By the article's argument, when you go back 40 generations, you have 2^40 ancestors, or 4 quadrillion ancestors. This is clearly impossible. There simply weren't that many people alive then. So how do you explain the discrepency of numbers?
Massive global inbreeding.
Go back 10 generations, and you'll find that your family tree branches back on itself many times. The "mathematical" proof that everyone's related is not proof at all. There's nothing to indicate truly common ancestry. In fact, the current level of mobility that many people experience is orders of magnitude greater than what most kings experienced even as little as 500 years ago.
It's a silly article.
I thought google admitted a few months ago that it's full. The servers that they use have reached capacity and that's why they're building a new double-football-field sized warehouse to fill with new servers so that they can do more.
To arc through dry air, you need something like 12kV/inch. Van De Graff generators usually can get a few hundred kV. Enough to leap a foot or two, depending on the size of it.
... are definitely worthwhile.
You're not getting them to get a job working for someone who knows your job better than you. You're getting them so that someone who has NO IDEA how to do your job can hire you.
There are lots and lots and lots and lots of such people in the world, and they have lots of money with which to pay you.
The phone doesn't make any noise at all if you simply flick the switch to remove the battery, then plug it back in.
Your phone is off at that point, regardless of stupid marketing decisions to the contrary.
If he was the CTO of the company, and he was fired for stating his views on technology publically, then he was probably fired for internal political reasons (like, as was stated previously, his lack of personal and organizational skills). His public statements were merely the thing that the CEO could point at as his reason for being fired.
Don't be surprised if he turns around and sues the company for lots and lots of money for wrongful termination.
I had experience with one company that had 5 people who were managers and executives, and one guy who was technical. The managers would walk in to the technician's office at various points during the day, bumping their favorite project back up to the top of the priority list for the tech. After 6 months of this, they fired the tech, because he never got anything done.
A visual chart explaining what he was working on, and when his time could be devoted to other projects would have allowed him to keep his job AND work fewer hours.
One of my previous bosses would never say "no" to a project that was given to him. He would simply make an estimate for how long the project would take, and then schedule it at the end of the current projects. The schedule of projects was kept visible and up-to-date. When he was starting to schedule things 3 years away, his boss realized that the projects were getting done, but that he himself needed to re-prioritize things and limit what he asked for.
If you write down what priorities are, and make a visible chart, perhaps tacked to your door, of what you are spending your time on, then the CTO/CFO/CEOs of your company can argue amongst themselves, and you'll be free to get your own work done.
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By the article's argument, when you go back 40 generations, you have 2^40 ancestors, or 4 quadrillion ancestors. This is clearly impossible. There simply weren't that many people alive then. So how do you explain the discrepency of numbers? Massive global inbreeding. Go back 10 generations, and you'll find that your family tree branches back on itself many times. The "mathematical" proof that everyone's related is not proof at all. There's nothing to indicate truly common ancestry. In fact, the current level of mobility that many people experience is orders of magnitude greater than what most kings experienced even as little as 500 years ago. It's a silly article.
I thought google admitted a few months ago that it's full. The servers that they use have reached capacity and that's why they're building a new double-football-field sized warehouse to fill with new servers so that they can do more.
Step a little closer and say that again, I didn't quite hear you the first time...
To arc through dry air, you need something like 12kV/inch. Van De Graff generators usually can get a few hundred kV. Enough to leap a foot or two, depending on the size of it.
... are definitely worthwhile. You're not getting them to get a job working for someone who knows your job better than you. You're getting them so that someone who has NO IDEA how to do your job can hire you. There are lots and lots and lots and lots of such people in the world, and they have lots of money with which to pay you.
The phone doesn't make any noise at all if you simply flick the switch to remove the battery, then plug it back in. Your phone is off at that point, regardless of stupid marketing decisions to the contrary.
what are you talking about?
If he was the CTO of the company, and he was fired for stating his views on technology publically, then he was probably fired for internal political reasons (like, as was stated previously, his lack of personal and organizational skills). His public statements were merely the thing that the CEO could point at as his reason for being fired. Don't be surprised if he turns around and sues the company for lots and lots of money for wrongful termination.
I had experience with one company that had 5 people who were managers and executives, and one guy who was technical. The managers would walk in to the technician's office at various points during the day, bumping their favorite project back up to the top of the priority list for the tech. After 6 months of this, they fired the tech, because he never got anything done. A visual chart explaining what he was working on, and when his time could be devoted to other projects would have allowed him to keep his job AND work fewer hours. One of my previous bosses would never say "no" to a project that was given to him. He would simply make an estimate for how long the project would take, and then schedule it at the end of the current projects. The schedule of projects was kept visible and up-to-date. When he was starting to schedule things 3 years away, his boss realized that the projects were getting done, but that he himself needed to re-prioritize things and limit what he asked for. If you write down what priorities are, and make a visible chart, perhaps tacked to your door, of what you are spending your time on, then the CTO/CFO/CEOs of your company can argue amongst themselves, and you'll be free to get your own work done. Sosetta
This is patently false. The Gord speaks on this, and many other truths of the Console Industry here.