Comment Re: "those with window seats board first" (Score 1) 394
Mythbusters to the rescue...
Mythbusters to the rescue...
In trains and busses you look at other people.
True... but... There is usually an aisle between you and the person that you are facing. You aren't literally 12" from their face. It would be more like standing face to face on a crowded subway train for 3 to 6 hours. For most people it's exhausting enough to be that close to someone you don't know for the 15 to 20 minutes to get to your stop, let alone hours....
Plus, just imagine if your facing someone who is coughing and sneezing. Yes, you're close enough on a plane that it's still likely that you would get sick, but at least they aren't sneezing directly into your face.
I banned Powerpoint presentations. Saves huge amounts of time, and server space. I don't have figures to support it, but I strongly believe it raises moral and stops a decline in general intelligence.
(grin)
Actually, the problem isn't Powerpoint or presentations. The problem is people who do not know how to create or give good presentations.
Most boring presentations fall into the following categories:
1. a presentation that you are forced to attend but that has no direct relevance to you, your job, etc.
2. a presentation with too many details for the time slot. The Presenter speed reads the presentation
3. a presentation where the presenter just reads the presentation. There are no explanations and no expansion on what appears on the slides. You could have just read the presentation in 10 minutes and gotten the same information.
4. a presentation that has not been tailored to the audience.
If you have ever watched a Ted Talk presentation, you will see that they use Powerpoint. The difference is that you are interested in the topic, the presenter is passionate about the topic and tells a story, and the slides include just the major points, they don't go into too much detail.
Oh... and banning Powerpoint just wouldn't work... They would just use Word or, horrors, Excel.... (grin)
Maybe we should get rid of *all* formal credentials? Get rid of all licenses, and degrees, along with certs.
A drivers license does not prove you know how to drive. A teaching credential does not prove you are a competent teacher. Does a college degree prove you even know how to read?
And so on, right down the line.
Or, maybe a more intelligent way to look at is: a credential is what it is. It prove you know enough about something to pass the test. No test is ever perfect.
Tech credentials leave a lot to be desired. But, from my experience they are far superior to interview test questions. I have had interview tests from interviewers who were dead wrong. I have had interviewers ask questions that were insane. Besides, what if the interviewing does not like you? Maybe the interviewer does not like your race, gender, nationality, or age - in that case you would be sure to fail. At least certs have a certain objectivity.
A drivers license, or even the drivers test, doesn't prove that you are a good driver. But it does prove that you know the rules of the road, something that most wouldn't study unless they were forced to. I'd rather have people driving knowing the rules of the road even if they aren't the best of drivers.
What works at Google is not necessarily applicable in the rest of the world. Perhaps people with certifications tend not to succeed at Google. That does not mean that they don't succeed elsewhere. It only means they didn't succeed at Google - nothing more. In fact there are many professions where you won't even get considered for an interview without a certification.
That is soooo right... A manager at my sister's office decided to follow a process that he read about Google using. That process was to have a communal garbage can in an office area and have individual recycle bins under each desk. The theory was that having the recycle bin nearby meant that people would recycle more and only make the trip to the garbage can when they had too. The problem is that where my sister worked, they don't have a cafeteria with free food (Google does) and a lot of people bring their own food to the office for lunch. So, you can just imagine some of the smells....
Proof that what works at one company doesn't always work at another.
I don't think people quite understand the issue. It's not sick time. I'm one of only 2-3 neurosurgeons in a the hospital at a given time and there is so much critical work that we're all needed there at once. To have someone cover me would be problematic since they are already working 80-100 hours per week already, so they would go over the policy limits for work hours, or at the very least be very very unhappy about it.
So, because of bad management practices you would rather work yourself to death and put others in jeopardy health wise? How do you take vacations? What happens if you get hit by a bus?
If you and your peers are consistently working 80 to 100 hours a week then you guys are just plain crazy. All of you will be burned out within 2 years and end up with your own health problems. There is obviously enough work to hire more employees. If management is saying that they can't find talent, then they are probably not trying hard enough. At the very least, I'm sure that there are young talented doctors out there that you could train and mentor.
Calling in sick does nothing but make my life harder. I feel bad about it
There's your problem right there. If you're sick, you're sick. You already feel bad, so beating yourself up for staying home is just giving in to this ridiculous work ethic. And that work ethic? It's nothing but crude mind control. We're told that we're supposed to have a special "ethic" that means if you're not suffering, you're not earning your pay. And if your job requires you to get a doctor's excuse to take a day off work, you need to give notice tomorrow and find another job.
The corporatists have done a number on your head. Resist it.
