We have used video conferencing on our voice over Ip at work. What was truly bizarre was that the video was apparently ahead of the audio as the guy on the other end giving the presentation would explain that he was just about to do something but we had just seen it happen. It took us awhile before we figured out that the video was about 5 seconds ahead of the audio. I guess even over IP, light is still faster than sound.
From my experience something like 50% of HD* users probably don't know what the H and D stand for...
Are those 50% users of HD radio by chance? I know most people seem to think that HD radio is High Definition radio. Of course, it stands for Hybrid Digital, but the purveyors of HD Radio are more than happy to have people make the assumption that it is much higher quality than standard FM.
The oil drillers believe in science as long as it supports their worldview.
The wonderful thing about this truth is that you can replace oil drillers with environmentalists, politicians, religious leaders, nazis, whatever, and it is still true.
If it were otherwise, then why the need to exaggerate, misrepresent, and selectively omit facts (not just talking about Apple)?
As soon as the first dishonest salesman came into existence, all salesmen had to become dishonest or be forced out of business.
Remember those? When the price of stamps kept going up every 6 months and they offered stamps that you could buy that would be good forever. No more inconvenience of buying penny stamps, or getting returned mail because they did a stealth price change. I posited that they would stop selling those in only a few months or perhaps even declare them invalid. Looks like I was half right as I can't find them at any of my nearby postal facilities.
You sound like a sexist, but I can vouch that this does happen. There was one girl I used to go to breakfast with on Sundays and she would get out the calculator to figure out how much was hers and how much was mine. Then she would find out 20% of the total and divide that in half and add it to each of our totals. Since I usually spent less on breakfast than her, I ended up paying well over 20% on tip. I tried to get her to calculate 20% on each of our totals, but she insisted that that wouldn't add up right to 20% of the check. Of course, I was just a BS in Engineering while she was a lofty business major dropout, so what do I know?
great in favor of the defectors. The previous company I worked for was started by a group of developers that left a large company and they started a new small company that did the same thing. They did not steal code, and in fact wrote it on OS/2 rather than Unix. They were, however sued (but not until they got a small amount of success, naturally), and they countersued and got a large settlement, which they used to grow the business. After about 10 years, they were bought out by a much larger company, and the three original owners got paychecks of about $150 million each. Also, the people like me who had slaved and sweated to make the company worth so much were given a bonus of being allowed to continue to work at the same salary. You'll note that I said this was a former company.
On another note, I have also done this myself. I was one of three people that started a new company utilizing the same idea as the company we left. We built on unix rather than on minicomputer, and used Windows PCs rather than dumb terminals. We weren't sued, but we weren't successful either, thanks to the one non-technical guy who was the manager and basically screwed us out of being successful.
Facebook: "Look, we can't just accept pay to allow you to spam our users. That is not the image we want to convey for our company. But perhaps there is another way?"
Evidently Corey Brook isn't a parent. Let me ask you this Corey, would you prefer that my babysitter call me on my silenced cell phone, or have the management use the PA system to get my attention when the kid throws up all over the place?
Well, I don't know about Corey, but as a parent, I would rather have my babysitter clean up the mess and tell me about it (or not) when I get home. If there is a real emergency, I would rather that they deal with it appropriately rather than call me and tell me about it since I am X minutes away at a movie theater and can't do anything about it anyway.
Restaurants do not give much problems here. People take the call outside after the phone was set to vibrate.
Wow, you must live somewhere where people behave reasonably. Where I live, people are constantly receiving and making cell phone calls in restaurants, and talking loudly because they are on a cell phone, which has the microphone place 5 inches from your mouth in the opposite direction of the sound waves emanating thereforth.
They also have to speak over the din of the restaurant because anymore restaurants are designed with "the industrial look" with exposed girders and sheet metal and absolutely no soundproofing. Form over function. Yeah!
Anyone who has studied the eye will be quite aware that the peripheral vision is far more sensitive to changes in light, while the focused vision is more sensitive to color. There are many more "rods" in the eye, about 120 million, than cones, but the rods are not sensitive to color. They are sensitive to light. The cones are sensitive to color, but are mostly clustered in the focal area. An interesting experiment to perform is to set up a dimly flashing light in a dark room and just allow your peripheral vision to pick it up. It will appear to be brightly flashing. However, if you then look directly at it, the flash will not appear anywhere near as bright.
So yes, the light from cell phones in the movie theatre would be very distracting in your peripheral vision.
