Disclaimer: I'm nearing 40. I don't think you're right. Using Google taught me a lot of things I otherwise wouldn't have known. Gone are the days when you could master an IT area without looking up documentation on a daily basis. Before, you had brick-width books which weighted up to 10+ pounds. Now, you have Google AND some books. There is no "better" between the two. I use both.
Self-taught is self-taught, be it through books or online lookup. Memory could only take you so far, and many strains of formal education throughout the world are still following the classic way (learn it by heart or else!) which, let's be honest, is becoming obsolete. But I digress.
Companies are looking to hire young people because: - they take most shit and are happy eating it. I was there, I've done that. - they likely don't have a family (so they're more likely to use their free time working) - they're eager to please (I call it "dog loyalty"). It's not an offensive term, it's just younger people are yet to be screwed over and so they're fully loyal even to a vicious master. - they're cheaper because employers play on their "lack of experience". And many other reasons which I'm too lazy to enumerate, most of them being unrelated to technical skills.
After reading the whole thread above I realized that 2015 won't be the Desktop Linux year either. The proper practice for Average Joe is point-n-grunt. Ubuntu tries to make that happen and they've been doing a good job so far.
Anything rare enough becomes a story. The question is: Why is this a story posted on Slashdot? I might get it as a local story, if all they got during the last decade is less than a 3-pointer, but for Slashdot, there should be literally hundreds of such stories every day... would it publish them all?
Chrome has a lot of issues: 1. It's a fucking RAM guzzler. 14 simple tabs eat up 2 GB RAM after 24h of usage. If I leave the browser open for a week, it's going to eat up over 4 GB RAM with the same tabs open, without working with any of them. I inadvertently discovered that when I went vacationing for a week and left Chrome running on my PC. Firefox, with the same tabs, eats 600MB RAM (as reported by Chrome's own about:memory). 2. Opening several tabs at once slows the OS to a crawl until they all load, which could take up to a minute (on a fast PC). 3. Tabs crash suddenly even if they're not used for a while (or maybe because of that).
With that being said, I depend too much of its deep interconnection with other Google services and it's amazingly helpful in managing my data, so I'll keep grumbling about its shortcomings while using it.
My body doesn't really understand thirst. I can go all day with not a droplet of ingested water and then all of a sudden realize I'm parched. But I'm fairly sure I would ignore them warnings anyway.
Depends how you define media stunt. The first youtube pranksters who decided to give some money away to the homeless by "pranking" them (in a positive way) were all over the news, then 1000 wannabes popped up and all of a sudden there was no fuss about it. Was it a media stunt? Probably. But it was all over the news because it was a first.
What this guy did maybe ain't the first, but it's as rare as one would imagine. Rare things like this get all over the news regardless whether that was the intention in the first place. Someone will tell someone else and the media will jump at the opportunity to show something people crave to hear. I can't imagine how he would do what he did anonymously.
The problem with many people is that they have grown to be so cynical that no good-will gesture would be perceived as selfless. "Surely there must be something fishy there". Well, maybe there is, maybe there isn't. I personally don't think there is, not in this case, but you're free to believe what you want, I ain't gonna try changing your opinion.
What you should do is stop focusing on whether the dude is indeed negatively affected by this or not, and switch to whether the people who work for him are positively affected or not. They ARE positively affected and that's all that matters. I don't care if it's a PR stunt or calculated move, I care whether the employees of that company are happier. If they are, all's peachy.
That's exactly what I as doing. Setting taskbar to auto-hide, web wallpaper setting, all icons on desktop were there (in the screenshot set as wallpaper) and people were fruitlessly trying to click on them. I mostly got "you can do that? HOW?" and explained away, "victims" left the scene more knowledgeable.
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Disclaimer: I'm nearing 40.
I don't think you're right. Using Google taught me a lot of things I otherwise wouldn't have known. Gone are the days when you could master an IT area without looking up documentation on a daily basis. Before, you had brick-width books which weighted up to 10+ pounds. Now, you have Google AND some books. There is no "better" between the two. I use both.
Self-taught is self-taught, be it through books or online lookup. Memory could only take you so far, and many strains of formal education throughout the world are still following the classic way (learn it by heart or else!) which, let's be honest, is becoming obsolete. But I digress.
Companies are looking to hire young people because:
- they take most shit and are happy eating it. I was there, I've done that.
- they likely don't have a family (so they're more likely to use their free time working)
- they're eager to please (I call it "dog loyalty"). It's not an offensive term, it's just younger people are yet to be screwed over and so they're fully loyal even to a vicious master.
