Ahh forgot to mention: The biscuit line was upgraded 2 years after I left. I went through for a tour, and the QC department has installed a camera based reject system which monitors the colour and consistency of what comes out of the oven. It doesn't break for lunch, it doesn't chat to other employees, and it doesn't fall asleep in its chair either. It was a combined program with a local university and the university press credited it with a ~70% reduction in customer complaints.
You know those odd horror stories about a dead rodent found in a can of tomatoes or jar of pickles. Yeah, that's how good the machines are.
I used to work at a large biscuit (cookie for the Americans) factory. We had a moth fly in and land on the dough during the kneading and forming section right before the oven. The guy just looked at it, turned to me and said QC will catch it. 20min later I had to deliver something to packing and noticed the QC guy wasn't even there that day and they just ran the line without him.
I also worked at a Pizza Hut. The pasta cooker in the back of the restaurant got cleaned every day by just wiping over the strainer, no one ever really removed it from its mounting while the machine had no water in it. When I was working in that area one day at the end of the shift I wondered what was under there. Thick caked on muck. We tried cleaning it but got nowhere. I pointed it out to my manager who said we should have an industrial strength floor cleaner in the back somewhere which would dissolve the grease, so we poured that in there and watched maybe 10 dead cockroaches get released from their greased on prison, and I gagged at the smell.
We're talking about fast food here. Ever successfully ordered a medium rare BigMac? As for choice, you already have that. And if you're as fussy as you claim you wouldn't be in this kind of restaurant anyway but likely off somewhere downtown insulting the waiter for no good reason.
Depends on if their product has any FCC based implications at all. If the satellites are used over the USA, but the receivers elsewhere get the data then the FCC can go pound sand.
1. People like to eat big sandwiches. 2. Sandwiches are 8 inches at Jimmy Johns.
Do we: A) Make 10 inch sandwiches B) Keep making 8 inch sandwiches, but redefine inches as 3.75 cm, so that the sandwiches will be bigger
We already do B in a way. I just came back from Subway where I ordered a 30cm sub which happens to not be 12" But that comes back to your first point...:
The sun is at its highest at noon by definition.
Negative. Noon is 12pm during the day by definition. What you are thinking of is "Solar Noon" a definition that is not used outside of the astronomy field for hundreds of years. Definitions evolve over the years as our understanding of topics and our needs change. The need here hasn't changed much, we need time synchronisation between people. 500 years ago the way to achieve this was to monitor the movement of your shadow. 12pm on the sundial mean that this synchronisation didn't work between people as they moved. This became a big problem when we invented ships, which is also the point where we decoupled our concept of time from the position of the sun. The sun was not a stable reference in the sky. Instead time was defined by the position of the stars. Shortly after we identified a more stable definition of time: atomic clocks and realise how stupid it was relying on a reference that used change (the earth's orbit and rotation is not stable). You see relying on the sun to set the time has shown us that depending on where you are in the world and what day of the year it is you could be anywhere from +14min to -16min off from an accurate time. If you want to melt your brain, look up The Equation of Time. The Wikipedia article even has a picture of a nice clock in Naples that has two faces, one showing what the time is that we use, and the other showing how far off the time is from solar time (where your precious 12 noon reference sits).
As for the sun being highest at noon. Not where I live. It's highest at around 12:50 in the winter here, and 13:50 in the summer, and the reason is simple: Reality doesn't follow your arbitrary definition.
Yes and they are all disabled by default. XP included. I'm typing this at an XP machine right now. If you want the foldersize you need to hover over the folder and a huge amount of disk thrashing ensues.
If your hard drive is thrashing because of a mouse hover, buy some fucking RAM
You would dedicate the complete index of ever changing files on a disk into RAM? I'm impressed. I thought your desire to know the folder sizes at all times was the dumbest idea. I was wrong. What an unexpected one-up.
I have a better solution. I have a Twitter account and I made it solely so I could follow one user: @DonaldTrump. It has saved me a lot of money since for the past year I have no longer needed to subscribe to The Comedy Channel.
If you want a more descriptive update then just call it what it is, Windows 10 (1803). Or would you prefer the version number also contain the changelog?
Yes there is, it's called Windows 10 version 1803. It has another colloquial name but people complain about it.
As a matter of interest just what "non creator" market share is Microsoft supposed to capture? I personally am happy that Microsoft is focusing it's efforts on dicking around with toy features and apps rather than messing with the core OS, because we all know about the quality of their coding right now.
