In that case they would be the first technical company to remember the very few simple maxima:
1. A manager delivers through his subordinates. Screw them once, twice, thrice and at the end the result is that you are no longer able to deliver.
2. If staff is considered a "resource" than the manager is doubly so.
To be honest, I find that difficult to believe in. If that is indeed the case in HP some deep drilling is on order. It should be possible to counteract global warming by pumping heat into the frozen depth of Hell.
You must have never worked at HP, then - the overall employee morale is extremely low (at least in the US, Romania, Spain, and UK, where I've directly interacted (and worked) before). A complete lack of focus on customer support for enterprise products, refusal to try to keep senior engineers and support staff, and the list goes on.
If decay slows down, doesn't this suggest earth could be Older than previously calculated, not younger?
No, if the rate is slowing, that means it was once more rapid - like saying that if a car is decelerating from 70mph to 0mph that when it's rate is 35mph, it must have taken 2 hours to traverse 70 miles, when in reality, since it was traveling faster before, the time elapsed is shorter.
Considering that Saint Augustine (circa 400AD) argued against a literal Genesis, it's not really that surprising that a lot of Catholics don't believe in a literal Genesis. He's one of the foundations of the church. (Doctor of the Church? Whatever the term is.)
While it's always been a debate in Christianity, Biblical Literalism coming to the forefront is really quite a modern development.
Jesus spoke about the literalness of the historical record of the Old Testament, and repeatedly throughout the Bible itself is the historicity of the creation account referred-to.
Does anyone know if there is hard evidence (heh) proving this guy's guilt? It would be a real shame for this to be a false accusation that destroys a man's career...
Actually, it was shown the harassment charges were invalid.
The issue he resigned over was improperly filing expense reports, and expensing invalid items.
I live in a place where my DSL is capped to 10 gb/month making monitoring usage an absolute necessity.
Skype eats around 40kb/s most of the time if anyone is actually talking. Droops down to 5-8kb/s if the line is muted on both ends. Throw an actual land line into the mix and that drives it up to 60-70kb/s.
So, if you used Skype 24x7 for 30 days, you'd use ~181 440 000 000 *bits*. In bytes, that's ~ 23 000 000 000. KB - 23 000 000. MB 23 000. GB 23.
How do you have a broadband connection capped so low?..and why would you use Skype 24x7?
My high school physics teacher used to electrocute (With a handheld generator made from a rotary pencil sharpener) people for saying that; also for misspelling accelerate or satellite.
ah yes... "centrifgual force" - that force applied by a centrifuge.
if it's worth publishing, I'd have hoped for it to be worth to them to have an incline to roll it down on, instead of having it in a rolling drum. like, get out of the damn room if it's too small.
now i'm just left wondering if it spun along with the drum and got squashed because of that.
maybe they used a drum because setting-up a camera along a 50 foot ramp would've been cost-, space-, or effort-prohibitive?
... the article sounds like the things I used to wonder about and do during boring classes in highschool.
Same here, except I was more like "I wonder if I can hit that kids sticking-out ears with a rubber band from here", without thinking through what would happen if i _did_ hit them (which should have been obvious in retrospect... it was for that reason I sat at the back).
..guess it depends on how big the kid with the sticking-out ears was, eh?
Yeah, that quote bothered me too - I'm thinking, why not just design it with the least friction with the air to start with - why have it be less efficient at slow speeds in other words?
Unless Clanet was referring to the design process itself - use an elastic model in a wind tunnel (or simulate the whole thing) and observe it's deformation to determine the shape with the least friction with the air (or call it coefficient of drag, like everyone else does:-)
At first I was thinking it might have been typical media-distorted science, but when they threw in that quote from Clanet, it seemed more that the science is hard to take seriously too.
Just a quick thought, but at low speeds aerodynamic efficiency is of very low impact (eg a barge at 2 kts and a kayak at 2 kts). The faster they go, the more that efficiency matters - having a material that could deform to improve flow as speeds increased could be a good thing - especially if it were used around the freight compartments of a tractor-trailer or rail car: squishing-down to more evenly flow around the carried contents could have some promise.
