Julie Larson-Green looks like she went through a botched Botox treatment.
And this is relevant to this discussion how, exactly?
Well, it beats the hell out of me how boards pick CEOs. If Elop's in the running, then competence isn't the qualification for the job. Why not choose based on shoe size or willingness to undergo inadvisable cosmetic procedures? Gotta winnow this stack of resumes somehow.
To many people religion is the core of their very being. To not follow the precepts of the religion would be tantamount to suicide as their soul would be in peril. That is much more important than an autocratic rule about headgear. For most people removing a hat is not an issue. For some religious people it is."I prefer to keep my hat on as taking it off will imperil my soul" is very different than "I prefer to keep my hat on because I want to".
A religious person could -- the tenets of their faith notwithstanding -- just prefer to wear his/her headgear because they want to as well. So just because one's faith dictates headgear, it doesn't mean that one is wearing it for that reason, does it? You could respond, "Of course it does!" to which my witty riposte would be "Does not!"
And why couldn't wearing a hat be "core" to a person for reasons beyond religion. You don't look the same with and without it. Perhaps a person believes he is not the same person without his cap.
Anyway, until there is a blood test or MRI or something to verify that a person's headgear preference is purely "core of their very being," we'll just have to either trust them -- as you yourself are willing to do if they say the magic word -- or not. Because it all comes down to just taking a person's word for it, right?
At Flickr . . . people all hate the new design there.
It eats up bandwidth and RAM like crazy (over 10 times as much as the old version).
Yahoo/Flickr ignored all the complaints!
If you want an example of bad web design, try a Flickr search, it keeps loading more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more pictures all to ONE results page... it won't quit until your browser explodes!
When I first was assaulted by Flickr's new scheme, I thought something was wrong with my computer. "What's that awful sound, is the drive dying? Crap!" No, just all the cooling fans spooling up to previously unheard levels under the crushing weight of what should have been a handful of pictures!
Although oddly enough I've actually seen more traffic going to my Flickr account that was being driven by searches on Flickr. So it looks like they might have tweaked the searching under the hood as well which is nice, but the new UI on the other hand, cluttered.
Ya, I'm getting a lot more Chinese search engine result views of my pictures of tractors(!) lately, which is fine, I guess. I don't really even know what to make of that. But the UI still hurts my wiener.
" manifestations of hubris... are commonly mistaken for leadership potential "
Not limited to tech jobs in the valley.
Is there any field where this doesn't come into play?
E.g. A big part of a hiring decision is based on how well a candidate presents himself -- I'm deliberately using the masculine pronoun here -- in a resume, interview, and general self-promotion. Someone better at promoting himself will therefore (usually) appear more desirable. Unfortunately, there are only a few jobs where the ability to be interviewed is the primary skill required in the position. So you hire people based on how good they are at doing something else -- not the job at hand. Reminds me of soccer games that end in a shootout: "let's just settle this stalemate by playing a different game to see who wins". Why don't they use jacks, or rock, paper scissors?
Why am I not surprised the racism card was immediately played in response to a legitimate question in an attempt to silence debate? Especially when race wasn't even involved until you brought it up?
Probably because you're racist?
So your response is basically: "I know you are, but what am I?"
I've only seen one phone that boasted an 'always on' time display, and that was my old Nokia N8 with an AMOLED screen (very low power). This thing needs to work as a watch first and foremost!
TIA
I know it's not what you're asking, but the N9 also has the same "always on" display feature with current time. Technically, it's not always on. It's dark when the proximity sensor is covered, as it would be if it were in a pocket, purse, holster, fanny pack, etc.
But you're right that this would be an essential feature of wrist-mounted device. I'm old enough to have had an LED watch, and the need to push a button to display the time was the worst thing about it. Worse than the horrible battery life and the "can't read in the sun" feature. Because when you think about it, if you need to push a button or whatever on a wristwatch, you really need both hands to check the time, whereas most pocket device users can pull out a phone (or pocket watch with a flip-up cover) and wake it up without dropping whatever they're holding in the other hand. (I know where your minds are going you perverts, and I mean your coffee/pencil/standee pole/etc., not that.
p>Fortunately, anyone who can afford this watch has left school and is now in the "real world". At that point you can cease to care, tell the other person to fuck off, or call the police if they get violent.
