Everyone WILL face rejection by people who do not like them. You can either accept that and move on or live a life of despair, that choice is on no-one but you.
I specifically asked if you were also comfortable with blacks, homosexuals and women to be rejected a job because their colleagues would feel uncomfortable. Address that. I just want to figure out from which century did you drop in from.
It's not a flamebait: I genuinely want to know in what way is your argument against hiring older people, different from hiring people of any minority or ethnic group, or sexual orientation? In the 21st century in the West we have some standards for avoiding discrimination. You may not subscribe to them, but in that case make it clear.
Frankly I don't even have an issue with it, because if a group is not comfortable working with you you are not going to be happy working with them either.
Really? So if a group feels uncomfortable working with - blacks - homosexuals - women etc. you would be OK for those candidates to be rejected? Because some bigot feels uncomfortable working around a certain minority?
well it's not like they didn't know her age either, they saw that before they called her too
Do you know that for a fact? I have applied to several jobs where I didn't have to put my age anywhere, and it could only be assumed from my industrial career, but not "known" with any degree of certainty. If the recruiter focused on my academic career, I looked like a spring chicken.
When you have millions of EUR worth of equipment attached to a DOS-based PC, you don't just toss it out because the operating system is old. So, off the top of my head: we have several measuring systems controlled by DOS-based PCs. Also the oxidation furnace has a DOS PC integrated with it. All our plasma equipment is controlled by Windows NT computers (NT 3.51). The oldest used to be a scanning electron microscope with embedded OS from the 70's. We sold that machine and it is still in use in another department.
From my observations (not just personal) I came to the conclusion that, if you are out of job at 45, you're fucked, especially (but not limited to) in tech and science/research.
..about fucking never. A critical mass of people have noticed that NOT installing the latest and "greatest" that Microsoft has to offer didn't cause their computers to self-destruct. Application developers have noticed. Hell, even Microsoft seems to have noticed. The hidden fear-based incentive to upgrade when MS says so, is gone.
Not only is hardware good enough now - the OS (Windows XP and 7) is, too.
Up to about the time Windows 8 was released, there was this common wisdom and even fear, that every new Windows version Microsoft poops out "must be installed at any cost". Slowly, however, we have transitioned to a world where most people don't feel this compulsion anymore. We live in the post-Windows 8 world - one where people are becoming aware that Windows 7 is good enough. In fact, some even believe that Windows XP is good enough, and don't particularly care to upgrade.
Sure, a lot of nerds who like to fiddle around with their computer, will in fact upgrade to Windows 10, but those who don't can feel rather comfortable that nothing catastrophic will happen.
Spotted the problem right there. The stock market is not a tool for investment anymore: it's a gambling house and a system to extract wealth from long-term investors. Make it compulsory to hold one's shares for at least 6 months after purchase, and the problem solves itself. Of course, the fat cats don't want this, and they are the ones who have the actual power, so nothing will change.
Yes, I also like trackballs. I have (somewhere) an old laptop with a trackball - it has Windows 3.1 installed, just so you get the idea of the vintage. The only problem with trackballs is that they seemed to get broken rather quickly. They'd start jamming up and using them would be extremely unpleasant.
Funnily though, as much as I like trackballs, I find them much slower to use than trackpoints. Different folks, different strokes.
I'm like that, too. Unfortunately, my anti-charisma (to use your nice term) spilled over into my financial investments as well - every single company I bought shares of, tanked.
This is the most important question in the whole thread: why does the EU care that Greece wants to tax the super-rich to raise the money?
And another interesting point: the root cause for the monetary shortfall in Greece is rampant tax evasion by the wealthiest, supported by rampant corruption. Greece is a deeply corrupt country, and the wealthiest in Greek society are the ones reaping the most benefit.
BeOS has an incredibly responsive UI. I am not a software engineer so I am not sure which part of the OS is in charge of this, but it's something no other OS has been able to do, before and since: be perfectly responsive to user commands (keyboard and mouseclicks). What this means is: no matter what the computer is doing at any given time, the UI will react to the user commands. There is no file-copy too big, a computational task too complex, that the reaction to a user's command would be delayed. BeOS has spoiled me so much, because with that OS, user comes first, always.
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Everyone WILL face rejection by people who do not like them. You can either accept that and move on or live a life of despair, that choice is on no-one but you.
I specifically asked if you were also comfortable with blacks, homosexuals and women to be rejected a job because their colleagues would feel uncomfortable. Address that. I just want to figure out from which century did you drop in from.
It's not a flamebait: I genuinely want to know in what way is your argument against hiring older people, different from hiring people of any minority or ethnic group, or sexual orientation? In the 21st century in the West we have some standards for avoiding discrimination. You may not subscribe to them, but in that case make it clear.
