I certainly hope you laughed long and hard in his face. What kind of stupid/self-important does a person have to be to do that? Ask for help from someone you just screwed over...
I'll bend over backwards to help most anyone. Until you fuck with me.
My cat doesn't care about lights, but it can open and close doors and plays fetch. Not all cats just lie around all day. That's a statement by someone who hasn't owned both types of animals.
Oh, I agree with that. No problem. But they also need to understand that there are reasonable steps that can be taken to give their contractors the tools they need to get things done.
Put some metal screen over the vent slots, and you'll stop having that problem. Use superglue or even just hot glue to seal the edges, and there should be a much lower incidence of roach suicide via PSU.
Naah. You just understand the reality of email. A large number of people don't equate email to "logged". They think of it like a letter in the post office, where only the person who gets it actually has a copy of it. They think it's perfectly safe and hidden because there's a password to get into an email account.
And big companies wonder why their projects fail... hamstringing contractors does not help them get their jobs done. No, they probably don't NEED IM or email, but I've worked at sites where I was denied web, email or IM access. That doesn't really help me communicate with my co-workers or look information up on the Internet that I need to get my job done, because using the phone is not an effective use of my or my co-worker's time.
That's not intelligence. That's pack instinct. Different things. Not saying it's not important or desirable, but correlating it with intelligence is a mistake.
There's your skateboarding cat. Cats are too small to save babies in a pool (you think a Chihuaua would be able to do that, or even a shih-tzu?). And I know a couple dogs that chase a laser pointer. Does that make them stupid?
Really, it depends on your definition of intelligence. Dogs are much more pack animals, and more helpful to us because of those ingrained behaviors, but that's not to say they're significantly more intelligent than cats. For example, donkeys are helpful, but not terribly smart. Same with oxen (or, they used to be).
IE was cheaper than Netscape for a time, too. That's how they get in... they leverage one monopoly to take over another market. You act like that's something new that Microsoft is doing.
Microsoft moves into new markets, and as soon as competitors are gone, they let it rot. Just look at IE.
So, because it may help someone OTHER than Microsoft, we should continue using Microsoft's sub-par lock-in formats? Interesting logic you have there...
ODF is from a consortium of people, it's not dictated from on high. It's a completely open, documented standard. Microsoft has nothing near that. I will forego features if it means I have an open format I can guarantee I can access in the future, and I would hope that most businesses and governments would feel the same way. A business or government should NEVER be completely dependent on the whims of another company.
That's why I utter the words "If you work with me, I can get you off this call faster. I don't need much help, just a little info.". If they aren't complete retards purely reading from a script with absolutely no understanding of what they're saying, it usually works pretty well for me. That, and just being nice but firm.
It's amazing what being nice will get you in general, actually.
No, but he was the author of Sherlock, who was quite adept at figuring out conundrums. Such as why the guild disbanded. Apparently it was a very obtuse reference.
You do realize that NASA is a hell of a lot like the Air Force, they pay a bunch of contractors like Lockheed to do most of the work? NASA isn't interested (and has no authority over) the warfare parts, they have very little that's classified by way of personnel and information, so it's a job much more suited to the Air Force, what with the NAVWAR and other capabilities they think it needs.
And black people are more prone to rob a store or do drugs than white people (if you think the prison populations are a good indicator). Let's just proactively lock them up, too.
Maybe the same amount of kerosene, but we'd still be reducing the carbon added to the atmosphere by about 30%. The algae gets it's carbon from the atmosphere, so that's a closed loop there, and we'll go from 100% ground->air with the carbon to 70% ground->air. Not a trivial reduction.
What makes you think that the algae isn't also in a closed loop? They just aerate the water (injecting the needed CO2) and pump it through, then skim off the algae. There's very little water exposed to evaporation in many algal "bioreactor" designs.
Algae farm != traditional farm. Hell, algae grows GREAT in the desert or plains, in greenhouses. Land that gets a ton of sun, but the soil is basically unusable for any kind of farming.
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I certainly hope you laughed long and hard in his face. What kind of stupid/self-important does a person have to be to do that? Ask for help from someone you just screwed over...
I'll bend over backwards to help most anyone. Until you fuck with me.
My cat doesn't care about lights, but it can open and close doors and plays fetch. Not all cats just lie around all day. That's a statement by someone who hasn't owned both types of animals.
Oh, I agree with that. No problem. But they also need to understand that there are reasonable steps that can be taken to give their contractors the tools they need to get things done.
Put some metal screen over the vent slots, and you'll stop having that problem. Use superglue or even just hot glue to seal the edges, and there should be a much lower incidence of roach suicide via PSU.
