Bullshit. If you want the job, you do whatever the employer asks to prove you have the qualifications. Unless you work is universally known, like John Carmack, or Linus Torvalds, you're never too good to take an entrance exam.
However locally, some of us ARE a bit recognised like that. And those who don't recognise you, or haven't seen any of your work, why would you want to work for them when you can continue doing your own thing and collecting the community's recognition?
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women have *never* felt comfortable working topless.
But I thought it helps you concentrate when we can see your bewbs O.o
the xIAA are targeting P2P users, so people move away from P2P. what's traffic shaping got to do with it?
All the non-techie people I know continue to use P2P like it was the year 2000. It's only the people who know their oats that use any other services or protocols, and most of those guys switched when Metallica went apeshit at the start of the century.
Nothing changed over the xIAA lawsuits, as far as I can tell.
Or, which is likelier, most peopel just switched to encrypted p2p, which means that even if they know it looks like p2p traffic, they can't sue you over it because it's illegal to prove there was something illegal inside the encrypted traffic.
Because it would suck. What happens when you slash, but your opponent blocks? Now your hands are pointing at the ground because it didn't physically stop YOU... but in the game your sword is at chest level. There are other issues as well.
One word: gyros. If they can keep a segway up, they can block a sword.
Ok this is getting rather ridiculous. What's the point of having such a controller? If you're doing all that running around and stuff anyway, why not just go out and... you know, do some actual sports?
Why are they doing all of this and still leaving behind the single best application of the wiimote - swordfights. That's the only place where I can see a benefit from doing sports electronically since it's a lot friendlier to slash at your friends with an electronic sword rather than a real one.
What's next? Everyone wears a Wiimote-shirt that can read smashing into other players so it can translate said readings into electronic caricatures of the game?
Reading off of one monitor and typing into the other is still multitasking unless you're simultaneously spellproofing your typing while reading. Not flicking your eyes to and fro, but actually reading the two inputs at once.
As for the projects, just how real-time supervision do they need? I still think it's more likely you're doing it on a time-slice basis like a CPU.
That's exactly what I try to do. Why waste those 5 minutes when you can shorten them to 2 minutes by doing something else and letting your mind wander effectively?
The trick is to stop slacking quickly enough and it's really quite tough sometimes:P
And yes, I know it's not really multitasking, but it looks like multitasking to the outside world.
I would consider multi-tasking having multiple jobs going at once. This is a daily requirement in my field. I have to manage around 20 employees, streamline processes, stay on top of corporate projects, and still roll up my sleeves to help them with their daily work (due to cut-backs).
If they want to study how people multi-task, study some people who are actually working and not just watching tv or blogging.
So you've basically set up a combination of polling and interruption events? You do your own thing and once in a while check on background processes, or give them some attention if there's an interupt?
That's not multitasking, not really anyway. Real multitasking is being able to read while pouring a cup of tea. (for example)
In fact, I cannot understand folks that listen to music and work -- I do like having my headphones on, but that's only because it blocks out the external noise that's distracting.
I'm one of those people who can't work in quiet places. How do you do it? How do you keep your paranoia of something jumping you from behind so low as to be able to concentrate in a quiet environment?
Personally I need something loud to shut out the outside world, I don't actually process what I hear, I just use it to swamp my audio input so I can't hear myself think (for some reason I hate listening to my internal dialogues) and so I can disregard any audio input as simply being part of the din, thus being able to focus very well.
I think this is partly because most animals (humans are animals) have an instant override in their brain for sudden audio input, since that increases the likelihood of survival in a dangerous situation.
I multitask a lot, but I've only been doing it after learning how a computer does it - you know, that same computer INCAPABLE of real multitasking? Yeah, humans should do it like that as well.
The trick is to use a divide and conquer algorithm on your tasks and divide them into chunks of just the right size - too small and you'll have too much overhead switching processes, too little and you'll essentially reach a dead-lock situation where everything is waiting for you to finish that one thing.
What works for me is, for example, reading a chapter of a textbook, followed by a few minutes on slashdot and whatnot, then going back to the book and so forth ad nauseum.
This way you're always multitasking without actually multitasking and you get a lot more done than just focusing on one task for a few hours, then on another for a few more hours and so on.
