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Nice review, dude.
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So Apple are selling fewer iPhones than before then? No? Aaah so market share percentage is a pointless measure of success then....glad you kept us in the loop :)
Apple's iPhones are losing ground in Europe as consumers increasingly opt for Android and Windows Phone handsets, according to researchers. Analysts with Kantar Worldpanel ComTech found that over the third quarter of this year, Apple saw its share of the market in Germany, France, and the UK decline over the same period in …
So Apple are selling fewer iPhones than before then? No? Aaah so market share percentage is a pointless measure of success then....glad you kept us in the loop :)
The point is that Apple are rapidly headed to #3 in the market - Window Phone is clearly on target to be the #2 OS Phone OS generally and #1 Phone OS in the enterprise (largely by replacing the remains of Blackberry)....
If Microsoft get their planned OS and Store unification right in Q1 2015 (Project 'Threshold'), then I can see a possibility that they might even make it to #1 Phone OS overall....
And I'm sure if Apple had 70% of the market their supporters would be crowing about it, so...
And yes, if it's an indicator of trends and future sales, then it certainly is a measure of success.
It's not pointless, as long as you understand what it means.
Yep, Blackberry are dead:
"BlackBerry was outsold by Windows Phone handsets in every market reported by Kantar, despite having launched its Z30 handset in September to add to its portfolio"
So would you rather sell millions of high end phones - provide great support and build a loyal user base (while making healthy profits on the device and then on the media / apps OR sell more phones (many) at little or no profit and no loyalty to any particular brand and Google take all the profit from selling media etc.
A pointless measure? 0% smartphone market share would be dire for Apple considering how much the company depends on the iPhone for its existence, so a trend towards the lower end of the market share dial would certainly be a valid measure of success or otherwise. So, is there a trend in that direction?
Of course, Apple supporters can be buoyed by the huge profits the iDevice maker reaps despite its dwindling market share - unless of course, its profitability is also trending downward. Oh, it is? Oops...
The Cupertino Colossus would be well advised to get its "next big thing" out the door, I think.
@Lusty - "So Apple are selling fewer iPhones than before then? No? Aaah so market share percentage is a pointless measure of success then"
That's what Crackberry addicts said a couple of years ago...
I think the Apple versus Microsoft figure is relevant here because there's no real landfill Windows Phone category. In the way that it's designed Windows Phone is much more similar to iOS than Android in that you can't chuck it onto three-year old hardware with a vendor-specific shell — Android isn't just about the blockbusting flagships — so it would seem likely that Microsoft is preparing to beat Apple at its own game.
If I were Apple? It's time for serious price cuts to the 5C. It needs to be free on all but the stingiest of contract. It's probably time to accept that the market seems to prefer dramatically bigger screens, too.
Their share may have dropped because the market has expanded significantly but mainly at the low (no profit) end of the market. Basically every phone these days is a smartphone. If you looked at Apple's share of the high end market that would be more interesting or look at the total value of their shipments.
> there's no real landfill Windows Phone category.
Windows Mobile 6.x phones were dead-ended by its replacement WP7 being completely incompatible in hardware and software.
Windows Phone 7 phones were dead-ended by its replacement WP8 being completely incompatible in hardware and software.
Next will be the Windows Phone 8 phones (and Surface RT/2 tablets) when Microsoft dumps both to replace them with a 'converged product' that is incompatible with either.
Android lovers big up market share but it's pretty easy to sell cheap / free. A few years ago the volume of the phone market was in cheap, simple (candy bar) phones. Now every phone is a smartphone (of sorts) so as people upgrade they get these cheap phones by default but probably still just use them as phone + text.
WP8 ran WP7 apps.
The only reason WP8 needed new hardware was the requirement of two CPU cores and more RAM due to the switchover from WinCE to full Windows kernel.
Or should they have made a WP8 for those old phones and had it run like crap as low end Android phones do?
exactly - these numbers are coming from a market space that Apple doesn't even bother to compete in. Apple's CEO has specifically said they are not going after that market. They are perfectly happy where they are at..rolling in more cash than most anyone else combined in the mobile space.
If apple ever does feel threatened they can easily drop the prices as a last resort, their cash stockpile is so big they can sustain just about anything for the next 10-20 years.
(I say this as a WebOS user -- still waiting for galaxy note 3 64GB to show it's face before I make the jump to android.)
The article didn't mention the size of the market, thus limiting the inferences that can be drawn from market share. It is plausible that more smartphones have been sold than ever before, and it is plausible that people who have not bought a smartphone before are more likely to buy a less expensive model... but without the numbers that is just conjecture.
Win 6x is far from dead... its still the OS of choice for handheld point of sale terminal....
the hardware inside win phone8 and RT devices is no less powerful than current mid to high end android... so I expect ti to run the new converged os comfortably...
as for making hardware obsolete... apple cuts features from each out going model too... pre iphoone 3? door stop... 3 series... no updates for years... 4 - os is hobbled compared to 4s, probably wont support ios8...
all hardware reaches its EOL sooner or later... apple is no exception....
What drugs are you on, they are making more money than ever before !
> Win 6x is far from dead... its still the OS of choice for handheld point of sale terminal....
While both WM6.x and some POS terminals may be based on CE (as is other embedded stuff), that doesn't make the POS terminals run WM6.x.
> [iPhone] 4 - os is hobbled compared to 4s, probably wont support ios8
The iPhone 3 is 5 1/2 years old. iPhone 4 is 3 1/2 years and runs the latest iOS 7 (minus what requires hardware it doesn't have).
Some may have bought a WP 7 just over a year ago and all they got as 'updates', and maybe all they will ever get, was twice as many colours on the start screen.
How many times does this story have to be regurgitated?
"If I were Apple? It's time for serious price cuts to the 5C"
Then thank goodness you are not Apple, since you don't understand their business at all. What people often seem to ignore is that computers and other technology really has not gotten cheaper over the last decade, it's actually quality dropping causing price cuts. Look at the MacBook range, cost is similar to a decent PC a decade ago and quality is excelent with attention to engineering where it counts (battery life a good example). Other vendors have laptops of this quality and they all cost similar. Now look at your "free" android phone and tell me if it's as good as a top end Samsung from last year. It's not, it's a worse phone in every respect and yet you're expecting Apple to sell last years quality model for less just because they have a better one out. Apple really don't need the business that badly, and the only way they would go bankrupt is if they race to the bottom with HTC etc. or if product quality and innovation stop - which is what killed RIM rather than price since if you'll recall RIM did have cheap crappy phones.
Landfill means discarding the device before it reaches the hardware's end-of-life.
WP7 phones may, just possibly, be getting discarded (or more likely handed down) because of WP8, but I doubt it; a Lumia 800 is still a very nice phone - according to the person I bought one for.
WP8 phones will be supported for a considerable time beyond the last sale of a WP8 device.
People complain about XP support ending but the last XP machine must have been sold a ridiculous time ago, embedded systems notwithstanding. So I have no worries about support and even improvements to WP8 (and even RT) for at least the life of any phone I buy. TBH, although a fancy update is imminent (already available from MS but not as a Nokia OTA), few if any of the changes listed are a big deal; I am mostly interested in Nokia's specific camera improvements to an already superior experience.
