In my past as a hiring manager, the issue that I have had with PhD educated candidates is that most of them have acted as though they should be exempt from the interview process. Since most of them were straight out of University, they had no leverage.
Some were too busy to actually interview (what else are you too busy for?) others thought that they should be exempted from coding test because of their PhD (are there other jobs that you won't do because you are they below you?)
So I would say that make certain that you don't fall into this trap of acting and speaking as though you believe that you deserve be treated differently than your coworkers.
Thinking like this would have kept the explorers of our history at home. Hillary would never have climbed Everest, Magellan's Voyage (though he didn't survive it) would never have happened, Polynesia would be blissfully free of humans, since getting there in a canoe takes a damn large leap of faith, and the Americas would be an animal wilderness.
In fact, there would still just be a few thousand of us wandering around a valley somewhere in eastern Africa picking at grubs and nuts.
Of course, depending on your perspective, this may be good or bad. Personally, I prefer my current state to that possibility.
The PBMR reactors are supposed to be immune from meltdown, since the fuel pellets are embedded inside spheres that prevent a critical mass, but that does not mean that they are guaranteed safe reactors.
They use graphite as a coolant, and there may be significant risk of a graphite fire (chernobyl, anyone?). Also, unlike a fuel rod, where the waste products are the fuel, the PBMR system produces much more waste, since the coolant and spheres must be properly disposed of.
Here's a link that discusses much of this. (apologies for the PDF, I know it sucks ass, but that's the format this is in)
Perhaps the manufacturer sells a variety of drive 'packages', and they all actually use the same hardware, and are differentiated only by the firmware running them. Saves the manufacturer a lot of money on engineering/producing several different product lines...
Kinda like when you go to a restaurant and the kids meal, at 1/3 the price, is the same food as the 'adult meal'.
Will the National Do Not Call Registry cover all telemarketing calls? Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Some types of calls are exempt. Political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, and the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law, are permitted to call you.
So if this is specifically exempted from the telephone spam rules, presumably it will also be exempted from any future email spam rules, and thus has already been declared perfectly acceptable behavior.
http://www.m-w.com says that the term goes back to 1877, but the first appearance in print of the word capitalism was in the novel The Newcomes, by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1854.
I thought the Communist Manifesto may have preceeded that, so I quickly scanned it, and there are several references to Capital, and Capitalists, but no "Capitalism"
This site backs that up, showing what appears to be entries from the OED (which is a paid site, so no linky) for it and a few more 'isms'
BTW, here is an interesting article on Capitalism. I doubt that it will change the minds of any true believers, but I'd encourage all to read it.
"I thought you were nothing but a greasy-haired dork when I squealed in disgust at the bar...But that was until you kidnapped me, brought me here to your apartment, and I saw your iMac sitting on that witty and sophisticated desk. Let's get started! Where is the trapeze?"
Seems the programmer who made the character editor was gay, and somewhat miffed that the artists using it were making hot bimbos, but no gay muscle boys, so he added some, and got fired for it once Will Wright discovered it.
If your figure of $10 per copy to madden is correct, I think that he likely makes more than $5mil a year. That would equate to 500k units moved, and at $50 a pop, would be $25 mil in sales.
Madden sells far far more than $25mil a year for EA. In fact, according to this article, Madden NFL 2002 sold nearly 4 million units. For a $10 royalty, that would be $40mil.
I have no idea how much Madden makes per copy, so he may in fact make $5mil...that just means that his royalty is $1.25 per copy...
So perhaps you could enlighten...exactly how did the CEO of Halliburton give Enron the go-ahead to manipulate the power market in California?
See this article from Jan 2001 describing the disaster of the power market in California.
This article appeared almost 3 weeks before Bush was Inaugurated, in case you were wondering. But then, again, you probably weren't.
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This application of diamond would allow the chip to dissipate heat more readily, and thus the inevitable result would be to raise the clock rates to the point where the internal heat is where it is now (stopped just before the system would fail), but with a much greater heat release.
So your chip would be the same temperature on the inside, but a helluva lot hotter on the outside.
And if anybody remembers this story, more heat in a notebook computer is a very bad idea.
