This is the code for the Apollo 11 lunar lander flight computer.
HELP!
I'm trying to get this code to work. I'm at an altitude of 6,000 ft, hovering over the Sea of Tranquility, and the darn thing keeps crashing! (The code, not the lunar module.)
PLEASE don't connect me to that Bangalor helpdesk again! I am in serious trouble here!
Has this been tested for Y2K compliance? Did we not pay our last support bill?
I can't believe I haven't seen this listed in the discussion yet:
Whether you are interviewing for a sales position or a technical position, you should ask a "sales-closing" question.
You: "Now that you've had a chance to meet me, and to review my qualifications, are there any issues that concern you, that would prevent you from making me an offer?"
Here's your chance to allow the interviewer to tell you what's bothering him or her about you. And your chance to address it.
Interviewer: "Well, I'm really concerned about your lack of experience doing design work." You: "Oh, well, I didn't state it explicitly, but I did the design work on Project X, Y, and a significant part of Z, as part of a design team." Interviewer: "oooh, I'm glad you cleared that up!"
If you are the "BMW" candidate, then you have a recognized reputation in your industry, and then you can pull off the "I am confident in my value; convince me why you are the best company for me".
However, if you are like 95%+ of the candidates out there, your first interview is your first impression, and a humble, "I'm here to work my butt off, and am confident I will be appropriately compensated" approach in the INTERVIEWING process is the best way to secure an offer.
You can always negotiate after you secure an offer, or at least ask to better understand the terms of the offer (like "what benefits are included in this offer?")
well, asking about benefits is a "what's in it for me" -type question. Few people can pull it off without sounding greedy.
If you have confidence, and they you have already sold them on your capability, then you are in the negotiating phase, and it's ok to discuss the potential terms of an agreement. But if you are interviewing, and do not have an industry reputation that someone would recognize (i.e. 95%+ of the people out there), then you should stick to a confident, modest, non-greedy approach.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm coming from a background of having interviewed over a thousand candidates and seeing what works and what doesn't.
So yeah, if you want to critique me, have at it. I'm the one who has never been unemployed, never been under-employed, and most always been on the HIRING end (not the desperate for a job -end) of the interviewing process.
So good luck to you and your pair, Mr. Anonymous Coward. Maybe your pair is too large for your pants, and that's why your asshole is showing through on the back-side.
DO NOT ask about benefits in the interview, ESPECIALLY in the first interview.
Your mission in the "interview" process is to sell yourself, NOT to negotiate (or even understand) the terms of an offer. Separate the interview process from the negotiation process.
Asking about benefits is comparable to a car sales person asking the prospective buyer about his capability to afford the car. (In other words, you would only do it as a "qualifying question", if you seriously doubted the company's capability to meet your requirements.) Good car sales people get you wanting the car, and sell features of the car before talking details of the offer. Once you want the car, as a potential buyer, you have overcome a major hurdle - it's *this* car over any other, provided we can come to terms. Then they start working the terms.
No, don't talk benefits or pay. Instead, sell yourself, and then once you have them wanting you (instead of hundreds of your competitors), find out the details of the offer. Then feel free to negotiate better terms.
The only 2 exceptions I can think of are if you want to qualify the company, or if you have VERY unusual requirements for benefits. For instance, if you have a dying out-of-town parent, you may want to touch on the vacation issue. This is something that most everyone can be empathetic to, and if you approach it in a way that is honest and human, and shows that you are willing to *give* in order to *get* what you want (like "I have a personal situation with a dying parent and so I'd like to work 50 hour weeks, so that I can take a few extra days off in the first two months. What's the company's flexibility to such short-term arrangements?"...even that should be a "late in the interviewing process"-type question.
Sorry, Outlook DOES use the ribbon, and mail is likely the office application that is used by more users than any other application, including probably Word, definitely Excel, and definitely Powerpoint. Then trying to use those "learnings" from Outlook on Word or Excel is pointless.
Word and Excel have SOME consistency (except that they sometimes call it Find, sometimes Find and Replace. Sometimes it's an icon, sometimes it's not.) Sometimes it's a big icon, sometimes it's small. Now, let's go to Outlook:
Let's try to follow your instructions, when creating a new message in Outlook. Home tab? there isn't one. Maybe you mean the Message Tab which is located where the Home tab is in Word: Far Right? That's Spelling. No, Find is under "Format Text". How intuitive.
Next try to find "Find" when you are reading someone's message to you. Where's Find?
Now let's say you want to find a message in your Inbox. Where's find? OK let's try to find a message in a file folder. Where's find.
OK, let's go to Internet Explorer. Where's Find?