So people say the share is dropping yet when you look at the revenue on apps and web usage iDevices are much higher. Suspect many of these Android / Windows phones are basically £50-100 candy bar replacements that are text + calls mainly and many users probably do not know nor care they are Android etc.
Much like then I bought my MacBook pro SD - nearly £2k and made obsolete less than a year later with the Intel releases....
If you male a major hardware change you need to draw a line... this will hurt a certain percentage of people...
On the other hand, my 2004 windows laptop is running Windows 8, my 2007 iMac can't run Mountain Lion, let alone Mavericks. Swings and roundabouts.
Valid points but does it really matter if the phone OS can be upgraded? Before you answer, consider what % of android phones ever receive an OS upgrade to a new major version.
You are joking aren't you?
MS / Nokia are selling a lot of units because they are very heavily subsidized, at some stage their going to have to compete and at that point we can take market share sales figures at face value.
The people I know who have windows phones use it for a bit of browsing and to read their e-mail and not much else there also of the older generation who have no interest in apps and very little brand loyalty.
Whats worse is in my sons age group (teens) and among his friends I have yet to see anyone with a Windows phone.
Once iphone drops below 10% market share, I expect app developers will begin to prioritise iOS lower than Android/WinPho. After that, iOS is dead in the water.
As app sales/in game purchases etc are such a high percentage of apples income, once they become a nice to have rather than a must have platform for an App to be on, apple will be screwed.
> Once iphone drops below 10% market share, I expect app developers will begin to prioritise iOS lower than Android/WinPho.
Developers target the numbers of phones that are in use, not just the ones that are sold today. The total sales of iPhone since the start of 2011 is around 320 million. The total of all WP8 phone sales seems to be less than 30million.
iPhone's app market is 10 times that of WP8, it will take several years before WP8 could sell enough to get close to that, even if Apple never sold another phone. It is likely that the converged WP8 + RT OS (in 2015) will replace both with something, yet again, incompatible with either, restarting the counter again.
Developers target the ecosystems based on their overall value, not the number of devices. If Apple users spend far more on apps than Android/WP users, iOS will still get a lot of attention.
You also have to remember apps includes tablets too, and iOS has much bigger share in that market (for now).
Really? How much does an Android phone with a 1GHz CPU and 512Mb RAM sell for? Considerably more than £150?
> How much does ...
That is not particularly relevant. Microsoft gave Nokia at least $1billion a year and yet Nokia still showed a loss. It only showed a profit in one quarter when it sold its headquarters and took that in as revenue.
It was selling many of its phones at below cost. An analysis claimed that the price of many devices needed to be raised by 15% for the company to break even.
Developers are looking after income from their apps, not sold devices nor market share. Average iThing user is much more likely to spend money on AppStore than Android or WinPho user. Most of developers report approx. 80% of revenue from iOS, 20% from Android and single sales on WindowsPhone. If you are developer that wants to make money iOS is no brainer choice. When that's estabilished you can look after Android (or WinPho if you're really bored).
Strange how people still vigorously deny that Windows Phone is getting anywhere, given that at this rate it has a chance of taking the #2 spot from Apple.
> a chance of taking the #2 spot from Apple.
While in some markets in Europe WP may have around 10%, worldwide it is still at the 4% mark, and this is with the cheap end of the market and subsidized by Microsoft with $1billion/year plus marketing help.
"at this rate it"
MS has been doing smart phones for twice as long as Apple and Google. Over that time they have not really shown any serious market share.
In the beginning, MS were third place to Nokia and Blackberry. Now they're third place to Google and Apple.
Not much change in 12 years...
In 2007 Windows Mobile had 42% marketshare in the US.
"While in some markets in Europe WP may have around 10%, worldwide it is still at the 4% mark,"
Windows Phone is growing rapidly pretty much everywhere - and is a also at over 10% in much of South America for instance...
"and this is with the cheap end of the market and subsidized by Microsoft with $1billion/year plus marketing help."
It doesn't really matter how they get there - they are clearly succeeding....competitors like Google, Samsung and Apple spend similar amounts on advertising too...And of course the Android market is also profitable for both Microsoft and Nokia due to their licensing agreements.
And Samsung are going to spend $14 billion a year according to El Reg, seems like a billion is chump change.
They can even afford Kevin Bacon via EE as an on-going proposition, MS got Jessica Alba for five minutes, still worth it though.
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But WP just doesn't have the number of available app, there is no way it can succeed, don't you read the blogosphere?
Just like ChromeOS is beating Windows, because of all those apps, oh, wait.. Bloody hypocrites! :-P
Buying a 5C now is essentially the same as buying a 5 when the 5S is the latest model. Is there any data comparing the incomes of people who bought the 4S when the 5 was the latest model, or the 4 when the 4S was the latest model?
The incomes difference between the two kinds of market are probably similar (people going for the expensive bling vs. people going for the cheapest bling), but the 5C is considered different to the 5 by analysts, probably confirming everybody's suspicions of analysts.
Income levels, eh? 5C is for the 'top people' eh?
As anyone who has ever worked in sewage reclamation will tell you:
"It's not just cream that rises to the top"
Apple are still selling a load more phones. Market share drops because the overall volume has increased (mostly at the low end) - every phone these days is a smart phone. Apple sell 1000 phones in a market of 2000 and have 50% market share - fast forward and Apple sell 3000 phones in a market of 12000 phones and their market share is 25% despite them selling 3x more phones.
Would be interesting to see market share by VALUE or by PROFIT. Android and Windows Phone may sell a lot of £50-150 phones at little or no profit while Apple sell premium phones at £500. It's a bit like trying to compare sales of Porsche to sales of Vauxhall and Ford.
@AC"Would be interesting to see market share by VALUE or by PROFIT"
If it showed profit or value, it wouldn't be market share though. Market share is defined as a percentage of unit sales relative to the total of the market place.
Apple had traditionally "owned" the profitability crown in the smartphone market, but that has passed to Samsung now. Whether Apple can recover that position from its Korean rival is probably too soon to say for sure. But its profitability is trending downward, driven by lower ASPs of all the iPhone models. Samsung's profitability on the other hand is trending upward.
I don't think Samsung is concerned that its financial results are achieved from a mix of high, middle and low end devices. While the higher end of the the market (primarily Western nations) is showing signs of approaching maturity, the burgeoning middle and lower ends are exhibiting massive growth still.
@KiwiAndy errrr in terms of smartphone mobiles , Apple makes more profit that all the others combined, since when did Samsungs mobile divion make more than Apples??
Apple had traditionally "owned" the profitability crown in the smartphone market, but that has passed to Samsung now.
(citation needed)
Where has it been shown that Samsung's profit generated on the "smartphone" lines exceeds Apple's by any metric? Samsung sell a shitload of landfill Android, as well as their premium product, so I think it highly unlikely that Samsung "own the profitability crown". However, I am willing to be convinced ...
on things like TV, and its white goods (Washing machines etc) are nowhere near that of its phones.
Thus their lower margin drags down the overall margin of the whole company.
There might even be a case for saying that their Phone biz is subsidising their other product divisions.
