The kind that desperately needs or needs to keep a crappy job in a crappier economy in an even crappier place he can't leave since the housing market went to crap. Or as we prefer to say: "the perfect employee".
This pretty much shows that you can't just hope that the guy in charge won't abuse the power. Why aren't the Repubs in control of the House having hearings about this, aren't they concerned the executive is overstepping its bounds? Why weren't the Democrats in control of the Senate during part of the Bush years doing that either?
It would appear that allowing unchecked executive power is the bipartisan issue of the 21st century. Your vote may matter a little bit regarding gay marriage or who pays how much in taxes, but as to encroaching police state your choices are "more" or "more".
TFA read like a breakup with one side telling their story while the other side was not allowed to speak.
What is most telling to me is the authors willingness to judge and place blaim on others while demonstrating his own lack of leadership.
I noticed the same thing, like the high school couple going off to separate colleges. Things don't work out long-distance, but of course, it's the other one's fault.
I read TFA, assuming that the definition of "Brilliant Jerk" in the summary was, in fact, summarized, and that the whole definition actually defined the "jerkiness" as something other than just not being a "business person". But that wasn't the case. Later in the article were some half-assed examples of what the author means by "jerky" behavior, but still no real definition. He ended up a competitor, so? He poached employees? He started legal battles? Competitors do do that, as we've seen with Apple, Samsung, Google, and countless smaller companies.
How many "business people" do you need? Someone's got to treat patients or develop products or otherwise provide some goods and services for the salesmen to sell and the marketeers to market. And if everyone says "yes, let's do it" to everything, you'll do everything without even thinking about it.
If an employee just doesn't fit in anymore and everyone's unhappy about it, then sure, end the relationship as quickly and amicably as possible. But why label someone a "jerk" just because the business changed? If you now need a hammer but keep trying to drive nails with the saw, that's your fault. Blaming the saw for being a saw makes you the poor workman who blames his tools.
I'm not looking for something to haul a family around. That's the car for the wife.....just gimme something with 2 seats, performance, handling and looks.....
And this is okay with the little lady? Holy crap, man, do you get a mistress, too?
The smaller TDIs (Golf and Jetta most definitely fit the bill) can quite easily do 700 miles on a fully-vented tank. Even driving them hard they will do better than 500 miles on a standard fill.
My Jetta TDI only had a 15-ish gallon fuel tank, so you had to be pretty adventurous to try to get 600 miles between fill-ups. I did 540 once before the wife's stress level got too high.
As a chicken and turkey farmer, I'd like to know - what am I supposed to substitute for incandescent bulbs in my brooders? My chicks require the life-giving warmth of an incandescent bulb.
I assume that you are using bulbs manufactured especially as heat lamps for your chicks and poults, since they are rather more rugged and reliable than plain old "light bulbs". And I'm sure you'd want reliable in this sort of setup.
If you're getting 400-500% efficiency, this means you're inventing energy as you get 100% max. Any more, any more and you're opening up a hole from another dimension to let energy in. I want to know how to do that.
You're not bringing it from another dimension with a heat pump, you're just moving it from inside to outside or vice-versa. The greater-than-100% efficiency is just the ratio of heat moved versus energy required to move it. It's not literally "efficiency" in a rigorous sense, since you're not exactly comparing input to output -- you ignore the effect of adding or removing heat from the outside environment. But the definition is close enough for most purposes, since you what want to know which technology can heat your space for less energy and thus less money.
It hasn't occurred to you that a ban on incandescents for lighting might just exclude incandescents for heating in industrial applications?
Can you cite a source? Everything I've read says it's just an outright ban.
It's not absolute proof, of course, but heat lamps seem to still be readily available in quantities and at prices that don't suggest it's just NOS being sold off.
the underlying theme in koran writings IS that the dhimmis (ie, all of us non-moslems) are to be conquered or killed. eventually. until then, they are allowed to lie to us and do whatever it takes in order to secure their future.
LOOK IT UP.
