If BofA periodically did not show the image and then warned the user they had made a mistake by entering their password, users would soon be trained to look for the image. Setting up a security system once and then not reinforcing it periodically so that users take it seriously is the probelm.
You feel sorry for him because of this picture? Because he's smiling with his daughter? Did you follow the link...the smiling daughter in the picture had to flee her father convinced he would kill her, and then he lured her and her husband back with promise of amnesty and then killed the husband, placed her under 24 hour armed guard house arrest...guess the smiles didn't last too long...
I don't know about anyone else but for me the whole concept of shape loses meaning once we go beyond three dimensions or start talking about 'infinite' shapes in three dimensions. The best I can do is translate 'shape' into operational definitions. So cone shaped as described means: there exists at least one axis along which you can proceed infinitely in one direction...but if you go the other way you return to your starting point after some finite time/distance. I don't think cone means anything but that. (And it is not obvious from the discussion how many different directions satisfy this property)
It is difficult for a large organization to fairly administer reviews (& the resulting raises or disciplary actions that should ensue). Doing this on a statistical basis is not unfair or inappropriate...if the sample size is big enough. The problem ensues when the ranking is pushed too far down the organization. 100 is probably big enough of a group, but minimally so. I'll bet the real issue here is that smaller groups are being forced to particpate (e.g. a manager of a group of 20 people within the 100 is being forced to pick 2 top performers and 1 bottom performer).
If you want to thank them at at a personal level, give them a turkey and a Christmas party...
If you want to thank them and incentivize them at a professional level...put a formal profit sharing plan into place, to be paid out when your fiscal year ends. You probably can't have an absolute fixed formula as to how to divy up the profits, but some kind of general guidelines are good (perhaps 1/3 of profits to profit sharing, 1/3 of profits to shareholders as dividends, 1/3 of profits retained by company for growth). It would not be bad, either to split up the profits into an immediate cash payment and some kind of deferred, tax advantaged long term scheme like a 401K).
And last thing (having experienced this myself), don't overreact when someone you give a bonus to quits on you. View the bonus as something given for past performance...not for the future...
There's never anything new...in electronics lab in college in the 60's I built a delay line memory, which was nothing more than a very large coil of wire and some rather simple circuity that would shove bit's into one end and 'catch' them out the other side and recirculate them. You used timing to specify the addresss and could read or update as the bit came by.
Another variation that was commercially used on this used a column of mercury and cycling sound waves...see http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/mak-UNIVAC-I-delay- line.doc
The original Van de Graff generator is demonstrated at the Museum of Science in Boston...huge thing...awesome lightning show....
(M.I.T. is also here and has a variety of stuff of interest to geeks).
Whatif the only tax we had was on non-renewable energy? And it was like a VAT tax, ie passed on at each step in the economic cycle...e.g. the steel makers paid a tax and passed it on to the parts makers who paid additional tax on the energy they used and passed it on etc. No other taxes what so ever...
I am am male and play a female character in one of the online games and it has been an eye opener. I won't every do it again, and if my character could get a sex-change I would do it in an instant. You may occasionally get treated better, but you also get followed around a lot, harassed, and the comments made are not ones to which you would want your daughter or wife exposed. I know at least one real life woman who will only play male characters because of this....
I am just finishing up two courses online in the Master's Degree program in astronomy from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. It is very low tech: 2 power point presentations and some reading every 2 weeks, and a private newsgroup. At a minimum, you are required to post one question and one answer to someone else's question every two weeks. Most of us seem to do a lot more. In both courses the instructors are very involved with the discussion group, clarifying answers, posting questions to be researched, and making comments. Your grade is dependent on the frequency and quality of your postings (plus a 3-4 page essay, a 10-12 page project, and two online tests). You have a separate advisor for the project; they try to match the projects with someone whose specialty is close to what you are researching.
This experience has been fantastic...perhaps the enthusiasm of the students (no one here just to get a degree, all out of an interest in astronomy) brings out the best in the instructors.
To determine the size of a star, you need to know two things...temperature and total energy radiated(luminosity). (Stefan-Boltzmann law).
Temperature is relatively easy to get for stars from their color (spectrum).
Luminosity is harder. We need brightness and distance to determine how much energy a star is putting out. Brightness we can easily measure but distance for anything but the closest stars is very difficult to determine.
They based their conclusion on a guess that this star is 20,000 light years away. While this is definitely an interesting event, if that guess is wrong it might not be nearly as dramatic as they say.
This is going to get confusing too. I have two teenagers and a wife. We all have phones, but they are in my name. Even if provision is made to submit names different from accounts, I bet most people won't update it.
100 years later it still remains the engine of choice for personal transportation...we can argue about whether it should survive but so far all attempts to come up with anything else have failed.