WTH are you doing with your "cool" watch that gets the man on the street to assault you?
recent star trek movies make me sad time travel and rewriting is the tool of lazy sci-fi writers out to make a buck on an established name.
...generally true. But old Trek had gotten so stale that there wasn't really any other place to go
My preference would have been "somewhere else". Not "reboot" the franchise. If Abrams wanted to do something new, he should have done it. Not something half-new. Just as time travel/alternate universes crap is the crutch of the lazy sci-fi writer, rebooting an aged but recognizable and previously successful franchise is the crutch of the lazy producer and risk averse investor.
What inconsistencies does Enterprise introduce? Nothing really comes to mind...
I think that they mean the entire Temporal Cold War story-arc.
I guess that must have happened after I quit watching. Not really quit, I just wasn't motivated enough to chase its time slot all around. Could've also TiVo'd it I guess, but again, lacked motivation to press necessary buttons.
Muslim extremists do act violently on their extreme views.
I've actually seen a group of Phelpsies. I've interacted with them. A friend of mine had a bogus police report filed against him by them.
You, on the other hand, have never met a Muslim extremist. In fact, although I don't know you from Adam's off ox, I feel confident that you don't actually know any Muslims personally at all -- or if you do, you're unaware of their religion because there was no reason for the subject to come up, particularly when talking with a guy like you. Would you want to talk to you about religion? I'm feeling dirty right now.
And BTW, anti-abortion bombers actually are, by definition, "blowing things up". In know, I know, no true Scotsman.
The problem with all those greenies. They are willing to be green about everything until it becomes their turn to sacrifice then they throw their hands up get in the private jets that burn more feul in onme day then a family of four does for 10 years and say "Oh well."
Ya. Who cares what TFA says when you can just rant on "greenies" who own private jets???? I know I keep thinking I need to quit flying all my milk bottles to Asia -- one bottle per trip -- and just put it in the bin, but I'm just too entitled.
I suppose we should be glad you were even marginally on topic, you could have gone off on how the gold standard would fix everything.
....and, Cuba has lots of sugar. But the land of the free is still mad at Cuba for actions 50+ years ago, so the country remains embargoed and impoverished. Russia, China, Vietnam? They're all good buddies now, lots of forgiveness to go around. Cuba? Fuckem.
There's a block of very reliable voters in a swing state that would get pretty pissed at any candidate or party that sought to normalize US-Cuba relations. I don't know how else to explain the animosity whose roots predate the birth of the current president.
Of course the sugar tariffs and quotas go beyond just Cuba, and are a testament to the lobbying power of several large food processors that crank out refined cane, beet and corn syrup. The justification is, as always, that it would hurt American farmers, and it might. But farmers aren't the ones slipping big bills into Congress' g-strings.
I would have thought that HFCS is far worse than sucrose as it's mainly fructose which is processed by the liver rather than the stomach.
The term "High Fructose Corn Syrup" is sort of misleading. In reality, it only means corn syrup that has a higher fructose content that corn syrup naturally would, not that it is necessarily higher in fructose than pure sucrose any other particular sweetener (although it can be). The Wikipedia article has some useful info on common blends of HFCS and their comparison to other sweeteners, although it's kind of scattered throughout the prose and not in an easy to compare tabular presentation.
I knew that we were using more sugars in general in the US, but the attached chart surprised me with a three-fold increase in per-capita consumption between about 1973 and 1983. I would have liked to have seen more history than just back to 1966, but that's what I found.
I would hardly call it programming, more like re-configuring. You are not creating new lego bricks, you are just moving them around and coloring on them
Or like building a circuit using only existing components like resistors and capacitors and just moving them around.
I honestly think sic isn't needed there and I believe most news organizations are phasing it out in general.
I agree, and I thought it was unnecessary and probably just a petty little dig when I saw The Economist do it. In addition to that, they "correct" proper names of US institutions as if they were merely descriptions.
Anyway, from thence comes my retaliatory use of "sic".
The next step, he says, is to look at the levels of these biomarkers in the general population and in other at-risk populations, such as those with depression or suffering from stress or bereavement. “Suicide is not just related to mental illness,” he says. “It’s a very complex behaviour (sic*).”
