More people with degrees doesn't make a degree more valuable, but less.
Depends on how you look at it.
If 10% of people were getting a degree, then having a degree would probably be a good indicator of intelligence and enough to get you straight into a good job. The other 90% would then compete with each other on things like experience.
If 90% of people are getting a degree, then that alone demonstrates little and they're all competing on things like experience. The other 10%, though, could easily just be written off.
I'm British and have had roughly the same experiences. I left school over 20 years ago, and went straight from A levels to work (starting as a trainee programmer/IT support/general computer dogsbody), and I'm now a senior architect at a major bank, so I've certainly not noticed any great difficulty in getting on without a degree.
What I do know is that in 1991 there was a recession and I lost my job, at roughly the same point that most of my friends were graduating. I was out of work for 2 weeks and with 3 years experience behind me, walked straight into another job (advertised as 'requires a degree'). Several of my friends with degrees were out of work, or doing low paid non-IT jobs, for many months.
Of course, the recruitment world may have changed now (there's far more young people with degrees in the UK now than there were 20 years ago), but if you're prepared to start at the bottom, then I suspect there's still a route in for the degree-challenged worker.
So if I get this right, 0.0.0.0 is a valid ip address?
If you mean "Is it an address that you can send IP traffic to?", then the answer is no. If you mean "Is it a valid value that can end up in an IP address field (e.g., in the response to the ipconfig command)?" then the answer is yes - it means that you've not got a connection.
And even 100GB can be quite daunting to back up for a home users at the "this should only be unavailable for more than a few minutes in the event of a very extended power outage or the house catching fire" level.
Few individuals, I suspect, have 100GB of data that they can't survive without for a few minutes when their house is on fire. Plenty will have 100GB of "I really need this data back at some point in the next few weeks" type stuff (photos, music etc).
I've got several 10s of GB of photos (it was around 40 last time I checked, but I've taken a fair few since then) in that category, and for that I use Carbonite (pretty cheap, very easy to run). There's a few other services available like that, and if your data really is precious it's certainly worth the money.
I believe TFA was about accelerating aging of wine and not about making cheap wine taste good.
Did you RTFA?
Mr Jones, 53, said: "This machine can take your run-of-the-mill £3.99 bottle of plonk and turn it into a finest bottle of vintage tasting like it costs hundreds
Well, given the theory in the article, I'd guess that the required circumstances were that the people killing and eating infected chimps were tending not to have too much sexual contact with most of the rest of the world.
You can bang someone else without a condom all you like, but if neither of you have got AIDS it's not going to magically appear.
70GB shouldn't be a huge issue. I've got over 50GB of photos (ones I've taken) backed up using Carbonite. It took a few weeks to drip feed the initial library out there, but any new photos tend to be backed up within the day.
It may take a fair amount of time to get them back if the house burned down (I've got a local backup on the wife's PC for less serious data loss), but it's far better than losing them all permanently.
I suppose a fireproof safe may be an option, but it doesn't look like they come particularly cheap and I'd have to remember to do the backups - something I'm not great at.
Presumably you also need a couple of separate USB drives so that you've got one in the safe in case the house burns down while the backup is running?
It's PR combined with a mainstream media that hasn't the first clue about technology and is easily wowed by a phone that looks all shiny, ignoring all the problems like the fact that it's locked down, lacking MMS or video, almost impossible to type on without looking at it, lacking 3G (in its first incarnation that still got just about every news reporter in the UK drooling over it) etc etc.
Don't get me wrong - there IS a niche for the iPhone, and for that niche it's a lovely piece of kit, but it hardly blew the smartphone the Smartphone market apart, certainly in the UK, and certainly not in the way that the N95 seems to have done despite little mainstream media coverage (I would guess that around 75% of the people I know with a personal smartphone own an N95, with the rest split between Windows phones and the occasional iPhone or Blackberry).
Because he is getting an email address for a kid that can read (thus the reason to have an email) and thus doesn't want to explain why a penis needs enlarging.
Not much more difficult than explaining why breast enlargements are needed (which kids will hear about from TV, "news" papers and celeb mags.
There is a third option somewhere between the two - even if it's not actually been done before, it's a clearly obvious extension of something that been (storing graphical metadata rather than just text metadata).
Assuming that you agree with the idea of patents at all, there is possibly a place for software patents (there's plenty on here who will call foul when a company "steals" an idea that a small developer has just brought to the market) but if there is it needs to be for something a little more original than this.
"Unlike other computers that require you to spend hours configuring devices, a Mac connects to your digital camera, wireless device, or external drive and just works. Really."
