Hire a booth bunny who knows her subject. I realize such women are rare gems but speaking from personal experience, it works. What happens is that the prospective customer lowers his defenses and when she actually can answer his questions intelligently and defer when necessary, you're a lot closer to making the sale. Then, if you can keep her on staff and have her make the followup sales calls, the customers remember the experience.
I'm all for this because I was never a good test-taker. Fortunately, I was encouraged by my high-school physics teacher (who ironically had a PhD in nuclear chemistry) to be an "experimentalist". The real world rarely operates like a two-hour, make-or-break, regurgitate everything from memory test. You almost always have access to reference material. And the real world is and should be interested in practical results. That being said, the team environment enables slackers to get credit for other people's work. A colleague was recently an adviser for a FIRST robotics competition. He confirmed that there were two or three kids who did all the work and the rest just farted around. So, my question is, how do you ensure that the kids who really accomplish stuff get the grades, accolades, and scholarships that they deserve and the coattail riders don't?
Well, yeah. It's what's known as the Areola Effect which is known to cause elevated heart rate, moist palms, and localized vascular throbbing generally in men. Additional symptoms might be referred to as inattention deficit disorder aka staring.
DirecTV's interface design is quite neolithic. Clearly this guy doesn't understand what Apple's impact on content consumption has been. Yes, ok, Apple didn't invent the concept of breaking the RIAA's business model of forcing people to buy 11 songs they didn't want to get the one song they did but they did manage to make it legal. Right now, DirecTV has roughly 36 shopping and infomercial channels sprinkled in the mix of other channels. I personally don't give a damn about that stuff. Nor do I want to see spanish channels in the listings although sometimes the show titles are amusing. Who knew "Yo, Robot" wasn't a hip-hop cartoon? What I fully expect from Apple is a fully customizable show guide that will only show the channels I choose. I also expect it to have a Genius feature that will searching for OnDemand content it might think I'd like.
Who knew? Isn't methane regularly burned off at oil refineries? Never quite understood wasting it. Same could be said of dairy farms and cattle feed lots although it probably would cost a lot to harvest it out of the air.
Check out Scenic Map from GrangerFX. Totally offline 2D/3D maps. http://scenicmap.blogspot.com/ I use it for search & rescue where we're in the middle of stinking nowhere with no cellphone coverage.
Maybe this is the Fed's solution to combating cyberterrorism. Write everything in a language that nobody elsewhere in the world understands. Now, are they looking for volunteers to guard these new codetalkers and perhaps kill them if necessary to prevent them falling into enemy hands?
No matter where or how it's tried, social engineering results in massive fail. Disregarding merit in favor of some social attribute is nothing new either. It reminds me of those little water-filled sausage balloon toys. Squeeze it and it shoots across the room. The same can be said of business and taxation. If you squeeze, you lose control of it.
Here in Arizona, law enforcement is now devoting more time to catching the people driving south with suitcases full of cash. Now there's your Robin Hood method. But aside from this, all this scanner business will do is force the drivers to go up US-89 which is a less traveled road anyway.
Why does it take three friggin' days to dock with the ISS? I never quite understood why it takes so long to do that sort of thing? Seems to me that orbital mechanics is well understood and computer processing speeds are fast enough to handle navigation with maneuvering thrusters.
I'd really love to see Anonymous hack this outfit to find out A) where the money goes and B) if they themselves use pirated software. This outfit smacks of Soviet-style tattle on your neighbor tactics.
"I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them f*cking each other over for a goddamn percentage." Edison's organization had a habit of stealing/copying other people's intellectual property rather than sticking to original work.
I live in north-central Arizona and I can tell you for a fact that it's colder this year than last year and last year was colder than the previous five years. Five years ago, the flower garden was planted in late March and I could have breakfast on the back terrace. Last year and this year, it's too cold to plant and too chilly to even have lunch outside. This is B.S. I question the location of the temperature sensors.
Location is critically important. As an alumnus of Boston University, I often wondered about the air-quality sensors positioned in Kenmore Square which is the confluence of five very busy city streets and often had bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. Yet the air quality for the surrounding area was extrapolated from this location. Of course it's going to bias the results.
"I don't think the F-22 will ever be seen in the combat it was designed to counter, because that threat is no longer in existence.'"
