It gets worse because *usually* the people who discover that a scientist made a mistake is another scientist. Not only that but a scientist in the *same* field.
So in biology you have an evolutionary biologist who thinks they made a breakthrough in tracing a species' evolution and then when another evolutionary biologist points out that's not accurate because of some esoteric missing feature that would prove the hypothesis the anti-science community then wields the work as an example of "scientists can't be trusted".
Believe it or not, constituent sentiment is taken into account.
If every single constituent sent a nasty letter to their congressman you can bet they would think long and hard before jeopardizing their seats. Unless they *really* strongly believed in it and were willing to sacrifice election chances they will bend in the wind of public opinion.
What they fail to mention in the summary is that when they say the students were viewed as more "mature". They meant they all tried as adults with assault and battery claims.;)
From the company that thought interfaces with an alternate "right click" would be too confusing we have two identical and completely confusing hot-key options.
There is no logic or reason to why sometimes it's CMD and sometimes it's CTRL.
At which point they simply purchase a copy of Microsoft Office instead for most use, just as Microsoft hopes they'll do. I don't imagine any business will want their office software tied to internet connectivity. And many won't want their documents in the cloud out of their control. So Microsoft Office EXEs will still be profitable while the online Office offers essentially what most companies already have in the form of Outlook Web Edition.
If the documents though are stored on your Microsoft(tm) Sharepoint(tm) server running on Microsoft(tm) Windows 2008 Server(tm) then you can use Sharepoint(tm) to host your documents off of Microsoft(tm)'s server while still using this free interface while on a mobile device.
Personally I find Google Docs only marginally useful even for the simplest of tasks, it would never replace a copy of Office for me. But it has some really useful features and is great for collaboration. Collaboration requires everyone to have free access though. I can't put up a document and require a client to purchase XYZ software to be able to make edits.
I don't see this cutting into Microsoft's sales too badly.
Well I suppose that's fair but it's kind of a double edged sword. Notice I said that if you make other people look good they're probably going to remember that and continue to keep you around to make them look good.
It's what in college I liked to refer to as the grappling hook approach. You have a group of people all trying to advance and when one gets up they throw down the rope to those who they trust and like to work with.
While a good company will recognize talent when it sees it and encourage and support it, you have to have an opportunity to show it off. That means you need to be given a chance. Being trusted with something where you can show off your talents and skill is often the result of having previously shown off your talent and skill to someone with authority or pure blind luck. If you're just random guy, that might not happen for a long time. If you're the guy who has even on the small stuff consistently made the boss or client look great then they'll come back when they have something that'll let you shine.
And as your successes make the higher ups look great to their higher ups they'll pull you up along with them. If on the other hand you do a great job but make everyone look terrible, nobody will want to put up with you. "Sure they did a great job, but we all looked like assholes at the end. Don't give him any more opportunities."
I guess my advice could be summarized as "Work the chain of command." People don't trust people who go over other people's heads. "If he went over their head. Who says he won't go over my head?"
Lesson 1 in networking: make everyone look good. You don't have to do it at your own expense but when people are thinking about who they want to work with who are they going to pick the guy who always takes all the credit or the guy who makes them look great in front of their bosses?
We're all geeks here: look at it like statistics. Advancement is as much luck as it is talent. If you are in 8 people's favor the chances of one of them getting into a position to return the favor is far greater than you yourself getting noticed.
As to the original question it's pretty simple for me: 1) Be competent. Nothing annoys me more than someone who doesn't know how to do their job and is a waste of space. 2) Do your fair share. 3) Be appreciative. If someone does something for you and you take it for granted, you probably won't see a lot of effort in the future on anyone's part. 4) Be helpful. If someone is struggling due to no fault of their own, stop and offer assistance. If someone feels like they're drowning and nobody helps they will get resentful. 5) Be pro-active. If there is something to be done. Do it. Keeping someone busy can easily become a full time job for a manager. If they're spending all day finding things for you to do then you're a burden. Don't be a burden. 6) Be friendly. If you're a loner and don't participate then people will be far less likely to overlook #1-5. People always give their friends the benefit of the doubt.
And of course Always Try To Make Everyone Look Good. Nothing will make you look better.
It could have 0 basis in genetics and be purely a in-utero phenomena. After all identical twins often share a very similar environment for the first few months.:D
Microsoft will be hard pressed to explain why it would choose to not completely support competing browsers with its web based applications such as Outlook Web Access and the like.
Done. It's been that way for years now. The only Windows Server web service which I have to run in IE is Remote Desktop.
