focus groups are only really good at determining the LCD user. They do not tell the whole story. Despite what marketers will tell you, there is reason to have advanced functionality for people who aren't knuckle draggers (who often end up having to help the latter).
Unlike you, I prefer to know wtf is going on with the car. Being stuck on the side of the road with nothing but an idiot light telling me to call the dealer does not help. This is especially true when an oil pressure gauge could've told me something was wrong before catastrophic failure. Being corralled into using roadside assistance services for preventable problems is ridiculous too.
Auto climate control is a pain if I just want a small amount of the coldest air possible during the summer. Other times, the fan is either too fast, too slow, or just too loud when I start the car because it's trying to rapidly adjust temp. As a result, half the time it's in manual mode because I've turned the fan down.
Most of these touchscreen interfaces are terribly programmed (eg activesync) and are more trouble than they're worth. The settings I want are buried in sub menus which are 'conveniently' disabled for 'safety' while the car is moving. Just give me a damned knob and it wouldn't be a problem. Another thing is light pollution. The dimmer is never dim enough for night driving and the panels themselves leak light like sieves. AmoLED might help, but they're too cheap to use that.
Video games are a bigger industry than hollywood at this point. So-called 'consumers' are also producers of content. The distinction between desktop and workstation blurred a long time ago.
Exactly. His response shows why it is not reasonable to attempt to "educate" or "reform" these sorts of employees. If you have one, just fire them and reduce the damage. And when you're hiring, make sure you're not hiring one of these clowns.
Misogynists would make the same statement regarding women complaining of legitimately unfair treatment. Congrats, you're no better.
Education and reform of people who are despicable
ah yes, the 'basket of deplorables' argument....and progressives wonder how someone like trump could've possibly been elected..
Except it has nothing to do with "at-will" work. In most States, it is required to take action to prevent what he did. (creating a hostile work environment based on categories prohibited from being used for workplace discrimination)
In fact, one of his arguments was that current socjus policies help foster hostile work environments because they don't reflect reality. Then there's the broken assumptions that come from using 'class' to judge individuals...
It is not a synonym for oppression. It has a narrow, clear meaning, and you're not allowed to do it at work based on a bunch of categories that you must be aware of to work with others.
We all discriminate every time we make decisions, based on all sorts of discriminators. The problems start when irrelevant ones are used to make assumptions. This is probably the crux of the problem with current social justice policies. Under the guise of fighting against irrational discrimination, it imposes it using the same flawed reasoning.
Claiming it is your opinion doesn't shield you at work; keep opinions on those subjects for your personal time, work at work and politic somewhere else.
Perhaps google should also fire its VP of 'diversity' so she can also follow this good advice and get a real job. Then the company can focus on building a culture of merit.
Those watered down consumer boxes need content, and cpus like this are used to create that content. The people who do this certainly care about performance.
Your doctor holds a sexist view, too, and it's a good thing. There ARE differences between the sexes.
Feminism is definitely political. Discussion of rights is definitely political. Firing someone for challenging specific political assumptions is political.
The only hostile environment in action was the one that fired him for daring to challenge doctrine.
While it is true that having social deficiencies doesn't require a high intellect, a lot of people who are smart have social deficiencies. The common trend here is to associate those who disagree with the progressive/PC stack with social deficiency. This is essentially what google did, and it was fallacious and hypocritical to say the least.
TFS makes this point.. Deface a sign enough and it fails inspection as a sign. Now the intersection has no stop sign as far as the computer's concerned.
Things like this are exactly the kind of corner cases their 'AI' will never be able to deal with, at least not with current solutions.
..or you know, maybe people gravitate to jobs that suit their personalities? Maybe those personalities are a combination of nature and nurture, and making generalizations that demonize/infantilize specific types in order to suit particular narratives is misleading at best and highly damaging at worst.
