Throwing your own poo. It’s not a good look
| February 27, 2012
Category: News
Biggest Mistakes You Can Make During An Interview
| February 27, 2012
In a job market where a single open position can receive dozens, even hundreds of applicants, just getting to the interview stage is a huge accomplishment.
So, what are some of the mistakes you can make during an interview? Listed below are a few funny and a few obvious interview mistakes:
•Candidate wore a Boy Scout uniform and never told interviewers why.
•Candidate referred to himself in the third person.
•Candidate told the interviewer she wasn’t sure if the job offered was worth “starting the car for.”
And a few obvious ones:
•Answering cell phone or texting
•Appearing disinterested
•Dressing inappropriately
•Appearing arrogant
•Talking negatively about current or previous employers
•Chewing gum
15 Styles Of Distorted Thinking
| February 27, 2012
The Growth of American Food Portions
| February 26, 2012
There is one question that needs to be answered: Do bigger portions really make us eat more? Absolutely. Short-term studies show subjects consumed 30% more food when given a larger portion (see the pizza example below), and the problem with that is, even though people are eating more, they are feeling 0% fuller, and regularly eating the larger portion after a year will make someone 8.3 pounds fatter. Here, we take a closer look at how portions have grown over the years, and how we can regain control.
Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online
| February 25, 2012
Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site,” but said it’s currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that users thought they “deleted” from the social network months or even years ago remain accessible via direct link.
From Sand to Processor or How a CPU is made
| February 25, 2012
It takes about $ 5 billion dollars to build a processor manufacturing factory. This factory approximately has 4 years to return the invested funds in its technology, before it will start making the profit. If we make some simple calculations that comes to 100 microchips per hour that the factory should manufacture in order to return the invested funds.
The process of processor manufacturing looks like this: the special equipment is used to grow a mono-crystal of cylindrical shape from the molten silicon. Next, this resulting ingot is cooled and cut into the wafers, which surfaces are carefully leveled and polished to a mirror shine. In the bio-clean rooms of semiconductor factories are created the micro-circuitries on the silicon wafers using photolithography and etching. Then lab personnel make the random testing of processors under a microscope after re-cleaning of the wafers, and if everything is okay, the finished wafers are sliced into individual processors, which later are put in the casing.