It would have been an epic irony if Apple had bought Palm and gotten the remnants of Be Inc with it.
Where's the irony? It would permit Steve to put the last nail in BeOS' coffin, proving how great NeXTStep 11, er, OSX is. Well, to him. Seems like a natural thing to do when you're leading a cult of personality. Maybe not logical, but then "you're holding it wrong, don't hold it like a phone" is batshit insane. Regardless, it would have made absolutely zero business sense for Apple to buy Palm. Apple does not need the tech (too late to go BeOS anyway) and would not get the customers.
Except Palm already sold-off the remnants of Be Inc
I can imagine it now, Microsoft buying Palm for WebOS then like the Kin it gets canned. If Microsoft purchased a race horse by the time it got through all the layers of admin crap that is Microsoft you would have a camel.
No: by the time it was through all the "layers of admin crap", you'd have glue.
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In that case they would be the first technical company to remember the very few simple maxima:
1. A manager delivers through his subordinates. Screw them once, twice, thrice and at the end the result is that you are no longer able to deliver. 2. If staff is considered a "resource" than the manager is doubly so.
To be honest, I find that difficult to believe in. If that is indeed the case in HP some deep drilling is on order. It should be possible to counteract global warming by pumping heat into the frozen depth of Hell.
You must have never worked at HP, then - the overall employee morale is extremely low (at least in the US, Romania, Spain, and UK, where I've directly interacted (and worked) before). A complete lack of focus on customer support for enterprise products, refusal to try to keep senior engineers and support staff, and the list goes on.
Just great....more months of "self greasing shrimp".... ...and put the last steak in the heart of the economy of much of the Gulf Coast.
So much for the surf and turf specials, eh?
NOTE: remember the first and only rule about cannibal holocaust... #1 *never* recommend anyone watching cannibal holocaust!
you've seen it, too?
And that's why we've been seeing chips top out at around 3-4 GHz: on-chip signals only travel at a fraction of the speed of light.
IBM's gotten the POWER6 to 5ghz - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6
Probably right, but now I want to buy it just to support that kind of chutzpah (or however you spell that word).
If only you'd posted !AC... I would've friended you just for correctly using a yiddish word!
it's obvious that the words "apple" and "core" are inextricably linked.
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If decay slows down, doesn't this suggest earth could be Older than previously calculated, not younger?
No, if the rate is slowing, that means it was once more rapid - like saying that if a car is decelerating from 70mph to 0mph that when it's rate is 35mph, it must have taken 2 hours to traverse 70 miles, when in reality, since it was traveling faster before, the time elapsed is shorter.
Considering that Saint Augustine (circa 400AD) argued against a literal Genesis, it's not really that surprising that a lot of Catholics don't believe in a literal Genesis. He's one of the foundations of the church. (Doctor of the Church? Whatever the term is.)
While it's always been a debate in Christianity, Biblical Literalism coming to the forefront is really quite a modern development.
Jesus spoke about the literalness of the historical record of the Old Testament, and repeatedly throughout the Bible itself is the historicity of the creation account referred-to.
Cut subsidies for all forms of transportation. Then, tax in proportion to carbon emissions. Trains win in every densely populated region, hands down.
So how do we do that when the Fed owns GM?
And [more-or-less] owns Amtrak?
Does anyone know if there is hard evidence (heh) proving this guy's guilt? It would be a real shame for this to be a false accusation that destroys a man's career...
Actually, it was shown the harassment charges were invalid.
The issue he resigned over was improperly filing expense reports, and expensing invalid items.
Skype severely lies.
I live in a place where my DSL is capped to 10 gb/month making monitoring usage an absolute necessity.
