Writing "square mm" is perfectly correct.
It's not perfectly correct. It's acceptable.
Example: meter per second squared (m/s2) The modifiers “square” or “cubic” may, however, be placed before the unit name in the case of area or volume.
Yes, but most of the regulatory changes happened during the '80s and early '90s. A period during which the young folks didn't have a say.
If folks your age were too stupid to realize that free trade agreements were a bad idea or that the government has to actually tax people in order to pay for services, that's not really our fault. You guys will get to retire with most of the Social Security you were promised. And chances are substantially better that you'll have some sort of pension to go with it.
These days, pensions are rare, I can't remember the last time I even saw a job posting that even promised something more than a 401k match.
The whole, I got mine, now to hell with you attitude of older voters has done an incredible amount of damage to the ability of the young folks to make a decent living. We work harder than you folks did for less. And we get less and less each year as inflation continually outpaces wage improvements. And folks on social security get COLA even when the inflation is negative.
Pensions were being attacked in the '70s. It doesn't matter whether myself coming from Generation X or yourself from the Millennium Generation or not, when I entered Silicon Valley with 2 degrees, M.E./C.S. no one gave a shit in upper management to listen to what I said about how to run a company they were attempting to take public in the first place.
Banks were fucking the public post 1982 when the S&L scandal [yea Republicans] fucked us and Reaganomics two fisted us into oblivion. Then came 2006 [yea Republicans: see a pattern?] drove a pipe up the American People's asses we are still trying to mend.
In reality, most people are self-centered, me first and fuck the world personalities. When those pricks [MBAs] get to run corporations they really take them down but not before they walk out with a life-time of being able to afford to do whatever the fuck they want.
Any asshole who thinks Corporate Taxes are too low needs a fist up their ass. 401K plans were then are continue to be a fucking con job. It was the Corporate solution to lying to Pension plan holders and the Boomers ate it up.
If Generation Y wants to do something, get off your asses, vote out Boomers who are pro-corporations first, fuck the people second and vote in anyone who isn't an OBGYN and/or Evangelical. Two wrongs most certainly don't make a right.
Hold my hand out like barbers, and electricians, and mechanics, and cooks, and baseball players, and housewives, and bricklayers, and makeup artists, and painters, and a myriad of other professions have been doing throughout all of recorded history? It's obviously possible to use your arms all day long, so clearly the UI designers are not designing touchscreen/gesture interfaces properly.
Agreed that the Gorilla Arm syndrome is being misstated regarding Human Factors.
Brilliant my ass. He's just a well-schooled salesman who paints himself the next Steve Jobs. Technologically inept to know 99% of the crap he's shoveling is the equivalent of The Jetsons and 1% smart enough to hire talent to tell him that 99% is bull shit, but that 1% can be feasible.
My old boss, Steven P. Jobs, would never pull the asinine stunts this guy continues to rack up. You under sell and over deliver. This guy pictures himself Kurzweill as a visionary salesman. He's attempting to create his own RDF without ever having the charisma to generate one. The Tesla is a hot commodity, for now. He isn't pragmatic. He's not schrewd enough to realize his tepid steps into the waters of business are just temporary, unless he can make a firm footing for those charging stations nation-wide. If not, the Tesla will be known as the biggest electric car bust in history. He needs to focus on a few ideas, refine them and grow them. Instead, he's PT Barnum and that will bring him down.
It seems clear that they're doing it to us non-Americans even more. While that might be no immediate problem to US representatives who only have their own electorates to worry about, the damage to the US reputation abroad has already started.
Already started? The US's reputation in the rest of the world has been taking considerable damage for years now. This recent stuff has certainly been doing a lot more damage, but their reputation being damaged isn't exactly a new development.
Horse shit. The US reputation has been considerably restored. What's taking damage is the fact that the entire G20 is spying on its citizenries because you a-hole terrorist factions, no matter where you are and your asinine religious zealotry abounds like to blow shit up and take innocent people with you as if that some how is going to stop any G20 nation from taking the one commodity you possess: Oil. I personally can't wait for Green Tech to take over. We can all move onward without having to spend trillions on fuel from people who can't stand us as much as we can't stand them. Perhaps then people can honestly come to peace accords and start to learn from one another, instead of wasting the patience of nations just to toot around town wherever they live.
You don't like Gates but wish programmers looked towards more "Great Masters?" Bill Gates was a Great Master Programmer.
Paul Allen was the tech brains of MS, not Bill Gates.
I laughed when you wrote,
``You truly appreciate object oriented code when you do GUI programming in a good Microsoft language.''
Tell the kid to learn ObjC/Cocoa. Then you will learn the notion of quality OOA/OOD and world-class OO Tools for UI design. Better yet, tell them to find a copy of NeXTSTEP, put it in a VM and dig for the old NeXT Dev Manuals.
The funny thing is, Hollywood may come to the conclusion that there is a direct relationship between how crappy a movie is and how well it does.
Although this is not a set-in-stone relationship (I'm looking at you, Jon Carter); the general rule of thumb is, the crapper a movie is, as determined by RottenTomatoes/MetaCritic, the worse it does over the long run.
And Pacific Rim, by the way, is NOT a flop, at least not yet. It's made $175 million, and it's budget was $180 million.
That $175 million comes from a claim off BoxOfficemojo.com which when looking at the Foreign value of > $110 million doesn't add up in their own listing of totals: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=pacificrim.htm
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