See? So much for consistency.
And using Ctrl-F proves my point. OK, so we're supposed to tell our users what? "I know the Ribbon sucks - just memorize this control sequence."
Any toolbar that needs a SEARCH to find SEARCH is broken.
That flippin' Find and Replace moves all over the place, from application to application. And if the Ribbon moves items based on usage (which it seems to), then it's a nightmare for support personnel:
"See the little icon next to Sort & Filter? You don't have Sort and Filter? OK what Icons do you have?"
Not to mention that Microsoft's categorization is just plain bad. Want to Insert a Powerpoint Slide? Don't press the Insert tab. Want to insert a row in Excel? Surely that's on the insert tab (nope).
Want to find out the Properties of a document in Word? Let's see, would Properties be under Home, Insert, Page Layout, Mailings, Review, View, or Add-Ins. I could make a case for several of those, but View seems to make the most sense... as in View Properties. But noooooooooooo.... it's under the "Click the unnamed icon with multi-colored squares on it, and press Prepare". WTF???
I've griped about this before... I'm sure the Ribbon has potential, IF IMPLEMENTED WELL, but it wasn't. Maybe Open Office will get it right.
I'm sure I'll get modded as a troll... but just to play devil's advocate...
Here are the facts: We humans generate a lot of plastic trash that we need to dispose of somewhere. If we put our best scientists on it, I can imagine at least one scientist coming up with a method whereby of utilizing natural forces to collect our trash, hammer away at it, break it down, and disperse it, instead of collecting it into landfills where it sits for eternity.
Here we have a natural trash collector, compactor, composter, slicer-dicer system, where the ocean currents pick up our trash and beat it to a pulp, and then gently disperse it out to the rest of the environment. And it's conveniently located no where near civilization, yet it collects trash from all over. Sure, some animal and plant lives are sacrificed, but might it be a sound part of our overall trash strategy, had we planned it, instead of just discovering it?
Maybe Mother Nature knows better than us, in this case! Yes, Mother Nature. That MILF
I most enthusiastically recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever. There is nothing you can teach her. You would indeed be fortunate to get this person to work for you. She could not care less about the number of hours she will have to put in.
She's an unbelievable worker. Her true ability is deceiving. It seems her career is just taking off; a woman like her is hard to find.
Every hour with her is a happy hour. We generally found her loaded with work to do. I feel her real talent is being wasted here.
I can assure you that no person would be better for the job.
I would urge you to waste no time in making this candidate an offer of employment. All in all, I cannot say enough good things about this candidate or recommend her too highly.
take a percentage grade, and convert it to a letter grade. With many teachers it's 90-100 = A, 80-90 = B, 70-80 = C, 60-70 = D, 0-59 = F. (Some teachers use 93-100, 85-92, 77-84, 70-76, 0-69)
Then take the letter grade and convert it to a number: A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. (Some Schools permit minuses and pluses: A/A+=4.0, A-=3.6, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.6, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.6, D+=1.3, D=1.0)
Then use a weighted average based on course hours (5 classroom hours are worth 5 credits, and the grade affects your GPA 5 times as much as 1-credit hour courses). 4 year degrees might be about 128 hours (16 hours per semester x 2 semesters/yr, x 4 years).
So basically, these students -- sorry, "precious little snowflakes" -- are essentially asking to be treated differently from all the grad students, post-docs, researchers, and faculty out there, and want full copyright and ownership of their term papers that they hand in for class. Why? I am not sure?
These are high school students at public schools. FERPA regulations require that the schools keep their academic records confidential, including any contractors that the school uses.
With the exception of the exceptionally rare student that goes on to become the next Shakespeare, Orwell, or J.K. Rowling, nobody's going to give a rat's ass about ever looking at their term paper again, so claiming copyright on them is essentially pointless.
Add to your list ANY "person of interest". Movie stars, TV commentators, congressmen, city council, high school teachers, suspects in crimes, corporate executives, priests and ministers, newspaper columnists. If I could dig up Bill O'Reilly's high school papers, or my English Teacher's high school papers, I think that would be interesting. I rest easy, knowing that I could burn mine at the end of the year, and they can't haunt me for life. Especially the assignment to "Defend Communism".
They're not collecting these papers and selling them on the market
Actually, the terms that the student agree to specifically permit TurnItIn to do just that. Have you read them? I have.
"With regard to papers submitted to the Site, You hereby grant iParadigms a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, world-wide, irrevocable license to reproduce, transmit, display, disclose, archive and otherwise use in connection with its Services any paper You submit to the Site..."
