Others have done so. But if you insist... communications skills are important, nay, essential. This includes creating specs, communicating with customers, etc. Sure, in this context it's obvious what he meant, but (1) in other contexts, we shouldn't have to be mind readers to figure out what he meant instead of what he wrote, and (2) he does not have the ability to judge writing skills in others when he's blind to his own lack of skills, so his self-proclaimed ability to judge the value of future hires has a gaping hole in it.
Unlike his claims, which we cannot verify, we can verify his lack of a knowledge of basic spelling. Now, I did consider that English may not the his native language, but he grokked the "young'uns" reference just fine, which would tend to indicate that his understanding of English is idiomatic.
Or we could just continue the trend to develop test strips that require less and less blood for a valid sample. The finger stick isn't that big a deal as long as you don't clean the wound with alcohol - alcohol causes scarring and prevents the normal healing process from occurring, so you end up with fingers with visible marks.
Bad analogy. The builder doesn't get any money every time the house is sold. And if you go with a car analogy such as a car lease, it DOES lose value over time.
"It's a Wonderful Life" was, is, and always will be, a crap movie. The people at the time it was made recognized this, which is why it was forgotten. The behavior of the cast, especially George, is the sort of thing that would get him thrown in jail today - verbally abusive to his wife and kids, physically manhandling his wife, giving an important deposit to Uncle Billy when he knew Uncle Billy was, in George's words, "a drunken old fool" and then blaming Billy for his own error in judgment, refusing to take responsibility for his mistakes by trying to drown himself and leaving the mess behind for everyone else to deal with. We have all this foreshadowed in his refusal to give Mary back her clothes while she's hiding behind the bush. Beneath that "oh shucks" exterior lurked a bully.
The only reason it was showed every year is because it was cheap to do so.
A lot of the new stuff, like a lot of the old stuff, is garbage (Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is crap). Then again, meet the new boss - same as the old boss. Oh, and Blame CANADA!
If they knew where they were going, listening to instructions would just be a distraction. If they're using a GPS, it's because they DON'T know where they're going without it. How can you not understand this?
You missed the point. The poster I was replying to claimed that a personal computer meant windows/x86. That has never been the case. Windows has run on processors other than x86, and not all personal computers need windows or x86.
Most of the old people we hire either can't actually write any code
when you can't write, period ( these examples are from your posts in this thread in just the last 2 hours). Your technical documentation must be a real hoot!:-)
I've got PC software I can't run on my PC without using an emulator because 64-bit windows won't run it. Also, there's no longer any such thing as "running natively" - today's x86 actually takes every instruction and translates it into microcode - in other words, the cpu is really just an x86 emulator.
I've tried to use the assistive tech on Android to use my phone by feel - even the learning mode is crap - you can't get out of it, even using your eyes. Have you?
. Distracted driving is a real issue, and it's not just GPS - even using bluetooth to take or make a call increases the accident rate significantly.
not getting into accidents because they know where they're going, leaving them to pay attention to the little voice instead of craning their necks to find street signs.
??? Why would people listen to their GPS if they know where they're going? Are they blind:?
Maybe you wouldn't be an idiot if you could figure out that if "supported OSes get b0rked on a regular basis" then you'd have to be a real moron to venture into the wild with one that hadn't been receiving regular security fixes for a year.
Of course, you are full of shit, because the only OS that gets borked on a regular basis is Windollars.
The more this happens, the more it looks like Snowdon is a vendetta for embarrassing the powerful by doing what is, more and more, looking like the right thing.
Radio and AC can be worked entirely by feel. You can adjust them without turning on the interior lights - you don't have to take your eyes off the road. Smartphones don't work that way. And the only people I've seen using a mounted GPS were using a tablet, not a phone. And they only used it to figure out their route - not to get instructions in real time.
If you try and take software labeled as PC compatible and load it onto a non-windows machine, what happens?
It runs. Old games and applications run just fine in DOSBox. And there are plenty of users who run windows apps on a mac or linux machine. Also, there are tablets and portable personal computers out there that now run on ARM or Exynos cpus, so x86 compatibility is a non-requirement for a personal computer.
And since Windows RT (those Windows Surface devices, etc) runs on ARM, you don't need x86 to run Windows either.