Also, just for fun, I googled my real name (which is not especially common) and I found three other prople who share the same name in the top 5 hits.
The amount of times I appear in the top 10 seems to vary wildly. A couple of months ago, my.com and my.org site appeared as the top 2 items with around 4 other references to me in the top 10.
Now, only one of the top 10 is me and the rest are far more interesting versions of myself (including a cool looking video artist).
Speak for yourself. In the Amiga days, I had copies of virtually every single Amiga game released in the UK (and many that weren't). I used these specifically as fully playable demos, and if I found myself playing for more than a couple of hours, I would buy it - and I bought loads, as the boxes full of games in my loft show.
Similarly, I've found myself doing the same with DS games (although I buy a lot less, as I've found a lot less worth buying, but then I don't keep playing the copied ones either).
There have been many games that I have bought this route, that I would never have bought if I hadn't had chance to play them beforehand. If anyone can tell me who I'm stealing from in this world, I'd be fascinated to know who (well, maybe the occasional writer of a rubbish game that I might have bought if I'd not had the chance to find that it's rubbish first).
I've tried using one in the past when the tackpad was knackered on a previous laptop. It drove me mad. If I'm using the keyboard, I can usually find a keyboard shortcut that will do the trick.
TBH, I don't particularly like the trackpad either - I almost always have a portable mouse with me if I'm going to be using the laptop for any length of time.
In some city centres surrounded by skyscrapers, possibly. My N95 can usually locate me to exactly the right street even in the centre of Nottingham. I don't often find the need to use it (I've got dedicated ones for on my motorbike and for hiking) but whenever I have wanted to use it, it's always been pretty accurate.
I've got a high end laptop that I use for development (with large amounts of background apps running on it), for photo/video editing and occasionally for playing power hungry games.
I also sometimes want to be able to sit in the garden for a few hours and do nothing more than surf the web. As I've already got a laptop, wanting to be able to just turn the power down to get better battery life seems a more sensible option than going out and buying a separate less powerful one.
Now, there may well be perfectly sensible technical reasons why this isn't possible but that doesn't mean that wanting to be able run a laptop at less that its full capability is in anyway silly.
1.) Explain why their pda will no longer sync with their calendar, mail client, or transfer files
It won't sync on my MAC or On Vista.... but seems to work fine with Linux?
I wouldn't recommend a Mac or Vista to any non-techies who are likely to have a wide collection of devices that they need to sync with their computer.
I bet your PDA works fine with XP.
3.) Explain why they can't use that one application they NEED for work that only runs on windows.
Try explaining why they can't run the app they need that only works on a Mac or Only on an AS/400 etc...
I suspect that the average user has far more desire to run some Windows-only app than an AS/400-only one. WINE is a pretty effective option much of the time though.
5.) Explain why [latest high end hardware] doesn't work in linux at all.
It does not work on Vista/Mac etc either...?
See point 1.
6.) Explain why their cheap no name printer doesn't work with linux out of the box.
And it works on Windows? Probably not....?
On XP? I'd be amazed if it didn't.
I have recommended Macs and Linux boxes to some non-techies, depending on what they want to use it for (the wife loves the EEE PC for being able to write documents on the move), but we've got to be honest and accept that there's some situations where anything other than XP is likely to result in a very frustrated user.
You jest, no? It's the worst pointing device in the world and achieves nothing but getting in the way of the surrounding keys. Thankfully they can be removed. Each to their own, I guess.
Berkett then turned on the BBC and their iPlayer service, telling them - and other public broadcasters like them - that if they don't pay a premium to gain faster access to Virgin Media's customers, their service would be put into "bus lanes".
Assuming he means "slow lane", this seems an odd decision to take. "Join Virgin Media and get iPlayer running slower than anywhere else". Can't imagine many ISPs holding on to too many of their customers when it's explained that their favourite services will be crippled because the suppliers wouldn't bribe the ISP.
But can someone tell me what exactly is so terrible about the Gimp interface?
Don't know if it's changed recently, but the #1 thing that I hated about it was that each separate toolbar (or whatever they called them) was a totally independent window. Tab to another application, and you can't just click on the "Gimp" window to bring the whole thing to the front - you've got to click on every single window separately.
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There's a big difference between suppliers not answering a call from a client, and someone not always picking up the phone because a co-worker is phoning.