That might just be an understatement, there. Generalizing results to the population as a whole, as opposed to people with known disorders that already predispose them to a higher risk of suicide (and other behavior-related premature mortality) would be the interesting part if it worked.
*Yes, I know that "behaviour" is the correct spelling in British English, but since I'm writing this in the US, I feel obligated to note that I am not misspelling it in my version of written language. It's my way of honoring The Economist magazine's editorial policy, in reverse, that is.
I'm a QA analyst, and the quote: "We cannot respond to reports which do not contain enough detail to allow us to reproduce an issue." is totally incorrect. An issue does not have to be reproducable in order to warrant some debugging and investigation.
Maybe they just don't have the technology to request additional info from the reporter. Maybe that's not part of the protocol there. If it were my job to handle bug reports and I didn't want to be hassled with work, I'd require a complete bug description, including exact description of systems used and all steps to reproduce reported in exactly the format I'm expecting. I'd also make sure my instructions and description of the report format were just a little vague, so the user would be forced to fill in the blanks, further reducing the odds that the report would be "valid". Maybe I'd require some info that most bug reporters would think irrelevant or inapplicable to most bugs -- you know, just to tempt them to skip that part. Then I could pretty much close every ticket with "can't reproduce" and screw around on facebook all day -- for quality assurance purposes, of course.
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Julie Larson-Green looks like she went through a botched Botox treatment.
And this is relevant to this discussion how, exactly?
Well, it beats the hell out of me how boards pick CEOs. If Elop's in the running, then competence isn't the qualification for the job. Why not choose based on shoe size or willingness to undergo inadvisable cosmetic procedures? Gotta winnow this stack of resumes somehow.
I always thought of ID photos in burka fascinating...
Of course, you've never actually seen one.
To many people religion is the core of their very being. To not follow the precepts of the religion would be tantamount to suicide as their soul would be in peril. That is much more important than an autocratic rule about headgear. For most people removing a hat is not an issue. For some religious people it is."I prefer to keep my hat on as taking it off will imperil my soul" is very different than "I prefer to keep my hat on because I want to".
A religious person could -- the tenets of their faith notwithstanding -- just prefer to wear his/her headgear because they want to as well. So just because one's faith dictates headgear, it doesn't mean that one is wearing it for that reason, does it? You could respond, "Of course it does!" to which my witty riposte would be "Does not!"
And why couldn't wearing a hat be "core" to a person for reasons beyond religion. You don't look the same with and without it. Perhaps a person believes he is not the same person without his cap.
Anyway, until there is a blood test or MRI or something to verify that a person's headgear preference is purely "core of their very being," we'll just have to either trust them -- as you yourself are willing to do if they say the magic word -- or not. Because it all comes down to just taking a person's word for it, right?
Looks to me like measles is God's punishment for MegaChurches.
Which seems fair, or at least practical. Seriously, if you need parking lot traffic directors, you've got too many members.
At Flickr . . . people all hate the new design there.
It eats up bandwidth and RAM like crazy (over 10 times as much as the old version).
Yahoo/Flickr ignored all the complaints!
If you want an example of bad web design, try a Flickr search, it keeps loading more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more pictures all to ONE results page... it won't quit until your browser explodes!
When I first was assaulted by Flickr's new scheme, I thought something was wrong with my computer. "What's that awful sound, is the drive dying? Crap!" No, just all the cooling fans spooling up to previously unheard levels under the crushing weight of what should have been a handful of pictures!
Although oddly enough I've actually seen more traffic going to my Flickr account that was being driven by searches on Flickr. So it looks like they might have tweaked the searching under the hood as well which is nice, but the new UI on the other hand, cluttered.
Ya, I'm getting a lot more Chinese search engine result views of my pictures of tractors(!) lately, which is fine, I guess. I don't really even know what to make of that. But the UI still hurts my wiener.
Honestly, it isn't as bad as the Flickr redesign. That one was both uglier and far less functional.
And the damn non-optional Yahoo! bar across the top. Like Flickr users want to be reminded of that.
And photostreams, groups, etc. become a collage of seemingly randomly-sized pics. If I'd wanted Snapfish, I'd have asked for Snapfish.
" manifestations of hubris ... are commonly mistaken for leadership potential "
Not limited to tech jobs in the valley.
