Eh, a paper mill I applied to work at, while waiting to begin my retraining (yay Trade Acts for requiring you to either be looking for work or actively being educated) actually had us do a battery of paper based IQ tests which, based on the graphics, were a relic from the 60s and 70s. Needless to say, I didn't get the job (WHEW!), and the paper mill eventually closed.
One thing I've noticed lately seeking employment related to my degree is this inane requirement to have a boatload of experience in order to qualify for a entry level/junior job: Randomly
5+ years of IT experience 5 years of experience with some high end networking device no college or university is going to let a grubby student get close to 5 years of handling network device's management software 10 years of experience with Windows Server 2016, supporting 100+ users If you meet at least half of the requirements, talk to us!
I could be wrong, but it's almost as if the company is looking for entry level for them and not actual entry level or junior anything at all.
Oh, the jobs are out there, however, the people (HR/management) are posting job descriptions and requirements expecting top of the line candidates for peanut wages.
This isn't a for profit school though, but a publicly funded college that is behind on the times. My Linux server administration course used Ubuntu 14.04... last year.
Yeah, same thing is happening in the Portland area. Entry level with a lot of required experience. It's almost as if the company wants entry level for the company, not the actual experience level.
I've recently graduated with a degree in Information System, and for some reason, every job I search for keeps asking for significant amount of experience using hardware that I haven't touched, let alone afford to use, or at least have some kind of IT/IS experience. When I had two terms left to go (I was being retrained under the US Trade Acts program), I started looking for internship opportunities, only to find I was running into the same issue: experience with hardware or software that no one without a significant amount of money can reasonably afford.
Another option, I found, that might help open doors is to get some help desk experience, and I'm finding plenty of those. I just can't get any of them because I can't use a phone (I'm deaf, by the way), and offering to take up email and online chat support results in a "Yeah, no.. we need someone to answer phones.".
By the time I was finished with school, my trade acts check ended, and I ended up going back to my previous line of work; manufacturing. I'm now building chip foundry tools that goes to Intel, Samsung, and a host of other microchip manufacturers, and every day I come home, looking for work, I keep running into that inane experience requirements.
I thought internship was supposed to teach and train people to get those experience, so why are they asking for significant experience? Oh right, AS/BS/MS degree, shit wages, if any.
So, how does one like me get past the HR barrier, and actually find work? Even claiming some experience with my homelab isn't enough, because I've not any experience using an expensive Cisco hardware in said homelab.
was for the built in support for the next generation Cochlear Nucleus 7.
It's disappointing that there isn't any love or support for Androids, however, I get that there are just too many variables with all the different models and system versions that comes with Androids.
However, I'm not willing to pay so much money for a phone that Apple claims is only guaranteed for an year, unless I get the extended warranty. Needing to spend $10k (estimated) just to move up to a Nucleus 7 setup and then 600+ for an iPhone, which may only work for an year? I'm not made of money. My insurance company may help with the CI upgrade, but I'm on the hook for the rest.
I know that not all of OS/X is opened sourced beyond Darwin (unless things has changed in the last few years when I last looked).
Surprised no one brought up OS/X so far.
Most of us are grown ups here. Why the hell do we need a note from the doctor saying we were really sick? I thought we left primary school years ago. The few times I had to bring a note, was for the doctor to say I was cleared for work, or if I had work restrictions.
That said, my previous employer had implemented something like this. We got 5 free sick days, and could use PTO, as long as we gave a week advance notice. Other than that, we got credited 1 point for each occurrence (not day. Calling in sick for 2 days in a row for the same thing counted as 1). Show up 5 minutes late, that is a half a point. Leave early? Half a point. Once we got to 10, we're disposed of. To make shit worst, it was on a rolling calendar year; the slate doesn't get cleaned on Jan 1st, as some people found out the hard way.
Who's to blame for thing? IMHO (factually unsupported, btw), both the employees and the employers.
Forgot to mention the crappy subtitle options I have to choose when I go. Regal's big ass glasses tends to not work at the start, requiring me to go to the front desk to get it reset, resulting in me missing out on the start of the movie. Ugg.