Are you sure you are not interpreting the Koran -- assuming you've read it -- through the Christian Protestant, and in particular, fundamentalist, lens of sola scriptura, that is, that the holy book contains all necessary knowledge of the faith? Are you sure that this is also the Islamic standard of exegesis as well?
Actually, they do. They have to be able to prove it was you driving if it goes to court.
YMMV. Per Iowa law, it's up to you to show you either rented out the vehicle or produce the police report you filed when it got stolen. State legislature considered banning traffic cameras in general, but the big cities that use them rely on the revenue and lobbied against it. On the plus side -- if there is a real 'plus' -- it's not a criminal or traffic offense.
Oh, and BTW, the Cray-2 used a couple hundred kW, so your notion that the iPad only now matches it for performance/W is ridiculous. An iPad running a calculator app with a user typing in numbers is closer to the cray's performance/W. (And I should have been clear: that's where Moore's law comes in -- more transistors/area means the same computing power with less power. The exponential increase of clock rates, of course, was somebody else's law (can't remember whose) and has already capped out.)
RTFA. I made no estimations, and the "notions" are not mine. Are you suggesting that the y-axis on the graph from the conference is GFLOPS for the Cray but GFLOPS/W for the iPad? Perhaps it is. Again, I didn't make the slide, and TFA is ambiguous at best.
From the Phoronix article: "When benchmarking the Apple iPad 2, the University of Tennessee employee achieved 4 GFLOPS per Watt on the ARM SoC (measured at the chip level)."
The linked graphs don't have units on them, so I have to assume until proven otherwise that the article is correct. But performance per watt, while a valid comparison, doesn't equate to "faster than a Cray-2" in the sense I read the headline, since I assume the Cray-2 pulled quite a bit more power than the iPad. To be "faster than a Cray-2", you really would need a Beowulf cluster of iPad processors.
CEO Marissa Mayer: "so we can think and work as the majority of our users do".
That makes sense on the surface, but it doesn't exactly sound like the attitude of a company that wants to be an innovator or technology leader. It might not be the attitude of a market leader, either. At the risk of sounding like a fanboy of another big tech firm, "Think Same" may not be the motto to live by. But then I'm CEO of nothing.
...over federal power. If you give the federal government too much power, they do things like this. They are simply not equipped (due mostly to incompetence) to deal with the concerns of it's citizens like local government is, and they should only exist to settle disputes between states and provide for the common defense and law. But when you put them in charge of things like this, you are guaranteed to get problems. The DHS is literally the poster child for why you should never ever ever give your executive branch in a representative republic more power than you would give your local mayor.
I don't see how giving regions, states, or municipalities this kind of responsibility or authority rather than the federal government is a solution to this sort of problem. Government at any level can be abusive and unresponsive. I read just yesterday in the local paper that the citizens of a nearby suburb are complaining that their city council is out of touch with the residents over a zoning change they made without addressing the neighbors' concerns. This is a city of 185 people. The peoples' recourse? Vote for someone else next time, maybe they'll listen.
Well yeah observation techniques can be thwarted in a pretty obvious way.... don't have any behavioral tells showing and you will get through. They have training for that sort of thing you know.
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what kind of idiot accept it?
The kind that desperately needs or needs to keep a crappy job in a crappier economy in an even crappier place he can't leave since the housing market went to crap. Or as we prefer to say: "the perfect employee".
Here's the "Change" I believed in...
This pretty much shows that you can't just hope that the guy in charge won't abuse the power. Why aren't the Repubs in control of the House having hearings about this, aren't they concerned the executive is overstepping its bounds? Why weren't the Democrats in control of the Senate during part of the Bush years doing that either?
It would appear that allowing unchecked executive power is the bipartisan issue of the 21st century. Your vote may matter a little bit regarding gay marriage or who pays how much in taxes, but as to encroaching police state your choices are "more" or "more".
TFA read like a breakup with one side telling their story while the other side was not allowed to speak.
What is most telling to me is the authors willingness to judge and place blaim on others while demonstrating his own lack of leadership.
