You obviously don't know anything about In-N-Out Burger, not their food ingredients nor their pay scale. You might consider not commenting on things you're completely clueless about.
I'm not American and have never heard of In-N-Out but I can tell one thing: they've got a good social media marketing team.
"In the Ford Motor Company's executive dining room, Henry Ford II rarely ate anything but hamburgers. According to Lee Iacocca, Ford complained that his own personal chef at home couldn't make a decent burger. In fact, no one made burgers as perfect as the ones at the executive dining room. Curious, Iacocca asked the establishment's chef to show him what he did to make Ford so happy with his burgers. The chef went to the fridge, grabbed an inch-thick slab of New York strip steak, ran it through a grinder, patted up a patty and tossed it on the grill. "Amazing what you can cook up when you start with a five-dollar hunk of meat," said the chef with a sly smile. (Though it would be more like a $25 hunk of meat today.)"
That story just shows that Henry Ford II had a fucking useless personal chef at home.
When you see a gourmet burger recipe from Gordon Ramsay or someone, they don't start out with GBP 2/kilo mince from Asda.
I'm always reminded of people who were convinced that crop circles had to be some magic alien creation until a couple of pissed farmhands showed everyone how they made perfect circles and spirals with a stick and a length of rope.
Apparently he really is an astrologer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... His only claim to being an astronomer is that he teaches astronomy, but this is at the "Faculty of Astrological Studies."
You can be an astronomer and an astrologer too, as long as you keep the two separate.
I got the moon declinations and phases from https://www.timeanddate.com/mo... [timeanddate.com]. It's a nice calculator, much better than having a Stonehenge in your back yard.
It might be nice but I think in units of Awesomeness it is several orders of magnitude less than actually having Stonehenge in your out back.
Sounds like a lot of British stuff in so far as, there's some great qualities to it, but it'll be fucked up by someone winging it a bit on one or two critical features *AND* totally fucking up the marketing.
Plus, it will have an inexplicable oil leak from somewhere where no oil should even be.
The Pythagoreans are reputed to be willing to outright murder people to keep their mathematical secrets.
According to legend, Pythagoras himself was murdered. He could have escaped, but only by crossing a bean field. He hated beans and forbade his followers to eat them. So he stood his ground, faced his pursuers, and was killed.
Disclaimer: I like beans, and eat them almost everyday.
That doesn't make sense unless he would somehow have had to eat his way across the bean field to escape.
As I understand it, it was the consumption of beans he objected to, not that he wouldn't walk on them and hurt them.
Well part of the problem can be fixed by just writing multiple tests
That does NOT fix the problem.
This is the problem:
1. Exams are passed out.
2. Cheater snaps a photo of the exam and transmits it.
3. Parents or other collaborators receive the photo, quickly work the problems and transmit back the answers.
This is done in near realtime. They will not get every question right, but will get enough to give the cheater an edge.
So in many countries, do parents actually help their kids cheat? Yes. Yes they do.
It is not just a cultural difference. It is also the importance of the test. In America, if you do well on the SAT you may to an Ivy League school. If you slightly less well, you will still go to a good state university. The next tier will start at a community college, and maybe transfer later to a four year college. Others may go to vocational colleges, etc.
But in many other countries, a single exam is an educational death sentence. If you don't make the cutoff you are put on a different track, with little hope of recovering later. In countries with either high rates of female infanticide and/or customary polygamy, this means little chance for males to marry and have children.
This used to be the case in the UK where you took the "Eleven Plus" exam and it decided whether you went to a good (Grammar) or rubbish (Secondary Modern) school. If you had a bad day or were a late developer, you were hugely handicapped at the age of 11 by being dumped in a school designed to basically keep you busy until you left at 15 and got an unskilled manual job.
Unless you were truly exceptional, if you went to a Secondary Modern, you basically weren't ever going to University.
So what do people use portable workstations like this - which have been around for decades - for? If not CAD/CAM/CAE, video editing, audio editing, scientific computing, etc... then what are they used for?
its a sad state of affairs when anythning new in technology is greeted with an adenoidal whining of "I dont need this so what's the point?"
YMBNH.
Slashdot has been like that for as long as I can remember. Look at any story about mobile phones. Half the posts are on the lines of "I want a physical keyboard, no camera, and a removable battery that is three inches thick and lasts for two months. And a full size 1/4 inch headphone jack. If I can't have that, I'm not interested and so nor will anyone else be."
