Am I the only one who thought that the robot probably tasted whatever crossed the journalist's hands before putting them inside the robots mouth? It's not like the robot chomped off a finger and said "Hmmm, can I have eggs with that?".
Has anybody actually done any research showing how many people click through from news aggregate sites? I would be very surprised if most aggregate users don't just read the headlines and leave it at that. I think this (legal battle) being an issue relates more to the way in which people read the news on the Interweb. Reading only headlines leads to no thoughput to the news sites since people already believe they have all the information they need.
One of the big reasons is that SALT's primary mirror is spherical. This means that each of the segments are of exactly the same design. A parabolic mirror, like that used on most other telescopes you general have to have different design for many of the segments. Downside - spherical mirror bring aberations. Upside - they can be compensated for quite by secondary mirrors.
The SALT primary consists of 91 segments each of which cost $30000, compare this to the estimated cost of having a single 10m primary ~$1 000 000 000.
Cheap (but highly skilled) engineers do help and then the last contributing factor is that the mirror is fixed in elevation - spherical mirrors mean that this the telescope is not limited to fixed elevation though.
I have to main gripes with wath Jackson has changed in the previous two movies. Tolkien emphasizes the difficulty of Frodo's leaving by having him make the decision to leave without consulting the rest (e.g. Aragorn in FotR).
In TT he also mangles Farimir's nobility. Tolkien always holds up Faramir as the essence of valour, he never decides to take Frodo back to Gondor, but realises the depth of Frodo's commitment and that Frodo has his part to play in which he (Faramir) can't interfere.
I find Everything2 easier to use that Wiki and the features that allow writeups to be dynamically linked (refered to as soft links) is excellent. This makes the information on E2 more connected and dynamic.
Has anybody noticed that the site posting the 10 reasons to leave is an employment agency type? Of course it's in thier interest for you not to take the counter-offer since that is the only case in which they will get more work. In this light I'd take all the reasons mentioned with pinch of salt.
-H
PS: Personally I agree with one of the other comments mentioning that this situation wouldn't have occurred if you'd asked your current employee for a raise first.
For a long time I've really enjoyed working when I feel like it. Basically since it allows me to get out of bed at 10:00 instead of 7:00, but I've finally come to notice the greatest disadvantage of flexi-time (we use the British terminology in South Africa) is that I'm never quite sure when the jobs done. When and when my private life starts and my job finishes is quite important to my mental health and working fixed time puts all this resposibility on my employer and leaves me free to work hard when I work, and play hard when I play.
(Maybe I should rather be doing psych than math...;)
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Am I the only one who thought that the robot probably tasted whatever crossed the journalist's hands before putting them inside the robots mouth? It's not like the robot chomped off a finger and said "Hmmm, can I have eggs with that?".
Has anybody actually done any research showing how many people click through from news aggregate sites? I would be very surprised if most aggregate users don't just read the headlines and leave it at that. I think this (legal battle) being an issue relates more to the way in which people read the news on the Interweb. Reading only headlines leads to no thoughput to the news sites since people already believe they have all the information they need.
One of the big reasons is that SALT's primary mirror is spherical. This means that each of the segments are of exactly the same design. A parabolic mirror, like that used on most other telescopes you general have to have different design for many of the segments. Downside - spherical mirror bring aberations. Upside - they can be compensated for quite by secondary mirrors.
The SALT primary consists of 91 segments each of which cost $30000, compare this to the estimated cost of having a single 10m primary ~$1 000 000 000.
Cheap (but highly skilled) engineers do help and then the last contributing factor is that the mirror is fixed in elevation - spherical mirrors mean that this the telescope is not limited to fixed elevation though.
How about graphical programming languages (GPLs) like LabVIEW which I believe was decended from a language called G.
And then there is the whole class of functional programming languages like FP and ML and their various derivates.
Another language I didn't spot was SAS , a high-level statistical programming language used by auditors and banks a few years back.
Not to mention anything about more hardware related languages like VHDL.
I'll stop now, before my background starts showing too much.
I have to main gripes with wath Jackson has changed in the previous two movies. Tolkien emphasizes the difficulty of Frodo's leaving by having him make the decision to leave without consulting the rest (e.g. Aragorn in FotR).
In TT he also mangles Farimir's nobility. Tolkien always holds up Faramir as the essence of valour, he never decides to take Frodo back to Gondor, but realises the depth of Frodo's commitment and that Frodo has his part to play in which he (Faramir) can't interfere.
I find Everything2 easier to use that Wiki and the features that allow writeups to be dynamically linked (refered to as soft links) is excellent. This makes the information on E2 more connected and dynamic.
Has anybody noticed that the site posting the 10 reasons to leave is an employment agency type? Of course it's in thier interest for you not to take the counter-offer since that is the only case in which they will get more work. In this light I'd take all the reasons mentioned with pinch of salt.
-H
PS: Personally I agree with one of the other comments mentioning that this situation wouldn't have occurred if you'd asked your current employee for a raise first.
For a long time I've really enjoyed working when I feel like it. Basically since it allows me to get out of bed at 10:00 instead of 7:00, but I've finally come to notice the greatest disadvantage of flexi-time (we use the British terminology in South Africa) is that I'm never quite sure when the jobs done. When and when my private life starts and my job finishes is quite important to my mental health and working fixed time puts all this resposibility on my employer and leaves me free to work hard when I work, and play hard when I play. (Maybe I should rather be doing psych than math...;)