Perhaps it is because I come from a Unix design methodology. But if people are doing limited tasks in Paint. Would it make sense to make tool(s) to do the tasks more efficiently.
There is a fine line between a good interface and a horrible one. Normally for people who want to use GIMP to replace Photoshop tasks, its interface is bad. Layers and Layer transformation (for me) is one of the primary functions in Photoshop. GIMP has these same features, but they are stuffed away in menu options often with and potential trademark avoiding funny names.
Usually the people who find it on a sketchy looking web site to download. Don't get me wrong I love the product. And I wish there was a Native Linux port of it. (Also Notepad++) However when I go to get the product I have to be super careful on what I link, because the site that hosts it is poorly made, and designed to trick people into downloading wrong/bad software too.
Nearly all communication ends up on the internet in some way. A nation wide internet outage would cripple us, and make us prone to physical attack and demoralized the nation.
This isn't the 1980's where networked computers are used by a few egg heads to discuss Star Trek anymore.
While the growth of CS grads will mean a lot in the long term. With more people making new products creating more jobs.... in the short term there will be an influx of kids that we will need to deprogram the strict rules that were taught during the education. There is a difference between accedemic theory and real life. A lot of showing them when to break the rules and seporate yourself from the religion of OOP. And then when they should embrace the concept of OOP in a non OOP environment.
Then there is teaching them to work in a team and put their egos aside and do it the way that is said to do it, even if it seems less efficient at first.
Then I will need to go over all my arguments again. Them: Why do it that way? Me: I need to keep the code open for new features. Them: What features? Me: I don't know yet, but they are going to ask for something, and if you keep this section flexible it will prevent us from rewriting everything. Them: You are just an old mad who doesn't want to use new technology. Then they will do it there way. 3 months later... Them we need to rewrite the code because of this stupid request that wasn't part of the original project spec.
That is why the court subpoena people. If you are found lying, then you get charged with Perjury.
From Google: A subpoena is a legal document that orders an individual to testify for an investigation or legal proceeding at a specific date and time. A subpoena can be a summons for a person to provide testimony at a trial, testify during the early stages of an investigation, or provide physical evidence relevant to the case.
I would think if Glassdoor could limit sharing the users, in cases of criminal legal actions. And not just because the company didn't like a negative review, and wanted to do a trumped up Slander charge.
I found found usually the lowest reviews from the company comes from bad employees (or employees who were not a good fit for that particular company).So they were feeling slighted, because they weren't particularly liked or valued in the company.
Of course if that happens all the other countries will also be knocked down a peg or twenty. The thing with Globalization, is with the big nations, trying to hurt the nation will only hurt yourself. You are better off trying to get your country to be better itself then trying to bring the others down a peg.
Yes they did have NT for Workstations. However the market was different back then. Screen sizes were normally 14-17 inch. Resolution wasn't much higher than 1024x768. Networking as a 10mbs lan (internet optional) Also people were using Desktops (And desktop OS) for Workstation tasks as well, so it made sense to drop workstation once XP (based off the NT Kernel came out)
However with these mobile devices, the PC tasks of causal games, internet browsing, and simple document processing had been taken over. People are using PC less for those tasks.
This could be classified under improving infrastructure. I am not a Trump supporter. But his promise to fix infrastructure is the few things I actually would like to see. But he just prioritized stupidly, and went with Health Care, and he just can't leave the Russia Probe alone.
Transportation is one of those thorns in the side of politicians. 1. It affects everyone. Nearly every citizen in every social class is affected by transportation policies. This normally makes it difficult to propose theoretical partisan policies. Because if it fails, you are to blame for the failure. 2. It isn't exciting. A brand new lane on Rural Route 7, is expensive, and can have a positive impact. However it isn't something that you can call on a big win. Because now those Semi trucks shipping across states are no longer stuck behind slow tractors. 3. Success is neutral. While #1 means failure could hurt you, success doesn't bring any real political gain. This is why our infrastructure is normally just good enough.
Self Driving cars are exciting, and has public interest. Success in getting these out to the public, means Congressman X is moving the nation to the Future. Much like how the Railroads, and Interstate Highway was in the past. Being that this isn't costing any money, it is a rather easy vote.
