Of course, this is just in jest. At least I know now to politely turn it down, if the company secretary wants to book you into a Holiday Inn, stateside.
Waitress: "D'ya want some more coffee, Hon?"
Me: "NO, NO, I mean, eehhh, no thank you,"
Your large selection of weird brew-beers was a positive surprise, though.
The horrible abominations you call Danish pastry over in the US, I wouldn't even feed to the pigs. I wouldn't mind my nationality being associated with a custard-filled fatty pastry, if only it was a delicious custard-filled fatty pastry. For heaven's sake, turn them into bio fuel or something, because they certainly aren't suitable for human consumption.
True, although the English translation of the title also adds a new connotation, which is not altogether irrelevant. I find that Michael Kandel's translations of Lem's works are extremely worthwhile. Especially the one of "Cyberiada".
Do you *really* want all kids to grow up to be engineers? The notion that kids are better off learning statistics than calculus has also been mentioned in one of Arthur Benjamin's TED talks. I'm inclined to agree with him. The ultimate goal of calculus is to enable students to solve partial differential equations to model physical/financial systems. Not everyone needs that.
Some of that time would be better spent, educating children in how to conduct a well planned double-blind experiment with good randomization. And how to analyze the resulting data. That would make it a lot tougher for all the snake-oil salesmen, homeopaths, skin product producers and spin doctors to deceive the general public.
look:
US English: "Buuuk Aiirrn Aiiirrrpoñññtmarnt"
UK English: "BoOK A_n Appouyintmnt"
Yes exaggerated, and in improvised phonetics, but imagine a spectrum analyser who has to sort out that these two sound clips mean the same.
UK English is absolutely not the same. When did you last order a pint in London? Don't get me started on Northern vs. Southern accents.
Temple Grandin (american) also advocates the discipline approach. And it makes sense, if no feedback is given to unwanted behaviour, how are the autistic kids else going to learn the social rules invisible to them? It must be applied with sensitivity, though.
Dear AC: The refrigerator mother theory as a cause for autism, was put to the grave decades ago. Google for twin experiments and autism if you need to. Most of all, it's just a convenient explanation for uninformed people to explain this retraction they see in the children.
Genetic weaknesses, however, is a much more likely cause.
1. Understand the users and businesses who are going to use your product, and what they need from you to be successful. (And create a minimum no. of support requests later on). Spend actaul time doing it. No, really!
2. Understand that testing is needed to uncover all flaws in your program. Learn to appreciate the good testers, who do anything to break your code. Again, it will help minimize the shit storm, when you release (flawed) code to production.
3. *Then*, you can start honing your hacker skills, selecting the algorithm that will squeeze out the last 2% real world speed increase.
The most successful engineers I have met as a project mgr/product owner master the 3 above.
Not to mention they are working on active steering (CuW jet vanes), much larger boosters, as well as multi-stage rockets. Shame that their first sea launch had to be aborted prematurely at 3 km altitude.
I loved the two Ericsson/Sony Ericsson phones I had (T65 and K750i). Unfortunately, they both died prematurely from mechanical failures. To this date I still haven't managed to kill my Nokia, HTC or iPhone. So yes, good in the user sense, but the SE-mechanical quality really isn't that good.
This may be, but a global positioning system consists of much more than just the satellite. In the country I live in now, private companies are delivering the infrastructure (think: ground antennas and control systems) to ESA, so yes, a lot of larger and smaller subcontractors are involved.
Slashdot Mirror
Whoosh, I hope.
Of course, this is just in jest. At least I know now to politely turn it down, if the company secretary wants to book you into a Holiday Inn, stateside.
Waitress: "D'ya want some more coffee, Hon?"
Me: "NO, NO, I mean, eehhh, no thank you,"
Your large selection of weird brew-beers was a positive surprise, though.
The horrible abominations you call Danish pastry over in the US, I wouldn't even feed to the pigs. I wouldn't mind my nationality being associated with a custard-filled fatty pastry, if only it was a delicious custard-filled fatty pastry. For heaven's sake, turn them into bio fuel or something, because they certainly aren't suitable for human consumption.