Personally, one of the most ignorant things I see is people who are in the middle of a conversation with you and just stop (often mid-sentence) to answer the phone, regardless of who's calling. I will very occasionaly do this, but only if it's likely to be an important call, or someone I've been trying to get hold of all day, and will always apologise to the person I'm currently talking to.
Learning to treat the phone as a tool, not your master, is one of the most important time management skills I've ever learned.
Having a manuscript that can be interpreted many different contradictory ways does not disprove a religion based upon it.
It may not disprove the religion, but it does disprove the claim that the manuscript is the true word of god, and therefore any arguments based on the statement "because it says so in our holy book", as most religious arguments seem to be, are irrelevant.
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You probably should have sued the golf club manufacturers for not having a restraining strap and a warning not to let it hit people in the face...
Depends on how you look at it.
If 10% of people were getting a degree, then having a degree would probably be a good indicator of intelligence and enough to get you straight into a good job. The other 90% would then compete with each other on things like experience.
If 90% of people are getting a degree, then that alone demonstrates little and they're all competing on things like experience. The other 10%, though, could easily just be written off.
I'm British and have had roughly the same experiences. I left school over 20 years ago, and went straight from A levels to work (starting as a trainee programmer/IT support/general computer dogsbody), and I'm now a senior architect at a major bank, so I've certainly not noticed any great difficulty in getting on without a degree.
What I do know is that in 1991 there was a recession and I lost my job, at roughly the same point that most of my friends were graduating. I was out of work for 2 weeks and with 3 years experience behind me, walked straight into another job (advertised as 'requires a degree'). Several of my friends with degrees were out of work, or doing low paid non-IT jobs, for many months.
Of course, the recruitment world may have changed now (there's far more young people with degrees in the UK now than there were 20 years ago), but if you're prepared to start at the bottom, then I suspect there's still a route in for the degree-challenged worker.
If you mean "Is it an address that you can send IP traffic to?", then the answer is no. If you mean "Is it a valid value that can end up in an IP address field (e.g., in the response to the ipconfig command)?" then the answer is yes - it means that you've not got a connection.
Created in 1997, a year before the DMCA.
Few individuals, I suspect, have 100GB of data that they can't survive without for a few minutes when their house is on fire. Plenty will have 100GB of "I really need this data back at some point in the next few weeks" type stuff (photos, music etc).
I've got several 10s of GB of photos (it was around 40 last time I checked, but I've taken a fair few since then) in that category, and for that I use Carbonite (pretty cheap, very easy to run). There's a few other services available like that, and if your data really is precious it's certainly worth the money.
Did you RTFA?
Mr Jones, 53, said: "This machine can take your run-of-the-mill £3.99 bottle of plonk and turn it into a finest bottle of vintage tasting like it costs hundreds
Well, given the theory in the article, I'd guess that the required circumstances were that the people killing and eating infected chimps were tending not to have too much sexual contact with most of the rest of the world.
You can bang someone else without a condom all you like, but if neither of you have got AIDS it's not going to magically appear.
70GB shouldn't be a huge issue. I've got over 50GB of photos (ones I've taken) backed up using Carbonite. It took a few weeks to drip feed the initial library out there, but any new photos tend to be backed up within the day.
It may take a fair amount of time to get them back if the house burned down (I've got a local backup on the wife's PC for less serious data loss), but it's far better than losing them all permanently.
I suppose a fireproof safe may be an option, but it doesn't look like they come particularly cheap and I'd have to remember to do the backups - something I'm not great at.
Presumably you also need a couple of separate USB drives so that you've got one in the safe in case the house burns down while the backup is running?
It's PR combined with a mainstream media that hasn't the first clue about technology and is easily wowed by a phone that looks all shiny, ignoring all the problems like the fact that it's locked down, lacking MMS or video, almost impossible to type on without looking at it, lacking 3G (in its first incarnation that still got just about every news reporter in the UK drooling over it) etc etc.
Don't get me wrong - there IS a niche for the iPhone, and for that niche it's a lovely piece of kit, but it hardly blew the smartphone the Smartphone market apart, certainly in the UK, and certainly not in the way that the N95 seems to have done despite little mainstream media coverage (I would guess that around 75% of the people I know with a personal smartphone own an N95, with the rest split between Windows phones and the occasional iPhone or Blackberry).
Not much more difficult than explaining why breast enlargements are needed (which kids will hear about from TV, "news" papers and celeb mags.
There is a third option somewhere between the two - even if it's not actually been done before, it's a clearly obvious extension of something that been (storing graphical metadata rather than just text metadata).
