Are you hiring or know someone who is? I might be losing my job sometime this year (government related) and would prefer not to wait until I'm kicked out the door to find something else.
If this book comes with songs for each recipe that you can cook by, that should have been your clue things weren't going to end well.
As to the reviewers comment about using the instructions as if a beginner were going to read them, that is the same approach I take when developing installation instructions. You have to assume the person reading the instructions has no clue of what they're doing and give them step-by-step instructions.
It might seem simplistic, but it insures there is no misunderstanding of what needs to be done. Including pictures does wonders to help get an idea across to someone.
The FOSS community should take note of this practice when releasing products into the wild. Maybe their software would be more readily accepted instead of people having to search web sites or being told, "RTFM newb!".
Considering the amount of time people spend checking to see which route is preferable, unless that route is at least 10 minutes shorter, there is no significant reason to alter your route.
The obvious exception being total gridlock, highway construction and the like.
It's like people who drive around looking for the cheapest gas not understanding they're burning fuel to save that 2 cents per gallon which negates their cost savings.
More because he's actively (so to speak) involved in matters regarding space and for him to be as close as anyone can get to space without going to the Moon or Mars would be a highlight of his career.
Who knows, maybe he would pick up on something that no one else has noticed.
I had to look this person up to see that she was a singer. Never heard of her before so I'm presuming like many others on here that if I haven't heard of something or someone, they can't be important.
Which begs the next question, so what? Someone who can afford to spend their money on a trip to space can't go. What's the story other than they have the money to go to space?
Now, if the story had been about Stephen Hawking being bumped from a space flight, THAT would have been important.
but regulations require a certain amount of ethanol to be blended into the real-world gasoline supply... and this drastically hurts efficiency.
Except it doesn't have to. My car manufacturer, Hyundai, says I should get 29 mpg city/40 mpg highway. I get between 30 -33 city and on my last long drive I got 40.77 mpg.
Part of it is how you drive. If you're always on the gas, trying to get one car ahead, then slam on the brakes to squeeze into the barely there gap between cars, of course your mileage will be lower. Letting your car coast the last few tenths of mile, when you can do so, turning your car off at long lights, not mashing the pedal to the floor unless you have to, will all boost your mileage.
The only other thing I do is inflate my tires by 1 pound from what the recommendation says. It's enough to add to my fuel efficiency without highspotting the tires.
What we will do? The court decided there is no right to take someone elses work without paying for it when that person does not freely give it away, nor does one have the right to provide links to such works with the tacit understanding and a wink that the person with the link does not have the right to give the work away.
Oh noes! We can't use the excuse that taking someone elses works, without paying them for it when they don't give it away themselves, isn't a human right!
Those evil European judges, taking away my right to be cheap and not pay someone for their work!
You're in the middle of a heavy coding session. You move your hand and pow!, your drink spills all over your keyboard (and possibly you).
You now have to stop what you were doing, remove the keyboard, clean your desk and yourself if it spilled on you, go the machine, get a new keyboard, wait for the system to recognize it, then, after all that, get back to where you were and maybe get back to what you were doing at the same level.
I want people to do their jobs, not think that they're the be all and end all of a company. If you can't follow that one simple rule, don't eat/drink over your keyboard, what coding rules are you not following that will cost me money down the line to fix because you thought you were a hot shit designer?
When Facebook engineers spill coffee on their keyboard (a common mishap)
So instead of NOT drinking coffee over your keyboard or leaving your cup/mug right next to the keyboard, the solution is to let people randomly go to a machine to replace a part they broke/misused and get a free replacement.
If someone can't grasp the simple idea of NOT eating/drinking/cutting finger/toenails above a keyboard, one can only imagine what kind of work they do and how much they cost your organization.
Once again, we're using a technical solution to solve a human problem. Granted, we can't stop or breed out stupidity, but we should be able to use a bat upside the head to mitigate such things.
Considering it's not a tax, the point is meaningless.
No where in the bill did it say it was a tax. The President repeatedly said it wasn't a tax. The only one who said it was a tax was Justice Roberts who read into the law something that wasn't there.
What it is is the government telling me I am responsible for someone else's health bills and if I don't pay for their bills, I get penalized for it.
Therefore, if I am being forced to pay for their health bills, I get to dictate how they live their lives so I'm not paying for every little thing because they're too lazy to take care of themselves.
It's no different than the government telling research labs they can't use fetal stem cells for research if they get government money or how some states say their money can't be used for abortions.
it's wrong to feel entitled to food, housing and health care.
