in Europe or with European based companies. Everytime a customer from this continent comes up, we always talk about the numerous weeks of vacation and whatnot.
People always end up talking about the "high" unemployment rate and the "high" taxes, but they always wistfully look on the health care and 3x vacation....but then they drive home in their 2nd or 3rd car (sometimes an SUV) to a home that's twice as big as they need to their big screen TV that they paid for with a bonus check that could have been put to retirement....
As long as we Americans want our toys and things, we'll never get get 6 weeks vacation....
From TFA: " Progressive says it will use the data only for potential discounts and not to penalize customers whose devices reveal risky driving habits."
Of course, when they do their modelling for the next year, they'll take into account the predicted number of "safe" drivers and "risky" drivers. Given their desired profit levels and the discounts for safe drivers, they'll just adjust rates accordingly for everyone else. Guess which way rates will go to compensate for the discounts?
I'm not saying this is a bad thing (hey, it's capitalism), but to phrase it as "no penalty" for bad drivers (and good drivers who refuse to enter the program) is a bit of a misnomer.
don't forget that all the jobs in your crontab file will only get done once a week, but you'll now have to configure them to run every 5 minutes. ps and top will now start outputting things like, "yeah, yeah, i'll get to it later" and "i already did it this week!"
1. Types in numbers and spaces to make numbered lists instead of using the bullet/number function.
2. Uses spaces and tabs instead of margins, alignment, justification, etc. to format text layout.
3. Uses 57 different font or section styles.
4. Writes a web page, especially ones that use a complicated, eyeball-scarring background image for the body.
5. USES MULTIPLE FONT STYLES AND CAP. LETTERS FOR SECTION HEADERS
Pittsburgh Brewing Company manufacturers Iron City Light, known widely as IC Light. When I saw the can, that's the first thing I saw. I wonder if a fight will brew (pun intended) or if PBC will just do the typical thing and threaten a fight to get a sweet deal on the cans.
If you RTFM, the manufacturers were sued because their licenses prohibited them from selling their chips to non-CSS licensed buyers.
I'm not saying I'm a big fan of the MPAA, but this sounds like a tempest in a teapot. It's not like these companies somehow came up with some workaround and the MPAA was jumping all over them.
Fanatics who don't want to RTFM are welcomed to mod me down.
The guy was disobeying the cop who told him to go back to the licensed protest area. He refused to OBEY THE LAW.
You seem to have no problem with having "licensed" protest areas. How is free speech free when you have to be "licensed"? The point here is that there is something fundamentally wrong when free speech is restricted because "THE LAW" pens people like sheep. "THE LAW" is patentally unlawful (ie, unconstitutional) in such cases.
P.S. I'll give karma points if you can tell me how any cop walking down the street can just tell you to throw a book away.
I'll be donuts to dollars that if I walked down the street while the President was holding a rally and held up a book critical of him, I'd be ask to put it away at the very least.
Try reading your own link! The guy was arrested for disobeying a cop, and not complying with city laws.
Who's the idiot who moderated this informative?
So when a cop says I'm being disorderly for speaking my mind, I'm arrested for "being disorderly" and not because of my speech? Suppose I'm walking down the street reading a book and a cop tells me to throw that book away. Under your logic, my refusal constitutes "being disorderly."
Face it, bub. All speech is "disorderly" to someone. As long as it's not fighting words, libel, or slander, it's still protected. Arresting someone for "being disorderly" is a shitty excuse, and attitudes like yours only allow it to spread.
If you disagree, please explain how all those people with pro-Bush signs were not "being disorderly." I'll give bonus Karma points if you can do it without mentioning how their political views were different from the guy who was arrested.
I used to have a dentist that would give you a tape player and let you select from a bunch of cassettes (this was pre-CDs). You could turn up the volume as loud as you wanted to drown out the drill.
I wonder if they'd sue for this. Technically, the dentist was letting me borrow his cassette to listen to it. I'd call that fair use.
Seems that a solution would be to let the patients "borrow" the CDs while they have work done.
You should redirect based on the user agent. Have every non-IE browser go to a page with the PHB's email address and ask the visitor to complain to this person.
You can bet the PHB will never be able to find the page...and all that email won't count as spam.
I looked at that instruction set. There's no way some researchers could have written that 50+ years ago without help. I hope Mr. Brown gets on this quick and finds out who really wrote the instruction set and how it was stolen. Hell, I'll bet that bastard Linus ripped it off and put it into the first Linux kernel.
