"Seriously though, how can a golf ball have 11 patents on it?"
I have never played golf, and I know the answers to this. Seriously, though, have you done even a minimal amount of research into how golf balls are designed and manufactured?
If so, you would not have asked the question except rhetorically. You're welcome.
0. Promote political articles to your feed based on 'criteria'. 1. Censor or demote (or delete) political articles based on content and decisions (aka someone's ideology). 2. Offer a link to elected representatives to react based on promoted or censored articles, though not on deleted articles. 3. Profit!
1: HOAs. Even with a decent HOA, you are still spending hundreds of dollars of month, with the HOA assessment being raised 10% every year for nothing. Of course, there are the neighbors with no life just looking for any small violation to call in. In the suburbs I pay much less than $100/mo for the HOA, and they maintain park space, a sand volleyball court, and all the interior roads in the development I live in.
2: You never know what the hell is lurking outside when going to your vehicle. Nothing like dealing with people skulking around, flipping car door handles, in hopes of landing the big one. Suburbia has its share of crime, but not a lot in my town, substantially lower than average
3: You really can't do much. Want to raise a garden, have a few chickens for some eggs? Good luck.I can't actually raise livestock (HOA) nor do I have room to farm, which is ok.
4: Way too dense. Small things can turn into big pissing contests.And they don't do this down at the Costco?
5: Bums. Easy bus line means that you may find winos passed out in your doorway after he flicked a few cig butts in your mail slot. Or he might be trying to be aggressive and panhandle.Plenty of panhandlers all over here, suburbs and cities. The bus stops are clear of them, the transit comp figured that out, but the light rail is entertaining
6: Drunken parties. Some dipshit rents their place to weekend guests via a short term rental service, and guess what. All parking winds up taken, and the police start becoming common visitors due to noise and drunken incidents that involve broken glass and mutual combat.Well, we keep those in the backyard so we can send our guest home behind the wheel. Feh.
7: Crime. Other than NYC, US cities really don't do much for this element. If you want to raise kids safely, you take them to the suburbs, where there are playgrounds, pools, and other kid-friendly amenities.And police that do their jobs
8: Sirens and emergency vehicles, late at night.Ditto. The burbs got fires and old people too
Actually, I deal with an internal web app that does something similar, poor performance with diffing agent strings being presented, between IE9/11, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox browsers hitting it and getting very very different experiences.
The cause is attempts at code optimizations, some not done well at all. Despite their best efforts, none of our tech teams can blame some grand conspiracy with Microsoft, since no motive exists for this.
But our users find evidence when IE works so much better than, for instance, Chrome. Until a month ago, that is, when the JVMs got to be working properly, and woot, now IE is the slog despite working just as before, and Chrome is blazingly fast. Now it's a grand conspiracy to kill IE use at the enterprise level.
Ya can't win, ya know. whatever you do, if the browsers get different performance results, you're doing it deliberately, because there is some reason...
More reason to avoid web programming. Servicing is still a sweet spot around here.
I work from home one day a week. And I miss having team mates handy to discuss something quick, or refresh my memory on an issue, or jsut to hear what they are doing and realize we have a site wide issue ballooning.
Working from home all the time would diminish our effectiveness. I'm not really happy being isolated that one day, but we adapt for that. To rely on 'instant' chat would be annoying - Skype for Business is annoying by itself, offering to make calls when all I wanted was the phone number off the contact page, please stop trying to help me, ok? OK?
While this may be a ploy to do a RIF without being spotted, around here the open plan cubeless floor layout was sold initially as a collaborative enhancement, then to permit teams to be flexibly located, and finally, the truth - save space when average vacancies were 20-30% every day but Friday when it was 80%. An instant reduction in required real estate of 20-30% solved a few problems. Going to Agile development also aided this, but that doesn't lend itself to WAH, just closer teams and collaborative, face to face (aka noisy) work environments.
IBM might be doing either or both; RIF by relocating, or getting face to face back in the business. I'm frankly surprised that creative teams can function better apart than together, but that just means I define 'creative' differently than they do.
Security based on access control alone is inadequate. It must be supported by auditing and reporting.
Then you can audit enabling and use of services and access, justification and documentation of users and their accesses, and confirmation of declined/terminated access.
My freshman Earth Science Teacher in 1969 was aware of the burgeoning climate change movement. By senior year it was noticable to my O chem teacher, part of a discussion of systems and such.
I've got a set of paper forms that were an anomaly back 'then', when GIFs were a novelty and it took three days to download all 28 pages. Fairly cool at the time, it standardized the process. I worked at an office machine dealer and scanned a set of mimeograph stencils to run them off for bunches of people. Laser printers were too expensive for me, and dot matrix was ugly, but I could enhance the scan original with a few tricks.
