The end-user is rarely schooled in ANYTHING IT-related. Keyboards are an obstacle. Mice are an obstacle. Add bureaucracy to this and you have very frustrated users who are not going to take kindly to passwords or any other additional obstacle.
Last time I saw a doctor he was forced to "code" the X-Ray I was about to get in one of about fifty different codes made necessary by the accounting system. He couldn't see the extended explanations on the page because the data elements had been squished together. Obviously an SQL database. I helped him along.
"First you need to expand that window to fill the entire screen." "How do I do that?" "You see that empty square at the top right? Click that." (Screen expands. Data is still hidden.) "OK. Now take your mouse and grab that very tiny vertical bar separating those two fields and drag it to the right." (Fumbles around.) "No. Move the mouse until that vertical bar doubles. Now press the left mouse button and drag to the right." "My God. Now you can see the whole thing!" "Uh huh."
All the time he was complaining about the bean counters. Finally, he just chose a code at random. I got my X-Ray, then an MRI. Torn meniscus. Still hurts.
Argue away, but the fact is Slashdot warned me in time. I thought I had put Win X to bed a long time ago, but up it pops again. I killed it again, thanks to Slashdot. Don't know how long it will stay dead, but at least it is for now.
They launched a communications satellite into orbit. It's not a "waste" of anything. They aren't "exploring space." They are a company that was hired to perform a task for a company and they did it. By doing it the way they did they can reduce the cost of launches by 30%. It's no different than hiring a trucking company to haul produce to market.
The idea that a free universal college education will be the saving grace for displaced minimum wage workers is a pipe dream. I know IQ is a much-maligned concept, BUT many current minimum wage workers could not benefit from a college education even if it were handed to them because they lack the intellectual skill to learn advanced concepts. You are not going to be able to turn your average fry packer into a robotics engineer. Plus a lot of the fry packers already have B.A.s in English with no motivation to do any better. Realistically they are going to languish on welfare doing nothing useful and paying no taxes while being resentful of the 10% of the people who already pay 80% of the taxes.
Basically we need a smaller population of brighter people and the only thing the lower half knows how to do is make babies.
Agreed. It simply accelerates the point at which robot cost and human cost lines intersect. If you artificially raise wages, it will be sooner rather than later, but either way, it will happen.
Not a real issue. Out of state plates are really not the big deal they used to be when WA had one of the highest yearly excise taxes in America and people would try to get away with licensing their stuff in Oregon where fees were lower. Now they are fairly modest--especially compared to California, which taxes the shit out of vehicles. I used to pay $1,000 a year to license my car here. Now it's about $70 or so. So "tax avoidance" is not the issue here. If the vehicles are leased, that would probably explain it.
Bill Nye is as much a climate scientist as Al Gore. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and used to work for Boeing. Yes, he is billed as a "science educator," but he gets his information on "climate change" the same way the rest of us do, from the MSM. Getting your information from Oprah Winfrey or Judge Judy is just as valid.
I don't really care what the unions did in 1920 to "give us weekends" and all the other BS unions claim to have done for "everyone." Most of that stuff is governed by Federal labor laws these days and is out of the hands of unions.
What I care about is what unions are doing TO us today. You have to ask yourself just why Big Labor and Organized Crime are so cozy with one another INCLUDING those huge pension funds made available to great patriots like Jimmy Hoffa. Personally during my working life I have experienced nothing but grief at the hands of unions, which I hate with a passion.
It's not just the ports; it's the wires, which are not thin themselves. They were developed from Telco wires so that anyone could "make up" a connection on the fly in any length you want. The wires are color coded so you can easily get them in the correct order. If you want a "micro" version, then you are passing the point where a normal human can cheaply and easily create these cables and entering into a pre-cut, machine manufactured realm where you lose all that versatility. If you CAN duplicate the RJ-45 you will be replacing $100 worth of tools with $1000 worth of tools. Unless everything goes to fiber optic, it's a bit harder to switch than it looks.
Amen to that. The FOIA has a purpose--to maintain open government. It was not designed to allow the merely curious to indulge their historical fantasies. Replying to this kind of stuff costs money, and guess who pays?
I've seen cases where, for example, an activist decides the local public library's stance on open access to the Internet violates their stance on "decency" because it allows some people to view pornography, so said activist embarked on a campaign to ask the library for EVERY document they had on budget, personnel, policies, emails, etc. It was so bad that the library--not exactly an over-funded and wasteful public agency, had to hire a full time secretary just to respond to the myriad of requests.
Basically it all translated to less materials purchased and fewer service hours open to the public while taking an inordinate amount of the library management's time and resources.
This is just harassment and a misuse of the statute enacted in good faith.
The fact is that in the last 100 years the ONLY time a SCOTUS nominee has been voted down is by Democrats. Not only that, Obama himself participated in a fillibuster of a Bush nominee when he was a Senator. Joe Biden and other Democrats have also been against nominees from Republicans in similar circumstances as the one we find today.
Heard it before. "If you support public libraries, then you must be socialist." Fire departments, too, I suppose--anything paid with tax dollars. Stupid argument then;; stupid argument now.
I'm not thinking that's special. I know some people like black and white film. It's so artistic and all, but the world is in color. Either embrace it or crawl back into your cave.
Bottom line is insurance rates. Teens and 20 somethings are high. Seniors are low, I've been driving for 50 years and have seen everything. You haven't.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. It's English. First known use was 1836 by Charles Dickens. But it still is common in the US. No need to look up the definition.
The end-user is rarely schooled in ANYTHING IT-related. Keyboards are an obstacle. Mice are an obstacle. Add bureaucracy to this and you have very frustrated users who are not going to take kindly to passwords or any other additional obstacle.