Or maybe you're just hung up on some name and don't bother actually reading release notes. Or do you think Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Exploit Guard, and better battery management was all about capturing people who do nothing but doodle pictures on their Windows machines. (In case you missed the reference these were features of the Fall Creator's Update, which had nothing to do with creating anything).
And do what with my earlier time? It's not like I can start a variable length activity in the morning. Maybe I'll get up at 6am and mow the lawn, will that make you happier? I'm sure it will.
I set whatever bed time I want. I also am capable of using my brain to think about more than one narrow topic at the time. I suggest you try it sometime. Or did your neurons stop growing too early? If so we have some bad news for you. https://science.slashdot.org/s...
So no mainstream OS then but rather an optional feature used by a very tiny minority of a minority of GUI users, on an at the time almost non-existent desktop OS. Got it.
There is, to the best of my knowledge, no law requiring workplaces to observe 8 am to 5 pm (roughly) as "working hours," yet this observance is reasonably well represented across the United States.
Actually it's well represented across the world, something which has built up over a period of a century. Now try and change that within a shorter period. The world constantly changes, but to effect a change across an incredibly large group in a short period of time requires oversight.
As for noon aligning with the high sun point, that is all "noon" originally was - the dividing point marked by the observable fact that the sun was at its highest point in the sky.
Where? As I said, certainly it wasn't everywhere, and there's no real sense to stick to this definition either especially considering we already move it off noon for half the year.
The reason why the sun's high point doesn't always match exactly with "noon" on the clock probably has more to do with standardized time zones than DST.
Exactly. People working in a common frame of reference is far more important than where the sun is. My point exactly.
The real problem, in my mind, is that a central authority decides that it would be a good idea for EVERYONE to show up for work an hour earlier, or an hour later, which they obviously can't legislate (at least not without serious pushback). So they move the clock around instead, and people, being creatures of habit, maintain their clock-based schedules and go to work an hour later, or an hour earlier (than the sun-based time), just like the legislature wanted to make them do.
I don't understand why you consider this a problem. The authority used the tools at their disposal to enact the policy that they were elected to enact. And did so without a potentially unworkable and confusing regulation opting for something really simple while at the same time removing something that people hated (clock changes). This is probably one of the best example of good legislature solving the problem they were trying to solve. People hate clock changes, people love sun and warm afternoons, people hate pointless over regulation.
The market won't adjust because doing so requires society to adjust, and it's almost impossible to get a group that large to adjust anything without some central oversight. You can see this in cities what provide extended trading hours. De-regulate and they turn into a clusterfuck. But say: Friday is extended trading hours day, and everyone is open at the same time.
I challenge your assertion that people will stick to natural rhythms. Some workplaces offer flexible working hours as part of their package and nearly all people adjust themselves according to their own needs. What I see in my own workplace is that very few people show up at the pre-flex time of 9am. The vast majority of people opted to come in between 7-8 and some departments which need to provide coverage have then asked people to stay behind. That's the thing business activities prevent companies from just doing what they want. They need to sync with each other.
The only people who are open for even longer end up being restaurants which win with the additional length of patronage, especially if they have beer gardens and outdoor areas.
Passing curtail working hours laws don't work because they don't reflect the reality of different businesses. It is much easier to move the sunlight an hour later than expected. And I hear no good reason for noon to align with high sun point, especially since it doesn't do so in many countries around the world anyway (where I live the sun is at its max at 12:50 in winter, and 13:50 in summer)
There are plenty of ways to do this for yourself that can be found for a simple Google search.
Why would you google search? There's plenty of ways you can find this solution by yourself. Just ask around for people until you get a somewhat relevant web address and then follow all links you can until you find your comment.
Ok facetiousness aside, there's a very good reason not to do a lot of this management yourself. It has nothing to do with critical thinking and everything to do with data. Do you single-handedly look at all data coming in and out to determine if it is a virus in the systems you admin? Or do you use a 3rd party company with lots of experience and data to do it? Do you drive around the city taking note of the traffic as it builds up and then stop to calculate your own optimal route, or do you use Google Maps or Waze, or someone else with loads of data about traffic to help you get to your destination? Do you look up a copy of Grey's Anatomy every time you get stabbed and perform surgery on yourself, or do you defer it to an expert, preferably one who has the experience to deal with it?
Likewise just because you can do a Google search, and because you're an expert system admin doesn't mean you don't already outsource a lot of your work too. Or do you not subscribe to spam lists either?
The idea that people should filter their own internet just because *you* have a spare computer, and way too much time on your hands is absolutely absurd. Instead what you should be proposing is to manage the lists for other people, not because they are idiots, but because they value their own time.