As for build quality, my other half had a Galaxy 5 for about a week. She dropped it from about 3ft in height and it is useless as a phone now. No signs of external damage but it won't sync with a network no matter what SIM is put in it.
She's not impressed one little bit and is especially miffed at me because I persuaded her to have one over an iphone. Guess what it is in an early christmas pressie from me? We are trying to get the Galaxy replaced under insurance but that might take a few weeks.
In terms of market growth, Apple aren't doing well then. If a market doubles in size, and a company's sales only increase by 20% then they're failing to grow with the market. Their investors will not be happy.
So you want to see who is ripping their customers off the most?


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Release Date: 2008 |
Album Rating: 4.0http://www.myspace.com/karagrainger1/music
Good review, Zed. Checked out, "Bring me back" on youtube. She's a got a good sound. POS'd.
Album Rating: 4.0thanks bro, yea that song perhaps the catchiest one (more pop, less bluesy)
Yeah, it is kind of catchy. She has a good voice and her guitar playing is really great as well.
Album Rating: 4.0cool diggin' paper! do you plan to review it?
Oh, I dont know her that well. I just heard 2 of her songs on youtube while I read your review. But she does sound good. This was a pretty good find, Zed.
Album Rating: 4.0No, I mean your tag digging = Opeth - Heritage ;]
if you google image her the chick is kinda hot, 8 or maybe 8.5/10
Oh, no. I would love to review an Opeth album but all of their albums have like 20 reviews already.
Album Rating: 4.0a 8 is is quite okay for me..
Paper@ - yea, you are right bro, however "heritage" isn't one of their best releases, imo.
Yeah, not a lot of people like it. I personally loved the album, but I agree with you that it's not one of their best.
Lol review...very Eisely-esque.
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The shocking slide and the missing mark of a mentor
It is just as well that India are making a mark as a sharp fielding unit despite repeated failings in the two key areas – batting and bowling. N Ananthanarayanan reports.cricket Updated: Jan 18, 2013 10:35 IST
It is just as well that India are making a mark as a sharp fielding unit despite repeated failings in the two key areas – batting and bowling. On Thursday, as the squad members began their first training session in the new Jharkhand State Cricket Association stadium, coach Duncan Fletcher held centrestage during an elaborate fielding drill.
He supervised sprints that involved covering short distances to pick and throw with markers placed at various points. The players then went into a more strenuous relay race from one end of the field to another. The spring in the step was apparent after winning the second ODI to square the series with the next game to be played in skipper MS Dhoni's home ground on Saturday.
The former Zimbabwe all-rounder arrived in India having built a reputation as a game changer with England, which led to their sensational Ashes victory at home in 2005 and began the transformation of the team. While that process has been astutely carried forward by his younger Zimbabwe compatriot, Andy Flower, the same has not happened with Fletcher after he succeeded the hugely popular Gary Kirsten, who took India to the World Cup win but didn't stay on to oversee the team's transformation.
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Rahul Dravid was the first to seek him out during the West Indies tour, engaging in a long conversation on batting. And he was outstanding in the subsequent England tour. Since then, it has been downhill for a man who has kept away from the media despite the demand for his sacking.
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Although the cricket board has not indicated much, Fletcher's time with India appears numbered even if India produce a good showing in the current series as well as the home Test series against Australia starting late in February. The question no longer seems to be whether he will be able to redeem himself.
Former coach and selector Anshuman Gaekwad feels Fletcher has failed to communicate with the India players by overcoming the challenge of the language and cultural barriers. "Whether it is the bowler or batsman, the same mistake is being made again and again. He should have sorted them out by now."
But he said it may be unfair to blindly criticise Fletcher. "It is all very nice to say Fletcher is useless. But we also don't know fully what is happening inside, whether he is being allowed to do what he should be doing," he told HT.
"In the end, it is important that players have confidence in the coach. His main contribution has only been in planning. Now, it is up to the BCCI to think of Indian cricket's future and see whether he will be helpful."


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I have since I was a teenager always shaved my legs and underarms, never really daring to wax until my mid-twenties, and even then always forgetting, so after my mother in law explained how she was getting on with an epilator I decided to give one a try as I needed an alternative to shaving in the shower every other day which was time consuming and a faff. I can't say I relished the idea, it did sound painful from what she explained, but the benefits of having smooth skin for longer than a day or two outweighed the cons of pain! The thing that girls do for beauty!
Hair removal:
The beauty of the Silk Epil by Braun is that it removes hair right at the roots - even the fine hair (as short as 0.5mm long - which is pretty short!). When I read the blurb about the Silk Epil, I didn't actually think this would be possible, but in genuinely does get rid of even tiny bits of hair. It works using 40 tweezers to remove the hair, so it's not 'pleasant', but it's also not as painful as I expected it to be. The pivoting head means that hair removal is easier in those harder to reach areas, as the flexible head means it pivots with your contours, which makes it more thorough and less prone to miss hairs. There is also a feature call SoftLift Tips which lift even flat lying hair, guiding them to the tweezers to ensure total removal of all hair, working alongside the rollers to massage and sooth the skin as you use. I do find that one use isn't enough and you do have to go over areas a few times before every last hair has been removed, but from speaking to friends who use different models, I think this is pretty standard with epilators as a rule. I find I need to remove hair again after around 4 weeks.
The cordless body means it can be used wherever suits you best, in the bathroom, in your bedroom, in the shower, the bath... I think this makes it versatile and definitely more user friendly. It charges fully within around 50 minutes to an hour, and you will easily have enough time for one full epilation with the 40 minute battery time after charge.
Wet wipes:
The wet wipes that are recommended for use to prepare the skin before epilation are made by Olay and are a god send. I often ignore when products recommend you to use another product alongside it, as I think it's just another way to make more money out of you, but I would have to agree in this instance. They cool and relax the skin before the trauma of epilating, kind of lulling it into a false sense of security! On one occasion, I can't remember why but I didn't use the wipes beforehand and the difference in my skin was unbelievable. It felt sore and looked red in areas, it hurt more during epilating too, so these wonder wipes are a must! I sometimes use them after epilating too although I try and not go through too many, they don't seem to last very long as it is! One pack of wipes come in the box and extra packs can be bought for around £7 on Amazon (for a pack of 16), but I think you can pick them up cheaper on eBay.
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The feature that I like best is the option to change the speed setting. There are only 2 settings - wimp and hard! Setting 1 is for 'gentle epilation' and setting 2 is for 'efficient epilation'. Guess which one I use! I think I have used setting 2 once when I was pushed for time and boy did I feel like I could take on the world! You definitely need your hard pills for this one (of course I may just be being the ultimate wimp!).
Easy grip and Smartlight:
The epilator is easy to hold and it won't get slippy if you use it in the shower or the bath. They are really easy to clean too, and can be put under running water without any worries at all. It is really light at just over 1lb. There is also a smartlight which lights up really hard to see fine hairs, so this makes the process a little easier too.
How would I recommend using it?
