And yes, The Core [imdb.com] is one of the most hideously inaccurate, ostensibly scientific films ever made.
If you watch something like The Core for scientific accuracy, you're the one with the problem.. And to be consistent, you'd have to write off any film, book or TV series containing time/FTL travel, anti-gravity weapons, cold fusion, matter transference or any number of other things which are impossible according to current scientific knowledge.
I'm glad someone said this. The real problem is the failure to apply traffic regulations to bicyclists. Our legislators should take care to make sure all traffic rules apply to bicyclists, to make sure the police enforce the rules against bicyclists, and to make sure the fines and penalties are the same for violators on bikes as for others. We'd have far fewer bicyclists going through stop signs if they had to pay a $400 fine when they're caught.
There should also be more convictions of smug inattentive car drivers for vehicular homicide, or whatever you call it in America. If a driver goes through a red light, who do you think is going to suffer, him or the cyclist?
The number of people killed by bad cyclists (apart from themselves) must be vanishingly small.
I refuse to use any social media site with exception of Linkedin... So if they ask I have to say no... And the next thing out of their mouth will be. Thank you for coming in....
Linkedin is more intrusive and annoying than facebook, it's just not as popular, except with people in Sales and Marketing..
But is anyone else finding that ticking the "disable advertising" box is having exactly the same effect as not ticking it, i.e. advertising is being displayed regardless?
It's interesting the sucker practically just landed and barely started roving, and Kazaam!; there's a major discovery at the first rock grouping it encounters.
* puts on tinfoil hat *
Yes, it's very, um, interesting indeed.
Of course the left-leaning hippies in NASA would have to come up with something interesting in order to justify their vast taxpayer-funded subsidies, funds which have been literally stolen AT GUNPOINT from honest hard working US citizens in order to underwrite international communism and the fluoridization of our water.
How naive am I to get excited at the thought we might happen upon a fossil?
Not quite as naive as getting excited at the thought that we might find some live red-skinned Princesses of Mars or green six-limbed Warriors of Mars, but not far off.
Why would anyone even download the pirate version when there's a demo that simply unlocks to the full version? o_O;
Yeah, it's really odd that someone needs to play the entire full version of a game before deciding if it's any good and then, of course, buying it after they've already got it for free. Really odd indeed.
I worked essentially for free at first for a company that simply couldn't have existed without me (and my fellow "low level tech person[s]") because virtually all it consisted of was us. The promise was always of the company succeeding and us sharing in that success.
Some types of autism or personality disorders make people come across as "jerks" to other more extroverted people. If someone is just quiet or short with you, it doesn't necessarily mean they're a jerk.
No one ever mistook being quiet or introverted for being a jerk. In fact, it is almost the definition of a jerk that they are extrovert and annoying. Autistic people may come across (unfairly or not) as weird, but that is not the same thing at all.
The jerks at school were more likely to be the jock than nerd type, in High School Musical terms.
I've worked with Brilliant Jerks. They're good at what they do, and they know it. They get shit done. But they also belittle their coworkers, disrupt the work of others, have to have their finger in every pie, are unwilling to delegate things that they don't need to do any more, etc. They like to be the pilot and at the controls at all times. But as a business grows, they cannot be central to every single last project any more. When they are asked to delegate, or find themselves excluded from even a minor project, they throw a hissy fit. You don't "appreciate" them. You "need" them to be involved. You're an ungrateful git because "they" do all the work around here while you slackasses stand around the water cooler and waste time.
The reality is that as a business goes from a startup to steady growth over time, you need people who are willing and able to delegate, otherwise they get stretched too thin, whether they want to admit it or not. That doesn't mean everything needs to be delegated, but some things that are essentially following the same steps every time can always be handed to a subordinate with proper training. Brilliant Jerks have a sense that other people cannot be trusted to do the jobs as well as they can, so they are afraid to lose that precious control, and want to do it themselves instead.
So be ruthless like all "good" businessmen are supposed to be and fire the jerk. Oh no, that only applies to plebs doesn't it? In reality, as long as the company makes enough money, he'll probably get some wanky "consultant" role and come in to dissrupt board meetings from time to time.
You and I might know that there is never enough bandwidth... but try explaining to an accountant, stock analyst or other such ROI-based thinker that they should spend a few billion on an international, built from the ground up, communications network. It is a hard sale...
Nonsense. If a particular business couldn't generate any profit/ROI from spending "a few billion" on something, it wouldn't spend it. If it could, it would.
If your business has a negative Return On Investment, it will run out of cash and go bankrupt sooner or later, simple as that. People make decisions based on ROI (rather than because something sounds cool) for that reason.