If by functionality you mean spitting out garbled text, making people swear and forcing them to open wordpad then yes, yes it's functionality has been the same for 20 years:)
Why are the tabs at the TOP of the window in the title bar? That's a HORRIBLE design.
Because it is the most sensible place give that the application runs inside the tab. If you put it underneath it would make users think that the tab is part of the application, and THAT would be horrible design.
Go have a look again at how this works then you'll see it makes perfect sense to put it there. The way it works may not make sense, but at least the location of the tabs do.
... disabled by default. It would be a horrible idea to do this automatically. You would need to index all files in each folder. This takes an incredible amount of time, not only on Windows, but on Linux, Unix, Mac etc.
There's no sane file manager that shows you folder sizes automatically. And with the file manager I use I try not to hover my mouse on folders for too long, the thrashing of the HDD can't be doing it any good.
Given how most of the complaints about daylight savings are about the clock switching and that they are adopting it, what makes this decision flawed? Your arbitrary idea that noon should be the time when the sun is highest? Guess what, no one cares about that. Hell in my country the closest the sun at its highest point is to noon is winter solstice, and then it's just shy of 1pm. In summer it's 2pm, and no one gives a crap.
People however do give a crap that they can walk in the park and enjoy sunlight at 6pm after work.
As for your complaint about traditional daily routine being rigid, yes that's kind of the point. Time exists because of routine. There needed to be a way to synchronise activities between humans in order for a society to properly function. Did that surprise you? No Time does not exist so someone can figure out 12pm is the high point of the sun. That's just arbitrary. What's not arbitrary is the restrictions most people have on their worktime, or how much they enjoy sunlight, or vitamin D deficiencies further north because of the stupidity of winter time.
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It was a design flaw to create a keyboard that couldn't be cleaned in the first place.
Yes it is, and every PC and gadget maker copies this design flaw into their own products.
Ahh forgot to mention: The biscuit line was upgraded 2 years after I left. I went through for a tour, and the QC department has installed a camera based reject system which monitors the colour and consistency of what comes out of the oven. It doesn't break for lunch, it doesn't chat to other employees, and it doesn't fall asleep in its chair either. It was a combined program with a local university and the university press credited it with a ~70% reduction in customer complaints.
You know those odd horror stories about a dead rodent found in a can of tomatoes or jar of pickles. Yeah, that's how good the machines are.
I used to work at a large biscuit (cookie for the Americans) factory. We had a moth fly in and land on the dough during the kneading and forming section right before the oven. The guy just looked at it, turned to me and said QC will catch it. 20min later I had to deliver something to packing and noticed the QC guy wasn't even there that day and they just ran the line without him.
I also worked at a Pizza Hut. The pasta cooker in the back of the restaurant got cleaned every day by just wiping over the strainer, no one ever really removed it from its mounting while the machine had no water in it. When I was working in that area one day at the end of the shift I wondered what was under there. Thick caked on muck. We tried cleaning it but got nowhere. I pointed it out to my manager who said we should have an industrial strength floor cleaner in the back somewhere which would dissolve the grease, so we poured that in there and watched maybe 10 dead cockroaches get released from their greased on prison, and I gagged at the smell.
THAT'S how good people are.
or you want it made a certain way
We're talking about fast food here. Ever successfully ordered a medium rare BigMac? As for choice, you already have that. And if you're as fussy as you claim you wouldn't be in this kind of restaurant anyway but likely off somewhere downtown insulting the waiter for no good reason.
Didn't we just get tax reform? Lower taxes for all. That will solve the problem. Oh and fire 20 weather forecasters to cut costs.
Depends on if their product has any FCC based implications at all. If the satellites are used over the USA, but the receivers elsewhere get the data then the FCC can go pound sand.
Suppose:
1. People like to eat big sandwiches.
2. Sandwiches are 8 inches at Jimmy Johns.
Do we:
A) Make 10 inch sandwiches
B) Keep making 8 inch sandwiches, but redefine inches as 3.75 cm, so that the sandwiches will be bigger
We already do B in a way. I just came back from Subway where I ordered a 30cm sub which happens to not be 12" But that comes back to your first point...:
The sun is at its highest at noon by definition.
Negative. Noon is 12pm during the day by definition. What you are thinking of is "Solar Noon" a definition that is not used outside of the astronomy field for hundreds of years. Definitions evolve over the years as our understanding of topics and our needs change. The need here hasn't changed much, we need time synchronisation between people. 500 years ago the way to achieve this was to monitor the movement of your shadow. 12pm on the sundial mean that this synchronisation didn't work between people as they moved. This became a big problem when we invented ships, which is also the point where we decoupled our concept of time from the position of the sun. The sun was not a stable reference in the sky. Instead time was defined by the position of the stars. Shortly after we identified a more stable definition of time: atomic clocks and realise how stupid it was relying on a reference that used change (the earth's orbit and rotation is not stable).