That's something Unix people encounter a lot more often. But one look at the stats, such as the fact that Microsoft has only 21% of the Internet web server market and shows no sign of de-throning Apache, reveals that Unix is anything but a fad.
Apache and UNIX are two different things. You could argue that Apache's position is proof that Apache or open source software is not a fad, but the logic does not work for UNIX. You'd be better off using something like the recent FreeBSD article about hosting sites to show that *nix derivatives/clones/Linux distros are not a fad.
That's just what they had in the military place I used to work. I notice that most larger offices and places with sensitive information are starting to use turnstyles and keycards, which amounts to the same thing. No badge = no entry. Forget your badge? You can get a 1-day pass at the security desk, but they will check your face against a photo on file, and require ID. Having reasonably good yet uncumbersome security is not that hard to implement for low-level security (i.e. against thieves). Problem is: many companies only pay passing attention to security (physical as well as electronic), and think one rent-a-cop at the door is sufficient.
Very, very true. I often go into customers' plants through these types of security checkpoints. I just say, "I'm a contractor with XXX." Sometimes they check a book (mainly to make sure our insurance is up to date), but even then, they don't ask for proof or ID. Heck, to get in these plants, you'd just have to watch the parking lot for a week, note the contractors who arrive, and then pick a name. Just make sure not to use one that's there everyday as the guard may realize you're not the normal person.
Once you've got the contractor badge, you can get just about anywhere. Many people will help you get into places because they know you don't have a swipe card/keys/etc. but "need" to get into certain areas to do your work.
Also becoming more commonplace... These days, the most popular target for thieves is laptops. Easy to carry, valuable, and it's the one piece of equipment the guards will expect people to carry out.
If a company actually requires paperwork to guard against this type of theft, it's easy to beat with the serial number game. Just bring in a dead laptop/laptop shell/etc with a printed serial number label that you can remove and put on the one you want to steal. Fill out the paperwork on the way in saying the laptop is yours. Most guards will only look at that on the way out. If they actually do check the SN, it'll just be a quick glance. Most won't even look to see if it's the same model/make or even the proper SN label.
Now I know that I should have saved my Atari 400. With that flat quiet keyboard, no one would be able to snoop on my typing. Of course, I'd have carpal tunnel so bad I couldn't pick up a spoon...
1. Accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment.
We realize that our project could appear to be unsafe because it encourages drinking and the continuation of purchasing beverages.
Why must everything involving alcohol (at least in the US) automatically assume at one point or another that drinking = bad? All this does is let you (or rather, the wait staff) know your pitcher is empty for a refill. I fail to see how it "encourages" excessive drinking (which is implied). When I go to a restaraunt and the waiter/waitress asks if I'd like a beer, is he/she "encouraging" me to drink excessively? Is he/she "encouraging" me to drink excessively when asking if I want another beer when my current beer is almost empty?
For example, doing analysis of performance and tuning software system, I often see people use bogus statistical analysis, and making mistakes based on those results.
Such behavior is incredibly prevalent in all fields and industries. I've been in meetings and seen analyses that make my skin crawl because people make fundamental mistakes when using statistics. Part of it is due to the fact that it's not something that's integrated into any cirriculum when it should be. Another part is due to the age-old problem of using a hammer on screws because all you were ever taught was using a hammer.
The final part is a basic misunderstanding of probability, statistics, and math. I've actually had a customer want me to guarantee no failures by developing test results and analyzing them with statistics to "prove" no failures before a certain point. I tried explaining how one can never absolutely rule out such things with stats and prob. There's always a chance, no matter how small.
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....or Sandra Boyton (sp?) books or anything like that. Read her those fun stories about Thing 1 and Thing 2 or dog parties or singing pigs. Don't worry about how your daughter will learn about what you do (assuming you're still doing that when she's old enough to really understand). My older son is 4 and a half, and he's never really asked or wondered what I do.
You'll have an opportunity to explain it to her hands-on when she's older. When she's playing on the computer and something goes wrong, you can "fix" it and say that you make computers work....or write a simple game or whatever it is you do. When my son eventually asks me, I'll show him some simple chemistry experiments (ie, baking soda and vinegar to make a rocket) to explain what I do.
To this day, I still remember my dad using forks and spoons to teach me how PNP and NPN transistors work (he specialized in electronics in the Navy). That, more than any book, gave me an idea into what he did for a living.
I wanted to try that new OpenBeer, but the packaging was so damn secure that I couldn't open the bottle. I then thought about DragonFly Beer, but I'm not too comfortable with the ingredients.
Uh, shouldn't any for-profit company want to grab the largest market share they can? Of course they want to be #1. That's good business.
