. . . the tweet was not that popular because people love Issac Newton, but because attacks on Christianity are popular.
Apparently such "attacks" are much more popular among right-wing Christians than other people. A publicity-hungry scientist used a relatively innocent statement touting Newton with the element of surprise. That was in turn successfully used by rabble-rousing right-wing publicity hounds to promote themselves, without whom the tweet would have been more-or-less ignored.
A theologian is just an important sounding word for a bullshitter, someone who lies to others and themselves. There is no practical knowledge in the entire "field" of theology, which makes the most far-reaching and outrageous claims such as "knowing the reason for existence" and housing "experts" whose "answers" are not only in direct contradiction to how the world seems to behave, but with other theologians as well.
You can license or give away software you write, but if you get paid to do it, the copyright is by default owned by the person/company that hired you, unless explicitly stated otherwise in a contract.
I agree, cubicles have been the norm since at least the early 80s, when I began working. (and I've seen many hundreds of plans of them as an mechanical engineer in the construction industry) The only exception has been lawyers offices, which tend to have mostly private offices, and only a small amount of open office/cubicles. Also, in the late 80s, early 90s I noticed a trend (well, at least a couple of clients, anyway) of not blocking windows with private offices, and putting the bigshots' private offices in areas that workers would tend to walk by - except for the really big shots, who still tended to get corner offices.
The cube farm was invented as response to the problems of the open office.
Like I say in a post above, there needs to be a definition of "Open Office" at the beginning of a piece like TFA, because every architect I have ever encountered has labeled what you call "cube farms" as "Open Office" on the plans.
"I think Open Office" needs to be defined before everyone rails against them.
I've designed the mechanical systems for dozens, if not hundreds of what the architect labeled as "Open Office", but they almost always had workers in individual cubicles with partial height partitions at least as high as seated eye level. (Although in the call centers I've worked on, 4 workstations would be in a typical cubicle, but arranged so the workers faced away from each other.)
I've never worked in anything but an open office.
For 14 years I worked in a small office where 3 to 4 people shared a large open room without any partial height partitions - good for necessary collaboration and only distracting when my coworker decided to have somewhat off-topic conversations like complain about the boss.
The largest office I worked in (about 80 people) was without real cubicles, but the workspaces were well enough defined by low shelving, etc., that only my talkative immediate neighbor distracted me, and she was part-time.
Currently I work in a cubicle with about 7 ft high partitions, but glass on two sides. Again, it's a small office (7 to 8 people) but three of the people are in an area without partitions.
None of these situations were really detrimental to my ability to work, and they all encouraged asking and answering questions about the projects being worked on. E-mail seems more distracting to me than working in an open office (I can't seem to get the hang of ignoring it).
Most mammals can see color. They (except some primates) are colorblind in the sense that they can't tell the difference between red and green, but they can tell the difference between red and blue. Because of the similarites in the proteins expressed, it is believed that human ancestors inherited a mutated gene for red that had a peak receptivity at green together with the original red gene from another parent. That's why most people now have both red and green cones.
Yes there are children i.e. mellow children who don't need discipline and just explaining to them works.
Then there are the rest who need to at least *see* discipline because they are spoiled little brats who only want to do what they want to do and to hell with everyone else.
All children need discipline, and the subjects of TFA don't disagree. You are confusing discipline and punishment, and it doesn't seem like the subjects of TFA are saying punishment must be avoided at all times. They doo seem to be saying that punishment coming from the person the child goes to for comfort is confusing to small children in a fundamental, brain-altering way.
That being said, TFA was pretty disjointed, often referring to things as if they were already explained when had not been mentioned before in the article, so how should I know what they were really trying to say.
What's actually needed is an engine to compress/expand the refrigerant. You can just as easily use a heat source to create the required pressure differential. RV refrigerators do exactly that, with no motors or moving parts. They cost an outrageous amount of money, despite being virtually identical in construction to electric ones
Not sure where you're coming from.
Combustion engine driven compressors are similar to electric motor driven ones, but are more complicated and certainly have plenty of moving parts.
Adsorption/absorption refrigeration systems have fewer moving parts, as they use heat as the main driving force and so don't have compressors. But they still have moving parts like pumps and fans, and they are completely dissimilar in design to mechanical compressor driven refrigeration.
I've had plenty of clients requiring an NDA, and had no problem signing them. One employer I had wanted to me sign an updated employment agreement. I didn't mind the NDA portions of it, but there were some unappealing non-compete provisions, like whatever I did for myself on my own times was theirs. I quietly avoided signing it until my manager forgot about it and worked there for another few years.
Now compare the amount of money that the government makes at the pump, compared to what the oil companies make. You know, the guys who find, extract, move, refine and ultimately sell it to us. In the US the ratio is 7:1*; in Europe it's much worse.
First, "the guys who find, extract, move, refine and ultimately sell it to us" are typically several different companies, only the biggest companies have that kind of vertical integration, and they rely on third parties for a lot of those tasks, anyway. Second, show us the numbers.
*Citation Needed
The country ranking of per capita CO2 emissions that was linked seems highly correlated to the per capita economic output of the countries. By that measure, Denmark seems pretty low on emissions.
Yes, all that fetching and swapping is one of the reasons I shut down my laptop every night, otherwise my, admittedly under-resourced, work laptop slows to a crawl, especially when I'm doing a lot of multi-tasking.
You shut down your laptop? What year is this? 2002?
It's another one of those years when MS Windows tells me it's going to automatically shut down my laptop in a minute, unless I'm looking at it at the time the dialog box pops up letting me delay the shutdown for 10 minutes or 4 hours.
7) Sometimes the physical buttons don't work and it will stop responding while my music is playing. Then suddenly it will catch up and all the times I hit forward or back on the track suddenly occur.