I would recommend that you use this epilator in a warm, not hot, bath (the epilator is 100% safe to use in water). I find that if you rub your skin with the cooling wipes before getting into a warm bath, sit in the bath for 5 minutes to relax the skin, and then begin the process on the first setting, that this is the most effective process that won't make your skin sore. The pulling sensation also reduces if used in warm water, something I definitely noticed in comparison to when I used it dry. I have used it in a rush without the wipes, and using it dry on a setting 2 just made my skin really sore to the touch for a short while and wasn't worth doing it this way. Of course everyone is different, but I am just sharing my experiences. I also found that after 2 or 3 uses, the discomfort significantly reduced and now I find it seems much more gentle and easier to use, but I think this is more my skin getting used to the treatment, so do stick with it! My hair also seems to grow back slower between each use now than it did when I first started using it. If you are going to continue to epilate, I would also recommend using a light, fragrance free shower gel - I find Sanex or the Simple range are perfect.
The RRP of this model is £109.99 but I didn't pay that! I managed to pick it up on offer in a chemist for £75, and it is currently on sale on Amazon for £84.84. Do keep an eye out, I occasionally see it on offer one week and then full price somewhere else. You can pick up epilators for between £50 and £150, so this particular one is mid-range.
I absolutely love this epilator and am slightly obsessed with it!!
Before purchasing this epilator I had never used one before because I was too scared that it would be incredibly painful! But after thinking about it for a while I decided that it would be worth putting up with if it meant having smoother legs for longer! I've never really been a fan of waxing, finding it too time consuming and costly, so I thought that epilating might be a good alternative, since it is something I can do and home and can start and stop without causing lots of mess.
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The Competitive Hypothesis
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The Competitive Hypothesis is an exhibition examining the politics behind the architectural competition. The exhibition, presented in partnership with Think-Space (www.think-space.org), questions the current state, purpose and value of architecture competitions.
Through four curated spaces within the gallery, The Competitive Hypothesis presents major architectural competitions produced within the past few years, objects from competitions used to gain competitive advantages, dioramas of image fragments sourced from a selection of recent urban design renderings, and short texts and self portraits of some of the unknown minds of significant competition winners (ie. interns). The Competitive Hypothesis will highlight the double meanings inherent in the 'competition': on one hand referring to the competition as a procurement mechanism for projects, on the other referring to an ethos or disposition that permeates work practice. This exhibition turns to both of these possibilities in order to continue an investigation into architecture's present condition.


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How about....
...Barbie the witch instead.
We take all the Barbies and burn then, oh and the Bratz things as well...
Our friends at insideHPC pushed this story recently, but there hasn't been an accompanying groundswell of buzz, so I'm bringing it to The Register's audience in an attempt to get the ball rolling. Mattel, purveyor of the iconic Barbie doll, is running a contest to decide Barbie's next career. She has quite a wide range of …
...Barbie the witch instead.
We take all the Barbies and burn then, oh and the Bratz things as well...
Playmobil (de)construction may be required
Who plays Barbie?
She would need a CAT5 cable tester and RJ45 crimp tool and to keep BOFH fans happy a cattle prod.
She'd need a wallet ful of CD's plus the mantra of 'Can't fix it - will have to rebuild' - which comes about 2 minutes after arriving and doing bugger all.
...such as desktop or network support/admin, she would undoubtedly need:
Shabby clothes - you aren't going to crawl under desks and into risers in a nice dress.
Multitool - Leatherman-esque knife/pliers combo for cutting through cabling rats nests.
A utilitarian handbag with a cheap mobile phone, make up compact, can of deoderant and a pack fo alka-seltzer, for when [and the morning after] comprehensively outdrinking the men in the team. Which seems to be a common theme with the lasses I have worked with.
Also, a box full of motherboards, hard drives, SCSI cards and GPUs, for her houseshare in south London where she annoys her flatmates by trying to get esoteric old hardware to work properly.
And a large stock of absinthe.
There again, mebbe that's just the lasses I have worked with. And loved working with, frankly.
Anon though, as I don't want a slap from them - as despite all the above, they are still nice fluffy girls at heart.
"such as desktop or network support/admin, "
That would make her a technician, not an engineer.
The engineer is the person who designed the system in such a way that the technician needs 6 different Torx screwdrivers and a non-standard wrench in order to change the hard drive.
Hmm, nearly typed non-standartd /wench/ there. That would be Barbie...
A electrified firesafe, complete with beancounter Ken locked inside?
A USB stick of pr0n and incriminating emails?
Surely we need a BOFH Barbie, complete with cattle prod
What about each doll coming with a dozen frustrated "IT Kens" desperately trying to get her attention?
Duly voted.
However, it's going to be hard going removing all traces of the fact I've accessed a Barbie site from work, especially when the boss of the firewall team is notoriously NOT Barbie :)
I should have mentioned the idea my wife came up with last week, and I quote..
"Up the gut Barbie".
bah humbug... :-(
Anyone want to write a basic script to vote repeatedly via a proxy server?
Just ask around 4chan, they did it before ;)
Although knowing their taste, next role would be a porn star.
Anonymous, for obvious reasons.
or gtfo
You're breaking it...
anon you broke it !
Google's HQ is basically a big colourful toyland for attention-deficient children, right? Barbie would fit in perfectly.
I propose a new cable connector standard called the Barbie DD Type.
These would not fit any know piece of equipment so she could have boxes of the damn things as accessories.
Paris 'cos she has a usable socket.
Would that be for twisted pair, or coaxial with a crimp coupler? Never mind, you'd never be able to find a male one when you needed it.
...used to run-the-bitches-over with me Tonka trucks! Wa-ha-haha! Think I also got Ken to be their pimp once too, oh how we laughed!
Back on topic, Well seeing as Barbie is all like fashionable and stuff, they'd probably give her a magic pink iPad rather then anything that's any use for her job.
A five and a half inch floppy? Oh wait, that would be for ken...
I seem to recall that "proper" floppies were five and a quarter inches - although Barbie would tell Ken that size is not important.
huh. *Real* floppies are 8-inchers. Still have a box or two...
What are her piercings?
Eyebrow? Nose? Lip?
So, what, Geek Barbie is going to be based on the caffiene-happy girl with the odd hairstyle in NCIS?
Actually... come to think of it... that's not a bad idea.
Barbie does QA on commercial Java applications. Paris, because she couldn't figure out pointers, either.
"But what would you sell with "Computer Engineer Barbie?" On the clothing front, not that much."
Not that much clothing? "Semi-Naked Computer Engineer Barbie?" Pervert.
Stockings and suspenders required.......for Barbie..........not me.
...rumpled chinos and a black t-shirt with "I (heart) Big Hard Drives" on it...?
They could have made a small fortune selling lenses, upgrading the bodies every year ... They could have done a Nikon and asked $8,000 for a new model. For those who like the retro feel, they could have sold, darkroom Barbie, complete with chemical stains on her hands and an instant response of hands flying to her face when coming out in to the sunlight.
... or are they too scared that the combination of Barbie, Ken and the little red light might be a little too much for young minds?
... so she can press Ctrl-Alt-Del
I don't think she'd need many accessories really, after all she'd be promoted to PM pretty damned quick and just have to tell us engineers what we should be doing on a daily basis instead.
I think she needs a diploma from some crappy management school, a copy of the contractual SLA's and budgetary control. Possibly a copy of "PCs for Dummies" so she can understand all the technical language that real engineers sling around?
