Microsoft is at fault for making people with no training in presentation whatsoever think that thanks to Powerpoint, they can make one. They explicitly market the crap that way, and the thing does nothing at all to enforce good slide design.
Yes. Powerpoint is pretty much the Saturday Night Special of presentation "aids". There were plenty of bad presentations back in the olden days, but at least the format forced you to consider what you were doing. When slides were actual 35mm slides or overhead projector transparencies ("foils" to some), you couldn't just cram your whole presentation verbatim onto those without noticing the heft of the stack, or the pricetag at the print shop. Even guys who were insulated from this by their secretaries at least had the benefit of having the secretary prepare the slides for them.
Of course, there's nothing you can do about it, short of sabotaging your local "powerpoint projector".
There are several open source voting machine projects on SourceForge. WTF is our problem for not getting our governments to use the auditable machines?
ES&S has an x86-based iVotronic machine that does run Linux. The project was shelved in 2003. It's got a touchscreen (with working Linux driver), pushbuttons (with working driver), audio-out (working under Linux) and a printer option. I bet you could compile several of those to run on that platform.
Do they not have power failures where you come from? Being late for work because the power went off and came back on in the middle of the night, blowing away your alarm clock's settings is one reason you might want one of these clocks.
"While the president had broad authority in foreign affairs, that authority does not extend to the refusal to execute domestic laws."
Is this a non-sequitur or was the administration arguing that this was a foreign policy issue?
I don't think this was a non sequitur. According to the NYT article, one of the EPA's claims that is had discretion was "foreign policy considerations."
The problem with analog controls is that you can't add/remove them easily once a device is made. BMW, for example, updates the software in their vehicles periodically, adding and removing features. Without some sort of universal control system this is much more difficult to do.
And the problem with "digital", or maybe more appropriately, "soft", controls is that you can't feel them. Like they say: "'iDrive', you work this thing." There are many situations where it's safer, better or more appropriate to locate a control by feel. If you can't feel it, you're losing some sensory input.
A self-deforming input device that could form itself into buttons or whatever would be a neat solution to reconfiguring your input device. Too bad I have no idea of how that could be accomplished.
That is because the IEEE standards for floating point values is the biggest and most prolific bug in software today.
Don't like it? The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
I've worked at a place where someone way-back-when decided that the widely-used IEEE floating point standards weren't good enough, and rolled his own. Mostly like the usual floating point, but with the number of bits assigned to exponent and mantissa "tweaked" to his liking. Unfortunately, one of the most useful things you can do in an embedded data logger is to share your data with the rest of the world -- requiring a conversion to a more "standard" standard.
I don't know what your beef with IEEE floating point is, but there's something to say for a standard form of expression. I'm guessing that you would want some info stored regarding the precision and accuracy of the value recorded. That would be nice. It would also be nice if everyone using floating point values understood those concepts in the first place. And if I had a million dollars.
At one time when I was on vacation, the Siemens was on for three straight weeks without failing. The roomba can hardly handle two hours without either getting stuck or missing the charger. The Electrolux can't go a whole day without a screw-up.
So, do you also have an automated system for creating filth while you're away so your vacuum has something to do? A fully automated, closed-loop, dust and debris ecosystem.
Isn't that going to be difficult, from a practical standpoint? Not you getting off the bus, I mean, but identifying the religion of other riders? There are Muslim believers in just about all identifiable (and unidentifiable) ethnic and racial groups. And all these groups contain persons of other faiths as well. Style of dress isn't reliable, because a person can change clothes to appear to be someone else.
It doesn't have to be- but if anything as major in your life as your work (like, say, your marriage) is simply a means to an end rather than an end itself, in my view you seriously have to re-evaluate that part of your life.
I don't think one should consider a job the same sort of commitment as a marriage. A job is an involvement, not a commitment. Like a breakfast of ham and eggs: the chicken is involved, the pig is committed.
Given how the US has the largest prison population per capita on the face of the earth
Actually, the US is #2 -- Rwanda is #1.
Reminds me of whenever a US state is 2nd to last in something like education, arts support, % of citizens with their natural teeth, etc., we always say "Thanks, Mississippi".
I've worked as a hiring manager for more than one company, and I've rarely ever seen an hourly employee get paid for breaks. It's not a common thing. They get paid for the time they work, which is the essence of an *hourly* employee by definition.
I guess no one thought to check up with the Department of Labor Compliance Assistance office. And as a "hiring manager," you really should be familiar with this stuff:
. . . if employers do offer short breaks (lasting about five to 20 minutes), federal law considers these short breaks time for which employees must be compensated.
Is this poster complaining about Google, or are they praising? A news story is no place for excessive sarcasm.
I'm not sure myself. Who is the second class citizen here: the guy reclassified as hourly who now gets overtime, or the "exempt" employee who can be required to put in as much unpaid overtime as the supervisor wants?
A lot of workers these days are classified as "exempt" from overtime because they are the "Network Backup Manager", or the "Administrative Assistant", or "Security Professional" or whatever. Put the word "manage", or "administrate", or "executive" in the title to make it appear that the position is actually managerial, administrative or professional. When in reality, they aren't a manager of anyone. If you look at their "office", they are clearly not "executive", and don't get me started on who gets called "professional" anymore. The whole idea is to pay them less than you would if they were hourly.