Welcome to the US. In the US we're all "safe" because we all have these things called "guns". And by "safe" I mean we get really nervous when someone can access their pockets.
I'm sorry handgun advocates but this is obviously an instance where handguns are a problem. Sure the driver might have a knife but you can keep your distance from someone with a knife. It's pretty hard to 'keep your distance' from someone with a gun.
And how much time do you spend finding the source of those problems?
I can re-install a system in about 4 hours. I very rarely have a virus or problem on my computer, even without anti-virus or a firewall but I had one a coupe years ago that nigh on impossible to kill. It was a multi-headed hydra of frustration. 2 hours after giving up I was mostly back up and running on a fresh install of windows. Much easier than mucking around for an entire day beating my head on a wall.
1) Someone loses Apple property 2) Someone else finds it 3) Someone must return it to the owner of the premises where the original owner would be expected to return seeking his property or the police.
4) Someone instead takes the property home and has immediately committed a felony by stealing property > $5k in value. 5) Someone calls Apple Tech support or some bullshit "Hey I have a prototype phone." Apple tech support doesn't know shit about prototype phones and does nothing. 6) Someone sells said property for $5k to Gizmodo who knowingly purchases said stolen property and is now complicit in the felony. 7) Police raid person who bragged on the internet about purchasing stolen property and committing a felony. 8) Gizmodo claims to be "journalists."
"Officer I was simply borrowing this car I found along side the road." "I didn't trust that the parking valet wouldn't steal it." "I sold it to my cousin because he is really good at returning lost property to their rightful owners." "I called Ford's customer service line about the lost car but they never got back to me."
Ring is good. We used to work with a conference table in the middle of a square room with everyone along the walls.
What I like better if you have enough space and few enough people is the straight line. You are only next to two people. It's easy to roll down the line in your chair and look at someone else's screen and you aren't staring at some schmuck's face all day which I find really distracting.
Facing into a circle is bad because you can talk and be distracted but it's a long trip around the outside to get to someone else's screen. We had this when I was in college and I hated it. You can't lean back and look at anyone's screen.
I remember when flying was fun. It was 2 weeks ago. I took a 10 minute taxi to a train station. Rode the light rail to the airport which took about 30 minutes. Walked up to a check in station. Swiped my credit card. Printed my ticket. Walked through security almost without stopping. Was at my terminal in less than an hour. Hopped on the free wi-fi and waited for boarding to begin.
Got on the plane. Flipped to TNT and watched an old Ahnold movie.
On the way back I had a friend drive me to the airport which was only about 10 minutes from the convention center we were at. Printed my ticket and was at my gate in less than 10 minutes. I agreed to deliver a viking helmet to a friend in my carry on. Still no trouble at security. Hopped on the free wi-fi and waited for boarding to begin.
This is how I usually travel. If you hate traveling you're probably checking luggage. That's a mistake.
Time before last I brought 3 portable HDDs. A laptop, camera, metal chrome sphere and various light meters. No special security.
I've gone to public discussions about the true nature of Jihad (it's an intellectual and spiritual struggle, not a physical or fanatical war)
Maybe in the last 20 years. But if Jihad means spiritual struggle then the Crusades were just a spiritual awakening.
Let's not rewrite history. For more than a millenia, since the beginning of islam, muslims have been using the word to mean physical war. We don't get to rewrite history because it's inconvenient.
What's next stoning was a spiritual concept where we were supposed to stone the souls of those who commit crimes? No. They meant stoning then. We recognize they were barbarians. Live with it. The Quran advocates physical jihad. The Bible has God sanctioned genocide.
See now I think you're going to far. Because even the chess players themselves don't assign any metaphysical significance to their strategy. Art has to in some way illuminate a subjective perspective on the universe. Even if nobody ever sees it for that purpose the artist had intent to express their identity into the piece. A boxing match is not a work of art.
I disagree with Ebert that a videogame is equivalent to a boxing match or game of chess. But I don't disagree that neither of those are art. In chess a move is just a move. There is no expression in a chess move.
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Because there are more infographics than just maps.
Infographics encompass graphs, charts, maps, tables, diagrams etc etc...
So instead of saying:
"This is most intended for ads, graphs, charts, maps tables, schematics, diagrams and illustrations."
you can say
"This is mostly intended for ads and infographics."
It gets worse because *usually* the people who discover that a scientist made a mistake is another scientist. Not only that but a scientist in the *same* field.
So in biology you have an evolutionary biologist who thinks they made a breakthrough in tracing a species' evolution and then when another evolutionary biologist points out that's not accurate because of some esoteric missing feature that would prove the hypothesis the anti-science community then wields the work as an example of "scientists can't be trusted".