Assuming that you agree with the idea of patents at all, there is possibly a place for software patents (there's plenty on here who will call foul when a company "steals" an idea that a small developer has just brought to the market) but if there is it needs to be for something a little more original than this.
Why you'll love a Mac
"Unlike other computers that require you to spend hours configuring devices, a Mac connects to your digital camera, wireless device, or external drive and just works. Really."
The amount of times I appear in the top 10 seems to vary wildly. A couple of months ago, my .com and my .org site appeared as the top 2 items with around 4 other references to me in the top 10.
Now, only one of the top 10 is me and the rest are far more interesting versions of myself (including a cool looking video artist).
Speak for yourself. In the Amiga days, I had copies of virtually every single Amiga game released in the UK (and many that weren't). I used these specifically as fully playable demos, and if I found myself playing for more than a couple of hours, I would buy it - and I bought loads, as the boxes full of games in my loft show.
Similarly, I've found myself doing the same with DS games (although I buy a lot less, as I've found a lot less worth buying, but then I don't keep playing the copied ones either).
There have been many games that I have bought this route, that I would never have bought if I hadn't had chance to play them beforehand. If anyone can tell me who I'm stealing from in this world, I'd be fascinated to know who (well, maybe the occasional writer of a rubbish game that I might have bought if I'd not had the chance to find that it's rubbish first).
I've tried using one in the past when the tackpad was knackered on a previous laptop. It drove me mad. If I'm using the keyboard, I can usually find a keyboard shortcut that will do the trick.
TBH, I don't particularly like the trackpad either - I almost always have a portable mouse with me if I'm going to be using the laptop for any length of time.
In some city centres surrounded by skyscrapers, possibly. My N95 can usually locate me to exactly the right street even in the centre of Nottingham. I don't often find the need to use it (I've got dedicated ones for on my motorbike and for hiking) but whenever I have wanted to use it, it's always been pretty accurate.
I've got a high end laptop that I use for development (with large amounts of background apps running on it), for photo/video editing and occasionally for playing power hungry games.
I also sometimes want to be able to sit in the garden for a few hours and do nothing more than surf the web. As I've already got a laptop, wanting to be able to just turn the power down to get better battery life seems a more sensible option than going out and buying a separate less powerful one.
Now, there may well be perfectly sensible technical reasons why this isn't possible but that doesn't mean that wanting to be able run a laptop at less that its full capability is in anyway silly.
I agree with some of your points, but...
.... but seems to work fine with Linux?
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1.) Explain why their pda will no longer sync with their calendar, mail client, or transfer files
It won't sync on my MAC or On Vista
I wouldn't recommend a Mac or Vista to any non-techies who are likely to have a wide collection of devices that they need to sync with their computer.
I bet your PDA works fine with XP.
3.) Explain why they can't use that one application they NEED for work that only runs on windows.
Try explaining why they can't run the app they need that only works on a Mac or Only on an AS/400 etc
I suspect that the average user has far more desire to run some Windows-only app than an AS/400-only one. WINE is a pretty effective option much of the time though.
5.) Explain why [latest high end hardware] doesn't work in linux at all.
It does not work on Vista/Mac etc either
See point 1.
6.) Explain why their cheap no name printer doesn't work with linux out of the box.
And it works on Windows? Probably not
On XP? I'd be amazed if it didn't.
I have recommended Macs and Linux boxes to some non-techies, depending on what they want to use it for (the wife loves the EEE PC for being able to write documents on the move), but we've got to be honest and accept that there's some situations where anything other than XP is likely to result in a very frustrated user.
You jest, no? It's the worst pointing device in the world and achieves nothing but getting in the way of the surrounding keys. Thankfully they can be removed. Each to their own, I guess.
Assuming he means "slow lane", this seems an odd decision to take. "Join Virgin Media and get iPlayer running slower than anywhere else". Can't imagine many ISPs holding on to too many of their customers when it's explained that their favourite services will be crippled because the suppliers wouldn't bribe the ISP.
There's been plenty of research into tactile touchscreens already (Nokia seem to think they're on to something ). I'm sure there will be more within the next 7 years.
There's a big difference between suppliers not answering a call from a client, and someone not always picking up the phone because a co-worker is phoning.
Personally, one of the most ignorant things I see is people who are in the middle of a conversation with you and just stop (often mid-sentence) to answer the phone, regardless of who's calling. I will very occasionaly do this, but only if it's likely to be an important call, or someone I've been trying to get hold of all day, and will always apologise to the person I'm currently talking to.
Learning to treat the phone as a tool, not your master, is one of the most important time management skills I've ever learned.