Comment Re:Plot Hole (Score 1) 179
One does not simply fly into Mordor.
Comment Re:LOL LOL OMG.. HAHAHAHA (Score 2) 553
Or you need the car for work.
Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' 553
bizwriter writes: Companies are trying to get around Equal Employment Opportunity Commission restrictions on age-discriminatory language (like "recent college graduate") by saying that they want "digital natives." So far, no one has complained to the EEOC, but that could change. "Since the 1990s dotcom boom, many employers have openly sought to hire young, tech savvy talent, believing that was necessary to succeed in the new digital economy. At the same time, age discrimination complaints have spiraled upward, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with 15,785 claims filed in 1997 compared to 20,588 filed in 2014.
Out of the 121 charges filed last year by the EEOC for alleged discriminatory advertising, 111 of them claimed the job postings discriminated against older applicants. The EEOC has said that using phrases like 'college student,' 'recent college graduate,' or 'young blood' violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1966. That federal law protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age."
Out of the 121 charges filed last year by the EEOC for alleged discriminatory advertising, 111 of them claimed the job postings discriminated against older applicants. The EEOC has said that using phrases like 'college student,' 'recent college graduate,' or 'young blood' violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1966. That federal law protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age."
Comment Re:Reality (Score 1) 65
4%
Comment Try the seafood platter, etc. (Score 5, Funny) 1097
AFAIK a stick figure labeled by name or "the prophet" will do.
1. Draw stickman.
2. Add beard and turban.
3.
4. Prophet!
Comment Re:Who actually believes this stuff? (Score 1) 1097
There's very little in primary sources to support that assertion. It was probably made up in the middle ages.
Comment Re: The Perfect Bait (Score 1) 1097
True, if you define recently as about 200 years ago.
Comment Re:Websites already hosted in Facebook's mobile (Score 1) 51
Sooner or later it will come up against systemd. There will be a war.
Comment Re:How Detriot Got That Way -- and Why It Will.... (Score 1) 123
Bigger than everywhere else put together? I doubt it.
And I see you used the past tense - "was". It didn't stay that way.
Comment Re:How Detriot Got That Way -- and Why It Will.... (Score 1) 123
So what? Those were never huge sellers in the American market anyway
People buy cars in other countries too.
Ford & GMs management in the sixties was about as clued-up as you.
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 108
It could only search the star map a dozen times before the cards started tearing.
Comment Re:What about the farmers who grew their food? (Score 3, Funny) 171
So by this line of thinking, Microsoft and Apple are both owe their existence to half-apes who crawled out of the jungles of Africa some 1.8 million years ago.
That explains quite a lot.
P.S. Over a dozen posts and nothing about systemd?
Comment Worst slashdot story ever. (Score 1) 33
Worst slashdot story *ever*. Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes, registering my disgust.
Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD 87
MojoKid writes: Computer generated graphics have come a long way in the past several years and are starting to blur the line between animation and real actors. One of the more difficult tasks for CG artists is to recreate human emotions, especially crying, though you wouldn't know it after watching a tech demo that Square Enix showed off at the Microsoft BUILD Developer Conference. The real-time tech demo is called Witch Chapter 0 [cry] and is part of a research project that studies various next generation technologies. For this particular demo, Square Enix put a lot of research into real-time CG technology utilizing DirectX 12 in collaboration with Microsoft and NVIDIA, the company said. It's an ongoing project that will help form Square Enix's Luminous Studio engine for future games. The short demo shows some pretty impressive graphics, with an amazing level of detail. As the camera zooms in, you can clearly see imperfections in the skin, along with glistening effects from areas where the face is wet with either tears or water
Comment Re:Not impressed - make food with water, CO2 & (Score 1) 486
Crazy talk. Next you'll be telling me it comes out of my butt!