You see relying on the sun to set the time has shown us that depending on where you are in the world and what day of the year it is you could be anywhere from +14min to -16min off from an accurate time. If you want to melt your brain, look up The Equation of Time. The Wikipedia article even has a picture of a nice clock in Naples that has two faces, one showing what the time is that we use, and the other showing how far off the time is from solar time (where your precious 12 noon reference sits).
As for the sun being highest at noon. Not where I live. It's highest at around 12:50 in the winter here, and 13:50 in the summer, and the reason is simple: Reality doesn't follow your arbitrary definition.
Depends on how much pension the retirees receive, don't you think so?
4th largest in America behind 3 manufacturing states. No I don't think so at all even in the slightest.
Yes and they are all disabled by default. XP included. I'm typing this at an XP machine right now. If you want the foldersize you need to hover over the folder and a huge amount of disk thrashing ensues.
If your hard drive is thrashing because of a mouse hover, buy some fucking RAM
You would dedicate the complete index of ever changing files on a disk into RAM? I'm impressed. I thought your desire to know the folder sizes at all times was the dumbest idea. I was wrong. What an unexpected one-up.
I unfollow blue-ticked accounts.
I have a better solution. I have a Twitter account and I made it solely so I could follow one user: @DonaldTrump. It has saved me a lot of money since for the past year I have no longer needed to subscribe to The Comedy Channel.
If you need to keep your data, 1) don't use any Microsoft products
I have an even better idea. Don't take stupid advice from people on Slashdot:
https://www.trendmicro.com/vin...
Instead of all this idiotic updates, how about returning to the original release cycle?
No thanks. I don't want to live with this version of Windows for the next 8 years.
If you want a more descriptive update then just call it what it is, Windows 10 (1803). Or would you prefer the version number also contain the changelog?
Is there an update for me?
Yes there is, it's called Windows 10 version 1803. It has another colloquial name but people complain about it.
As a matter of interest just what "non creator" market share is Microsoft supposed to capture? I personally am happy that Microsoft is focusing it's efforts on dicking around with toy features and apps rather than messing with the core OS, because we all know about the quality of their coding right now.
Or maybe you're just hung up on some name and don't bother actually reading release notes. Or do you think Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Exploit Guard, and better battery management was all about capturing people who do nothing but doodle pictures on their Windows machines. (In case you missed the reference these were features of the Fall Creator's Update, which had nothing to do with creating anything).
And do what with my earlier time? It's not like I can start a variable length activity in the morning. Maybe I'll get up at 6am and mow the lawn, will that make you happier? I'm sure it will.
I set whatever bed time I want. I also am capable of using my brain to think about more than one narrow topic at the time. I suggest you try it sometime. Or did your neurons stop growing too early? If so we have some bad news for you. https://science.slashdot.org/s...
So no mainstream OS then but rather an optional feature used by a very tiny minority of a minority of GUI users, on an at the time almost non-existent desktop OS. Got it.
There is, to the best of my knowledge, no law requiring workplaces to observe 8 am to 5 pm (roughly) as "working hours," yet this observance is reasonably well represented across the United States.
Actually it's well represented across the world, something which has built up over a period of a century. Now try and change that within a shorter period. The world constantly changes, but to effect a change across an incredibly large group in a short period of time requires oversight.
As for noon aligning with the high sun point, that is all "noon" originally was - the dividing point marked by the observable fact that the sun was at its highest point in the sky.
Where? As I said, certainly it wasn't everywhere, and there's no real sense to stick to this definition either especially considering we already move it off noon for half the year.
The reason why the sun's high point doesn't always match exactly with "noon" on the clock probably has more to do with standardized time zones than DST.
Exactly. People working in a common frame of reference is far more important than where the sun is. My point exactly.
The real problem, in my mind, is that a central authority decides that it would be a good idea for EVERYONE to show up for work an hour earlier, or an hour later, which they obviously can't legislate (at least not without serious pushback). So they move the clock around instead, and people, being creatures of habit, maintain their clock-based schedules and go to work an hour later, or an hour earlier (than the sun-based time), just like the legislature wanted to make them do.