Oh yeah, perhaps some carpet burns from the promotional process too.
In some places this might be called cable monkey, though in Barbie's case cable bunnie may be apt.
Then she'd need all the necessary protectives ....
A backless, topless boiler suit,
And high-heeled hobnail army boots.
It seems as if the only connection go out to Google Analythics and "Scorecard Research", whatever that is. I need to research that later.
She can have a whole wardrobe full of heavy metal / geek / just plain rude Tee shirts, mountain boots, thirty or forty pairs of jeans (of which she only wears her 'favourite' pair), oh and a single dress for when she visits her Mum.
Her dressing table can be fitted out with sample beers from all over the world, and single speed CD drives and 32MB HDDs, various Linux distro CDs, three boxes of A4 micro-perf fan fold printer paper, 170 to 200 kilos of various technical manuals for such exciting things as Apollo Domain Unix installation complete with 57 5 1/4 inch floppy disks, Borland C (Brand New, Try it today!!!) George, The Operating System. A single lipstick (the one she bought the day after she left school) currently lying under one of the boxes of fan fold paper.
She can have an anorak for the winter and a thick leather coat for the summer.
See so much and I haven't even started on her real home (her cubical) yet.
Ken should be her manager, with pointy hair. She hates him.
If you drop out the girly stuff, it's disturbingly like my dressing table. Fan-fold, check. HDDs are 40/60Mb. CDs, iomegas, blah blah. Linux distro? Minix3-yeah! TurboPascal 5.5 full set (well, hey, a quid from a charity shop!). You forgot the 386 motherboards, four different types of memory (remember the old 30-pin SIMMs?) and various bits that once belonged inside a BBC Micro...
Pull the string dangling out of her back and she could say 'Have you tried turning it off and on again?'
She's Helpdesk Barbie
Come on, how about something more realistic, like crazy old cat woman?
Seriously, Best idea ever! Accessories should include, little tins of cat food, soiled baggy clothing, over-flowing litter trays and as a special bonus, Ken in a new role as "Community psychiatric nurse" to check on Barbie to make sure shes not laying dead on the kitchen floor, surrounded by very hungry cats.
I voted computer engineer, but I only voted at all because I know that if it comes out, Moss and Roy will get their hands on one. I have no idea what they'll do with it, but it ought to be hilarious.
In fact, it probably doesn't matter -- now that the suggestion's out there, it'll probably find its way into the series whether or not it actually exists.
(Almost) every "Computer Engineer Barbie" will either very quickly move to another department (IT management or something "audity") or leave and start having babies, then be too far "out of it" to return when the short ones are big enough to be left alone so they'll go into teaching or something else instead.
Sigh... whatever she wears she'll need to have a change of clothes, IT is rarely a career.
Barbie's first noose
Barbie's first jumbo bottle of paracetamol
Plane tickets to Switzerland
The possibilities are endless.
..is as the programmer for the Aussie company - believe she'll make the requirements
I reckon this is a fit up.
I'm pretty certain the next Barbie will be a computer engineer whichever way the public votes.
Why? Cross-selling: there will be a pink Barbie netbook computer on the shelves by Christmas, you mark my words.
Now look what you've done. I wasn't going to vote, I really wasn't, then you mentioned that pink Barbie netbook computer and ...
Oh, and don't forget the black turtleneck. Ok, ok, I know that's closer to industrial designer than computer engineer but let's face it. Imagine the extra hype that could be generated if Steve's stand in had double H bulgarian airbags!
and spent 2 hours playing with the games on the Barbie site. Thanks a lot, guys
I tried to vote, but all I got was:
You need to download the latest version of Flash in order to check this out.
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Not every woman out on the town with husband/boyfriend is a trained karateka ! Most he/she , as trained karateka , still have no schooling in tactical mindset and will make some serious blunders in either avoiding / escalating !
The intensity of the moment is king , and it is very personal and individual as to what action triggers i.e., aggressive , submissive or non committal !
True , testosterone laden morons , especially budo men will be quick to 'push it' in order to prove something to themselves and to the 'girl' !
Yet testosterone laden cretins have their female counterparts ! Some women are as bad or worse than guys in starting trouble , totally out of control at times , and get their men in trouble up to their necks ! I have witnessed some of this first hand and investigated many cases where women , being the instigators , have resulted in injury or death to their less aggressive / reasonable companion !
In some cases I handled , the women kept insisting /arguing with their husbands that they be allowed to dress scantily in public and flirt as they pleased at parties and dinners, totally inebriated , which would draw taunts upon the husband by the drunken jerks escalating into fights ! I have witnessed some scenes of such women at gatherings that made me want to get up and smack them around ! Remember the movie " The godfather " ?
In many of my investigations , for a man , it was " Damned if you do, damned if you don't" ! A woman who perceives offense /violation before the eyes of her male companion , may say things such as " It's okay It was best you did not do/start anything " but deep inside [ subliminally] she may harbor resentment and withdraw from him thinking he is less of a man , same way that most women lose respect for groveling wimps [ the -yes dear -men] in a relationship !
Then she becomes orgasm dysfunctional and such situations may result in impotence for the male , requiring psychiatric therapy ; I have seen divorce and all kinds of turmoil in between ranging from responses of ' no action to too much action ' in the confrontation !
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I have read thousands of pages of psychiatric assessment reports in litigated cases on the subject matter and still find the whole thing very daunting !
Then there are the sheep and the wolves ! Tracy rose sensei was telling me he has had a sheep patch made up ; plenty of candidates for this award ; both male and female !
Gary /Tracy senseis are right when they say that many of you pacifists diminish the value of the dojo real estate every time you bring you ass out on the dojo floor for a " workout" !
And mind you , I am not advocating you fight or raise a finger ; it is your tactical mindset in place/or lack of, that will reduce your mind to shreds !
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AnalogicTech has introduced the AAT1112 and AAT1145, 1.5A and 1.2A constant frequency current mode step-down converters. Available in a small, 3x3mm TDFN package, these current-mode converters require no external compensation components and offer designers highly compact and easy-to-implement solutions.
Many portable electronics devices contain circuitry that must be powered from a 3.3V rail. Unlike comparable voltage-mode step-down converters, the current-mode AAT1112 and AAT1145 enable a Lithium-ion battery input to a 3.3V output at full rated current. These devices also minimise the size of the entire solution without forcing the system designer to iteratively determine the correct external compensation components.
The AAT1112 supplies up to 1.5A output current from a 2.4V to 5.5V input. The AAT1145 supplies up to 1.2A output current from a 2.5V to 5.5V input. Output voltage can be regulated from 0.6V to VIN. The devices also help extend battery life by running at 100 percent duty cycle for low dropout operation and by offering up to 95 percent power efficiency.
Slope-compensated current mode PWM control enables the use of inductor values as low 1µH; while the high 1.5 MHz and 1.4MHz switching frequency enables the use of small external components, resulting in a small total solution.
The AAT1112 and AAT1145 offer integrated soft start and short-circuit and thermal fault protection. They also feature a low shutdown current of <1 µA.
