I moved my taskbars to the side the day I got a widescreen monitor. When apps are maximized it has no effect and since vertical space is harder to come by when putting multiple windows on a screen it made sense to move it to the left. Additionally I hate icon grouping and having the taskbar on the side lets me have roughly 30 windows open before any sort of grouping.
I was at burger king last week and I saw a guy order an 8 piece chicken tender (these are chicken nugget things) for $2.50. The 4 piece is $1 on the value menu. I mentioned this to him and he said "Yeah, buying more is always cheaper". I just nodded and died a little inside.
I have a hard time believing algebra students would do something similar if you replaced the parenthesis with a single character (like an x) in 4+3+2=( )+2. I am not surprised that students are confused when presented with equations using unfamiliar symbols rather than conventional single character variables. I am also not surprised that pre-algebra math students don't understand algebra. Judging from the summary it looks like this research was setup with the specific intent to prove their preformulated conclusion.
I speed everywhere. I drive a performance car, I drive at a speed I feel safe. If a tractor trailer can do 65 safely I can certainly do 75 safely given I have half the stopping distance, 1000 times the handling ability, and I am awake and alert. Most speed limits make very little sense.
They still call me to do things, they just don't call me directly all the time for group type outings. Do you call everyone you know to invite them directly if you are going to see a movie or going to the gym to play basketball? I don't, and neither do most people. I like movies and basketball and if my friends are there I am more likely to go, especially on a weeknight.
I have recently signed up for facebook because my friends stopped calling and texting people and just started posting "I'll be at blah blah blah at 8pm tonight, come along". I was missing out on a lot of fun things I could possibly be doing because I didn't have an account, so now I have one.
This is only true when the product you are fighting is related to the product that is trademarked (like Kleenex and other tissue brands). People already refer to all MP3 players as iPods anyway, so in my mind Apple already lost this fight. In any case, they are in danger of losing their trademark because a portable latrine exists with a similar but different name. Even if it was called iPod exactly they still shouldn't have a case because it does not play music or surf the web, it doesn't even appear to be a powered device.
They thought it was a funny name and it is, I doubt it was anything more than that. Didn't Apple already lose a lawsuit where they claimed they owned the idea of the small i in front of a word?
Wow... you're really sticking it to them by continuing to use their phone and paying $1000+ a year on a contract with a mandatory data plan. Nicely done.
I score well on IQ tests (between 135 and 145) and I also believe I have high social intelligence. I can tell you that people that only have high social intelligence are relatively useless in real world business, as their sole function when they are assigned a problem is to try to contact someone else who can fix it for them. My department is comprised of 4 people who can solve problems, 6 people who have no problem solving ability (but are quite friendly and likeable for most) and 2 people who have basically given up but won't just quit. 2/3 of my department (information technology for a 5 plant nuclear fleet) have never solved a difficult technical problem. Since no one here ever gets fired, I am actually hoping the useless people with "good social IQ" eventually get promoted or transfer to another department.
Frankly, I believe someone with a high IQ will almost always be better at a job than someone with an average IQ as long as the person has the bare minimum level of social skills (don't sexually harass people, don't yell at people, common courtesy really). Communication is great but at some point you need people who can actually solve the problem.
If you allow yourself to be dominated the bullies will dominate you. I don't interrupt people and I don't allow people to interrupt me. If I am in a meeting and someone cuts me off before I have made my point I politely request that they shut the fuck up until I have finished saying what I have to say. In my experience this always works, because people who are called out on their lack of manners are usually too dumbfounded and embarrassed to continue being an asshat for at least a short period of time.
Basically, you need to be polite but assertive in most environments because you will never be working with 100% nice, polite, hard working people.
Maybe what you are saying is true but it is more likely that you have an inferiority complex. I have known many men and women who describe my workplace as you do, but they are just projecting their lack of self-confidence. If you have valuable insights people will listen to what you have to say (unless they are middle management but those people don't listen to anyone).
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Steve Jobs salad isn't going to toss itself.
No one on the Disney channel dresses in the way you describe. Perhaps you are thinking of some parody pornography or something.
ESPN3 on the traditional internet is pretty awful as well most of the time. I don't think the quality of the feed has anything to do with the Xbox.
Moral of the story; Competition is good, unless it's Microsoft. I can't believe people actually feel bad for AT&T.
In this way it resembles nearly every other law on the books.
You can't patent something that is obvious. Tacking GPS onto Dodgeball would occur to anyone who is familiar with both.
