It's also not solar energy, all the electricity gets mixed together on the grid. You could say we have excess oil powered electricity that we're paying other states to take. Phrasing it like the headline does implies that solar power is a problem, click bait for the oil-lasts-forever crowd.
I've said this before, but there are many incompetent males that get hired in computer, but the women who are hired are almost always well above average. There will be equality when incompetent women get hired at the same rate as the incompetent men.
When I first had a job in tech in 1984, there were quite a lot of women in tech. They were doing what today is IT work - system admin, computer maintenance, etc. Also in undergraduate from 81, women in computer science were well represented, maybe 1/3 of students were women. The same was true when I was at grad school a decade later.
Also note that in the 50s and 60s that "operating" a computer was secretarial work which was heavily dominated by women. Women were also common as "computers" before then, meaning people all working on their piece of an algorithm to come up with an answer, before electronic computers made this obsolete.
Over time this percentage of women working with computer (programming, designing, maintaing) has declined drastically. This means it cannot be due to any innate bias that the bros like to claim ("girls don't like computers"). Instead it's a bias that has arisen over time; either a distaste for the culture or bias against tech growing up (parents/teachers steering them away to other interests).
Now to be fair, you said "hobby" and I've been talking about careers. That is possibly true, as the microcomputer culture was very different from the professional computing culture. Your history seems backwards though, the businesses and industries existed before the hobbies.
Nobody crashed your party. What party was that? A frat party? Maybe in your own house you can put up a "no girls allowed" sign, but in the real world anyone can join in.
Puritans were a very small minority in the colonies. But because much of the history the Europeans in America were very often on the frontier, they had to be independent and interdependent only in a small communities, and this probably had more to do with bringing about the modern work ethic than the Massachusetts colony.
I wouldn't recommend the drinking before the sauna, it can relax you too much and it's a diuretic so you would dehydrate faster. Similar reasons why you don't drink before getting in the hot tub.
Fahrenheit is used in some other places, though not oficially. You can find Fahrenheit listed in some UK newspapers (sometimes parenthesized).
Basically people get stuck in their ways. You can't just put your foot down and insist that everyone start using new measurement and then they will suddenly become experts and forget their past. There's always a transition period. UK still commonly uses "stone" for a person's weight, and "mile" for instances, beer is served in "pints". A british gallon used in MPG is not the same as an American gallon, although for volume of other goods litre will be used. In the US, celsius is the standard for science and engineering for sure, even though you're not going to usually see that in the stores.
True, but that's extreme, even for sauna lovers. I think 80-90C is more typical. I was only in one once that was heated properly to Finnish temperatures. I never got up to the highest bench, it was too brutal up there.
Ya, but I don't know many on Facebook. I hit a few seeds for friends but it hasn't expanded on it's own after that and it's kind of difficult to track down people. Oh sure, some obscure people I know from high school but it seems weird for me to add them as friends when I don't even have any cousins or such on it yet. Meanwhile on google+ I have random strangers adding me to circles - either they're desperate or I'm more interesting than I thought.
I've got Google+, and for all those people who used to laugh at me because it wasn't Facebook I can only feel sorry for them. What an utter piece of crap Facebook turned out to be when I finally signed up. All ads, even with adblock, and every single post is either highly political in nature, or a picture of someone's lunch, or a "Take this quiz to see if you're a genius!" posts.
I have adblock, and I see the ads. I've got noscript too. And they're clickbait ads, took me awhile to learn that those weren't news articles, and there there are literally zero news articles on Facebook so don't even bother. I've only been on facebook less than six month.
As far as I can tell, there is no way the user experience can get worse on Facebook.
For my mother, she'll get a virus alert warning, with a phone number to call. Then she'll call... Once she got a virus warning, and a few minutes later a popup from Best Buy offering to sell her some antivirus program (Symantic Endpoint Protection, not your typical home user malware protection). They help her set this up, after first uninstalling her current antivirus. For payment they wanted her checking account routing number! Which she gave them!
I tell her later that it's a scam but she just doesn't believe me. "If it's a scam then why did they spend the time to help me get rid of the virus?" But the next day she cancelled the order, and also checked with the bank to make sure there was no unusual activity. The place turned out to be "bestbuyshop.us"...
My mother was nearly scammed more than once with this sort of thing. It never got too far before she decided to check with someone else, and once her computer was infected and had to be wiped. Despite this, she still falls for this stuff, and I'll get a phone call about "Microsoft is going to call me back in the morning, so you don't have to worry about fixing it."
So, I would like to thank Slide-rule for giving their lives a bit of hell.
Probably because it's not a crime the police are set up to handle. So you generally need a national law enforcement service to get involved. Then the problem is that all the evidence, if it can be found, points to India. Since that's a foreign country that puts a damper on the investigation. Now it's got to wait until it's a serious enough problem to spend real money on it (ie, lots of victims). Then you need to gather real solid evidence, good enough to actually get a conviction.
And face it, they've nabbed two ringleaders of a large scam, which accounts for only a tiny fraction of Microsoft support scammers.
