Sure we grok it. Do you not grok the idea that if you are not pulling numbers out of your ass, then you probably have the reference material right in front of you, and can therefore paste the information a hell of a lot easier than having us go looking for supporting numbers for your made up statistics for you?

Stupidest zombie movie ever. Seriously.

So.... #NotAllUnions ???

Citation needed. Preferably one with a post-analysis of the Seattle job market, with another graph showing impact (if any) on number of small businesses in the immediate area.

It's a grading system, based on three grading criteria, each of which can score up to an 'A':

Game success among critics/reviewers
"Innovative gameplay"
Financial success

Given the major reviewers comments on "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel", the fact that it's "Yet Another First Person Shoot", and the company being unable to afford to remain in business, rather than "AAA Studio", it'd probably be better to describe 2K as a "BCF" studio.

They definitely get an F on their financial success, and YAFPS is hardly innovative game play, so they get a grudging C there, and the reviews at the top sites give them generally in the neighborhood of an 80% approval by reviewers (only GameStop rates them higher than 80%), so that's a B.

I really hate that people hype studios themselves as "AAA", as if that means they are going to get A's in all three categories, just because of who they are, or because of the marketing hype behind their games contributing to a likelihood of good reviews or financial success.

In reality, you are only as good as your last release in all three categories. 2K blew it in at least two of the categories, and turned in B grade work in the third, so it's no surprise they failed.

They were actually unhappy with Pearson.

The article makes this very clear. It wouldn't matter if the Pearson Curriculum were on an iPad or an Android device, they'd still be unhappy with it. The attachment of Apple to the story is a means of click-baiting it. Pretty clear in the quotes from their attorney:

L.A. schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines “made the decision that he wanted to put them on notice, Pearson in particular, that he’s dissatisfied with their product,” said David Holmquist, general counsel for the nation’s second-largest school system. He said millions of dollars could be at stake.

In a letter sent Monday to Apple, Holmquist wrote that it “will not accept or compensate Apple for new deliveries of [Pearson] curriculum.” Nor does the district want to pay for further services related to the Pearson product.

Pretty ringing condemnation of Pearson's products by the school district; note that the Pearson products might not eve be at fault, given that the complaint was that it didn't help with the standardized testing scores.

"Simulations of fusion are only 50 years away!"

I suggested the funnel landing previously. You really wouldn't want to spin it.

I'm pretty sure the problem at that point would be thermal damage to the vehicle. You could perhaps do this on land, and of course you'd probably want fresh water as a coolant and noise suppression, same as the shuttle used to suppress acoustic energy reflected from the pad to prevent it damaging the shuttle. The shuttle usually went through about 1/3 million gallons of water per launch. Of course with the rocket exhause itself, that produced a lot of HCl, and you probably wouldn't want to sit your engines in that, any more than in the ocean.

It's probably be better if they just had flip-down feet to widen the base of the cone ( the falling over was always a result of the center of mass being outside the interior circle of the cone, as described by the landing base -- or it wouldn't have fallen.

The other suggestion would be a big-ass electromagnet to lock the base components into place as it currently exists, but getting power out to the platform for that might be problematic. Maybe they could use a bunch of Tesla batteries, since it's only have to hold until you could mechanically latch the landing legs down.

Well, given that one of the linked articles on NVidia's firmware signing is now 7 months old (September 2014), it's not getting worse all that quickly, it's just that the people who were complaining about it before are complaining about it again. And as they point out, there's a perfectly fine proprietary driver; they just don't like those drivers. The problem, of course, being that the Open Source driver can't legally use the Sorenson CODECs, or the MPEG-LA patent pool without violating the law in many countries.

Quit conflating trademarks with domain names.

Make a ".trademark" TLD. Everyone will ignore it, of course.

Problem solved.

This applies to personal income taxes, not corporate income taxes. Although corporations are nominally people in the U.S., it isn't true worldwide, and it's actually not even true in the U.S., or there would be no distinction between personal and corporate income tax rates, or, in the U.S., S-corps vs. C-corps.

Try again: find a specific treaty dealing with apportioning of corporate income tax *which caps that tax*, as a total, to the higher of two states, when apportioned between those states.

You aren't going to find it outside of some place like Myanmar (Burma), a country with which the U.S. does not treat, and which corporations will not touch with an 11 foot pole.

I believe you missed the part where I called up ADP and pretended to be an entirely unrelated company potentially interested in contracting their services. This is what ADP said to me, and it confirmed what Apple had told me. This was in the middle of my negotiation. In the end, I negotiated moves in place where they could move, using the vacation accrual as a lever. So it all worked out.

Yes.

If you're part of the interview team, and they are in another country. The interview team could be spread all over, but usually, it's only one or two people who do the phone interview. However, in that case, they're usually in the conference room at a google facility, so you have full on video conference capability, even if it's a two person room. Usually they use a 4 person or larger room so that you have a whiteboard on the wall with a camera pointed at it, and can switch viewpoint and see the whiteboard.

If you can't travel, they'll also do them, and if you passed the phone screen, but they want a technical opinion before they bring someone on site (mean fly them in), and they happen to be pretty far from any Google office.

I don't think the above discloses anything that should not be IOTTMCO.

The phone interviews I've given were all real interviews, not just phone screens. On the other hand, being in a position where the recruiters tend to like you, and the hiring committee tends to trust your opinion, you see more of those than most people.

The corporate policy exists to prevent one bad interview, due to bad chemistry, a hangover, or whatever excuse for having an off day the interviewer happened to have, from damaging the interview process overall. Google employees can screw up too, and if they do, it shouldn't cost Google a good candidate, and it shouldn't cost the interviewee their confidence in the remaining interviewers, where they might prove to be incredible people to hire.

A lot of passing an interview process has to do with confidence, and if you shoot someone's confidence in the head, even if you don't think they'd be a good fit, then (a) you're an incredibly bad interviewer, and should either redo the training or be barred from doing future interviews; that's OK: not everyone can be great at everything!, or (b) you've made a mistake, and you probably need to immediately tell the recruiter managing the interviews, and the next interviewer on the way in, at a minimum, and then disqualify your feedback to the hiring committee, and tell them why, so they can look at the remaining interviews in that light. The absolutely worst thing you could do is make a mistake and not tell anyone about it. They're not rewarded, but unless they are habitual, neither do they cost you; you tend to get +1 integrity points (that's not a real thing).

Yup. Me too.

LOL

Made my day!

Usually, it's because someone has travelled a long distance underground, and you are either opening it to let them out, or opening it to provide equipment for their next leg (like an air blower), or you are sending down an expert or tools to do something with whatever cable or whatever they dragged with them from the point the went in.

I'm not seeing the reciprocal agreement here. I'm seeing a cite of a document that says the U.S. is weird about income taxes, and that New York is weird about income taxes, and that establishing a nexus obligates both parties, assuming the foreign power chooses to be obligated (why opt in when you can opt out?!?).

I don't see an 11% income tax in Singapore and a 25% income tax in California for an income generating transaction between the two resulting in no more than 25% out of pocket (however you apportion it) for the person receiving the income.

Try again.