Then I got the worst idea of my young life. Put all this into a dBase III+ database, build some forms, and get all interactive. Yeah, even a dice roller no one trusted. Just as well, it was my waste of time project.
Which coincided with my discovering and gaining access to NovaNET, Avatar, and ashamedly I'bee been playing that through three platform changes and 3 major revisions. And this is as much DnD as I will eve, ever need again.
Still I get emails from old players, asking if I'm programming anything mobile. D&D Beyond should stop those calls, except for one who will try and figure out if Drake is actually playing.
Correct. In 1972 you would have been taught that the Looming-Ice-Age warnings were loony, but that we were in fact in a somewhat exceptional warming era. And that we need not worry, these things somehow work out, and even if they do not we have no power to influence global climate.
This being taught in the Northeastern U.S., where we noticed it seemed to rain on the weekends more than we would have liked. And the lakes and ponds were yielding water rich in iron. And the pine forests were doing very well indeed. And the band played on.
I haven't put dates to my educational history in 20-+ years. I haven't included employment history further than 7 years for at least that long.
Since employers aren't really permitted to ask your age (AEDA), they shouldn't until it's time for as background check, and if they are big enough they should let HR/Personnel handle that information without revealing it to the hiring individual or team.
Wow. This is an anti-discrimination class-action suit waiting for a sponsor. Forcing dates out of you is forced age disclosure, and illegal.
Illegal. And it's not even new. Not surprising though.
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This is starting to read like the intro to a Neal Stephenson novel. Just need to do almost as much research and development as he does...
"Seriously though, how can a golf ball have 11 patents on it?"
I have never played golf, and I know the answers to this. Seriously, though, have you done even a minimal amount of research into how golf balls are designed and manufactured?
If so, you would not have asked the question except rhetorically. You're welcome.
0. Promote political articles to your feed based on 'criteria'.
1. Censor or demote (or delete) political articles based on content and decisions (aka someone's ideology).
2. Offer a link to elected representatives to react based on promoted or censored articles, though not on deleted articles.
3. Profit!
What could be wrong with any of this?
Working outside their area of expertise.
Say what you like but as a manager or supervisory type, HR better be your friend, or you will be hammered in court. And fired.
The dumb was/is strong in these Uber managers. Makes me want to buy another car just to say no to Uber.
1: HOAs. Even with a decent HOA, you are still spending hundreds of dollars of month, with the HOA assessment being raised 10% every year for nothing. Of course, there are the neighbors with no life just looking for any small violation to call in. In the suburbs I pay much less than $100/mo for the HOA, and they maintain park space, a sand volleyball court, and all the interior roads in the development I live in.
2: You never know what the hell is lurking outside when going to your vehicle. Nothing like dealing with people skulking around, flipping car door handles, in hopes of landing the big one. Suburbia has its share of crime, but not a lot in my town, substantially lower than average
3: You really can't do much. Want to raise a garden, have a few chickens for some eggs? Good luck.I can't actually raise livestock (HOA) nor do I have room to farm, which is ok.
4: Way too dense. Small things can turn into big pissing contests.And they don't do this down at the Costco?
5: Bums. Easy bus line means that you may find winos passed out in your doorway after he flicked a few cig butts in your mail slot. Or he might be trying to be aggressive and panhandle.Plenty of panhandlers all over here, suburbs and cities. The bus stops are clear of them, the transit comp figured that out, but the light rail is entertaining
6: Drunken parties. Some dipshit rents their place to weekend guests via a short term rental service, and guess what. All parking winds up taken, and the police start becoming common visitors due to noise and drunken incidents that involve broken glass and mutual combat.Well, we keep those in the backyard so we can send our guest home behind the wheel. Feh.
7: Crime. Other than NYC, US cities really don't do much for this element. If you want to raise kids safely, you take them to the suburbs, where there are playgrounds, pools, and other kid-friendly amenities.And police that do their jobs
8: Sirens and emergency vehicles, late at night.Ditto. The burbs got fires and old people too
Actually, I deal with an internal web app that does something similar, poor performance with diffing agent strings being presented, between IE9/11, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox browsers hitting it and getting very very different experiences.
The cause is attempts at code optimizations, some not done well at all. Despite their best efforts, none of our tech teams can blame some grand conspiracy with Microsoft, since no motive exists for this.