Or . . . don't ditch "Stable". Just call "Testing": "Stable", and rename "Stable": "drones on and on and on never letting anyone else get a word in edgeways". That way anyone who wants a desktop distribution will get "Testing" instead and be happier about its up-to-dateness. Everyone's happy.
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Yes. Powerpoint is pretty much the Saturday Night Special of presentation "aids". There were plenty of bad presentations back in the olden days, but at least the format forced you to consider what you were doing. When slides were actual 35mm slides or overhead projector transparencies ("foils" to some), you couldn't just cram your whole presentation verbatim onto those without noticing the heft of the stack, or the pricetag at the print shop. Even guys who were insulated from this by their secretaries at least had the benefit of having the secretary prepare the slides for them.
Of course, there's nothing you can do about it, short of sabotaging your local "powerpoint projector".
ES&S has an x86-based iVotronic machine that does run Linux. The project was shelved in 2003. It's got a touchscreen (with working Linux driver), pushbuttons (with working driver), audio-out (working under Linux) and a printer option. I bet you could compile several of those to run on that platform.
My clock winds, you insensitive clod!
I still don't get it . . . Maybe you could use a car analogy.
I don't think this was a non sequitur. According to the NYT article, one of the EPA's claims that is had discretion was "foreign policy considerations."
You could be replaced by a very short script . . .
And the problem with "digital", or maybe more appropriately, "soft", controls is that you can't feel them. Like they say: "'iDrive', you work this thing." There are many situations where it's safer, better or more appropriate to locate a control by feel. If you can't feel it, you're losing some sensory input.
A self-deforming input device that could form itself into buttons or whatever would be a neat solution to reconfiguring your input device. Too bad I have no idea of how that could be accomplished.
Don't like it? The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
I've worked at a place where someone way-back-when decided that the widely-used IEEE floating point standards weren't good enough, and rolled his own. Mostly like the usual floating point, but with the number of bits assigned to exponent and mantissa "tweaked" to his liking. Unfortunately, one of the most useful things you can do in an embedded data logger is to share your data with the rest of the world -- requiring a conversion to a more "standard" standard.
I don't know what your beef with IEEE floating point is, but there's something to say for a standard form of expression. I'm guessing that you would want some info stored regarding the precision and accuracy of the value recorded. That would be nice. It would also be nice if everyone using floating point values understood those concepts in the first place. And if I had a million dollars.
So, do you also have an automated system for creating filth while you're away so your vacuum has something to do? A fully automated, closed-loop, dust and debris ecosystem.
I was wondering when someone would pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease think about the children. Thanks.
It's the biggerest!
Isn't that going to be difficult, from a practical standpoint? Not you getting off the bus, I mean, but identifying the religion of other riders? There are Muslim believers in just about all identifiable (and unidentifiable) ethnic and racial groups. And all these groups contain persons of other faiths as well. Style of dress isn't reliable, because a person can change clothes to appear to be someone else.
Politician, not politicians.
You mean, people who couldn't buy sandwiches? Or are you going for a particular religion or ethnic group?
Yeah. Cause these post-911 laws/regs/orders would never be abused by the authorities or used in a way that exceeded the original intent.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I don't think one should consider a job the same sort of commitment as a marriage. A job is an involvement, not a commitment. Like a breakfast of ham and eggs: the chicken is involved, the pig is committed.
Reminds me of whenever a US state is 2nd to last in something like education, arts support, % of citizens with their natural teeth, etc., we always say "Thanks, Mississippi".
Thanks, Rwanda.
I guess no one thought to check up with the Department of Labor Compliance Assistance office. And as a "hiring manager," you really should be familiar with this stuff:
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/wages-other-b reaks.htm
From the summary:
I'm not sure myself. Who is the second class citizen here: the guy reclassified as hourly who now gets overtime, or the "exempt" employee who can be required to put in as much unpaid overtime as the supervisor wants?
A lot of workers these days are classified as "exempt" from overtime because they are the "Network Backup Manager", or the "Administrative Assistant", or "Security Professional" or whatever. Put the word "manage", or "administrate", or "executive" in the title to make it appear that the position is actually managerial, administrative or professional. When in reality, they aren't a manager of anyone. If you look at their "office", they are clearly not "executive", and don't get me started on who gets called "professional" anymore. The whole idea is to pay them less than you would if they were hourly.
Funny, yes, but misinterpretation is not insight.
The code was developed in the 60's. It (the code) is used today to drive a statistical website.
Or . . . don't ditch "Stable". Just call "Testing": "Stable", and rename "Stable": "drones on and on and on never letting anyone else get a word in edgeways". That way anyone who wants a desktop distribution will get "Testing" instead and be happier about its up-to-dateness. Everyone's happy.
All the clams you can eat.
Why the hell would the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Alliance give a damn about your customer data?
And that, my friends, pretty much summarizes the arguments for and against expanding H-1B caps.
I went there once, after making a wrong turn at Albuquerque.