Is there any field where this doesn't come into play?
E.g. A big part of a hiring decision is based on how well a candidate presents himself -- I'm deliberately using the masculine pronoun here -- in a resume, interview, and general self-promotion. Someone better at promoting himself will therefore (usually) appear more desirable. Unfortunately, there are only a few jobs where the ability to be interviewed is the primary skill required in the position. So you hire people based on how good they are at doing something else -- not the job at hand. Reminds me of soccer games that end in a shootout: "let's just settle this stalemate by playing a different game to see who wins". Why don't they use jacks, or rock, paper scissors?
Why am I not surprised the racism card was immediately played in response to a legitimate question in an attempt to silence debate? Especially when race wasn't even involved until you brought it up?
Probably because you're racist?
So your response is basically: "I know you are, but what am I?"
I've only seen one phone that boasted an 'always on' time display, and that was my old Nokia N8 with an AMOLED screen (very low power). This thing needs to work as a watch first and foremost! TIA
I know it's not what you're asking, but the N9 also has the same "always on" display feature with current time. Technically, it's not always on. It's dark when the proximity sensor is covered, as it would be if it were in a pocket, purse, holster, fanny pack, etc.
But you're right that this would be an essential feature of wrist-mounted device. I'm old enough to have had an LED watch, and the need to push a button to display the time was the worst thing about it. Worse than the horrible battery life and the "can't read in the sun" feature. Because when you think about it, if you need to push a button or whatever on a wristwatch, you really need both hands to check the time, whereas most pocket device users can pull out a phone (or pocket watch with a flip-up cover) and wake it up without dropping whatever they're holding in the other hand. (I know where your minds are going you perverts, and I mean your coffee/pencil/standee pole/etc., not that.
p>Fortunately, anyone who can afford this watch has left school and is now in the "real world". At that point you can cease to care, tell the other person to fuck off, or call the police if they get violent.
WTH are you doing with your "cool" watch that gets the man on the street to assault you?
You have a point.
True. When given the choice of a reboot or beating a dead horse, maybe the answer is none of the above.
recent star trek movies make me sad time travel and rewriting is the tool of lazy sci-fi writers out to make a buck on an established name.
My preference would have been "somewhere else". Not "reboot" the franchise. If Abrams wanted to do something new, he should have done it. Not something half-new. Just as time travel/alternate universes crap is the crutch of the lazy sci-fi writer, rebooting an aged but recognizable and previously successful franchise is the crutch of the lazy producer and risk averse investor.
What inconsistencies does Enterprise introduce? Nothing really comes to mind...
I think that they mean the entire Temporal Cold War story-arc.
I guess that must have happened after I quit watching. Not really quit, I just wasn't motivated enough to chase its time slot all around. Could've also TiVo'd it I guess, but again, lacked motivation to press necessary buttons.
It did have a good start.
Muslim extremists do act violently on their extreme views.
I've actually seen a group of Phelpsies. I've interacted with them. A friend of mine had a bogus police report filed against him by them.
You, on the other hand, have never met a Muslim extremist. In fact, although I don't know you from Adam's off ox, I feel confident that you don't actually know any Muslims personally at all -- or if you do, you're unaware of their religion because there was no reason for the subject to come up, particularly when talking with a guy like you. Would you want to talk to you about religion? I'm feeling dirty right now.
And BTW, anti-abortion bombers actually are, by definition, "blowing things up". In know, I know, no true Scotsman.
The problem with all those greenies. They are willing to be green about everything until it becomes their turn to sacrifice then they throw their hands up get in the private jets that burn more feul in onme day then a family of four does for 10 years and say "Oh well."
Ya. Who cares what TFA says when you can just rant on "greenies" who own private jets???? I know I keep thinking I need to quit flying all my milk bottles to Asia -- one bottle per trip -- and just put it in the bin, but I'm just too entitled.
I suppose we should be glad you were even marginally on topic, you could have gone off on how the gold standard would fix everything.
....and, Cuba has lots of sugar. But the land of the free is still mad at Cuba for actions 50+ years ago, so the country remains embargoed and impoverished. Russia, China, Vietnam? They're all good buddies now, lots of forgiveness to go around. Cuba? Fuckem.
