OK, dismiss the AC above for not reading the article carefully.
I did. I get that it's about browsing patterns and style, not browser history.
Now how about you explain to me why a parent who needs a computer to tell them that their child is suffering from depression, is doing a good job of staying involved with their child's emotional condition? Hiding depression from strangers and casual acquaintances and even classmates/coworkers is easy. I know. Hiding it from someone who has known you your entire life, whom you live with... not so much. If parents don't know enough about the signs of depression to recognize them in their child... how does that not fall under "failing as a parent"?
The old saw in those days was that version 3.0 was when Microsoft products were ready for prime time.
So with MS-DOS it was a couple of gradual climbs:
1.0 lame 2.0 ok (hard drives) 3.0 good (networking) 3.1 better 3.2 better 3.3 gold standard 4.0 bad (IBM's version) 5.0 ok 6.0 good 6.2 legacy
With pre-95 Windows it was similar: 1.0 lame 2.0 ok (overlapping windows) 2.1 ok+ (protected mode) 3.0 good (virtual memory) 3.1 ready (proper font support)
The same 3.0 standard applied to various other MS products too (e.g. MS Word).
I bought my parents (a musician and retired lawyer in their 70s) their current computer a few years back while Windows XP (which they were familiar with) was still available as a build-to-order option for small-business customers, to spare them the retraining and confusion of switching to Vista. Likewise, I've decided to replace that machine with a new one while Windows 7 is still available, because the switch to Windows 8 would be even more frustrating... for them and for me. While I sincerely hope that they don't reach EOL until after Windows 7 does, perhaps their computer needs will simplify enough by that time that they'll be satisfied with Metro. Or an iPad.
I've thought for some time that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, western PA, upstate NY, and Ontario should secede from our respective nations and form our own. We need to start by getting a navy together.
I've traveled a little with my e-ink (B&W) Nook from a few years ago, including a couple week-long road trips on my motorbike. The basic e-ink models are pretty cheap and the battery life is better than the color ones. That's about as "ruggedized" as you're going to find.
You want to be a bit protective of the screen; if poked hard by something else in your bag (such as a corner of a hard object pressed against it), it can damage the layer that changes black-to-white and leave a permanent dark spot. I got a couple of those which aren't too bad, but a little annoying to look at. So I'd recommend fitting a sealable durable freezer bag with a same-size rigid shield of some kind (firm plastic, thick cardboard), and put the Nook in that (with the screen facing the board) for protection, and hope for the best.
Oh, I'm trying, spending time every day working on a graphic novel. But it'd be a hell of lot easier to build a creative career if I didn't have to spend 40-45 hours/week doing uninteresting crap instead, and had money to invest into it.
I'd follow her example... if only I had company stock to turn into cash. Unfortunately I'm one of the tech people who got tired of the web without first getting rich from it.
Yahoo did this to me. The only Yahoo service I was actively doing anything with at the time was Yahoo Answers, so I assume it came from there. But no explanation, and in my case they didn't respond to a few attempts to ask why or reconsider. I couldn't login to my Yahoo mail or anything else controlled by Yahoo. But it was only Yahoo (nothing important), so I just gave up.
The way this question is posed sounds like someone off to a really bad start. Making "simple, fun" games out of what should be Standards of Conduct for a work environment is just asking for trouble. Would you put up a jar for someone to pay into every time they tell a nigger joke? Or a lighthearted way of dealing with people stealing equipment? It sounds like the current environment is the sociological equivalent of a bunch of guys who never had to grow up and move out of their parents' basement. Well... it's time. Grown-ups don't have any trouble figuring out what's socially-acceptable behavior and acting accordingly. Tell your staff it's time for them to be grown-ups. It doesn't mean you can't still have a fun environment... I'm guessing it's probably still fun without racist comments (trust me: some of your staff probably think them without saying them). Bring someone in for a "awareness" program, and the boss should set the tone indicating that he takes it seriously. Anyone who doesn't... needs to get to work on their resume, and also practicing "would you like fries with that" because acting like a grown-up who refrains from sexual innuendo at the work place is a pretty standard job requirement.
