With the difference that MS Office (as well as Adobe Acrobat) comes with an auto-update function that you have to deliberately disable (or at the very least not enable).
Compression tools don't offer the option to check for updates altogether. In other words, updating them is easily overlooked by the average user.
I'd first try to figure out how the UK define "financial" compensation. It might well stretch into anything that you could at least in theory sell and make money of.
I don't know about your country, in mine you're informed before and after the show that it is sponsored by something and/or that product placement happens.
You DO know that this is already the case in the US, yes?
Besides, a country where every rear view mirror invariably reminds the driver that objects in it are closer than they are and has a military that deems it necessary to print on their ordnance which end of the weapon should be pointed towards the enemy should maybe not complain about making the world idiot proof...
I just completed a quick poll among the people I know in the age range of 14 to 30. Out of 8 people asked, 8 answered with the counter question "who?"
I admit, that 8 isn't that big a sample, but maybe you could point to what demographic is actually interested in these people so I know whether I should be worried.
Oh, education is only supposed to mean how many are holding a degree. Ok. I was under the impression that the whole article we're discussing here is going exactly the opposite direction, but if that's all it means...
Well, of course they are. But I can tell you from experience that a degree doesn't mean that someone is actually educated. I have seen what's been cranked out by some colleges these days and I honestly question whether a college degree still means what it used to mean. Mostly that the person holding it actually knows a thing or two about what the degree supposedly certifies. Because an increasing number of people who have a degree don't know jack shit about the field they allegedly have a degree in.
Only the local user account... yes. That means all your documents, all your pictures, your browser history along with the passwords stored in your browser, your password file if you choose to have one because you don't trust your browser to store it securely, your emails, your...
I dare to disagree, I still prefer our system over here where unemployed are qualified with courses and education to fill those jobs where there is an actual shortage. That way a government can steer people to jobs where there is an actual shortage of labor, even if these fields cannot (easily) perform the relevant education themselves, while avoiding a surplus of workers vying for jobs in a market where employers can afford to hire cheap labor with the pretense of training on the job because it doesn't matter if unskilled personnel (that you can usually hire at sub-standard wages, too) is slow or prone to error.
For example, we have a severe lack of geriatric care specialists (like, pretty much, all the world), which isn't exactly something where you can simply put people into "training on the job" situations (or at least you should not!), while training them is something that the usually charity-funded care centers cannot afford themselves. On the other hand, it would be trivial to hoover up anyone without a training by large corporations to use these people as cheap labor for menial jobs where they barely learn anything while at the same time existing on a "you work here 'til your first accident" base.
In other words, I wouldn't want to hand training people to organizations that don't really want these people beyond what they immediately need. Get these people a solid, well rounded education that they can take home with them and that also allows them to switch employers.
Then again, if you have the requirements that we have (and no, they're not some sham to say "look, we can't find anyone domestic, give us cheap code monkeys from abroad!"), the number of qualifying applicants is usually in the single digits. You can actually invite them all to an interview and even pay their travel expenses...
In other words, it depends on what your skill actually is. If it's rare and sought after, you can rest assured that HR will get their ass kicked if they dump you for having the "wrong" schools (or none). Then again, there's usually a good reason that a skill or a combination of skills is rare...
In my country, public universities are the norm rather than the exception, and they are free. Yes, free.
The caveat? Well, that it feels like a million students enter every year with about 100 graduating.
This basically means that nobody, really nobody, gives a shit about you. Nobody cares, and there's also not any reason to give a shit, too, since where you come from, there's plenty more. If you're good, study hard and put yourself behind it, it's very doable. If you don't, well, move aside, there's like 500 people who want your slot. NEXT!
So what eventually graduates is really, really, REALLY good. These people are perfect in self organization (because without, they wouldn't survive a day, let alone a semester or even graduate), they are perfect in the field they studied (because the profs don't give a shit about anyone not making it, the general sentiment is that if have a drop out rate of 90% in your course, at least you don't have too much dead weight to haul around) and they are in general quite capable of holding a sensible and polite conversation with a customer or supplier without compromising their position and without being unreasonable (because basically if you're either a pushover or pushy, your chances of getting anywhere with the department secretaries are zero).
This. You have job openings for people with 10 years of experience in a field that only existed for 5, preferably not older than 25.
After you don't find any, you qualify for H1B. India seems to be from the future, considering how many insanely experienced people in technology that barely exists are coming from that place.
