I always figured people who designed TV's were sexist, especially after becoming an EE myself and learning a lot of the faulty assumptions about normal hearing that men in the field take for granted. When "instant on" became popular, that meant the TV was really always on, it only looks like it's off. Me, I just plug the TV into an outlet controlled by a wall switch and use that to turn it off. I'm too young to remember what women were like before television, but I wouldn't be surprised if they became a tad **** afterwards. Thankfully, newer televisions aren't as loud when turned off. Or maybe it's because I'm older.
Three kids hanging out in a tree is very social, it is the nosy neighbor peering out the window and calling the cops who is being antisocial in the literal sense of the word.
This is one of those areas where someone in the UK (cops, politicians) have stolen a word and reversed its meaning. I find that orwellian misuse of the English language to be almost as troublesome as the fact that cops would arrest kids for being kids.
That is not your original point. I guess that means you concede. Not saying anything is wrong with the OCR scan idea, but your original point that a paper trail adds nothing to the security of evoting (that is what we all seem to think you mean) can't be so easily forgotten, not with/. system of uneditable, undeletable comment threads.
But attacking weaker players isn't much of a challenge. You won't rise in the game by being a bully, and besides, all newbies are weak and they wouldn't hang around to make those micropayments if they kept being the victims of uneven battles.
To repeat, you can attack ships who are your equals or you can attack stronger ships with stronger crews. If you whoop a weakling who was dumb enough to attack a stronger crew, then you do get to take all there stuff and you aren't a bully.
I see your point. We all feel sorry for the cubicle dweller who gets the boot. We know he has problems. But, in this thread, he's a strawman who wandered into a discussion of whether the CEO risks anything by signing up with a company with problems to fix instead of one that's already doing well prior to his taking over.
Would you rather be remembered as the Captain of the Titanic or the Captain of the QE II? That's the sort of risk he's taking, except that the Titanic Captain really did die, so they say. If he had survived, he would have never captained another ship. There is more to getting fired than losing your income.
I have no pity for Lay. Especially since he seems to have cheated his victims out of restitution. He has lost something worse than his money or his life. He has lost his honor. If he ever shows his face in public and is discovered to be Ken Lay, well, he just can't ever be Ken Lay again without tragic consequences.
If he is on a beach somewhere enjoying his money, I do hope his conscience won't let him. Unfortunately, I doubt he has one. Jails are for people like that. Or public floggings when he is found.
Actually, they both lose something of value, but neither starves to death. After a certain point, money isn't a reward. And family, friends, government, and private charities will help out with the food and a cot. It is obvious that the guy with the great severance package is better off. I know which situation I'd rather be in. But, that wasn't my point. What is yours?
But when they lose their job, they lose most of their power and influence. All future power and influence will be derived from their own money, a pittance compared to that of the corporation. And that's just the money. Power derived from business relationships is also reduced as many so called "friends" would rather pal around with the CEO of the Fortune 500 corp than some guy who got fired with a severance package, no matter how large.
Why would I trust it as a starting point if I can't trust it as a source?
because it is convenient and mostly correct. Very few sources are 100% accurate. Especially something as large and comprehensive and open as Wikipedia.
The shame is that the DVD was already pressed before the translator who found the problem was able to see it. He should have sent out tapes or burned DVD's to the translators before pressing the batch for the wide release.
I do hope that this isn't the only thing we discuss about this film. He did a lot of interesting things such as the the Creative Commons licensing. Reading his blog, it seems his heart was in the right place, but he was rushed.
Thanks, no problem. I was trying to figure out a way to extrapolate from marketing data, but that would have left out all the kids who got "hand me down" phones. I guess ya just call a bunch of people up and assume that you get reliable data.
How would one go about calculating the average age at which a British child first receives a cell phone?
# of kids with phones weighted by age then divided by all kids in the UK? Not sure it's doable without a national inquiry involving every child with a cell phone.
I wasn't actually attacking on MBAs in general; I was just pointing out that our President has an MBA.
As does Osama Bin Ladan (with an undergrad in civil engineering), what was w's undergrad?