I think the "churning" is supposed to be from one job type to another. As they say, if you're a buggy whip maker, you'll just have to train to be a software developer. Or something.
It sounds pretty stupid to me; why would slashdot readers be presumed to work as taxi or delivery drivers?
Because according to the Uber groupies here, being part of the exciting new gig economy by driving strangers around at 4 in the morning after you've already worked a 12 hour day coding is just...fun. Plus it's striking a blow for freedom: you don't have Uber drivers in Soviet Russia/North Korea after all!
If you're going to need "last mile operators" why not just build a half decent train (railroad) network and use that? Self driving trains make a lot more sense than self driving trucks. Barring freak accidents, they don't have to be able to cope with other cars, cyclists, pedestrians, etc.
ALL strains of influenza do actual damage to the tissue. Cold doesn't.
That's why you can get back to work in a week or less after a cold - but you might end up in a hospital or dead when you catch the flu.
It's actually that most people THINK they have the flu when all they have is a bad cold.
The problem is that if you ring up work and say you're not coming in because you've got a cold, everyone just thinks you're malingering. So you have to ramp it up into something along the lines of 'I've got some sort of viral infection, maybe flu, I'll see how I feel in a few days time'.
But yes, actual 'flu is at the least a horrible couple of weeks, and at worst fatal.
Wouldn't it be a whole lot smarter to teach the kids how to have access to their phones but not to use it? - Because that's how the world is outside the school...
A straight-out ban teaches nothing and only encourages students to find workarounds and similar.
You can't workaround having a teacher smash your precious phone to pieces with a club hammer.
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oi m8 a tree nicked me foamie
And what accent would that be?
Purest Dick van Dyke.
Or LSD.
You obviously go to more interesting burger joints than I do.
You obviously don't know anything about In-N-Out Burger, not their food ingredients nor their pay scale. You might consider not commenting on things you're completely clueless about.
I'm not American and have never heard of In-N-Out but I can tell one thing: they've got a good social media marketing team.
"In the Ford Motor Company's executive dining room, Henry Ford II rarely ate anything but hamburgers. According to Lee Iacocca, Ford complained that his own personal chef at home couldn't make a decent burger. In fact, no one made burgers as perfect as the ones at the executive dining room. Curious, Iacocca asked the establishment's chef to show him what he did to make Ford so happy with his burgers. The chef went to the fridge, grabbed an inch-thick slab of New York strip steak, ran it through a grinder, patted up a patty and tossed it on the grill. "Amazing what you can cook up when you start with a five-dollar hunk of meat," said the chef with a sly smile. (Though it would be more like a $25 hunk of meat today.)"
That story just shows that Henry Ford II had a fucking useless personal chef at home.
When you see a gourmet burger recipe from Gordon Ramsay or someone, they don't start out with GBP 2/kilo mince from Asda.
I'm always reminded of people who were convinced that crop circles had to be some magic alien creation until a couple of pissed farmhands showed everyone how they made perfect circles and spirals with a stick and a length of rope.
Apparently he really is an astrologer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... His only claim to being an astronomer is that he teaches astronomy, but this is at the "Faculty of Astrological Studies."
You can be an astronomer and an astrologer too, as long as you keep the two separate.
It's like physicists who believe in God.
Convincing evidence you got there, Slick. Where can I sign up?
One word: Atlantis.
Argue with that if you can!
I got the moon declinations and phases from https://www.timeanddate.com/mo... [timeanddate.com]. It's a nice calculator, much better than having a Stonehenge in your back yard.
It might be nice but I think in units of Awesomeness it is several orders of magnitude less than actually having Stonehenge in your out back.
Sounds like a lot of British stuff in so far as, there's some great qualities to it, but it'll be fucked up by someone winging it a bit on one or two critical features *AND* totally fucking up the marketing.
Plus, it will have an inexplicable oil leak from somewhere where no oil should even be.
(Old British motorcycle joke.)
The Pythagoreans are reputed to be willing to outright murder people to keep their mathematical secrets.
According to legend, Pythagoras himself was murdered. He could have escaped, but only by crossing a bean field. He hated beans and forbade his followers to eat them. So he stood his ground, faced his pursuers, and was killed.
Disclaimer: I like beans, and eat them almost everyday.
That doesn't make sense unless he would somehow have had to eat his way across the bean field to escape.
As I understand it, it was the consumption of beans he objected to, not that he wouldn't walk on them and hurt them.