I noticed the same thing, like the high school couple going off to separate colleges. Things don't work out long-distance, but of course, it's the other one's fault.
I read TFA, assuming that the definition of "Brilliant Jerk" in the summary was, in fact, summarized, and that the whole definition actually defined the "jerkiness" as something other than just not being a "business person". But that wasn't the case. Later in the article were some half-assed examples of what the author means by "jerky" behavior, but still no real definition. He ended up a competitor, so? He poached employees? He started legal battles? Competitors do do that, as we've seen with Apple, Samsung, Google, and countless smaller companies.
How many "business people" do you need? Someone's got to treat patients or develop products or otherwise provide some goods and services for the salesmen to sell and the marketeers to market. And if everyone says "yes, let's do it" to everything, you'll do everything without even thinking about it.
If an employee just doesn't fit in anymore and everyone's unhappy about it, then sure, end the relationship as quickly and amicably as possible. But why label someone a "jerk" just because the business changed? If you now need a hammer but keep trying to drive nails with the saw, that's your fault. Blaming the saw for being a saw makes you the poor workman who blames his tools.
. . . and now this. It's like a war on breakfast.
I'm not looking for something to haul a family around. That's the car for the wife.....just gimme something with 2 seats, performance, handling and looks.....
And this is okay with the little lady? Holy crap, man, do you get a mistress, too?
The quality of beer in the US is lower than anywhere else in the world.
Well I sure didn't see that comment coming when I decided to read this story.
The smaller TDIs (Golf and Jetta most definitely fit the bill) can quite easily do 700 miles on a fully-vented tank. Even driving them hard they will do better than 500 miles on a standard fill.
My Jetta TDI only had a 15-ish gallon fuel tank, so you had to be pretty adventurous to try to get 600 miles between fill-ups. I did 540 once before the wife's stress level got too high.
The Model S has 4 seats (way too many), and looks like a family truckster type sedan....sorry, not interested.
It's actually got 5 seats, 7 if you count the child-size jump seats. I guess that makes it even worse for you, though.
I can imagine a lawyer saying "interesting", which is a word you never want to hear from a lawyer if you're the one paying.
You don't want to hear that from your doctor, either.
As a chicken and turkey farmer, I'd like to know - what am I supposed to substitute for incandescent bulbs in my brooders? My chicks require the life-giving warmth of an incandescent bulb.
I assume that you are using bulbs manufactured especially as heat lamps for your chicks and poults, since they are rather more rugged and reliable than plain old "light bulbs". And I'm sure you'd want reliable in this sort of setup.
If you're getting 400-500% efficiency, this means you're inventing energy as you get 100% max. Any more, any more and you're opening up a hole from another dimension to let energy in. I want to know how to do that.
You're not bringing it from another dimension with a heat pump, you're just moving it from inside to outside or vice-versa. The greater-than-100% efficiency is just the ratio of heat moved versus energy required to move it. It's not literally "efficiency" in a rigorous sense, since you're not exactly comparing input to output -- you ignore the effect of adding or removing heat from the outside environment. But the definition is close enough for most purposes, since you what want to know which technology can heat your space for less energy and thus less money.
It hasn't occurred to you that a ban on incandescents for lighting might just exclude incandescents for heating in industrial applications?
Can you cite a source? Everything I've read says it's just an outright ban.
It's not absolute proof, of course, but heat lamps seem to still be readily available in quantities and at prices that don't suggest it's just NOS being sold off.
the underlying theme in koran writings IS that the dhimmis (ie, all of us non-moslems) are to be conquered or killed. eventually. until then, they are allowed to lie to us and do whatever it takes in order to secure their future.
LOOK IT UP.
Are you sure you are not interpreting the Koran -- assuming you've read it -- through the Christian Protestant, and in particular, fundamentalist, lens of sola scriptura, that is, that the holy book contains all necessary knowledge of the faith? Are you sure that this is also the Islamic standard of exegesis as well?
