Another valuable quality of the US worker, is the ability to speak English in a manner clear enough to be able to be readily understood by those in meetings...especially on teleconferences.
If someone has an accent so thick that you spend most of the meeting asking "Huh?" or "Sorry could you please repeat yourself"....well, that wastes a LOT of time and can potentially lead to misunderstandings that could cause problems that could impact $$'s.
You won't get much reaction on slashdot, it's a climate change denial echo chamber.
Not so much denial as.....don't care.
I mean, I'll be dead and in the ground long before it really causes any problems, so, I'm gonna enjoy myself to the max now while i'm here and processing oxygen.
They've had beloved Apu there for a couple of decades now...So are you now advocating that we drop that show and any reference to it for political correctness?
Sheesh...get a life.
And..maybe you can learn to spell a little better?
I actually question if you are in fact an American, as that no one here uses the term that many others in the world use, 'usian'....that just isn't a term we use for ourselves here. That's a foreign term trying to change our name that we've had for 100's of years.
I'm sure that literally every poster who thinks this is wonderful would have also been OK with an elite ruling counsel deciding to overturn.. oh I dunno... Obama's election to be president. Or maybe Obamacare.
Err...damn, you had me till you mentioned "obamacare".
Even when it passed, the polled majority of US citizens didn't want it at the time...and they damned sure don't want it now, especially now that rates are skyrocketing.....
It seems in the case of obamacare..it was a small set of "elites" that shoved it down our throats....and deceived all the time, per the quotes from the designer of the program himself.
With Slack, you can set Do Not Disturb and not get any notifications.
Do you know of a way to do this with Lync?
I don't know of a way to leave it up and not get people connecting to you.
You can set it to "Appear Away", but that doesn't stop someone from messaging you and a notification pops up....the only way I've found is to just disconnect it totally.
Did everyone suddenly forget how to use pen and paper for records?
Do they not have paper they can write on till the computer system is back up and then retroactively enter the data in?
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago that it was ALL paper records and charts....surely people can still write and notate on paper till the computer system comes up.
If not, then we all SERIOUSLY need to reconsider having only electronic records for medical treatment, or a few hackers could really kill people...literally.
Am I the only one that pretty much HATES all these chat/IM and other intrusive constant on, constant communication apps and devices at work??
I've been fortunate enough to be able to finally disable fucking MS Lync.
With 100M people a day constantly trying to chat, I can't concentrate or get a fucking thing done.
I finally got everyone to understand, that even though it shows me gone/disconnected, that they can email me, or call if it is truly an urgent need.
I do ok with email since the communication is asynchronous, but with IM...someone is constantly wanting to chat about something, usually inane or something that could be solved by them if they gave it 5 extra seconds thought....and often it is multiple people at once.
Maybe I just don't multi-task well....but anyway, I find that for the most part, constant communication with IM, at least for tech work...kills my productivity and ability to concentrate and work.
On my 7 year old macbook pro, I think I used the SD card slot maybe 2 or 3 times total. Same goes for the ethernet jack. If your'e going to use it so infrequently, doesn't seem like a disaster to expect an adapter.
My 2011 MBP, is really more or less, my desktop I used for artsy stuff (photoshop, video, etc).
99% of the time, it sits on a vertical stand, hooked to a USB hub, and hardwired ethernet for good high speed networking (internet, NAS storeage/backups).
Until these articles, I didn't even realize my MBP ever *had* a SD card slot. I move my images and video via a card reader, as that I have CF cards from canon 5D3, sometimes SD, from that and my old zoom recorder, and I've even had the occasion to mess with microSD cards....
I like the reader, I'd think that trying to transfer such large files via wireless would take too much time...?
Just curious, when you need high speed network connections, how do you go about it without a wired ethernet connection?
While I can see the SD card slot not being that needed, I'm a bit hesitant to say I could do without the ethernet one...I use wireless when I have to, but I prefer wired when I can for speed and quality of signal.
If I'm on the road, I will bring it with me, but most of the time, it sits on its stand, hooked to a wacom tablet, 27" Dell monitor (U2711..was great in its day), and a buckling key IBM clone keyboard.....
In fact something of value would be gained, the principle that you can't circumvent laws on hours, holiday pay, maternity pay, redundancy pay simply by saying that someone is a self-employed contractor. It doesn't matter whether Uber stay or go
Well, say goodbye to Uber.