I beg to differ. Our military is notorious for fighting the last war. Humvees were built to replace jeeps and were great for Gulf War 1...until the IED came about. So the F-22 isn't good for dealing with terrorists. If those who say that the war on terrorism (or specifically Al Qaeda) is over then the next war might just be with North Korea or Iran where the F-22 would be more useful.
My point is that it's not cost-effective. A gas engine repair is likely to be far less expensive than replacing a battery pack that's guaranteed to lose discharge capacity over time. And how do they know that the pack is healthy enough to execute a takeoff? You can usually tell that a gas engine needs service on the ramp.
Here's another example of an idea ahead of its time. Bad Boy Buggies makes electric side-by-side ATVs. They have a 20-mile range. A gas side-by-side has well over five times that range and should you run out of gas, carrying an extra can or getting a can from another person is easy. You can't charge a big battery in the middle of stinking nowhere.
But perhaps that's a sub-rosa element to the green/electric/environmentalist agenda. Many of these people would prefer that humans be kept sequestered in high population density urban areas and close off the wilderness to human activity. By forcing limited operating range and no supply in rural/wilderness areas, that goal is achieved.
Excellent point. My auto mechanic tells me that his hybrid customers refuse to spend $5000 to replace the battery pack when it goes tits-up and just run on gasoline. For my own purposes, I've been learning a lot about battery tech. Hard core R/C modellers often have a computerized battery analyzer which allows you to plot the performance of the battery and keep a history because they degrade over time and number of charge/discharge cycles. A traditional engine can be repaired but batteries can't.
IMHO, the leaded gas issue is barely measurable compared to millions of cars spewing out lead in the exhaust which illustrates the extreme obsessive/compulsive behavior of the environmentalists. Separate issue, though.
As a matter of interest, Sikorsky has developed and electric helicopter. Apparently they use a Korean-made lithium pack with a 50S3P designation. That's 200 volts. Of course, they've only gotten about 15 minutes flight time so the project will sit on the shelf until battery technology catches up.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Bottom line: there's nothing illegal about this practice. Clueless legislatures who believe A) it's a company's duty to pay taxes and B) it's a company's duty to take it up the ass when politicians act irrationally are going to pay the price.
If you think otherwise, you are a fascist. See the wikipedia entry on fascism and economics.
IMHO, the goal should be to make a ubiquitous embedded platform for building appliances. To that end, the device needs to be low power so that it could run on batteries. It also need to run a real OS e.g. Linux but the catch here is that it needs to completely boot in a few seconds at most especially if it's faceless. Products from Technologic Systems make great strides towards this but their sub-2-second boot times are to Busybox and don't include USB initialization. USB adds another 4 seconds to the boot time. Six seconds is reasonable for a faceless system but anything longer than that and the user will wonder if it's working or not. Booting to Debian takes way too long. Beyond this, such systems need to be tolerant of power loss. Running off batteries means a real power switch. Any file system that takes minutes to check after a power loss is out.
What pisses me off are the people who think that wealth redistribution in the form of carbon-credit trading will do anything to solve the problem, if there really is a problem. Witness the latest insult by the UN that basically taxes the hell out of leading nations to support "green project" in third-world countries. There are ALWAYS sticky fingers in schemes like this. It would be one thing to require a leader nation to actually procure the solar plant equipment and set it up somewhere but that's not what they want. They just want the money.
That aside, if global catastrophe is such a big deal e.g. An asteroid is headed directly for Earth, every person is going to be affected in the same way therefore every person is equally responsible for dealing with it. There will be no "all animals are equal but some are more equal than others" here. So, by that logic, nobody gets a pass on carbon emissions. Nobody gets to buy their way out of it and no industry or enemy of the regime gets punished. Note that the carbon trading in commodities markets has be severely scaled back if not eliminated. Take money out of the equation and oh look, gee whiz, the problem isn't such a big problem anymore.
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Hire a booth bunny who knows her subject. I realize such women are rare gems but speaking from personal experience, it works. What happens is that the prospective customer lowers his defenses and when she actually can answer his questions intelligently and defer when necessary, you're a lot closer to making the sale. Then, if you can keep her on staff and have her make the followup sales calls, the customers remember the experience.
