Germans don't seem to mind much, I think any idea of spreading German culture or complaining about immigrants brings up bad memories.
Nah. They're just glad to get a chance to actually use and practice what they had to learn at school. And it's part of the "getting things done" attitude. Use the language that poses the lowest language barrier.
And most people know alone the German concet of grammatical gender will drive any student to madness and back again.
I'm no expert in US constitutional law, but I doubt that it's modeled after chatholic church law. And Ex-presidents shouldn't be as surprising as having an ex-pope for the first time.
Jokes aside, I think this legal status is modeled after that of an professor emeritus (at european universities) when a professor still keeps his earned title and privileges, but is honorably disbanded from his academic duties.
But as I said, I'm no expert in church law either.
It's from what I remember from when the last one resigned: That was such an unusual event that they had to find a new title for him. He is now "Papa emeritus", Which boild down to "a retired pope is still a pope".
Google hires people based on talent. Women and minorities are under-represented in the technical and engineering community. That is a fact of life. Until more women and minorities CHOOSE to enter this field, getting a "diverse workforce" would have to mean you exclude more qualified white males in order to hire less qualified minorities and women.
But if possible, companies should take measures to make the tech community more "diverse" (or "equal-rights" or "whatever"). But some stupid quota hiring is not helping.
Shouldn't be such a big difference if unqualified applications are distributed evenly among relevant minorities. But would be a really interesting research subject, too.
Difference between percantage of [minority] employees and percentage of [minority] applicants.
Heck if you only have 2% white employees, that makes you the most diverse employer ever if only 0.5% of applicants were white.
It would take some steam out of this whole discussion to have a look at those numbers.
Granted, with numbers as in my hypothetical example would definitely point out a problem (or at least an interesting statistical anomaly), but outside the scope of the hiring company. And of course nothing should keep a company from starting programs in schools end universities to fix that problem, but not through some skewed hiring policy.
And perhaps when such assessments of worthiness become as exact a science as you presume them to be, such nonsense can be done away with. My experience with getting jobs in tech — and my hearing of interviews in other fields of employment — suggest at best a loose relationship between most interviewing techniques and many skills actually relevant to completing projects in a corporate environment.
Yes, but that's a completly different matter, usually based on outsourcing the first candidate screening to HR, or basing the whole recruiting process on mindlessly copying what someone read in a magazine on how (ironically) Google does their recruitment process to find the best and most creative tech skills.
I haven't heard either that (in large enough corporations) gender or skin color were part of the interview process either.
So how can I get a smartphone if I'm outside of AT&T's market?
I guess I'll go to a shop, ask for a smartphone and go to a phone company and ask for a phone&data plan....
But in your example, why would I buy a phone from AT&T if I'm going to get a GoPhone sim? Won't I be paying for two phone plans then? AT&T (unused, but still per month costs) and GoWhatever?
What the heck is a feature phone anyways? I never met anyone who claimed to have one.
But here the important point is: do they have a OS that deservs it's name? Then it's only a matter if you count switches within that "featurephone" market too
And with a mostly two-players market I'd bet that most people who switch to Android came from iPhone.
Either it's your first phone, then you're not counted as switch, any subsequent phone upgrade from then on won't be a OS switch either or, if it IS a switch, it will be back and forth between Android and iOS.
Well, there is: But that's called "stagnation" and dreaded as hell as well.
I guess that's why they prefer the bubble method cause those bursts and crashs every now and then allows for recoveris that at least resemble the "eternal growth" pipe dream.
"they" are always there to point out when there are more than 3 pencils per person and months ordered. "They" know if you spend longer than 5 minutes at the water cooler. "They" are checking everyone's bags and pockets at the entrance.
They're taking care of all that small stuff. So of course "they" would notice such big issues as sensitive documents in the dumpster, wouldn't they?
Oh yes.. the good old "I want solution, and everything you're bringing me is problems". Noticing problems often is simply not "visionary" enough and pointing out those problems slow down the whole "team" on the way to their "mission goals".
If nothing goes wrong, such management will win big, really big, including being on the next management magazine title. And no one cares for the 90% that fail big with that management style. Current culture bought into the "Prof. Pigskin"-Scam wholesale.
Giving the benefit of doubt, that has probably been done here. But then, "connected by a opto-isolator" is NOT "physically seperate". Claims like these cross the line from "dumbed down to wrong" to "obvious BS" when they go like "practically physically seperate"
And why should they? There are more dangerous things about flying than feeding a NMEA stream from one system into the other through, let's say, a serial connection that has Rx cut.
Frankly, it's complete bullshit. The systems are completely, physically separate. There is no way to hack the thrust from the in-flight entertainment system because they are not connected to each other. The most he'd be able to do is turn on the fasten seatbelt sign.
Is the in-flight entertainmeny system able to show that world map with the cute little plane that indicates the planes position?
I doubt they have someone copying the updeted position from the avionics system to a USB-stick, unplug it from there and plug it into the entertainment system to update position data every few seconds...
There goes your "completly, physically seperate".
Heck yeah, it's trivial to make such a connection reliably one-way only, but even then, "physically seperate" would be an outright lie.
When you have test cars that are being tested as much as possible and on the road as much as possible, the average incident rate will be several times higher than the rate of an average car that sits in the driveway most of the day.
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What they're talking about is simply called a licence plate
That's why I failed at French but managed to speak a fairly fluent English.
Germans don't seem to mind much, I think any idea of spreading German culture or complaining about immigrants brings up bad memories.
Nah. They're just glad to get a chance to actually use and practice what they had to learn at school. And it's part of the "getting things done" attitude. Use the language that poses the lowest language barrier.
And most people know alone the German concet of grammatical gender will drive any student to madness and back again.
They are not that good, they are just served in larger portions, which makes all the difference..