And say hello to a rise in drunk driving with this viable means erased.
The problem is, for some reason, is that nowadays too many people are thinking EVERY damned job is a career that you can and should make a living at.....
NOT EVERY JOB IS A LIVING CAREER JOB!!
What's next? Are we doing to stop letting kids mow your yard for extra money? Are we doing to have to now hire the neighbor kids (example in US) as fucking W2 employee with benefits and vacation...?
C'mon.....people doing Uber aren't doing this for a living, it is a side gig to pick up some extra cash.
This regulation is a solution in search of a PROBLEM...these drivers don't seem to mind the set up. No one is holding a gun to someone's head to be a Uber contractor if they don't like the deal.
Geez people...if this mentality was prevelant n the past, we'd still have a viable buggy whip industry today.
It is this 'it is OK to fuck over everyone else' attitude that pisses off everyone and turns friends into enemies.
It isn't so much trying to fuck other countries...hell, they ALL spy on each other, that's a hard fact.
But I *do* fully expect my country's government to do everything it can to promote our interests above all others, that's the main reason for having a government.
LOL, do you understand that you complaining about DaVinci Resolve not being free is funny to most?
I don't see why you say that.
The regular, free version of Davinci Resolve, is FREE...and it covers everything I need to do...I work single station, don't need to share with others in a group, I have my own noise filters, etc.
Unfortunately this version is only available in Win/Mac versions.
To get the linux version, you have to pay the Studio version which is $995.
I do hope to, in the somewhat near future, buy a Black Magic Design camera, perhaps the Ursa Mini, in which case I'd get the Resolve Studio version free with that...but until then, I don't need to pay for Resolve Studio, but if they had the Free version also available in Linux, I'd hop on that for sure..and build out a machine dedicated especially to that application alone, especially since it is becoming viable to edit video with it, and I could get off the FCPX train for awhile....
Welcome to 2016 where we have this nifty technology called virtualization. Install windows in a virtual machine, and you can run all the windows software you want.
Except,that doesn't often work well with applications that are, for instance, GPU heavy.
I tried this....awhile back trying to run Windows and Photoshop, After Effects, etc...in VMWare on my mac.
I wasn't able to get direct enough access to the hardware to run GPU intensive apps like After Effects.
VMs are great for so many things, but anything that needs intensive interaction with hardware, especially the GPU....doesn't work so well with virtualization.
I'm glad to learn that me and all the other gay, lesbian, and otherwise-non-conforming people in the world don't really count.
Shitheel.
You're welcome...
However, asshat.....if you'd learn to read with "context" you'd see I was replying to a message and thread that was concerned with variations of normal, heterosexual behavior, not the "non-conforming" peoples' acts of the world as you put it.
Geez...remember, it is STILL OK to have heterosexual behavior and discuss it, without having to relate it to, or involve other sexual preferences.
Geez, get a fucking life and quit being quite so concerned with the sexual appetites of those that differer from yours.
Heterosexuals ARE the majority on the face of the earth, for goodness sakes, let them have their time too....
This would be nice (and I"m a Linux fan, my day job involves Linux servers)....but this linux laptop offering while being nice spec wise....will it run the programs I need it for....Photoshop, Davinci Resolve. I like FCPX, but could do Premier Pro....
Trouble is, none of these run on Linux. DaVinci Resolve does have a linux version, but not the FREE version....
I do my artsy stuff on the mac...I'm still refusing to rent my software, so for all the Adobe stuff, I have OS X versions of CS6 suite....so, I was hoping for a nice mac to upgrade to.
I was actually hoping against hope that they'd have an upgraded 5K iMac ready for market that had a boosted GPU and more graphics RAM available....or even an upgraded Mac Pro.
I'm still able to work with what I have, and can hang on a bit longer...but at some point.....well.
So my advice to older programmers is: don't put your hopes in gaining even more expertise. It works against you. Start your own business, or get training in some other kind of job.
Get into contracting, where experience is very much valued.
If you have a clean record, get into GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING....you can make good money there, and contracts are long lasting (years at a time).
There is way to enjoy sex safely, that is inside a permeate, monogamous, committed relationship, where children while possibly unplanned will not be unwanted.
