More importantly, from the T&Cs We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether. Why would you entrust your data to a service that could disappear? Google has form on this.
They fail to recognize the fact that there are constantly new sources of these elements being discovered and there are good substitutions for all of them.
Oh goodness. I'm sure they didn't think of that at all.
No, but when you either get a padlock or "Not Secure" (Chrome), it still gives a misleading impression. Most people are not computer savvy and do not understand (or know) there is a difference between secure and safe.
Another gmail early adopter here. Unfortunately I share the same spelling as a few better known folk and occasionally get mail for them. I usually reply that this is not the x.y you are looking for.
I did once get a mis-directed Amazon gift voucher but had no way of tracking back to the sender and Amazon ignored me. It sat in my inbox for a year before I spent it.
Yup. Me too with an official Apple USB keyboard. And don't get me started on the rubbish Apple mouse that you have to clean every day or scrolling stops working. I really don't know how Apple maintains any sort of good reputation.
Luckily for all of us most hotel rooms are empty or don't hold much of worth
My partner went to a conference and three people had laptops stolen from their rooms without forced entry while they were in the bar. Hoteliers just shrugged.
Ever notice how all that stuff focuses on management techniques and none of them focus your engineering talent or processes? You know, the stuff where the actual work is getting done? If your engineering teams are really broken, it doesn't matter how well you manage them.
Ever come across the "There are no bad teams, only bad leaders" piece of management BS?
I read this as res-killing, i.e. killing a player in a multiplayer game right after they resurrect following a previous death. So yeah, not a useful alternative for retraining.
Our new robot-run factory employs just one human and a dog.
What does the human do?
He feeds the dog.
What is the dog for?
To stop the human interfering with the robots.
The Chinese don't even have binding CO2 targets. The government of China are always getting special treatment because they pretend China is still a developing country. To hell with those "Climate Deals" that always leave China of the hook and always give them special treatment. As if their slave labour practices and their 25% tax on imports to mainland China doesn't give them enough unfair advantage.
I am 60+ and have been gainfully employed as a hardware and software dev since the 80's. Due to a recent merger in my company I am now "redundant". I am just starting to look for a new position but it is scary. I have lots of experience in many languages and OSs and am a perpetual learner. I am current doing node.js and react work. But I'm afraid once a prospective employer gets a look at my gray beard they will reject me out of hand. I don't want to be a PHB, I just love to code and do it everyday for pay or not.
I was forced to change jobs recently aged 58. Luckily the UK has age discrimination laws so I didn't put my age on my CV and I edited it down to the last three jobs. Nobody check further back than that anyway. So I'm still coding.
Good news, you don't have to use Gnome. A cool thing about Linux is that you can install a whole different desktop environment very easily.
I've been using Linux for decades but this attitude always puzzles me. Most folk don't have the skill, time or energy to integrate the applications they want with a different flavour of desktop. In the mainstream, you take the desktop you're offered with the applications which are integrated for that distro. FWIW, I switched to Mint to avoid Unity.
This is not new. It is already illegal in the UK to download terrorist material. The proposal is to close the loop-hole that streaming is not covered in the definition of downloading.
The Macintosh was always sold on its superior usability. In the early days, it lived up to that promise. Today, the Macintosh sacrifices actual usability for an illusion of usability; this charade is sustained on Apple's side by hype and glitz, and on their users' side by ignorance and blindness. I can not tell you how sad this makes me.
I've come a bit late to the party having been a happy Windows and Linux user now forced to use Apple kit at work for the first time. It really does seem to be a world of hype where things go wrong just as much as with cheaper equipment.
I was speaking to someone from a tour company that organises special interest escorted tours all around the world. He said they have stopped running tours to the US because they've had so many bad experiences with border protection. If one person out of a group gets held for a couple of hours, they're not only traumatised but the whole tour gets off on a wrong foot.
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More importantly, from the T&Cs We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether. Why would you entrust your data to a service that could disappear? Google has form on this.
> If you use a Mac, you probably are right; keyboard accessibility on Macs is atrocious.
Interesting. Once I turned on Full Keyboard Access, I found the Mac to be fairly usable by keyboard.
Just out of curiosity, what are you comparing it to when you say it's "atrocious"?
I've been using a Mac for over two years and was annoyed that there are controls you can't tab to. Now I find out that is turned off by default.
I'm currently reading Rendezvous with Rama so it definitely must be aliens.
They fail to recognize the fact that there are constantly new sources of these elements being discovered and there are good substitutions for all of them.