It doesn't matter, patents have to be nonobvious. This is clearly an obvious extension of an existing technology.
I moved my taskbars to the side the day I got a widescreen monitor. When apps are maximized it has no effect and since vertical space is harder to come by when putting multiple windows on a screen it made sense to move it to the left. Additionally I hate icon grouping and having the taskbar on the side lets me have roughly 30 windows open before any sort of grouping.
I was at burger king last week and I saw a guy order an 8 piece chicken tender (these are chicken nugget things) for $2.50. The 4 piece is $1 on the value menu. I mentioned this to him and he said "Yeah, buying more is always cheaper". I just nodded and died a little inside.
Anyone who is going to buy a $70 controller probably has the buttons memorized. (video states price as $64.99+tax)
I have a hard time believing algebra students would do something similar if you replaced the parenthesis with a single character (like an x) in 4+3+2=( )+2. I am not surprised that students are confused when presented with equations using unfamiliar symbols rather than conventional single character variables. I am also not surprised that pre-algebra math students don't understand algebra. Judging from the summary it looks like this research was setup with the specific intent to prove their preformulated conclusion.
Limits are made to be broken.
The opposite of this is true.
I speed everywhere. I drive a performance car, I drive at a speed I feel safe. If a tractor trailer can do 65 safely I can certainly do 75 safely given I have half the stopping distance, 1000 times the handling ability, and I am awake and alert. Most speed limits make very little sense.
People play EVE because of the risk involved, they do not want the risks removed.
They still call me to do things, they just don't call me directly all the time for group type outings. Do you call everyone you know to invite them directly if you are going to see a movie or going to the gym to play basketball? I don't, and neither do most people. I like movies and basketball and if my friends are there I am more likely to go, especially on a weeknight.
I have recently signed up for facebook because my friends stopped calling and texting people and just started posting "I'll be at blah blah blah at 8pm tonight, come along". I was missing out on a lot of fun things I could possibly be doing because I didn't have an account, so now I have one.
This is only true when the product you are fighting is related to the product that is trademarked (like Kleenex and other tissue brands). People already refer to all MP3 players as iPods anyway, so in my mind Apple already lost this fight. In any case, they are in danger of losing their trademark because a portable latrine exists with a similar but different name. Even if it was called iPod exactly they still shouldn't have a case because it does not play music or surf the web, it doesn't even appear to be a powered device.
They thought it was a funny name and it is, I doubt it was anything more than that. Didn't Apple already lose a lawsuit where they claimed they owned the idea of the small i in front of a word?
I too hope that pants shitting analogies do not become the norm.
Wow... you're really sticking it to them by continuing to use their phone and paying $1000+ a year on a contract with a mandatory data plan. Nicely done.
I score well on IQ tests (between 135 and 145) and I also believe I have high social intelligence. I can tell you that people that only have high social intelligence are relatively useless in real world business, as their sole function when they are assigned a problem is to try to contact someone else who can fix it for them. My department is comprised of 4 people who can solve problems, 6 people who have no problem solving ability (but are quite friendly and likeable for most) and 2 people who have basically given up but won't just quit. 2/3 of my department (information technology for a 5 plant nuclear fleet) have never solved a difficult technical problem. Since no one here ever gets fired, I am actually hoping the useless people with "good social IQ" eventually get promoted or transfer to another department.
Frankly, I believe someone with a high IQ will almost always be better at a job than someone with an average IQ as long as the person has the bare minimum level of social skills (don't sexually harass people, don't yell at people, common courtesy really). Communication is great but at some point you need people who can actually solve the problem.
Any information that needs to be distributed more than once per minute probably shouldn't be relying on twitter.
If you allow yourself to be dominated the bullies will dominate you. I don't interrupt people and I don't allow people to interrupt me. If I am in a meeting and someone cuts me off before I have made my point I politely request that they shut the fuck up until I have finished saying what I have to say. In my experience this always works, because people who are called out on their lack of manners are usually too dumbfounded and embarrassed to continue being an asshat for at least a short period of time.
Basically, you need to be polite but assertive in most environments because you will never be working with 100% nice, polite, hard working people.
Maybe what you are saying is true but it is more likely that you have an inferiority complex. I have known many men and women who describe my workplace as you do, but they are just projecting their lack of self-confidence. If you have valuable insights people will listen to what you have to say (unless they are middle management but those people don't listen to anyone).
You're trolling pretty hard here. Very few people have the audacity to browse pornography while at work, I bet most of them are congressmen or CEOs.