The BLS is bullsh*t. Employee withholding taxes are a better indication of employment, cover most of the population every 2 weeks, and unlike estimates from the BLS, aren't distorted by adding fudge factors to get the numbers you want.
Withholding taxes are down, even as the "official" unemployment rate drops and more people enter the workforce. What that means is that people are making less money, good full-time jobs are being replaced by crap full-time, part-time, or no jobs.
Of course, when they don't have jobs to put bread on the table, you can always say "let them eat twinkies."
Context counts. This provided context. We were dealing with someone who the world is now a bit safer because they are no longer around, and he got his Darwin fair and square. Amazing it didn't happen sooner..
Welcome to the future. When I was between programming jobs I worked as a receptionist/office manager job. Not exactly programming, but as you said, paid the bills.
Even that wouldn't have been an option prior to transition. For some reason, employers aren't so critical when it's a woman applying for a "normal" job. Work history doesn't matter as much, I guess because it's "expected" that you're not going to work uninterrupted from the day you enter the work force to the day they kick your carcass out the door.
Mind you, I am NOT suggesting you go the same route. Unless you want to...
I would suggest sticking with the post office. You at least have a union.
I agree that it's strange that hi-tech jobs can't be done remotely in this day and age because management wants warm butts in seats - unless those jobs are being done overseas for a lot less money per butt.
Last question first. Laptops can't receive phone calls. Kind of handy at times.
As for the selection thing, it's crappy, but the long press text selection needs LOTS of work. It's brain dead unusable in many cases. Hopefully at some point they'll figure it out, but I'm not that optimistic. It's easier to just copy and paste a link to whatever I want to reference, even though that is crappy when I want to quote only a small portion in a long screed.
Welcome to new technology - re-inventing old problems in ways you never imagined.:-(
All the facts were out there. Only the lazy and those who make assumptions wouldn't find them - in other words the herds of MOO-sayers who just repeat whatever they heard reflexively.
And all they could say in response to someone who was visually handicapped and asked how they would qualify after the deadline was "watch this blog as we get closer to the deadline." In other words, "we'll let you know when we know." Hardly engenders confidence.
And how are yo supposed to prove it after the deadline? Someone else asked the same question, and all they got were "keep an eye on this blog as we get closer to the deadline." In other words, they haven't figured it out and are winging it. I don't trust them all that much, and it's stuff like this that fuels the distrust.
Unless they can replace the functionality of NVDA, the answer to the "upgrade" will be no. It wouldn't be so bad except for their stupid deadline forcing the issue. And I'm sure I'm not alone.
Please read the OP again. If the KNOPPIX build for the visually impaired had worked, I wouldn't have asked about Windows. I don't like Window's case-insensitive file system, it's a big pita and a relic from the days of DOS when command.com would search/run for files without respect to case.
So it's either NVDA or Windows 10. And if Windows 10 doesn't have the features to replace NVDA, forget it. I just want to know if it does before the deadline, that's all.
I worked at an all open source shop (religiously so even), yet their blind (completely blind) accessibility engineer was one of two people in the 200 person company running Windows. The other was a graphics designer that needed Photoshop and Illustrator.
I was thinking about that last night and earlier today. If someone can do graphics design, maybe I shouldn't have given up so quickly on doing more coding... (but it was a really frustrating experience every time I tried. Think ALL CAPS vs camelCase vs ProperCase/TitleCase vs underscores_all_over_the_place and dot notation...)
"Zie?" I paid good money to fix my birth certificate to say "female." I'm certainly not going to replace "F" with "X", even though the government is thinking of allowing it. I'm all for "whatever floats your boat", but still...:-)
You've always had multiple keyboards. Switching is just a keyboard shortcut or click away. You can also plug 2 or more keyboards and mice into one machine, same as under linux. Handy when you're left handed but others are right handed and hate using a left-handed mouse when they want to show you something.
I included the link from NVDA warning about compatibility problems with 10, which is why I'm asking if 10 is a better solution. If NVDA were available for other systems, I wouldn't be using Windows any more. It came with the machine, and the screen readers under linux are buggy buggy buggy.
8.1 will be end of normal life in 2018, and 10 in 2020, extended updates will end 5 years after. I think in 10 years a new laptop would be in order anyway. Or maybe something else will come along - who knows? Look at how fast netbooks came and went, tablets came and went... Just want the best solution, whether it's NVDA and current windows, or the accessibility features in 10.
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And you can live on minimum wage? People are struggling at twice that.
Lately there have been a lot of people close enough to retirement age to be forced tocheck out early too.
And "let them eat twinkies" is not a solution.
The BLS is bullsh*t. Employee withholding taxes are a better indication of employment, cover most of the population every 2 weeks, and unlike estimates from the BLS, aren't distorted by adding fudge factors to get the numbers you want.