Naah. You just understand the reality of email. A large number of people don't equate email to "logged". They think of it like a letter in the post office, where only the person who gets it actually has a copy of it. They think it's perfectly safe and hidden because there's a password to get into an email account.
And big companies wonder why their projects fail... hamstringing contractors does not help them get their jobs done. No, they probably don't NEED IM or email, but I've worked at sites where I was denied web, email or IM access. That doesn't really help me communicate with my co-workers or look information up on the Internet that I need to get my job done, because using the phone is not an effective use of my or my co-worker's time.
That's not intelligence. That's pack instinct. Different things. Not saying it's not important or desirable, but correlating it with intelligence is a mistake.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0_F5a4_Tu_Y
There's your skateboarding cat. Cats are too small to save babies in a pool (you think a Chihuaua would be able to do that, or even a shih-tzu?). And I know a couple dogs that chase a laser pointer. Does that make them stupid?
Really, it depends on your definition of intelligence. Dogs are much more pack animals, and more helpful to us because of those ingrained behaviors, but that's not to say they're significantly more intelligent than cats. For example, donkeys are helpful, but not terribly smart. Same with oxen (or, they used to be).
Flagstaff? I believe it. I went to the Colorado School of Mines. I think the ratio was like 3:1 M:F, or very close to that.
Random trivia: The second class at CSM had the highest male:female ratio ever at the school of 2:1. There were literally just two guys and a girl.
IE was cheaper than Netscape for a time, too. That's how they get in... they leverage one monopoly to take over another market. You act like that's something new that Microsoft is doing.
Microsoft moves into new markets, and as soon as competitors are gone, they let it rot. Just look at IE.
Yeah? I'm apparently told by my wife that I'm not allowed to giggle. I can only chuckle... giggling isn't something a man should do.
So, because it may help someone OTHER than Microsoft, we should continue using Microsoft's sub-par lock-in formats? Interesting logic you have there...
ODF is from a consortium of people, it's not dictated from on high. It's a completely open, documented standard. Microsoft has nothing near that. I will forego features if it means I have an open format I can guarantee I can access in the future, and I would hope that most businesses and governments would feel the same way. A business or government should NEVER be completely dependent on the whims of another company.
So... Microsoft aids and abets copyright infringement? You may not have the right to redistribute all the fonts on your computer.
Welcome to the brave new world. OpenOffice.org is the one that's working "correctly" and preserving people's copyright.
That's why I utter the words "If you work with me, I can get you off this call faster. I don't need much help, just a little info.". If they aren't complete retards purely reading from a script with absolutely no understanding of what they're saying, it usually works pretty well for me. That, and just being nice but firm.
It's amazing what being nice will get you in general, actually.
And there are those of us who are 5'10", 165, able to run a mile without hardly breaking a sweat and still like periodically having a soda or a donut.
Not everyone that eats "junk" food is fat, or out of shape.
5 kilos? I call BS. There's no way you wouldn't have just lived hopping from restroom to restroom with that diet :-P
(Yes, I realize parent was a joke, I'm making one too...)
No, but he was the author of Sherlock, who was quite adept at figuring out conundrums. Such as why the guild disbanded. Apparently it was a very obtuse reference.
I think your age of conan reference was a little too subtle ;)
You do realize that NASA is a hell of a lot like the Air Force, they pay a bunch of contractors like Lockheed to do most of the work? NASA isn't interested (and has no authority over) the warfare parts, they have very little that's classified by way of personnel and information, so it's a job much more suited to the Air Force, what with the NAVWAR and other capabilities they think it needs.
Bushieism is the new McCarthyism. Instead of commies and homos you have terrists and kiddie rapists.
We've always gotta have an enemy, don't you know? And damned if the real one isn't almost always ourselves.
And black people are more prone to rob a store or do drugs than white people (if you think the prison populations are a good indicator). Let's just proactively lock them up, too.
Maybe the same amount of kerosene, but we'd still be reducing the carbon added to the atmosphere by about 30%. The algae gets it's carbon from the atmosphere, so that's a closed loop there, and we'll go from 100% ground->air with the carbon to 70% ground->air. Not a trivial reduction.
What makes you think that the algae isn't also in a closed loop? They just aerate the water (injecting the needed CO2) and pump it through, then skim off the algae. There's very little water exposed to evaporation in many algal "bioreactor" designs.
Very small rocks?
Algae farm != traditional farm. Hell, algae grows GREAT in the desert or plains, in greenhouses. Land that gets a ton of sun, but the soil is basically unusable for any kind of farming.
See this link for more details on an algae farm