My daughter and I both enjoyed the movie; the humor was even better than the first movie. I also agree with Taco's appraisal of Wall-E and Iron Man. That being said, the movie was not perfect. The puppets acting out the Elf/Human war in the beginning was definately a WTF moment, and went on far too long. Selma Blair and Jeffrey Tambor's characters are annoying. Krause could have used a little more character development (what was the deal with his velvet pouch of rings?). But Ron Perlman is perfect as Hellboy, and that saves the movie. Abe was better in this one than the orignal. It used to be the rule that movies based on comic books sucked (does anyone remember Howard the Duck?) Glad to see Hollywood has finally figured out how to make comic book movies genuinely entertaining.
Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] -- PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process. Google as an organization is not geared -- culturally -- to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications. At Microsoft, everything is pretty much run by Marketing. Anybody who uses the marketing-speak phrase "delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications" obviously has more of a marketing mindset than an Engineering mindset, and thus would be better off at Microsoft. If we are indeed seeing a migration of hard-core engineers from Microsoft to Google and of Marketing droids from Google to Microsoft, well than, I'd say the movement in both directions benefits Google! (I've seen many extremely talented software engineers go to work for Microsoft over the years, so if their software sucks, it's certainly not for lack of creative talent.)
High-tech companies need a pool of skilled workers; that is why most tech companies are located near a major university and why the famed Sand Hill venture capital firms are located literally across the street from Stanford University. (Grass Valley Group was an exception to this rule.) So it would only make since to encourage tech companies in Corvalis and Eugene. Corvalis already has some tech; HP has been there forever and the nanotechnology initiative is located there. I'm not familiar with Eugene, but I'm sure there must be some tech companies in Eugene as well. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to try to encourage more companies to locate in these towns. And given the high cost of doing business in Seattle or the Bay Area, they certainly have incentive to to relocate. The best way to encourage growth is to make sure University of Oregon and Oregon State University turn out a steady stream of world-class engineers to work in these companies. This means the education system from preschool onward needs to focus on educating students at each students optimal learning rate to prepare them for tech careers.
Tech companies also need to be reasonably close to an international airport. Seattle has Sea-Tac; Portland/Vancouver has PDX (and Beaverton/Hillsboro has Hillsboro Airport), and the Silicone Valley has both San Francisco and San Jose airports. So you would probably also want to improve the transportation infrastructure in these college towns as well.
Finally, tech companies need a source of capital. This should come from private, not public, investment, but I am sure there are things the government can do to encourage investment in these areas.
A large number of Oregonians (like myself) ARE ex-Californians! And residents of all three west coast states share many command concersns. Much of northern California has more in common with Oregon than with southern California. What Oregonians don't like is the diversion of Northwest water and power to fuel the ever-growing needs to southern California. For example, the current half-dozen plans to build Liquified Natural Gas terminals in Oregon -- for which there is no demand whatsoever in Oregon! Apparently this is a reaction to reistance to building a terminal at Cabrillo beach (where I learned to windsurf) and to resistance to terminals in northern California. Apparently the energy companies plan now is to submit as many proposals as possible in the hopes that one sticks, snd then build pipelines (using eminent domain) from whereever to California.
Why are they doing this? Because the companies supplying the Natural Gas are the very same companies that own California's electrical utilities. Utilities are highly regulated and not expected to make large profits for shareholders. However, they are operated on a "cost-plus" basis, meaning if you own both the utility and the suplier, you can pay yourself serveral times the market value for energy and evade regulation.
The Forest Grove School District is currently attempting to intercept conversations between students on it's school buses, in flagrant violation of ORS 165.540(1)(c) and Federal Statute 2511(1)(b). What will you do make sure all governmental entities comply with existing law?
Your questions imply that you beleive there is something harmful about the leaks in the first place. Perhaps the beleif that if people actually knew the truth about how your company is being run than share prices would plummet should instead be taken as an indicator that your running the company wrong! The leaker, as the longest standing board member, obviously thought the information he was providing to reporters would benefit the company, not harm it. We know the real reason these arrogant bastards used unethical and unlawful means to find the leaker had nothing to do with their fiduciary duty to the corporation, and everything to do with the fact that these leaks were personally embarrasing to them. (And yes, the temptation to draw parallels between the executive staff of HP and the Executive Branch of the US government is irresistable.)
So for only $4.95 I can find out what people out there are so incredibly stupid that they would actually post their real name and not use a throw-away free email address on these sites, and therefore really should not be allowed to breed... sounds like they are performing a valuable service to society to me!
Big deal! I let my 5 year old surf the net without supervision! Of course, she can't read, so she is unlikely to get into very involved discussions with predators... the problem is not that predators can make contact with underage persons online, the problem is that underage persons are stupid enough to arrange real world meetings with people they met online!
