Oh, I dunno about that, they called just the other day to help me with a virus problem. That was pretty nice of them. Unfortunately I run Manjaro, so they couldn't help me. But I appreciated the effort.
Just New York City. In the rest of New York, we have mountains, trees, and air, and we vote conservative, usually Republican (or what they call Crazy Batshiat Ultra-Right Wing Reactionary in the City.) So don't blame this stupidity on us; it's the fault of the crooked political machine in Albany, which we've just begun to start to root out.
Coding is too, but if they double the number of coders, there will be no more "shortage" of those willing to work for "girl" wages. Makes sense when you look at it from the Microsoft viewpoint.
The story I heard was that there was a certain city gate in Jerusalem called the Eye of the Needle, where a person had to stoop down to walk through it. Horses, tough. Camel, NOOO way.
....as a vacuum tube (mostly TWT) engineer since 1968:
I don't remember when they started working on cold cathode tubes, must be about the time they started working on fusion reactors. Both are now going to be ready in "another five years". Meanwhile, satellites in orbit run their tubes for 30,000 hours, limited by the amount of barium and unobtanium that boils out of their cathodes at 1000C. Or, the power supply shits the bed.
Nobody uses little tubes any more, except rock star guitar players (and wannabees) with strong roadies, and audio aficionados with golden ears, deep pockets, and low cranial capacity. A series of articles in Electronic Design magazine some years ago pointed out that the "tube sound" is mostly the loose impedance coupling and high frequency smothering of output transformers, not the tubes themselves.
Just about everybody uses an S band microwave power oscillator tube in their kitchen. They can be replaced with Gallium Nitride transistors, and I'm sure rich hipsters will buy them, but physics and economics is still backing the maggie.
And if you still want 10 KW of average power and 100 KW or a megawatt peak in a device a couple people can lift, a tube is hard to beat.
'Government' is decades behind because it takes that long to make sure something does what you need it to do, and train people to run it and fix it. Then if you find something better, the clock starts again. Unfortunately, you will have to take money from the operations budget on your old stuff to buy the new stuff, and therefore you won't be able to do anything in the meantime. Plus, you need to get the money from Congress, which has a 2 year cycle of having to funnel money into particular districts to get re-elected. And the promotion cycle of O6 officers (Colonel, navy Captain) and they don't want to rock the boat inbetween promotions.
We recently got a flat screen TV to replace our CRT, and we spent Thanksgiving trying to shout conversations over the blare of ads, football games, and drivel on the boob tube (oops, obsolete term).
I think at our Christmas get-together it's going to be "broken".
I actually read the article, and the conclusion was that they would work if the TSA employees were better trained and motivated. The scanners work about as well as they could, given the difficulty of the threat.
There are Linux distros that are a lot easier to install. (Lots that aren't, of course.) Mint, Zorin, Elementary. Half an hour, and you're back to work.
Put an ISO of Linux Mint on a flash drive, and this Thanksgiving, install it on Mom's machine. Set her up with her favourite wallpaper and a decent Solitaire, and TeamView or equivalent (tell her NOT to run it unless you call).
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Oh, I dunno about that, they called just the other day to help me with a virus problem. That was pretty nice of them. Unfortunately I run Manjaro, so they couldn't help me. But I appreciated the effort.
I think the key is simplicity.
Why would it take 4 Beeelion dollars to do that??
There's still the BBC.
Lots of PBS stations put the BBC news hour on.
They're on the internet now.
Just New York City. In the rest of New York, we have mountains, trees, and air, and we vote conservative, usually Republican (or what they call Crazy Batshiat Ultra-Right Wing Reactionary in the City.) So don't blame this stupidity on us; it's the fault of the crooked political machine in Albany, which we've just begun to start to root out.
See if all your software will run on Linux under Wine. That would solve two big problems.
Coding is too, but if they double the number of coders, there will be no more "shortage" of those willing to work for "girl" wages.
Makes sense when you look at it from the Microsoft viewpoint.
...unless there are still people learning plumbing instead of coding.
Landau Calrissian?
It is unfair to have a war of wits with an unarmed man.
Oscar Wilde, I think
You probably meant to say Parisians.
Or maybe you didn't, I dunno.
The story I heard was that there was a certain city gate in Jerusalem called the Eye of the Needle, where a person had to stoop down to walk through it. Horses, tough. Camel, NOOO way.
....as a vacuum tube (mostly TWT) engineer since 1968:
I don't remember when they started working on cold cathode tubes, must be about the time they started working on fusion reactors. Both are now going to be ready in "another five years". Meanwhile, satellites in orbit run their tubes for 30,000 hours, limited by the amount of barium and unobtanium that boils out of their cathodes at 1000C. Or, the power supply shits the bed.
Nobody uses little tubes any more, except rock star guitar players (and wannabees) with strong roadies, and audio aficionados with golden ears, deep pockets, and low cranial capacity. A series of articles in Electronic Design magazine some years ago pointed out that the "tube sound" is mostly the loose impedance coupling and high frequency smothering of output transformers, not the tubes themselves.
Just about everybody uses an S band microwave power oscillator tube in their kitchen. They can be replaced with Gallium Nitride transistors, and I'm sure rich hipsters will buy them, but physics and economics is still backing the maggie.
And if you still want 10 KW of average power and 100 KW or a megawatt peak in a device a couple people can lift, a tube is hard to beat.
You're talking about people who don't own a screwdriver.
No, that's not the reason.
'Government' is decades behind because it takes that long to make sure something does what you need it to do, and train people to run it and fix it. Then if you find something better, the clock starts again. Unfortunately, you will have to take money from the operations budget on your old stuff to buy the new stuff, and therefore you won't be able to do anything in the meantime. Plus, you need to get the money from Congress, which has a 2 year cycle of having to funnel money into particular districts to get re-elected. And the promotion cycle of O6 officers (Colonel, navy Captain) and they don't want to rock the boat inbetween promotions.
So, nothing gets upgraded.
My upgrade cycle is 20 years.
Unless the shows improve.....
Do they still have books?
Problem solved.
We recently got a flat screen TV to replace our CRT, and we spent Thanksgiving trying to shout conversations over the blare of ads, football games, and drivel on the boob tube (oops, obsolete term).
I think at our Christmas get-together it's going to be "broken".
Again, it's all about the fine distinctions. Contraception is evil; family planning is essential.
And no, you don't get the difference, so you have a lot of rreading and thinking to do. Start with the Humanae Vitae encyclical.
I actually read the article, and the conclusion was that they would work if the TSA employees were better trained and motivated. The scanners work about as well as they could, given the difficulty of the threat.
There are Linux distros that are a lot easier to install. (Lots that aren't, of course.) Mint, Zorin, Elementary. Half an hour, and you're back to work.
And all it took was giving it away, expensive hype and advertising, and constant nagging and shoving it down people's throats.
Put an ISO of Linux Mint on a flash drive, and this Thanksgiving, install it on Mom's machine. Set her up with her favourite wallpaper and a decent Solitaire, and TeamView or equivalent (tell her NOT to run it unless you call).
End of problem.
Maybe you should read it before taking things out of context. And not the King James version, please.