Believe it or not, constituent sentiment is taken into account.
If every single constituent sent a nasty letter to their congressman you can bet they would think long and hard before jeopardizing their seats. Unless they *really* strongly believed in it and were willing to sacrifice election chances they will bend in the wind of public opinion.
So what you're saying is that using #$*! is immoral and wrong but watching shows without compensating the show creators and craftsman is fine.
What they fail to mention in the summary is that when they say the students were viewed as more "mature". They meant they all tried as adults with assault and battery claims. ;)
It's not defined in the US constitution except in relation to government investigations and entities acting on behalf of the Government.
No it looks like MediaCenter http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-media-center/what-is-it/default.aspx or MediaRoom http://www.microsoft.com/mediaroom/ done averagely
Here is a UI one.
CMD vs CTRL.
From the company that thought interfaces with an alternate "right click" would be too confusing we have two identical and completely confusing hot-key options.
There is no logic or reason to why sometimes it's CMD and sometimes it's CTRL.
Not legally.
At which point they simply purchase a copy of Microsoft Office instead for most use, just as Microsoft hopes they'll do. I don't imagine any business will want their office software tied to internet connectivity. And many won't want their documents in the cloud out of their control. So Microsoft Office EXEs will still be profitable while the online Office offers essentially what most companies already have in the form of Outlook Web Edition.
If the documents though are stored on your Microsoft(tm) Sharepoint(tm) server running on Microsoft(tm) Windows 2008 Server(tm) then you can use Sharepoint(tm) to host your documents off of Microsoft(tm)'s server while still using this free interface while on a mobile device.
Personally I find Google Docs only marginally useful even for the simplest of tasks, it would never replace a copy of Office for me. But it has some really useful features and is great for collaboration. Collaboration requires everyone to have free access though. I can't put up a document and require a client to purchase XYZ software to be able to make edits.
I don't see this cutting into Microsoft's sales too badly.
Well I suppose that's fair but it's kind of a double edged sword. Notice I said that if you make other people look good they're probably going to remember that and continue to keep you around to make them look good.
It's what in college I liked to refer to as the grappling hook approach. You have a group of people all trying to advance and when one gets up they throw down the rope to those who they trust and like to work with.
While a good company will recognize talent when it sees it and encourage and support it, you have to have an opportunity to show it off. That means you need to be given a chance. Being trusted with something where you can show off your talents and skill is often the result of having previously shown off your talent and skill to someone with authority or pure blind luck. If you're just random guy, that might not happen for a long time. If you're the guy who has even on the small stuff consistently made the boss or client look great then they'll come back when they have something that'll let you shine.
And as your successes make the higher ups look great to their higher ups they'll pull you up along with them. If on the other hand you do a great job but make everyone look terrible, nobody will want to put up with you. "Sure they did a great job, but we all looked like assholes at the end. Don't give him any more opportunities."
I guess my advice could be summarized as "Work the chain of command." People don't trust people who go over other people's heads. "If he went over their head. Who says he won't go over my head?"
Lesson 1 in networking: make everyone look good. You don't have to do it at your own expense but when people are thinking about who they want to work with who are they going to pick the guy who always takes all the credit or the guy who makes them look great in front of their bosses?
We're all geeks here: look at it like statistics. Advancement is as much luck as it is talent. If you are in 8 people's favor the chances of one of them getting into a position to return the favor is far greater than you yourself getting noticed.
As to the original question it's pretty simple for me:
1) Be competent. Nothing annoys me more than someone who doesn't know how to do their job and is a waste of space.
2) Do your fair share.
3) Be appreciative. If someone does something for you and you take it for granted, you probably won't see a lot of effort in the future on anyone's part.
4) Be helpful. If someone is struggling due to no fault of their own, stop and offer assistance. If someone feels like they're drowning and nobody helps they will get resentful.
5) Be pro-active. If there is something to be done. Do it. Keeping someone busy can easily become a full time job for a manager. If they're spending all day finding things for you to do then you're a burden. Don't be a burden.
6) Be friendly. If you're a loner and don't participate then people will be far less likely to overlook #1-5. People always give their friends the benefit of the doubt.
And of course Always Try To Make Everyone Look Good. Nothing will make you look better.
Doesn't mean it's genetic though either.
It could have 0 basis in genetics and be purely a in-utero phenomena. After all identical twins often share a very similar environment for the first few months. :D
Microsoft will be hard pressed to explain why it would choose to not completely support competing browsers with its web based applications such as Outlook Web Access and the like.
