Even that is questionable. This is a publicly-funded organization (they provide mass transit, after all) and the photographer had a legally purchased ticket. They do NOT have the right to selectively ask people to leave without a just reason for same (eg. threatening others, intoxication, etc.) Civil rights laws passed in the 1960's protect everyone, not just the african americans who fought for them--if others have the right to stay on the train platform, so does he.
If Apple was REALLY good, they'd be filming a commercial right now with a little guy who looks like John Hodgeman, playing a Zune, and a little Justin Long playing an iPod.
The little Zune would be all frozen up and the iPod would be tending to him, saying "it's all right."
Even better would be if the Zune had his tongue frozen to a flagpole while the iPod looked on helplessly, a la the scene in "A Christmas Story."
Commercial would air tonight during New Year's Eve programming.
I've never heard of them either....I've never seen an ad about them, I've never heard them mentioned in the piles of blogs and articles I read daily, and nobody has ever recommended them to me. Pandora, meanwhile, HAS been in all of the above.
Michael Griffin is the best thing to happen to NASA since the Apollo program.
Then why is he canning the shuttle before the replacement is ready? I know the stated reason is that he doesn't have enough resources for both, but I still find it very disturbing that we are planning for a minimum 5 year period during which we (supposedly the richest and most powerful country on the planet) have no manned space program at all. And that continues to be a major "WTF?" in my book. So if Mr. Griffin is the "best thing to happen to NASA," then I don't want to know what the worst thing would have been.
How can a boy though with one Y-chromosome become a girl? Does the chromosome change??
I interpreted this sentence of the article as being poor phraseology rather than genetics. Notice the word "calculated" in TFA. What I think they meant to say was that 250,000 children who would statistically have been XY ended up being XX, not that XY fertilizations resulted in girls. The increase in XX may be because environmental estrogens diminished the father's ability to create XY sperm and/or some other factors, but the point was that something led to more XX fertilizations, not some gender-bending event later in the womb.
... they seek out information that validates their already-existing view of the world. Actual facts and truth might require a painful rewiring of preconceived notions.
The exact same thing can truthfully be said of those on the left of the political spectrum.
Actually, that's not true. By definition, "conservative" means wanting to maintain the status quo. That is, to not enact new ideas, new concepts.
"Liberal", again by definition, means wanting to embrace change. Specifically, my dictionary defines it as "open to new behavior or opinions."
Thus it is simply false that a liberal would tend to be just as stuck in their ways and seeking of reinforcing behavior as a conservative. If they were, they would be, again by definition, a conservative.
This isn't a defense of the left but a simple statement of fact based on the semantics.
There's a similar advert for the app store here in the UK.
Why don't they just say "this advert is a total lie, but it looks pretty and you're a gullible moron, so buy buy buy!"
Nice hate posting. First of all how on earth do YOU propose Apple show the App store when the simple reality of life in 2008 is that you cannot download an app during the time it takes to show an advert on telly? Go ahead--if you're going to call Apple buyers "gullible morons" and be a complete Apple hater, then toss your hat in the ring and tell us what you'd do.
their ad showed it to be 4x as good as it really is
No, it really doesn't. First, you are exaggerating, considering that the ratio between the Apple ad and the PCPro recreation is lower than 3:1, not the 4:1 you're claiming. Second, the PCPro recreation is unfair because they attached a rather large file to e-mail which slanted the results--had they used a real-life attachment it'd have been very close to 2:1.
I know you were trying to be funny....kinda. But that doesn't mean you should be marked "insightful". I'd mod you "Troll" if I had points right now. I think it's clear that Obama is doing the best he can to not be a criminal, excluding lobbyists from his administration for example. Maybe give the guy a chance before you call him an outlaw? Jeez....
I took a serious look at MythTV a few years ago to try to replace my ReplayTV and avoid going TiVo. The biggest problem to me was I did not want a noisy, large PC in my living room. I want the quiet, console-sized form factor of a TiVo. I searched around the internet and never became satisfied with any of the options I found, especially when the quieter they got the higher-priced they got--when the price started approaching $1K, I bailed and resigned myself to getting the HD TiVo I now have.
But I now have a family member in the market for a DVR. So can anyone here recommend a case/box/hardware solution on which to install MythTV that's un-PC like so that it will truly "belong" in a media center? Thanks!
This is interesting to hear because I was in Paris 3 months ago and had a very hard time finding WiFi. Or at least open WiFi. They were ALL locked down, which led me to wonder if there were some type of French law banning open WiFi points.
