Thanks for posting, and I view yours as a reminder. For every poster who says "I had a rocket that destroyed 60 square feet of the earth near where I was standing, and I'm all ok", there's others who are
a) deceased
b) unable to post 'cause of injury
I suspect also that/. posters may be on the more scientific/careful (subtext: likely to survive) side of the population. Were we to ask this question at ClumsyDot, or somesuch, we'd see a lot more issues.
"Often found"... why, oh why, can't psychologists do statistical analysis? From TFA "They found that people who excelled when they were 16 years old were four times as likely to go on to develop bipolar disorder," Jamison said". That's something. And sample size was 700,000. Great. But that's just Sweden. And they're linking Genius-level to Bipolar disorder. What else did they look for... examples: how many were vegetarians? Or had red hair? Or were named Lars? Or came from broken homes?
"oh my god, and he did not even call me back, and i waited two hours. i dont play that. i dont know what im going to do. i mean, like, if it was his mother or something thats one thing, but to call me like that. and heres the other thing, we went to subway and i asked for bread, and you know, i like the flat bread, because im watching my carbs, and he just went ahead and.."
"yeah. well, you know, thats not what they told me last week, i mean, you can check with them, but last week they said we needed the x stroke form unless it was filed before april 28, now, was it? let me check the date on that. ok see here? april 27. so that means its 24 hours before the cutoff, so that means we need to have the other form, the y form. not the x form. which is what you have there. you see? whoever did this fucked it all up and now we have to fix it. "
"you feel me? i was all up in her grill talking about how she need to step off. this is my house, you dont come into my house and start all that mess. with my boy. i dont care if she is his girlfriend or not, there are rules, and then the are rules. she doesnt even have a job, and she came in here talking all this mess about he owes me this, he owes me that. let me tell you what i told her, i told her.. "
Hey, where do you sit? I'm the redhead by the window, waving....
I've seen my own share of job postings where it is clear the job will be a nightmare just by the way they word it.
I saw one job advertised in Brussels for someone who knew COBOL85, spoke English, French and preferably Flemish. Now, THAT will be a small sub-group of a small starting group. Where's the Venn diagram generator....
FWIW - I suspect a whole subgroup of our species is more susceptible to advertising/meme following/trends (call it what you will). A new Ipad is out - that's it, I've just got to have it. A new Beamer, a new TV, a new household accessory, a new holiday destination, a new school, a new suburb, a new pair of shoes...
Used to be called keeping up with the Joneses. Nor sure what it is now. Marketeers just love these people.
Damn, it's only a memo about improving a video game? I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol. (Yeah, and here come all the non-Americans to talk about how superior it is to basketball/baseball/football. I don't care. Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch.)
As far as I know Memorial day is only observed in the US of A.
True.
On the other hand, only the USA had the US Civil War, which is what Memorial Day commemorated, back in the day.
Not quite true. The whole world has the US Civil war in its past. The same way the whole world had the English Civil war, the French revolution... each event shapes our world, whether it happens in our country or not.
Many a year ago (back when I started out: clue - I bought the Joe Walsh LP with 'Life's been good' on it on the same trip...) I got interviewed by employers in the UK. On my CV (which was thin in those days) I'd put that I played boardgames. The interviewers asked why this was relevant. Thinking on my feet, I replied that it showed experience in conflict resolution and teamwork. I think it did, and I still do.
Not sure why a PC/video game would show that the player had teamwork. Maybe the potential employer would be better off sitting the candidates around a 'Diplomacy' board and coming back in three hours. And not necessarily hiring the winner, but the one that
a) Everyone got along with
b) Did ok, considering the starting position
c) Didn't argue every *&^%ing point...
Good source of potential emails for spammers though, huh?
"Greetings ; I noticed that you care about the rights of fellow men. Good for you. My husband, Dr Nodal Momorani was imprisoned and killed, and I am trying to distribute his $30 million...." etc etc..
Really - it'll be a plane crash, robbery, airline stupidity ("Sir, we think your briefcase is in Delhi, but it might be in Tokyo") or your own stupidity.
Work on recovering from it's loss, rather than making sure it doesn't get lost.
Not what you think (I can see you sniggering...). My sax teacher had a brown-out, and it jerked his RAID-5 in his PC and fried an external HDD. I got the RAID back, but he's still working on the external - fitting a new actuator (?). A brownout (imho) is a period of extremely low voltage. In his case, caused by some ham-handedness by the power boys working on his street. Both he and I have since bought a UPS for PC equipment where we didn't have it before. Eaton 5110 for me. Dynxmix for him.
Anyhow - (imho) UPS guards against brownouts and surges. Against lightning strikes... I suspect it'll do its best but no guarantees. Even the guarantee in the equipment probably has a get-out, or a limited liability. Better to light one candle than curse the darkness though...
I tried the gym, didn't like it (pounding music at high volume, and my headphones didn't help). Gym bunnies abound and those who weren't have odd... er... personal issues.
