Bees are thought to communicate by using "dances". They fly around in certain patterns that other bees can recognize. In particular, their dances can tell other bees where to go look for food. How they perfrom the dance can give an indication of the direction and distance of the food. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_comm unication.
When inputting the time you work (which has to be done every day) the initial starting date is always the first of the year. You have to manually change the date to sometime during the current pay cycle to input your time.
Where I work we use SAP and I have to disagree with you on about everything you have to say. I input my time once a week and when a new week comes along it automatically goes to it.
If you get paid by several different funding agencies (as I was at my previous location) you have to manually (every day) input your time breakdown for each agency. You cannot simply put in one general code and have the system break it out for you in the background. In my case I had seven different values to change.
Again, once a week I enter my time. Depending on what project I work for, there are different numbers to input. However, SAP provides a list of the numbers I have used within the last couple of weeks and provides the functionality for me to copy them right to where they need to go.
When the budget year changes (July 1st) you, the user, have to go in and manually change a single digit in the funding code value so it knows to put your salary in the correct budge year. The system will not change it for you. If the pay cycle spanned a budget year you had to input your funding values twice. Once with the current year values and again with new year values. In my case that represented 14 lines of values I had to input.
It sounds like whoever implemented you SAP system doesn't know how to do it. I do not have to do such things.
If you take time off in the middle of the day you have to consult a cheat sheet to manually adjust how much time to allocate to each funding agency. The system will not do it for you in the background.
If I take time off, either sick leave or annual, I simply enter the number of hours I took for the day I took them. I work 9 hour days. So if I take 2 hours for a doctors visit I would put in 7 hours for whatever project I was working on. You need a cheat seet to do simple math?
I can't comment on the rest of your rants other than to say your company is screwed, not SAP.
The best story I have to tell about final exams is the time one of my computer science professors was on his way to give the final exam and a car struck him! He was not injured badly but the incident caused him to be late for the exam and as such he had to shorten it. Ha!
Sirius is much better with their sat placements. I have worked in open pit coal mines and *everyone* uses Sirius because XM will drop out when you get up next to a sidewall and Sirius will not.
Good question. Someone else who knows more about it should clue us in. I have taken a couple of image processing classes and know that quite a bit a preprocessing is done before you even get the image out of your digital camera. Noise is one of the biggest issues(getting all the signals from the Millions of pixel elements isn't easy) as far as I know.
Just the other day one of my professors was talking about experiments done on monkeys using very short duration but very high intensity laser pulses(I forget how short, but something like femtoseconds). Anyway, I guess they would shoot these pulses at the monkeys' eyes and they would literally shatter from mechanical stress. I suppose the same thing could happen with a rocket.
One day I let my cat out in the back yard and was just sitting around drinking a beer. All of sudden I see a bird fly through the yard and right into the badminton net. It got stuck and I felt really bad so I spent about half an hour cutting it out of the net. One of the bird's wings was hurt so I set it off in a quiet place under some bushes and gave it some water. I checked on it later but it was gone.
No, if you are in the US, your electricty most likely comes from coal(mined in the US). I live in Wyoming, and have worked in a coal mine. Anyway, over half of the electricity in the US comes from coal(about 56%). Here is a link from the wyoming mining association with some facts about coal. The info might be a little old, but coal production is on the rise(thanks Bush). In fact, quite a few of the mines set new production records for 2003.
I just have a comment about point #1 that says only 15 year olds spell Microsoft with a $. I was flipping though the tv channels and I heard something on Fox News about Microsoft offering those bounties on virus/worm writers(which i read about on/. first), and they had a banner on the bottom of the screen with Micro$oft. I though it was kinda funny, but i wouldnt be suprised if Fox News is run by a bunch of 15 year olds.
The interface kind of sucks. Why they chose to redefine 'Maximize' is beyond me, and you can't get it to fill the window.
If you ever used a mac you would understand why.
I don't think saving $2 on an album is that great of a bargain when the compression is lossy and you factor in the cost of disc and jewel case.
There are plenty of albums where you will save more than two dollars. Of course there are some that you really don't save any money on. And there is no jewel case, but at least you do get the cover art.
Quicktime and iTunesHelper are both loaded at computer startup and happily sit in the background, guzzling memory (iTunesHelper is 3 MB, for example). Does this crap really need to run when I'm not using it?
Get a mac and you won't have these problems. Apple utilizes their alti-vec processors with itunes. Ripping mp3's or aac's is pretty darn quick. And I get >30fps on my TiBook 667.
Arbitrary restrictions on burning a playlist (10 burns, then you have to mess with it to burn more) seems a bit silly.
I agree it is dumb, but they have to do some things to make the music labels happy I supoose.
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Bees are thought to communicate by using "dances". They fly around in certain patterns that other bees can recognize. In particular, their dances can tell other bees where to go look for food. How they perfrom the dance can give an indication of the direction and distance of the food. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_comm unication.
