The Irish paper voting system didn't / doesn't involve putting holes in paper. You mark 1, 2, 3.....n in order of preference beside whatever candidates you want to vote for. You vote for as many or as few as you like.
In England they use both gestures. The single middle finger is considered ruder than the two fingers. Believe me, I lived there for 8 years and was on the recieving end of manys a one!
of a story my brother told me (my big brother as it happens) about a speed camera that was put on the road somewhere in england. It was pointed against the traffic and took pictures of speeding vehicles from the front. Some pictures showed motorcyclists going through at 110mph with the middle finger sticking up!
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
TT: Okay. Well, how can we have this dialogue?
JV: Well, we're having it right now. I want to try to find out the point you make on why are there no Linux licensed players. There must be a reason -- there has to be a reason. I don't know.
Sounds like progress to me. Mr Valenti sounded like he was willing to listen and do something about this.
How does your interest in the arts get you hired every time?
It's my diverse background that actually gets me hired. In my previous employment I've done a bit of everything. My degree isn't directly related to IT. Amongst all the dozens of IT graduates with degrees in computer science, along comes me with my degree in manufacturing engineering and hobbies that have little or nothing to do with 'traditional' geek culture. It helps me stand out, shows them that I see things from a slightly different angle.
Someone asked a very similar question last week about outsourcing. My response was:
My employer prefers to hire engineers from the US and Europe. He doesn't think the Asians are creative enough for R&D work, says that their education system just churns out people who act like robots but have less initiative or creativity. That's just in relation to Japan, Singapore and Taiwan mind you. We don't do any business in India so I'm not sure how they compare.
To answer the question, I'd say become a rennaisance man. Learn to use both sides of your brain. Take an interest in the arts, you never know how it'll inspire you to look at technical problems from a different angle. It works for me, gets me hired every time.
I wish they'd let this franchise lie for about ten years, it needs a break. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories and recycling old ideas. The last TNG film was a bit disappointing. I mean, there was no credible motivation for the bad guy to want to destroy life on earth, so after the movie I was left wondering what was all the fuss about?
I wish they'd eventually do a Babylon 5 job on this, i.e. plan a series with a big story that develops over five seasons. When watching the likes of TNG and Voyager I got the impression that they were making this stuff up as they went along. Like adding a character called 'Kes' to Voyager and just seeing where it went. It went nowhere and they had to ditch her in favour of a Borg with a fit body and big tits. (I'm not complaining about that BTW!)
Sure DS9 and Voyager had _some_ continuity, but nothing profound. The only shocking thing that ever happened in Voyager was the Seska character who was on the ship for the longest time but turned out to be a Cardassian agent in disguise.
Bush already tried that with steel tariffs. The EU threatened retaliation on commodities from politically sensitive states and he backed down. Protectionism doesn't work. The answer is to compete fair and square.
My employer prefers to hire engineers from the US and Europe. He doesn't think the Asians are creative enough for R&D work, says that their education system just churns out people who act like robots but have less initiative or creativity. That's just in relation to Japan, Singapore and Taiwan mind you. We don't do any business in India so I'm not sure how they compare.
To answer the question, I'd say become a rennaisance man. Learn to use both sides of your brain. Take an interest in the arts, you never know how it'll inspire you to look at technical problems from a different angle. It works for me, gets me hired every time. See the link in my sig for a discussion about this very theme.
You're right. It IS a completely different beast. The British TV license fee is a price well worth paying for the best public service broadcasting in the world. There's no comparison whatsoever between this and what is obviously a case of a bit of state law falling behind the times as technology marches on.
I don't seem to remember ever buying a book to find out what's happening in the world right now. And last time I visited a bookstore, opinion pieces were not the only genre.
Interestingly, following a campaign by the BBC called the Big Read, demand for books in the UK has skyrocketed.
So what's the difference between permanent magnets (like in this guy's invention) and electromagnets (like you have in your computer's electric motors right now)?
