Personally, I tend to use the "what is your greatest weakness?" question fairly often in my hiring. Why do you call it a "bullshit question"? What would be a better question?
How do you know if that weakness has anything at all to do with the job? Why not instead tell the prospective employee the top 5 projects this job will affect and have the person demonstrate his/her skills on those projects?
Think of it this way: If my top requirements for a new car are fuel efficiency, safety, and a kick-ass stereo, why would I care if a potential car had the smallest amount of trunk space in its class?
The rover has a top speed on flat hard ground of 5 centimeters (2 inches) per second. However, in order to ensure a safe drive, the rover is equipped with hazard avoidance software that causes the rover to stop and reassess its location every few seconds. So, over time, the vehicle achieves an average speed of 1 centimeter per second. The rover is programmed to drive for roughly 10 seconds, then stop to observe and understand the terrain it has driven into for 20 seconds, before moving safely onward for another 10 seconds.
Does this mean the first astronaut to visit Mars will be one of those little old ladies who can barely see above the steering wheel? They drive in exactly the same manner.
Not to mention the fact that, in order to move your macros, they would effectively have to be rewritten!
That assumes your macros will even work in an updated version. I made the mistake of installing SP3 for Office 2000. It totally disabled the SolverSolve routine when called from a macro. Microsoft's response? "We're aware of the problem and have a fix, but we won't release it until we feel like it."
This effectively killed my entire Excel workbook that performed some very complicated calculations and optimizations.
First, let me just say that John Olmos was correct: If you are so
dedicated to the original series that you cannot bring yourself to imagine
it any other way, then do yourself a favor and skip this miniseries. You
will only be disappointed, and you will nitpick it to death.
For a second, I thought you were talking about Star Wars....
Not only are the car makers legally required (in the US) to make parts for a certain amount of time past when the car is manufactured, but often they actually make money selling their own tooling to aftermarket parts makers when they stop making parts themselves.
they also make money on the fact that aftermarket parts are often held to lower standards than OEM parts. I've been in several plants where aftermarket parts (sold at higher prices than OEM) must pass lower performance specifications than OEM parts. think about that the next time you get a "certified" replacement part from Mopar, etc.
Check out the sign up form after the flash movie. Ya gotta hand it to the Kim family. They may oppress their own people, but at least they support transgender (or rather "other" gender") people.
This reminds of the great skit that MadTV had about Wal-Mart. If you've never seen it, the workers are all lobotomized and keep saying, "Hello new customer." One guy comes in looking for his mom whom he dropped off 3 days earlier. They encircle him ala Invasion of the Body Snatches. The next time you see him, he's got a nice little forehead scar and is repeating the new customer greeting.
There is one purpose for which yeast, and yeast research, should be put. Beer. Better beer. Beer that tastes great, but is less filling. Beer that I can drink until snookered, then wake up from the next day, hangover free.
I can see it now: "Michelob Ultra cockroaches have 30% less carbs than Coors cockroaches."
How exactly does this take away from the child's freedom again?
this is basically like the privacy act statements the government puts on forms. you know, the "you're free to not give any of this information, but if you don't, we can't process the form and we'll come after you for failing to do what we tell you. but you're still free to not fill it out or provide whatever information we want."
No wonder america is so screwed up, we got the govt controlling booze in 18 states. How bass-ackwards are you people to let the govt control something it has no business doing. Do all cigarrette packs go through govt warehouses to get taxed and resold? Do all cars? Why is alcohol so special?
it gets even worse. the president of the store manager union in PA went on record as being opposed to a plan to open up (oh my god!) state stores in grocery stores. basically, they would operate as their own entities, and you'd pay for the alcohol separately.
the moron started clamoring about underage drinking and even said the state wanted to sell "more of the drug alcohol".
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The Foundary is also quite good. If you don't mind the sauerkraut and snausages smell in the air.
word is they're closing down, or at least not brewing anymore. same thing for valhalla; no loss, IMHO, as i was never impressed by Valhalla or it's beers.
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"Sport like life, and life like sport,
Isn't all skittles and beer."
this makes me want to go out and poison some pigeons in the park.