But a dog... always likes walking. Fresh air, easy exercise, a happy animal who likes spending time with you... and it keeps me off the couch. So I'm watching less tv, DVDs, and haven't got the high score on the latest game. Big deal.
Wealth of books out there, it's fairly easy, and the "Express Edition" is free (and comes with a free Visual Studio). It looks good on a CV, makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, guaranteed to put hair on a billiard ball... sorry, but you get the idea. Python's fine, but most fun is had in C#. YMMV, of course.
This is something that I feel has been lost in recent years, and I blame the political correctness garbage.
I work with people every day that have no job to do. I'm not talking about the typical "I'm the backbone of the company and without me they'd sink" attitude that so many people have. I mean they literally sit and play solitaire all day. They aren't doing bad work, because they don't have any to do.
Companies have a choice - you can be overstaffed when there's no crisis and have people sitting (basically) idle - but hopefully doing self-education (hopefully not minesweeper, but...) or be understaffed when there is a crisis. Most companies prefer the former.
The 9/11 plot wasn't designed to maximize casualties but for maximum psychological impact--that's why they went for the spectacular image of jumbo jets flying into skyscrapers. How many people can still easily recall the images of that day? That was the whole point. The number of people killed was a bonus for AQ, it just wasn't the point of the attack.
Not that I don't agree with your point, but the planes weren't jumbos - which are 747s. They were 767s. This could be an example of the psychological impact being larger than the facts themselves, causing inflation of the facts. And as Voltaire said, to the living we owe respect - to the dead we owe only the truth.
But leave out the things that cast the U.S. to unfavorably, unless it is politically correct to do so (as with slavery). For example, the British burned the White House, but you'll rarely see a word in U.S. history books about the U.S. burning the houses of parliament in Canada first.
Citation needed. Seriously - you're talking the war of 1812? I didn't know the US got that far into Canada.
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Thanks for posting, and I view yours as a reminder. For every poster who says "I had a rocket that destroyed 60 square feet of the earth near where I was standing, and I'm all ok", there's others who are
/. posters may be on the more scientific/careful (subtext: likely to survive) side of the population. Were we to ask this question at ClumsyDot, or somesuch, we'd see a lot more issues.
a) deceased
b) unable to post 'cause of injury
I suspect also that
(Count the hits, ignore the misses....)
"Often found" ... why, oh why, can't psychologists do statistical analysis? From TFA "They found that people who excelled when they were 16 years old were four times as likely to go on to develop bipolar disorder," Jamison said". That's something. And sample size was 700,000. Great. But that's just Sweden. And they're linking Genius-level to Bipolar disorder. What else did they look for ... examples: how many were vegetarians? Or had red hair? Or were named Lars? Or came from broken homes?
I read a book once, it was about ... ancient Chinese flying carts...
1421? And what a bunch of junk that was...
here is the shit i block out
"oh my god, and he did not even call me back, and i waited two hours. i dont play that. i dont know what im going to do. i mean, like, if it was his mother or something thats one thing, but to call me like that. and heres the other thing, we went to subway and i asked for bread, and you know, i like the flat bread, because im watching my carbs, and he just went ahead and.."
"yeah. well, you know, thats not what they told me last week, i mean, you can check with them, but last week they said we needed the x stroke form unless it was filed before april 28, now, was it? let me check the date on that. ok see here? april 27. so that means its 24 hours before the cutoff, so that means we need to have the other form, the y form. not the x form. which is what you have there. you see? whoever did this fucked it all up and now we have to fix it. "
"you feel me? i was all up in her grill talking about how she need to step off. this is my house, you dont come into my house and start all that mess. with my boy. i dont care if she is his girlfriend or not, there are rules, and then the are rules. she doesnt even have a job, and she came in here talking all this mess about he owes me this, he owes me that. let me tell you what i told her, i told her.. "
Hey, where do you sit? I'm the redhead by the window, waving ....
I've seen my own share of job postings where it is clear the job will be a nightmare just by the way they word it.
I saw one job advertised in Brussels for someone who knew COBOL85, spoke English, French and preferably Flemish. Now, THAT will be a small sub-group of a small starting group. Where's the Venn diagram generator....
FWIW - I suspect a whole subgroup of our species is more susceptible to advertising/meme following/trends (call it what you will). A new Ipad is out - that's it, I've just got to have it. A new Beamer, a new TV, a new household accessory, a new holiday destination, a new school, a new suburb, a new pair of shoes ...
Used to be called keeping up with the Joneses. Nor sure what it is now. Marketeers just love these people.
1) Security people don't have a sense of humour
2) Always talk nicely to someone with a gun
3) You can't fight city hall
The ex-accountant forgot #1. He's about to come up to #3.
Damn, it's only a memo about improving a video game? I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol. (Yeah, and here come all the non-Americans to talk about how superior it is to basketball/baseball/football. I don't care. Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch.)
You mean, the majority of the world's population?
True.