If I'm sick, I stay home. No sense in passing what I have to the rest of my coworkers. The reality is that it's actually best for the company if I do. Which would they rather happen, one worker stays home for a couple of days to recover or that person goes to work and they lose productivity from 10 others that then get sick...
This finding goes to show that even smart people are stupid even about the most basic things and that familiarity breeds contempt. I wonder how much of this has to do with the Doctors being around sick patients all of the time and getting complacent. The worse part is that they could compromise someone whose immune system is already weak from another disease.
A Doctor should know better......
Hold it when corporations merge with government it's fascism
When government merges with corporations it's socialism
Good to have that cleared up, I have never been clear on the difference.
Think of it as right-totalitarianism vs. left-totalitarianism. One's mostly concerned with your bedroom activities, and the other's concerned about your bankbook. The problem is your bankbook can impact your bedroom activities, or vice versa, so eventually fascism/socialism have to regulate those activities as well. Hence the cause for your confusion. The difference is probably more easily explained using cows.
I thought that the standard was to use pigs...
i'm 41. and people who meet me for the first time think i'm in my mid 20's. same with my wife. don't drink more than once or twice a month, exercise, avoid eating out all the time and avoid processed foods. stay away from milk, sugar and gluten. cook for yourself and don't buy the prepared foods
I drank milk all the time as a kid and still do (1% now). I also look to be 10 to 15 years younger than my age.
Giving up anything (sugar, meat, milk, gluten) can have a placebo effect. You feel better because you are taking control, exercising more, etc.
There are people who legitimately have various levels of sensitivity towards certain foods (peanuts is one of the more common). There are also people who eat too much which can cause problems such as Diabetes, becoming overweight, not having energy, etc. I agree that for these people, a special diet may be needed for them to be healthy.
I look younger than my chronological age and my diet consists of a bit of everything, including milk, veggies, meat, bread, processed foods, and my sweet tooth for chocolate.
Being active and all things in moderation is my motto....
Just out of curiosity, what do you think the proper homonym phrase is for this?
From grammarist.com it should be "free rein" as in a horse being able to do what they want because the reins are free. "reign" is a recent misspelling that is being used more often.
... for the glowing hockey puck.... and the glowing golf ball (US Open).... Both of which are/were stupid ideas.... No... not hockey and golf.... the glowy part...
At least the technology went on to good use in the NFL. I do like the digital first down line. It makes the other sports look like cheap video games and obstructs the view. However, the first down line was done well and is non-intrusive for the viewer.
will will increase to more than 115,000 petabytes by 2019, compared to under 30,000 petabytes this year, representing almost a four-fold increase
10 terabytes would hold all the information stored in the Library of Congress. A single petabyte is a hundred times that.
Perspective
Um, that's because the vast majority of the Library of Congress is text information. I'm pretty sure that their collection of cat videos is severely lacking... (grin)
Browndo has electrolytes...
How is that not winning?
You're enabling awful business practices by publishers to push shit out the door.
The only two games I'm seriously looking forward to are Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain and Street Fighter V.
Both of which I'm guessing won't have these problems. I don't know why Japanese devs aren't having these problems but western ones are.
I'm looking forward to Fallout 4 and Uncharted A Thief's End.
I've enjoyed the Fallout series plus this one is set in Boston, the area where I live. Pre-ordering is the only way that you can get special editions (i.e. the Pip-Boy edition being released this week). That being said, the Fallout games tend to have a lot of bugs on first release. Whether this is related to pre-ordering or not is still up in the air. I agree that there is likely more business pressure to release a game on time, no matter what condition, if you have customers that have already paid for the product. But I'm not sure that other business pressures wouldn't cause the same result (i.e. pressure from marketing, sales, etc.).
Uncharted has been delayed to spring 2016 to continue polishing the game. Part of this was also to more closely tie in to the movie version which was scheduled for release in June 2016. However, it's an example of a game studio delaying a game to get it right. The movie version, for those interested, just lost it's director and actor so it's unlikely that the movie will be released in 2016.
Whether pre-ordering causes games to be released before they are ready or not, it's not going away. Why? For social reasons. People who pre-order want the game first for social status, so that they can play the game first, brag to their friends, and to get the limited edition versions. You can see a similar dynamic when it comes to new Apple products. Value wise, it makes sense to wait, but for some people that rush of being the first and the center of attention, even if short lived, is worth it.
That would be incorrect. I've bought 13 of those drives. So far, 9 of them are dead. None of them bought through newegg.
Funny, I've bought about 6x 7200 RPM Seagate 3TB drives and they are still spinning just fine, not one failure.
Either I have been extremely lucky or something else is going on for you to have such a high failure rate. i.e. supplier not handling them correctly, computer doesn't have a clean power source (mine is on UPS), etc.
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