I would say it would be almost impossible to burn more calories than you are taking in and maintain your weight without some rare medical issue
ITYM "without violating the second law of thermodynamics".
Also, for GPs sake, you probably can't expect to lose weight (or loose weight as he put it) eating 2000 calories a day. Some people can't even lose weight eating only 1500.
The proper response to a law that you disagree with is not to disobey the law. Otherwise we would have people murdering others out of principle. If you disagree with the laws about downloading material, then you should just not listen to the music period.
My computer used to take about 15 minutes to boot, but now it is much longer after having downgraded to Office 2007. Now, Outlook takes an additional 10 minutes to boot up after the main system boots up. Also, there is now a several second delay when moving items between folders that was not present in the old Outlook. And I definitely prefer the old Office Menu System top the crap interface that it has now.
I just read an article last week about a group here in Oklahoma that is suing because the slaughterhouse that they work for does not pay them for time spent cleaning tools, recordkeeping and other administrative duties. I hope they win. As the Bible says "The worker deserves his wages" and "There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due and yet it results only in want."
I've never used one of these systems, but wouldn't it be possible to punch in on somebody else's desktop, or is it tied to your user ID? Or worse, your computer. I could see some pretty bad paydays when the computer which is not your responsibility was broken.
Take it a step further. I consider myself at work from the moment I leave my house until the moment I return. I wouldn't be leaving the house if it wasn't for work, and if it wasn't for my employer insisting I be physically at work, I could just as easily have been at home getting more work done (because I don't have to waste time commuting). In fact, even as it stands, I always check e-mail before leaving the house, and then again after getting home for the day, and usually check it off and on until about 10 PM. So I consider myself to be at work from approximately 8 Am until 10 PM every day.
I don't think that there's an at-will state in America where you can be legally fired for reporting that your boss was doing something illegal.
That's true. Instead they have to say that they are firing you without cause.
I think that we always are too narrow minded when we consider the other possibilities such as God or multiverses. In either case, we say "well than where did God/multiverse" come from. Well, in the case of multiverse, perhaps the other universes don't have the same sort of constraints that we have in terms of physics or time. Maybe there is no such thing as "come from" for the other universe. Of course, the concept is completely foreign to us because everything in our universe came from somewhere.
The same with God. If God exists, and created us, then it does not necessarily follow that something created Him. We, as part of the creation always seem to want to assume that the creator must be subject to the same physical rules as the creation, which is as ludicrous as the subjects in a painting assuming that the artist is subject to the same rules that he applied at the whim of his brush.
Do you think it is possible that the Mom and Pops are not up on the latest technology (which would explain why they are looking to outsource their SEO) and possibly not aware that many SEO firms are basically scammers? After all, there was a time not long ago when SEO was a legitimate field where they assisted you in choosing good keywords for your site, setting up relevant metadata tags and generally optimizing your site to be crawled and categorized correctly. I get those e-mails where they offer to put me in the top 10 of Yahoo, etc., but I guess I never really associated that with SEO, I just considered it a run of the mill scam.
I remember during the week of the Republican national convention, one day I looked at the Daily Oklahoman front page and there was nothing on there about the convention. Instead there was an article about Hillary drumming up more support for Obama.
There was one time when McCain was mingling in the crowd with a microphone and a little old lady screamed "Obama's a terrorist", at which McCain sighed and said "No, he's not a terrorist. He's a very good man."
McCain seemed almost as exasperated with his constituents who consider Obama a terrorist as the Obama supporters themselves.
Palin doesn't scare me because congress is predominantly democrat. If McCain had won, then very few bills would be able to get through. I see this as a positive thing.
What really scares me is this morning I heard our (Oklahoma) senator speaking about how congress wants to tax 401k in our state and Texas $3,000 because of our energy consumption. Apparently, congress has forgotten that Texas and Oklahoma are energy producing states.
I'm also worried about the increased tax on the wealthy. You know, the people who earn more than $300k, uh $250k, that is $200k, I mean $150k, yes $97k. Not that I make that much, but it doesn't take a genius to see that this number is soon going to slide even further. My guess is it will stop at about $35k. So I am going to be taxed more heavily and I will have to take on a fourth job in order to maintain the same standard of living.
And like those who didn't vote, you are an anonymous coward, so you're opinion doesn't count. Besides you are not allowed to hold an opinion that is wrong.
Obama is not going to fix anything. His campaign promised to put in policies which will actually make things much worse. That's why I voted against him. I voted for mcCain not because I was excited about him, but because I was terrified of Obama's policies, promises and voting records.