It's unlikely at a fortune 500 company did this for a menial cash kickback. More likely, they decided that even spending $100k would be cheaper than doing a proper legal analysis in response to SCO's letter, so they paid to make SCO go away. The cash was trivial, and the risk is gone (both legal and future expense). They win.
They probably included the 'no mention of company' just so that they wouldn't have to waste any more IR or executive time on this waste of an issue (their position, not yours).
If, as has been suggested, this is a complete fabrication, expect some jailtime for fraud, and the company to come apart. They claim that one of a specific set of 500 companies paid them. That's pretty easy to verify, which makes me suspect that SCO wouldn't lie about it...Remember, they're greasy lawyers, and they know where the lines are.
Here in the US, if you go to newly engineered suburbia, it's hard not to stumble across an "Olde Towne Centre". Thing is, the presence in that environment reinforces the fact that it is a fruity and archaic spelling, and some misguided developer is trying to sell the sophistication of *their* Outback Steakhouses and Home Depots.
Perhaps the memories are just repressed. That is a much more likely answer.
Or are you trying to impress us with the the the fact that the details of your situation are different than everybody else?
I used to be somewhat introverted ('the quiet type'). But sometime in my early adulthood, I gravitated towards the realization that it took far too much energy and effort to maintain that level of attention to my introversion, and my innate laziness took over.
Perhaps it is wired in. And in my case, the mortal combat between two natural tendencies took a while, with one eventually winning.
And besides, maybe our intelligence saying it was Osama was wrong. Our intelligence about the WMD in Iraq was wrong
I don't want to go supertechnical on your logic argument here, but what evidence do you have that our intelligence about WMD in Iraq was wrong? Just because it has not been proven to your satisfaction does not mean that it was wrong.
And yes, there appears that there may have been a misstatement about Iraq+Niger+Uranium, but British Intelligence stands behind the connection. But even if this was a mistake, and there was no attempt to buy uranium from Niger, it does not mean that Iraq had no WMD.
Assertion: Some Cats are Black Your Refutation: This cat is not black, and you have shown me no black cats, so therefore there are no black cats.
Now your assertion may turn out to be true, that the intelligence was wrong, and there were no WMD, but you are making it in absence of any evidence that it was actually wrong, and that there are definitively no WMD.
We do know, definitively, that Iraq at one time had WMD, and that the inspectors who were trying to eradicate it were withdrawn after repeated interference by the Iraqi government, but they could have secretly destroyed it all without telling us or proving it to us.
Just as, last night, all the black cats on the planet may have suddenly expired.
This is a case of an American trying to take up arms against his own nation...that is treason, not legitimate mercenary action. Those of us who take their citizenship seriously understand this. And since he was naturalized, he, unlike most of us, had to actively take an oath to abandon all other national alliegances, and to take up arms to defend the US.
So, using your example:
If you were not French and did this, and were not wearing a German uniform, you would be a spy, and probably just be summarily executed after some painful questioning.
If you were French and you did this, you might get lucky and be convicted of treason, then executed.
I don't know about you, but all my quibbles with life here are relatively minor, compared to what they would be in most other places in the planet, and I don't think it's a good idea to let people run around taking up arms in revolution against the US.
I think that it's perfectly reasonable to jail those who advocate violent overthrow of the government, and I hardly believe that doing so makes the US a 'police state'...It simply makes us a nation of laws.
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I was going to go to the website to see what he went to prison for, but if it's illegal to aggregate the info, is it also illegal to read it?
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In my past as a hiring manager, the issue that I have had with PhD educated candidates is that most of them have acted as though they should be exempt from the interview process. Since most of them were straight out of University, they had no leverage.
Some were too busy to actually interview (what else are you too busy for?) others thought that they should be exempted from coding test because of their PhD (are there other jobs that you won't do because you are they below you?)
So I would say that make certain that you don't fall into this trap of acting and speaking as though you believe that you deserve be treated differently than your coworkers.
Thinking like this would have kept the explorers of our history at home. Hillary would never have climbed Everest, Magellan's Voyage (though he didn't survive it) would never have happened, Polynesia would be blissfully free of humans, since getting there in a canoe takes a damn large leap of faith, and the Americas would be an animal wilderness.