Withholding taxes are down, even as the "official" unemployment rate drops and more people enter the workforce. What that means is that people are making less money, good full-time jobs are being replaced by crap full-time, part-time, or no jobs.
Of course, when they don't have jobs to put bread on the table, you can always say "let them eat twinkies."
Context counts. This provided context. We were dealing with someone who the world is now a bit safer because they are no longer around, and he got his Darwin fair and square. Amazing it didn't happen sooner ..
Welcome to the future. When I was between programming jobs I worked as a receptionist/office manager job. Not exactly programming, but as you said, paid the bills.
Even that wouldn't have been an option prior to transition. For some reason, employers aren't so critical when it's a woman applying for a "normal" job. Work history doesn't matter as much, I guess because it's "expected" that you're not going to work uninterrupted from the day you enter the work force to the day they kick your carcass out the door.
Mind you, I am NOT suggesting you go the same route. Unless you want to ...
I would suggest sticking with the post office. You at least have a union.
Programs written in assembler do not need to be installed into rom or flash to run. Welcome to the 80s.
Yeah, right ... NOT!
Craigslist? That's some scary sh*t there.
Wait until you hit 60. Or even 50. Too old for tech, too inexperienced at anything else.
I agree that it's strange that hi-tech jobs can't be done remotely in this day and age because management wants warm butts in seats - unless those jobs are being done overseas for a lot less money per butt.
Well, the RIAA has already claimed that piracy is costing them several times the entire world's GDP, so they're certainly not lacking in creativity :-)
Last question first. Laptops can't receive phone calls. Kind of handy at times.
As for the selection thing, it's crappy, but the long press text selection needs LOTS of work. It's brain dead unusable in many cases. Hopefully at some point they'll figure it out, but I'm not that optimistic. It's easier to just copy and paste a link to whatever I want to reference, even though that is crappy when I want to quote only a small portion in a long screed.
Welcome to new technology - re-inventing old problems in ways you never imagined. :-(
All the facts were out there. Only the lazy and those who make assumptions wouldn't find them - in other words the herds of MOO-sayers who just repeat whatever they heard reflexively.
Where's the MOO guy when you really need him?
What about above-average users?
They're all on freebsd or dragonfly (or still playing around wiht plan9).
And all they could say in response to someone who was visually handicapped and asked how they would qualify after the deadline was "watch this blog as we get closer to the deadline." In other words, "we'll let you know when we know." Hardly engenders confidence.
And how are yo supposed to prove it after the deadline? Someone else asked the same question, and all they got were "keep an eye on this blog as we get closer to the deadline." In other words, they haven't figured it out and are winging it. I don't trust them all that much, and it's stuff like this that fuels the distrust.
Unless they can replace the functionality of NVDA, the answer to the "upgrade" will be no. It wouldn't be so bad except for their stupid deadline forcing the issue. And I'm sure I'm not alone.
Please read the OP again. If the KNOPPIX build for the visually impaired had worked, I wouldn't have asked about Windows. I don't like Window's case-insensitive file system, it's a big pita and a relic from the days of DOS when command.com would search/run for files without respect to case.
So it's either NVDA or Windows 10. And if Windows 10 doesn't have the features to replace NVDA, forget it. I just want to know if it does before the deadline, that's all.
All that scrolling around with the magnifier makes me nauseous. I don't know how you do it.
I worked at an all open source shop (religiously so even), yet their blind (completely blind) accessibility engineer was one of two people in the 200 person company running Windows. The other was a graphics designer that needed Photoshop and Illustrator.
I was thinking about that last night and earlier today. If someone can do graphics design, maybe I shouldn't have given up so quickly on doing more coding ... (but it was a really frustrating experience every time I tried. Think ALL CAPS vs camelCase vs ProperCase/TitleCase vs underscores_all_over_the_place and dot notation ...)
Thanks for the insight.
"Zie?" I paid good money to fix my birth certificate to say "female." I'm certainly not going to replace "F" with "X", even though the government is thinking of allowing it. I'm all for "whatever floats your boat", but still ... :-)
You've always had multiple keyboards. Switching is just a keyboard shortcut or click away. You can also plug 2 or more keyboards and mice into one machine, same as under linux. Handy when you're left handed but others are right handed and hate using a left-handed mouse when they want to show you something.
July 29th. After that it will (maybe) safe to turn updates back on.
I included the link from NVDA warning about compatibility problems with 10, which is why I'm asking if 10 is a better solution. If NVDA were available for other systems, I wouldn't be using Windows any more. It came with the machine, and the screen readers under linux are buggy buggy buggy.
8.1 will be end of normal life in 2018, and 10 in 2020, extended updates will end 5 years after. I think in 10 years a new laptop would be in order anyway. Or maybe something else will come along - who knows? Look at how fast netbooks came and went, tablets came and went ... Just want the best solution, whether it's NVDA and current windows, or the accessibility features in 10.