The typical IT desk mantra is to get the latest OS always. But that latest Windows OS is a major screwup. The users hate it and it's not actually providing extra security, although the word "security" does show up in the marketing more than others. But everyone knows IT is just a marketing arm of Microsoft due to the hiring practice of only hiring those with Microsoft certificates which trains you to be an expert at marketing Microsoft products.
Colleges provide breath of knowledge. You don't learn just one simple skill, you learn a broad range of things. That is necessary for the modern job, where you don't know year from year what you'll be doing. Education is useful, it is not a luxury only useful for elites, it is useful for everyone.
College is getting expensive now, and the economy is in the crapper for many years now, so people are trying to find shortcuts. I can understand that, but it does hurt career prospects to skip it. It also hurts career advancement! As in, are you going to be in the entry level job for the next 30 years, or do you want to go beyond that? Sure, you may start out as a plumber, but later on you may want your own plumbing business, and you'll succeed at that better with more skills, more experience, and a broader base of knowledge (accounting, marketing, interpersonal skills, etc).
There is not a single college course I took in 5 years that was useless. I could have gotten by without some but maybe not as successful in the career and may not as interesting in life outside of work.
Maybe think of college as a gym for the brain. Sure you can skip the gym, and many people do, but you're better off with it.
Of course, this is not consumer XP, I suspect there's a way to get extended support if you can afford it. Probably real support, meaning you can call up microsoft, unlike those of us where "support" means they will never talk to us or work on any of our unique problems (sort of as if Ford's support meant that they'll broken starter motor in 2018).
Also this is embedded XP in most cases. No one controls a ship off of a desktop sitting in the captain's office. Not all of these systems are on a network either, and if they're air-gapped then they're no less secure today than they were a decade ago.
Well of course, we know those are insecure. But Windows 10 is perfect! It will stay perfect until there's a later release. But wait, they'll never have another Windows version, ever, so it should stay perfect forever!
You can run your coffee makers on Windows, but if it's mission critical you don't want to go anywhere near Microsoft software.
It's outright scary that they would consider using a Windows of any version. Can you see them on Windows 10 and just as they engage with the enemy all the computer screens say "Restarting to Install Advertising Update. Please Do Not Power Off Your Computer."
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It's also not solar energy, all the electricity gets mixed together on the grid. You could say we have excess oil powered electricity that we're paying other states to take. Phrasing it like the headline does implies that solar power is a problem, click bait for the oil-lasts-forever crowd.
Feinstein is in San Francisco, Silicon Valley is not.
Silicon valley is not very liberal, it's very much libertarian.
Right, so let the women design and build the equipment and put the men in the basement to handle the support help desks.
I've said this before, but there are many incompetent males that get hired in computer, but the women who are hired are almost always well above average. There will be equality when incompetent women get hired at the same rate as the incompetent men.
When I first had a job in tech in 1984, there were quite a lot of women in tech. They were doing what today is IT work - system admin, computer maintenance, etc. Also in undergraduate from 81, women in computer science were well represented, maybe 1/3 of students were women. The same was true when I was at grad school a decade later.
Also note that in the 50s and 60s that "operating" a computer was secretarial work which was heavily dominated by women. Women were also common as "computers" before then, meaning people all working on their piece of an algorithm to come up with an answer, before electronic computers made this obsolete.
Over time this percentage of women working with computer (programming, designing, maintaing) has declined drastically. This means it cannot be due to any innate bias that the bros like to claim ("girls don't like computers"). Instead it's a bias that has arisen over time; either a distaste for the culture or bias against tech growing up (parents/teachers steering them away to other interests).
Now to be fair, you said "hobby" and I've been talking about careers. That is possibly true, as the microcomputer culture was very different from the professional computing culture. Your history seems backwards though, the businesses and industries existed before the hobbies.
Nobody crashed your party. What party was that? A frat party? Maybe in your own house you can put up a "no girls allowed" sign, but in the real world anyone can join in.
Puritans were a very small minority in the colonies. But because much of the history the Europeans in America were very often on the frontier, they had to be independent and interdependent only in a small communities, and this probably had more to do with bringing about the modern work ethic than the Massachusetts colony.
I wouldn't recommend the drinking before the sauna, it can relax you too much and it's a diuretic so you would dehydrate faster. Similar reasons why you don't drink before getting in the hot tub.
Fahrenheit is used in some other places, though not oficially. You can find Fahrenheit listed in some UK newspapers (sometimes parenthesized).
Basically people get stuck in their ways. You can't just put your foot down and insist that everyone start using new measurement and then they will suddenly become experts and forget their past. There's always a transition period. UK still commonly uses "stone" for a person's weight, and "mile" for instances, beer is served in "pints". A british gallon used in MPG is not the same as an American gallon, although for volume of other goods litre will be used. In the US, celsius is the standard for science and engineering for sure, even though you're not going to usually see that in the stores.
True, but that's extreme, even for sauna lovers. I think 80-90C is more typical. I was only in one once that was heated properly to Finnish temperatures. I never got up to the highest bench, it was too brutal up there.
