Comment Almost! (Score 1) 73
Calling the Clash a ska band is like calling the Beatles a ska band.
Comment RPGs already do this (Score 1) 95
If Eddie Izzard worked at Square Enix: "How stupid do I think the gamers are? They'll pay money to navigate menus. We'll tell them it's from Japan."
Comment Re:Ska? (Score 1) 186
These are clearly 4th wave ska telescopes, so RBF and the Pietasters are obsolete technology.
Comment Ayn wants me to point out... (Score 1) 1385
...it'll only work if it's made from Reardon metal.
Personality Testing For Employment 581
Thelasko writes "While I was in college, I had the opportunity to take an elective course in Industrial Psychology. One section of the course covered hiring practices and the validity of 'personality testing' to screen applicants (Google link for non-subscribers). The Wall Street Journal has a long article discoursing on how such tests are used in today's economy. While personality tests may be designed to uncover underlying personality traits such as honesty, critics claim that the tests instead reward cheaters." The article talks mostly about the tests' use in winnowing candidates for retail positions — deciding whom to interview. Anybody encountered them in an IT or more technical context?
Comment Re:Whatever happened to LEGO of electronics? (Score 1) 131
This is ringing a bell. I don't remember the name, unfortunately.
The unit looked sort of like a blue-gray speak and spell, but one without a keyboard. Instead of the keyboard, imagine a shallow tray with recessed gridlines that held in place little clear plastic blocks containing electronic pieces with a schematic-type symbol on the top. and electrical contacts on the sides.
There was battery power on one end of the tray and a speaker on the other.
It was a lot easier to use than the Radio Shack nnn-in-one sets, although I don't think it had as many "experiments".
