...my grandpa just gave me the slide rule he used in school and it has a genuine "Made in Occupied Japan" sticker on the case. I can't remember the brand or model, but it's in a nice case and really is a beautiful thing. It is machined which is, according to the manual, much better than the painted ones.
Just my two cents...
My former boss was a retired Master Chief, and let me tell you you did not want to get on his bad side. We didn't work for the company or the CEO; we worked for him. That went both ways though, like you said. That meant that no one could get to us without going through him. It was, quite possibly, the best management structure I've ever worked in. That is until senior management decided to maliciously undermine him. He resigned and so did I. He is definitely on my list of most respected people ever.
This is THE linux consumer OS and EVERYTHING done for consumer (not business) needs will work here Ubuntu seems to making headway in this area. It is easy to install and use but still features some of the quirks of Linux (such as the KUbuntu derivative, which I prefer, btw).
when you hand the reins for your product's service over to the number one, shittiest cell service provider in North America. I won't regale you with my AT&T/Cingular horror stories here, but suffice it to say that I will NEVER directly do business with them ever again.
Verizon has been flawless in both customer service and cellular service execution.
It sucks when my favorite company ties the knot with quite possibly my least favorite company. No iPhone for me until other providers sign up with Apple.
Of course, at certain times they expect long days to get a project done
Why? That sounds to me like the employees are being asked to make up for bad planning on the manager's part. Of course, it could be the employees are making up for their own slack earlier on in the project.
Depending on how the software actually works, the IP address may or may not remain in memory for the duration of the download. Shoot, the IP address could be encrypted, stored in memory, and then unencrypted when needed by the software in which case it would not be useful to the court.
Let's say someone walks by my desk at work and uses my pen. They didn't ask me, but I don't really care because it's a pen. However, a manager happens to walk by and says that you can't use a pen without the owner's permission. I say that I don't care if they use my pen or not, because it's just a pen. The manager then fires the guy for using my pen.
I understand there are many laws that are enforced where both parties to the activity don't care that the activity is taking place, but those, from my understanding, involve something that has been determined to be wrong regardless (i.e. recreational drug use, freaky craigslist postings to have someone kill you, child trafficking, and etc.). But using free WiFi? Come on.
The one thing TVs are lacking to be ubiquitous is a voice-activated remote that auto-detects the TV brand and model to translate voice commands to TV remote commands.
It's not exactly what you're getting at, but the Logitech Harmony remote does make life a heck of alot easier.
Also, I'm not sold on the whole voice command thing. That's great for a single person watching TV by themselves in a quiet room. Add in three kids, a dog, someone talking on the phone in the next room, and other noises and voice activation quickly loses its appeal and effectiveness.
Define previous generation. I have an NVidia FX 5700 card and am running Vista. Yes, I have 2GB Micron PC4200 RAM, Athlon 64 3000+, blah blah blah. It's not bleeding edge, but it's hardly a slow machine so I think it's safe to rule out the rest of my components. I just updated to the latest drivers. All my games perform horribly under Vista; they ran fine under XP. Guild Wars runs at ~25 fps. Rogue Spear won't even run. I stopped trying to run anything that relies heavily on 3D acceleration under Vista. I'll wait until NVidia gets their act together on their drivers, or I'll wait until I can afford a nicer ATI card.
Moving forward, they leverage their intellectual capital in conjunction with the synergistic core competencies of a highly mobile workforce of motivated resources to manage global diversification, decentralize initiatives, and reduce inventory turnover in an increasingly risk averse marketplace.
They operate on the principles of a paradigm shift away from participative management towards actionable strategic alliances.
Quite intuitive, really...
If homes were already secure against burglars, there wouldn't be any need for home security products. If bad drivers wouldn't be allowed to drive cars, no one would bother with traffic cops. If there were no more office shootings, no one would have to buy products to protect against their effects. If the society we lived in were secure out of the box, we wouldn't have to spend billions every year making it secure.
Yes. If you show up to a technical job interview with a dirty t-shirt on and are rude to the receptionist because you can't "deal with people" then you may not even get the interview after all. Except in very few circumstances (academic research comes to mind), doing your job well consists mainly of solving problems for other people. If you can't get along with those people you may very well be unable or unwilling to help them solve their problems.
Someone who can learn quickly is more desirable than someone who knows Java like the back of their hand.
What would you say the balance should be, 60/40, 70/30? Can you quantify it?
I don't believe you can quantify it. The instances in which I have seen attempts at quantifying "fit factor" (think college roommate selection, most online dating services, and etc.) fail most of the time because personalities and relationships are, for the most part, dynamic. If you were to quantify it, you would probably have to do it on an individual basis. One person's technical ability may compensate for a shortcoming in personality whereas the opposite may be true for another individual. It also varies by the type of job (i.e. short-term contract versus full-time employee).
Still, I believe that "fit factor" is more important than technical competence.
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...my grandpa just gave me the slide rule he used in school and it has a genuine "Made in Occupied Japan" sticker on the case. I can't remember the brand or model, but it's in a nice case and really is a beautiful thing. It is machined which is, according to the manual, much better than the painted ones. Just my two cents...