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Iron City is crap. Yuengling is the good Pittsburgh beer.
funny, i thought Yuengling was brewed elsewhere in PA. Perhaps you're confusing it with Penn Pilsner as a "Pittsburgh" beer. (nothing against yuengling; it's a good beer.)
that said, IC is pretty good for a macro-brewed beer. a lot of people like IC light, but I'm not a big fan of light beers.
an excellent burgh brewery is the church brew works on liberty. pious monk dunkel is great; they've also made a trippel that's very tasty.
More and more, cell phone airtime packages have so many minutes and are getting so cheap that a few extra minutes used by telemarketers will become financially irrelevant to the subscriber.
But what about roaming charges or low use plans? Not everyone pays for the nation wide upteen-gazillion minute service. many people just get a low cost plan and use the phone for convenience/emergencies. what if they get a call while roaming or when they're close to the end of their monthly allowance?
this can also tick off business travellers like myself. i go into canada frequently, and i'm roaming there. i don't particularly like the idea of paying high roaming charges when i'm out in the middle of nowhere because some schmuck wants to sell me something.
If there's one thing I don't understand - and it's because of my almost complete ignorance of all things chemistry beyond first year college - is why chemists are doing this sort of thing.
it's all about impressing the ladies. when the chump down the bar says he discovered element 109, you up him and say, "oh yeah, i made #112." you'd be surprised how often this gets you laid, especially with repressed grad students.
Look at the article intro. You can do even better. You'll know when your respective spouse leaves the house with your kid in the car and runs over your dog who's left the yard...or any possible combination thereof.
It's a fine piece of entertainment, it's a thought-provoking piece of art maybe. But is it worth risking yet another islamist onslaught on the people of Egypt just to get this film shown? Because certainly past performance shows that introducing some thoughts from the west has caused the sort of uproar in which people get killed.
this reminds me of the library of alexandria that they're building in egypt. they want to basically replicate the great library from the ancient past and turn it into a world-class repository of knowledge. they also want it to be a research center of sorts for islam. the big controversy, of course, is whether or not local religious types will allow all forms of islam to be studied.
they've already built hotels and commercial buildings around it in anticipation of the tourist drawing potential. it'll be interesting to see if the great library actually becomes a great library. and they haven't even reached the question of including western texts yet.....
If THEY can't profit from it, what is their loss if someone else DOES?
pardon my tone, but this is completely naive and ridiculous. the loss is loss of intellectual property that one either paid for or created through one's own work. we might as well just start taking stuff away from each other because it doesn't give others profit. the next time someone starts a business, designs some proprietary software, or invents something, we can all rip it off when it doesn't make a profit...
I'd rather see "use it or lose it". If something that is copyright is not available from the copyright holder, it should (sooner, rather than later) be legal for it to be made available by someone else.
what about the small copyright owner who may not have the resources to provide said material? suppose I write a book and self publish it. years from now, i'm unable to self publish it again due to economic reasons nor am i able to find a large publisher to market it.
under the situation you propose, i could lose out to "someone else" such as a large publisher who could simply wait for the deadline. such a system would adversely affect copyright holders with limited means. larger holders could easily comply with a "use it or lose it" system and protect their property. everyone else is screwed.
the end result of such a proposal would be that large companies and wealthy individuals would be the only ones who could protect their intellectual property. don't we have enough of that already?
Hey, man, don't forget the several thousand dollars spent on those funky hydraulics so you can jack up your passenger front and driver side rear tires at the same time while your $2K stereo system drives you deaf.
yeah, man, that is *so* dope. i wish i was that fly for a white guy.
Is great, having those hours when no-one can contact you. Finding a hotel in a mobile blackspot. Being unable to pick up emails for days knowing that people will just have to cope.
who says you need a blackspot? "my battery died" works just as well for just about any item these days. if anyone asks about your charger, well, gee that broke too or you forgot it at home.
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Personally, I tend to use the "what is your greatest weakness?" question fairly often in my hiring. Why do you call it a "bullshit question"? What would be a better question?
How do you know if that weakness has anything at all to do with the job? Why not instead tell the prospective employee the top 5 projects this job will affect and have the person demonstrate his/her skills on those projects?