Rated over the -40 to +85 degrees C temperature range, the AAT1112 step-down converter comes in both a Pb-free, 3x3mm, 12-lead TDFN package and Pb-free, 2.75x3mm, 12-lead TSOPJW package. The AAT1145 step-down converter comes in a Pb-free, 3x3mm, 10-lead TDFN package.
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You'll be centrally located in Hakuba with a stay at Hakuba Onsen Ryokan Shirouma-so, minutes from Happo-one Adam Gondola and Hakuba Mini Train Park. This 4-star ryokan is within close proximity of Hakuba Ski Jumping Stadium and Hakuba Olympic Museum.
Make yourself at home in one of the 17 air-conditioned rooms featuring plasma televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as laptop-compatible safes and ceiling fans.
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Pack your bags, Zack Greinke, you are being traded.
Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said Thursday he would trade the right-handed pitcher before the non-waiver trade deadline next Tuesday.
There were reports last week that the Brewers informally offered Greinke about $100 million for a five-year extension. In the meantime they have been told the 28-year-old intends to test free agency after the season.
"I'm very fond of (Greinke)," Melvin told USA Today. "He's one of my favourite players I've ever had. Really, he has been like a son to me. I enjoy talking baseball with him. He's very passionate. He follows the game.
It has been a great experience having him for a year and a half.
"There are so many good things about him, it's going to be difficult when we trade him." The Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers are considered leading candidates to acquire Greinke, but numerous other teams could get involved as well.
Another pitcher who could end up on the market before the trade deadline is Philadelphia Phillies left-hander Cliff Lee.
Having signed left-hander Cole Hamels on Wednesday to a six-year, $144-million extension, the Phils are committed to doling out $68 million next season to three starters -- Hamels, Lee and Roy Halladay.
Officials from other teams told FoxSports.com they think Philadelphia general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. will have to move Lee to reduce payroll.
Lee, who turns 34 next month, is owed $87.5 million on the three years left on his contract after this season.
He has a 1-6 record with a 3.95 earned-run average this season but is considered a solid post-season pitcher.
Troy Tulowitzki, who was expected back in August after surgery in June to remove scar tissue from his left groin, could be out for the season, CBSSports.com reported Thursday.
The Colorado Rockies shortstop had the surgical procedure June 21, three weeks after feeling discomfort while running the bases.
Sources say that since the Rockies are out of contention they don't want to risk bring their star back too early.
The Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers have renewed trade talks concerning Chicago right-hander Ryan Dempster, CSN Chicago reported Thursday. They may try to get a third team involved to satisfy the Cubs' request for two pitching prospects in return for the 35-year-old. The Dodgers are Dempster's preferred destination ... The Dodgers placed infielder Adam Kennedy on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a right groin strain. Kennedy is hitting .250 with one homer and 15 RBI in 70 games this season. The Dodgers have recalled right-handed pitcher Shawn Tolleson from triple-A Albuquerque ... Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Placido Polanco has been placed on the 15-day disabled list because of lower back inflammation. Polanco is hitting .255 with two homers and 19 RBI. Ty Wigginton has replaced Polanco at third base the past three games but has made three errors. The Phils will make a corresponding roster move Friday.


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SAN FRANCISCO—Fresco Microchip Inc., a developer of RF, mixed-signal and digital signal processing chips for TVs, said Tuesday (June 28) it secured $9 million in series C funding from the Ontario Venture Capital Fund (OVCF) and previous Fresco investors Celtic House Venture Partners and Ventures West.
Fresco (Toronto) said the funds will be used to help commercialize its expanded product portfolio and to augment its ability to serve customer demand in emerging markets.
Fresco has grown rapidly over the past 18 months by swimming against the current, going after analog TV and hybrid [analog/digital] TV markets at a time when many suppliers are winding down production and engineering resources for analog TV. In March, Fresco launched the FM1062 analog demodulator for silicon tuners, saying the demand for analog-only television remains strong in emerging markets around the world. Fresco also recently launched a family of silicon tuner products that it says reduce design complexity and system cost.
"Fresco's success is a direct result of our ongoing commitment to deliver value through innovation," said Lance Greggain, Fresco's president, CEO, and co-founder, in a statement.
"Fresco's phenomenal growth in its first year of initial production demonstrates the distinct competitive advantage of the company's technology," said Brian Antonen, partner, Celtic House. "The addition of the OVCF to the investment syndicate will accelerate the company's growth and paves the way for continued success with the launch of Fresco's latest products."


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Senior California linebacker and 2011 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Mychal Kendricks added to his post-season honors on Monday when he was named a Third-Team All-American by Yahoo! Sports. The honor marked the first time in his career that Kendricks has been named to a post-season All-American squad.
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Kendricks, who also earned Cal's co-team MVP honors on the defensive side of the ball, is tied for third in the Pac-12 in tackles for loss per game (1.08 tflpg) and tackles (8.0 tpg), while leading the team in both with totals of a career-high 96 tackles and 13.0 tackles for loss. He also co-leads the squad with a pair of interceptions that he has returned for a team-high 62 yards, while adding 3.0 sacks, two pass breakups and two fumble recoveries that he has returned for 33 yards. Kendricks has posted four double-digit tackle games in 2011, including a career-high-tying and team season-high 15 stops at Washington. He also had 13 tackles at Stanford along with a season-high-tying 2.5 tackles for loss (-18 yards) and his first full sack of the season when he dropped Heisman Trophy runner-up Andrew Luck for a 14-yard loss. Kendricks was a fourth-team midseason All-American and first-team midseason All-Pac-12 choice according to Phil Steele.
Kendricks is the Bears' active career leader in tackles (248), tackles for loss (35.0), sacks (13.5) and fumble recoveries (7) in 50 games played and 28 starts. He has added four interceptions, a forced fumble, five pass breakups and one blocked kick.
Cal (7-5, 4-5 Pac-12) will play Texas (7-5, 4-5 Big 12) in the Holiday Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego on Wednesday, Dec. 28 (5 p.m. PST), after becoming bowl-eligible for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons.
The Bears will be playing in a bowl game for the eighth time in the last nine campaigns, and are also assured of a winning record in 2011 for the ninth time in the last 10 campaigns. Cal finished fourth in the highly competitive North division of the Pac-12 Conference and was selected for a bowl prior to any of the teams from the conference's South division.


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SANTA CLARA, California -- Nanochip Inc., an eight-year-old MEMS-based storage company that counts Microsoft Corp. amongst its backers, has agreed to license thin-film nonvolatile semiconductor memory technology from Ovonyx Inc., Ovonyx said Tuesday (Aug. 31). The license agreement permits Nanochip to use Ovonyx memory technology on a royalty-bearing basis in its microelectromechanical systems storage systems.
Ovonyx uses a reversible phase-change memory process, and includes Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV amongst its licensees. In probe-based mechanical storage systems, the reversible phase change data storage technology can permit the fabrication of mass storage systems with bit densities of 1-terabit per square inch, Ovonyx said.
"We are very pleased to be working with the Ovonyx team to use its reversible phase-change recording materials in our high density memory chips. The Ovonyx recording materials support our ultra-high density recording and provide almost unlimited cycle life," said Gordon Knight, chief executive officer of Nanochip, in a statement. "The Nanochip MEMS-based approach bypasses lithography limits facilitating ultra-high density storage and substantial cost per bit reduction," said Tyler Lowrey, president and chief executive officer of Ovonyx, in the same statement.