Where I work we use SAP and I have to disagree with you on about everything you have to say. I input my time once a week and when a new week comes along it automatically goes to it.
If you get paid by several different funding agencies (as I was at my previous location) you have to manually (every day) input your time breakdown for each agency. You cannot simply put in one general code and have the system break it out for you in the background. In my case I had seven different values to change.
Again, once a week I enter my time. Depending on what project I work for, there are different numbers to input. However, SAP provides a list of the numbers I have used within the last couple of weeks and provides the functionality for me to copy them right to where they need to go.
When the budget year changes (July 1st) you, the user, have to go in and manually change a single digit in the funding code value so it knows to put your salary in the correct budge year. The system will not change it for you. If the pay cycle spanned a budget year you had to input your funding values twice. Once with the current year values and again with new year values. In my case that represented 14 lines of values I had to input.
It sounds like whoever implemented you SAP system doesn't know how to do it. I do not have to do such things.
If you take time off in the middle of the day you have to consult a cheat sheet to manually adjust how much time to allocate to each funding agency. The system will not do it for you in the background.
If I take time off, either sick leave or annual, I simply enter the number of hours I took for the day I took them. I work 9 hour days. So if I take 2 hours for a doctors visit I would put in 7 hours for whatever project I was working on. You need a cheat seet to do simple math?
I can't comment on the rest of your rants other than to say your company is screwed, not SAP.
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Intel Macs will not have a "Power" name (PowerMac, PowerBook) associated with them because they no longer use PowerPC processors.
The best story I have to tell about final exams is the time one of my computer science professors was on his way to give the final exam and a car struck him! He was not injured badly but the incident caused him to be late for the exam and as such he had to shorten it. Ha!
I thought modems topped out at 56k because that is the theoretical limit based on the bandwidth of the phone lines.
Sirius is much better with their sat placements. I have worked in open pit coal mines and *everyone* uses Sirius because XM will drop out when you get up next to a sidewall and Sirius will not.
Don't click that link for lovesac.com. It makes my browser go into a loop. I am using Camino on OSX.
Good question. Someone else who knows more about it should clue us in. I have taken a couple of image processing classes and know that quite a bit a preprocessing is done before you even get the image out of your digital camera. Noise is one of the biggest issues(getting all the signals from the Millions of pixel elements isn't easy) as far as I know.
And that is EXACTLY why I think sony's crap is crap.
Just the other day one of my professors was talking about experiments done on monkeys using very short duration but very high intensity laser pulses(I forget how short, but something like femtoseconds). Anyway, I guess they would shoot these pulses at the monkeys' eyes and they would literally shatter from mechanical stress. I suppose the same thing could happen with a rocket.
Apple now lets any and everybody use the name Firewire. It has been this way for a while(a year or two, maybe more).
One day I let my cat out in the back yard and was just sitting around drinking a beer. All of sudden I see a bird fly through the yard and right into the badminton net. It got stuck and I felt really bad so I spent about half an hour cutting it out of the net. One of the bird's wings was hurt so I set it off in a quiet place under some bushes and gave it some water. I checked on it later but it was gone.
No, if you are in the US, your electricty most likely comes from coal(mined in the US). I live in Wyoming, and have worked in a coal mine. Anyway, over half of the electricity in the US comes from coal(about 56%). Here is a link from the wyoming mining association with some facts about coal. The info might be a little old, but coal production is on the rise(thanks Bush). In fact, quite a few of the mines set new production records for 2003.
I just have a comment about point #1 that says only 15 year olds spell Microsoft with a $. I was flipping though the tv channels and I heard something on Fox News about Microsoft offering those bounties on virus/worm writers(which i read about on /. first), and they had a banner on the bottom of the screen with Micro$oft. I though it was kinda funny, but i wouldnt be suprised if Fox News is run by a bunch of 15 year olds.
I wonder why you posted as Anonymous Coward. Maybe it is because you are full of shit.
If you ever used a mac you would understand why.
I don't think saving $2 on an album is that great of a bargain when the compression is lossy and you factor in the cost of disc and jewel case.
There are plenty of albums where you will save more than two dollars. Of course there are some that you really don't save any money on. And there is no jewel case, but at least you do get the cover art.
Quicktime and iTunesHelper are both loaded at computer startup and happily sit in the background, guzzling memory (iTunesHelper is 3 MB, for example). Does this crap really need to run when I'm not using it?
Get a mac and you won't have these problems. Apple utilizes their alti-vec processors with itunes. Ripping mp3's or aac's is pretty darn quick. And I get >30fps on my TiBook 667.
Arbitrary restrictions on burning a playlist (10 burns, then you have to mess with it to burn more) seems a bit silly.
I agree it is dumb, but they have to do some things to make the music labels happy I supoose.