Think of it this way: If my top requirements for a new car are fuel efficiency, safety, and a kick-ass stereo, why would I care if a potential car had the smallest amount of trunk space in its class?
iTunes doesn't require you to have an iPod. It works fine on your computer.
They released iTunes for Linux? When did this happen?
And it's the only solution that allows you to take the files you buy from it, unprotect them, and turn them into whatever format you want.
Um, can't I do the same thing with eMusic?
We'll go snipe fragging!
Hey, that's left-handed snipe fragging...
The rover has a top speed on flat hard ground of 5 centimeters (2 inches) per second. However, in order to ensure a safe drive, the rover is equipped with hazard avoidance software that causes the rover to stop and reassess its location every few seconds. So, over time, the vehicle achieves an average speed of 1 centimeter per second. The rover is programmed to drive for roughly 10 seconds, then stop to observe and understand the terrain it has driven into for 20 seconds, before moving safely onward for another 10 seconds.
Does this mean the first astronaut to visit Mars will be one of those little old ladies who can barely see above the steering wheel? They drive in exactly the same manner.
Watch out before Apple moves in undetected and it becomes iRaq.
But would we all be able to purchase WMD for $.99 each?
Not to mention the fact that, in order to move your macros, they would effectively have to be rewritten!
That assumes your macros will even work in an updated version. I made the mistake of installing SP3 for Office 2000. It totally disabled the SolverSolve routine when called from a macro. Microsoft's response? "We're aware of the problem and have a fix, but we won't release it until we feel like it."
This effectively killed my entire Excel workbook that performed some very complicated calculations and optimizations.
First, let me just say that John Olmos was correct: If you are so dedicated to the original series that you cannot bring yourself to imagine it any other way, then do yourself a favor and skip this miniseries. You will only be disappointed, and you will nitpick it to death.
For a second, I thought you were talking about Star Wars....
Not only are the car makers legally required (in the US) to make parts for a certain amount of time past when the car is manufactured, but often they actually make money selling their own tooling to aftermarket parts makers when they stop making parts themselves.
they also make money on the fact that aftermarket parts are often held to lower standards than OEM parts. I've been in several plants where aftermarket parts (sold at higher prices than OEM) must pass lower performance specifications than OEM parts. think about that the next time you get a "certified" replacement part from Mopar, etc.
Check out the sign up form after the flash movie. Ya gotta hand it to the Kim family. They may oppress their own people, but at least they support transgender (or rather "other" gender") people.
meaning only the lobotomized keep working there.
This reminds of the great skit that MadTV had about Wal-Mart. If you've never seen it, the workers are all lobotomized and keep saying, "Hello new customer." One guy comes in looking for his mom whom he dropped off 3 days earlier. They encircle him ala Invasion of the Body Snatches. The next time you see him, he's got a nice little forehead scar and is repeating the new customer greeting.
There is one purpose for which yeast, and yeast research, should be put. Beer. Better beer. Beer that tastes great, but is less filling. Beer that I can drink until snookered, then wake up from the next day, hangover free.
I can see it now: "Michelob Ultra cockroaches have 30% less carbs than Coors cockroaches."
How exactly does this take away from the child's freedom again?
this is basically like the privacy act statements the government puts on forms. you know, the "you're free to not give any of this information, but if you don't, we can't process the form and we'll come after you for failing to do what we tell you. but you're still free to not fill it out or provide whatever information we want."
No wonder america is so screwed up, we got the govt controlling booze in 18 states. How bass-ackwards are you people to let the govt control something it has no business doing. Do all cigarrette packs go through govt warehouses to get taxed and resold? Do all cars? Why is alcohol so special?
it gets even worse. the president of the store manager union in PA went on record as being opposed to a plan to open up (oh my god!) state stores in grocery stores. basically, they would operate as their own entities, and you'd pay for the alcohol separately.
the moron started clamoring about underage drinking and even said the state wanted to sell "more of the drug alcohol".
You forgot another answer:
I am Evil itself.
Lasers! 8 o'clock! Day one!