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You guys really don't get much for snow over there do you?
I was hoping for no more snow this season
so far one real push at 6 inchs. We had about 3, 1 inchers but nothing really to plow. Other than that just salt.
I just hope the weather makes up its mind. If its going to snow more, please let it snow. If its not going to snow, then let the warmer days begin so we can all get a jumpstart this spring.
im hoping for spring, ive giving up on this winter. i have a decent list of spring cleanups and organic fertilizing then mulch im ready to get started on. i need some real cash to start rolling in soon. ive been spending way to much time in the office.
spring! spring! spring! spring! spring!
You are asking 2 different questions here in the 2 different posts. As MStine315 suggested, if you ask the wrong question, you may get the wrong answer.
If you say: Do I need a license to apply organic fertilizer, they should of course answer no.
If you say: Do I need a license to apply corn gluten meal as a pre-emergent herbicide, most likely you will receive a answer that is different than that of the first question.
Im not trying to beat you up, or debate the effectiveness of organics, just trying to make sure you ask the right questions to get the right answers.
understood kevin. i was just teasing with the organics comment towards runner. no hard feelings here. what i asked the MDA was strictly concerning organic fertilizer with nothing mentioned about the CGM, but i did email them again about the CGM. i will let everyone know what the response is when i get it.
is anyone planing on attending any seminars in the next month. i am signed up for 2 so far, i will be attending the "livingston county farmers day" in howell on the 6th of march and hopefully i will be going to the "plant health care for landscape managers" in novi on the 15th of march. even though ive been doing this for 7+ years now i hope to learn something new and get a couple bubble sheets in also!
Yea...Let the 50's and 60's in. I need to start working to fulfill my list of wants by the end of this season...
I like the sun, but I hate dry season.
so this is my response from the state concerning the sales tax license category.
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Five Star - Flyer distribution = Stanley's Distribution (I think they're in Detroit - dowtown area).
Anyone have a 60 inch Lazer for sale? I know someone in the Flint area who is looking for one (actually he'll look at 52" inch and bigger). PM me if you know of one and I'll hook the two of you up.
BTW -I've got (3) 48" walkbehinds for sale, some rototillers and other misc stuff - anyone interested?
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Daddy's Little Sweetheart Dance
Girls will have a fun night with a special man in their lives at the fourth annual Daddy's Little Sweetheart Dance, coming Friday, Feb. 12.
Held at the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center, the dance is for girls aged 2-12 years old, and their dads, grandfathers, uncles or special friends.
The dance is a semi-formal ball with music, dancing, photo opportunities and a grand march to the stage. A Princess Package is available for $20 that includes a chocolate rose, photo, tiara, wand and balloon.
Food will be available, as well as a chance to participate in making crafts.
Tickets are $10 for dads and $5 for daughters; availability is limited, so call 218-844-SHOW (7469) as soon as possible.
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I'm really enjoying this cup. I didn't used to think very highly of this tea, but it's tasting really good today. Very toasty, sort of like a hojicha with an obviously high amount of oxidation. Used 4 level tsp in my 14oz Yixing pot. Water just off boiling, went for 2 1/2, and I'll try again for around 3 minutes.
Nice sheng, slightly astringent but not overpowering. A tiny bit smoky in the first infusions, but it mellows out. Keeping the steeps relatively short. Used 6g of leaf in a 6oz Yixing pot. One 10s rinse followed by a minute rest and went 15s, 10s, and up from there.
My only complaint is that the tuo cha is so tightly compressed. I decimated most of the leaves trying to pry them off.
Certainly the best Formosa Oolong I've had (although I do have a Tung Ting Jade here still yet to try). This one's very lightly oxidized, almost like a green tea but still with the floral Oolong character. I used 3 heaping tsp in my 14 oz. Yixing pot, and I'm on the first steep of hopefully 3 at around 2, 2:30, 3:00 and water at 195ish. Can't wait for the next infusions.
I was actually disappointed by the second and third steep – neither of them had very much character at all. Mostly like Oolong scented water. I may not have used enough leaf.


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Make your own Pressman's Hat
Recycling too dull for you? Put yesterday's newspaper to better use with these instructions on how to fold a pressman's hat:
Much research has been done to establish the origin of this unique headpiece. It has never been determined when or where the first paper hat was worn, but records show that it was being worn in the United States as early as 1748… The handmade hat is worn by pressmen as protection against ink, grease, oil and paper lint which might otherwise get in their hair.
Just make sure you start with a large enough piece of paper, because your local rag may not make an adult-sized hat. Today's smaller newspapers save money and protect the environment, but apparently they also make hats "better suited to children and pets."Bookmark / Share / Print
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I can't believe I just saw this! This brings back memories. Every new print class that we had at UF with Bob Mueller, he would have us make one of these, all while telling the story of the hat (supposedly to keep the stray, greasy hairs out of the cleanly set type) and when we were finished, wah-la! A hat. A hat that we could write our names on with Sharpie so he could figure out who we were for the first week of class.
As a child of 5 years old, I grew up in the pressroom of the KC Star and everyone wore these. Years later I became a pressman and was one of the few remaining who remembered how to make these. They kept the ink out of your hair. Quickly becoming a lost art and due to paper cutdowns nearly impossible to make for adults. I used to make them for the Cub Scouts when I toured them through my pressrooms.


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Picture this — it's Monday morning and you have to give a major presentation to the rest of the office. You spend hours in front of the computer researching statistics and jotting down ideas onto a stack of notecards. As you move through each point of your presentation, you notice the attention of a worker has wandered to the bird outside the window. Another fiddles with the pen on his desk. You wonder how anyone could think about anything else when you are giving such an interesting, original and well-researched presentation.
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Giant bugs thrived in oxygen-rich times
The enormous dragonflies, millipedes and other insects that lived 300 million years ago grew so large because of Earth's rich oxygen supply at the time, according to a new study.
"Why isn't there a cockroach that ate Dallas from recent history?" asks co-author Professor Jon Harrison of Arizona State University. "We can answer that question without a time machine."
Harrison and his team analysed how modern insects are designed for the fact that air today is 21% oxygen.
They focused on the tracheal system, the interconnected tubes that transport oxygen throughout bug bodies.
By extension, the researchers envisioned what insects would have looked like millions of years ago when the air was 35% oxygen.
Their findings help to explain the remains of millipedes over a metre long, 10 centimetre cockroaches and dragonflies with 75 centimetre wingspans dating to the late Palaeozoic period, just before dinosaurs came on the scene.
Using x-ray imaging, the scientists compared the tracheal dimensions of four modern beetles ranging in size from 3 millimetres to 3.5 centimetres.
They found that the tracheal system took up 20% more of the insect's body in larger beetles. In other words, the bigger an insect, the more it must invest in air tubing.
And "more tracheae ... mean less space for everything else in the body, such as the brain and reproductive system", Harrison explains.
