I don't have clients. I have bosses and they don't care what the format is. The only time someone wants Word is if the document is being actively modified by multiple people (even though Word is a horrible format for doing so). If I became a consultant and Word was required, I'd charge extra or find a new gig.
I've heard of it being banned but it's rare. But just be smart, use the phone to do phone stuff - like phone calls or checking your calendar. To use them to actually have sensitive files on them or take sensitive pictures, that's stupid. On the other hand it's annoying to try to hunt down the corporate camera to take a picture when I need to, just use the phone for that. Having a policy in place though basically says "we think you're all completely untrustworthy peons, except for our execs for whom the policy does not apply."
It's a marketing tool. If you sell Solution X, then everyone who gets your certificate will promote Solution X when there's a choice. Because that is where their skills are and it's just basic job security to promote what you know instead of what you don't know. The money paid for the certificate course is peanuts compared to the ongoing revenue from a team of undercover agents promoting your product to their employers.
However for some tech jobs, if you have certificates listed on your resume then this will lower your chances of getting a job. Listing certificates is a signal that you haven't updated the resume since you were an entry level grunt. Outside of IT you will almost never see certificates except in technician jobs. The point of these certificates most of the time is not even training to be competent in some field, but for their marketing use (ie, all those certificate holders will promote Microsoft solutions to the end of their days).
It's not a solution, it's a product. The point is to get people to buy it even if they don't need it. People did buy it. The only question left is whether or not it sold enough to cover the development costs.
IoT on a Windons device? That's absurd. Well, maybe not, the IoT term is being used for all sorts of gibberish. Raspberry Pi itself is almost a bit too big for me to call it IoT even if it is a thing and networked. An IoT device is not supposed to be an interactive consumer gadget.
Well, has it changed much. I read the summary above, and it was 100% gibberish. Honestly I understood nothing of what it said. Buzzwords and bullshit. All I know is that there's probably a new version. So, what's the difference between having no MS stories versus having unintelligible MS stories?
Problem is, at least on Windows and occasionally on Mac, is that they no longer tell you what the updates are in a clear and concise manner. If I see that there are 24 Windows 8.x updates, they all say something like "Fixes Windows Issues in 64-bit Systems" with a "click here to get more info" button that sends me to the web. It is very tedious to do that for every single update that's listed. In the past there was a bit more detail, so I could tell if the update actually affected me or not.
They're trying to get the user into the mindset of "do what we tell you, stop asking annoying questions."
The devs aren't at fault, unless the management and designers are abdicating their responsibility. Only in open source do the bottom line grunts get to actually inflict their own poor ideas on the world, except that in many of those cases the devs actually do good work because the *use* the products they're creating. The unusable interfaces are often coming from people detached from the product (ie, product managers) who think that simpler is better, or that fewer options means fewer decisions means fewer headaches.
In the past, "industry" meant building things, and advertising was just one small tool to do this. Today, "industry" means advertising foremost, products as a distant second. The entirety of today's modern "tech" industry is entirely about advertising. The biggest companies that the masses want to become involved with: advertising giants, like Google or Facebook.
Advertising isn't capitalism. There is no "capital" here. However it is the old story of money for nothing. Borrow the users own bandwidth to present the ads instead of paying for it themselves. Tell the web dabblers that you'll fund their sites if they just sign on the bottom line and look the other way.
There are different ways to fun the free stuff. One is to be respectful and polite, the old way. The other is to be obnoxious jerks, introduce malware, introduce mandatory viewing of the ads, borrow the viewers own resources to show the ads, etc, the new way.
Because the Europeans override the Asians when creating the unicode "standard". They wanted to save code space, despite not being short on it (maybe some idiots think it could be done in 16 bits, but no one on the committee was that naive).
In English, why is 1 and l not the same code point, despite having the same look in so many fonts, and even many typewriters did not have a separate 1 and 0 key (tell that to kids these days and they won't believe you). It sounds idiotic to us to give them the same ASCII code. Now imagine native speakers of Asian languages being told similar things about their writing systems.
The problem with "no" is sort of a side issue in some sense to all this, but the problems with Han unification have been known for decades.
I was wondering about why we were having a suprisingly high number of trolls posting questions, then I realized it must be due to the whole Reddit stuff going on and the misfits are migrating over here.
Kind of sad. Used to be just a small handful of people, where I could imagine that maybe they had Tourette's and the copraphilia or racism wasn't really their own fault. But now it's too much. Makes me miss the days when the only evil we had to worry about was Dice and Beta.
Do you think this must be mandatory, or should it be optional. Consider that you do not own the computers you support and you did not pay for them. Do you think it would be appropriate for you yourself to give up total control over your own life in areas where you are not the expert? If not, why do you think the users you support should be mandated to have no decision making ability about how they user their own computers that they paid for with their heard earned money?
Until the automatic update breaks their computer and you have to back it all out and reinstall anyway. Almost all the headaches I have with my mom's computer comes from automatic updates; automatic as in she clicks "yes" to everything and then I have to uninstall crapware (like Chrome) every time I visit, and I get regular calls about how Firefox has changed (even though I turned off automatic updates).
Can you tweak the registry to disallow this? Can you delay for up to a year? Are we really going to roll over and spend money on a computer but let someone else control it? What next, you get a car that automatically drives to get the three month service without waiting for a convenient time? After all, you can't trust the idiot consumer to think for themselves so let someone else do the thinking for them.
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There are only two social networking sites I have used: Google+ and LinkedIn.
It didn't catch on like FB because most people in the world want something stupid (and I'm baffled why MySpace didn't win that demographic).
I don't have clients. I have bosses and they don't care what the format is. The only time someone wants Word is if the document is being actively modified by multiple people (even though Word is a horrible format for doing so). If I became a consultant and Word was required, I'd charge extra or find a new gig.
I've heard of it being banned but it's rare. But just be smart, use the phone to do phone stuff - like phone calls or checking your calendar. To use them to actually have sensitive files on them or take sensitive pictures, that's stupid. On the other hand it's annoying to try to hunt down the corporate camera to take a picture when I need to, just use the phone for that. Having a policy in place though basically says "we think you're all completely untrustworthy peons, except for our execs for whom the policy does not apply."
I use text format for everything. Pretty hard to add watermarks there without noticing.
We should go back to wholesome family entertainment, like "Grand Theft Auto: Nepal".
Somewhere a hipster is sad that you don't care.
It's a marketing tool. If you sell Solution X, then everyone who gets your certificate will promote Solution X when there's a choice. Because that is where their skills are and it's just basic job security to promote what you know instead of what you don't know. The money paid for the certificate course is peanuts compared to the ongoing revenue from a team of undercover agents promoting your product to their employers.
However for some tech jobs, if you have certificates listed on your resume then this will lower your chances of getting a job. Listing certificates is a signal that you haven't updated the resume since you were an entry level grunt. Outside of IT you will almost never see certificates except in technician jobs. The point of these certificates most of the time is not even training to be competent in some field, but for their marketing use (ie, all those certificate holders will promote Microsoft solutions to the end of their days).
It's not a solution, it's a product. The point is to get people to buy it even if they don't need it. People did buy it. The only question left is whether or not it sold enough to cover the development costs.
IoT on a Windons device? That's absurd. Well, maybe not, the IoT term is being used for all sorts of gibberish. Raspberry Pi itself is almost a bit too big for me to call it IoT even if it is a thing and networked. An IoT device is not supposed to be an interactive consumer gadget.
Well, has it changed much. I read the summary above, and it was 100% gibberish. Honestly I understood nothing of what it said. Buzzwords and bullshit. All I know is that there's probably a new version. So, what's the difference between having no MS stories versus having unintelligible MS stories?
Problem is, at least on Windows and occasionally on Mac, is that they no longer tell you what the updates are in a clear and concise manner. If I see that there are 24 Windows 8.x updates, they all say something like "Fixes Windows Issues in 64-bit Systems" with a "click here to get more info" button that sends me to the web. It is very tedious to do that for every single update that's listed. In the past there was a bit more detail, so I could tell if the update actually affected me or not.
They're trying to get the user into the mindset of "do what we tell you, stop asking annoying questions."
The devs aren't at fault, unless the management and designers are abdicating their responsibility. Only in open source do the bottom line grunts get to actually inflict their own poor ideas on the world, except that in many of those cases the devs actually do good work because the *use* the products they're creating. The unusable interfaces are often coming from people detached from the product (ie, product managers) who think that simpler is better, or that fewer options means fewer decisions means fewer headaches.
In the past, "industry" meant building things, and advertising was just one small tool to do this. Today, "industry" means advertising foremost, products as a distant second. The entirety of today's modern "tech" industry is entirely about advertising. The biggest companies that the masses want to become involved with: advertising giants, like Google or Facebook.
Advertising isn't capitalism. There is no "capital" here. However it is the old story of money for nothing. Borrow the users own bandwidth to present the ads instead of paying for it themselves. Tell the web dabblers that you'll fund their sites if they just sign on the bottom line and look the other way.
There are different ways to fun the free stuff. One is to be respectful and polite, the old way. The other is to be obnoxious jerks, introduce malware, introduce mandatory viewing of the ads, borrow the viewers own resources to show the ads, etc, the new way.
"SJW" is code word for "I think you're all stupid and wish to derail the conversation".
At lower levels there is a lot of diversity. At upper levels though it becomes very white. Not always, solidly white, but it is a distinct difference.
Because the Europeans override the Asians when creating the unicode "standard". They wanted to save code space, despite not being short on it (maybe some idiots think it could be done in 16 bits, but no one on the committee was that naive).
In English, why is 1 and l not the same code point, despite having the same look in so many fonts, and even many typewriters did not have a separate 1 and 0 key (tell that to kids these days and they won't believe you). It sounds idiotic to us to give them the same ASCII code. Now imagine native speakers of Asian languages being told similar things about their writing systems.
The problem with "no" is sort of a side issue in some sense to all this, but the problems with Han unification have been known for decades.
They hate our freedoms.
"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
-- The Amazing Criswell.
I was wondering about why we were having a suprisingly high number of trolls posting questions, then I realized it must be due to the whole Reddit stuff going on and the misfits are migrating over here.
Kind of sad. Used to be just a small handful of people, where I could imagine that maybe they had Tourette's and the copraphilia or racism wasn't really their own fault. But now it's too much. Makes me miss the days when the only evil we had to worry about was Dice and Beta.
Do you think this must be mandatory, or should it be optional. Consider that you do not own the computers you support and you did not pay for them. Do you think it would be appropriate for you yourself to give up total control over your own life in areas where you are not the expert? If not, why do you think the users you support should be mandated to have no decision making ability about how they user their own computers that they paid for with their heard earned money?
Until the automatic update breaks their computer and you have to back it all out and reinstall anyway. Almost all the headaches I have with my mom's computer comes from automatic updates; automatic as in she clicks "yes" to everything and then I have to uninstall crapware (like Chrome) every time I visit, and I get regular calls about how Firefox has changed (even though I turned off automatic updates).
Can you tweak the registry to disallow this? Can you delay for up to a year? Are we really going to roll over and spend money on a computer but let someone else control it? What next, you get a car that automatically drives to get the three month service without waiting for a convenient time? After all, you can't trust the idiot consumer to think for themselves so let someone else do the thinking for them.