But our users find evidence when IE works so much better than, for instance, Chrome. Until a month ago, that is, when the JVMs got to be working properly, and woot, now IE is the slog despite working just as before, and Chrome is blazingly fast. Now it's a grand conspiracy to kill IE use at the enterprise level.
Ya can't win, ya know. whatever you do, if the browsers get different performance results, you're doing it deliberately, because there is some reason...
More reason to avoid web programming. Servicing is still a sweet spot around here.
You still don't understand.
The RNC isn't supposed to be in control. You don't understand what happened.
Time to have the public accommodation debate.
how about being able to cast to your TV and still have a screen on your phone to control video? or whatever?
---Or they don't know how to IM while scanning the minutiae email...
I work from home one day a week. And I miss having team mates handy to discuss something quick, or refresh my memory on an issue, or jsut to hear what they are doing and realize we have a site wide issue ballooning.
Working from home all the time would diminish our effectiveness. I'm not really happy being isolated that one day, but we adapt for that. To rely on 'instant' chat would be annoying - Skype for Business is annoying by itself, offering to make calls when all I wanted was the phone number off the contact page, please stop trying to help me, ok? OK?
While this may be a ploy to do a RIF without being spotted, around here the open plan cubeless floor layout was sold initially as a collaborative enhancement, then to permit teams to be flexibly located, and finally, the truth - save space when average vacancies were 20-30% every day but Friday when it was 80%. An instant reduction in required real estate of 20-30% solved a few problems. Going to Agile development also aided this, but that doesn't lend itself to WAH, just closer teams and collaborative, face to face (aka noisy) work environments.
IBM might be doing either or both; RIF by relocating, or getting face to face back in the business. I'm frankly surprised that creative teams can function better apart than together, but that just means I define 'creative' differently than they do.
Security based on access control alone is inadequate. It must be supported by auditing and reporting.
Then you can audit enabling and use of services and access, justification and documentation of users and their accesses, and confirmation of declined/terminated access.
Not if they all die...
0. Wrong equation. The value can be expressed as an opposing warrior denied ammunition, or food, for instance.
1. The ultimate value of disrupting enemy supply chains may be your girlfriend's brother not being shot.
Probably not. Not the most dangerous spectrum.
Tell that to the paper industry. And step back.
How did you activate it?
My freshman Earth Science Teacher in 1969 was aware of the burgeoning climate change movement. By senior year it was noticable to my O chem teacher, part of a discussion of systems and such.
I've got a set of paper forms that were an anomaly back 'then', when GIFs were a novelty and it took three days to download all 28 pages. Fairly cool at the time, it standardized the process. I worked at an office machine dealer and scanned a set of mimeograph stencils to run them off for bunches of people. Laser printers were too expensive for me, and dot matrix was ugly, but I could enhance the scan original with a few tricks.
Then I got the worst idea of my young life. Put all this into a dBase III+ database, build some forms, and get all interactive. Yeah, even a dice roller no one trusted. Just as well, it was my waste of time project.
Which coincided with my discovering and gaining access to NovaNET, Avatar, and ashamedly I'bee been playing that through three platform changes and 3 major revisions. And this is as much DnD as I will eve, ever need again.
Still I get emails from old players, asking if I'm programming anything mobile. D&D Beyond should stop those calls, except for one who will try and figure out if Drake is actually playing.
As in, the truth hurts?
Really. They wouldn't would they?
So you don't even use an Android phone.
What was your point?
"How many times have you updated an application and found the UI worse (such as filled with ads) or doesn't work as well?"
Actually, not that many. Over 8+ years as an Android user, most apps have survived the upgrades with minimal problems. Exceptions, yes, but not many.
Ads have proliferated across the entirety of the app spectrum. That's a canard. Users should accept updates or get an iPhone.
Correct. In 1972 you would have been taught that the Looming-Ice-Age warnings were loony, but that we were in fact in a somewhat exceptional warming era. And that we need not worry, these things somehow work out, and even if they do not we have no power to influence global climate.
This being taught in the Northeastern U.S., where we noticed it seemed to rain on the weekends more than we would have liked. And the lakes and ponds were yielding water rich in iron. And the pine forests were doing very well indeed. And the band played on.
I haven't put dates to my educational history in 20-+ years. I haven't included employment history further than 7 years for at least that long.
Since employers aren't really permitted to ask your age (AEDA), they shouldn't until it's time for as background check, and if they are big enough they should let HR/Personnel handle that information without revealing it to the hiring individual or team.
Wow. This is an anti-discrimination class-action suit waiting for a sponsor. Forcing dates out of you is forced age disclosure, and illegal.
Illegal. And it's not even new. Not surprising though.