No one is entitled to health care. Your health is your responsibility, not mine. I shouldn't have to pay a dime to take care of you when you smoke 2 packs a week or drink a case of beer every weekend or suck down a 2 liter of Mountain Dew every day while sitting on your fat ass and not bothering to get out of seat all day.
If you think you're entitled to health care, at my expense, then I'm entitled to tell you how to live your life so I get the most bang for my buck.
however much money just to circle mars and come back is a dangerous waste
It's his money, and whomever else contributes, and can do what they want with it. Or are you saying people should be told how to spend their money ala me being forced to pay for my neighbor who smokes, which is dangerous, health insurance?
When you say benefits, you mean like having someone living directly above, beside and below you at all times, subject to whatever noise your neighbors constantly put out? Or do you mean the constant drone of traffic out your window with the accompanying fumes it produces?
Maybe you meant the fact there is no green grass out your front door to walk in bare feet but instead have to take a bus, ride a bike (through traffic) or subway just to find green grass. Then of course there are the significantly higher prices for everything, the excess heat in the summer, the inability to see the stars at night and of course, going back to the traffic issue, you can't have your windows open at night due to the noise.
Yes, I know what homeopathy is really about. I decided to do the one molecule part to show how absurd it is rather than trying to come up with a good example of how many millions of gallons one would have to go through to find that one molecule after the dilution.
I'm still waiting for the homeopath folks to tell me how wrong I am about the description, that they don't use crystals.
With homeopathy, there is no need to test the results of taking a substance, putting it in water, then constantly diluting the amount of that substance in the water until there is only one molecule of that substance left in the water. Because water has such great memory, it "remembers" the powerful healing abilities of the substance while completely forgetting all the urine, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids the water has come in contact with.
Because of this miraculous memory, that one molecule has more healing and restorative powers than the most powerful, science-based vaccines, vaccines which do nothing except make people sick and keep big pharma rolling in the money like they do for afflictions such as smallpox, rinderpest and polio.
Unlike traditional science-based vaccines, homeopathic medicines can be done in the safety of your own home. No need to get doctors involved with their 8-10 years of medical training and untold hours of visiting patients, doing research and consulting with other so-called "medical experts". One can dispense with such safety protocols because no matter what, homeopathic medicines have been rigorously tested under the most stringent conditions including having a crystal suspended above them while the dilution occurs.
Not once has any side effect ever occurred from taking a homeopathic medicine. That one molecule in the water won't let it happen because of the exponential power it has from being the sole piece left of the original substance.
So do yourself a favor and pass on traditional vaccines and medicines. Homeopathic cures are the wave of the future, able to solve the world's medical ills in a single glass of water. It's only because the medical community doesn't want you to take matters into your own hands bypass the time-tested methods of science-based medical trials that homeopathy has such a bad rap.
Ignore the naysayers, the ones whose ills have been cured by Western medicine, they're just anomalies. Homeopathy is where it's at.
9/11 says otherwise. So do the hordes of documents recovered at Bin Laden's compound. So do the daily speeches from various Imams, religious leaders, political leaders and sundry others throughout the world. So do postings from numerous organizations. So do the thwarted attempts at car and suicide bombings.
Most importantly, so do the words from the people we have killed wherein they have stated their goal is to attack the U.S.
Or are you saying all those people are merely plants by the CIA?
Then maybe the people shouldn't shelter, assist or allow these people to be in their villages which would obviate the need for drones to be overhead.
Besides, if we're not going to get on Israel's case for their collective punishment of Palestinians, what makes you think we care about collective punishment for those who harbor people who are trying to attack us?
Just this morning, the Atlantic City casino Revel filed for bankruptcy, one year after the casino opened. Granted, it was an ambitious plan, including a non-smoking environment, but with gambling in surrounding states draining clientele, the entire AC casino industry is suffering.
This isn't to say they can't make this work, but if they're relying on a majority of their income from poker, well, putting ones eggs in one basket comes to mind.
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Are you hiring or know someone who is? I might be losing my job sometime this year (government related) and would prefer not to wait until I'm kicked out the door to find something else.
If this book comes with songs for each recipe that you can cook by, that should have been your clue things weren't going to end well.
As to the reviewers comment about using the instructions as if a beginner were going to read them, that is the same approach I take when developing installation instructions. You have to assume the person reading the instructions has no clue of what they're doing and give them step-by-step instructions.