On the other hand, only the USA had the US Civil War, which is what Memorial Day commemorated, back in the day.
Not quite true. The whole world has the US Civil war in its past. The same way the whole world had the English Civil war, the French revolution ... each event shapes our world, whether it happens in our country or not.
Many a year ago (back when I started out: clue - I bought the Joe Walsh LP with 'Life's been good' on it on the same trip...) I got interviewed by employers in the UK. On my CV (which was thin in those days) I'd put that I played boardgames. The interviewers asked why this was relevant. Thinking on my feet, I replied that it showed experience in conflict resolution and teamwork. I think it did, and I still do.
...
Not sure why a PC/video game would show that the player had teamwork. Maybe the potential employer would be better off sitting the candidates around a 'Diplomacy' board and coming back in three hours. And not necessarily hiring the winner, but the one that
a) Everyone got along with
b) Did ok, considering the starting position
c) Didn't argue every *&^%ing point
and yes, I got the job.
Find cool tech developed by start up
Rip it off
Don't worry about lawsuit since risk is too great
You missed out "Profit!"
According the The Reg, James Doohan's ashes are aboard. Boldly go, Scotty. We miss you
James Doohan was an actor. You do know that, don't you? Would you be as misty-eyed should (say) Cary Grant's ashes go up?
Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair
I guess it's the largest science fair, but I'm not sure anymore, no faith in the submission being accurate.
You mean, like the baseball competition that has about half-a-dozen countries in it, is called the 'World Series'?
(Related story - I heard once that someone watching the Oxford-Cambridge boat race wondered aloud why the same two teams always got to the finals)
Cars and Facebook in the same string .... now, if we can just bring in Linux somehow... throw in a dash of conspiracy theory ...
Who'd have thought it?
Good source of potential emails for spammers though, huh?
...." etc etc..
"Greetings ; I noticed that you care about the rights of fellow men. Good for you. My husband, Dr Nodal Momorani was imprisoned and killed, and I am trying to distribute his $30 million
No disrespect to the student.
Really - it'll be a plane crash, robbery, airline stupidity ("Sir, we think your briefcase is in Delhi, but it might be in Tokyo") or your own stupidity.
Work on recovering from it's loss, rather than making sure it doesn't get lost.
Not what you think (I can see you sniggering...). My sax teacher had a brown-out, and it jerked his RAID-5 in his PC and fried an external HDD. I got the RAID back, but he's still working on the external - fitting a new actuator (?). A brownout (imho) is a period of extremely low voltage. In his case, caused by some ham-handedness by the power boys working on his street. Both he and I have since bought a UPS for PC equipment where we didn't have it before. Eaton 5110 for me. Dynxmix for him.
... I suspect it'll do its best but no guarantees. Even the guarantee in the equipment probably has a get-out, or a limited liability. Better to light one candle than curse the darkness though ...
Anyhow - (imho) UPS guards against brownouts and surges. Against lightning strikes
I tried the gym, didn't like it (pounding music at high volume, and my headphones didn't help). Gym bunnies abound and those who weren't have odd ... er ... personal issues.
... always likes walking. Fresh air, easy exercise, a happy animal who likes spending time with you ... and it keeps me off the couch. So I'm watching less tv, DVDs, and haven't got the high score on the latest game. Big deal.
But a dog
Wealth of books out there, it's fairly easy, and the "Express Edition" is free (and comes with a free Visual Studio). It looks good on a CV, makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, guaranteed to put hair on a billiard ball ... sorry, but you get the idea. Python's fine, but most fun is had in C#. YMMV, of course.
http://xkcd.com/932/
This is something that I feel has been lost in recent years, and I blame the political correctness garbage.
I work with people every day that have no job to do. I'm not talking about the typical "I'm the backbone of the company and without me they'd sink" attitude that so many people have. I mean they literally sit and play solitaire all day. They aren't doing bad work, because they don't have any to do.
Companies have a choice - you can be overstaffed when there's no crisis and have people sitting (basically) idle - but hopefully doing self-education (hopefully not minesweeper, but...) or be understaffed when there is a crisis. Most companies prefer the former.
The 9/11 plot wasn't designed to maximize casualties but for maximum psychological impact--that's why they went for the spectacular image of jumbo jets flying into skyscrapers. How many people can still easily recall the images of that day? That was the whole point. The number of people killed was a bonus for AQ, it just wasn't the point of the attack.
Not that I don't agree with your point, but the planes weren't jumbos - which are 747s. They were 767s. This could be an example of the psychological impact being larger than the facts themselves, causing inflation of the facts. And as Voltaire said, to the living we owe respect - to the dead we owe only the truth.
Hey! Don't dis the Sonic!
But leave out the things that cast the U.S. to unfavorably, unless it is politically correct to do so (as with slavery). For example, the British burned the White House, but you'll rarely see a word in U.S. history books about the U.S. burning the houses of parliament in Canada first.
Citation needed. Seriously - you're talking the war of 1812? I didn't know the US got that far into Canada.