Cinemark's Box on a stick is even worst. At least with the Regal glasses, if I'm looking around the screen, the subtitle is still visible. On the plus side, I've never missed out the opening due to the subtitle not working with Cinemark. Then again, I've only used Cinemark's caption system a few times.
At least at home, I can ensure the damn subtitle works when starting up the movie, which is why I'd most likely just wait for the DVD/BR to become available at RedBox. I have no idea if the 30 bucks watch it at home option would include subtitles.
All that plus 30 bucks to see a newly released movie at home? Depending on the number of people watching, it's still cheaper than getting the experience at a theater. The things I'll not miss watching these at home vs going to the theater...
1: Waiting in line to fork over my money for tickets
2: Waiting in line to fork over money for soda and popcorn
3: Waiting in line to take a piss while missing out on the action (due to soda from #2).
Last time we took ourselves and 2 kids, the experience costed us more than 50 bucks. Thanks, Hollywood, I think I'll take the rent it from RedBox when it's out on DVD/BD over the 30 bucks watch it at home, which I'd take over the 50 bucks and the 'holy shit you want how much for a small popcorn!?' theater experience.
"Examples of barriers to access on UC Berkeley YouTube channel content included the following:
1. Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete, making the
content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities."
I had a class recently where the instructor was showing a youtube video that she did not watch all the way through with the subtitles on. During the lecture, she had us all watch the youtube video, only to have to stop the video before it got to the half way mark because it was hilariously inaccurate to the point even she was laughing at the video. I'm told the video has since then had the subtitles fixed.
I typed my rant while downloading, as a matter of fact. My mistake for not mentioning that in my rant. However, I still believe that my rant is valid. Quit relying on system detection algorithm to make my choices for me. I don't need my hands held, and I'm sure a large part of the internet doesn't either. Just give us the options and let us choose.
I've seen games doing things similar to this, relying on some special algorithm to helpfully set up the gaming experience, and often it's not the experience that I want. I don't give a rats ass about having 60 FPS, if I'm not going to get the eye candy that I want. Just give me the damn 40 FPS AND the eye candy, don't start my freaking game so I can get to the options menu, more so when I need to turn the subtitle on. This happened in CoD:Infinite Warefare, and I expect this will continue. I know what my system is capable of, I assembled the damn thing, and I know it's way past time for an overhaul, but damnit, let me make my choice!
I wanted to download the ISO to run on my virtual machine software in Windows. Alas, by default, the website detected I was running a browser in Windows, and got this message:
'We have auto-detected that you are running Windows and have offered that version for download. If we have detected your operating system incorrectly or you would like to download a different version, please click the "View all platform downloads" button below. '
The software it offered me? Fedora Media Writer for Windows, which I assume is some USB writing software to help me make the transition to Fedora. Please, websites, stop treating every visitor as some clueless "need my hands held" visitor who is incapable of downloading and properly installing software. I'm sure the Fedora Media Writer for Windows is a nice enough app, but, seriously, websites, stop being so fucking "helpful" by being helpful, to the point it's almost unhelpful. If you want to help, don't help. Just link me the damn ISO, the link to the Media writer app, and let me fucking chose my poison. I can perfectly install a different OS to my machine just as easily as hosing my machine, without your help.
Too late. We went for a test drive on a 70D model, and I'm already looking at finances on affording a model s. Maybe if I work 2 50-hour a week jobs?
The girls (my wife included) loved the acceleration. I loved the free LTE data, and was considering finding a way to set up a local hotspot for us.
First, they came on tapes, DVDs and BluRays. Didn't matter if we owned or rented them, previews were always there. Sometimes, they couldn't be skipped.
Now, they're coming on our smart TVs. Never mind that we paid a bit of hard earned cash for the damn thing, it's ours. It stopped belonging to the store or the device vendor once the store accepted my money, and watched me struggle to put that monster in the back of my car. Except, now people appears to be meekly willing to take this crap before putting a stop to it. "Well, it's a nice enough TV with all that fancy smancy shit on it, that I can't do without. So, a little ad is fine.. I guess."