Millennials make up possibly the most well-educated American generation ever.
Citation needed. I give you that millennials have the best access to education ever, with the internet and its near endless supply of information at their fingertips and their experience with the medium paralleled by no generation before them. But, and that's a big but, you can only lead the donkey to the well, you can't force him to drink.
What millennials (along with many people that came before them) sorely lack is a bullshit filter. Not everything that you read is true and valid information. And I'm not even talking about political fake news and right and left wing propaganda. I'm talking about the bullshit pseudoscience being promoted on various YouTube channels and the rise of snake oil peddling that hasn't been seen since the traveling patent medicine salesmen of the old west.
In other words, just because you CAN be better educated than ever before in the history of mankind doesn't mean that you ARE. The internet is a tool, you can use it to promote wisdom or idiocy.
Current PCs come with more ram and processing power than you need, unless you're running server daemons (in which case I question the use of a browser at the same time) or games (in which case I don't only question your use of a browser at the same time but you probably already handed your privacy to Origin or Steam anyway).
You don't download compressed files from the internet? No mods for your favorite game, no file someone sends you on whatsapp? While I'd guess that you probably don't work in HR where opening compressed files is pretty much par for the course every time you're hiring and someone sends you their CV, you don't exchange files with anyone? Where you always, really always, check whether the from-header is actually from your mail partner?
But you're right, these are usually things that the average Joe Hacker doesn't do. This is something done for more interesting targets that are a bit more security conscious...
Slashdot Mirror
Dementia certainly not. But Narcissism? Definitely. Histrionic even maybe.
Right now, he's acting like a child in the terrible twos that doesn't get the toy he wants and holds his breath 'til he gets what he wants.
With the difference that MS Office (as well as Adobe Acrobat) comes with an auto-update function that you have to deliberately disable (or at the very least not enable).
Compression tools don't offer the option to check for updates altogether. In other words, updating them is easily overlooked by the average user.
Ok, so I start the stream when I go to dinner, come back half an hour later and watch the movie.
No, but what I can do is request a few videos when I come home, have my machine cut out the spam and display what I want when I come back from dinner.
You can try to waste my time, but since it's my time I still decide whether I let you.
The word "exaggeration" does mean something to you, I guess?
I don't care how many ads one can stuff into an X minute video. If the video consists of more ads than content I don't want to watch it, period.
Then I guess switching to 7zip which is free and can read RAR files is an option.
I'd first try to figure out how the UK define "financial" compensation. It might well stretch into anything that you could at least in theory sell and make money of.
I don't know about your country, in mine you're informed before and after the show that it is sponsored by something and/or that product placement happens.
If you're trying to influence people into following your example, yes.
You DO know that this is already the case in the US, yes?
Besides, a country where every rear view mirror invariably reminds the driver that objects in it are closer than they are and has a military that deems it necessary to print on their ordnance which end of the weapon should be pointed towards the enemy should maybe not complain about making the world idiot proof...
Still not enough? How about this label?
(linking to Amazon so nobody could claim it's just a hoax someone made up. Given the label the "made in the USA" information is kinda redundant...)
Nah, the first spots are still well covered by "military intelligence" and "Microsoft Works".
I just completed a quick poll among the people I know in the age range of 14 to 30. Out of 8 people asked, 8 answered with the counter question "who?"
I admit, that 8 isn't that big a sample, but maybe you could point to what demographic is actually interested in these people so I know whether I should be worried.
Now they want me to hand over biometric data to read bad bot posts?
Nah. Reading some bullshit from Twitter twats ain't important enough for this. Anyone know an alternative that doesn't suck?
Oh, education is only supposed to mean how many are holding a degree. Ok. I was under the impression that the whole article we're discussing here is going exactly the opposite direction, but if that's all it means...
Well, of course they are. But I can tell you from experience that a degree doesn't mean that someone is actually educated. I have seen what's been cranked out by some colleges these days and I honestly question whether a college degree still means what it used to mean. Mostly that the person holding it actually knows a thing or two about what the degree supposedly certifies. Because an increasing number of people who have a degree don't know jack shit about the field they allegedly have a degree in.
Only the local user account... yes. That means all your documents, all your pictures, your browser history along with the passwords stored in your browser, your password file if you choose to have one because you don't trust your browser to store it securely, your emails, your ...
But your drivers are safe. I give you that.