I'm all for this because I was never a good test-taker. Fortunately, I was encouraged by my high-school physics teacher (who ironically had a PhD in nuclear chemistry) to be an "experimentalist". The real world rarely operates like a two-hour, make-or-break, regurgitate everything from memory test. You almost always have access to reference material. And the real world is and should be interested in practical results. That being said, the team environment enables slackers to get credit for other people's work. A colleague was recently an adviser for a FIRST robotics competition. He confirmed that there were two or three kids who did all the work and the rest just farted around. So, my question is, how do you ensure that the kids who really accomplish stuff get the grades, accolades, and scholarships that they deserve and the coattail riders don't?
Well, yeah. It's what's known as the Areola Effect which is known to cause elevated heart rate, moist palms, and localized vascular throbbing generally in men. Additional symptoms might be referred to as inattention deficit disorder aka staring.
DirecTV's interface design is quite neolithic. Clearly this guy doesn't understand what Apple's impact on content consumption has been. Yes, ok, Apple didn't invent the concept of breaking the RIAA's business model of forcing people to buy 11 songs they didn't want to get the one song they did but they did manage to make it legal. Right now, DirecTV has roughly 36 shopping and infomercial channels sprinkled in the mix of other channels. I personally don't give a damn about that stuff. Nor do I want to see spanish channels in the listings although sometimes the show titles are amusing. Who knew "Yo, Robot" wasn't a hip-hop cartoon? What I fully expect from Apple is a fully customizable show guide that will only show the channels I choose. I also expect it to have a Genius feature that will searching for OnDemand content it might think I'd like.
Who knew? Isn't methane regularly burned off at oil refineries? Never quite understood wasting it. Same could be said of dairy farms and cattle feed lots although it probably would cost a lot to harvest it out of the air.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens. Obligatory Giorgio A. Tsoukalos reference.
Check out Scenic Map from GrangerFX. Totally offline 2D/3D maps. http://scenicmap.blogspot.com/
I use it for search & rescue where we're in the middle of stinking nowhere with no cellphone coverage.
Maybe this is the Fed's solution to combating cyberterrorism. Write everything in a language that nobody elsewhere in the world understands. Now, are they looking for volunteers to guard these new codetalkers and perhaps kill them if necessary to prevent them falling into enemy hands?
No matter where or how it's tried, social engineering results in massive fail. Disregarding merit in favor of some social attribute is nothing new either. It reminds me of those little water-filled sausage balloon toys. Squeeze it and it shoots across the room. The same can be said of business and taxation. If you squeeze, you lose control of it.
It's bigger than you wanted and not cheap but it does have an enclosure. It runs Linux. Boots really fast. Lots of I/O options.
http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-TPC-7390
You can also try Crystalfontz. They make lots of displays. Even OLEDs.
Here in Arizona, law enforcement is now devoting more time to catching the people driving south with suitcases full of cash. Now there's your Robin Hood method.
But aside from this, all this scanner business will do is force the drivers to go up US-89 which is a less traveled road anyway.
Why does it take three friggin' days to dock with the ISS? I never quite understood why it takes so long to do that sort of thing? Seems to me that orbital mechanics is well understood and computer processing speeds are fast enough to handle navigation with maneuvering thrusters.
I'd really love to see Anonymous hack this outfit to find out A) where the money goes and B) if they themselves use pirated software. This outfit smacks of Soviet-style tattle on your neighbor tactics.
"I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them f*cking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
Edison's organization had a habit of stealing/copying other people's intellectual property rather than sticking to original work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nI2bVtQ6Kk
I don give a damn cuz I'm stone dead already...
One thing's for sure: We're all going to be a lot thinner.
I live in north-central Arizona and I can tell you for a fact that it's colder this year than last year and last year was colder than the previous five years. Five years ago, the flower garden was planted in late March and I could have breakfast on the back terrace. Last year and this year, it's too cold to plant and too chilly to even have lunch outside. This is B.S. I question the location of the temperature sensors.
Location is critically important. As an alumnus of Boston University, I often wondered about the air-quality sensors positioned in Kenmore Square which is the confluence of five very busy city streets and often had bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. Yet the air quality for the surrounding area was extrapolated from this location. Of course it's going to bias the results.