My former boss was a retired Master Chief, and let me tell you you did not want to get on his bad side. We didn't work for the company or the CEO; we worked for him. That went both ways though, like you said. That meant that no one could get to us without going through him. It was, quite possibly, the best management structure I've ever worked in. That is until senior management decided to maliciously undermine him. He resigned and so did I. He is definitely on my list of most respected people ever.
when you hand the reins for your product's service over to the number one, shittiest cell service provider in North America. I won't regale you with my AT&T/Cingular horror stories here, but suffice it to say that I will NEVER directly do business with them ever again. Verizon has been flawless in both customer service and cellular service execution. It sucks when my favorite company ties the knot with quite possibly my least favorite company. No iPhone for me until other providers sign up with Apple.
Let's see what Google looks like in another ten to fifteen years. I'm guessing they will be no more innovative than Microsoft is now.
Of course, at certain times they expect long days to get a project done
Why? That sounds to me like the employees are being asked to make up for bad planning on the manager's part. Of course, it could be the employees are making up for their own slack earlier on in the project.
In addition to cheering for the little guy
Sony is hardly "the little guy". In other words, fanboyism exists at all levels of the market.
Depending on how the software actually works, the IP address may or may not remain in memory for the duration of the download. Shoot, the IP address could be encrypted, stored in memory, and then unencrypted when needed by the software in which case it would not be useful to the court.
my ass. There is plenty of high quality freeware/shareware available for Mac OS X. HardOCP either doesn't know where to look or ignored what's out there. Check out Apple's download section or macupdate. Shoot, just do a Google search for OS X Freeware.
That website made my eyes bleed.
Then you, my friend, aren't going to the right data centers.
I consider Dell as much a part of the Tech sector as I do Kenmore or Whirlpool.
Hypothetical situation:
Let's say someone walks by my desk at work and uses my pen. They didn't ask me, but I don't really care because it's a pen. However, a manager happens to walk by and says that you can't use a pen without the owner's permission. I say that I don't care if they use my pen or not, because it's just a pen. The manager then fires the guy for using my pen.
I understand there are many laws that are enforced where both parties to the activity don't care that the activity is taking place, but those, from my understanding, involve something that has been determined to be wrong regardless (i.e. recreational drug use, freaky craigslist postings to have someone kill you, child trafficking, and etc.). But using free WiFi? Come on.
I'm not sure what a sparklilly is, but it sounds intriguing. Is it some sort of incendiary variety of flower?
A tird by any other name would smell just as bad.
The one thing TVs are lacking to be ubiquitous is a voice-activated remote that auto-detects the TV brand and model to translate voice commands to TV remote commands.
It's not exactly what you're getting at, but the Logitech Harmony remote does make life a heck of alot easier.
Also, I'm not sold on the whole voice command thing. That's great for a single person watching TV by themselves in a quiet room. Add in three kids, a dog, someone talking on the phone in the next room, and other noises and voice activation quickly loses its appeal and effectiveness.
Have you verified that it's not valid? Proving a negative is quite difficult. Not A Therefore B is not exactly a good use of logic either.
Define previous generation. I have an NVidia FX 5700 card and am running Vista. Yes, I have 2GB Micron PC4200 RAM, Athlon 64 3000+, blah blah blah. It's not bleeding edge, but it's hardly a slow machine so I think it's safe to rule out the rest of my components. I just updated to the latest drivers. All my games perform horribly under Vista; they ran fine under XP. Guild Wars runs at ~25 fps. Rogue Spear won't even run. I stopped trying to run anything that relies heavily on 3D acceleration under Vista. I'll wait until NVidia gets their act together on their drivers, or I'll wait until I can afford a nicer ATI card.
No, I didn't copy/paste that. I've worked for both HP and Micron. I don't think I have to explain any further...
Amen.
Moving forward, they leverage their intellectual capital in conjunction with the synergistic core competencies of a highly mobile workforce of motivated resources to manage global diversification, decentralize initiatives, and reduce inventory turnover in an increasingly risk averse marketplace. They operate on the principles of a paradigm shift away from participative management towards actionable strategic alliances. Quite intuitive, really...
If homes were already secure against burglars, there wouldn't be any need for home security products. If bad drivers wouldn't be allowed to drive cars, no one would bother with traffic cops. If there were no more office shootings, no one would have to buy products to protect against their effects. If the society we lived in were secure out of the box, we wouldn't have to spend billions every year making it secure.
You could check for or write a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. You do use Firefox, right?
Yes. If you show up to a technical job interview with a dirty t-shirt on and are rude to the receptionist because you can't "deal with people" then you may not even get the interview after all. Except in very few circumstances (academic research comes to mind), doing your job well consists mainly of solving problems for other people. If you can't get along with those people you may very well be unable or unwilling to help them solve their problems.
Someone who can learn quickly is more desirable than someone who knows Java like the back of their hand.
What would you say the balance should be, 60/40, 70/30? Can you quantify it?
I don't believe you can quantify it. The instances in which I have seen attempts at quantifying "fit factor" (think college roommate selection, most online dating services, and etc.) fail most of the time because personalities and relationships are, for the most part, dynamic. If you were to quantify it, you would probably have to do it on an individual basis. One person's technical ability may compensate for a shortcoming in personality whereas the opposite may be true for another individual. It also varies by the type of job (i.e. short-term contract versus full-time employee).
Still, I believe that "fit factor" is more important than technical competence.
If you are on a properly-configured Windows network, the "Add New Programs" option will find available installs on said network.