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« on: July 20, 2009, 08:42:31 PM » |
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
--Oscar Wilde
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2009, 09:56:19 PM » |
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Hahaha. Yes, I've always wondered why Windows is always so wrong.
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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2009, 06:41:06 PM » |
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There not always wrong. You're just ... *error* Your statement has performed an illegal operation.
There has been an error.
Would you like to report the problem?
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A child recently asked me what eight times four is. I thought about it for a while. I put together some experiments. I ran some tests. I searched through numerous published articles on number theory.
I then came back to the child and responded, "What's a 'four'?"
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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2009, 06:41:58 PM » |
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You're just using a very strict definition of correct.
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A child recently asked me what eight times four is. I thought about it for a while. I put together some experiments. I ran some tests. I searched through numerous published articles on number theory.
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« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2009, 07:06:23 PM » |
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Wow! i finally understand my husband! He says he has a project that will take a few days, I get home from work and he's there playing video games, having finished all his work hours ago! Hmmmmm.....
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2009, 08:35:03 AM » |
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2009, 11:28:35 PM » |
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That's merely a business ploy. You tell your employer it will take more time and more money to do a project then it actually will in order to, account for problems that may come up, to impress your boss when it gets done a lot earlier, and to compensate for when your requests for time and money are cut in half by your managers and resources.
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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2009, 08:35:40 PM » |
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Not MY business LOL |
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« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 10:50:10 AM » |
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Your company doesn't have competitors that you're in bed with. Instead you try to run your company with a lost value known as "integrity." Your company is not indicative of most companies.
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A child recently asked me what eight times four is. I thought about it for a while. I put together some experiments. I ran some tests. I searched through numerous published articles on number theory.
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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 03:31:05 PM » |
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Thanks ... I think?
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« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2009, 10:04:54 PM » |
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James' version of company tradition is one of the reasons that is behind the massive layoffs. Companies and organizations now need to get rid of the waste, the over fluffing of the budgets. Cutting budgets back beyond what they actually need to get the job done. The latest proclamation of corporate world, "more for less". If too much fluff is found, then the department really is not necessary and will be absorb under another department. Since I am the one who writes all the budgets and estimates for our company, I will guarantee you that none of my supervisors' nor their workers time has any fluff. In fact, they are probably hustling and finding more ways to be efficient as the monies quoted will account for every minute that they have just to do the job.  But then James you work in the academic world, different animal totally.  |
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2009, 01:17:11 AM » |
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Actualy, I wasn't speaking about academics. My department, at least, is very efficent in their appropriarions.
I was actualy refering to industry. In major engineering firms, especialy those that work on government contracts, it is common to ask for more then is needed or to claim that something can be done faster then it really can. It's a sucky system, but every company does it. Any company that doesn't never gets a contract and goes out of business.
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2009, 06:02:59 PM » |
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Wow... talk about tangents.
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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--Oscar Wilde
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2009, 08:04:10 PM » |
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How about planar tangents?  |
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