Skype eats around 40kb/s most of the time if anyone is actually talking. Droops down to 5-8kb/s if the line is muted on both ends. Throw an actual land line into the mix and that drives it up to 60-70kb/s.
So, if you used Skype 24x7 for 30 days, you'd use ~181 440 000 000 *bits*. In bytes, that's ~ 23 000 000 000. KB - 23 000 000. MB 23 000. GB 23.
How do you have a broadband connection capped so low? ..and why would you use Skype 24x7?
... Irregardless..
So it was with regard?
You meant "regardless".
Just ask Jar-Jar Binks.
Jar-Jar in 3D ... the mind reels
I was in downtown D.C. the other day, and saw a Borders a few blocks away from the Mall, and White House having a going out of business sale.
The White House is going out of business?! PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Oh yeah: on the ground it rained.. and theoretically quit at speed - but it would've been fun to have some kind of proof they did :)
...due to centrifugal force.
My high school physics teacher used to electrocute (With a handheld generator made from a rotary pencil sharpener) people for saying that; also for misspelling accelerate or satellite.
ah yes... "centrifgual force" - that force applied by a centrifuge.
if it's worth publishing, I'd have hoped for it to be worth to them to have an incline to roll it down on, instead of having it in a rolling drum. like, get out of the damn room if it's too small. now i'm just left wondering if it spun along with the drum and got squashed because of that.
maybe they used a drum because setting-up a camera along a 50 foot ramp would've been cost-, space-, or effort-prohibitive?
... the article sounds like the things I used to wonder about and do during boring classes in highschool.
Same here, except I was more like "I wonder if I can hit that kids sticking-out ears with a rubber band from here", without thinking through what would happen if i _did_ hit them (which should have been obvious in retrospect... it was for that reason I sat at the back).
..guess it depends on how big the kid with the sticking-out ears was, eh?
Yeah, that quote bothered me too - I'm thinking, why not just design it with the least friction with the air to start with - why have it be less efficient at slow speeds in other words?
Unless Clanet was referring to the design process itself - use an elastic model in a wind tunnel (or simulate the whole thing) and observe it's deformation to determine the shape with the least friction with the air (or call it coefficient of drag, like everyone else does :-)
At first I was thinking it might have been typical media-distorted science, but when they threw in that quote from Clanet, it seemed more that the science is hard to take seriously too.
Just a quick thought, but at low speeds aerodynamic efficiency is of very low impact (eg a barge at 2 kts and a kayak at 2 kts). The faster they go, the more that efficiency matters - having a material that could deform to improve flow as speeds increased could be a good thing - especially if it were used around the freight compartments of a tractor-trailer or rail car: squishing-down to more evenly flow around the carried contents could have some promise.
I love Ben Rich's quote on that: "no one's been wing-walking at Mach 3 to verify that assumption" :)
"I know the Queen's English. The King? He's English, too." --Dizzy Dean
I had this problem too until I bought a 1000 mA USB car adapter to replace the 500 mA adapter that I had.
which, of course, means it's not the cigarette lighter - it's the charger that's at fault
What airports do you fly through? Several I use frequently have freely-available wifi (BDL, LEX, ALB to name three)
It would have been an epic irony if Apple had bought Palm and gotten the remnants of Be Inc with it.
Where's the irony? It would permit Steve to put the last nail in BeOS' coffin, proving how great NeXTStep 11, er, OSX is. Well, to him. Seems like a natural thing to do when you're leading a cult of personality. Maybe not logical, but then "you're holding it wrong, don't hold it like a phone" is batshit insane. Regardless, it would have made absolutely zero business sense for Apple to buy Palm. Apple does not need the tech (too late to go BeOS anyway) and would not get the customers.
Except Palm already sold-off the remnants of Be Inc
I can imagine it now, Microsoft buying Palm for WebOS then like the Kin it gets canned. If Microsoft purchased a race horse by the time it got through all the layers of admin crap that is Microsoft you would have a camel.
No: by the time it was through all the "layers of admin crap", you'd have glue.