A study claims that the area around Chernobyl is not the best haven for wildlife. (Really.)
Some had argued that due to lack of humans within a 30km radius of Chernobyl, wildlife has flourished. However, a tiny variable known as radiation may not be quite so healthy for the animals.
This phrase appears in an article by Gregg Easterbrook from the unfathomably distant 1980, describing the financial disasters of the Space Shuttle program even before the first shuttle had taken off.
As it turns out, NASA’s concept of “success-oriented planning” needed a little tweaking to be useful in the real world:
But NASA had made its $5 billion to $6 billion projection based on “success-oriented planning.” That means it assumed everything would work the first time. Budgets were drawn as if redesigns would never be needed, as if no contingencies would arise, as if 520-second engine tests could be conducted with 300-second tanks.
Of course, NASA planners knew everything would not work the first time.
When a phrase sounds like gobbledygook, it probably is gobbledygook.
North Korea is going to have more problems, and I feel sorry for its people.
Torrential storms have battered the country, especially in the southeast, destroying infrastructure, washing away soil, and killing hundreds of people. For a country that already struggles with food, this is a brutal blow. Analysts say they will require extra food aid for one or two years.
The North Korean government requested international assistance, and in a rare move, broadcast video footage to the outside world of affected areas.
According to the KCNA, Pukchang County received 672mm of rain (26.5 in.) over the course of six days. Some areas had a peak rate of 90mm (3.5 in.) per hour, devastating buildings and farmland.
To their credit, the KCNA didn’t let the national disaster hamper their daily bashing of South Korea’s Grand National Party, the United States, and Japan.
As the candidate search goes forward, I’ve been slowly compiling a list of interview questions based on the candidate’s stated programming experience (C++, VB.NET, etc.)
A simple Yahoo! or Google search will yield a plethora of potential questions and answers if one will just take a little effort to look. This guy, Mark Wagner, had posted potential C# interview questions with answers and some helpful readers posted corrections and improvements.
Then there’s the people who want to snowball a potential employer into thinking they know more than they do, but are too lazy to do it themselves…
Questions are really helpful…
please send me C#,VB.NET and Web Services questions with ANSWERS on
ch.debarati@yahoo.co.in
Hi friends,
I am preparing for an interview, I would be very grateful if you can you send me the most frequently asked questions for C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET to fred_bry@sbcglobal.net.
Hey Friends,
As i m preparing for interview, please send me C#,ASP.NET and Web Services questions with ANSWERS on nasar_15oct@yahoo.com email address .
Thanking u in advance
Regards
Nasar.
yeah this materila is good,but its not sufficient.if u add little more to it,its better.anyone pls post me the .Net(C# and ASP.Net ) and SQL Server interview questions with answers to my mail id which is murali_june@yahoo.com
According to an MSN-Zogby poll (does that mean Zogby did the poll, and Microsoft paid to attach their name to it?), a lot of us do non-work on company time. There are two of you that came to mind immediately, but your names won’t be mentioned here.
They list several activities more common than you’d think, including watching TV. Although they didn’t mention “blogging during work hours even though one co-worker’s sick and the other doesn’t work Mondays, meaning you have to pick up the slack”.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Why should you watch it?
If you’re looking for a Santa who kicks Martian butt with his toys, this a’int it. He gets innocent children to do that (seriously). The only way Santa could kill any Martians is to give them lung cancer from his cigar smoking.
There’s a character named “Winky the Elf”. Kids on Mars can get reception for TV programs on Earth. The evil villain has a thick mustache. Martians also speak English and eat chocolate, bananas, and hamburgers. I don’t want to spend more time writing about this. I’m IM’ing friends to recover IQ right now. Here are some screenshots with pithy captions. (And you can click on them for a larger size!)
Fear the Miami Heat. They just signed Penny Hardaway to a one-year deal.
So now the Heat consist of:
Dwyane Wade (yes, that’s how you spell his name)
Shaq and Penny, who are shells of their former selves
Haslem, a decent, but undersized power forward
Mourning, a guy with one kidney
White Chocolate and Smush, who combined are worth about 1.4 point guards
Antoine Walker
Young guys that Riley won’t develop
Good times.
I want to gauge your interest in this to see whether it’s worth the effort.
In keeping with the mediocrity of Liquid Egg Product, I’m considering attempting to secure an interview a marginally famous person or celebrity. But I need to know whether people would be interested (even if not, I just might try it anyway)
The two entities that came to mind were Alex Chiu and the pirates who founded Talk Like a Pirate Day.
If you have no clue who they are, that’s good, because that merely confirms their marginal fame status. Any other suggestions, or questions you’d want me to pose to these guys can be left in the comments. Or even anyone else who would be good to interview.
Today while waiting for Chinese food, I took a peek at their TV (they gave me a new Monday Fighter!). One of those daytime talk shows was on. Some hack named Greg was hosting a show called “Greg”. On stage, a man who looks like he’s trying to break Manuel Uribe’s record was the focus of attention, giving one of those weird confessions.
They showed a picture of the rotund guest in a green shimmering dress, like that’s going to get people to want to watch the show. The guest then explained he was transgender, which means that he’s a female living in a male body. Except he’s attracted to females. So he was considering a surgery to make him female and live as a lesbian. And he’s hoping his girlfriend will be OK with this (”I just want her to say she loves me.”)
Unfortunately, she didn’t yell or scream, or try to beat the crap out of him. At least not while I was there. (Another knock against the show; if there’s none of that, why bother watching?)
If you ever hear the words “Honey, there’s something very important I have to tell you, but we have wait until we’re on the Jerry Springer show,” that’s a red flag that not everything’s right in your relationship. You can probably go ahead and ask, “So are you gay, transgender, or both?” Then spare yourself national embarrassment by duking it out in the privacy of your own home.
Unless, of course, you’d rather have the free plane ride and $150.
