Actually, this idea of people as inherently rational has little to back it up. Try reading 'Predictably Irrational' for a collection of some interesting studies into just how irrational we are.
I know that high pitched sound all too well. I'm 27, and I hear it often. Though I think it's becoming a bit less common. LCD monitors DO still have it, I think it comes from the fluorescent back light. Oh, and my old HP laptop used to do it whenever the intel wireless was enabled. So few people hear it, most just think I'm crazy when I point it out. There's a really bad source at London's Liverpool Street Station, nearly floors me when I walk past it.
The company I work for has a gym on premises for its employees. They ensure that there are always healthy options at the company cafeteria. Guess how many fat people work there? It seems to be about average. Funny. Mine has a microwave oven for us to eat our oh-so-healthy lunches in 10 minutes. Let's not assume everyone has your sweet job, hm? Not that I agree with the grandparent, but his point here was that despite his company making an effort to make it easy for people to sta slim, they still have an average number fat people. I don't believe he's trying to say "everyone should have a company like mine", more that "there's not any point, people are fundamentally lazy".
Personally I'm not so sure I believe in willpower anymore, I believe in habit, and training. 'Willpower' is a concept people use as an excuse for not doing something today "oh, I didn't go to the gym, today, that's ok, I'll work twice as hard tomorrow, 'cause I have willpower", or to laud over people whom they view as weaker "you're weak and have no willpower, that's why you're fat".
When really, the active person has the habits of a healthy, active person, and the fat person, has the habit of a fat person.
Maybe you could argue that there's overlap of the concept of 'desire' there. But that's it.
The company I work for has a gym on premises for its employees. They ensure that there are always healthy options at the company cafeteria. Guess how many fat people work there? It seems to be about average. Funny. Mine has a microwave oven for us to eat our oh-so-healthy lunches in 10 minutes. Let's not assume everyone has your sweet job, hm? Not that I agree with the grandparent, but his point here was that despite his company making an effort to make it easy for people to sta slim, they still have an average number fat people. I don't believe he's trying to say "everyone should have a company like mine", more that "there's not any point, people are fundamentally lazy".
Personally I'm not so sure I believe in willpower anymore, I believe in habit, and training.
As for streamlining our business, we use Microsoft CRM and our smaller offices uses Accounting 2007 Pro and tying everything together through Office 2k7 is easy as 1-2-3. I thought 1-2-3 got killed years ago through anti-competitive monopolistic practises? They've only now got a product that easy?
You're not the only one who's noticed that.
Both have a rather mathematical rooting. In fact, I remember my trumpet tutor telling me something similar about mathemeticians often being musicians.
I've always assumed that on some level it's also because learning to read music gives you a basic understanding of Turing Machines. You've got loops, flow control and abstraction through symbology.
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An "upplaying" the bug which is not an Apple bug, in the context of a "Month of Apple Bugs" is NOT rediculous? Re-diculous: adj. something so ridiculous you do it twice.
There's a convenient little drop down button next to the google icon in the search bar. This has 8 popular sites to search. The 'manage search engines' takes 3 clicks to get msn added.
Even my mother could get there with a little guidance. Well, maybe not, but that's my mother for you.
6 months? Damn, wish I'd know the period earlier. I have received a bunch of stuff (almost) this way over the last year. A canon EOS 350D, a complete set of agatha christie's, and a scsi harddrive. I've waited a year for the to come after them, and meanwhile the eos 400 has been released, seriously degrading the amount of free money I'll get.
You might want to look at http://www.basic4gl.net/ , written by a Colleague of mine at my last job, looked like it would be a fun way of starting to program, without having to worry about functions, and objects etc.
Some of the design and implementation of Fogbugz is a little... lacking.
We're currently trialling it and so far: The interface is pretty. Why were there no indices on any of the tables? Parts of the code (asp) have frighteningly stupid design. Some of the comments comment on it (good and bad).
Perhaps the issues that count against it rose out of having coders who hadn't done database work/theory before? Don't know. I still haven't made my mind up as to whether I prefer fogbugz or bugzilla.
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Great! I might finally get some relevant ads instead of pictures of Victoria Beckham telling me the magic secret to losing a stone a week
Actually, a lot of people have a lot of debate about who exactly the author of Shakespeare's works were.
Mathematical/scientific language
Spoken language is unique, but mathematical language is universal, for a start every alien capable of space flight will know what integers are.
not it they're using javascript
Actually, this idea of people as inherently rational has little to back it up. Try reading 'Predictably Irrational' for a collection of some interesting studies into just how irrational we are.
Your first assumption ("So 1 Hz equals 1 FlOp? ") is wrong. FLOPS is Floating Operations Per Second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
I know that high pitched sound all too well. I'm 27, and I hear it often. Though I think it's becoming a bit less common.
LCD monitors DO still have it, I think it comes from the fluorescent back light. Oh, and my old HP laptop used to do it whenever the intel wireless was enabled.
So few people hear it, most just think I'm crazy when I point it out. There's a really bad source at London's Liverpool Street Station, nearly floors me when I walk past it.
I think you mean criterion (rule or test upon which a judgement is based). It is the singular for criteria.
Criterium (which I'd never heard of) is a bike race according to wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterium
Just happened to my HP laptop,
I switched to kubuntu, and apart from issues with some dvds, and dual-screen support, I love it.
It's allowed for purposes of teaching. This is an educational video.
I think you underestimate how much people like their accessories,
And I think you underestimate how effective a baseball bat to the knees is at reminding someone to pay their debts.
I am a mouse, I use dragon naturally speaking, you insensitive clod!
I'm afraid I can't divulge that information,
How many times have YOU had a cold call like that?
http://www.threadless.com/product/261/What_Would_M acgyver_Do
Appreciate it! I just got this shirt, but it seems no one in the UK knows who MacGyver is! :-( Damn my US influenced NZ upbringing.
Thanks for that macrowalking analogy. Love it.
You're not the only one who's noticed that. Both have a rather mathematical rooting. In fact, I remember my trumpet tutor telling me something similar about mathemeticians often being musicians. I've always assumed that on some level it's also because learning to read music gives you a basic understanding of Turing Machines. You've got loops, flow control and abstraction through symbology.
Check this post out, might help. googled 'how do "dvd games" work'
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http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-36674.
Oh please,
There's a convenient little drop down button next to the google icon in the search bar. This has 8 popular sites to search. The 'manage search engines' takes 3 clicks to get msn added.
Even my mother could get there with a little guidance. Well, maybe not, but that's my mother for you.
6 months? Damn, wish I'd know the period earlier. I have received a bunch of stuff (almost) this way over the last year. A canon EOS 350D, a complete set of agatha christie's, and a scsi harddrive.
I've waited a year for the to come after them, and meanwhile the eos 400 has been released, seriously degrading the amount of free money I'll get.
the bill. Now that smarts.
You might want to look at http://www.basic4gl.net/ , written by a Colleague of mine at my last job, looked like it would be a fun way of starting to program, without having to worry about functions, and objects etc.
Some of the design and implementation of Fogbugz is a little... lacking.
We're currently trialling it and so far:
The interface is pretty.
Why were there no indices on any of the tables?
Parts of the code (asp) have frighteningly stupid design. Some of the comments comment on it (good and bad).
Perhaps the issues that count against it rose out of having coders who hadn't done database work/theory before? Don't know.
I still haven't made my mind up as to whether I prefer fogbugz or bugzilla.