It might seem simplistic, but it insures there is no misunderstanding of what needs to be done. Including pictures does wonders to help get an idea across to someone.
The FOSS community should take note of this practice when releasing products into the wild. Maybe their software would be more readily accepted instead of people having to search web sites or being told, "RTFM newb!".
schoolchildren are still clueless about what computer programmers do
Considering what I see in my day-to-day affairs, the vast majority of programmers are still clueless about what they do.
Why not? It's a great place to store the stuff. Who would think to look there?
may be found at this link. Surprisingly, Scalia was the only justice from the conservative wing to dissent.
reject the notion that non-commercial file sharing should be a crime at all
So one person buys the song then shares it out to the rest of world, leaving the artist with nothing.
Oh, you want them to be on permanent tour so they can make money? Yeah, that will work out well.
if you don't bother to use these systems.
Considering the amount of time people spend checking to see which route is preferable, unless that route is at least 10 minutes shorter, there is no significant reason to alter your route.
The obvious exception being total gridlock, highway construction and the like.
It's like people who drive around looking for the cheapest gas not understanding they're burning fuel to save that 2 cents per gallon which negates their cost savings.
More because he's actively (so to speak) involved in matters regarding space and for him to be as close as anyone can get to space without going to the Moon or Mars would be a highlight of his career.
Who knows, maybe he would pick up on something that no one else has noticed.
I had to look this person up to see that she was a singer. Never heard of her before so I'm presuming like many others on here that if I haven't heard of something or someone, they can't be important.
Which begs the next question, so what? Someone who can afford to spend their money on a trip to space can't go. What's the story other than they have the money to go to space?
Now, if the story had been about Stephen Hawking being bumped from a space flight, THAT would have been important.
but regulations require a certain amount of ethanol to be blended into the real-world gasoline supply ... and this drastically hurts efficiency.
Except it doesn't have to. My car manufacturer, Hyundai, says I should get 29 mpg city/40 mpg highway. I get between 30 -33 city and on my last long drive I got 40.77 mpg.
Part of it is how you drive. If you're always on the gas, trying to get one car ahead, then slam on the brakes to squeeze into the barely there gap between cars, of course your mileage will be lower. Letting your car coast the last few tenths of mile, when you can do so, turning your car off at long lights, not mashing the pedal to the floor unless you have to, will all boost your mileage.
The only other thing I do is inflate my tires by 1 pound from what the recommendation says. It's enough to add to my fuel efficiency without highspotting the tires.
And when you say general principle, you mean because you're too cheap to pay the person for the work they did creating the product.
Yup, keep justifying stealing someone elses works. It's really just semantics, right?
What we will do? The court decided there is no right to take someone elses work without paying for it when that person does not freely give it away, nor does one have the right to provide links to such works with the tacit understanding and a wink that the person with the link does not have the right to give the work away.
Oh noes! We can't use the excuse that taking someone elses works, without paying them for it when they don't give it away themselves, isn't a human right!
Those evil European judges, taking away my right to be cheap and not pay someone for their work!
You're in the middle of a heavy coding session. You move your hand and pow!, your drink spills all over your keyboard (and possibly you).
You now have to stop what you were doing, remove the keyboard, clean your desk and yourself if it spilled on you, go the machine, get a new keyboard, wait for the system to recognize it, then, after all that, get back to where you were and maybe get back to what you were doing at the same level.
I want people to do their jobs, not think that they're the be all and end all of a company. If you can't follow that one simple rule, don't eat/drink over your keyboard, what coding rules are you not following that will cost me money down the line to fix because you thought you were a hot shit designer?
When Facebook engineers spill coffee on their keyboard (a common mishap)
So instead of NOT drinking coffee over your keyboard or leaving your cup/mug right next to the keyboard, the solution is to let people randomly go to a machine to replace a part they broke/misused and get a free replacement.
If someone can't grasp the simple idea of NOT eating/drinking/cutting finger/toenails above a keyboard, one can only imagine what kind of work they do and how much they cost your organization.
Once again, we're using a technical solution to solve a human problem. Granted, we can't stop or breed out stupidity, but we should be able to use a bat upside the head to mitigate such things.
Considering it's not a tax, the point is meaningless.
No where in the bill did it say it was a tax. The President repeatedly said it wasn't a tax. The only one who said it was a tax was Justice Roberts who read into the law something that wasn't there.
What it is is the government telling me I am responsible for someone else's health bills and if I don't pay for their bills, I get penalized for it.