The Removal of government regulations that the Republicans like, so they can kill off progressive people who are more apt to ride in these. The advancement in technology that the Democrats like, so they can make more middle class people useless.
Not the PC Market, PC usage. We still have a market for Mainframes. But for the most part new usage of computing people will not invest into a state of the art mainframe, but a server farm. However if you were a mainframe shop, upgrading to the newest and fastest mainframe would be advantageous, and you will probably be just as competitive as your non-mainframe counterparts.
What I call the PC, isn't the actual hardware, but how it is used. PC stands for Personal Computer, and our Personal Computer is our Smart Phone, or Tablet now. However these devices cannot do everything that the traditional PC had done, but these these have been workstation features.
That is still a Separate but Equal problem. Creating a crossover from Doctor Who, usually has characters who are inferior to the Doctor, creating a spin off where there is someone who is objectively equally awesome just won't work. Making a female doctor is the only way, to break that barrier.
Windows 7, really put a nail in the "I am a Mac and I am a PC commercials". Microsoft should be Lucky that Apple had been largely ignoring its Macintosh Line of computers because after Windows 8 Came out, Apple could had went right back on the attack.
The problem is that the PC Desktop is a dead market, it has gone to the Tablets and Phones for a normal personal computing. Thus the Windows 8/10 interface, is focused for this market. However the Table and Phone Market is dominated by Apple and Google, and Microsoft is a Distant Third. What we need our x86 PC systems for is no longer a normal Personal Computer, but a Personal Workstation. For our Workstations, we don't need a Table OS, or a Server OS. But a work station OS, with UI features meant for people with a Keyboard, Large Screens, Who will be expected to have a lot of things going on at the same time. I Personally would like to see less window decoration, and use the space for more application space. And be able to have many Apps running and visible at the same time. Perhaps in Re-sizable Frames vs Windows... Normally now when I get out my PC it is because I have some real work to do, vs just goofing off. This is different a decade ago. And the Windows 8/10 UI was an attempt to get into a market it never really go into.
I expect making it x86 just makes development easier. It probably just has a Linux variant where you could probably hack it to run steam. But it would just be less work on converting their current stuff over.
Well name and access to IP rights. But in short that is what a company of any age is anyways.
The real question is what is Atari bringing new to the console market? The XBox and Play Station market, Are competing for the High End gaming market. Nintendo is mostly focused on the family market.
To compete against the XBox and Play Station. Atari will really need to push specs, and be open to other developers. Atari going against Nintendo is only going to bring up old wounds.
The nostalgia market isn't that sustainable. Because this market is competing with people who are getting the Real Nostalgic product, Making their own with cheap equipment.
Being that the Doctor is the hero of the show, creating a new character that is his equal will not be good for the show. They had Ramanna as a companion of the 4th doctor. While had higher grades then the Doctor she was also much less experienced so the Doctor could also show his stuff and stay the hero of the show.
Your solution is trying to bring up Seporate but Equal. It just doesn't work. The Doctor character had a plot device where the actor could be replaced by a new actor who didn't have to act the same as the previous one. So a female doctor isn't that big of a deal. Male to female regerations have been part of the cannon, so no worries.
Most of the time IT is actually running the business at a VP level, and the organization just doesn't realize it and will not pay IT VP level pay, power, and prestige. Because many work processes are controlled by computers. People to to IT and not their managers or higher level bosess for problems and questions on how to do their job. I once got called out from a VP because I was making business decisions without her advice. Because her personal went to me and ask how should I do X. So I gave them the answer, as an IT worker I am comfortable coming up with a process to solve a problem. The process just didn't need a computer, because there wasn't that process built into the system.
The core of the problem is a culture where Boomers especially treat computers as this magical device that only weird aqward people can only understand. So if it has anything to do about computers they ask the IT guy even though they are so many different levels you can specialize in.
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The Apple and Microsoft store is pure evil. That is why I use Ubuntu and install everything via apt.
Perhaps it is because I come from a Unix design methodology. But if people are doing limited tasks in Paint. Would it make sense to make tool(s) to do the tasks more efficiently.
There is a fine line between a good interface and a horrible one.