:-)
Same goes for your coffee, by the way.
True, although the English translation of the title also adds a new connotation, which is not altogether irrelevant. I find that Michael Kandel's translations of Lem's works are extremely worthwhile. Especially the one of "Cyberiada".
If you want to pursue this idea a little further: Stanislaw Lem: "His Master's Voice". It's a good read.
Do you *really* want all kids to grow up to be engineers? The notion that kids are better off learning statistics than calculus has also been mentioned in one of Arthur Benjamin's TED talks. I'm inclined to agree with him. The ultimate goal of calculus is to enable students to solve partial differential equations to model physical/financial systems. Not everyone needs that.
Some of that time would be better spent, educating children in how to conduct a well planned double-blind experiment with good randomization. And how to analyze the resulting data. That would make it a lot tougher for all the snake-oil salesmen, homeopaths, skin product producers and spin doctors to deceive the general public.
look:
US English: "Buuuk Aiirrn Aiiirrrpoñññtmarnt"
UK English: "BoOK A_n Appouyintmnt"
Yes exaggerated, and in improvised phonetics, but imagine a spectrum analyser who has to sort out that these two sound clips mean the same. UK English is absolutely not the same. When did you last order a pint in London? Don't get me started on Northern vs. Southern accents.
Sorry, knee-jerk reaction from my side. We're a bit sensitive on this topic.
Temple Grandin (american) also advocates the discipline approach. And it makes sense, if no feedback is given to unwanted behaviour, how are the autistic kids else going to learn the social rules invisible to them? It must be applied with sensitivity, though.
Dear AC: The refrigerator mother theory as a cause for autism, was put to the grave decades ago. Google for twin experiments and autism if you need to. Most of all, it's just a convenient explanation for uninformed people to explain this retraction they see in the children.
Genetic weaknesses, however, is a much more likely cause.
Drive (2011)
Seems quite sensible to me to encrypt police communications.
1. Understand the users and businesses who are going to use your product, and what they need from you to be successful. (And create a minimum no. of support requests later on). Spend actaul time doing it. No, really!
2. Understand that testing is needed to uncover all flaws in your program. Learn to appreciate the good testers, who do anything to break your code. Again, it will help minimize the shit storm, when you release (flawed) code to production.
3. *Then*, you can start honing your hacker skills, selecting the algorithm that will squeeze out the last 2% real world speed increase.
The most successful engineers I have met as a project mgr/product owner master the 3 above.
Just watch this this.
I thought the poetic part was that the German economy was the only one in the Euro where people might actually be able to afford an iPhone/Pad.--
EU-members Sweden and Denmark are not in the Euro.
Never mind Scandinavia, they're not in the Euro, but just as smartphone crazy as the rest.
Gee, aren't you a nice guy.
You really seem to have the finger on the pulse of a continent you don't live on.
Are you saying the Dutch/Belgians/French/Austrians/Luxembourgish couldn't possibly afford iPhones? Guess, I'd better get rid of mine, then.
Øh, sørry. The låst thing we want tø dø is to let øur accents give us åwåy.
Overhovedet ikke.
Banning Scratch from the app store is exaggerated. It's not as if scratch programs suddenly will compete against all the other shiny apps they sell.
It even comes with many different interface language options, making it ideal for children who just started reading in their mother tongue.
Not to mention they are working on active steering (CuW jet vanes), much larger boosters, as well as multi-stage rockets. Shame that their first sea launch had to be aborted prematurely at 3 km altitude.
I loved the two Ericsson/Sony Ericsson phones I had (T65 and K750i). Unfortunately, they both died prematurely from mechanical failures. To this date I still haven't managed to kill my Nokia, HTC or iPhone. So yes, good in the user sense, but the SE-mechanical quality really isn't that good.
If you want to support non-profit space flight, give these guys a donation: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
This may be, but a global positioning system consists of much more than just the satellite. In the country I live in now, private companies are delivering the infrastructure (think: ground antennas and control systems) to ESA, so yes, a lot of larger and smaller subcontractors are involved.