Trouble with that is.....it gets boring.
I might could interest you in my NEW version of Playboy I'm wanting to publish, ONLY for married men......
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If someone has an accent so thick that you spend most of the meeting asking "Huh?" or "Sorry could you please repeat yourself"....well, that wastes a LOT of time and can potentially lead to misunderstandings that could cause problems that could impact $$'s.
Not so much denial as.....don't care.
I mean, I'll be dead and in the ground long before it really causes any problems, so, I'm gonna enjoy myself to the max now while i'm here and processing oxygen.
Sadly, this means likely even more revisionist history coming our way.
This is a tool they NEVER thought of in 1984....no need for double speak and re-writing the books, just change what people say....
Whoa...hey, grow a little thicker skin and have a sense of humor....
So, I take it you're not a fan of The Simpsons ?
They've had beloved Apu there for a couple of decades now...So are you now advocating that we drop that show and any reference to it for political correctness?
Sheesh...get a life.
And..maybe you can learn to spell a little better?
Thank you...come again!!
American here....
Fixed that for you.
I actually question if you are in fact an American, as that no one here uses the term that many others in the world use, 'usian'....that just isn't a term we use for ourselves here. That's a foreign term trying to change our name that we've had for 100's of years.
Err...damn, you had me till you mentioned "obamacare".
Even when it passed, the polled majority of US citizens didn't want it at the time...and they damned sure don't want it now, especially now that rates are skyrocketing.....
It seems in the case of obamacare..it was a small set of "elites" that shoved it down our throats....and deceived all the time, per the quotes from the designer of the program himself.
Do you know of a way to do this with Lync?
I don't know of a way to leave it up and not get people connecting to you.
You can set it to "Appear Away", but that doesn't stop someone from messaging you and a notification pops up....the only way I've found is to just disconnect it totally.
I don't know of a DND option on Lync.
Do they not have paper they can write on till the computer system is back up and then retroactively enter the data in?
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago that it was ALL paper records and charts....surely people can still write and notate on paper till the computer system comes up.
If not, then we all SERIOUSLY need to reconsider having only electronic records for medical treatment, or a few hackers could really kill people...literally.
Am I the only one that pretty much HATES all these chat/IM and other intrusive constant on, constant communication apps and devices at work??
I've been fortunate enough to be able to finally disable fucking MS Lync.
With 100M people a day constantly trying to chat, I can't concentrate or get a fucking thing done.
I finally got everyone to understand, that even though it shows me gone/disconnected, that they can email me, or call if it is truly an urgent need.
I do ok with email since the communication is asynchronous, but with IM...someone is constantly wanting to chat about something, usually inane or something that could be solved by them if they gave it 5 extra seconds thought....and often it is multiple people at once.
Maybe I just don't multi-task well....but anyway, I find that for the most part, constant communication with IM, at least for tech work...kills my productivity and ability to concentrate and work.
Am I the only one that hates this?
My 2011 MBP, is really more or less, my desktop I used for artsy stuff (photoshop, video, etc).
99% of the time, it sits on a vertical stand, hooked to a USB hub, and hardwired ethernet for good high speed networking (internet, NAS storeage/backups).
Until these articles, I didn't even realize my MBP ever *had* a SD card slot. I move my images and video via a card reader, as that I have CF cards from canon 5D3, sometimes SD, from that and my old zoom recorder, and I've even had the occasion to mess with microSD cards....
I like the reader, I'd think that trying to transfer such large files via wireless would take too much time...?
Just curious, when you need high speed network connections, how do you go about it without a wired ethernet connection?
While I can see the SD card slot not being that needed, I'm a bit hesitant to say I could do without the ethernet one...I use wireless when I have to, but I prefer wired when I can for speed and quality of signal.
If I'm on the road, I will bring it with me, but most of the time, it sits on its stand, hooked to a wacom tablet, 27" Dell monitor (U2711..was great in its day), and a buckling key IBM clone keyboard.....
Careful..that sounds almost suspiciously racist!!
Remember, Black OSes matter!!
I doubt that there will be much a flood of competitors if they have to deal with these onerous regulations...
This is a new industry, but they're trying to kill it with old industry terms and over regulation.
Well, say goodbye to Uber.
And say hello to a rise in drunk driving with this viable means erased.