Done. It's been that way for years now. The only Windows Server web service which I have to run in IE is Remote Desktop.
Welcome to the US. In the US we're all "safe" because we all have these things called "guns". And by "safe" I mean we get really nervous when someone can access their pockets.
I'm sorry handgun advocates but this is obviously an instance where handguns are a problem. Sure the driver might have a knife but you can keep your distance from someone with a knife. It's pretty hard to 'keep your distance' from someone with a gun.
And how much time do you spend finding the source of those problems?
I can re-install a system in about 4 hours. I very rarely have a virus or problem on my computer, even without anti-virus or a firewall but I had one a coupe years ago that nigh on impossible to kill. It was a multi-headed hydra of frustration. 2 hours after giving up I was mostly back up and running on a fresh install of windows. Much easier than mucking around for an entire day beating my head on a wall.
OMG GIVE IT UP ALREADY.
1) Someone loses Apple property
2) Someone else finds it
3) Someone must return it to the owner of the premises where the original owner would be expected to return seeking his property or the police.
4) Someone instead takes the property home and has immediately committed a felony by stealing property > $5k in value.
5) Someone calls Apple Tech support or some bullshit "Hey I have a prototype phone." Apple tech support doesn't know shit about prototype phones and does nothing.
6) Someone sells said property for $5k to Gizmodo who knowingly purchases said stolen property and is now complicit in the felony.
7) Police raid person who bragged on the internet about purchasing stolen property and committing a felony.
8) Gizmodo claims to be "journalists."
"Officer I was simply borrowing this car I found along side the road."
"I didn't trust that the parking valet wouldn't steal it."
"I sold it to my cousin because he is really good at returning lost property to their rightful owners."
"I called Ford's customer service line about the lost car but they never got back to me."
Ring is good. We used to work with a conference table in the middle of a square room with everyone along the walls.
What I like better if you have enough space and few enough people is the straight line. You are only next to two people. It's easy to roll down the line in your chair and look at someone else's screen and you aren't staring at some schmuck's face all day which I find really distracting.
Facing into a circle is bad because you can talk and be distracted but it's a long trip around the outside to get to someone else's screen. We had this when I was in college and I hated it. You can't lean back and look at anyone's screen.
I remember when flying was fun. It was 2 weeks ago. I took a 10 minute taxi to a train station. Rode the light rail to the airport which took about 30 minutes. Walked up to a check in station. Swiped my credit card. Printed my ticket. Walked through security almost without stopping. Was at my terminal in less than an hour. Hopped on the free wi-fi and waited for boarding to begin.
Got on the plane. Flipped to TNT and watched an old Ahnold movie.
On the way back I had a friend drive me to the airport which was only about 10 minutes from the convention center we were at. Printed my ticket and was at my gate in less than 10 minutes. I agreed to deliver a viking helmet to a friend in my carry on. Still no trouble at security. Hopped on the free wi-fi and waited for boarding to begin.
This is how I usually travel. If you hate traveling you're probably checking luggage. That's a mistake.
Time before last I brought 3 portable HDDs. A laptop, camera, metal chrome sphere and various light meters. No special security.
I've gone to public discussions about the true nature of Jihad (it's an intellectual and spiritual struggle, not a physical or fanatical war)
Maybe in the last 20 years. But if Jihad means spiritual struggle then the Crusades were just a spiritual awakening.
Let's not rewrite history. For more than a millenia, since the beginning of islam, muslims have been using the word to mean physical war. We don't get to rewrite history because it's inconvenient.
What's next stoning was a spiritual concept where we were supposed to stone the souls of those who commit crimes? No. They meant stoning then. We recognize they were barbarians. Live with it. The Quran advocates physical jihad. The Bible has God sanctioned genocide.
If only there were some sort of program to fast track the process through...
http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/byaudience/forpatientadvocates/speedingaccesstoimportantnewtherapies/ucm128291.htm
You can be sophisticated and simple. Often the most sophisticated designs are.
But you're right. If the developer has something he wants to express through game... even unsophisticated game I'm not one to judge.
See now I think you're going to far. Because even the chess players themselves don't assign any metaphysical significance to their strategy. Art has to in some way illuminate a subjective perspective on the universe. Even if nobody ever sees it for that purpose the artist had intent to express their identity into the piece. A boxing match is not a work of art.
I disagree with Ebert that a videogame is equivalent to a boxing match or game of chess. But I don't disagree that neither of those are art. In chess a move is just a move. There is no expression in a chess move.