Sounds very similar to the gripes I have about the Microsoft GUI on my Uverse "cable" box / DVR.
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Apparently such "attacks" are much more popular among right-wing Christians than other people. A publicity-hungry scientist used a relatively innocent statement touting Newton with the element of surprise. That was in turn successfully used by rabble-rousing right-wing publicity hounds to promote themselves, without whom the tweet would have been more-or-less ignored.
Strawmen don't help your arguments.
Btw, TFA is promoting Functional programming over Procedural/ObjectOriented programming, and does consider OO as a Procedural style.
No, it does not have to be a "work of art" to be copyrighted. It only has to be a creative expression.
IANASCJ*, but I believe that copyrighting Trade Secrets would be unconstitutional.
*I Am Not A Supreme Court Justice
You can license or give away software you write, but if you get paid to do it, the copyright is by default owned by the person/company that hired you, unless explicitly stated otherwise in a contract.
I used to actually be able to do 3-4 things at a time well.
Lately, as I've gotten older, I've noticed that I can't do that as readily as I used to.
I agree, cubicles have been the norm since at least the early 80s, when I began working. (and I've seen many hundreds of plans of them as an mechanical engineer in the construction industry) The only exception has been lawyers offices, which tend to have mostly private offices, and only a small amount of open office /cubicles. Also, in the late 80s, early 90s I noticed a trend (well, at least a couple of clients, anyway) of not blocking windows with private offices, and putting the bigshots' private offices in areas that workers would tend to walk by - except for the really big shots, who still tended to get corner offices.
Like I say in a post above, there needs to be a definition of "Open Office" at the beginning of a piece like TFA, because every architect I have ever encountered has labeled what you call "cube farms" as "Open Office" on the plans.
Working in an accounting open office is not the same as working on the factory floor or a sweat shop.
"I think Open Office" needs to be defined before everyone rails against them.
I've designed the mechanical systems for dozens, if not hundreds of what the architect labeled as "Open Office", but they almost always had workers in individual cubicles with partial height partitions at least as high as seated eye level. (Although in the call centers I've worked on, 4 workstations would be in a typical cubicle, but arranged so the workers faced away from each other.)
I've never worked in anything but an open office.
For 14 years I worked in a small office where 3 to 4 people shared a large open room without any partial height partitions - good for necessary collaboration and only distracting when my coworker decided to have somewhat off-topic conversations like complain about the boss.
The largest office I worked in (about 80 people) was without real cubicles, but the workspaces were well enough defined by low shelving, etc., that only my talkative immediate neighbor distracted me, and she was part-time.
Currently I work in a cubicle with about 7 ft high partitions, but glass on two sides. Again, it's a small office (7 to 8 people) but three of the people are in an area without partitions.
None of these situations were really detrimental to my ability to work, and they all encouraged asking and answering questions about the projects being worked on. E-mail seems more distracting to me than working in an open office (I can't seem to get the hang of ignoring it).
Most mammals can see color. They (except some primates) are colorblind in the sense that they can't tell the difference between red and green, but they can tell the difference between red and blue. Because of the similarites in the proteins expressed, it is believed that human ancestors inherited a mutated gene for red that had a peak receptivity at green together with the original red gene from another parent. That's why most people now have both red and green cones.
Wish I had funny mod points.
Finally, a commenter who gets it.
Except the terrible 2s terrible 4s part - they're nothing compared to the terrible teens. (or maybe pre-teens)
All children need discipline, and the subjects of TFA don't disagree. You are confusing discipline and punishment, and it doesn't seem like the subjects of TFA are saying punishment must be avoided at all times. They doo seem to be saying that punishment coming from the person the child goes to for comfort is confusing to small children in a fundamental, brain-altering way.
That being said, TFA was pretty disjointed, often referring to things as if they were already explained when had not been mentioned before in the article, so how should I know what they were really trying to say.
Not sure where you're coming from.
Combustion engine driven compressors are similar to electric motor driven ones, but are more complicated and certainly have plenty of moving parts.
Adsorption/absorption refrigeration systems have fewer moving parts, as they use heat as the main driving force and so don't have compressors. But they still have moving parts like pumps and fans, and they are completely dissimilar in design to mechanical compressor driven refrigeration.
Wait, I thought that Goddard did that.
Then how come so few know the name Liebniz?
I've had plenty of clients requiring an NDA, and had no problem signing them. One employer I had wanted to me sign an updated employment agreement. I didn't mind the NDA portions of it, but there were some unappealing non-compete provisions, like whatever I did for myself on my own times was theirs. I quietly avoided signing it until my manager forgot about it and worked there for another few years.
First, "the guys who find, extract, move, refine and ultimately sell it to us" are typically several different companies, only the biggest companies have that kind of vertical integration, and they rely on third parties for a lot of those tasks, anyway. Second, show us the numbers.
*Citation Needed
The country ranking of per capita CO2 emissions that was linked seems highly correlated to the per capita economic output of the countries. By that measure, Denmark seems pretty low on emissions.
RFTA
Flying mammals like bats have the ability to fly without forgoing teeth for a beak.
Archaeopteryx, widely considered the "first bird." . . . flew, and sported plumes and chompers.
Yes, all that fetching and swapping is one of the reasons I shut down my laptop every night, otherwise my, admittedly under-resourced, work laptop slows to a crawl, especially when I'm doing a lot of multi-tasking.
It's another one of those years when MS Windows tells me it's going to automatically shut down my laptop in a minute, unless I'm looking at it at the time the dialog box pops up letting me delay the shutdown for 10 minutes or 4 hours.
Sounds very similar to the gripes I have about the Microsoft GUI on my Uverse "cable" box / DVR.