Actually, no. Companies that go for market share often lose sight of the most important thing: profitability. Granted, getting the most market share can lead to economies of scale, but the costs to get that market share (from reduced prices, marketing expenses, etc.) can easily swallow any increase in profits. This is one of the reasons why slashing prices to gain market share almost always results in lower profits.
Smart, successful companies know when to walk away from market share in order to maintain profitability. Dumb ones blindly go for the "sell at a loss and make it up on volume" mantra.
My employer does a fair amount of business in Europe or with European based companies. Everytime a customer from this continent comes up, we always talk about the numerous weeks of vacation and whatnot.
People always end up talking about the "high" unemployment rate and the "high" taxes, but they always wistfully look on the health care and 3x vacation....but then they drive home in their 2nd or 3rd car (sometimes an SUV) to a home that's twice as big as they need to their big screen TV that they paid for with a bonus check that could have been put to retirement....
As long as we Americans want our toys and things, we'll never get get 6 weeks vacation....
From TFA: " Progressive says it will use the data only for potential discounts and not to penalize customers whose devices reveal risky driving habits."
Of course, when they do their modelling for the next year, they'll take into account the predicted number of "safe" drivers and "risky" drivers. Given their desired profit levels and the discounts for safe drivers, they'll just adjust rates accordingly for everyone else. Guess which way rates will go to compensate for the discounts?
I'm not saying this is a bad thing (hey, it's capitalism), but to phrase it as "no penalty" for bad drivers (and good drivers who refuse to enter the program) is a bit of a misnomer.
don't forget that all the jobs in your crontab file will only get done once a week, but you'll now have to configure them to run every 5 minutes. ps and top will now start outputting things like, "yeah, yeah, i'll get to it later" and "i already did it this week!"
Only when they allow CSS to make them look nice...;^)
....when he/she does any of the following:
1. Types in numbers and spaces to make numbered lists instead of using the bullet/number function.
2. Uses spaces and tabs instead of margins, alignment, justification, etc. to format text layout.
3. Uses 57 different font or section styles.
4. Writes a web page, especially ones that use a complicated, eyeball-scarring background image for the body.
5. USES MULTIPLE FONT STYLES AND CAP. LETTERS FOR SECTION HEADERS
Now that's a word processor I'd like to see.
my bad. you're right, RTFA. my mind's not functioning too well today.
Pittsburgh Brewing Company manufacturers Iron City Light, known widely as IC Light. When I saw the can, that's the first thing I saw. I wonder if a fight will brew (pun intended) or if PBC will just do the typical thing and threaten a fight to get a sweet deal on the cans.
If you RTFM, the manufacturers were sued because their licenses prohibited them from selling their chips to non-CSS licensed buyers.
I'm not saying I'm a big fan of the MPAA, but this sounds like a tempest in a teapot. It's not like these companies somehow came up with some workaround and the MPAA was jumping all over them.
Fanatics who don't want to RTFM are welcomed to mod me down.
For those not versed in things nuclear (and why positive temperature coefficient of reactivity reactors are a BAD IDEA), a good background on the accident and nuclear power in general.
The guy was disobeying the cop who told him to go back to the licensed protest area. He refused to OBEY THE LAW.
You seem to have no problem with having "licensed" protest areas. How is free speech free when you have to be "licensed"? The point here is that there is something fundamentally wrong when free speech is restricted because "THE LAW" pens people like sheep. "THE LAW" is patentally unlawful (ie, unconstitutional) in such cases.
P.S. I'll give karma points if you can tell me how any cop walking down the street can just tell you to throw a book away.
I'll be donuts to dollars that if I walked down the street while the President was holding a rally and held up a book critical of him, I'd be ask to put it away at the very least.
Try reading your own link! The guy was arrested for disobeying a cop, and not complying with city laws. Who's the idiot who moderated this informative?
So when a cop says I'm being disorderly for speaking my mind, I'm arrested for "being disorderly" and not because of my speech? Suppose I'm walking down the street reading a book and a cop tells me to throw that book away. Under your logic, my refusal constitutes "being disorderly."
Face it, bub. All speech is "disorderly" to someone. As long as it's not fighting words, libel, or slander, it's still protected. Arresting someone for "being disorderly" is a shitty excuse, and attitudes like yours only allow it to spread.
If you disagree, please explain how all those people with pro-Bush signs were not "being disorderly." I'll give bonus Karma points if you can do it without mentioning how their political views were different from the guy who was arrested.
I used to have a dentist that would give you a tape player and let you select from a bunch of cassettes (this was pre-CDs). You could turn up the volume as loud as you wanted to drown out the drill.