Normally for people who want to use GIMP to replace Photoshop tasks, its interface is bad. Layers and Layer transformation (for me) is one of the primary functions in Photoshop. GIMP has these same features, but they are stuffed away in menu options often with and potential trademark avoiding funny names.
Usually the people who find it on a sketchy looking web site to download.
Don't get me wrong I love the product. And I wish there was a Native Linux port of it. (Also Notepad++) However when I go to get the product I have to be super careful on what I link, because the site that hosts it is poorly made, and designed to trick people into downloading wrong/bad software too.
Our network is a critical infrastructure.
Nearly all communication ends up on the internet in some way.
A nation wide internet outage would cripple us, and make us prone to physical attack and demoralized the nation.
This isn't the 1980's where networked computers are used by a few egg heads to discuss Star Trek anymore.
While the growth of CS grads will mean a lot in the long term. With more people making new products creating more jobs.... in the short term there will be an influx of kids that we will need to deprogram the strict rules that were taught during the education.
There is a difference between accedemic theory and real life.
A lot of showing them when to break the rules and seporate yourself from the religion of OOP. And then when they should embrace the concept of OOP in a non OOP environment.
Then there is teaching them to work in a team and put their egos aside and do it the way that is said to do it, even if it seems less efficient at first.
Then I will need to go over all my arguments again.
Them: Why do it that way?
Me: I need to keep the code open for new features.
Them: What features?
Me: I don't know yet, but they are going to ask for something, and if you keep this section flexible it will prevent us from rewriting everything.
Them: You are just an old mad who doesn't want to use new technology.
Then they will do it there way.
3 months later...
Them we need to rewrite the code because of this stupid request that wasn't part of the original project spec.
That is why the court subpoena people. If you are found lying, then you get charged with Perjury.
From Google:
A subpoena is a legal document that orders an individual to testify for an investigation or legal proceeding at a specific date and time. A subpoena can be a summons for a person to provide testimony at a trial, testify during the early stages of an investigation, or provide physical evidence relevant to the case.
I would think if Glassdoor could limit sharing the users, in cases of criminal legal actions. And not just because the company didn't like a negative review, and wanted to do a trumped up Slander charge.
I found found usually the lowest reviews from the company comes from bad employees (or employees who were not a good fit for that particular company).So they were feeling slighted, because they weren't particularly liked or valued in the company.
The MP3 format seemed to slowly go away with the move to streaming services.
Of course if that happens all the other countries will also be knocked down a peg or twenty.
The thing with Globalization, is with the big nations, trying to hurt the nation will only hurt yourself.
You are better off trying to get your country to be better itself then trying to bring the others down a peg.
You do not need to run your country like Trump.
Yes they did have NT for Workstations. However the market was different back then.
Screen sizes were normally 14-17 inch. Resolution wasn't much higher than 1024x768. Networking as a 10mbs lan (internet optional)
Also people were using Desktops (And desktop OS) for Workstation tasks as well, so it made sense to drop workstation once XP (based off the NT Kernel came out)
However with these mobile devices, the PC tasks of causal games, internet browsing, and simple document processing had been taken over. People are using PC less for those tasks.
The point of the article is about Windows, not Linux. Deal with it.
This could be classified under improving infrastructure. I am not a Trump supporter. But his promise to fix infrastructure is the few things I actually would like to see. But he just prioritized stupidly, and went with Health Care, and he just can't leave the Russia Probe alone.
Transportation is one of those thorns in the side of politicians.
1. It affects everyone. Nearly every citizen in every social class is affected by transportation policies. This normally makes it difficult to propose theoretical partisan policies. Because if it fails, you are to blame for the failure.
2. It isn't exciting. A brand new lane on Rural Route 7, is expensive, and can have a positive impact. However it isn't something that you can call on a big win. Because now those Semi trucks shipping across states are no longer stuck behind slow tractors.
3. Success is neutral. While #1 means failure could hurt you, success doesn't bring any real political gain. This is why our infrastructure is normally just good enough.
Self Driving cars are exciting, and has public interest. Success in getting these out to the public, means Congressman X is moving the nation to the Future. Much like how the Railroads, and Interstate Highway was in the past. Being that this isn't costing any money, it is a rather easy vote.
The Removal of government regulations that the Republicans like, so they can kill off progressive people who are more apt to ride in these.