I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.
Until you realize the founding fathers specifically and purposely made the chief of the military a CIVILIAN POSITION. They did not want military service to be a prerequisite for the presidency.
(Yes, I'm sure you're going to point out that Washington had been a general. But move on to Adams, Jefferson and Madison and you'll find no military service in their resumes.)
Why not replace the DRM'ed songs with non-DRM'ed?
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I don't understand why they don't do the obvious--replace all customers' DRM'ed songs with the equivalent non-DRM'ed copy. Customers have their same tracks, WallyWorld doesn't have to maintain their DRM servers.
Oh, wait....the RIAA won't get to double-dip customers if that happens. Now I see.
Lawyers, accountants and physicians are generally required to take a two-day or longer test before being licensed....If IT professionals had passed state and/or national tests this rigorous, their credentials would probably be accepted also.
Not by me. The human body, mathematical systems, and the body of law change at a glacial pace compared to I.T. Someone who passed a four-year program of study and then a rigorous exam on those studies is already out of date by the time they enter my interview room. I'll ask them questions about technology that reference advances less than a year old and expect them to know it or they'll take a back seat to their competitors who do. So, to be blunt, your rigorous testing concept is archaic and really doesn't fit the situations at hand.
Ok then I guess I am just a lowely piss boy with my measly certifications.
You said it, we didn't.
But seriously, they're right. There is no exam, for example, that covers the skills I perform in my I.T. engineering position. MCSE means you know what a registry is and how to edit it. But on-the-job experience also teaches you that AND when a problem is likely caused by registry issues and when it's not. Experience, experience, experience. You can't have enough. But you can have too many certs--it shows the candidate is spending all their time studying for exams and too little on the job.
It's also an easy way to filter out the bullshitters. I had to help hire for an entry level web programming job
Go back and read the original topic post. They specifically said they had a decade of experience and that is why they objected to the exam. Testing an entry-level applicant is way different than someone who has extensive experience. Therefore, your hiring story (with all due respect) really doesn't apply.
No, that's the "us vs. them" mentality. Those polled consistently say they intend to return THEIR incumbent to Congress, but think Congress overall is bad. It's a serious mental disconnect, but a different one than is being discussed.
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Somebody mod parent up. 99.9% of us are conjecturing while this guy has actually been there.
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." -- Henry Kissinger
The britts could do it, now it's you turn, Yanks.
They have? Then why do I hear "miles" quoted for distances in every episode of Top Gear?
Publicly-funded how? They've gotten government subsidies
This may be the best recent example of self-contradiction on /. (and that's saying something.)
They can ask you to leave their premises
Even that is questionable. This is a publicly-funded organization (they provide mass transit, after all) and the photographer had a legally purchased ticket. They do NOT have the right to selectively ask people to leave without a just reason for same (eg. threatening others, intoxication, etc.) Civil rights laws passed in the 1960's protect everyone, not just the african americans who fought for them--if others have the right to stay on the train platform, so does he.
The little Zune would be all frozen up and the iPod would be tending to him, saying "it's all right."
Even better would be if the Zune had his tongue frozen to a flagpole while the iPod looked on helplessly, a la the scene in "A Christmas Story."
Commercial would air tonight during New Year's Eve programming.
I've never heard of them either....I've never seen an ad about them, I've never heard them mentioned in the piles of blogs and articles I read daily, and nobody has ever recommended them to me. Pandora, meanwhile, HAS been in all of the above.
Michael Griffin is the best thing to happen to NASA since the Apollo program.
Then why is he canning the shuttle before the replacement is ready? I know the stated reason is that he doesn't have enough resources for both, but I still find it very disturbing that we are planning for a minimum 5 year period during which we (supposedly the richest and most powerful country on the planet) have no manned space program at all. And that continues to be a major "WTF?" in my book. So if Mr. Griffin is the "best thing to happen to NASA," then I don't want to know what the worst thing would have been.
How can a boy though with one Y-chromosome become a girl? Does the chromosome change??
I interpreted this sentence of the article as being poor phraseology rather than genetics. Notice the word "calculated" in TFA. What I think they meant to say was that 250,000 children who would statistically have been XY ended up being XX, not that XY fertilizations resulted in girls. The increase in XX may be because environmental estrogens diminished the father's ability to create XY sperm and/or some other factors, but the point was that something led to more XX fertilizations, not some gender-bending event later in the womb.
... they seek out information that validates their already-existing view of the world. Actual facts and truth might require a painful rewiring of preconceived notions.