"I don't think the F-22 will ever be seen in the combat it was designed to counter, because that threat is no longer in existence.'"
I beg to differ. Our military is notorious for fighting the last war. Humvees were built to replace jeeps and were great for Gulf War 1...until the IED came about.
So the F-22 isn't good for dealing with terrorists. If those who say that the war on terrorism (or specifically Al Qaeda) is over then the next war might just be with North Korea or Iran where the F-22 would be more useful.
Sour grapes, much? Jeez. The only malware A) is a Java problem and B) uses Office as the transmission medium.
My point is that it's not cost-effective. A gas engine repair is likely to be far less expensive than replacing a battery pack that's guaranteed to lose discharge capacity over time. And how do they know that the pack is healthy enough to execute a takeoff? You can usually tell that a gas engine needs service on the ramp.
Here's another example of an idea ahead of its time. Bad Boy Buggies makes electric side-by-side ATVs. They have a 20-mile range. A gas side-by-side has well over five times that range and should you run out of gas, carrying an extra can or getting a can from another person is easy. You can't charge a big battery in the middle of stinking nowhere.
But perhaps that's a sub-rosa element to the green/electric/environmentalist agenda. Many of these people would prefer that humans be kept sequestered in high population density urban areas and close off the wilderness to human activity. By forcing limited operating range and no supply in rural/wilderness areas, that goal is achieved.
Why is it that nobody checks the Earth's orbit at correlates it with temperature changes?
Excellent point. My auto mechanic tells me that his hybrid customers refuse to spend $5000 to replace the battery pack when it goes tits-up and just run on gasoline.
For my own purposes, I've been learning a lot about battery tech. Hard core R/C modellers often have a computerized battery analyzer which allows you to plot the performance of the battery and keep a history because they degrade over time and number of charge/discharge cycles. A traditional engine can be repaired but batteries can't.
IMHO, the leaded gas issue is barely measurable compared to millions of cars spewing out lead in the exhaust which illustrates the extreme obsessive/compulsive behavior of the environmentalists. Separate issue, though.
As a matter of interest, Sikorsky has developed and electric helicopter. Apparently they use a Korean-made lithium pack with a 50S3P designation. That's 200 volts. Of course, they've only gotten about 15 minutes flight time so the project will sit on the shelf until battery technology catches up.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Bottom line: there's nothing illegal about this practice. Clueless legislatures who believe A) it's a company's duty to pay taxes and B) it's a company's duty to take it up the ass when politicians act irrationally are going to pay the price.
If you think otherwise, you are a fascist. See the wikipedia entry on fascism and economics.
IMHO, the goal should be to make a ubiquitous embedded platform for building appliances. To that end, the device needs to be low power so that it could run on batteries. It also need to run a real OS e.g. Linux but the catch here is that it needs to completely boot in a few seconds at most especially if it's faceless. Products from Technologic Systems make great strides towards this but their sub-2-second boot times are to Busybox and don't include USB initialization. USB adds another 4 seconds to the boot time. Six seconds is reasonable for a faceless system but anything longer than that and the user will wonder if it's working or not. Booting to Debian takes way too long. Beyond this, such systems need to be tolerant of power loss. Running off batteries means a real power switch. Any file system that takes minutes to check after a power loss is out.
Make it so.
What pisses me off are the people who think that wealth redistribution in the form of carbon-credit trading will do anything to solve the problem, if there really is a problem. Witness the latest insult by the UN that basically taxes the hell out of leading nations to support "green project" in third-world countries. There are ALWAYS sticky fingers in schemes like this. It would be one thing to require a leader nation to actually procure the solar plant equipment and set it up somewhere but that's not what they want. They just want the money.
That aside, if global catastrophe is such a big deal e.g. An asteroid is headed directly for Earth, every person is going to be affected in the same way therefore every person is equally responsible for dealing with it. There will be no "all animals are equal but some are more equal than others" here. So, by that logic, nobody gets a pass on carbon emissions. Nobody gets to buy their way out of it and no industry or enemy of the regime gets punished. Note that the carbon trading in commodities markets has be severely scaled back if not eliminated. Take money out of the equation and oh look, gee whiz, the problem isn't such a big problem anymore.