Apollo 13 was great, and almost perfect, but there was one thing that bugged me every time I saw it. The gauge showing CO2 percentage should have been moving very slowly, but every time they showed it the hand was sweeping dramatically towards the danger point. It would have been fatal in seconds if it continued moving at that speed, and each time they showed it it started from the same lower point and swept up. Should have been still in the shots, each time at a slightly higher level.
As an American living in China for 12 years, I've been observing how the differences in the Chinese language affect the way the way people go about thinking here. In English, most things are cut and dried - when you say something, people generally understand what you mean. In China, it seems that when people first meet and start talking, there is a lot of verbal "handshaking" (like what modems used to do) before simple communication can take place. Picture a waitress having to discuss an order with a customer for a while before even being able to understand the first item to be ordered. Much of the language seems to be more descriptive and poetic than specific like English. I often think this affects the way some people here attack problems - and the idea of "common sense" doesn't hold up when peoples' backgrounds and ways of thinking are not "common"
I wish they still offered the 15C; I do more engineering than financial. I have a 15C emulator that I use on the computer as a calculator, and my mobile phone calculator lets me set it to RPN mode!
I know it would ruin the link to the pet rock, but how about a nice had-warmer version. A nice warm rock to warm the fingers on might be good. Last week it was so cold at work I filled a coke can with hot water just to thaw out my stiff fingers.
I think you SHOULD make Neatorama versions of this - and to be fair, definitely have women's versions. With models showing them off them for us. Lots of them. All races, colors and sizes, just to be sure we don't offend anyone!
I was on a plane and started watching The Village shortly after it had started. I had no idea of what it was, so it was actually kind of cool - I sure wasn't expecting what happened!
I saw the Sixth Sense right from the start - excellent, and I didn't see that one coming either!
I run a factory for a US company in China, and also work closely with our Mexico factory. There is a huge difference in work ethic. The Chinese workers are all very ambitious, work like crazy, love overtime to get extra money, and will stay with a company based on their judgment of the company's strength. They will leave for higher pay, but it has to be significantly higher and it is not an easy decision. My (Chinese) wife's parents had literally nothing (due to the cultural revolution), yet they instill a desire to achieve. Our Mexican facility constantly loses people for literally 3 cents an hour higher pay, can't get people to do overtime, and has a hard time getting them to work during the day. These are simply observations, but it sure seems there is a difference in attitude.
Neat, but Pricey. In HK they go for about US$6 - and they have the added benefit of working on 220V & 120V lines -- the one pictured here is only rated at 100 VAC (or so says the website).
In China, it seems that when people first meet and start talking, there is a lot of verbal "handshaking" (like what modems used to do) before simple communication can take place. Picture a waitress having to discuss an order with a customer for a while before even being able to understand the first item to be ordered.
Much of the language seems to be more descriptive and poetic than specific like English. I often think this affects the way some people here attack problems - and the idea of "common sense" doesn't hold up when peoples' backgrounds and ways of thinking are not "common"
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I wish they still offered the 15C; I do more engineering than financial. I have a 15C emulator that I use on the computer as a calculator, and my mobile phone calculator lets me set it to RPN mode!
(Yeah, I know. Get a life :) )
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I saw the Sixth Sense right from the start - excellent, and I didn't see that one coming either!
Our Mexican facility constantly loses people for literally 3 cents an hour higher pay, can't get people to do overtime, and has a hard time getting them to work during the day.
These are simply observations, but it sure seems there is a difference in attitude.