You bet that smart people have trouble dealing with the doublethink and hypocrisy that runs rampant in 'normal' society. It's irrational, and I wonder why you have the need to defend it and impose it on those who've worked hard to isolate themselves as much as possible so that they are happy. The majority of neuroatypicals are men, so it follows that industries that attract them will have male majorities.
All I am saying is at work it is irrelevent whether you agree or disagree. You do not have free speech in the office PERIOD and HR and legal have guidelines to protect company image and liability of possible lawsuits.
This situation suggests that companies are also victims of runaway 'social justice.' Perhaps the thing to do is lobby accordingly so that there's less probability of such frivolous lawsuits. Using corporate policy to impose political views on employees and limit their free speech, especially after hours, is not beneficial to the employee, the corporate culture, or society.
I think if many slashdotters were born the female sex instead of male here and got discriminated against or not taken as seriously compared to a make counterpart I think the comments here would be quite different.
I think if all claims of discrimination had to come with solid evidence, we'd see a lot less complaining and a lot more productivity.
Remember if you are dominate you get in trouble as a woman and are a bitch. As a guy you are bold and have leadership. It is a double standard
If you come across as obstinate, irrational and infexible, then, yes, if you're a woman, you'll be called a bitch, and if your'e a man, you'll be called an asshole. The particular epithets are irrelevant. Either the complaint is true and you should alter your behavior, or it is bullshit and others are just afraid of your competence. Lets focus on fixing this instead of teaching people to fear words.
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focus groups are only really good at determining the LCD user. They do not tell the whole story. Despite what marketers will tell you, there is reason to have advanced functionality for people who aren't knuckle draggers (who often end up having to help the latter).
Advocating violence != violence. Words are not actions.
Unlike you, I prefer to know wtf is going on with the car. Being stuck on the side of the road with nothing but an idiot light telling me to call the dealer does not help. This is especially true when an oil pressure gauge could've told me something was wrong before catastrophic failure. Being corralled into using roadside assistance services for preventable problems is ridiculous too.
Auto climate control is a pain if I just want a small amount of the coldest air possible during the summer. Other times, the fan is either too fast, too slow, or just too loud when I start the car because it's trying to rapidly adjust temp. As a result, half the time it's in manual mode because I've turned the fan down.
Most of these touchscreen interfaces are terribly programmed (eg activesync) and are more trouble than they're worth. The settings I want are buried in sub menus which are 'conveniently' disabled for 'safety' while the car is moving. Just give me a damned knob and it wouldn't be a problem. Another thing is light pollution. The dimmer is never dim enough for night driving and the panels themselves leak light like sieves. AmoLED might help, but they're too cheap to use that.
Video games are a bigger industry than hollywood at this point. So-called 'consumers' are also producers of content. The distinction between desktop and workstation blurred a long time ago.
Exactly. His response shows why it is not reasonable to attempt to "educate" or "reform" these sorts of employees. If you have one, just fire them and reduce the damage. And when you're hiring, make sure you're not hiring one of these clowns.
Misogynists would make the same statement regarding women complaining of legitimately unfair treatment. Congrats, you're no better.
Education and reform of people who are despicable
ah yes, the 'basket of deplorables' argument.. ..and progressives wonder how someone like trump could've possibly been elected..
Except it has nothing to do with "at-will" work. In most States, it is required to take action to prevent what he did. (creating a hostile work environment based on categories prohibited from being used for workplace discrimination)
In fact, one of his arguments was that current socjus policies help foster hostile work environments because they don't reflect reality. Then there's the broken assumptions that come from using 'class' to judge individuals...
It is not a synonym for oppression. It has a narrow, clear meaning, and you're not allowed to do it at work based on a bunch of categories that you must be aware of to work with others.
We all discriminate every time we make decisions, based on all sorts of discriminators. The problems start when irrelevant ones are used to make assumptions. This is probably the crux of the problem with current social justice policies. Under the guise of fighting against irrational discrimination, it imposes it using the same flawed reasoning.