In other words, "if you become famous, we can sell your paper to the highest bidder."
So unless you can successfully defend that no person that is in high school right now will ever become famous, your argument doesn't hold up.
Actually I had a professor for Business Ethics at RIT that would submit our papers to turn it in for us. I did object to this the first day I heard about this and he told me I would have to drop the class if I didn't like it.
How ironic! An ethics course! PLEASE contact that lawyer with this example! This would be an interesting case to see in court. I hope you saved one of your papers, and that it was unpublished elsewhere.
My bet would be that if one student wins a copyright suit against Turnitin for a paper that was submitted by their teacher, then the whole validity of the service will be in question. After that, going to your school and complaining about the REQUIREMENT of PERMANENTLY ARCHIVING your academic work should be a fight you can win.
I read an interesting perspective yesterday (I wish I could site the source! shame on me...)
One of the judges ruled that TurnItIn actually provides a benefit to the student, by protecting his/her work from being copied. This judge's logic is flawed, and here's why:
The author should always retain the right of first publication
This so-called "benefit" of protecting the student's work from others copying it, means that TurnItIn is protecting the student from him or herself! If the student never publishes the paper, then there's no worry of plagiarism, and therefore TurnItIn is providing no benefit to the student!
The required archive actually increases the RISK of plagiarism, ESPECIALLY storing the paper on servers with crappy security on the internet, and emailing out the papers without the author's permission
most syllabuses (syllabi is hypercorrection) have a "we will reschedule if necessary" clause in them.
Not knowing what school your wife teaches at, I could only look at representative samples online. A quick google search of "syllabus fall 2009" to find representative syllabi shows that this is not the case (instructors do NOT mention rescheduling). None of the first ten contained any mention (as far as I could find) of rescheduling. Several had firm schedules and firm commitments, such as "I will hold office hours once per week", "There will be two 50 minute lectures each week", "Upon completion of this course, students will be able to...", as well as specific meeting times and test dates.
I can see "holes' in every one of the ten that I examined - cases in which the teacher may not live up to their "legal commitment", if the syllabus were considered a legal contract.
If these are expected to be legal, binding contracts, lawyers would be salivating over the possibilities. Go take a course. If you get less than an "A", threaten to sue on the grounds that the instructor didn't live up to their contract.
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HELP!
I'm trying to get this code to work. I'm at an altitude of 6,000 ft, hovering over the Sea of Tranquility, and the darn thing keeps crashing! (The code, not the lunar module.)
PLEASE don't connect me to that Bangalor helpdesk again! I am in serious trouble here!
Has this been tested for Y2K compliance?
Did we not pay our last support bill?
- Major Tom
Nah, they'll simply write a law making it illegal to re-grow your own teeth
Or perhaps write a law rewarding those who destroy perfectly good teeth, in an effort to save the environment, and the tooth fairy's job:
Cash for Choppers
Poor design choice:
E=Episode Number
n=Release Sequence Number
E= ((n+2) mod 6) + 1
RD2D? Red 2-dimensional thing? hmm..
or is that pronounced roodie-toodie
078-05-1120 was reused by 40,000 people.
Very sad. Especially since the Wendy Whitaker blowjob happened in 1996, the year that all the fat chicks were doing it.
I'll post mine right here on Slashdot. It's 078-05-1120
- Hilda Whitcher
Can't we pass a law for that?
I can't believe I haven't seen this listed in the discussion yet:
Whether you are interviewing for a sales position or a technical position, you should ask a "sales-closing" question.
You: "Now that you've had a chance to meet me, and to review my qualifications, are there any issues that concern you, that would prevent you from making me an offer?"
Here's your chance to allow the interviewer to tell you what's bothering him or her about you. And your chance to address it.
Interviewer: "Well, I'm really concerned about your lack of experience doing design work."
You: "Oh, well, I didn't state it explicitly, but I did the design work on Project X, Y, and a significant part of Z, as part of a design team."
Interviewer: "oooh, I'm glad you cleared that up!"
If you are the "BMW" candidate, then you have a recognized reputation in your industry, and then you can pull off the "I am confident in my value; convince me why you are the best company for me".
However, if you are like 95%+ of the candidates out there, your first interview is your first impression, and a humble, "I'm here to work my butt off, and am confident I will be appropriately compensated" approach in the INTERVIEWING process is the best way to secure an offer.
You can always negotiate after you secure an offer, or at least ask to better understand the terms of the offer (like "what benefits are included in this offer?")
well, asking about benefits is a "what's in it for me" -type question. Few people can pull it off without sounding greedy.