The advancement in technology that the Democrats like, so they can make more middle class people useless.
Yes it is.
But in the eyes of the company, those groups are considered fringe groups, people who have wider agendas.
"AMD has faced calls from Edward Snowden, Libreboot and the Reddit community"
Yea those are all quality calls which if I hear their name I think to myself Yea I should give up my company secrets to them.
So we have a traitor, a rather unknown NPO, and a Message Board.
Come on you should at least get a Congressman, just to give the request some weight.
Not the PC Market, PC usage.
We still have a market for Mainframes. But for the most part new usage of computing people will not invest into a state of the art mainframe, but a server farm. However if you were a mainframe shop, upgrading to the newest and fastest mainframe would be advantageous, and you will probably be just as competitive as your non-mainframe counterparts.
What I call the PC, isn't the actual hardware, but how it is used. PC stands for Personal Computer, and our Personal Computer is our Smart Phone, or Tablet now. However these devices cannot do everything that the traditional PC had done, but these these have been workstation features.
That is still a Separate but Equal problem. Creating a crossover from Doctor Who, usually has characters who are inferior to the Doctor, creating a spin off where there is someone who is objectively equally awesome just won't work. Making a female doctor is the only way, to break that barrier.
Windows 7, really put a nail in the "I am a Mac and I am a PC commercials". Microsoft should be Lucky that Apple had been largely ignoring its Macintosh Line of computers because after Windows 8 Came out, Apple could had went right back on the attack.
The problem is that the PC Desktop is a dead market, it has gone to the Tablets and Phones for a normal personal computing. Thus the Windows 8/10 interface, is focused for this market. However the Table and Phone Market is dominated by Apple and Google, and Microsoft is a Distant Third.
What we need our x86 PC systems for is no longer a normal Personal Computer, but a Personal Workstation. For our Workstations, we don't need a Table OS, or a Server OS. But a work station OS, with UI features meant for people with a Keyboard, Large Screens, Who will be expected to have a lot of things going on at the same time.
I Personally would like to see less window decoration, and use the space for more application space. And be able to have many Apps running and visible at the same time. Perhaps in Re-sizable Frames vs Windows...
Normally now when I get out my PC it is because I have some real work to do, vs just goofing off.
This is different a decade ago. And the Windows 8/10 UI was an attempt to get into a market it never really go into.
I expect making it x86 just makes development easier. It probably just has a Linux variant where you could probably hack it to run steam. But it would just be less work on converting their current stuff over.
Well name and access to IP rights. But in short that is what a company of any age is anyways.
The real question is what is Atari bringing new to the console market?
The XBox and Play Station market, Are competing for the High End gaming market.
Nintendo is mostly focused on the family market.
To compete against the XBox and Play Station. Atari will really need to push specs, and be open to other developers.
Atari going against Nintendo is only going to bring up old wounds.
The nostalgia market isn't that sustainable. Because this market is competing with people who are getting the Real Nostalgic product, Making their own with cheap equipment.
Being that the Doctor is the hero of the show, creating a new character that is his equal will not be good for the show. They had Ramanna as a companion of the 4th doctor. While had higher grades then the Doctor she was also much less experienced so the Doctor could also show his stuff and stay the hero of the show.
Your solution is trying to bring up Seporate but Equal. It just doesn't work. The Doctor character had a plot device where the actor could be replaced by a new actor who didn't have to act the same as the previous one. So a female doctor isn't that big of a deal. Male to female regerations have been part of the cannon, so no worries.
Most of the time IT is actually running the business at a VP level, and the organization just doesn't realize it and will not pay IT VP level pay, power, and prestige.
Because many work processes are controlled by computers. People to to IT and not their managers or higher level bosess for problems and questions on how to do their job.
I once got called out from a VP because I was making business decisions without her advice. Because her personal went to me and ask how should I do X. So I gave them the answer, as an IT worker I am comfortable coming up with a process to solve a problem. The process just didn't need a computer, because there wasn't that process built into the system.
The core of the problem is a culture where Boomers especially treat computers as this magical device that only weird aqward people can only understand. So if it has anything to do about computers they ask the IT guy even though they are so many different levels you can specialize in.