The problem is, for some reason, is that nowadays too many people are thinking EVERY damned job is a career that you can and should make a living at.....
NOT EVERY JOB IS A LIVING CAREER JOB!!
What's next? Are we doing to stop letting kids mow your yard for extra money? Are we doing to have to now hire the neighbor kids (example in US) as fucking W2 employee with benefits and vacation...?
C'mon.....people doing Uber aren't doing this for a living, it is a side gig to pick up some extra cash.
This regulation is a solution in search of a PROBLEM...these drivers don't seem to mind the set up. No one is holding a gun to someone's head to be a Uber contractor if they don't like the deal.
Geez people...if this mentality was prevelant n the past, we'd still have a viable buggy whip industry today.
It isn't so much trying to fuck other countries...hell, they ALL spy on each other, that's a hard fact.
But I *do* fully expect my country's government to do everything it can to promote our interests above all others, that's the main reason for having a government.
Well, if they didn't use them ON US citizens...then their actions would be just fine.
After all, they are an agency who's mission is (supposed to be) spying on foreigners and foreign nations.
It is their somewhat recent (as far as we know) turning of their sites inward and doing domestic spying that is what has gone wrong with them.
We do need them in their primary mission, spying on foreign interests.
Thanks for the insight.
Wow..wondering why this simple reply got modded down to -1???
I don't see why you say that.
The regular, free version of Davinci Resolve, is FREE...and it covers everything I need to do...I work single station, don't need to share with others in a group, I have my own noise filters, etc.
Unfortunately this version is only available in Win/Mac versions.
To get the linux version, you have to pay the Studio version which is $995.
I do hope to, in the somewhat near future, buy a Black Magic Design camera, perhaps the Ursa Mini, in which case I'd get the Resolve Studio version free with that...but until then, I don't need to pay for Resolve Studio, but if they had the Free version also available in Linux, I'd hop on that for sure..and build out a machine dedicated especially to that application alone, especially since it is becoming viable to edit video with it, and I could get off the FCPX train for awhile....
Except,that doesn't often work well with applications that are, for instance, GPU heavy.
I tried this....awhile back trying to run Windows and Photoshop, After Effects, etc...in VMWare on my mac.
I wasn't able to get direct enough access to the hardware to run GPU intensive apps like After Effects.
VMs are great for so many things, but anything that needs intensive interaction with hardware, especially the GPU....doesn't work so well with virtualization.
You're welcome...
However, asshat.....if you'd learn to read with "context" you'd see I was replying to a message and thread that was concerned with variations of normal, heterosexual behavior, not the "non-conforming" peoples' acts of the world as you put it.
Geez...remember, it is STILL OK to have heterosexual behavior and discuss it, without having to relate it to, or involve other sexual preferences.
Geez, get a fucking life and quit being quite so concerned with the sexual appetites of those that differer from yours.
Heterosexuals ARE the majority on the face of the earth, for goodness sakes, let them have their time too....
Trouble is, none of these run on Linux. DaVinci Resolve does have a linux version, but not the FREE version....
I do my artsy stuff on the mac...I'm still refusing to rent my software, so for all the Adobe stuff, I have OS X versions of CS6 suite....so, I was hoping for a nice mac to upgrade to.
I was actually hoping against hope that they'd have an upgraded 5K iMac ready for market that had a boosted GPU and more graphics RAM available....or even an upgraded Mac Pro.
I'm still able to work with what I have, and can hang on a bit longer...but at some point.....well.
Get into contracting, where experience is very much valued.
If you have a clean record, get into GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING....you can make good money there, and contracts are long lasting (years at a time).
Do make sure to incorporate yourself first.
Well, that's the only one that *really* counts....all other stuff is just getting off before the final, ultimate act.
There's a good reason they fit and work well together you know....
Trouble with that is.....it gets boring.
I might could interest you in my NEW version of Playboy I'm wanting to publish, ONLY for married men......
Every month....Same Chick!!
Really?
Wow..I mean..just...wow...
Hard to believe some people drink kool-aid THAT strong.
Personally, in the republican debates, I like Carly Fiorina the best. I would have LOVED seeing her tear Hillary apart during a debate.
I have no problem with a female president....I just don't like Hillary, and it isn't because she is somewhat female...