If you have confidence, and they you have already sold them on your capability, then you are in the negotiating phase, and it's ok to discuss the potential terms of an agreement. But if you are interviewing, and do not have an industry reputation that someone would recognize (i.e. 95%+ of the people out there), then you should stick to a confident, modest, non-greedy approach.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm coming from a background of having interviewed over a thousand candidates and seeing what works and what doesn't.
So yeah, if you want to critique me, have at it. I'm the one who has never been unemployed, never been under-employed, and most always been on the HIRING end (not the desperate for a job -end) of the interviewing process.
So good luck to you and your pair, Mr. Anonymous Coward. Maybe your pair is too large for your pants, and that's why your asshole is showing through on the back-side.
DO NOT ask about benefits in the interview, ESPECIALLY in the first interview.
Your mission in the "interview" process is to sell yourself, NOT to negotiate (or even understand) the terms of an offer. Separate the interview process from the negotiation process.
Asking about benefits is comparable to a car sales person asking the prospective buyer about his capability to afford the car. (In other words, you would only do it as a "qualifying question", if you seriously doubted the company's capability to meet your requirements.) Good car sales people get you wanting the car, and sell features of the car before talking details of the offer. Once you want the car, as a potential buyer, you have overcome a major hurdle - it's *this* car over any other, provided we can come to terms. Then they start working the terms.
No, don't talk benefits or pay. Instead, sell yourself, and then once you have them wanting you (instead of hundreds of your competitors), find out the details of the offer. Then feel free to negotiate better terms.
The only 2 exceptions I can think of are if you want to qualify the company, or if you have VERY unusual requirements for benefits. For instance, if you have a dying out-of-town parent, you may want to touch on the vacation issue. This is something that most everyone can be empathetic to, and if you approach it in a way that is honest and human, and shows that you are willing to *give* in order to *get* what you want (like "I have a personal situation with a dying parent and so I'd like to work 50 hour weeks, so that I can take a few extra days off in the first two months. What's the company's flexibility to such short-term arrangements?" ...even that should be a "late in the interviewing process"-type question.
You are exactly right. Artificial kidneys aren't created by emulating every cell. The overall function is emulated.
Same approach should be taken to emulate the brain.
(PS, this is not an original idea; I read it in Kurzweil's book.)
Outlook and IE don't use the ribbon. Hardly evidence that the Ribbon is inconsistent.
I wonder why Microsoft would have a page on their site titled "Customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007", then. (dated June 2006 - this is NOT news!)
Sorry, Outlook DOES use the ribbon, and mail is likely the office application that is used by more users than any other application, including probably Word, definitely Excel, and definitely Powerpoint. Then trying to use those "learnings" from Outlook on Word or Excel is pointless.
Really! I shouldn't speak too tech to the users...
Example icons: Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, even The Namesake Carl.
Word and Excel have SOME consistency (except that they sometimes call it Find, sometimes Find and Replace. Sometimes it's an icon, sometimes it's not.) Sometimes it's a big icon, sometimes it's small. Now, let's go to Outlook:
Let's try to follow your instructions, when creating a new message in Outlook. Home tab? there isn't one. Maybe you mean the Message Tab which is located where the Home tab is in Word: Far Right? That's Spelling. No, Find is under "Format Text". How intuitive.
Next try to find "Find" when you are reading someone's message to you. Where's Find?
Now let's say you want to find a message in your Inbox. Where's find? OK let's try to find a message in a file folder. Where's find.
OK, let's go to Internet Explorer. Where's Find?
See? So much for consistency.
And using Ctrl-F proves my point. OK, so we're supposed to tell our users what? "I know the Ribbon sucks - just memorize this control sequence."
Any toolbar that needs a SEARCH to find SEARCH is broken.
That flippin' Find and Replace moves all over the place, from application to application. And if the Ribbon moves items based on usage (which it seems to), then it's a nightmare for support personnel:
"See the little icon next to Sort & Filter? You don't have Sort and Filter? OK what Icons do you have?"
Not to mention that Microsoft's categorization is just plain bad. Want to Insert a Powerpoint Slide? Don't press the Insert tab. Want to insert a row in Excel? Surely that's on the insert tab (nope).
Want to find out the Properties of a document in Word? Let's see, would Properties be under Home, Insert, Page Layout, Mailings, Review, View, or Add-Ins. I could make a case for several of those, but View seems to make the most sense... as in View Properties. But noooooooooooo .... it's under the "Click the unnamed icon with multi-colored squares on it, and press Prepare". WTF???
I've griped about this before... I'm sure the Ribbon has potential, IF IMPLEMENTED WELL, but it wasn't. Maybe Open Office will get it right.