Maybe in Europe but in the USA no we don't have frequent sports riots.
I also live in a city without a nationally competitive sports franchise, there is something to be said for the peace and quiet.
Please, will the sensible and non-crazy muslims please stand up already and disown these lunatics?
Sensible, non-crazy members of [insert religion name here], while the majority, give very boring interviews that get bad ratings.
Per Iowa law, it's up to you to show you either rented out the vehicle
The vehicle is up for sale and someone was test driving it. Not my responsibility.
Makes you wonder why everyone getting a parking ticket hasn't thought of that, doesn't it?
Actually, they do. They have to be able to prove it was you driving if it goes to court.
YMMV. Per Iowa law, it's up to you to show you either rented out the vehicle or produce the police report you filed when it got stolen. State legislature considered banning traffic cameras in general, but the big cities that use them rely on the revenue and lobbied against it. On the plus side -- if there is a real 'plus' -- it's not a criminal or traffic offense.
Then I switched to Open Office.
And?! I need closure on this anecdote^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hevent
call 1-800-OBVIOUS for a course about reading between the lines or 1-800-MCKAY for a course to improve sarcasm/irony skills.
Or google I need closure on that anecdote to unwhoosh yourself . . .
Oh, and BTW, the Cray-2 used a couple hundred kW, so your notion that the iPad only now matches it for performance/W is ridiculous. An iPad running a calculator app with a user typing in numbers is closer to the cray's performance/W. (And I should have been clear: that's where Moore's law comes in -- more transistors/area means the same computing power with less power. The exponential increase of clock rates, of course, was somebody else's law (can't remember whose) and has already capped out.)
RTFA. I made no estimations, and the "notions" are not mine. Are you suggesting that the y-axis on the graph from the conference is GFLOPS for the Cray but GFLOPS/W for the iPad? Perhaps it is. Again, I didn't make the slide, and TFA is ambiguous at best.
. . . the article taketh away.
From the Phoronix article: "When benchmarking the Apple iPad 2, the University of Tennessee employee achieved 4 GFLOPS per Watt on the ARM SoC (measured at the chip level)."
The linked graphs don't have units on them, so I have to assume until proven otherwise that the article is correct. But performance per watt, while a valid comparison, doesn't equate to "faster than a Cray-2" in the sense I read the headline, since I assume the Cray-2 pulled quite a bit more power than the iPad. To be "faster than a Cray-2", you really would need a Beowulf cluster of iPad processors.
CEO Marissa Mayer: "so we can think and work as the majority of our users do".
That makes sense on the surface, but it doesn't exactly sound like the attitude of a company that wants to be an innovator or technology leader. It might not be the attitude of a market leader, either. At the risk of sounding like a fanboy of another big tech firm, "Think Same" may not be the motto to live by. But then I'm CEO of nothing.
...over federal power. If you give the federal government too much power, they do things like this. They are simply not equipped (due mostly to incompetence) to deal with the concerns of it's citizens like local government is, and they should only exist to settle disputes between states and provide for the common defense and law. But when you put them in charge of things like this, you are guaranteed to get problems. The DHS is literally the poster child for why you should never ever ever give your executive branch in a representative republic more power than you would give your local mayor.
I don't see how giving regions, states, or municipalities this kind of responsibility or authority rather than the federal government is a solution to this sort of problem. Government at any level can be abusive and unresponsive. I read just yesterday in the local paper that the citizens of a nearby suburb are complaining that their city council is out of touch with the residents over a zoning change they made without addressing the neighbors' concerns. This is a city of 185 people. The peoples' recourse? Vote for someone else next time, maybe they'll listen.
Well yeah observation techniques can be thwarted in a pretty obvious way.... don't have any behavioral tells showing and you will get through. They have training for that sort of thing you know.
They have Xanax for that kind of thing, too.
Lets not forget those exothermic MRE heaters.
Wake me up when a can of beans can cook itself...
Canned beans, unlike dry ones, are already cooked. Warming them is just for palatability.