Oh goodness. I'm sure they didn't think of that at all.
No one ever told me to look at the padlock
No, but when you either get a padlock or "Not Secure" (Chrome), it still gives a misleading impression. Most people are not computer savvy and do not understand (or know) there is a difference between secure and safe.
Another gmail early adopter here. Unfortunately I share the same spelling as a few better known folk and occasionally get mail for them. I usually reply that this is not the x.y you are looking for. I did once get a mis-directed Amazon gift voucher but had no way of tracking back to the sender and Amazon ignored me. It sat in my inbox for a year before I spent it.
This is an EU thing, not a GB thing. Greenwich won't be affected.
Except that Northern Ireland is on GB time GMT/BST and presumably the Republic of Ireland would be stuck on BST.
Have you never witnessed the "sorry, that's my laptop" mixup at airport security? A little personalisation can help.
My British company was being sucked dry by US bean-counters. Last straw was closing the UK offices and making us all work from home.
There are products like Mimecast's URL Protect that validate links and train users on link safety.
Guns, Germs, and Steel should be a set book in every high school.
Yup. Me too with an official Apple USB keyboard. And don't get me started on the rubbish Apple mouse that you have to clean every day or scrolling stops working. I really don't know how Apple maintains any sort of good reputation.
Luckily for all of us most hotel rooms are empty or don't hold much of worth
My partner went to a conference and three people had laptops stolen from their rooms without forced entry while they were in the bar. Hoteliers just shrugged.
Ever notice how all that stuff focuses on management techniques and none of them focus your engineering talent or processes? You know, the stuff where the actual work is getting done? If your engineering teams are really broken, it doesn't matter how well you manage them.
Ever come across the "There are no bad teams, only bad leaders" piece of management BS?
X% said they would delete. One day, maybe, if they get around to it, if they have the time. What % have deleted?
I read this as res-killing, i.e. killing a player in a multiplayer game right after they resurrect following a previous death. So yeah, not a useful alternative for retraining.
I think that used to be known as camping.
Our new robot-run factory employs just one human and a dog.
What does the human do?
He feeds the dog.
What is the dog for?
To stop the human interfering with the robots.
The Chinese don't even have binding CO2 targets. The government of China are always getting special treatment because they pretend China is still a developing country. To hell with those "Climate Deals" that always leave China of the hook and always give them special treatment. As if their slave labour practices and their 25% tax on imports to mainland China doesn't give them enough unfair advantage.
Whatever your opinion of China's treatment of workers, they are cutting emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/en... http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/0...
I am 60+ and have been gainfully employed as a hardware and software dev since the 80's. Due to a recent merger in my company I am now "redundant". I am just starting to look for a new position but it is scary. I have lots of experience in many languages and OSs and am a perpetual learner. I am current doing node.js and react work. But I'm afraid once a prospective employer gets a look at my gray beard they will reject me out of hand. I don't want to be a PHB, I just love to code and do it everyday for pay or not.
I was forced to change jobs recently aged 58. Luckily the UK has age discrimination laws so I didn't put my age on my CV and I edited it down to the last three jobs. Nobody check further back than that anyway. So I'm still coding.
Good news, you don't have to use Gnome. A cool thing about Linux is that you can install a whole different desktop environment very easily.
I've been using Linux for decades but this attitude always puzzles me. Most folk don't have the skill, time or energy to integrate the applications they want with a different flavour of desktop. In the mainstream, you take the desktop you're offered with the applications which are integrated for that distro. FWIW, I switched to Mint to avoid Unity.
This is not new. It is already illegal in the UK to download terrorist material. The proposal is to close the loop-hole that streaming is not covered in the definition of downloading.
What if the programmers tricked them into convincing themselves that they're not living in a simulation?
Sorry, but being of Scottish descent I can tell you there was always a wee jug of water on the bar to add a splash to your dram.
The Macintosh was always sold on its superior usability. In the early days, it lived up to that promise. Today, the Macintosh sacrifices actual usability for an illusion of usability; this charade is sustained on Apple's side by hype and glitz, and on their users' side by ignorance and blindness. I can not tell you how sad this makes me.
I've come a bit late to the party having been a happy Windows and Linux user now forced to use Apple kit at work for the first time. It really does seem to be a world of hype where things go wrong just as much as with cheaper equipment.
I was speaking to someone from a tour company that organises special interest escorted tours all around the world. He said they have stopped running tours to the US because they've had so many bad experiences with border protection. If one person out of a group gets held for a couple of hours, they're not only traumatised but the whole tour gets off on a wrong foot.