No, I think that just makes them 88% correct.

Aye, worked well for Nostradamus!

Sadly, I would wager that the reason his comment will not be read by many folks has more to do with how far down the page it is, rather than the karma rating.

(I browse at -1 anyway)

As per my citation above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Parliament#Titles_and_citation_of_Acts), I'm in agreement about the name. Let's go back to letting uninterested clerks generate the reference name - I'd expect it to end up with a much more descriptive title that way.

Meh, Acts have been given "human readable" names for qutie a while now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Parliament#Titles_and_citation_of_Acts

Plenty of those articles are clearly targetted at folks in the sciences, too. I started reading up on metalworking-related articles a while back, and found a number which felt like they were written by a Ph.D student. Accurate, yes (once I successfully parsed all of the jargon), but the into paragraph, at least, could stand to be a bit closer to the simple.wikipedia.org standard.

"the appropriate State Party to the Treaty" means "whichever country whose jurisdiction you are operating in". If that country hasn't signed the treaty, then you don't care about it anyway.

Generally, though, there will be actual domestic legislation forming the actual implementation of a treaty in US law, so you might still need to find the exact wording of *that* law, not just the international treaty's text.

Good luck!

The key is that this needs to be systemic policy. If the manager is also graded on his ability to "level up" their subordinates, then it is suddenly in *their* best interest, too.

At Amazon, it's called "Hire and Develop the Best", and everyone is graded against it. For people managers it is obvious - your hiring choices need to be good, and you need to make a good effort to develop your team members. For worker types, it's more about mentoring junior staff.

http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?ie=UTF8&node=239365011

It's not just a talking point - everyone really is graded on each of those skills every year.

Quite so... did you see the part about "doesn't absolve the actor from responsibility". I think that was the point.

Makes me laugh every time someone suggests a tax going away. They'll just figure out how to tax you for "fuelling" your electric car. Taxes don't go away, just added to.

Huh, so the Aggies had it right after all. We refer to them as t.u.

Except that, at least on all the machines (laptop and desktop) that I've run Windows installs on in the last 5+ years, Windows *never* has the ethernet driver needed. Either I luckily squirreled the driver away on a separate partition, or I have to use a different computer to download it via sneakernet. That's only an option because I have multiple computers around.

On the other hand, every linux distro I've tinkered with in the last decade or so has always been able to talk to my ethernet devices (WiFi is a different story -.-)

And install speed is largely just a function of your HDD speed, for both linux and windows.

Bah, no one got around to answering this over the weekend? Relevant to the topic, even :

One of my buddies in college wrote one of the (now) biggest smartphone barcode-based price-comparison apps as his senior project. At the time, he used a dedicated server for the app to dial into, and he entered prices by hand into its database. Being the ubergeek that he is, I'm sure it's well automated by now.

Single best piece of advice I've read here in quite some time. Thanks, I hadn't yet figured out that it was just idle that had the screwed up controls.

Aye - for example, my current job is working on a fairly large ASP.NET/C# codebase. No one remaining in the department was around when they chose this platform, but it's big enough that rewriting it really isn't an option. No one in my shop is a MS fan, but we all enjoy a nice job in a nice company anyway, despite working nearly exclusively on MS platform.!