Claiming it is your opinion doesn't shield you at work; keep opinions on those subjects for your personal time, work at work and politic somewhere else.
Perhaps google should also fire its VP of 'diversity' so she can also follow this good advice and get a real job. Then the company can focus on building a culture of merit.
Cellphones dictate social status a lot more than car ownership does now, nevermind flying.
It'll be a dongle that connects to the IO port..
For great social justice!
Those watered down consumer boxes need content, and cpus like this are used to create that content. The people who do this certainly care about performance.
FB uses cult psychology, so it's no shock they'd use that in the workplace too. It's easier to indoctrinate the young.
I disagree. Did you know that all the people on this planet breathe O2? While this is true, it is not newsworthy.
Pff who has time for all that porn, crystal meth, tv and politics when there's frags to rack up and gibs to liberate?
he's still using the old marxist cover sheet for his TPS reports.
Your doctor holds a sexist view, too, and it's a good thing. There ARE differences between the sexes.
Feminism is definitely political. Discussion of rights is definitely political. Firing someone for challenging specific political assumptions is political.
The only hostile environment in action was the one that fired him for daring to challenge doctrine.
Do you have evidence for the cause or are you just assuming?
Discrimination against individuals is also illegal. The discriminated trait being a majority or not is irrelevant.
While it is true that having social deficiencies doesn't require a high intellect, a lot of people who are smart have social deficiencies. The common trend here is to associate those who disagree with the progressive/PC stack with social deficiency. This is essentially what google did, and it was fallacious and hypocritical to say the least.
I never said trump was a great president. I was referring to the popping of the progressive bubble that assumed hillary had it in the bag.
Better yet, just remove the damn computer and let the human drive it himself.
It's a LOT harder to trick a human than it is to trick a computer.
Then you can label the traffic light a gun nut and ignore it.
TFS makes this point.. Deface a sign enough and it fails inspection as a sign. Now the intersection has no stop sign as far as the computer's concerned.
Things like this are exactly the kind of corner cases their 'AI' will never be able to deal with, at least not with current solutions.
..or you know, maybe people gravitate to jobs that suit their personalities? Maybe those personalities are a combination of nature and nurture, and making generalizations that demonize/infantilize specific types in order to suit particular narratives is misleading at best and highly damaging at worst.
You bet that smart people have trouble dealing with the doublethink and hypocrisy that runs rampant in 'normal' society. It's irrational, and I wonder why you have the need to defend it and impose it on those who've worked hard to isolate themselves as much as possible so that they are happy. The majority of neuroatypicals are men, so it follows that industries that attract them will have male majorities.
Inculcate people strongly enough out of phase with reality and they will feel depression from the inevitable clash.
All I am saying is at work it is irrelevent whether you agree or disagree. You do not have free speech in the office PERIOD and HR and legal have guidelines to protect company image and liability of possible lawsuits.
This situation suggests that companies are also victims of runaway 'social justice.' Perhaps the thing to do is lobby accordingly so that there's less probability of such frivolous lawsuits. Using corporate policy to impose political views on employees and limit their free speech, especially after hours, is not beneficial to the employee, the corporate culture, or society.
I think if many slashdotters were born the female sex instead of male here and got discriminated against or not taken as seriously compared to a make counterpart I think the comments here would be quite different.
I think if all claims of discrimination had to come with solid evidence, we'd see a lot less complaining and a lot more productivity.
Remember if you are dominate you get in trouble as a woman and are a bitch. As a guy you are bold and have leadership. It is a double standard
If you come across as obstinate, irrational and infexible, then, yes, if you're a woman, you'll be called a bitch, and if your'e a man, you'll be called an asshole. The particular epithets are irrelevant. Either the complaint is true and you should alter your behavior, or it is bullshit and others are just afraid of your competence. Lets focus on fixing this instead of teaching people to fear words.