Good luke with that opinion in Cologne or Düsseldorf.
I'm no expert in US constitutional law, but I doubt that it's modeled after chatholic church law. And Ex-presidents shouldn't be as surprising as having an ex-pope for the first time.
Jokes aside, I think this legal status is modeled after that of an professor emeritus (at european universities) when a professor still keeps his earned title and privileges, but is honorably disbanded from his academic duties.
But as I said, I'm no expert in church law either.
It's from what I remember from when the last one resigned: That was such an unusual event that they had to find a new title for him. He is now "Papa emeritus", Which boild down to "a retired pope is still a pope".
OK, that work day is down the drain anyway. I declare my last post as "open season for anecdotal evidence". Keep the good stories comming.
Google hires people based on talent. Women and minorities are under-represented in the technical and engineering community. That is a fact of life. Until more women and minorities CHOOSE to enter this field, getting a "diverse workforce" would have to mean you exclude more qualified white males in order to hire less qualified minorities and women.
But if possible, companies should take measures to make the tech community more "diverse" (or "equal-rights" or "whatever"). But some stupid quota hiring is not helping.
Nice example.
I prefer statistically, there are usually 1.4 popes per square kilometer living in the Vatican State. And current rate is even up to 2.8!
Shouldn't be such a big difference if unqualified applications are distributed evenly among relevant minorities. But would be a really interesting research subject, too.
Everyone is ignoring the most important number!
Difference between percantage of [minority] employees and percentage of [minority] applicants.
Heck if you only have 2% white employees, that makes you the most diverse employer ever if only 0.5% of applicants were white.
It would take some steam out of this whole discussion to have a look at those numbers.
Granted, with numbers as in my hypothetical example would definitely point out a problem (or at least an interesting statistical anomaly), but outside the scope of the hiring company. And of course nothing should keep a company from starting programs in schools end universities to fix that problem, but not through some skewed hiring policy.
And perhaps when such assessments of worthiness become as exact a science as you presume them to be, such nonsense can be done away with. My experience with getting jobs in tech — and my hearing of interviews in other fields of employment — suggest at best a loose relationship between most interviewing techniques and many skills actually relevant to completing projects in a corporate environment.
Yes, but that's a completly different matter, usually based on outsourcing the first candidate screening to HR, or basing the whole recruiting process on mindlessly copying what someone read in a magazine on how (ironically) Google does their recruitment process to find the best and most creative tech skills.
I haven't heard either that (in large enough corporations) gender or skin color were part of the interview process either.
Oh i thought those were called "cellphone"
So how can I get a smartphone if I'm outside of AT&T's market?
I guess I'll go to a shop, ask for a smartphone and go to a phone company and ask for a phone&data plan....
But in your example, why would I buy a phone from AT&T if I'm going to get a GoPhone sim? Won't I be paying for two phone plans then? AT&T (unused, but still per month costs) and GoWhatever?
What the heck is a feature phone anyways? I never met anyone who claimed to have one.
But here the important point is: do they have a OS that deservs it's name? Then it's only a matter if you count switches within that "featurephone" market too
And with a mostly two-players market I'd bet that most people who switch to Android came from iPhone.
Either it's your first phone, then you're not counted as switch, any subsequent phone upgrade from then on won't be a OS switch either or, if it IS a switch, it will be back and forth between Android and iOS.
So this is a non-fact.
Well, there is: But that's called "stagnation" and dreaded as hell as well.
I guess that's why they prefer the bubble method cause those bursts and crashs every now and then allows for recoveris that at least resemble the "eternal growth" pipe dream.
I guess you just stumbled into the videos for the "Endgame" AR-Game.
Worst. Book. Ever.
I can, will and have gone Jurassic Park
You cloned them from a tiny drop of blood?
What's wrong with that?
"they" are always there to point out when there are more than 3 pencils per person and months ordered. "They" know if you spend longer than 5 minutes at the water cooler. "They" are checking everyone's bags and pockets at the entrance.
They're taking care of all that small stuff. So of course "they" would notice such big issues as sensitive documents in the dumpster, wouldn't they?
Oh yes.. the good old "I want solution, and everything you're bringing me is problems". Noticing problems often is simply not "visionary" enough and pointing out those problems slow down the whole "team" on the way to their "mission goals".
If nothing goes wrong, such management will win big, really big, including being on the next management magazine title. And no one cares for the 90% that fail big with that management style. Current culture bought into the "Prof. Pigskin"-Scam wholesale.
Giving the benefit of doubt, that has probably been done here. But then, "connected by a opto-isolator" is NOT "physically seperate". Claims like these cross the line from "dumbed down to wrong" to "obvious BS" when they go like "practically physically seperate"
Weight (still an issue), size and power.
And why should they? There are more dangerous things about flying than feeding a NMEA stream from one system into the other through, let's say, a serial connection that has Rx cut.
Frankly, it's complete bullshit. The systems are completely, physically separate. There is no way to hack the thrust from the in-flight entertainment system because they are not connected to each other. The most he'd be able to do is turn on the fasten seatbelt sign.
Is the in-flight entertainmeny system able to show that world map with the cute little plane that indicates the planes position?
I doubt they have someone copying the updeted position from the avionics system to a USB-stick, unplug it from there and plug it into the entertainment system to update position data every few seconds...
There goes your "completly, physically seperate".
Heck yeah, it's trivial to make such a connection reliably one-way only, but even then, "physically seperate" would be an outright lie.
Bar trivias work bestg when you're sitting with your friends around a table. No gadgets or anything.
8 rounds, 10 questions each, 8 sheets of paper.
When you have test cars that are being tested as much as possible and on the road as much as possible, the average incident rate will be several times higher than the rate of an average car that sits in the driveway most of the day.