I wonder if they'd sue for this. Technically, the dentist was letting me borrow his cassette to listen to it. I'd call that fair use.
Seems that a solution would be to let the patients "borrow" the CDs while they have work done.
You should redirect based on the user agent. Have every non-IE browser go to a page with the PHB's email address and ask the visitor to complain to this person.
You can bet the PHB will never be able to find the page...and all that email won't count as spam.
I do believe that's the first argument I've ever heard that uses the Flo-Bee as an analogy for high tech.
I looked at that instruction set. There's no way some researchers could have written that 50+ years ago without help. I hope Mr. Brown gets on this quick and finds out who really wrote the instruction set and how it was stolen. Hell, I'll bet that bastard Linus ripped it off and put it into the first Linux kernel.
That's something Unix people encounter a lot more often. But one look at the stats, such as the fact that Microsoft has only 21% of the Internet web server market and shows no sign of de-throning Apache, reveals that Unix is anything but a fad.
Apache and UNIX are two different things. You could argue that Apache's position is proof that Apache or open source software is not a fad, but the logic does not work for UNIX. You'd be better off using something like the recent FreeBSD article about hosting sites to show that *nix derivatives/clones/Linux distros are not a fad.
It's cheap and if you get into an accident, you just mold it back into shape.
That's just what they had in the military place I used to work. I notice that most larger offices and places with sensitive information are starting to use turnstyles and keycards, which amounts to the same thing. No badge = no entry. Forget your badge? You can get a 1-day pass at the security desk, but they will check your face against a photo on file, and require ID. Having reasonably good yet uncumbersome security is not that hard to implement for low-level security (i.e. against thieves). Problem is: many companies only pay passing attention to security (physical as well as electronic), and think one rent-a-cop at the door is sufficient.
Very, very true. I often go into customers' plants through these types of security checkpoints. I just say, "I'm a contractor with XXX." Sometimes they check a book (mainly to make sure our insurance is up to date), but even then, they don't ask for proof or ID. Heck, to get in these plants, you'd just have to watch the parking lot for a week, note the contractors who arrive, and then pick a name. Just make sure not to use one that's there everyday as the guard may realize you're not the normal person.
Once you've got the contractor badge, you can get just about anywhere. Many people will help you get into places because they know you don't have a swipe card/keys/etc. but "need" to get into certain areas to do your work.
Also becoming more commonplace... These days, the most popular target for thieves is laptops. Easy to carry, valuable, and it's the one piece of equipment the guards will expect people to carry out.
If a company actually requires paperwork to guard against this type of theft, it's easy to beat with the serial number game. Just bring in a dead laptop/laptop shell/etc with a printed serial number label that you can remove and put on the one you want to steal. Fill out the paperwork on the way in saying the laptop is yours. Most guards will only look at that on the way out. If they actually do check the SN, it'll just be a quick glance. Most won't even look to see if it's the same model/make or even the proper SN label.
Now I know that I should have saved my Atari 400. With that flat quiet keyboard, no one would be able to snoop on my typing. Of course, I'd have carpal tunnel so bad I couldn't pick up a spoon...
From the project site:
1. Accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment. We realize that our project could appear to be unsafe because it encourages drinking and the continuation of purchasing beverages.
Why must everything involving alcohol (at least in the US) automatically assume at one point or another that drinking = bad? All this does is let you (or rather, the wait staff) know your pitcher is empty for a refill. I fail to see how it "encourages" excessive drinking (which is implied). When I go to a restaraunt and the waiter/waitress asks if I'd like a beer, is he/she "encouraging" me to drink excessively? Is he/she "encouraging" me to drink excessively when asking if I want another beer when my current beer is almost empty?
For example, doing analysis of performance and tuning software system, I often see people use bogus statistical analysis, and making mistakes based on those results.
Such behavior is incredibly prevalent in all fields and industries. I've been in meetings and seen analyses that make my skin crawl because people make fundamental mistakes when using statistics. Part of it is due to the fact that it's not something that's integrated into any cirriculum when it should be. Another part is due to the age-old problem of using a hammer on screws because all you were ever taught was using a hammer.
The final part is a basic misunderstanding of probability, statistics, and math. I've actually had a customer want me to guarantee no failures by developing test results and analyzing them with statistics to "prove" no failures before a certain point. I tried explaining how one can never absolutely rule out such things with stats and prob. There's always a chance, no matter how small.
Ah, yes, thanks to technology he doesn't have to wait to get home to watch the cat toss up a hairball while the dog licks itself.