I'm one of those people who hates seeing mums with their strollers everywhere as well. But for a different reason, they remind me how I still haven't gone odne a vassectomy and am sexually active... it's very frustrating this prospect of losing one's whole future to something as silly as two halves of a genome accidentally making a new infinitely replicating (cancerous?) cell.
Except I'm neither from the US or the UK, but Slovenia. I think we as a culture have quite a bit of respect for food, perhaps not as much as the french and italians, but we're not far off.
Anecdotal evidence everyone is probably familiar with seems to confirm this. When you're at the office all day and decide to eat a pizza for lunch it seems very obvious that you're at least half way out of commission for the rest of the day. I had always assumed it was simply because one gets so stuffed from pizza, but apparently the high fat content played a big role too.
Needless to say, I'm sticking to my low-fat diet with even more fervor henceforth... although an occasional blunder feels SO good! Not while working though, this study clearly showed that.
So, you either end up with people getting disillusioned with the promise of the game, or the concept of "fame" gets diluted so much as to be worthless.
But that's what makes the game realistic! If fame actually meant something that'd be boring, people actually _want_ fame to be meaningless while having a big face value upfront. It's why we've created the concept here at the biggest MMORPG everyone plays.
The cat starts on day one and never really stops. Most humans just fail to notice this subtle battle for superiority because cats are small and cuddly.
That's why my girlfriend's cat looks at you like you're an idiot when you ask it to get off the table, and when you ask mine (politely) she jumps off. Even just pointing to the floor gets her to jump off without complaints.
Haven't tried having a wolf for a pet yet, on the TODO list.
In short, yes, yes it is. But really, stereotypes exist for a reason and are a good heuristic to start with. It's only when people don't recognise it's just a heuristic and not a full-proof personality profile that problems arise.
In short, every person inherist from the base class Person.
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I'm sorry, butchery of the english language DOES make someone dumb.
And yet, a thousand years ago such a simple and paramount word as "have" was considered butchery of the English language.
Face it, English IS a butchered language and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Great, now when someone mentions BFS I won't be able to just assume Breadth First Search.
Another one for the Geeks-are-great-at-naming-things wall.
Bullshit. If you want the job, you do whatever the employer asks to prove you have the qualifications. Unless you work is universally known, like John Carmack, or Linus Torvalds, you're never too good to take an entrance exam.
However locally, some of us ARE a bit recognised like that. And those who don't recognise you, or haven't seen any of your work, why would you want to work for them when you can continue doing your own thing and collecting the community's recognition?
women have *never* felt comfortable working topless.
But I thought it helps you concentrate when we can see your bewbs O.o
the xIAA are targeting P2P users, so people move away from P2P. what's traffic shaping got to do with it?
All the non-techie people I know continue to use P2P like it was the year 2000. It's only the people who know their oats that use any other services or protocols, and most of those guys switched when Metallica went apeshit at the start of the century.
Nothing changed over the xIAA lawsuits, as far as I can tell.
Or, which is likelier, most peopel just switched to encrypted p2p, which means that even if they know it looks like p2p traffic, they can't sue you over it because it's illegal to prove there was something illegal inside the encrypted traffic.
Problem solved.
Oops, wanted to mod insightful, clicked wrong. Posting.
Because it would suck. What happens when you slash, but your opponent blocks? Now your hands are pointing at the ground because it didn't physically stop YOU... but in the game your sword is at chest level. There are other issues as well.
One word: gyros. If they can keep a segway up, they can block a sword.
Why's it even called American Football? Far as I can see from over the pond it's just a sissified version of rugby. (armour)
Ok this is getting rather ridiculous. What's the point of having such a controller? If you're doing all that running around and stuff anyway, why not just go out and ... you know, do some actual sports?
Why are they doing all of this and still leaving behind the single best application of the wiimote - swordfights. That's the only place where I can see a benefit from doing sports electronically since it's a lot friendlier to slash at your friends with an electronic sword rather than a real one.
What's next? Everyone wears a Wiimote-shirt that can read smashing into other players so it can translate said readings into electronic caricatures of the game?
Yes, torrents allow me to do all of that and more.
is still NOT multitasking***
:D
Stupid mistake
Reading off of one monitor and typing into the other is still multitasking unless you're simultaneously spellproofing your typing while reading. Not flicking your eyes to and fro, but actually reading the two inputs at once.