There's a block of very reliable voters in a swing state that would get pretty pissed at any candidate or party that sought to normalize US-Cuba relations. I don't know how else to explain the animosity whose roots predate the birth of the current president.
Of course the sugar tariffs and quotas go beyond just Cuba, and are a testament to the lobbying power of several large food processors that crank out refined cane, beet and corn syrup. The justification is, as always, that it would hurt American farmers, and it might. But farmers aren't the ones slipping big bills into Congress' g-strings.
I would have thought that HFCS is far worse than sucrose as it's mainly fructose which is processed by the liver rather than the stomach.
The term "High Fructose Corn Syrup" is sort of misleading. In reality, it only means corn syrup that has a higher fructose content that corn syrup naturally would, not that it is necessarily higher in fructose than pure sucrose any other particular sweetener (although it can be). The Wikipedia article has some useful info on common blends of HFCS and their comparison to other sweeteners, although it's kind of scattered throughout the prose and not in an easy to compare tabular presentation.
I knew that we were using more sugars in general in the US, but the attached chart surprised me with a three-fold increase in per-capita consumption between about 1973 and 1983. I would have liked to have seen more history than just back to 1966, but that's what I found.
I would hardly call it programming, more like re-configuring. You are not creating new lego bricks, you are just moving them around and coloring on them
Or like building a circuit using only existing components like resistors and capacitors and just moving them around.
I honestly think sic isn't needed there and I believe most news organizations are phasing it out in general.
I agree, and I thought it was unnecessary and probably just a petty little dig when I saw The Economist do it. In addition to that, they "correct" proper names of US institutions as if they were merely descriptions.
Anyway, from thence comes my retaliatory use of "sic".
[T]hey were . . . carried to a crossroads in the dead of night and dumped in a pit, a wooden stake hammered through the body pinning it in place. .
Well then. Desecration: check. Wow. It's like the British government was Al Capone as played by Robert DeNiro.
At least maybe I was still kidding about the flowers . . .
There are only a couple countries where suicide is legal.
My favorite was when attempted suicide in Great Britain carried the death penalty. "Do it right, or we'll finish the job."
Didn't it also result in forfeiture of your estate there, or desecration of your body, or trampling your flower garden or something like that, too?
I thought I was kind of kidding, but apparently not:
Even in modern times, legal penalties for committing suicide have not been uncommon. By 1879, English law had begun to distinguish between suicide and homicide, though suicide still resulted in forfeiture of estate. Also, the deceased were permitted daylight burial in 1882.
So maybe not the flower garden part, but you had to be buried at night? Cute.
As the researcher admits:
The next step, he says, is to look at the levels of these biomarkers in the general population and in other at-risk populations, such as those with depression or suffering from stress or bereavement. “Suicide is not just related to mental illness,” he says. “It’s a very complex behaviour (sic*).”
That might just be an understatement, there. Generalizing results to the population as a whole, as opposed to people with known disorders that already predispose them to a higher risk of suicide (and other behavior-related premature mortality) would be the interesting part if it worked.
*Yes, I know that "behaviour" is the correct spelling in British English, but since I'm writing this in the US, I feel obligated to note that I am not misspelling it in my version of written language. It's my way of honoring The Economist magazine's editorial policy, in reverse, that is.
. . . there is no way I'm paying for a service I have to die to use. There is zero contract enforceability.
What about life insurance?
I'm a QA analyst, and the quote: "We cannot respond to reports which do not contain enough detail to allow us to reproduce an issue." is totally incorrect. An issue does not have to be reproducable in order to warrant some debugging and investigation.
Maybe they just don't have the technology to request additional info from the reporter. Maybe that's not part of the protocol there. If it were my job to handle bug reports and I didn't want to be hassled with work, I'd require a complete bug description, including exact description of systems used and all steps to reproduce reported in exactly the format I'm expecting. I'd also make sure my instructions and description of the report format were just a little vague, so the user would be forced to fill in the blanks, further reducing the odds that the report would be "valid". Maybe I'd require some info that most bug reporters would think irrelevant or inapplicable to most bugs -- you know, just to tempt them to skip that part. Then I could pretty much close every ticket with "can't reproduce" and screw around on facebook all day -- for quality assurance purposes, of course.