Bullocks yourself. The games I have say what operating system and version they require on the box and in the product insert/installation instructions/manual. That hasn't changed from before IBM came out with their version of the personal computer, when games would list their hardware requirements, since personal computers then weren't hardware (never mind operating system) compatible.
In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.
Even Roberts' Wikipedia page acknowledges him as the engineer who developed "the first commercially successful personal computer." When he died last year, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen praised him as "the father of the PC."
"The day our first untested software worked on his Altair was the start of a lot of great things," their statement concluded. "The Altair ultimately failed in the marketplace, but it sold thousands of units and jump-started the entire personal computer industry,"
So Bill Gates and Paul Allen say bullocks to you too:-)
That's just the reality distortion field. Just because they don't label themselves as a maker of personal computers doesn't make it true. It's all marketing.
Before the PC clones, there were a whole bunch of non-compatible PCs, many of which didn't have intel inside. It stands for Personal Computer, and has always stood for Personal Computer. With the rise of the clones, they came up with a shorthand way of differentiating the clones as IBM PC compatible, which just meant that they were clones of IBM's personal computer. Apple computers were personal computers even when they ran motorola 68000 cpus.
It may also be that newer hardware (64-bit cpu) running a newer os (64-bit os) that they just bought doesn't run the older software (like simcity2000/3000/4) they want to run, and don't want to run the crappy simcity5.
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Others have done so. But if you insist ... communications skills are important, nay, essential. This includes creating specs, communicating with customers, etc. Sure, in this context it's obvious what he meant, but (1) in other contexts, we shouldn't have to be mind readers to figure out what he meant instead of what he wrote, and (2) he does not have the ability to judge writing skills in others when he's blind to his own lack of skills, so his self-proclaimed ability to judge the value of future hires has a gaping hole in it.
Unlike his claims, which we cannot verify, we can verify his lack of a knowledge of basic spelling. Now, I did consider that English may not the his native language, but he grokked the "young'uns" reference just fine, which would tend to indicate that his understanding of English is idiomatic.
Satisfied?
The worst part is if they're writing the specs, they're even more into "Do what I meant and not what I wrote" than most. We're not mind readers.
Bill Murray's character wasn't doing anything that would be considered illegal today (until he started with the "staple antlers on the mice").
What do you mean "was". It's still used for rail cars :-)
Or we could just continue the trend to develop test strips that require less and less blood for a valid sample. The finger stick isn't that big a deal as long as you don't clean the wound with alcohol - alcohol causes scarring and prevents the normal healing process from occurring, so you end up with fingers with visible marks.
Doesn't address my point - if you already knew how to get where you were going you wouldn't need GPS. Listening to it would be a useless distraction.
Bad analogy. The builder doesn't get any money every time the house is sold. And if you go with a car analogy such as a car lease, it DOES lose value over time.
"It's a Wonderful Life" was, is, and always will be, a crap movie. The people at the time it was made recognized this, which is why it was forgotten. The behavior of the cast, especially George, is the sort of thing that would get him thrown in jail today - verbally abusive to his wife and kids, physically manhandling his wife, giving an important deposit to Uncle Billy when he knew Uncle Billy was, in George's words, "a drunken old fool" and then blaming Billy for his own error in judgment, refusing to take responsibility for his mistakes by trying to drown himself and leaving the mess behind for everyone else to deal with. We have all this foreshadowed in his refusal to give Mary back her clothes while she's hiding behind the bush. Beneath that "oh shucks" exterior lurked a bully.
The only reason it was showed every year is because it was cheap to do so.
I'd rather watch Bill Murray's "Scrooged."
A lot of the new stuff, like a lot of the old stuff, is garbage (Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is crap). Then again, meet the new boss - same as the old boss. Oh, and Blame CANADA!
If they knew where they were going, listening to instructions would just be a distraction. If they're using a GPS, it's because they DON'T know where they're going without it. How can you not understand this?
You missed the point. The poster I was replying to claimed that a personal computer meant windows/x86. That has never been the case. Windows has run on processors other than x86, and not all personal computers need windows or x86.
I'm not a young one.