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We have used video conferencing on our voice over Ip at work. What was truly bizarre was that the video was apparently ahead of the audio as the guy on the other end giving the presentation would explain that he was just about to do something but we had just seen it happen. It took us awhile before we figured out that the video was about 5 seconds ahead of the audio. I guess even over IP, light is still faster than sound.
From my experience something like 50% of HD* users probably don't know what the H and D stand for...
Are those 50% users of HD radio by chance? I know most people seem to think that HD radio is High Definition radio. Of course, it stands for Hybrid Digital, but the purveyors of HD Radio are more than happy to have people make the assumption that it is much higher quality than standard FM.
The oil drillers believe in science as long as it supports their worldview.
The wonderful thing about this truth is that you can replace oil drillers with environmentalists, politicians, religious leaders, nazis, whatever, and it is still true.
If it were otherwise, then why the need to exaggerate, misrepresent, and selectively omit facts (not just talking about Apple)?
As soon as the first dishonest salesman came into existence, all salesmen had to become dishonest or be forced out of business.
Remember those? When the price of stamps kept going up every 6 months and they offered stamps that you could buy that would be good forever. No more inconvenience of buying penny stamps, or getting returned mail because they did a stealth price change. I posited that they would stop selling those in only a few months or perhaps even declare them invalid. Looks like I was half right as I can't find them at any of my nearby postal facilities.
You sound like a sexist, but I can vouch that this does happen. There was one girl I used to go to breakfast with on Sundays and she would get out the calculator to figure out how much was hers and how much was mine. Then she would find out 20% of the total and divide that in half and add it to each of our totals. Since I usually spent less on breakfast than her, I ended up paying well over 20% on tip. I tried to get her to calculate 20% on each of our totals, but she insisted that that wouldn't add up right to 20% of the check. Of course, I was just a BS in Engineering while she was a lofty business major dropout, so what do I know?
great in favor of the defectors. The previous company I worked for was started by a group of developers that left a large company and they started a new small company that did the same thing. They did not steal code, and in fact wrote it on OS/2 rather than Unix. They were, however sued (but not until they got a small amount of success, naturally), and they countersued and got a large settlement, which they used to grow the business. After about 10 years, they were bought out by a much larger company, and the three original owners got paychecks of about $150 million each. Also, the people like me who had slaved and sweated to make the company worth so much were given a bonus of being allowed to continue to work at the same salary. You'll note that I said this was a former company.
On another note, I have also done this myself. I was one of three people that started a new company utilizing the same idea as the company we left. We built on unix rather than on minicomputer, and used Windows PCs rather than dumb terminals. We weren't sued, but we weren't successful either, thanks to the one non-technical guy who was the manager and basically screwed us out of being successful.
Facebook: "Look, we can't just accept pay to allow you to spam our users. That is not the image we want to convey for our company. But perhaps there is another way?"
Evidently Corey Brook isn't a parent. Let me ask you this Corey, would you prefer that my babysitter call me on my silenced cell phone, or have the management use the PA system to get my attention when the kid throws up all over the place?
Well, I don't know about Corey, but as a parent, I would rather have my babysitter clean up the mess and tell me about it (or not) when I get home. If there is a real emergency, I would rather that they deal with it appropriately rather than call me and tell me about it since I am X minutes away at a movie theater and can't do anything about it anyway.
Restaurants do not give much problems here. People take the call outside after the phone was set to vibrate.
Wow, you must live somewhere where people behave reasonably. Where I live, people are constantly receiving and making cell phone calls in restaurants, and talking loudly because they are on a cell phone, which has the microphone place 5 inches from your mouth in the opposite direction of the sound waves emanating thereforth.
They also have to speak over the din of the restaurant because anymore restaurants are designed with "the industrial look" with exposed girders and sheet metal and absolutely no soundproofing. Form over function. Yeah!
Anyone who has studied the eye will be quite aware that the peripheral vision is far more sensitive to changes in light, while the focused vision is more sensitive to color. There are many more "rods" in the eye, about 120 million, than cones, but the rods are not sensitive to color. They are sensitive to light. The cones are sensitive to color, but are mostly clustered in the focal area. An interesting experiment to perform is to set up a dimly flashing light in a dark room and just allow your peripheral vision to pick it up. It will appear to be brightly flashing. However, if you then look directly at it, the flash will not appear anywhere near as bright.
So yes, the light from cell phones in the movie theatre would be very distracting in your peripheral vision.