Last time I saw a doctor he was forced to "code" the X-Ray I was about to get in one of about fifty different codes made necessary by the accounting system. He couldn't see the extended explanations on the page because the data elements had been squished together. Obviously an SQL database. I helped him along.
"First you need to expand that window to fill the entire screen."
"How do I do that?"
"You see that empty square at the top right? Click that."
(Screen expands. Data is still hidden.)
"OK. Now take your mouse and grab that very tiny vertical bar separating those two fields and drag it to the right."
(Fumbles around.)
"No. Move the mouse until that vertical bar doubles. Now press the left mouse button and drag to the right."
"My God. Now you can see the whole thing!"
"Uh huh."
All the time he was complaining about the bean counters. Finally, he just chose a code at random. I got my X-Ray, then an MRI. Torn meniscus. Still hurts.
Why does the school have her medical data? They should have only the bare minimum absolutely necessary. The rest of it is none of their business.
So what? See my sig.
How many people will actually get this? One of my favorite actors. Really a shame he is gone.
Argue away, but the fact is Slashdot warned me in time. I thought I had put Win X to bed a long time ago, but up it pops again. I killed it again, thanks to Slashdot. Don't know how long it will stay dead, but at least it is for now.
They launched a communications satellite into orbit. It's not a "waste" of anything. They aren't "exploring space." They are a company that was hired to perform a task for a company and they did it. By doing it the way they did they can reduce the cost of launches by 30%. It's no different than hiring a trucking company to haul produce to market.
The idea that a free universal college education will be the saving grace for displaced minimum wage workers is a pipe dream. I know IQ is a much-maligned concept, BUT many current minimum wage workers could not benefit from a college education even if it were handed to them because they lack the intellectual skill to learn advanced concepts. You are not going to be able to turn your average fry packer into a robotics engineer. Plus a lot of the fry packers already have B.A.s in English with no motivation to do any better. Realistically they are going to languish on welfare doing nothing useful and paying no taxes while being resentful of the 10% of the people who already pay 80% of the taxes.
Basically we need a smaller population of brighter people and the only thing the lower half knows how to do is make babies.
Not true. Who builds robots? Other robots. French fry baggers are not competitive at robot building.
Agreed. It simply accelerates the point at which robot cost and human cost lines intersect. If you artificially raise wages, it will be sooner rather than later, but either way, it will happen.
DAS Madchen: IT.
to have sex in a moving vehicle. It's done every day.
Not a real issue. Out of state plates are really not the big deal they used to be when WA had one of the highest yearly excise taxes in America and people would try to get away with licensing their stuff in Oregon where fees were lower. Now they are fairly modest--especially compared to California, which taxes the shit out of vehicles. I used to pay $1,000 a year to license my car here. Now it's about $70 or so. So "tax avoidance" is not the issue here. If the vehicles are leased, that would probably explain it.
Bill Nye is as much a climate scientist as Al Gore. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and used to work for Boeing. Yes, he is billed as a "science educator," but he gets his information on "climate change" the same way the rest of us do, from the MSM. Getting your information from Oprah Winfrey or Judge Judy is just as valid.
I don't really care what the unions did in 1920 to "give us weekends" and all the other BS unions claim to have done for "everyone." Most of that stuff is governed by Federal labor laws these days and is out of the hands of unions.
What I care about is what unions are doing TO us today. You have to ask yourself just why Big Labor and Organized Crime are so cozy with one another INCLUDING those huge pension funds made available to great patriots like Jimmy Hoffa. Personally during my working life I have experienced nothing but grief at the hands of unions, which I hate with a passion.
It's not just the ports; it's the wires, which are not thin themselves. They were developed from Telco wires so that anyone could "make up" a connection on the fly in any length you want. The wires are color coded so you can easily get them in the correct order. If you want a "micro" version, then you are passing the point where a normal human can cheaply and easily create these cables and entering into a pre-cut, machine manufactured realm where you lose all that versatility. If you CAN duplicate the RJ-45 you will be replacing $100 worth of tools with $1000 worth of tools. Unless everything goes to fiber optic, it's a bit harder to switch than it looks.
Amen to that. The FOIA has a purpose--to maintain open government. It was not designed to allow the merely curious to indulge their historical fantasies. Replying to this kind of stuff costs money, and guess who pays?
I've seen cases where, for example, an activist decides the local public library's stance on open access to the Internet violates their stance on "decency" because it allows some people to view pornography, so said activist embarked on a campaign to ask the library for EVERY document they had on budget, personnel, policies, emails, etc. It was so bad that the library--not exactly an over-funded and wasteful public agency, had to hire a full time secretary just to respond to the myriad of requests.
Basically it all translated to less materials purchased and fewer service hours open to the public while taking an inordinate amount of the library management's time and resources.
This is just harassment and a misuse of the statute enacted in good faith.
The fact is that in the last 100 years the ONLY time a SCOTUS nominee has been voted down is by Democrats. Not only that, Obama himself participated in a fillibuster of a Bush nominee when he was a Senator. Joe Biden and other Democrats have also been against nominees from Republicans in similar circumstances as the one we find today.
You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... All Democrats. All the time.
She got a B.A. in English. Enough said.
Heard it before. "If you support public libraries, then you must be socialist." Fire departments, too, I suppose--anything paid with tax dollars. Stupid argument then;; stupid argument now.
In other words, don't change slashdot. OK. Back to ASCII art is cool.
I'm not thinking that's special. I know some people like black and white film. It's so artistic and all, but the world is in color. Either embrace it or crawl back into your cave.
Any particular reason why we couldn't allow uploaded pics, movies, etc.? It's not a text-only world--except here.
Bottom line is insurance rates. Teens and 20 somethings are high. Seniors are low, I've been driving for 50 years and have seen everything. You haven't.
Deal with it.
Oh, yeah!!! Empty nester, baby!