The Foundary is also quite good. If you don't mind the sauerkraut and snausages smell in the air.
word is they're closing down, or at least not brewing anymore. same thing for valhalla; no loss, IMHO, as i was never impressed by Valhalla or it's beers.
"Sport like life, and life like sport, Isn't all skittles and beer."
this makes me want to go out and poison some pigeons in the park.
Iron City is crap. Yuengling is the good Pittsburgh beer.
funny, i thought Yuengling was brewed elsewhere in PA. Perhaps you're confusing it with Penn Pilsner as a "Pittsburgh" beer. (nothing against yuengling; it's a good beer.)
that said, IC is pretty good for a macro-brewed beer. a lot of people like IC light, but I'm not a big fan of light beers.
an excellent burgh brewery is the church brew works on liberty. pious monk dunkel is great; they've also made a trippel that's very tasty.
More and more, cell phone airtime packages have so many minutes and are getting so cheap that a few extra minutes used by telemarketers will become financially irrelevant to the subscriber.
But what about roaming charges or low use plans? Not everyone pays for the nation wide upteen-gazillion minute service. many people just get a low cost plan and use the phone for convenience/emergencies. what if they get a call while roaming or when they're close to the end of their monthly allowance?
this can also tick off business travellers like myself. i go into canada frequently, and i'm roaming there. i don't particularly like the idea of paying high roaming charges when i'm out in the middle of nowhere because some schmuck wants to sell me something.
If there's one thing I don't understand - and it's because of my almost complete ignorance of all things chemistry beyond first year college - is why chemists are doing this sort of thing.
it's all about impressing the ladies. when the chump down the bar says he discovered element 109, you up him and say, "oh yeah, i made #112." you'd be surprised how often this gets you laid, especially with repressed grad students.
Look at the article intro. You can do even better. You'll know when your respective spouse leaves the house with your kid in the car and runs over your dog who's left the yard...or any possible combination thereof.
It's a fine piece of entertainment, it's a thought-provoking piece of art maybe. But is it worth risking yet another islamist onslaught on the people of Egypt just to get this film shown? Because certainly past performance shows that introducing some thoughts from the west has caused the sort of uproar in which people get killed.
this reminds me of the library of alexandria that they're building in egypt. they want to basically replicate the great library from the ancient past and turn it into a world-class repository of knowledge. they also want it to be a research center of sorts for islam. the big controversy, of course, is whether or not local religious types will allow all forms of islam to be studied.
they've already built hotels and commercial buildings around it in anticipation of the tourist drawing potential. it'll be interesting to see if the great library actually becomes a great library. and they haven't even reached the question of including western texts yet.....
And this is wrong, how?
If THEY can't profit from it, what is their loss if someone else DOES?
pardon my tone, but this is completely naive and ridiculous. the loss is loss of intellectual property that one either paid for or created through one's own work. we might as well just start taking stuff away from each other because it doesn't give others profit. the next time someone starts a business, designs some proprietary software, or invents something, we can all rip it off when it doesn't make a profit...
I'd rather see "use it or lose it". If something that is copyright is not available from the copyright holder, it should (sooner, rather than later) be legal for it to be made available by someone else.
what about the small copyright owner who may not have the resources to provide said material? suppose I write a book and self publish it. years from now, i'm unable to self publish it again due to economic reasons nor am i able to find a large publisher to market it.
under the situation you propose, i could lose out to "someone else" such as a large publisher who could simply wait for the deadline. such a system would adversely affect copyright holders with limited means. larger holders could easily comply with a "use it or lose it" system and protect their property. everyone else is screwed.
the end result of such a proposal would be that large companies and wealthy individuals would be the only ones who could protect their intellectual property. don't we have enough of that already?
Hey, man, don't forget the several thousand dollars spent on those funky hydraulics so you can jack up your passenger front and driver side rear tires at the same time while your $2K stereo system drives you deaf.
yeah, man, that is *so* dope. i wish i was that fly for a white guy.
Is great, having those hours when no-one can contact you. Finding a hotel in a mobile blackspot. Being unable to pick up emails for days knowing that people will just have to cope.
who says you need a blackspot? "my battery died" works just as well for just about any item these days. if anyone asks about your charger, well, gee that broke too or you forgot it at home.