Well part of the problem can be fixed by just writing multiple tests
That does NOT fix the problem.
This is the problem: 1. Exams are passed out. 2. Cheater snaps a photo of the exam and transmits it. 3. Parents or other collaborators receive the photo, quickly work the problems and transmit back the answers.
This is done in near realtime. They will not get every question right, but will get enough to give the cheater an edge.
So in many countries, do parents actually help their kids cheat? Yes. Yes they do.
It is not just a cultural difference. It is also the importance of the test. In America, if you do well on the SAT you may to an Ivy League school. If you slightly less well, you will still go to a good state university. The next tier will start at a community college, and maybe transfer later to a four year college. Others may go to vocational colleges, etc.
But in many other countries, a single exam is an educational death sentence. If you don't make the cutoff you are put on a different track, with little hope of recovering later. In countries with either high rates of female infanticide and/or customary polygamy, this means little chance for males to marry and have children.
This used to be the case in the UK where you took the "Eleven Plus" exam and it decided whether you went to a good (Grammar) or rubbish (Secondary Modern) school. If you had a bad day or were a late developer, you were hugely handicapped at the age of 11 by being dumped in a school designed to basically keep you busy until you left at 15 and got an unskilled manual job.
Unless you were truly exceptional, if you went to a Secondary Modern, you basically weren't ever going to University.
The phone we had when I grew up did not have a dial, just a small crank where the dial would normally go.
A crank? You were lucky...
I have yet to use twitter and have no desire too
And so, by slashdot logic, no one else uses it either, right?
So what do people use portable workstations like this - which have been around for decades - for? If not CAD/CAM/CAE, video editing, audio editing, scientific computing, etc... then what are they used for?
Professional gaming.
its a sad state of affairs when anythning new in technology is greeted with an adenoidal whining of "I dont need this so what's the point?"
YMBNH.
Slashdot has been like that for as long as I can remember. Look at any story about mobile phones. Half the posts are on the lines of "I want a physical keyboard, no camera, and a removable battery that is three inches thick and lasts for two months. And a full size 1/4 inch headphone jack. If I can't have that, I'm not interested and so nor will anyone else be."
I think the "churning" is supposed to be from one job type to another. As they say, if you're a buggy whip maker, you'll just have to train to be a software developer. Or something.
Just as it is easier to hammer in a nail with a hammer than your hand
Wuss.
It sounds pretty stupid to me; why would slashdot readers be presumed to work as taxi or delivery drivers?
Because according to the Uber groupies here, being part of the exciting new gig economy by driving strangers around at 4 in the morning after you've already worked a 12 hour day coding is just...fun. Plus it's striking a blow for freedom: you don't have Uber drivers in Soviet Russia/North Korea after all!
If you're going to need "last mile operators" why not just build a half decent train (railroad) network and use that? Self driving trains make a lot more sense than self driving trucks. Barring freak accidents, they don't have to be able to cope with other cars, cyclists, pedestrians, etc.
Nah... If it feels like a bad cold - it's a cold.
ALL strains of influenza do actual damage to the tissue. Cold doesn't. That's why you can get back to work in a week or less after a cold - but you might end up in a hospital or dead when you catch the flu.
It's actually that most people THINK they have the flu when all they have is a bad cold.
The problem is that if you ring up work and say you're not coming in because you've got a cold, everyone just thinks you're malingering. So you have to ramp it up into something along the lines of 'I've got some sort of viral infection, maybe flu, I'll see how I feel in a few days time'.
But yes, actual 'flu is at the least a horrible couple of weeks, and at worst fatal.
coffee? $2 a day covers a person with coffee
I prefer drinking it, but each to their own.
Most homeless people have mental health issues.
We don't do much for them.
They probably wouldn't handle doing software development well.
Sometimes the jokes write themselves...
Wouldn't it be a whole lot smarter to teach the kids how to have access to their phones but not to use it? - Because that's how the world is outside the school...
A straight-out ban teaches nothing and only encourages students to find workarounds and similar.
You can't workaround having a teacher smash your precious phone to pieces with a club hammer.
the per student death rate from school shootings in France is 4 times higher than in the US
Now that's a scientific fact: there's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.
(Copyright Dr Fox).
My daughter's school had a water main break & flooding. They canceled school in the middle of the day. Her ability to call me was a godsend!
Call me old fashioned, but I think I'd want a boring old phone call from an actual adult at the school in that sort of situation.