If you're going to live 24:39/7 in a 100% oxygen atmosphere, you might also want to shave (all the parts) and do everything you can to avoid oily skin. When (not if) the flash fire comes, you really don't want to provide any fuel for it with your body.
In the late 1980s, I had a MS, and virtually zero chance of getting a meaningful university post until I got a PhD. There was one faculty member in our College with just a MS... not sure how he pulled that off, but when I was invited back to do a PhD / TA, I inquired about a position that might pay something better than 50% of what my MS degree was worth "on the outside" - I was politely told "we don't do that anymore... very rarely." To which I politely replied "I think I'll be looking for something else to do."
According to the summary, he didn't write his book - a popular shadow author did, and as such, you can imagine that the shadow author filled in a lot of the material from his imagination, rather than Polo's actual experiences.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if scholarly analysis of the book finds it full of holes and inconsistencies... the communication between Polo and the author itself is bound to be imperfect, as is the author's desire to sell copies, rather than give an accurate account.
I think the reason the "Native Americans" don't count is because they didn't return to their point of origin to share their discovery....
So, since Marco Polo failed to tell anybody about the Alaskan coast in any way that the world understood for many hundreds of years, can he really get any more credit than the Vikings?
Pixar is going to put the local weathergirls out of their jobs... they already act in front of bluescreens - why not just render them to look and act as desired?
Wing exits on the new 737s may still be in and out... I fly enough Southwest sitting in the exit rows, I should know, but the place the people really crush to is the "pilot's doors" - my Aunt was a stewardess for 30 years, she was on a 747 that had tires blowout and they deployed the slides for evacuation - no fire, no belly landing, no biggie, just some flat tires and a decision to use the slides instead of waiting for stairs to arrive... most people kept their cool, but two things were memorable: 1) the passenger wearing a dress, but no underwear who didn't keep her dress down on the ride down - blisters all the way up, and, most people kept their cool, but one guy had to get to the exit faster, he grabbed my Aunt by the hair and removed handfuls of it... she didn't notice until later - lots of adrenaline flowing in both of them at the time.
I looked at hiring Objective C programmers in 2006, unless you wanted to go hang at the Apple conventions in San Francisco and troll for new hires - it was pretty hopeless. Sure, we could hire programmers and pay them to learn Objective C, or we could just develop with C++ in Qt and let the trolls port it into Mac-ese for us.
Replacement is often not an option... and if you can't displace/replace a bad manager, it's probably time to find a new place.
In my past, I have promoted past bad management, once, but that was unusual and required upper management that a) cared, and b) recognized the situation for what it was.
The more conventional solution is to shop around for another job, then jump when the jumping is good.
That's on older Boeing jets (the ones named after the noise their tires make when falling off and hitting the tarmac... )
Airbus, and I believe the new Boeings, have outward opening emergency doors - they're heavier, harder to make right, require much more maintenance (look for double, triple, and thicker skins around Airbus doors the next time you board one...) but, if you're ever seated in the exit row when it really hits the fan, you want an outward opening door.
Last DC-10 I flew on had a horrible vibration in the port side engine... not the plane's fault, I blame Delta, and thank my lucky stars that I made it from Miami to Atlanta without something serious happening on the left wing.
The dogmatism that I have seen and heard on the job and here on Slashdot makes all of you come across as delusional and self aggrandizing.
LOL, you know, I won't dispute the point. Because I agree with it. It's been true for a very long time, and is widespread.
What I suggest is that being an asshole isn't due to a lack of critical thinking skills, it's a personality defect which can subsequently be overcome.;-)
I would append that thought with the idea that some of the most, ahem, challenging colleagues I have encountered seem to have genuine neurological deficits in the social skills areas - they are barely aware of just how bad they are and have little to no clue how to do anything about it.
For some, electroshock therapy seems like a good first line treatment option, but, back in the real world, laughing at them is usually the most productive way through the situations they create.
And, for balance and perspective, most startups also have principals who are not engineers, who hold more shares than engineers, draw bigger salaries than the engineers, and work shorter hours than the engineers - though they do tend to travel more.
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If you're going to live 24:39/7 in a 100% oxygen atmosphere, you might also want to shave (all the parts) and do everything you can to avoid oily skin. When (not if) the flash fire comes, you really don't want to provide any fuel for it with your body.
In the late 1980s, I had a MS, and virtually zero chance of getting a meaningful university post until I got a PhD. There was one faculty member in our College with just a MS... not sure how he pulled that off, but when I was invited back to do a PhD / TA, I inquired about a position that might pay something better than 50% of what my MS degree was worth "on the outside" - I was politely told "we don't do that anymore... very rarely." To which I politely replied "I think I'll be looking for something else to do."