Don't assume that just because they discovered girls at the same time they quit hacking it's the reason why. Maybe they started paying attention to girls (or girls started paying attention to them) because they got bored playing with tech toys? Or that both happened for the same reason: adulthood?
Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman visited the original Tunisian set on their motorcycle trek from Scotland to South Africa in 2007. It's included in their travelogue Long Way Down.
The question of when Windows XP 1.0 was released is irrelevant, because it was the "current" product for many years after that. The more important landmark is when a replacement (Vista) became available, and more to the point when an attractive replacement (Win7) became available. That's much more recent.
"IE 8 will go away... if every website in the world stopped supporting it."
Clearly false. As you noted (earlier in your exercise in circular illogic), there's a contingent of people who will not upgrade just because you want them to. They will (rightly or wrongly) just blame your crappy webapp for not working properly, and keep using the same software.
I can see dropping IE6 & IE7, because there's no sound reason for anyone to still be using them. But IE8 is the terminal version of IE for Windows XP, which remains one of the most widely-used operating systems on the planet. It's not going to go away just because someone doesn't want to support it any more.
This is almost three decades late for me! The summer between high school and college, my friend Adam and I went on a 6-week bicycling tour of England, Wales, and Scotland, and all we had to plan our route was this huge piece of folded paper. We made a whole lot of bad route choices, but somehow we made it!
In my tech support job, I still deal on a daily basis with people for whom the personal computer is a hateful thing they want to have nothing to do with. This technology is not yet fully integrated into our society.
"copyright" = the right to copy something "copy write" = to write text (called "copy" in industry jargon) for an advertisement
Even though these sound alike, they are completely and totally different concepts, and if you misspell either of them, you've demonstrated that you simply Do Not Understand what you are talking about.
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Is it too late for me to object to .COM?
OK, dismiss the AC above for not reading the article carefully.
I did. I get that it's about browsing patterns and style, not browser history.
Now how about you explain to me why a parent who needs a computer to tell them that their child is suffering from depression, is doing a good job of staying involved with their child's emotional condition? Hiding depression from strangers and casual acquaintances and even classmates/coworkers is easy. I know. Hiding it from someone who has known you your entire life, whom you live with... not so much. If parents don't know enough about the signs of depression to recognize them in their child... how does that not fall under "failing as a parent"?
Most of Wikitravel's shortcomings could be solved by more participation.
This makes open-source content projects such as Wikitravel (currently under consideration to be adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation) all the more important.
The old saw in those days was that version 3.0 was when Microsoft products were ready for prime time.
So with MS-DOS it was a couple of gradual climbs:
1.0 lame
2.0 ok (hard drives)
3.0 good (networking)
3.1 better
3.2 better
3.3 gold standard
4.0 bad (IBM's version)
5.0 ok
6.0 good
6.2 legacy
With pre-95 Windows it was similar:
1.0 lame
2.0 ok (overlapping windows)
2.1 ok+ (protected mode)
3.0 good (virtual memory)
3.1 ready (proper font support)
The same 3.0 standard applied to various other MS products too (e.g. MS Word).
I bought my parents (a musician and retired lawyer in their 70s) their current computer a few years back while Windows XP (which they were familiar with) was still available as a build-to-order option for small-business customers, to spare them the retraining and confusion of switching to Vista. Likewise, I've decided to replace that machine with a new one while Windows 7 is still available, because the switch to Windows 8 would be even more frustrating... for them and for me. While I sincerely hope that they don't reach EOL until after Windows 7 does, perhaps their computer needs will simplify enough by that time that they'll be satisfied with Metro. Or an iPad.
I've thought for some time that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, western PA, upstate NY, and Ontario should secede from our respective nations and form our own. We need to start by getting a navy together.
I've traveled a little with my e-ink (B&W) Nook from a few years ago, including a couple week-long road trips on my motorbike. The basic e-ink models are pretty cheap and the battery life is better than the color ones. That's about as "ruggedized" as you're going to find.