Next, they're going to insist on doing the same crap with our phones. "Mom, I'm sorry about Dad, we're on the.. " "We're interrupting your call to bring you a word from our sponsor. Your call will resume momentarily". Just remember, you pansy passive asswipes, that when this shit starts happening, it's because most of you sniveled about not being able to get by without smart TV features.
Seriously, knock this passive crap off, people. If I had a smart TV, and it starts showing ads, it'll be back at the store I purchased it from in a heartbeat.
I gave up my TDD/TTY a few years ago, when I started using my own cell phone to send texts to family and friends, as well as my boss. I thought I had seen the last of the TDD/TTY when I did so, and now I'm interested in seeing how the new RTT works.
MS is going nuts over us disabling all the spying telemetry that 'makes' bing works? Yes, I know I got a free upgrade going from windows 7 to windows 10, and no, I'm not interested into being a part of Microsoft's data collecting experiment. I cannot use bing on either Edge or chrome due to disabling most of the telemetry, and somehow, I suspect I'm not the one losing out on this.
I don't use Cortana, and I'm only using Edge for school related works, because, for some reason, when I login to the school's site using chrome, i'm logged out of gmail, which means I'd have to fire up keepass 2 to get my google password and log back in.
Why bother with the traffic lights on sidewalks? I see 2 ways to resolve this issue.
Google and Apple should be taking the initiative (protect their advertising customers! a dead user isn't any good for our revenue stream!) by making the display go blank when the gyroscope senses walking motion.
Track crossing should come with electrified gates that gets powered when trains are about to cross. Imagine the hilarity of people dropping their 'preciousness' touching these gates!
It sounds like the owner is writing a menu on a daily basis, and may be updating the menu during the course of business. Webcams has crappy resolutions, digital cameras tends to get "lost", more so when more than 1 person is using it. So, why a camera?
My work has one of those digital whiteboards (yes, I know they're more expensive than a webcam), but I imagine it's possible to write once and then pressing a button, a snapshot of what is written on the whiteboard gets uploaded to the proper place?
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Eh, a paper mill I applied to work at, while waiting to begin my retraining (yay Trade Acts for requiring you to either be looking for work or actively being educated) actually had us do a battery of paper based IQ tests which, based on the graphics, were a relic from the 60s and 70s. Needless to say, I didn't get the job (WHEW!), and the paper mill eventually closed.
One thing I've noticed lately seeking employment related to my degree is this inane requirement to have a boatload of experience in order to qualify for a entry level/junior job:
Randomly
5+ years of IT experience
5 years of experience with some high end networking device no college or university is going to let a grubby student get close to
5 years of handling network device's management software
10 years of experience with Windows Server 2016, supporting 100+ users
If you meet at least half of the requirements, talk to us!
I could be wrong, but it's almost as if the company is looking for entry level for them and not actual entry level or junior anything at all.
Oh, the jobs are out there, however, the people (HR/management) are posting job descriptions and requirements expecting top of the line candidates for peanut wages.
This isn't a for profit school though, but a publicly funded college that is behind on the times. My Linux server administration course used Ubuntu 14.04... last year.
Yeah, same thing is happening in the Portland area. Entry level with a lot of required experience. It's almost as if the company wants entry level for the company, not the actual experience level.
I've recently graduated with a degree in Information System, and for some reason, every job I search for keeps asking for significant amount of experience using hardware that I haven't touched, let alone afford to use, or at least have some kind of IT/IS experience. When I had two terms left to go (I was being retrained under the US Trade Acts program), I started looking for internship opportunities, only to find I was running into the same issue: experience with hardware or software that no one without a significant amount of money can reasonably afford. Another option, I found, that might help open doors is to get some help desk experience, and I'm finding plenty of those. I just can't get any of them because I can't use a phone (I'm deaf, by the way), and offering to take up email and online chat support results in a "Yeah, no.. we need someone to answer phones.". By the time I was finished with school, my trade acts check ended, and I ended up going back to my previous line of work; manufacturing. I'm now building chip foundry tools that goes to Intel, Samsung, and a host of other microchip manufacturers, and every day I come home, looking for work, I keep running into that inane experience requirements. I thought internship was supposed to teach and train people to get those experience, so why are they asking for significant experience? Oh right, AS/BS/MS degree, shit wages, if any. So, how does one like me get past the HR barrier, and actually find work? Even claiming some experience with my homelab isn't enough, because I've not any experience using an expensive Cisco hardware in said homelab.