If some snake oil salesman persuades them to spend the money, only time will tell whether it was a sensible decision, but at the end of the day their ROI will be objectively quantifiable.
Being a brilliant business person is identifying market trends and acting on them. Which means finding out what people want and delivering it to them at prices they can afford. To do this you need to get people with the right skills together on a voluntary basis by offering them compensation that they need to agree with.
Ah yes, another right wing fantasist who thinks that employers and employees come to the bargaining table on equal terms.
If it weren't for socialist ideas like legal trades unions and strikes, government unemployment benefit and so on, the average worker would only be able to "volunteer" to choose between slavery and starvation.
Towns obviously don't. Town governments, mostly controlled by the incumbent retail businesses that WalMart threatens with their superior business model, do. They spend the townspeoples' money against their own interests.
Of course, if there's a town where WalMart moved in and nobody showed up to shop, then I'm probably wrong.
In an economic system based on greed, selfishness, self-interest and short-termism you cannot expect ordinary people to put their principles ahead of their bank balances and boycott places like Walmart.
Another problem of-course is that today 'business' is nearly a dirty word, which is propaganda pushed by the establishment with political power.
You are, of course, joking. In most of the Western media I come across there is a complete fetishising of business, executive appointments, the value of stocks and shares, the latest mergers and acquisitions, and so on.
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And yes, The Core [imdb.com] is one of the most hideously inaccurate, ostensibly scientific films ever made.
If you watch something like The Core for scientific accuracy, you're the one with the problem.. And to be consistent, you'd have to write off any film, book or TV series containing time /FTL travel, anti-gravity weapons, cold fusion, matter transference or any number of other things which are impossible according to current scientific knowledge.
I'm glad someone said this. The real problem is the failure to apply traffic regulations to bicyclists. Our legislators should take care to make sure all traffic rules apply to bicyclists, to make sure the police enforce the rules against bicyclists, and to make sure the fines and penalties are the same for violators on bikes as for others. We'd have far fewer bicyclists going through stop signs if they had to pay a $400 fine when they're caught.
There should also be more convictions of smug inattentive car drivers for vehicular homicide, or whatever you call it in America. If a driver goes through a red light, who do you think is going to suffer, him or the cyclist?
The number of people killed by bad cyclists (apart from themselves) must be vanishingly small.
The roads were made for cars and truck to ride on not bikes.
Not everyone lives in the US where whole cities are designed around the automobile.
If freedom or freeness is not important to you, then you are stupid and not a real developer, etc.
You can't argue with facts like that.
Consequently, Apple is now the most valuable company in the world
Only because of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, none of which run on a *nix-like OS or share the *nix philosophy in any way whatsoever.
other problem such as not being able to transition from MS's proprietary stuff like C: and \ to the standard Unix way
Most home users of Windows probably never get as far as seeing C: or \ on their machines anyway so that shouldn't be a problem.
That's a convenient excuse for a lot of immoral activities.
It's not an excuse. Until they recreate society so that you don't need money, you have to work.
I refuse to use any social media site with exception of Linkedin... So if they ask I have to say no... And the next thing out of their mouth will be. Thank you for coming in....
Linkedin is more intrusive and annoying than facebook, it's just not as popular, except with people in Sales and Marketing..
But is anyone else finding that ticking the "disable advertising" box is having exactly the same effect as not ticking it, i.e. advertising is being displayed regardless?
It's called soil. Dirt is the stuff stuck on the bottom of your shoes.
Isn't saying "dirt" (for soil) just a colloquial US usage?
It's interesting the sucker practically just landed and barely started roving, and Kazaam!; there's a major discovery at the first rock grouping it encounters.
* puts on tinfoil hat *
Yes, it's very, um, interesting indeed.
Of course the left-leaning hippies in NASA would have to come up with something interesting in order to justify their vast taxpayer-funded subsidies, funds which have been literally stolen AT GUNPOINT from honest hard working US citizens in order to underwrite international communism and the fluoridization of our water.
* leaves on tinfoil hat just in case *
What would be really cool is if Curiosity found some arrows heads along the banks.
Well, yes. Cooler still if they found some pony hoof prints. In pink. And a unicorn's teardops solidified into purest diamond....
Sorry, it's Friday afternoon at work. The beer is calling.
How naive am I to get excited at the thought we might happen upon a fossil?
Not quite as naive as getting excited at the thought that we might find some live red-skinned Princesses of Mars or green six-limbed Warriors of Mars, but not far off.
Mars is Ginger isn't it?
All the ginger girls I've ever met were full of moisture, and I 'm not talking about water, if you know what I mean. And I'm sure that you do.