Every time you run a sheet though a printer, it wrinkles slightly. To say nothing of how much you wrinkle it by reading it. Just like running the old sheets through again to print on the other side, this greatly increases the probability that the paper will jam. This "transient document" sounds like a printer maintenance person's worst nightmare!
Meanwhile there was a board member (Perkins) who resigned on PRINCIPLE because he thought the actions of the board were unethical and probably illegal... thus proving that Honor and Integrity are not dead! Unfortunately, most people rise to positions of power by avoiding sticking their necks out or voicing a commitment to anything, not by taking a stand for integrity.
Want to get along with "the boys", then act just like one of the boys. I've seen this work for my old girlfriend, who was fairly outgoing and not too attractive. It might not work if you are overly attractive, as geeks tend to be nervous around really good-looking members of the appropriate gender. I also worked with a very attractive software engineer at Intel (Hi Stacy!) who made a point of mentioning her boyfriend whenever we got into non-technical discussions; it helps to put others at ease if they know you're already spoken for. Other than that, if you're not fitting in, it's probably because you're holding yourself apart from others, not because they don't want to be your friend.
So, the "Peak of Eternal Light" is never in darkness, 'cause, you know, the Earth never blocks sunlight from reaching it? Those Lunar eclipses must just be a figment of my imagination...
Nothing else but a bunch of trees, rocks and the occasional brown bear. As a resident of Alaska for half my life, I strongly resent this remark... there are plenty of black bears and polar bears too!
I currently live in Oregon where ex-senator Hatfield is idolized for precisely the same reason -- he managed to get the Federal Government to waste lots of tax dollars in Oregon. In my mind, getting the government to spend more money in your constituency should be considered the mark of a crook, not the mark of an excellent congresscritter.
Does it run Linux? 'Cause when my ass is on the line (literally), It had darn well better not be running Windows! Sort of gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "core dump", doesn't it?
You have to measure viral load in the blood, which can be quite tricky. Why is this tricky? PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is routinely used now to multiply the viral DNA by several orders of magnitude so that it can be meaasured. I agree that measuring antibodies after a vacination is useless for determining whether or not an infection has occurred.
"When you sniff another dog's butt, you're not only sniffing that dog's but, you are also sniffing every butt that dog has ever sniffed! Always practice safe butt-sniffing!"
That's not quite what he is proposing. In Germany, as in the US, there are statuatory rates for rates for different types of cases. The judge awarding legal fees looks in a book and says "The statuatory fee for a car damage case is $150. Plaintiff is awarded $200 damages plus $150 statuatory legal fees. Case closed." I don't know of any circumstances where a party to a suite can say "My $1 million/hour attorney spent an hour working on this, so you owe me $1 million!!!" Wouldn't work very well that way, would it? At any rate, getting awarded legal fees doesn't necessarily mean all your real legal costs are covered.
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My daughter and I both enjoyed the movie; the humor was even better than the first movie. I also agree with Taco's appraisal of Wall-E and Iron Man. That being said, the movie was not perfect. The puppets acting out the Elf/Human war in the beginning was definately a WTF moment, and went on far too long. Selma Blair and Jeffrey Tambor's characters are annoying. Krause could have used a little more character development (what was the deal with his velvet pouch of rings?). But Ron Perlman is perfect as Hellboy, and that saves the movie. Abe was better in this one than the orignal. It used to be the rule that movies based on comic books sucked (does anyone remember Howard the Duck?) Glad to see Hollywood has finally figured out how to make comic book movies genuinely entertaining.
Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] -- PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process. Google as an organization is not geared -- culturally -- to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications. At Microsoft, everything is pretty much run by Marketing. Anybody who uses the marketing-speak phrase "delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications" obviously has more of a marketing mindset than an Engineering mindset, and thus would be better off at Microsoft. If we are indeed seeing a migration of hard-core engineers from Microsoft to Google and of Marketing droids from Google to Microsoft, well than, I'd say the movement in both directions benefits Google! (I've seen many extremely talented software engineers go to work for Microsoft over the years, so if their software sucks, it's certainly not for lack of creative talent.)
Methinks you mean metallurgical... not sure what weather has to do with swords.
Laugh if you will, but I know of at least one grocery store in Fairbanks that used to hold parking lot sales... of frozen food.
Tech companies also need to be reasonably close to an international airport. Seattle has Sea-Tac; Portland/Vancouver has PDX (and Beaverton/Hillsboro has Hillsboro Airport), and the Silicone Valley has both San Francisco and San Jose airports. So you would probably also want to improve the transportation infrastructure in these college towns as well.
Finally, tech companies need a source of capital. This should come from private, not public, investment, but I am sure there are things the government can do to encourage investment in these areas.