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Not as good a name as Su Yu... http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2875035_1
If BofA periodically did not show the image and then warned the user they had made a mistake by entering their password, users would soon be trained to look for the image. Setting up a security system once and then not reinforcing it periodically so that users take it seriously is the probelm.
You feel sorry for him because of this picture? Because he's smiling with his daughter? Did you follow the link...the smiling daughter in the picture had to flee her father convinced he would kill her, and then he lured her and her husband back with promise of amnesty and then killed the husband, placed her under 24 hour armed guard house arrest...guess the smiles didn't last too long...
I find it interesting that this is a real time strategy game and not a first person shooter. Speed counts, but not reflexes.
I don't know about anyone else but for me the whole concept of shape loses meaning once we go beyond three dimensions or start talking about 'infinite' shapes in three dimensions. The best I can do is translate 'shape' into operational definitions. So cone shaped as described means: there exists at least one axis along which you can proceed infinitely in one direction...but if you go the other way you return to your starting point after some finite time/distance. I don't think cone means anything but that. (And it is not obvious from the discussion how many different directions satisfy this property)
It is difficult for a large organization to fairly administer reviews (& the resulting raises or disciplary actions that should ensue). Doing this on a statistical basis is not unfair or inappropriate...if the sample size is big enough. The problem ensues when the ranking is pushed too far down the organization. 100 is probably big enough of a group, but minimally so. I'll bet the real issue here is that smaller groups are being forced to particpate (e.g. a manager of a group of 20 people within the 100 is being forced to pick 2 top performers and 1 bottom performer).
If you want to thank them at at a personal level, give them a turkey and a Christmas party... If you want to thank them and incentivize them at a professional level...put a formal profit sharing plan into place, to be paid out when your fiscal year ends. You probably can't have an absolute fixed formula as to how to divy up the profits, but some kind of general guidelines are good (perhaps 1/3 of profits to profit sharing, 1/3 of profits to shareholders as dividends, 1/3 of profits retained by company for growth). It would not be bad, either to split up the profits into an immediate cash payment and some kind of deferred, tax advantaged long term scheme like a 401K). And last thing (having experienced this myself), don't overreact when someone you give a bonus to quits on you. View the bonus as something given for past performance...not for the future...
There's never anything new...in electronics lab in college in the 60's I built a delay line memory, which was nothing more than a very large coil of wire and some rather simple circuity that would shove bit's into one end and 'catch' them out the other side and recirculate them. You used timing to specify the addresss and could read or update as the bit came by. Another variation that was commercially used on this used a column of mercury and cycling sound waves...see http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/mak-UNIVAC-I-delay- line.doc
The original Van de Graff generator is demonstrated at the Museum of Science in Boston...huge thing...awesome lightning show.... (M.I.T. is also here and has a variety of stuff of interest to geeks).
Whatif the only tax we had was on non-renewable energy? And it was like a VAT tax, ie passed on at each step in the economic cycle...e.g. the steel makers paid a tax and passed it on to the parts makers who paid additional tax on the energy they used and passed it on etc. No other taxes what so ever...
I am am male and play a female character in one of the online games and it has been an eye opener. I won't every do it again, and if my character could get a sex-change I would do it in an instant. You may occasionally get treated better, but you also get followed around a lot, harassed, and the comments made are not ones to which you would want your daughter or wife exposed. I know at least one real life woman who will only play male characters because of this....
Isn't a declaration of bankruptcy in the public record?
I am just finishing up two courses online in the Master's Degree program in astronomy from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. It is very low tech: 2 power point presentations and some reading every 2 weeks, and a private newsgroup. At a minimum, you are required to post one question and one answer to someone else's question every two weeks. Most of us seem to do a lot more. In both courses the instructors are very involved with the discussion group, clarifying answers, posting questions to be researched, and making comments. Your grade is dependent on the frequency and quality of your postings (plus a 3-4 page essay, a 10-12 page project, and two online tests). You have a separate advisor for the project; they try to match the projects with someone whose specialty is close to what you are researching. This experience has been fantastic...perhaps the enthusiasm of the students (no one here just to get a degree, all out of an interest in astronomy) brings out the best in the instructors.
To determine the size of a star, you need to know two things...temperature and total energy radiated(luminosity). (Stefan-Boltzmann law). Temperature is relatively easy to get for stars from their color (spectrum). Luminosity is harder. We need brightness and distance to determine how much energy a star is putting out. Brightness we can easily measure but distance for anything but the closest stars is very difficult to determine. They based their conclusion on a guess that this star is 20,000 light years away. While this is definitely an interesting event, if that guess is wrong it might not be nearly as dramatic as they say.
This is going to get confusing too. I have two teenagers and a wife. We all have phones, but they are in my name. Even if provision is made to submit names different from accounts, I bet most people won't update it.
Those who can do... Those who can't teach.
100 years later it still remains the engine of choice for personal transportation...we can argue about whether it should survive but so far all attempts to come up with anything else have failed.