was for the built in support for the next generation Cochlear Nucleus 7. It's disappointing that there isn't any love or support for Androids, however, I get that there are just too many variables with all the different models and system versions that comes with Androids. However, I'm not willing to pay so much money for a phone that Apple claims is only guaranteed for an year, unless I get the extended warranty. Needing to spend $10k (estimated) just to move up to a Nucleus 7 setup and then 600+ for an iPhone, which may only work for an year? I'm not made of money. My insurance company may help with the CI upgrade, but I'm on the hook for the rest.
I know that not all of OS/X is opened sourced beyond Darwin (unless things has changed in the last few years when I last looked). Surprised no one brought up OS/X so far.
Most of us are grown ups here. Why the hell do we need a note from the doctor saying we were really sick? I thought we left primary school years ago. The few times I had to bring a note, was for the doctor to say I was cleared for work, or if I had work restrictions. That said, my previous employer had implemented something like this. We got 5 free sick days, and could use PTO, as long as we gave a week advance notice. Other than that, we got credited 1 point for each occurrence (not day. Calling in sick for 2 days in a row for the same thing counted as 1). Show up 5 minutes late, that is a half a point. Leave early? Half a point. Once we got to 10, we're disposed of. To make shit worst, it was on a rolling calendar year; the slate doesn't get cleaned on Jan 1st, as some people found out the hard way. Who's to blame for thing? IMHO (factually unsupported, btw), both the employees and the employers.
The Big Ass Glasses
Nope. I was even surprised about waiting in line for the men's room that night.
Nipples!? Rewind to confirm. Nope. Moving on. (while ignoring intense glare from wife)
Forgot to mention the crappy subtitle options I have to choose when I go. Regal's big ass glasses tends to not work at the start, requiring me to go to the front desk to get it reset, resulting in me missing out on the start of the movie. Ugg.
Cinemark's Box on a stick is even worst. At least with the Regal glasses, if I'm looking around the screen, the subtitle is still visible. On the plus side, I've never missed out the opening due to the subtitle not working with Cinemark. Then again, I've only used Cinemark's caption system a few times.
At least at home, I can ensure the damn subtitle works when starting up the movie, which is why I'd most likely just wait for the DVD/BR to become available at RedBox. I have no idea if the 30 bucks watch it at home option would include subtitles.
All that plus 30 bucks to see a newly released movie at home? Depending on the number of people watching, it's still cheaper than getting the experience at a theater. The things I'll not miss watching these at home vs going to the theater...
1: Waiting in line to fork over my money for tickets
2: Waiting in line to fork over money for soda and popcorn
3: Waiting in line to take a piss while missing out on the action (due to soda from #2).
Last time we took ourselves and 2 kids, the experience costed us more than 50 bucks. Thanks, Hollywood, I think I'll take the rent it from RedBox when it's out on DVD/BD over the 30 bucks watch it at home, which I'd take over the 50 bucks and the 'holy shit you want how much for a small popcorn!?' theater experience.
"Examples of barriers to access on UC Berkeley YouTube channel content included the following: 1. Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete, making the content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities."
I had a class recently where the instructor was showing a youtube video that she did not watch all the way through with the subtitles on. During the lecture, she had us all watch the youtube video, only to have to stop the video before it got to the half way mark because it was hilariously inaccurate to the point even she was laughing at the video. I'm told the video has since then had the subtitles fixed.
I typed my rant while downloading, as a matter of fact. My mistake for not mentioning that in my rant. However, I still believe that my rant is valid. Quit relying on system detection algorithm to make my choices for me. I don't need my hands held, and I'm sure a large part of the internet doesn't either. Just give us the options and let us choose.