A large number of Oregonians (like myself) ARE ex-Californians! And residents of all three west coast states share many command concersns. Much of northern California has more in common with Oregon than with southern California. What Oregonians don't like is the diversion of Northwest water and power to fuel the ever-growing needs to southern California. For example, the current half-dozen plans to build Liquified Natural Gas terminals in Oregon -- for which there is no demand whatsoever in Oregon! Apparently this is a reaction to reistance to building a terminal at Cabrillo beach (where I learned to windsurf) and to resistance to terminals in northern California. Apparently the energy companies plan now is to submit as many proposals as possible in the hopes that one sticks, snd then build pipelines (using eminent domain) from whereever to California. Why are they doing this? Because the companies supplying the Natural Gas are the very same companies that own California's electrical utilities. Utilities are highly regulated and not expected to make large profits for shareholders. However, they are operated on a "cost-plus" basis, meaning if you own both the utility and the suplier, you can pay yourself serveral times the market value for energy and evade regulation.
The Forest Grove School District is currently attempting to intercept conversations between students on it's school buses, in flagrant violation of ORS 165.540(1)(c) and Federal Statute 2511(1)(b). What will you do make sure all governmental entities comply with existing law?
Your questions imply that you beleive there is something harmful about the leaks in the first place. Perhaps the beleif that if people actually knew the truth about how your company is being run than share prices would plummet should instead be taken as an indicator that your running the company wrong! The leaker, as the longest standing board member, obviously thought the information he was providing to reporters would benefit the company, not harm it. We know the real reason these arrogant bastards used unethical and unlawful means to find the leaker had nothing to do with their fiduciary duty to the corporation, and everything to do with the fact that these leaks were personally embarrasing to them. (And yes, the temptation to draw parallels between the executive staff of HP and the Executive Branch of the US government is irresistable.)
So for only $4.95 I can find out what people out there are so incredibly stupid that they would actually post their real name and not use a throw-away free email address on these sites, and therefore really should not be allowed to breed... sounds like they are performing a valuable service to society to me!
Big deal! I let my 5 year old surf the net without supervision! Of course, she can't read, so she is unlikely to get into very involved discussions with predators... the problem is not that predators can make contact with underage persons online, the problem is that underage persons are stupid enough to arrange real world meetings with people they met online!
Every time you run a sheet though a printer, it wrinkles slightly. To say nothing of how much you wrinkle it by reading it. Just like running the old sheets through again to print on the other side, this greatly increases the probability that the paper will jam. This "transient document" sounds like a printer maintenance person's worst nightmare!
Meanwhile there was a board member (Perkins) who resigned on PRINCIPLE because he thought the actions of the board were unethical and probably illegal... thus proving that Honor and Integrity are not dead! Unfortunately, most people rise to positions of power by avoiding sticking their necks out or voicing a commitment to anything, not by taking a stand for integrity.
She (not he!) is such a babe, I could ALMOST forgive her for being named after Microsoft's flagship product!
Any box that doesn't run Windows confuses most investigators. Yep, all their tools are Windows-specific.
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the last 800,000 years are atypical.
Want to get along with "the boys", then act just like one of the boys. I've seen this work for my old girlfriend, who was fairly outgoing and not too attractive. It might not work if you are overly attractive, as geeks tend to be nervous around really good-looking members of the appropriate gender. I also worked with a very attractive software engineer at Intel (Hi Stacy!) who made a point of mentioning her boyfriend whenever we got into non-technical discussions; it helps to put others at ease if they know you're already spoken for. Other than that, if you're not fitting in, it's probably because you're holding yourself apart from others, not because they don't want to be your friend.
So, the "Peak of Eternal Light" is never in darkness, 'cause, you know, the Earth never blocks sunlight from reaching it? Those Lunar eclipses must just be a figment of my imagination...
I currently live in Oregon where ex-senator Hatfield is idolized for precisely the same reason -- he managed to get the Federal Government to waste lots of tax dollars in Oregon. In my mind, getting the government to spend more money in your constituency should be considered the mark of a crook, not the mark of an excellent congresscritter.
Does it run Linux? 'Cause when my ass is on the line (literally), It had darn well better not be running Windows! Sort of gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "core dump", doesn't it?
Simply set up a web page that publishes every email address he uses for the rest of his life... and let the other spammers punish him!
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and all they want me to do is talk to a mouse?!? All right... I'll do it... but I won't enjoy it!"
You have to measure viral load in the blood, which can be quite tricky. Why is this tricky? PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is routinely used now to multiply the viral DNA by several orders of magnitude so that it can be meaasured. I agree that measuring antibodies after a vacination is useless for determining whether or not an infection has occurred.
Ok, now how do I explain this to my Irish Setter?
That's not quite what he is proposing. In Germany, as in the US, there are statuatory rates for rates for different types of cases. The judge awarding legal fees looks in a book and says "The statuatory fee for a car damage case is $150. Plaintiff is awarded $200 damages plus $150 statuatory legal fees. Case closed." I don't know of any circumstances where a party to a suite can say "My $1 million/hour attorney spent an hour working on this, so you owe me $1 million!!!" Wouldn't work very well that way, would it? At any rate, getting awarded legal fees doesn't necessarily mean all your real legal costs are covered.