And you still don't know the difference between their, there, and they're? Dunning-Kruger wants to have a talk with you - in front of the mirror :-)
It seems to be a habit of yours:
Who knows, maybe the person in charging of deciding to hire this person was discriminating against them based on age.
and
if their commitment to linux support was good, it would be possible to by most of their laptops with linux.
buy, bye, by, and here's another they're, their, there boo-boo
I would say "They're loss" and move on to the next interview.
... and the one that started this: see above for the poster who first pointed it out ...
They won't learn anything knew
knew, new, gnu.
Kind of ironic that you say
Most of the old people we hire either can't actually write any code
when you can't write, period ( these examples are from your posts in this thread in just the last 2 hours). Your technical documentation must be a real hoot! :-)
I've got PC software I can't run on my PC without using an emulator because 64-bit windows won't run it. Also, there's no longer any such thing as "running natively" - today's x86 actually takes every instruction and translates it into microcode - in other words, the cpu is really just an x86 emulator.
I've tried to use the assistive tech on Android to use my phone by feel - even the learning mode is crap - you can't get out of it, even using your eyes. Have you?
. Distracted driving is a real issue, and it's not just GPS - even using bluetooth to take or make a call increases the accident rate significantly.
not getting into accidents because they know where they're going, leaving them to pay attention to the little voice instead of craning their necks to find street signs.
??? Why would people listen to their GPS if they know where they're going? Are they blind:?
Maybe you wouldn't be an idiot if you could figure out that if "supported OSes get b0rked on a regular basis" then you'd have to be a real moron to venture into the wild with one that hadn't been receiving regular security fixes for a year.
Of course, you are full of shit, because the only OS that gets borked on a regular basis is Windollars.
Another idiot post from another idiot fanboi - iOS bug allows remote reboot of all devices in area and methds for bypassing all osx security protections on the front page in just the last 7 hours ... and no stories of windows hacks in the last 24 hours.
The more this happens, the more it looks like Snowdon is a vendetta for embarrassing the powerful by doing what is, more and more, looking like the right thing.
Radio and AC can be worked entirely by feel. You can adjust them without turning on the interior lights - you don't have to take your eyes off the road. Smartphones don't work that way. And the only people I've seen using a mounted GPS were using a tablet, not a phone. And they only used it to figure out their route - not to get instructions in real time.
Did you get your statisics from back before GPS devices read their instructions out loud?
Did you forget how many people had accidents because their GPS said "Turn Right Now", so they did?
If you try and take software labeled as PC compatible and load it onto a non-windows machine, what happens?
It runs. Old games and applications run just fine in DOSBox. And there are plenty of users who run windows apps on a mac or linux machine. Also, there are tablets and portable personal computers out there that now run on ARM or Exynos cpus, so x86 compatibility is a non-requirement for a personal computer.
And since Windows RT (those Windows Surface devices, etc) runs on ARM, you don't need x86 to run Windows either.
Bullocks yourself. The games I have say what operating system and version they require on the box and in the product insert/installation instructions/manual. That hasn't changed from before IBM came out with their version of the personal computer, when games would list their hardware requirements, since personal computers then weren't hardware (never mind operating system) compatible.
IBM did not invent the personal computer.
In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.
Even Allen and Gates gave Roberts credit:
Even Roberts' Wikipedia page acknowledges him as the engineer who developed "the first commercially successful personal computer." When he died last year, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen praised him as "the father of the PC."
"The day our first untested software worked on his Altair was the start of a lot of great things," their statement concluded. "The Altair ultimately failed in the marketplace, but it sold thousands of units and jump-started the entire personal computer industry,"
So Bill Gates and Paul Allen say bullocks to you too :-)
That's just the reality distortion field. Just because they don't label themselves as a maker of personal computers doesn't make it true. It's all marketing.
Before the PC clones, there were a whole bunch of non-compatible PCs, many of which didn't have intel inside. It stands for Personal Computer, and has always stood for Personal Computer. With the rise of the clones, they came up with a shorthand way of differentiating the clones as IBM PC compatible, which just meant that they were clones of IBM's personal computer. Apple computers were personal computers even when they ran motorola 68000 cpus.
When was the last time Apple actually built their computers? Also, PC stands for "Personal Computer", not "Windows Box".
It may also be that newer hardware (64-bit cpu) running a newer os (64-bit os) that they just bought doesn't run the older software (like simcity2000/3000/4) they want to run, and don't want to run the crappy simcity5.