I rather like one piece (upper right) and wouldn't mind a print of that on the wall. However I wouldn't call that a "new style" either.
Ya, but I don't know many on Facebook. I hit a few seeds for friends but it hasn't expanded on it's own after that and it's kind of difficult to track down people. Oh sure, some obscure people I know from high school but it seems weird for me to add them as friends when I don't even have any cousins or such on it yet. Meanwhile on google+ I have random strangers adding me to circles - either they're desperate or I'm more interesting than I thought.
I've got Google+, and for all those people who used to laugh at me because it wasn't Facebook I can only feel sorry for them. What an utter piece of crap Facebook turned out to be when I finally signed up. All ads, even with adblock, and every single post is either highly political in nature, or a picture of someone's lunch, or a "Take this quiz to see if you're a genius!" posts.
I have adblock, and I see the ads. I've got noscript too. And they're clickbait ads, took me awhile to learn that those weren't news articles, and there there are literally zero news articles on Facebook so don't even bother. I've only been on facebook less than six month.
As far as I can tell, there is no way the user experience can get worse on Facebook.
From a heart attack after seeing the dick pics probably.
For my mother, she'll get a virus alert warning, with a phone number to call. Then she'll call... Once she got a virus warning, and a few minutes later a popup from Best Buy offering to sell her some antivirus program (Symantic Endpoint Protection, not your typical home user malware protection). They help her set this up, after first uninstalling her current antivirus. For payment they wanted her checking account routing number! Which she gave them!
I tell her later that it's a scam but she just doesn't believe me. "If it's a scam then why did they spend the time to help me get rid of the virus?" But the next day she cancelled the order, and also checked with the bank to make sure there was no unusual activity. The place turned out to be "bestbuyshop.us"...
My mother was nearly scammed more than once with this sort of thing. It never got too far before she decided to check with someone else, and once her computer was infected and had to be wiped. Despite this, she still falls for this stuff, and I'll get a phone call about "Microsoft is going to call me back in the morning, so you don't have to worry about fixing it."
So, I would like to thank Slide-rule for giving their lives a bit of hell.
The Met don't have jurisdiction in India.
Probably because it's not a crime the police are set up to handle. So you generally need a national law enforcement service to get involved. Then the problem is that all the evidence, if it can be found, points to India. Since that's a foreign country that puts a damper on the investigation. Now it's got to wait until it's a serious enough problem to spend real money on it (ie, lots of victims). Then you need to gather real solid evidence, good enough to actually get a conviction.
And face it, they've nabbed two ringleaders of a large scam, which accounts for only a tiny fraction of Microsoft support scammers.
Compare: "Cue the people waiting to enter." versus "Queue the people waiting to enter." Both are grammaticallly correct even to grammar nazis.
The typical IT desk mantra is to get the latest OS always. But that latest Windows OS is a major screwup. The users hate it and it's not actually providing extra security, although the word "security" does show up in the marketing more than others. But everyone knows IT is just a marketing arm of Microsoft due to the hiring practice of only hiring those with Microsoft certificates which trains you to be an expert at marketing Microsoft products.
Colleges provide breath of knowledge. You don't learn just one simple skill, you learn a broad range of things. That is necessary for the modern job, where you don't know year from year what you'll be doing. Education is useful, it is not a luxury only useful for elites, it is useful for everyone.
College is getting expensive now, and the economy is in the crapper for many years now, so people are trying to find shortcuts. I can understand that, but it does hurt career prospects to skip it. It also hurts career advancement! As in, are you going to be in the entry level job for the next 30 years, or do you want to go beyond that? Sure, you may start out as a plumber, but later on you may want your own plumbing business, and you'll succeed at that better with more skills, more experience, and a broader base of knowledge (accounting, marketing, interpersonal skills, etc).
There is not a single college course I took in 5 years that was useless. I could have gotten by without some but maybe not as successful in the career and may not as interesting in life outside of work.
Maybe think of college as a gym for the brain. Sure you can skip the gym, and many people do, but you're better off with it.
Of course, this is not consumer XP, I suspect there's a way to get extended support if you can afford it. Probably real support, meaning you can call up microsoft, unlike those of us where "support" means they will never talk to us or work on any of our unique problems (sort of as if Ford's support meant that they'll broken starter motor in 2018).
Also this is embedded XP in most cases. No one controls a ship off of a desktop sitting in the captain's office. Not all of these systems are on a network either, and if they're air-gapped then they're no less secure today than they were a decade ago.
Well of course, we know those are insecure. But Windows 10 is perfect! It will stay perfect until there's a later release. But wait, they'll never have another Windows version, ever, so it should stay perfect forever!
You can run your coffee makers on Windows, but if it's mission critical you don't want to go anywhere near Microsoft software.
It's outright scary that they would consider using a Windows of any version. Can you see them on Windows 10 and just as they engage with the enemy all the computer screens say "Restarting to Install Advertising Update. Please Do Not Power Off Your Computer."