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Why talent is overrated - Oct. 21, 2008 (Fortune Magazine) -- It is mid-1978, and we are inside the giant Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, looking into a cubicle shared by a pair of 22-year-old men, fresh out of college. Their assignment is to sell Duncan Hines brownie mix, but they spend a lot of their time just rewriting memos. They are clearly smart - one has just graduated from Harvard, the other from Dartmouth - but that doesn't distinguish them from a slew of other new hires at P&G. What does distinguish them from many of the young go-getters the company takes on each year is that neither man is particularly filled with ambition. Neither has any kind of career plan. Every afternoon they play waste-bin basketball with wadded-up memos. These two young men are of interest to us now for only one reason: They are Jeffrey Immelt and Steven Ballmer, who before age 50 would become CEOs of two of the world's most valuable corporations, General Electric (GE, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500).
Logorrhea (psychology) In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder, sometimes classified as a mental illness, resulting in excessive wordiness and sometimes incoherent talkativeness. Logorrhea is present in a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders[1] including aphasia,[2] localized cortical lesions in the thalamus,[3][4] mania,[citation needed] or most typically in catatonic schizophrenia.[citation needed] Examples of logorrhea might include talking or mumbling monotonously, either to others, or more likely to oneself. Logorrhea should not be confused with pressure of speech, which is characterized by the "flighty" alternation from topic to topic by tenuous links such as rhyming or punning.[5] Logorrhea is a symptom of an underlying illness, and should be treated by a medical professional. Jump up ^ Arseni, C.; Dănăilă, L. (1977).
Living and Working Abroad Para leér esta entrada en Español píque aquí *************************************************************************************************************** This is not some theoretical piece about how you might do if you decide to live and work abroad. I’ve been ‘doing it’ for more than 30 years now, it was in 1980 that I left my home country, Germany, and in all humility, I am an expert. I spent seven month in India, lived three years in Greece, another three years in England, and I have been living in Mexico for the past 20 odd years.The years in between I roamed the world. I have not been with any multinational company that sent me to those places. When I started off I didn’t have a profession. I started to develop myself at the beginning of the nineties as a language teacher, since by then I spoke several languages. Let me tell you right from the start, it wasn’t easy. But looking back over the past 30 odd years, I wouldn’t change my life for anything else. Find out for yourself.
A map of the Tricki | Tricki This is an attempt to give a quick guide to the top few levels of the Tricki. It may cease to be feasible when the Tricki gets bigger, but we might perhaps be able to automate additions to it. Clicking on arrows just to the right of the name of an article reveals its subarticles. If you want to hide the subarticles again, then you should click to the right of them rather than clicking on the name of one of the subarticles themselves, since otherwise you will follow a link to that subarticle. What kind of problem am I trying to solve? General problem-solving tips Front pages for different areas of mathematics How to use mathematical concepts and statements
Welcome to Cinder Hi. My name is Robert Hodgin, and I am the author of this tutorial (with helpful input from Andrew Bell, Mike Creighton, and Noah King). I want to help others get started with Cinder because learning a new framework can be intimidating. Things are going to be pretty informal. Think of this as a quick-start guide. Instead of exhaustively covering a topic before moving on to the next, I am going to meander around a bit and sample some of Cinder's many features along the way. In Section One, I will show you how to go from a brand new Cinder project to a particle engine with both local and global forces, and then use it to achieve some artistic effects. In Section Two, I will tweak the particle engine from Section One and use it as a basis for a flocking simulation. Below you will find some brief chapter descriptions. Chapter 1: Getting Started In the first chapter, we will set up a new project and learn how to load and display images. Okay, enough with the introduction.
Sotades Sotades (Greek: Σωτάδης; 3rd century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet. Sotades was born in Maroneia, either the one in Thrace, or in Crete. He was the chief representative of the writers of obscene and even pederastic satirical poems, called Kinaidoi, composed in the Ionic dialect and in the "sotadic" metre named after him. Sotades lived in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 BC). Only a few genuine fragments of Sotades have been preserved; those in Stobaeus are generally considered spurious. Sotades was also the author of some of the first recorded palindromes, and many credit him with the invention of that particular genre of composition. Richard Francis Burton named the Sotadic zone, a supposed geographical belt where he hypothesized male homosexuality was unusually prevalent, after Sotades. References[edit] Jump up ^ Plutarch, On the Education of Children, 11a; Athenaeus, xiv. 621a. Sources[edit] External links[edit]
The Year That Was Tom Scocca, Managing Editor of Deadspin, Slate Columnist, and Author of Beijing Welcomes You In this chain-reaction year—disaster, war, revolution, and death chasing one another around the globe—the pepper-spray assault at Cal-Davis was nowhere near the biggest event. Instead, it was small enough to be intelligible. This was an American college campus where a thug cop, in doomsday black armor, hosed down a row of seated students with a chemical weapon. Unlike the raging NYPD commander who’d lunged to spray helpless protesters, UC Davis police Lt. John Pike was blandly methodical. Sohaib Athar, @ReallyVirtual, Who Inadvertently Live-Tweeted the bin Laden Raid The importance of an event is, of course, subjective, so while the Occupy movement may be the most important event of the year for some, the Arab Spring would be more important for others. Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor for Harper’s Magazine Internationally, the Arab Spring for showing that people make their own history.
Augmented Reality with #Processing - Tutorial by Amnon Owed All of the visuals in the above video were created using NyArtoolkit for Processing. NyARToolkit is an augmented reality toolkit built with 100% pure Java. It is derived from ARToolkit-2.72.1. Like Processing itself it’s open source and free! In this tutorial you will learn how to use it to place computer generated imagery correctly onto real world footage. To do this in real-time NyArtoolkit uses markers – black and white images – to determine the three-dimensional position and orientation in the real world. All right so let’s start with the general setup. 1. 2. 3. 4. All right, time to recap. Example 1: Basic The first example is basic, but holds all of the important techniques that are necessary for more advanced uses of the NyArtoolkit. If you input the following image (place it in the sketch’s data subdirectory)… …into the first code example, you should end up with something like this… Example 2: Dynamic Time to get a little more dynamic. Main Sketch ARObject
10 Images That Changed the Course of Science (And One That Is About To) To understand this you need to understand quantum theory a little better. It's not that orbitals invalidated the stick-and-ball models of chemistry at all. If anything orbitals explained to us why the bonds are arranged as they are in stick-and-ball models. Stick-and-ball models are perfectly fine to use to tell us the shapes of molecules. As to what's being shown in the image, what you are seeing is are the places where electrons are most likely to be found. I like to think of the balls as cartoon beehives. They pretty much signify, "Bees are around here"; now, how many bees are in the hive and not taking a little trip flying around nearby? I suppose that works too. on Windows FAQ — Python v2.7.2 documentation How do I run a Python program under Windows? This is not necessarily a straightforward question. If you are already familiar with running programs from the Windows command line then everything will seem obvious; otherwise, you might need a little more guidance. Unless you use some sort of integrated development environment, you will end up typing Windows commands into what is variously referred to as a “DOS window” or “Command prompt window”. The letter may be different, and there might be other things after it, so you might just as easily see something like: D:\YourName\Projects\Python> depending on how your computer has been set up and what else you have recently done with it. You need to realize that your Python scripts have to be processed by another program called the Python interpreter. First, you need to make sure that your command window recognises the word “python” as an instruction to start the interpreter. C:\Users\YourName> python You should then see something like: or: