You need a manual though sometimes. Or often. I still don't know how to use my iPhone properly because it had literally no instructions that came with it. Not even something that pointed you to a web site to go to. I see a lot that someone will use their phone a certain way and others are surprised and ask "how did you do that?" On Android I was baffled what all the tiny status icons meant as well, as in what was ok and what was an error.
Last I checked they were. If you have to use the internet to do research, then you're screwed because they it doesn't have all the stuff you need, especially at college level or higher.
Huh, I didn't have an iPad or any tablet until this year. I was not disadvantaged. I do not have my own laptop, I have one for work that I keep at work. Laptops used to be a luxury device as they could cost 2 to 4 times more than a comparable desktop. You can achieve any job you want to without access to this stuff as a child. Sure, it's nice to have these things, but they are not necessities. I think parents would do better by limiting their children's access to 'smart' devices.
Yes, it's great if you can find a lot of stuff online that's not available in the local or school library, but people are not using these devices for the most part to get ahead or learn stuff, they used almost totally for games and social media and communication. They are very often a distraction rather than a help.
Times have changed, but people are still people. You can become a top tier scientist without growing up with computers or modern phones. Probably better without, as the 'smart' phones tend to make people dumb.
Start with solid education FIRST. Learn to do arithmetic without a calculator, learn to do research without Google, learn to read a book without swiping, and draw a picture without a mouse.
You don't need a picture. Ignore that if you want.
LinkedIn is not facebook, and it's not social media. Just keep the links, add the necessary info about what sort of jobs you can do and have done, and leave it at that. I get a lot of recruiters contacting me from LinkedIn, which I ignore as I'm not looking for a job (and I can't tell which are recruiting from a company and which are third parties). When I do look for a job it will be handy.
The discussions and groups were somewhat overrated.
Reminds me of the TV show My Hero where the super hero's wife says (paraphrasing) "You can fly around the world in seconds and lift up tanks, so why are you envious of me?", and he answers, "you can multitask!"
I lose patience a bit more now that I'm a manager. I shouldn't do that, but human nature. So the guys that refuse to shut up and insist on being the center of group discussion I have to say "Shut Up Bob, Alice is trying to make her point!" at which point they look surprised and become well behaved for the next ten minutes. Seriously, I know one guy who just can't stop talking and butting in, and when leaving the meeting he will confide in me "I don't know why they keep ignoring me." And another guy, missed the entire email thread except the last bit and now he's walking over to me to start complaining without having the fact, and I can see that he's going into one of his lengthy rants, and he won't let me interrupt and get a word in to correct him, and I have to say "Shut Up Mike!" (he's like a male version of Rosanna Rosannadana). And in a scrum when one guy has to start telling me the detailed story of his day so far and I have to say "Shut Up John, we're running out of time!" (which is preceded by "ok, thank you, let's move on please" several times).
Maybe I just haven't learned how to say "Ahem" in a way that makes people pay attention...
Also you're too far away in larger groups to listen or be heard, unless people are speaking more loudly one at a time. In a restaurant for example, any more than 4 people means I'm not joining in on the conversation on the other side of the table.
For a normal conversation you are within a meter or two from the person you're speaking too. As the group gets larger they have to be further apart.
For group discussion in a conference room and such, there are generally a few key people who manage the conversation (the boss for example). And there's always someone who never listens anyway, and one guy who insists on being heard every two minutes who will raise his voice until he gets his way or is kicked out.
My mother is not a moron. However she is ignorant of many of these scams and technology in general. She also does not have the ingrained sense of paranoia that I have. She also wants to be independent, she doesn't want to call me and say she got yet another virus, and maybe my fault for not appearing happy every time it happens. So she's glad when the nice gentleman from from Microsoft affiliated tech support calls her up and offers to fix things.
Elderly people aren't stupid because they grew up in a different time and culture. It's a bit like the cargo cults in the south Pacific.
Microsoft support scam is common. You get that just after your computer pops up a virus warning. Then the call says "Hello, we're from Microsoft and just detected a virus on your computer." And the scam actually works.
Spammers leave voice mail, but not very often in my experience. I may get 5 to 10 calls a day that I don't answer but I haven't gotten a voice mail in at least a month.
I have however gotten a call from an unknown number that was actually very important. It did have the twon prefix for my mother so I did answer instead of ignoring it. I have also needed to use someone else's phone for an emergency call so I was glad that the other end answered.
"Press one for our legal department. Press two for our enforcement division. Press three for the anti-fraud division. Press four if you're not paying attention. Press five to hear these choices again in a random language."
Agreed, 911 calls need to know where you are if you can't easily communicate for some reason (having a heart attack). With all the tracking and advertising going on I am not going to leave GPS on and invite trouble.
I've got one too. I've been on the fence about canceling, but I got an advertising call from my phone company today so I will cancel this weekend and give a good reason when they ask why I'm leaving.
The VOIP eventually has to be tied to an actual phone line, and that's where the number comes from, even if it's an internal exchange number of the phone company. Caller ID should be changed so that it can directly say if this is VOIP, or from the phone company itself, and so forth. I got a advertising sales call today from my own phone company that I mistakenly though was from my dentist because of number similarity.
I'm annoyed that robocalls and the like can't be banned anymore. There was one year when this was illegal and the phone stopped ringing off the hook finally, but then it started back up. And in the last year the spam started showing up on the mobile phone too.
We don't have calling party pays in the US? I know that in the past the recipient paid but that has changed because it stopped people from buying mobile phone. I know land lines are all caller-pays, and many scams come over them.
My mother has fallen for these scams 4 times. I feel that if I ever intercept such a call that I will be too furious to do more than shout rather than being logical about it.
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You need a manual though sometimes. Or often. I still don't know how to use my iPhone properly because it had literally no instructions that came with it. Not even something that pointed you to a web site to go to. I see a lot that someone will use their phone a certain way and others are surprised and ask "how did you do that?" On Android I was baffled what all the tiny status icons meant as well, as in what was ok and what was an error.
Manuals people, write them!
And it's all behind paywalls.
Last I checked they were. If you have to use the internet to do research, then you're screwed because they it doesn't have all the stuff you need, especially at college level or higher.
Huh, I didn't have an iPad or any tablet until this year. I was not disadvantaged. I do not have my own laptop, I have one for work that I keep at work. Laptops used to be a luxury device as they could cost 2 to 4 times more than a comparable desktop. You can achieve any job you want to without access to this stuff as a child. Sure, it's nice to have these things, but they are not necessities. I think parents would do better by limiting their children's access to 'smart' devices.
Yes, it's great if you can find a lot of stuff online that's not available in the local or school library, but people are not using these devices for the most part to get ahead or learn stuff, they used almost totally for games and social media and communication. They are very often a distraction rather than a help.
Times have changed, but people are still people. You can become a top tier scientist without growing up with computers or modern phones. Probably better without, as the 'smart' phones tend to make people dumb.
Start with solid education FIRST. Learn to do arithmetic without a calculator, learn to do research without Google, learn to read a book without swiping, and draw a picture without a mouse.
What if the family only has one person? Or one person and a toddler (who should not have devices).
Men, in my society, are treated as disposable.
What society are you in then, it doesn't sound familiar.
Yes, the 5 years separation part is a burden to quite a few, when one spouse refuses to consent to the divorce.
You don't need a picture. Ignore that if you want.
LinkedIn is not facebook, and it's not social media. Just keep the links, add the necessary info about what sort of jobs you can do and have done, and leave it at that. I get a lot of recruiters contacting me from LinkedIn, which I ignore as I'm not looking for a job (and I can't tell which are recruiting from a company and which are third parties). When I do look for a job it will be handy.
The discussions and groups were somewhat overrated.
Reminds me of the TV show My Hero where the super hero's wife says (paraphrasing) "You can fly around the world in seconds and lift up tanks, so why are you envious of me?", and he answers, "you can multitask!"
I lose patience a bit more now that I'm a manager. I shouldn't do that, but human nature. So the guys that refuse to shut up and insist on being the center of group discussion I have to say "Shut Up Bob, Alice is trying to make her point!" at which point they look surprised and become well behaved for the next ten minutes. Seriously, I know one guy who just can't stop talking and butting in, and when leaving the meeting he will confide in me "I don't know why they keep ignoring me." And another guy, missed the entire email thread except the last bit and now he's walking over to me to start complaining without having the fact, and I can see that he's going into one of his lengthy rants, and he won't let me interrupt and get a word in to correct him, and I have to say "Shut Up Mike!" (he's like a male version of Rosanna Rosannadana). And in a scrum when one guy has to start telling me the detailed story of his day so far and I have to say "Shut Up John, we're running out of time!" (which is preceded by "ok, thank you, let's move on please" several times).
Maybe I just haven't learned how to say "Ahem" in a way that makes people pay attention...
Also you're too far away in larger groups to listen or be heard, unless people are speaking more loudly one at a time. In a restaurant for example, any more than 4 people means I'm not joining in on the conversation on the other side of the table.
For a normal conversation you are within a meter or two from the person you're speaking too. As the group gets larger they have to be further apart.
For group discussion in a conference room and such, there are generally a few key people who manage the conversation (the boss for example). And there's always someone who never listens anyway, and one guy who insists on being heard every two minutes who will raise his voice until he gets his way or is kicked out.
My mother is not a moron. However she is ignorant of many of these scams and technology in general. She also does not have the ingrained sense of paranoia that I have. She also wants to be independent, she doesn't want to call me and say she got yet another virus, and maybe my fault for not appearing happy every time it happens. So she's glad when the nice gentleman from from Microsoft affiliated tech support calls her up and offers to fix things.
Elderly people aren't stupid because they grew up in a different time and culture. It's a bit like the cargo cults in the south Pacific.
The cashier is too busy texting to respond to customers anyway.
Oh ya, sorry, I was mentally lumping in land lines as well.
Microsoft support scam is common. You get that just after your computer pops up a virus warning. Then the call says "Hello, we're from Microsoft and just detected a virus on your computer." And the scam actually works.
Spammers leave voice mail, but not very often in my experience. I may get 5 to 10 calls a day that I don't answer but I haven't gotten a voice mail in at least a month.
I have however gotten a call from an unknown number that was actually very important. It did have the twon prefix for my mother so I did answer instead of ignoring it. I have also needed to use someone else's phone for an emergency call so I was glad that the other end answered.
"Press one for our legal department. Press two for our enforcement division. Press three for the anti-fraud division. Press four if you're not paying attention. Press five to hear these choices again in a random language."
Agreed, 911 calls need to know where you are if you can't easily communicate for some reason (having a heart attack). With all the tracking and advertising going on I am not going to leave GPS on and invite trouble.
I've got one too. I've been on the fence about canceling, but I got an advertising call from my phone company today so I will cancel this weekend and give a good reason when they ask why I'm leaving.
The VOIP eventually has to be tied to an actual phone line, and that's where the number comes from, even if it's an internal exchange number of the phone company. Caller ID should be changed so that it can directly say if this is VOIP, or from the phone company itself, and so forth. I got a advertising sales call today from my own phone company that I mistakenly though was from my dentist because of number similarity.
I'm annoyed that robocalls and the like can't be banned anymore. There was one year when this was illegal and the phone stopped ringing off the hook finally, but then it started back up. And in the last year the spam started showing up on the mobile phone too.
This is what I wish I could do to these people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Aqua Teen Hunger Force).
We don't have calling party pays in the US? I know that in the past the recipient paid but that has changed because it stopped people from buying mobile phone. I know land lines are all caller-pays, and many scams come over them.
There is a Mandarin phone scam going around where the call claims to be coming from the Chinese consulate.
My mother has fallen for these scams 4 times. I feel that if I ever intercept such a call that I will be too furious to do more than shout rather than being logical about it.