In fact, there would still just be a few thousand of us wandering around a valley somewhere in eastern Africa picking at grubs and nuts.
Of course, depending on your perspective, this may be good or bad. Personally, I prefer my current state to that possibility.
The PBMR reactors are supposed to be immune from meltdown, since the fuel pellets are embedded inside spheres that prevent a critical mass, but that does not mean that they are guaranteed safe reactors.
They use graphite as a coolant, and there may be significant risk of a graphite fire (chernobyl, anyone?). Also, unlike a fuel rod, where the waste products are the fuel, the PBMR system produces much more waste, since the coolant and spheres must be properly disposed of.
Here's a link that discusses much of this. (apologies for the PDF, I know it sucks ass, but that's the format this is in)
While this is true, have you ever noticed that there are no truly good Porn Games?
Perhaps the manufacturer sells a variety of drive 'packages', and they all actually use the same hardware, and are differentiated only by the firmware running them. Saves the manufacturer a lot of money on engineering/producing several different product lines...
Kinda like when you go to a restaurant and the kids meal, at 1/3 the price, is the same food as the 'adult meal'.
If the National Do Not Call List rules are any indication, Mr. Dean may believe that he is exempt from being labelled a spammer.
From the FTC donotcall site:
Will the National Do Not Call Registry cover all telemarketing calls?
Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Some types of calls are exempt. Political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, and the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law, are permitted to call you.
So if this is specifically exempted from the telephone spam rules, presumably it will also be exempted from any future email spam rules, and thus has already been declared perfectly acceptable behavior.
http://www.m-w.com says that the term goes back to 1877, but the first appearance in print of the word capitalism was in the novel The Newcomes, by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1854.
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I thought the Communist Manifesto may have preceeded that, so I quickly scanned it, and there are several references to Capital, and Capitalists, but no "Capitalism"
This site backs that up, showing what appears to be entries from the OED (which is a paid site, so no linky) for it and a few more 'isms'
BTW, here is an interesting article on Capitalism. I doubt that it will change the minds of any true believers, but I'd encourage all to read it.
Wait a minute, who am I kidding? This is
"I thought you were nothing but a greasy-haired dork when I squealed in disgust at the bar...But that was until you kidnapped me, brought me here to your apartment, and I saw your iMac sitting on that witty and sophisticated desk. Let's get started! Where is the trapeze?"
So the best minds of science have been working on making Clippy even more annoying...great...
Wired explains it all for you.
Seems the programmer who made the character editor was gay, and somewhat miffed that the artists using it were making hot bimbos, but no gay muscle boys, so he added some, and got fired for it once Will Wright discovered it.
If your figure of $10 per copy to madden is correct, I think that he likely makes more than $5mil a year. That would equate to 500k units moved, and at $50 a pop, would be $25 mil in sales.
Madden sells far far more than $25mil a year for EA.
In fact, according to this article, Madden NFL 2002 sold nearly 4 million units. For a $10 royalty, that would be $40mil.
I have no idea how much Madden makes per copy, so he may in fact make $5mil...that just means that his royalty is $1.25 per copy...
So perhaps you could enlighten...exactly how did the CEO of Halliburton give Enron the go-ahead to manipulate the power market in California?
See this article from Jan 2001 describing the disaster of the power market in California.
This article appeared almost 3 weeks before Bush was Inaugurated, in case you were wondering. But then, again, you probably weren't.
This application of diamond would allow the chip to dissipate heat more readily, and thus the inevitable result would be to raise the clock rates to the point where the internal heat is where it is now (stopped just before the system would fail), but with a much greater heat release.
So your chip would be the same temperature on the inside, but a helluva lot hotter on the outside.
And if anybody remembers this story, more heat in a notebook computer is a very bad idea.
It's unlikely at a fortune 500 company did this for a menial cash kickback. More likely, they decided that even spending $100k would be cheaper than doing a proper legal analysis in response to SCO's letter, so they paid to make SCO go away. The cash was trivial, and the risk is gone (both legal and future expense). They win.
They probably included the 'no mention of company' just so that they wouldn't have to waste any more IR or executive time on this waste of an issue (their position, not yours).