Here's the thing about people that go to grad school to get an MBA. A very small percentage are interesting people who want to do interesting things in life,
You can put your clothes in, and an online system will let you view how much time they have left on them via your wireless internet connection. Nothing new here.
Yes, internet notification systems make more sense for laundrmats than for private homes. Back in the day, I used to hate hanging out in the laundremat. I'd go out or home and keep an eye on the clock. If you don't get back in time on a busy day, your clothes get dumped somewhere.
Doing laundry at home is already so much more convenient, I'm not sure I would want a notification system. My home isn't that horrible of a hangout, there is always something to do. I can hear the machines when they need attention. If I do go out, my clothes are reasonably safe if they spend too long in a machine. If the washer sent me an email, the only use I see is to use it as an excuse to get away from someone I was tired of being with.
However, I would like a system that could wash and dry my clothes without me transfering the clothes, and if I'm lucky, it would even fold and hang them. It's the manual steps I don 't like.
Correct you are. Karma of the sort I was discussing is fine for distinguishing the trolls from the people who are trying to help. If someone makes up a new login name and immediately starts trolling and flaming without any useful contributions, that's something to deal with forthrightly. But, if someone makes an honest error outside of their area of expertise, that is trickier. They should lose a little karma maybe for writing about something they don't know about, or alternatively, editing or reverting the work of someone who was actually correct. Even if an honest mistake, it makes the person less valuable to the project even if they aren't a troll. But, you don't want them to be blacklisted or prevented from future contributions. You just want them to be more careful in the future. If they learn, they should get their status back quickly. The trolls, of course, won't even try. They will just go make up a new login name.
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I always figured people who designed TV's were sexist, especially after becoming an EE myself and learning a lot of the faulty assumptions about normal hearing that men in the field take for granted. When "instant on" became popular, that meant the TV was really always on, it only looks like it's off. Me, I just plug the TV into an outlet controlled by a wall switch and use that to turn it off. I'm too young to remember what women were like before television, but I wouldn't be surprised if they became a tad **** afterwards. Thankfully, newer televisions aren't as loud when turned off. Or maybe it's because I'm older.
"What he doesn't know can't hurt him"
Isn't that another of those amoral morals of life?
How does the Play Pen's case have a "thinkathechildren" edge to it?
Three kids hanging out in a tree is very social, it is the nosy neighbor peering out the window and calling the cops who is being antisocial in the literal sense of the word.
This is one of those areas where someone in the UK (cops, politicians) have stolen a word and reversed its meaning. I find that orwellian misuse of the English language to be almost as troublesome as the fact that cops would arrest kids for being kids.
They're molesting nature!
omg! crimes against nature! we know that must be stopped, it's just so perverted
That is not your original point. I guess that means you concede. Not saying anything is wrong with the OCR scan idea, but your original point that a paper trail adds nothing to the security of evoting (that is what we all seem to think you mean) can't be so easily forgotten, not with /. system of uneditable, undeletable comment threads.
yu don't understand trickle up economics
only wizards communicate with owls
i agree with GP, not really a hack, even with the different definition. A "hardware hack" that doesn't violate the warranty isn't hack.
But attacking weaker players isn't much of a challenge. You won't rise in the game by being a bully, and besides, all newbies are weak and they wouldn't hang around to make those micropayments if they kept being the victims of uneven battles.
To repeat, you can attack ships who are your equals or you can attack stronger ships with stronger crews. If you whoop a weakling who was dumb enough to attack a stronger crew, then you do get to take all there stuff and you aren't a bully.
I see your point. We all feel sorry for the cubicle dweller who gets the boot. We know he has problems. But, in this thread, he's a strawman who wandered into a discussion of whether the CEO risks anything by signing up with a company with problems to fix instead of one that's already doing well prior to his taking over.
Would you rather be remembered as the Captain of the Titanic or the Captain of the QE II? That's the sort of risk he's taking, except that the Titanic Captain really did die, so they say. If he had survived, he would have never captained another ship. There is more to getting fired than losing your income.