In other words, you don't know.
You should ask Google why they called her 4 times. Maybe Google is involved in, for example, mapping software?
Frankly I don't even have an issue with it, because if a group is not comfortable working with you you are not going to be happy working with them either.
Really? So if a group feels uncomfortable working with
- blacks
- homosexuals
- women
etc. you would be OK for those candidates to be rejected? Because some bigot feels uncomfortable working around a certain minority?
well it's not like they didn't know her age either, they saw that before they called her too
Do you know that for a fact? I have applied to several jobs where I didn't have to put my age anywhere, and it could only be assumed from my industrial career, but not "known" with any degree of certainty. If the recruiter focused on my academic career, I looked like a spring chicken.
When you have millions of EUR worth of equipment attached to a DOS-based PC, you don't just toss it out because the operating system is old. So, off the top of my head: we have several measuring systems controlled by DOS-based PCs. Also the oxidation furnace has a DOS PC integrated with it. All our plasma equipment is controlled by Windows NT computers (NT 3.51).
The oldest used to be a scanning electron microscope with embedded OS from the 70's. We sold that machine and it is still in use in another department.
From my observations (not just personal) I came to the conclusion that, if you are out of job at 45, you're fucked, especially (but not limited to) in tech and science/research.
..about fucking never. A critical mass of people have noticed that NOT installing the latest and "greatest" that Microsoft has to offer didn't cause their computers to self-destruct. Application developers have noticed. Hell, even Microsoft seems to have noticed. The hidden fear-based incentive to upgrade when MS says so, is gone.
Not only is hardware good enough now - the OS (Windows XP and 7) is, too.
Up to about the time Windows 8 was released, there was this common wisdom and even fear, that every new Windows version Microsoft poops out "must be installed at any cost". Slowly, however, we have transitioned to a world where most people don't feel this compulsion anymore. We live in the post-Windows 8 world - one where people are becoming aware that Windows 7 is good enough. In fact, some even believe that Windows XP is good enough, and don't particularly care to upgrade.
Sure, a lot of nerds who like to fiddle around with their computer, will in fact upgrade to Windows 10, but those who don't can feel rather comfortable that nothing catastrophic will happen.
Microsoft is about to release their RAD for healthcare, called Visual AIDS. MUMPS has got nothing on them.
Spotted the problem right there. The stock market is not a tool for investment anymore: it's a gambling house and a system to extract wealth from long-term investors. Make it compulsory to hold one's shares for at least 6 months after purchase, and the problem solves itself. Of course, the fat cats don't want this, and they are the ones who have the actual power, so nothing will change.
BeOS didn't even have the concept of a wait cursor, because the system was never in a state where the user couldn't use it.
Indeed. The user was King - at all times and in all circumstances.
And that's why justice is for the rich, in the US. If you have enough money, you are effectively above the law.
Such sweet words to coat a turd for people to swallow.
I must be missing something obvious, but why don't you just buy the Jolla?
Yes, I also like trackballs. I have (somewhere) an old laptop with a trackball - it has Windows 3.1 installed, just so you get the idea of the vintage. The only problem with trackballs is that they seemed to get broken rather quickly. They'd start jamming up and using them would be extremely unpleasant.
Funnily though, as much as I like trackballs, I find them much slower to use than trackpoints. Different folks, different strokes.
I have this happen to me when I'm forced to use a touchpad on a laptop and end up accidentally clicking while trying to drag
And THIS is why trackpoints (AKA "nipples") are superior to touchpads. Far superior, actually.
Thank you kind sir.
I'm like that, too. Unfortunately, my anti-charisma (to use your nice term) spilled over into my financial investments as well - every single company I bought shares of, tanked.
Actually, BeOS was near-realtime. QNX is true realtime.
This is the most important question in the whole thread: why does the EU care that Greece wants to tax the super-rich to raise the money?
And another interesting point: the root cause for the monetary shortfall in Greece is rampant tax evasion by the wealthiest, supported by rampant corruption. Greece is a deeply corrupt country, and the wealthiest in Greek society are the ones reaping the most benefit.
Please kindly provide a link to that Uzi homicide story. It's so tragicomic that it's quintessentially Greek.
BeOS has an incredibly responsive UI. I am not a software engineer so I am not sure which part of the OS is in charge of this, but it's something no other OS has been able to do, before and since: be perfectly responsive to user commands (keyboard and mouseclicks). What this means is: no matter what the computer is doing at any given time, the UI will react to the user commands. There is no file-copy too big, a computational task too complex, that the reaction to a user's command would be delayed. BeOS has spoiled me so much, because with that OS, user comes first, always.
Specifically with UCL, it was tantamount to constructive dismissal, and I hope he sues their pants off for that alone.