I've seen games doing things similar to this, relying on some special algorithm to helpfully set up the gaming experience, and often it's not the experience that I want. I don't give a rats ass about having 60 FPS, if I'm not going to get the eye candy that I want. Just give me the damn 40 FPS AND the eye candy, don't start my freaking game so I can get to the options menu, more so when I need to turn the subtitle on. This happened in CoD:Infinite Warefare, and I expect this will continue. I know what my system is capable of, I assembled the damn thing, and I know it's way past time for an overhaul, but damnit, let me make my choice!
I wanted to download the ISO to run on my virtual machine software in Windows. Alas, by default, the website detected I was running a browser in Windows, and got this message:
'We have auto-detected that you are running Windows and have offered that version for download. If we have detected your operating system incorrectly or you would like to download a different version, please click the "View all platform downloads" button below. '
The software it offered me? Fedora Media Writer for Windows, which I assume is some USB writing software to help me make the transition to Fedora. Please, websites, stop treating every visitor as some clueless "need my hands held" visitor who is incapable of downloading and properly installing software. I'm sure the Fedora Media Writer for Windows is a nice enough app, but, seriously, websites, stop being so fucking "helpful" by being helpful, to the point it's almost unhelpful. If you want to help, don't help. Just link me the damn ISO, the link to the Media writer app, and let me fucking chose my poison. I can perfectly install a different OS to my machine just as easily as hosing my machine, without your help.
However, will their Snapchat speed filter match their Facebook posting?
Too late. We went for a test drive on a 70D model, and I'm already looking at finances on affording a model s. Maybe if I work 2 50-hour a week jobs? The girls (my wife included) loved the acceleration. I loved the free LTE data, and was considering finding a way to set up a local hotspot for us.
First, they came on tapes, DVDs and BluRays. Didn't matter if we owned or rented them, previews were always there. Sometimes, they couldn't be skipped.
Now, they're coming on our smart TVs. Never mind that we paid a bit of hard earned cash for the damn thing, it's ours. It stopped belonging to the store or the device vendor once the store accepted my money, and watched me struggle to put that monster in the back of my car. Except, now people appears to be meekly willing to take this crap before putting a stop to it. "Well, it's a nice enough TV with all that fancy smancy shit on it, that I can't do without. So, a little ad is fine.. I guess."
Next, they're going to insist on doing the same crap with our phones. "Mom, I'm sorry about Dad, we're on the.. " "We're interrupting your call to bring you a word from our sponsor. Your call will resume momentarily". Just remember, you pansy passive asswipes, that when this shit starts happening, it's because most of you sniveled about not being able to get by without smart TV features.
Seriously, knock this passive crap off, people. If I had a smart TV, and it starts showing ads, it'll be back at the store I purchased it from in a heartbeat.
I gave up my TDD/TTY a few years ago, when I started using my own cell phone to send texts to family and friends, as well as my boss. I thought I had seen the last of the TDD/TTY when I did so, and now I'm interested in seeing how the new RTT works.
MS is going nuts over us disabling all the spying telemetry that 'makes' bing works? Yes, I know I got a free upgrade going from windows 7 to windows 10, and no, I'm not interested into being a part of Microsoft's data collecting experiment. I cannot use bing on either Edge or chrome due to disabling most of the telemetry, and somehow, I suspect I'm not the one losing out on this. I don't use Cortana, and I'm only using Edge for school related works, because, for some reason, when I login to the school's site using chrome, i'm logged out of gmail, which means I'd have to fire up keepass 2 to get my google password and log back in.
It sounds like the owner is writing a menu on a daily basis, and may be updating the menu during the course of business. Webcams has crappy resolutions, digital cameras tends to get "lost", more so when more than 1 person is using it. So, why a camera? My work has one of those digital whiteboards (yes, I know they're more expensive than a webcam), but I imagine it's possible to write once and then pressing a button, a snapshot of what is written on the whiteboard gets uploaded to the proper place?
Still waiting on the series announcements for Shannara and the Belgarion/Belgariad series. I can hope, right?
Focused EMP at said drone. Make it so!