I have no pity for Lay. Especially since he seems to have cheated his victims out of restitution. He has lost something worse than his money or his life. He has lost his honor. If he ever shows his face in public and is discovered to be Ken Lay, well, he just can't ever be Ken Lay again without tragic consequences.
If he is on a beach somewhere enjoying his money, I do hope his conscience won't let him. Unfortunately, I doubt he has one. Jails are for people like that. Or public floggings when he is found.
Actually, they both lose something of value, but neither starves to death. After a certain point, money isn't a reward. And family, friends, government, and private charities will help out with the food and a cot. It is obvious that the guy with the great severance package is better off. I know which situation I'd rather be in. But, that wasn't my point. What is yours?
But when they lose their job, they lose most of their power and influence. All future power and influence will be derived from their own money, a pittance compared to that of the corporation. And that's just the money. Power derived from business relationships is also reduced as many so called "friends" would rather pal around with the CEO of the Fortune 500 corp than some guy who got fired with a severance package, no matter how large.
Where is this list of 100 companies? I couldn't find it. Did they leave it out to save space or something?
But can you paint a yagi? Maybe if I laid the right kind of stencil on my roof...
Why would I trust it as a starting point if I can't trust it as a source?
because it is convenient and mostly correct. Very few sources are 100% accurate. Especially something as large and comprehensive and open as Wikipedia.
The shame is that the DVD was already pressed before the translator who found the problem was able to see it. He should have sent out tapes or burned DVD's to the translators before pressing the batch for the wide release.
I do hope that this isn't the only thing we discuss about this film. He did a lot of interesting things such as the the Creative Commons licensing. Reading his blog, it seems his heart was in the right place, but he was rushed.
Thanks, no problem. I was trying to figure out a way to extrapolate from marketing data, but that would have left out all the kids who got "hand me down" phones. I guess ya just call a bunch of people up and assume that you get reliable data.
How would one go about calculating the average age at which a British child first receives a cell phone?
# of kids with phones weighted by age then divided by all kids in the UK? Not sure it's doable without a national inquiry involving every child with a cell phone.
I wasn't actually attacking on MBAs in general; I was just pointing out that our President has an MBA.
As does Osama Bin Ladan (with an undergrad in civil engineering), what was w's undergrad?
Here's the thing about people that go to grad school to get an MBA. A very small percentage are interesting people who want to do interesting things in life,
it's a very flexible degree
This appliance, setup in 1991, predates the www. It was networked so that users could check if coffee was available without walking to the machine.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
You can put your clothes in, and an online system will let you view how much time they have left on them via your wireless internet connection. Nothing new here.
Yes, internet notification systems make more sense for laundrmats than for private homes. Back in the day, I used to hate hanging out in the laundremat. I'd go out or home and keep an eye on the clock. If you don't get back in time on a busy day, your clothes get dumped somewhere.
Doing laundry at home is already so much more convenient, I'm not sure I would want a notification system. My home isn't that horrible of a hangout, there is always something to do. I can hear the machines when they need attention. If I do go out, my clothes are reasonably safe if they spend too long in a machine. If the washer sent me an email, the only use I see is to use it as an excuse to get away from someone I was tired of being with.
However, I would like a system that could wash and dry my clothes without me transfering the clothes, and if I'm lucky, it would even fold and hang them. It's the manual steps I don 't like.
Here is the blog where they post news about the mission:
h p
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/multiverse/news.p
so far, so good, it is operating as planned
Correct you are. Karma of the sort I was discussing is fine for distinguishing the trolls from the people who are trying to help. If someone makes up a new login name and immediately starts trolling and flaming without any useful contributions, that's something to deal with forthrightly. But, if someone makes an honest error outside of their area of expertise, that is trickier. They should lose a little karma maybe for writing about something they don't know about, or alternatively, editing or reverting the work of someone who was actually correct. Even if an honest mistake, it makes the person less valuable to the project even if they aren't a troll. But, you don't want them to be blacklisted or prevented from future contributions. You just want them to be more careful in the future. If they learn, they should get their status back quickly. The trolls, of course, won't even try. They will just go make up a new login name.
Ovaries, obviously. They are kinda round and are completely analogous developmentally to the testicles of a male.