You want to be a bit protective of the screen; if poked hard by something else in your bag (such as a corner of a hard object pressed against it), it can damage the layer that changes black-to-white and leave a permanent dark spot. I got a couple of those which aren't too bad, but a little annoying to look at. So I'd recommend fitting a sealable durable freezer bag with a same-size rigid shield of some kind (firm plastic, thick cardboard), and put the Nook in that (with the screen facing the board) for protection, and hope for the best.
"How to configure Windows XP to use a proxy" is not news. It's a not-for-nerds tutorial.
Oh, I'm trying, spending time every day working on a graphic novel. But it'd be a hell of lot easier to build a creative career if I didn't have to spend 40-45 hours/week doing uninteresting crap instead, and had money to invest into it.
I'd follow her example... if only I had company stock to turn into cash. Unfortunately I'm one of the tech people who got tired of the web without first getting rich from it.
Yahoo did this to me. The only Yahoo service I was actively doing anything with at the time was Yahoo Answers, so I assume it came from there. But no explanation, and in my case they didn't respond to a few attempts to ask why or reconsider. I couldn't login to my Yahoo mail or anything else controlled by Yahoo. But it was only Yahoo (nothing important), so I just gave up.
The way this question is posed sounds like someone off to a really bad start. Making "simple, fun" games out of what should be Standards of Conduct for a work environment is just asking for trouble. Would you put up a jar for someone to pay into every time they tell a nigger joke? Or a lighthearted way of dealing with people stealing equipment? It sounds like the current environment is the sociological equivalent of a bunch of guys who never had to grow up and move out of their parents' basement. Well... it's time. Grown-ups don't have any trouble figuring out what's socially-acceptable behavior and acting accordingly. Tell your staff it's time for them to be grown-ups. It doesn't mean you can't still have a fun environment... I'm guessing it's probably still fun without racist comments (trust me: some of your staff probably think them without saying them). Bring someone in for a "awareness" program, and the boss should set the tone indicating that he takes it seriously. Anyone who doesn't... needs to get to work on their resume, and also practicing "would you like fries with that" because acting like a grown-up who refrains from sexual innuendo at the work place is a pretty standard job requirement.
No, that was the next stop: Libya.
It's less impossible than their motorcycle trek from London* to New York City*, which they documented in Long Way Round.
*also on islands
Don't assume that just because they discovered girls at the same time they quit hacking it's the reason why. Maybe they started paying attention to girls (or girls started paying attention to them) because they got bored playing with tech toys? Or that both happened for the same reason: adulthood?
"Holy crap, I just looked at IMDB. He's a busy guy. Who knew."
Any nerd worth his salty snacks knows.
Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman visited the original Tunisian set on their motorcycle trek from Scotland to South Africa in 2007. It's included in their travelogue Long Way Down.
The question of when Windows XP 1.0 was released is irrelevant, because it was the "current" product for many years after that. The more important landmark is when a replacement (Vista) became available, and more to the point when an attractive replacement (Win7) became available. That's much more recent.
"IE 8 will go away... if every website in the world stopped supporting it."
Clearly false. As you noted (earlier in your exercise in circular illogic), there's a contingent of people who will not upgrade just because you want them to. They will (rightly or wrongly) just blame your crappy webapp for not working properly, and keep using the same software.
I can see dropping IE6 & IE7, because there's no sound reason for anyone to still be using them. But IE8 is the terminal version of IE for Windows XP, which remains one of the most widely-used operating systems on the planet. It's not going to go away just because someone doesn't want to support it any more.
This is almost three decades late for me! The summer between high school and college, my friend Adam and I went on a 6-week bicycling tour of England, Wales, and Scotland, and all we had to plan our route was this huge piece of folded paper. We made a whole lot of bad route choices, but somehow we made it!
"Or was this an American news thing?"
If you RTFA, you'll see that the first two examples cited were from Canada's National Post and the BBC.
In my tech support job, I still deal on a daily basis with people for whom the personal computer is a hateful thing they want to have nothing to do with. This technology is not yet fully integrated into our society.
A brief tutorial for the semi-literate:
"copyright" = the right to copy something
"copy write" = to write text (called "copy" in industry jargon) for an advertisement
Even though these sound alike, they are completely and totally different concepts, and if you misspell either of them, you've demonstrated that you simply Do Not Understand what you are talking about.