I don't understand why you consider this a problem. The authority used the tools at their disposal to enact the policy that they were elected to enact. And did so without a potentially unworkable and confusing regulation opting for something really simple while at the same time removing something that people hated (clock changes). This is probably one of the best example of good legislature solving the problem they were trying to solve. People hate clock changes, people love sun and warm afternoons, people hate pointless over regulation.
The market won't adjust because doing so requires society to adjust, and it's almost impossible to get a group that large to adjust anything without some central oversight. You can see this in cities what provide extended trading hours. De-regulate and they turn into a clusterfuck. But say: Friday is extended trading hours day, and everyone is open at the same time.
I challenge your assertion that people will stick to natural rhythms. Some workplaces offer flexible working hours as part of their package and nearly all people adjust themselves according to their own needs. What I see in my own workplace is that very few people show up at the pre-flex time of 9am. The vast majority of people opted to come in between 7-8 and some departments which need to provide coverage have then asked people to stay behind. That's the thing business activities prevent companies from just doing what they want. They need to sync with each other.
The only people who are open for even longer end up being restaurants which win with the additional length of patronage, especially if they have beer gardens and outdoor areas.
Passing curtail working hours laws don't work because they don't reflect the reality of different businesses. It is much easier to move the sunlight an hour later than expected. And I hear no good reason for noon to align with high sun point, especially since it doesn't do so in many countries around the world anyway (where I live the sun is at its max at 12:50 in winter, and 13:50 in summer)
There are plenty of ways to do this for yourself that can be found for a simple Google search.
Why would you google search? There's plenty of ways you can find this solution by yourself. Just ask around for people until you get a somewhat relevant web address and then follow all links you can until you find your comment.
Ok facetiousness aside, there's a very good reason not to do a lot of this management yourself. It has nothing to do with critical thinking and everything to do with data. Do you single-handedly look at all data coming in and out to determine if it is a virus in the systems you admin? Or do you use a 3rd party company with lots of experience and data to do it? Do you drive around the city taking note of the traffic as it builds up and then stop to calculate your own optimal route, or do you use Google Maps or Waze, or someone else with loads of data about traffic to help you get to your destination? Do you look up a copy of Grey's Anatomy every time you get stabbed and perform surgery on yourself, or do you defer it to an expert, preferably one who has the experience to deal with it?
Likewise just because you can do a Google search, and because you're an expert system admin doesn't mean you don't already outsource a lot of your work too. Or do you not subscribe to spam lists either?
The idea that people should filter their own internet just because *you* have a spare computer, and way too much time on your hands is absolutely absurd. Instead what you should be proposing is to manage the lists for other people, not because they are idiots, but because they value their own time.
a) they did,
b) a bill doesn't automatically mean someone needs insurance.
Speaking of I think I need to take out hunger insurance in case I need to go buy some lunch.
functionality
If by functionality you mean spitting out garbled text, making people swear and forcing them to open wordpad then yes, yes it's functionality has been the same for 20 years :)
Welcome to 2005 or thereabouts, we hope you enjoy your stay.
Oh? A mainstream OS nested its apps in tabs in 2005? Sounds interesting.
Why are the tabs at the TOP of the window in the title bar? That's a HORRIBLE design.
Because it is the most sensible place give that the application runs inside the tab. If you put it underneath it would make users think that the tab is part of the application, and THAT would be horrible design.
Go have a look again at how this works then you'll see it makes perfect sense to put it there. The way it works may not make sense, but at least the location of the tabs do.
Every other file manager has it.
... disabled by default. It would be a horrible idea to do this automatically. You would need to index all files in each folder. This takes an incredible amount of time, not only on Windows, but on Linux, Unix, Mac etc.
There's no sane file manager that shows you folder sizes automatically. And with the file manager I use I try not to hover my mouse on folders for too long, the thrashing of the HDD can't be doing it any good.
Given how most of the complaints about daylight savings are about the clock switching and that they are adopting it, what makes this decision flawed? Your arbitrary idea that noon should be the time when the sun is highest? Guess what, no one cares about that. Hell in my country the closest the sun at its highest point is to noon is winter solstice, and then it's just shy of 1pm. In summer it's 2pm, and no one gives a crap.
People however do give a crap that they can walk in the park and enjoy sunlight at 6pm after work.
As for your complaint about traditional daily routine being rigid, yes that's kind of the point. Time exists because of routine. There needed to be a way to synchronise activities between humans in order for a society to properly function. Did that surprise you? No Time does not exist so someone can figure out 12pm is the high point of the sun. That's just arbitrary. What's not arbitrary is the restrictions most people have on their worktime, or how much they enjoy sunlight, or vitamin D deficiencies further north because of the stupidity of winter time.