If, as has been suggested, this is a complete fabrication, expect some jailtime for fraud, and the company to come apart. They claim that one of a specific set of 500 companies paid them. That's pretty easy to verify, which makes me suspect that SCO wouldn't lie about it...Remember, they're greasy lawyers, and they know where the lines are.
This is perfect for /. It's impossible to RTFA
Here in the US, if you go to newly engineered suburbia, it's hard not to stumble across an "Olde Towne Centre". Thing is, the presence in that environment reinforces the fact that it is a fruity and archaic spelling, and some misguided developer is trying to sell the sophistication of *their* Outback Steakhouses and Home Depots.
Perhaps the memories are just repressed. That is a much more likely answer.
Or are you trying to impress us with the the the fact that the details of your situation are different than everybody else?
I used to be somewhat introverted ('the quiet type'). But sometime in my early adulthood, I gravitated towards the realization that it took far too much energy and effort to maintain that level of attention to my introversion, and my innate laziness took over.
Perhaps it is wired in. And in my case, the mortal combat between two natural tendencies took a while, with one eventually winning.
And besides, maybe our intelligence saying it was Osama was wrong. Our intelligence about the WMD in Iraq was wrong
I don't want to go supertechnical on your logic argument here, but what evidence do you have that our intelligence about WMD in Iraq was wrong? Just because it has not been proven to your satisfaction does not mean that it was wrong.
We know that a scientist was ordered to bury parts of a gas centrifuge in his flowerbed.
We know that Iraq buried entire squadrons of fighter jets to prevent their discovery/destruction.
And yes, there appears that there may have been a misstatement about Iraq+Niger+Uranium, but British Intelligence stands behind the connection. But even if this was a mistake, and there was no attempt to buy uranium from Niger, it does not mean that Iraq had no WMD.
Assertion: Some Cats are Black
Your Refutation: This cat is not black, and you have shown me no black cats, so therefore there are no black cats.
Now your assertion may turn out to be true, that the intelligence was wrong, and there were no WMD, but you are making it in absence of any evidence that it was actually wrong, and that there are definitively no WMD.
We do know, definitively, that Iraq at one time had WMD, and that the inspectors who were trying to eradicate it were withdrawn after repeated interference by the Iraqi government, but they could have secretly destroyed it all without telling us or proving it to us.
Just as, last night, all the black cats on the planet may have suddenly expired.
Ummmm...let me get this straight...do you actually harbor some doubts at this point that al-qaeda was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks?
I mean, really?
Are you one of those fruitcakes who believes that "The Jews" staged it to look like al-qaeda to lure the US into blowing up "Islam"?
I hope you didn't catch anything, god knows who SCO has been sleeping with.
Well, I'd say based on their behavior, SCO hasn't had any for a while.
This is a case of an American trying to take up arms against his own nation...that is treason, not legitimate mercenary action. Those of us who take their citizenship seriously understand this. And since he was naturalized, he, unlike most of us, had to actively take an oath to abandon all other national alliegances, and to take up arms to defend the US.
So, using your example:
If you were not French and did this, and were not wearing a German uniform, you would be a spy, and probably just be summarily executed after some painful questioning.
If you were French and you did this, you might get lucky and be convicted of treason, then executed.
This is not in the constitution itself, but is the US Code covering advocating the overthrow of the US government.
/ parts/i/chapters/115/sections/section_2385.html
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/18
I don't know about you, but all my quibbles with life here are relatively minor, compared to what they would be in most other places in the planet, and I don't think it's a good idea to let people run around taking up arms in revolution against the US.
I think that it's perfectly reasonable to jail those who advocate violent overthrow of the government, and I hardly believe that doing so makes the US a 'police state'...It simply makes us a nation of laws.
I was going to go to the website to see what he went to prison for, but if it's illegal to aggregate the info, is it also illegal to read it?
Where you live, you call somebody who uses a crosswalk a square.
Where I live, we call people who don't walk the extra 10 feet to the crosswalk an ambulance.
BTW, I live in San Francisco.
This was a 1 meter balloon, so isn't affected by these rules.
These rules, as specified in the link, apply only to a balloon with a diameter of more than 6 feet or a gas capacity of more than 115 cubic feet.