Malaria. Went the other way than Small Pox did for the Spanish.
Exactly this, I'm not saying there ever were Atlanteans, but if there were, and if they discovered electricity and the electric light, does it count?
Apparently not.
According to the summary, he didn't write his book - a popular shadow author did, and as such, you can imagine that the shadow author filled in a lot of the material from his imagination, rather than Polo's actual experiences.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if scholarly analysis of the book finds it full of holes and inconsistencies... the communication between Polo and the author itself is bound to be imperfect, as is the author's desire to sell copies, rather than give an accurate account.
I think the reason the "Native Americans" don't count is because they didn't return to their point of origin to share their discovery....
So, since Marco Polo failed to tell anybody about the Alaskan coast in any way that the world understood for many hundreds of years, can he really get any more credit than the Vikings?
That's because you're supposed to supercool to superconduction before looking for them....
Quantum computing is actually related to the infinite improbability field generator...
Tulips, again.
If the multiverse is true, then, yes - that has happened, just not here.
Pixar is going to put the local weathergirls out of their jobs... they already act in front of bluescreens - why not just render them to look and act as desired?
Actually, they forgot the decimal point.
Windows 3.1 had accessory tools (I think I used one called "Dashboard") that did multiple desktops - what's that, like 23 years ago?
Wing exits on the new 737s may still be in and out... I fly enough Southwest sitting in the exit rows, I should know, but the place the people really crush to is the "pilot's doors" - my Aunt was a stewardess for 30 years, she was on a 747 that had tires blowout and they deployed the slides for evacuation - no fire, no belly landing, no biggie, just some flat tires and a decision to use the slides instead of waiting for stairs to arrive... most people kept their cool, but two things were memorable: 1) the passenger wearing a dress, but no underwear who didn't keep her dress down on the ride down - blisters all the way up, and, most people kept their cool, but one guy had to get to the exit faster, he grabbed my Aunt by the hair and removed handfuls of it... she didn't notice until later - lots of adrenaline flowing in both of them at the time.
I looked at hiring Objective C programmers in 2006, unless you wanted to go hang at the Apple conventions in San Francisco and troll for new hires - it was pretty hopeless. Sure, we could hire programmers and pay them to learn Objective C, or we could just develop with C++ in Qt and let the trolls port it into Mac-ese for us.
Replacement is often not an option... and if you can't displace/replace a bad manager, it's probably time to find a new place.
In my past, I have promoted past bad management, once, but that was unusual and required upper management that a) cared, and b) recognized the situation for what it was.
The more conventional solution is to shop around for another job, then jump when the jumping is good.
Reading is overrated - it is an eyesight based function that degrades with age.
http://www.engineersjournal.ie...
There's an insensitive clod / get off my lawn meme in this somewhere, but I can't remember how to execute it.
That's on older Boeing jets (the ones named after the noise their tires make when falling off and hitting the tarmac... )
Airbus, and I believe the new Boeings, have outward opening emergency doors - they're heavier, harder to make right, require much more maintenance (look for double, triple, and thicker skins around Airbus doors the next time you board one...) but, if you're ever seated in the exit row when it really hits the fan, you want an outward opening door.
Very well might have been an L-1011, this was around 1994.
Last DC-10 I flew on had a horrible vibration in the port side engine... not the plane's fault, I blame Delta, and thank my lucky stars that I made it from Miami to Atlanta without something serious happening on the left wing.
Inward opening doors just make sense to engineers.
Outward opening doors are the only rational answer when 35 people are pushing toward an exit in a panic.
Explosive Decompression [wikipedia.org] sucks in an airplane
No, it actually blows out an airplane - see: the Hawaii effect, metal fatigue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Feed Qt.io, not the trolls.
How about the one that delivers "best" wins - date of delivery is just one aspect to evaluate.
LOL, you know, I won't dispute the point. Because I agree with it. It's been true for a very long time, and is widespread.
What I suggest is that being an asshole isn't due to a lack of critical thinking skills, it's a personality defect which can subsequently be overcome. ;-)
I would append that thought with the idea that some of the most, ahem, challenging colleagues I have encountered seem to have genuine neurological deficits in the social skills areas - they are barely aware of just how bad they are and have little to no clue how to do anything about it.
For some, electroshock therapy seems like a good first line treatment option, but, back in the real world, laughing at them is usually the most productive way through the situations they create.
And, for balance and perspective, most startups also have principals who are not engineers, who hold more shares than engineers, draw bigger salaries than the engineers, and work shorter hours than the engineers - though they do tend to travel more.