Why would anyone even download the pirate version when there's a demo that simply unlocks to the full version? o_O;
Yeah, it's really odd that someone needs to play the entire full version of a game before deciding if it's any good and then, of course, buying it after they've already got it for free. Really odd indeed.
I haven't gotten this amount of enjoyment (including my friends' enjoyment) from $60 in a very long time, if ever.
I'm fairly sure that losing my virginity cost less than that in cider, but I may be wrong.
I'm not sure people who carry netbooks should be allowed to raise kids.
How about laptops? Tablets? Smartphones? Liuggable suitcase 286s with 4 inch screens?
I am keen to know the exact level at which portable computing hardware should lead to sterilisation and/or removal to an internment camp.
You'd have thought that on slashdot of all places the meaning of the word "serial" would be obvious enough.
I worked essentially for free at first for a company that simply couldn't have existed without me (and my fellow "low level tech person[s]") because virtually all it consisted of was us. The promise was always of the company succeeding and us sharing in that success.
No offence, but they fucking saw you coming.
Some types of autism or personality disorders make people come across as "jerks" to other more extroverted people. If someone is just quiet or short with you, it doesn't necessarily mean they're a jerk.
No one ever mistook being quiet or introverted for being a jerk. In fact, it is almost the definition of a jerk that they are extrovert and annoying. Autistic people may come across (unfairly or not) as weird, but that is not the same thing at all.
The jerks at school were more likely to be the jock than nerd type, in High School Musical terms.
I've worked with Brilliant Jerks. They're good at what they do, and they know it. They get shit done. But they also belittle their coworkers, disrupt the work of others, have to have their finger in every pie, are unwilling to delegate things that they don't need to do any more, etc. They like to be the pilot and at the controls at all times. But as a business grows, they cannot be central to every single last project any more. When they are asked to delegate, or find themselves excluded from even a minor project, they throw a hissy fit. You don't "appreciate" them. You "need" them to be involved. You're an ungrateful git because "they" do all the work around here while you slackasses stand around the water cooler and waste time.
The reality is that as a business goes from a startup to steady growth over time, you need people who are willing and able to delegate, otherwise they get stretched too thin, whether they want to admit it or not. That doesn't mean everything needs to be delegated, but some things that are essentially following the same steps every time can always be handed to a subordinate with proper training. Brilliant Jerks have a sense that other people cannot be trusted to do the jobs as well as they can, so they are afraid to lose that precious control, and want to do it themselves instead.
So be ruthless like all "good" businessmen are supposed to be and fire the jerk. Oh no, that only applies to plebs doesn't it? In reality, as long as the company makes enough money, he'll probably get some wanky "consultant" role and come in to dissrupt board meetings from time to time.
You and I might know that there is never enough bandwidth... but try explaining to an accountant, stock analyst or other such ROI-based thinker that they should spend a few billion on an international, built from the ground up, communications network. It is a hard sale...
Nonsense. If a particular business couldn't generate any profit/ROI from spending "a few billion" on something, it wouldn't spend it. If it could, it would.
If your business has a negative Return On Investment, it will run out of cash and go bankrupt sooner or later, simple as that. People make decisions based on ROI (rather than because something sounds cool) for that reason.
If some snake oil salesman persuades them to spend the money, only time will tell whether it was a sensible decision, but at the end of the day their ROI will be objectively quantifiable.
Being a brilliant business person is identifying market trends and acting on them. Which means finding out what people want and delivering it to them at prices they can afford. To do this you need to get people with the right skills together on a voluntary basis by offering them compensation that they need to agree with.
Ah yes, another right wing fantasist who thinks that employers and employees come to the bargaining table on equal terms.
If it weren't for socialist ideas like legal trades unions and strikes, government unemployment benefit and so on, the average worker would only be able to "volunteer" to choose between slavery and starvation.
towns go to frickin' court to keep it out
Towns obviously don't. Town governments, mostly controlled by the incumbent retail businesses that WalMart threatens with their superior business model, do. They spend the townspeoples' money against their own interests.
Of course, if there's a town where WalMart moved in and nobody showed up to shop, then I'm probably wrong.
In an economic system based on greed, selfishness, self-interest and short-termism you cannot expect ordinary people to put their principles ahead of their bank balances and boycott places like Walmart.
Another problem of-course is that today 'business' is nearly a dirty word, which is propaganda pushed by the establishment with political power.
You are, of course, joking. In most of the Western media I come across there is a complete fetishising of business, executive appointments, the value of stocks and shares, the latest mergers and acquisitions, and so on.