The exact same thing can truthfully be said of those on the left of the political spectrum.
Actually, that's not true. By definition, "conservative" means wanting to maintain the status quo. That is, to not enact new ideas, new concepts.
"Liberal", again by definition, means wanting to embrace change. Specifically, my dictionary defines it as "open to new behavior or opinions."
Thus it is simply false that a liberal would tend to be just as stuck in their ways and seeking of reinforcing behavior as a conservative. If they were, they would be, again by definition, a conservative.
This isn't a defense of the left but a simple statement of fact based on the semantics.
There's a similar advert for the app store here in the UK.
Why don't they just say "this advert is a total lie, but it looks pretty and you're a gullible moron, so buy buy buy!"
Nice hate posting. First of all how on earth do YOU propose Apple show the App store when the simple reality of life in 2008 is that you cannot download an app during the time it takes to show an advert on telly? Go ahead--if you're going to call Apple buyers "gullible morons" and be a complete Apple hater, then toss your hat in the ring and tell us what you'd do.
[insert sound of crickets chirping here]
That's what I thought.
their ad showed it to be 4x as good as it really is
No, it really doesn't. First, you are exaggerating, considering that the ratio between the Apple ad and the PCPro recreation is lower than 3:1, not the 4:1 you're claiming. Second, the PCPro recreation is unfair because they attached a rather large file to e-mail which slanted the results--had they used a real-life attachment it'd have been very close to 2:1.
I know you were trying to be funny....kinda. But that doesn't mean you should be marked "insightful". I'd mod you "Troll" if I had points right now. I think it's clear that Obama is doing the best he can to not be a criminal, excluding lobbyists from his administration for example. Maybe give the guy a chance before you call him an outlaw? Jeez....
But I now have a family member in the market for a DVR. So can anyone here recommend a case/box/hardware solution on which to install MythTV that's un-PC like so that it will truly "belong" in a media center? Thanks!
This is interesting to hear because I was in Paris 3 months ago and had a very hard time finding WiFi. Or at least open WiFi. They were ALL locked down, which led me to wonder if there were some type of French law banning open WiFi points.
Because the on site election officials are 90 year old retired people that have no real training or skills with the gear.
That's not true. Poll workers do get trained on the voting machines--I've seen it done. Don't make accusations you can't back up.
I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.
Until you realize the founding fathers specifically and purposely made the chief of the military a CIVILIAN POSITION. They did not want military service to be a prerequisite for the presidency.
(Yes, I'm sure you're going to point out that Washington had been a general. But move on to Adams, Jefferson and Madison and you'll find no military service in their resumes.)
Did you hear about Seagate's new Sarahcuda drive?
If you stand on top of it you can see Russia?
Of course it doesn't answer the fact why a stupidly young kirk is sat in the big chair...
If this is a shot of Kirk in the Kobayashi Simulator, it does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
Oh, wait....the RIAA won't get to double-dip customers if that happens. Now I see.
Lawyers, accountants and physicians are generally required to take a two-day or longer test before being licensed....If IT professionals had passed state and/or national tests this rigorous, their credentials would probably be accepted also.
Not by me. The human body, mathematical systems, and the body of law change at a glacial pace compared to I.T. Someone who passed a four-year program of study and then a rigorous exam on those studies is already out of date by the time they enter my interview room. I'll ask them questions about technology that reference advances less than a year old and expect them to know it or they'll take a back seat to their competitors who do. So, to be blunt, your rigorous testing concept is archaic and really doesn't fit the situations at hand.
Ok then I guess I am just a lowely piss boy with my measly certifications.
You said it, we didn't.
But seriously, they're right. There is no exam, for example, that covers the skills I perform in my I.T. engineering position. MCSE means you know what a registry is and how to edit it. But on-the-job experience also teaches you that AND when a problem is likely caused by registry issues and when it's not. Experience, experience, experience. You can't have enough. But you can have too many certs--it shows the candidate is spending all their time studying for exams and too little on the job.
It's also an easy way to filter out the bullshitters. I had to help hire for an entry level web programming job
Go back and read the original topic post. They specifically said they had a decade of experience and that is why they objected to the exam. Testing an entry-level applicant is way different than someone who has extensive experience. Therefore, your hiring story (with all due respect) really doesn't apply.
No, that's the "us vs. them" mentality. Those polled consistently say they intend to return THEIR incumbent to Congress, but think Congress overall is bad. It's a serious mental disconnect, but a different one than is being discussed.
Apparently you care enough to post about the story...