In the oxygen-rich world of the Palaeozoic era, insects needed less air to meet their oxygen needs. As a result, they could afford smaller trachea than modern insects.
The researchers conclude that although Palaeozoic insects had the same basic body structure as modern insects, their maximum body size was larger because smaller trachea left more room for the other essential body parts necessary to sustain their weight.
The findings were presented at this week's American Physiological Society conference in Virginia Beach.
Dr Steve Heydon, curator and collections manager of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at University of California, Davis, says that the new explanation is plausible.
But there are other possible explanations for why insects grew smaller, such as competition pressure from birds.
"Remember that there weren't any birds in the sky when the giant insects were out," says Heydon. "When flying dinosaurs and birds came around, the insects lost their exclusivity."


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OverviewAt the Southern border of Dolomites, at the end of July and in August, the weather is often a little "strange" : even if the atmospheric pressure is high some tricky clouds (normally named as "daytime evolution") give climbers, normally in the afternoon, the opportunity to test their skills about climbing on very wet rocks ...
The Dente del Cimone, due to the fast approach and the fast descent, gives to skilled (and fast) rock climbers the chance to make a really fine route, one of the most classic of the whole range : the Langes (with the Micheluzzi variant)
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Getting There
From San Martino di Castrozza follow the road of Passo Rolle (SS 50) till you meet the wide car parking of Col Verde & Cima Rosetta cablecars.
Once at Col Verde station, along the path 702 in few minutes to get the debris channel coming down from the SW landslide.
Up along it to the grassy triangle well visible from the valley.
In the photo beside you can easy see the different parts of the route
the routeThe first part starts very easy along a ramp that near its ending has some short exposed slabs (a little more difficult) giving access to a grassy ramp
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Along the grassy ramp (very easy) to get the dihedral of Micheluzzi variant
This is the difficult part of the route, on fantastic rock in an amusing dihedral that leads to a small notch
(in case of fine weather some rappels could lead you back to the base to repeat it ...)
(3 pitches : V, V+)
A walk up allows to get, on the left, the base of a yellow wall, climb it to get the ridge
Follow the ridge and along a channel get a notch.
(3 pitches : easy II-III)
Climb the upper wall to get a chimney then another wall and, through a hole in the rock (bus del sorz = mouse hole) get the ridge
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Follow at best the ups and down of the ridge till the summit
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The 3-Percent Solution
Recent surveys report that U.S. employer base pay, while on the upswing, is still slowed by weak economic growth. But employers are shifting focus to bonuses, more frequent pay adjustments, variable pay and increased differentiation based on performance.
By Tom Starner
When it comes to base pay increases for U.S. workers in 2014, it seems the magic number is three. Which is not bad, say compensation experts at some of the top consulting firms, considering where it had been during and shortly after the recent recession.
Firms such as Mercer, WorldatWork, Hay Group and The Conference Board all predict salary base pay increases will be at or about 3 percent in the next year.
While that increase may make some HR executives worry about morale, the upside is that many employers are trying hard to offer higher numbers in rewarding their top performers.
According to Mercer's survey results this summer, for example, the average raise in base pay is expected to be 2.9 percent in 2014, modestly rising from 2.8 percent in 2013 and 2.7 percent in 2012 and 2011. Salary increases for top-performing employees, which Mercer estimates is about 7 percent of the workforce, will be higher as companies continue to focus on retaining top talent.
"Employers realize their greatest challenge is to retain top performers to avoid post-recessionary flight of these valuable assets. This means they have to reward and recognize them," says Jeanie Adkins, a Louisville, Ky.-based partner and co-leader of Mercer's rewards practice. "This includes providing higher pay increases, along with other non-cash rewards such as training opportunities and career development."
Adkins says that, as employers seek enhanced ways to pay for performance, they are segmenting their workforce mainly by high-performing as well as high-potential employees. As a result, companies are rewarding these employees with significantly larger increases than those in the lower-performing categories. Mercer's survey shows the highest-performing employees received average base pay increases of 4.6 percent in 2013, compared to 2.6 percent for average performers and 0.2 percent for the lowest performers.
"In an improved economy, top performers continue to get salary increases nearly twice that of an average performer, which indicates that pay for performance is alive and well in the annual merit process," Adkins says. "Differentiation of salary increases based on performance is now commonplace and remains an effective way for employers to recognize those employees that enhance the company's competitiveness and contribute to its success."
In addition to workforce segmentation, organizations are studying the key drivers of employee engagement and targeting certain groups, such as high-potentials or those with critical skills, with enhanced reward programs. Moreover, they are investing in a variety of practices to strengthen employee engagement and help improve work/life balance overall for employees. According to Mercer's survey, some of the more prevalent practices include sponsored conferences, professional development events, additional non-monetary recognition awards, and enriched job sharing/flexible hours.
"Employers are clearly starting to see the value of assessing and addressing their workforce needs systematically," Adkins said. "They recognize that engaged employees are less likely to seek job opportunities outside of the company, and therefore, have a more positive influence and impact on both team and business performance."
In its survey, the WorldatWork 2013-2014 Salary Budget Survey, that entity projects that U.S. employers' budget increases in base pay for 2014 will be at 3.1 percent, which, if achieved, says Kerry Chou, senior compensation practice leader for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based WorldatWork, would be the first average increase above 3 percent since 2008.
"Salary budgets continue to improve, albeit slowly," Chou says. "This data adds to the jobs numbers painting an economic picture that shows the U.S. economy is not gaining much momentum. Organizations continue to be challenged in finding meaningful ways beyond 3-percent raises to reward talent."
Chou adds that budgets that remain below historical levels heighten the need for better execution of pay programs, which includes pay transparency and good communication, knowledgeable line managers who can discuss pay decisions with employees, and meaningful differentiation in increases between high performers and other workers.
In fact, he says, weak salary increase budgets are not stopping employers from rewarding talent. Survey respondents from U.S. companies are focusing on bonuses, more frequent adjustments, variable pay and increased differentiation based on performance.
Along with Mercer and WorldatWork, research from the Hay Group and The Conference Board also project median base salary increases of 3 percent in 2014.
In somewhat of a contrast, Towers Watson, in its Talent Management and Rewards Pulse Survey released in mid-August, reports that North American employers do not expect to fully fund their annual employee bonuses this year, marking the third consecutive year and seventh time since 2005 that their bonus pools for annual incentives will be below target. Additionally, Towers Watson found, one in four employers will pay bonuses to workers who fail to meet performance expectations. And that raises the question as to whether employers are receiving a good ROI in these plans.
"Employers continue to take a conservative approach to funding their bonus pools while the strength of the economy remains both uneven and uncertain," says Laura Sejen, global rewards leader at Towers Watson in New York. She says that while the vast majority of employers have some type of annual incentive plan, the way some incentive plans are designed and viewed by employees raises the question of whether employers are getting their money's worth.
According to that report, 18 percent fail to set differences in target payouts based on employee performance. Other recent Towers Watson research shows that employees view annual incentive plans as being ineffective, are not a key driver of sustainable engagement and are not a strong source of attraction and retention.
"Companies may need to take a hard look at the design and delivery of their incentive programs to ensure they are meeting their objectives within the total rewards portfolio," Sejen says.


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