I dare to disagree, I still prefer our system over here where unemployed are qualified with courses and education to fill those jobs where there is an actual shortage. That way a government can steer people to jobs where there is an actual shortage of labor, even if these fields cannot (easily) perform the relevant education themselves, while avoiding a surplus of workers vying for jobs in a market where employers can afford to hire cheap labor with the pretense of training on the job because it doesn't matter if unskilled personnel (that you can usually hire at sub-standard wages, too) is slow or prone to error.
For example, we have a severe lack of geriatric care specialists (like, pretty much, all the world), which isn't exactly something where you can simply put people into "training on the job" situations (or at least you should not!), while training them is something that the usually charity-funded care centers cannot afford themselves. On the other hand, it would be trivial to hoover up anyone without a training by large corporations to use these people as cheap labor for menial jobs where they barely learn anything while at the same time existing on a "you work here 'til your first accident" base.
In other words, I wouldn't want to hand training people to organizations that don't really want these people beyond what they immediately need. Get these people a solid, well rounded education that they can take home with them and that also allows them to switch employers.
Not for us, it is not.
Then again, if you have the requirements that we have (and no, they're not some sham to say "look, we can't find anyone domestic, give us cheap code monkeys from abroad!"), the number of qualifying applicants is usually in the single digits. You can actually invite them all to an interview and even pay their travel expenses...
In other words, it depends on what your skill actually is. If it's rare and sought after, you can rest assured that HR will get their ass kicked if they dump you for having the "wrong" schools (or none). Then again, there's usually a good reason that a skill or a combination of skills is rare...
In my country, public universities are the norm rather than the exception, and they are free. Yes, free.
The caveat? Well, that it feels like a million students enter every year with about 100 graduating.
This basically means that nobody, really nobody, gives a shit about you. Nobody cares, and there's also not any reason to give a shit, too, since where you come from, there's plenty more. If you're good, study hard and put yourself behind it, it's very doable. If you don't, well, move aside, there's like 500 people who want your slot. NEXT!
So what eventually graduates is really, really, REALLY good. These people are perfect in self organization (because without, they wouldn't survive a day, let alone a semester or even graduate), they are perfect in the field they studied (because the profs don't give a shit about anyone not making it, the general sentiment is that if have a drop out rate of 90% in your course, at least you don't have too much dead weight to haul around) and they are in general quite capable of holding a sensible and polite conversation with a customer or supplier without compromising their position and without being unreasonable (because basically if you're either a pushover or pushy, your chances of getting anywhere with the department secretaries are zero).
And yes, these people are in high demand.
In theory, yes. But you should probably tell the college students that leveling your 10th character in WoW is NOT what this means.
This. You have job openings for people with 10 years of experience in a field that only existed for 5, preferably not older than 25.
After you don't find any, you qualify for H1B. India seems to be from the future, considering how many insanely experienced people in technology that barely exists are coming from that place.
Millennials make up possibly the most well-educated American generation ever.
Citation needed. I give you that millennials have the best access to education ever, with the internet and its near endless supply of information at their fingertips and their experience with the medium paralleled by no generation before them. But, and that's a big but, you can only lead the donkey to the well, you can't force him to drink.
What millennials (along with many people that came before them) sorely lack is a bullshit filter. Not everything that you read is true and valid information. And I'm not even talking about political fake news and right and left wing propaganda. I'm talking about the bullshit pseudoscience being promoted on various YouTube channels and the rise of snake oil peddling that hasn't been seen since the traveling patent medicine salesmen of the old west.
In other words, just because you CAN be better educated than ever before in the history of mankind doesn't mean that you ARE. The internet is a tool, you can use it to promote wisdom or idiocy.
All of Apple's drawbacks without any of Apple's PR?
Yeah. That's going to fly well.
So?
I'm asking in all seriousness: SO?
Current PCs come with more ram and processing power than you need, unless you're running server daemons (in which case I question the use of a browser at the same time) or games (in which case I don't only question your use of a browser at the same time but you probably already handed your privacy to Origin or Steam anyway).
How do you keep me from doing what I want on my machine? That's a trick I'd want to see.
You don't download compressed files from the internet? No mods for your favorite game, no file someone sends you on whatsapp? While I'd guess that you probably don't work in HR where opening compressed files is pretty much par for the course every time you're hiring and someone sends you their CV, you don't exchange files with anyone? Where you always, really always, check whether the from-header is actually from your mail partner?
But you're right, these are usually things that the average Joe Hacker doesn't do. This is something done for more interesting targets that are a bit more security conscious...