- they're cheaper because employers play on their "lack of experience".
And many other reasons which I'm too lazy to enumerate, most of them being unrelated to technical skills.
Comcast online application has the question "Are you older than 49 or younger".
The 100% correct answer regardless of age is "YES".
After reading the whole thread above I realized that 2015 won't be the Desktop Linux year either.
The proper practice for Average Joe is point-n-grunt. Ubuntu tries to make that happen and they've been doing a good job so far.
Anything rare enough becomes a story.
The question is: Why is this a story posted on Slashdot? I might get it as a local story, if all they got during the last decade is less than a 3-pointer, but for Slashdot, there should be literally hundreds of such stories every day... would it publish them all?
Maybe it's not well optimized for MacOS?
Chrome has a lot of issues:
1. It's a fucking RAM guzzler. 14 simple tabs eat up 2 GB RAM after 24h of usage. If I leave the browser open for a week, it's going to eat up over 4 GB RAM with the same tabs open, without working with any of them. I inadvertently discovered that when I went vacationing for a week and left Chrome running on my PC. Firefox, with the same tabs, eats 600MB RAM (as reported by Chrome's own about:memory).
2. Opening several tabs at once slows the OS to a crawl until they all load, which could take up to a minute (on a fast PC).
3. Tabs crash suddenly even if they're not used for a while (or maybe because of that).
With that being said, I depend too much of its deep interconnection with other Google services and it's amazingly helpful in managing my data, so I'll keep grumbling about its shortcomings while using it.
PC industry has "4 or 5 players"? Really?
Apple
Asus
Acer
Dell
HP
Lenovo
Toshiba
Not to mention the plethora of hardware component manufacturers which are dozens.
My body doesn't really understand thirst. I can go all day with not a droplet of ingested water and then all of a sudden realize I'm parched. But I'm fairly sure I would ignore them warnings anyway.
"Per se" with a 'murican accent becomes "per say" :)
Landing your WHAT, again?
You're not :)
I joined that exclusive club!
How much change is that? Does it fill a pocket? Might buy myself some nice things with a pocket full of change.
(depends on the currency though)
It's Han Solo with a pseudo-StarWars font typeface.
Depends how you define media stunt.
The first youtube pranksters who decided to give some money away to the homeless by "pranking" them (in a positive way) were all over the news, then 1000 wannabes popped up and all of a sudden there was no fuss about it.
Was it a media stunt? Probably. But it was all over the news because it was a first.
What this guy did maybe ain't the first, but it's as rare as one would imagine. Rare things like this get all over the news regardless whether that was the intention in the first place. Someone will tell someone else and the media will jump at the opportunity to show something people crave to hear. I can't imagine how he would do what he did anonymously.
The problem with many people is that they have grown to be so cynical that no good-will gesture would be perceived as selfless. "Surely there must be something fishy there". Well, maybe there is, maybe there isn't. I personally don't think there is, not in this case, but you're free to believe what you want, I ain't gonna try changing your opinion.
I prefer it when leadership gets paid in company stock.
That's exactly why most companies' leadership only thinks ahead until the next fiscal quarter end.
If it's not a big deal to lose some salary because it will be made up for in investment income/dividends, then why don't more CEOs do this?
Because:
A: their souls are dried up.
B: their souls are sold to the Devil.
C: They never had a soul in the first place.
What you should do is stop focusing on whether the dude is indeed negatively affected by this or not, and switch to whether the people who work for him are positively affected or not. They ARE positively affected and that's all that matters.
I don't care if it's a PR stunt or calculated move, I care whether the employees of that company are happier. If they are, all's peachy.
My oh my.
The Capitol hosts the Congress.
The White House is the residence of the US President.
The mailman landed at the US Capitol. Correct addressee.
You mixed the Capitol with the White House. Who fucked up?
(I'm Romanian and even I can tell the difference)
Because knowledge is dangerous and steers you away from the righteous path?
Everything Nazi-related has a big red stamp named "Es ist verbotten!" all over it.
I would call that "hiding".
Another someone who hasn't read TFA.
Someone hasn't read TFA.
I couldn't even adapt to swyping.
I guess a wooosh is in order.
That's exactly what I as doing. Setting taskbar to auto-hide, web wallpaper setting, all icons on desktop were there (in the screenshot set as wallpaper) and people were fruitlessly trying to click on them.
I mostly got "you can do that? HOW?" and explained away, "victims" left the scene more knowledgeable.