I wish I had a dollar for every car commericial I see that shows the vehicle being driven at unsafe speeds and in an unsafe manner, either in built-up areas or on open roads. In all cases there is zero traffic on the road. I once saw a Mazda commercial that did show traffic, but it was moving at warp speed in a big streak of white and red lights. Is it any wonder people forget about the impact of their vehicles on other people so easily?
This kind of childish advertising went out of fashion in Europe years ago, but it's still prevalent in the US where almost every car commercial looks like the other. the traffic is non-existent, the speed is high (sometimes using special effects to make it impossibly fast) and the music is loud and brash. Pass the sick-bag.
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What is he doing on the board of a drug company? I didn't think it was his sort of thing.
There's no need for that tone.
I think that if something siezes up in the right place, it makes not much difference if you have two wheels or one.
Someone linked to this when we had the article about the Bombardier Embrio, another cool concept employing segway-type gyroscopic action.
The Irish paper voting system didn't / doesn't involve putting holes in paper. You mark 1, 2, 3.....n in order of preference beside whatever candidates you want to vote for. You vote for as many or as few as you like.
In England they use both gestures. The single middle finger is considered ruder than the two fingers. Believe me, I lived there for 8 years and was on the recieving end of manys a one!
Why is it bad? It sounds no different than signing up for Fastrak to pay the toll on the Golden Gate Bridge without having to stop at the tollbooth.
of a story my brother told me (my big brother as it happens) about a speed camera that was put on the road somewhere in england. It was pointed against the traffic and took pictures of speeding vehicles from the front. Some pictures showed motorcyclists going through at 110mph with the middle finger sticking up!
It's my diverse background that actually gets me hired. In my previous employment I've done a bit of everything. My degree isn't directly related to IT. Amongst all the dozens of IT graduates with degrees in computer science, along comes me with my degree in manufacturing engineering and hobbies that have little or nothing to do with 'traditional' geek culture. It helps me stand out, shows them that I see things from a slightly different angle.
"Hey! U! Yeah, U! The hot blonde Swedish chick at the IKEA booth. Wanna hook up? Here's my # ......."
So the survey is wrong because the majority of people who buy this thing have different personal preferences from you? Hmmmm......
We had a Mk III Cortina, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. Those were the days.
True that Kirk died a hero, but that didn't stop some book authors from resurrecting him again.
I wish they'd eventually do a Babylon 5 job on this, i.e. plan a series with a big story that develops over five seasons. When watching the likes of TNG and Voyager I got the impression that they were making this stuff up as they went along. Like adding a character called 'Kes' to Voyager and just seeing where it went. It went nowhere and they had to ditch her in favour of a Borg with a fit body and big tits. (I'm not complaining about that BTW!)
Sure DS9 and Voyager had _some_ continuity, but nothing profound. The only shocking thing that ever happened in Voyager was the Seska character who was on the ship for the longest time but turned out to be a Cardassian agent in disguise.
Oh well.
I can see it now. Canadian dollar signs in Darl's eyes. *Ker-ching!*
Bush already tried that with steel tariffs. The EU threatened retaliation on commodities from politically sensitive states and he backed down. Protectionism doesn't work. The answer is to compete fair and square.
To answer the question, I'd say become a rennaisance man. Learn to use both sides of your brain. Take an interest in the arts, you never know how it'll inspire you to look at technical problems from a different angle. It works for me, gets me hired every time. See the link in my sig for a discussion about this very theme.
You're right. It IS a completely different beast. The British TV license fee is a price well worth paying for the best public service broadcasting in the world. There's no comparison whatsoever between this and what is obviously a case of a bit of state law falling behind the times as technology marches on.
Interestingly, following a campaign by the BBC called the Big Read, demand for books in the UK has skyrocketed.
So. How do you think the motor in your disk-drive works now then? Magic?
So what's the difference between permanent magnets (like in this guy's invention) and electromagnets (like you have in your computer's electric motors right now)?
This kind of childish advertising went out of fashion in Europe years ago, but it's still prevalent in the US where almost every car commercial looks like the other. the traffic is non-existent, the speed is high (sometimes using special effects to make it impossibly fast) and the music is loud and brash. Pass the sick-bag.