I would say it would be almost impossible to burn more calories than you are taking in and maintain your weight without some rare medical issue
ITYM "without violating the second law of thermodynamics".
Also, for GPs sake, you probably can't expect to lose weight (or loose weight as he put it) eating 2000 calories a day. Some people can't even lose weight eating only 1500.
The proper response to a law that you disagree with is not to disobey the law. Otherwise we would have people murdering others out of principle. If you disagree with the laws about downloading material, then you should just not listen to the music period.
My computer used to take about 15 minutes to boot, but now it is much longer after having downgraded to Office 2007. Now, Outlook takes an additional 10 minutes to boot up after the main system boots up. Also, there is now a several second delay when moving items between folders that was not present in the old Outlook. And I definitely prefer the old Office Menu System top the crap interface that it has now.
I just read an article last week about a group here in Oklahoma that is suing because the slaughterhouse that they work for does not pay them for time spent cleaning tools, recordkeeping and other administrative duties. I hope they win. As the Bible says "The worker deserves his wages" and "There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due and yet it results only in want."
I've never used one of these systems, but wouldn't it be possible to punch in on somebody else's desktop, or is it tied to your user ID? Or worse, your computer. I could see some pretty bad paydays when the computer which is not your responsibility was broken.
Take it a step further. I consider myself at work from the moment I leave my house until the moment I return. I wouldn't be leaving the house if it wasn't for work, and if it wasn't for my employer insisting I be physically at work, I could just as easily have been at home getting more work done (because I don't have to waste time commuting). In fact, even as it stands, I always check e-mail before leaving the house, and then again after getting home for the day, and usually check it off and on until about 10 PM. So I consider myself to be at work from approximately 8 Am until 10 PM every day.
I don't think that there's an at-will state in America where you can be legally fired for reporting that your boss was doing something illegal.
That's true. Instead they have to say that they are firing you without cause.
I think that we always are too narrow minded when we consider the other possibilities such as God or multiverses. In either case, we say "well than where did God/multiverse" come from. Well, in the case of multiverse, perhaps the other universes don't have the same sort of constraints that we have in terms of physics or time. Maybe there is no such thing as "come from" for the other universe. Of course, the concept is completely foreign to us because everything in our universe came from somewhere.
The same with God. If God exists, and created us, then it does not necessarily follow that something created Him. We, as part of the creation always seem to want to assume that the creator must be subject to the same physical rules as the creation, which is as ludicrous as the subjects in a painting assuming that the artist is subject to the same rules that he applied at the whim of his brush.
Do you think it is possible that the Mom and Pops are not up on the latest technology (which would explain why they are looking to outsource their SEO) and possibly not aware that many SEO firms are basically scammers? After all, there was a time not long ago when SEO was a legitimate field where they assisted you in choosing good keywords for your site, setting up relevant metadata tags and generally optimizing your site to be crawled and categorized correctly.
I get those e-mails where they offer to put me in the top 10 of Yahoo, etc., but I guess I never really associated that with SEO, I just considered it a run of the mill scam.
I remember during the week of the Republican national convention, one day I looked at the Daily Oklahoman front page and there was nothing on there about the convention. Instead there was an article about Hillary drumming up more support for Obama.
There was one time when McCain was mingling in the crowd with a microphone and a little old lady screamed "Obama's a terrorist", at which McCain sighed and said "No, he's not a terrorist. He's a very good man."
McCain seemed almost as exasperated with his constituents who consider Obama a terrorist as the Obama supporters themselves.
Palin doesn't scare me because congress is predominantly democrat. If McCain had won, then very few bills would be able to get through. I see this as a positive thing.
What really scares me is this morning I heard our (Oklahoma) senator speaking about how congress wants to tax 401k in our state and Texas $3,000 because of our energy consumption. Apparently, congress has forgotten that Texas and Oklahoma are energy producing states.
I'm also worried about the increased tax on the wealthy. You know, the people who earn more than $300k, uh $250k, that is $200k, I mean $150k, yes $97k. Not that I make that much, but it doesn't take a genius to see that this number is soon going to slide even further. My guess is it will stop at about $35k. So I am going to be taxed more heavily and I will have to take on a fourth job in order to maintain the same standard of living.
And like those who didn't vote, you are an anonymous coward, so you're opinion doesn't count. Besides you are not allowed to hold an opinion that is wrong.
Obama is not going to fix anything. His campaign promised to put in policies which will actually make things much worse. That's why I voted against him. I voted for mcCain not because I was excited about him, but because I was terrified of Obama's policies, promises and voting records.