I'm sure I'll get modded as a troll... but just to play devil's advocate...
Here are the facts: We humans generate a lot of plastic trash that we need to dispose of somewhere. If we put our best scientists on it, I can imagine at least one scientist coming up with a method whereby of utilizing natural forces to collect our trash, hammer away at it, break it down, and disperse it, instead of collecting it into landfills where it sits for eternity.
Here we have a natural trash collector, compactor, composter, slicer-dicer system, where the ocean currents pick up our trash and beat it to a pulp, and then gently disperse it out to the rest of the environment. And it's conveniently located no where near civilization, yet it collects trash from all over. Sure, some animal and plant lives are sacrificed, but might it be a sound part of our overall trash strategy, had we planned it, instead of just discovering it?
Maybe Mother Nature knows better than us, in this case! Yes, Mother Nature. That MILF
To whom it may concern:
I most enthusiastically recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever. There is nothing you can teach her. You would indeed be fortunate to get this person to work for you. She could not care less about the number of hours she will have to put in.
She's an unbelievable worker. Her true ability is deceiving. It seems her career is just taking off; a woman like her is hard to find.
Every hour with her is a happy hour. We generally found her loaded with work to do. I feel her real talent is being wasted here.
I can assure you that no person would be better for the job.
I would urge you to waste no time in making this candidate an offer of employment. All in all, I cannot say enough good things about this candidate or recommend her too highly.
2.7 would be a B- or C+ average (4 point scale).
take a percentage grade, and convert it to a letter grade. With many teachers it's 90-100 = A, 80-90 = B, 70-80 = C, 60-70 = D, 0-59 = F. (Some teachers use 93-100, 85-92, 77-84, 70-76, 0-69)
Then take the letter grade and convert it to a number: A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. (Some Schools permit minuses and pluses: A/A+=4.0, A-=3.6, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.6, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.6, D+=1.3, D=1.0)
Then use a weighted average based on course hours (5 classroom hours are worth 5 credits, and the grade affects your GPA 5 times as much as 1-credit hour courses). 4 year degrees might be about 128 hours (16 hours per semester x 2 semesters/yr, x 4 years).
These are high school students at public schools. FERPA regulations require that the schools keep their academic records confidential, including any contractors that the school uses.
Add to your list ANY "person of interest". Movie stars, TV commentators, congressmen, city council, high school teachers, suspects in crimes, corporate executives, priests and ministers, newspaper columnists. If I could dig up Bill O'Reilly's high school papers, or my English Teacher's high school papers, I think that would be interesting. I rest easy, knowing that I could burn mine at the end of the year, and they can't haunt me for life. Especially the assignment to "Defend Communism".
Actually, the terms that the student agree to specifically permit TurnItIn to do just that. Have you read them? I have.
"With regard to papers submitted to the Site, You hereby grant iParadigms a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, world-wide, irrevocable license to reproduce, transmit, display, disclose, archive and otherwise use in connection with its Services any paper You submit to the Site..."
In other words, "if you become famous, we can sell your paper to the highest bidder."
So unless you can successfully defend that no person that is in high school right now will ever become famous, your argument doesn't hold up.
How ironic! An ethics course!
PLEASE contact that lawyer with this example! This would be an interesting case to see in court. I hope you saved one of your papers, and that it was unpublished elsewhere.
My bet would be that if one student wins a copyright suit against Turnitin for a paper that was submitted by their teacher, then the whole validity of the service will be in question. After that, going to your school and complaining about the REQUIREMENT of PERMANENTLY ARCHIVING your academic work should be a fight you can win.
I read an interesting perspective yesterday (I wish I could site the source! shame on me...)
One of the judges ruled that TurnItIn actually provides a benefit to the student, by protecting his/her work from being copied. This judge's logic is flawed, and here's why:
Not knowing what school your wife teaches at, I could only look at representative samples online. A quick google search of "syllabus fall 2009" to find representative syllabi shows that this is not the case (instructors do NOT mention rescheduling). None of the first ten contained any mention (as far as I could find) of rescheduling. Several had firm schedules and firm commitments, such as "I will hold office hours once per week", "There will be two 50 minute lectures each week", "Upon completion of this course, students will be able to...", as well as specific meeting times and test dates.
I can see "holes' in every one of the ten that I examined - cases in which the teacher may not live up to their "legal commitment", if the syllabus were considered a legal contract.
If these are expected to be legal, binding contracts, lawyers would be salivating over the possibilities. Go take a course. If you get less than an "A", threaten to sue on the grounds that the instructor didn't live up to their contract.
Nope, I'm not buying it.