As for the projects, just how real-time supervision do they need? I still think it's more likely you're doing it on a time-slice basis like a CPU.
That's exactly what I try to do. Why waste those 5 minutes when you can shorten them to 2 minutes by doing something else and letting your mind wander effectively?
:P
The trick is to stop slacking quickly enough and it's really quite tough sometimes
And yes, I know it's not really multitasking, but it looks like multitasking to the outside world.
I would consider multi-tasking having multiple jobs going at once. This is a daily requirement in my field. I have to manage around 20 employees, streamline processes, stay on top of corporate projects, and still roll up my sleeves to help them with their daily work (due to cut-backs). If they want to study how people multi-task, study some people who are actually working and not just watching tv or blogging.
So you've basically set up a combination of polling and interruption events? You do your own thing and once in a while check on background processes, or give them some attention if there's an interupt?
That's not multitasking, not really anyway. Real multitasking is being able to read while pouring a cup of tea. (for example)
In fact, I cannot understand folks that listen to music and work -- I do like having my headphones on, but that's only because it blocks out the external noise that's distracting.
I'm one of those people who can't work in quiet places. How do you do it? How do you keep your paranoia of something jumping you from behind so low as to be able to concentrate in a quiet environment?
Personally I need something loud to shut out the outside world, I don't actually process what I hear, I just use it to swamp my audio input so I can't hear myself think (for some reason I hate listening to my internal dialogues) and so I can disregard any audio input as simply being part of the din, thus being able to focus very well.
I think this is partly because most animals (humans are animals) have an instant override in their brain for sudden audio input, since that increases the likelihood of survival in a dangerous situation.
I multitask a lot, but I've only been doing it after learning how a computer does it - you know, that same computer INCAPABLE of real multitasking? Yeah, humans should do it like that as well.
The trick is to use a divide and conquer algorithm on your tasks and divide them into chunks of just the right size - too small and you'll have too much overhead switching processes, too little and you'll essentially reach a dead-lock situation where everything is waiting for you to finish that one thing.
What works for me is, for example, reading a chapter of a textbook, followed by a few minutes on slashdot and whatnot, then going back to the book and so forth ad nauseum.
This way you're always multitasking without actually multitasking and you get a lot more done than just focusing on one task for a few hours, then on another for a few more hours and so on.
I'm one of those people who hates seeing mums with their strollers everywhere as well. But for a different reason, they remind me how I still haven't gone odne a vassectomy and am sexually active ... it's very frustrating this prospect of losing one's whole future to something as silly as two halves of a genome accidentally making a new infinitely replicating (cancerous?) cell.
brilliant move by the owner
Except I'm neither from the US or the UK, but Slovenia. I think we as a culture have quite a bit of respect for food, perhaps not as much as the french and italians, but we're not far off.
However takeaway pizza you can get at the office is very rarely healthy.
Anecdotal evidence everyone is probably familiar with seems to confirm this. When you're at the office all day and decide to eat a pizza for lunch it seems very obvious that you're at least half way out of commission for the rest of the day. I had always assumed it was simply because one gets so stuffed from pizza, but apparently the high fat content played a big role too.
... although an occasional blunder feels SO good! Not while working though, this study clearly showed that.
Needless to say, I'm sticking to my low-fat diet with even more fervor henceforth
So, you either end up with people getting disillusioned with the promise of the game, or the concept of "fame" gets diluted so much as to be worthless.
But that's what makes the game realistic! If fame actually meant something that'd be boring, people actually _want_ fame to be meaningless while having a big face value upfront. It's why we've created the concept here at the biggest MMORPG everyone plays.
The cat starts on day one and never really stops. Most humans just fail to notice this subtle battle for superiority because cats are small and cuddly.
That's why my girlfriend's cat looks at you like you're an idiot when you ask it to get off the table, and when you ask mine (politely) she jumps off. Even just pointing to the floor gets her to jump off without complaints.
Haven't tried having a wolf for a pet yet, on the TODO list.
No one is going to keep an animal that will challenge its owner for leadership.
Then why, pray tell, do we keep cats around?
In short, yes, yes it is. But really, stereotypes exist for a reason and are a good heuristic to start with. It's only when people don't recognise it's just a heuristic and not a full-proof personality profile that problems arise.
In short, every person inherist from the base class Person.