Therefore, if I am being forced to pay for their health bills, I get to dictate how they live their lives so I'm not paying for every little thing because they're too lazy to take care of themselves.
It's no different than the government telling research labs they can't use fetal stem cells for research if they get government money or how some states say their money can't be used for abortions.
it's wrong to feel entitled to food, housing and health care.
No one is entitled to health care. Your health is your responsibility, not mine. I shouldn't have to pay a dime to take care of you when you smoke 2 packs a week or drink a case of beer every weekend or suck down a 2 liter of Mountain Dew every day while sitting on your fat ass and not bothering to get out of seat all day.
If you think you're entitled to health care, at my expense, then I'm entitled to tell you how to live your life so I get the most bang for my buck.
How's that strike you?
however much money just to circle mars and come back is a dangerous waste
It's his money, and whomever else contributes, and can do what they want with it. Or are you saying people should be told how to spend their money ala me being forced to pay for my neighbor who smokes, which is dangerous, health insurance?
benefits of living in a metropolis.
When you say benefits, you mean like having someone living directly above, beside and below you at all times, subject to whatever noise your neighbors constantly put out? Or do you mean the constant drone of traffic out your window with the accompanying fumes it produces?
Maybe you meant the fact there is no green grass out your front door to walk in bare feet but instead have to take a bus, ride a bike (through traffic) or subway just to find green grass. Then of course there are the significantly higher prices for everything, the excess heat in the summer, the inability to see the stars at night and of course, going back to the traffic issue, you can't have your windows open at night due to the noise.
Yeah, some benefits.
Yes, I know what homeopathy is really about. I decided to do the one molecule part to show how absurd it is rather than trying to come up with a good example of how many millions of gallons one would have to go through to find that one molecule after the dilution.
I'm still waiting for the homeopath folks to tell me how wrong I am about the description, that they don't use crystals.
Either I touched a nerve with the homeopathic community or the mods don't understand the subtlety of sarcasm.
With homeopathy, there is no need to test the results of taking a substance, putting it in water, then constantly diluting the amount of that substance in the water until there is only one molecule of that substance left in the water. Because water has such great memory, it "remembers" the powerful healing abilities of the substance while completely forgetting all the urine, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids the water has come in contact with.
Because of this miraculous memory, that one molecule has more healing and restorative powers than the most powerful, science-based vaccines, vaccines which do nothing except make people sick and keep big pharma rolling in the money like they do for afflictions such as smallpox, rinderpest and polio.
Unlike traditional science-based vaccines, homeopathic medicines can be done in the safety of your own home. No need to get doctors involved with their 8-10 years of medical training and untold hours of visiting patients, doing research and consulting with other so-called "medical experts". One can dispense with such safety protocols because no matter what, homeopathic medicines have been rigorously tested under the most stringent conditions including having a crystal suspended above them while the dilution occurs.
Not once has any side effect ever occurred from taking a homeopathic medicine. That one molecule in the water won't let it happen because of the exponential power it has from being the sole piece left of the original substance.
So do yourself a favor and pass on traditional vaccines and medicines. Homeopathic cures are the wave of the future, able to solve the world's medical ills in a single glass of water. It's only because the medical community doesn't want you to take matters into your own hands bypass the time-tested methods of science-based medical trials that homeopathy has such a bad rap.
Ignore the naysayers, the ones whose ills have been cured by Western medicine, they're just anomalies. Homeopathy is where it's at.
9/11 says otherwise. So do the hordes of documents recovered at Bin Laden's compound. So do the daily speeches from various Imams, religious leaders, political leaders and sundry others throughout the world. So do postings from numerous organizations. So do the thwarted attempts at car and suicide bombings.
Most importantly, so do the words from the people we have killed wherein they have stated their goal is to attack the U.S.
Or are you saying all those people are merely plants by the CIA?
Then maybe the people shouldn't shelter, assist or allow these people to be in their villages which would obviate the need for drones to be overhead.
Besides, if we're not going to get on Israel's case for their collective punishment of Palestinians, what makes you think we care about collective punishment for those who harbor people who are trying to attack us?
People come to you.
Animals need to go to a watering hole to get their water, iOS folks need to go to this site to get their software.
Just this morning, the Atlantic City casino Revel filed for bankruptcy, one year after the casino opened. Granted, it was an ambitious plan, including a non-smoking environment, but with gambling in surrounding states draining clientele, the entire AC casino industry is suffering.
This isn't to say they can't make this work, but if they're relying on a majority of their income from poker, well, putting ones eggs in one basket comes to mind.