Not only that, if I move into an area where I don't have connectivity for a reason, the text doesn't stop. I can continue reading until I can't "turn the page".
Not only that, I can skip over the uninteresting stuff or things I already am aware of. Plus I can jump back a paragraph if I zoned out while reading or was distracted by a hottie walking by.
Plus when creating a message, I can edit it, change the order, or delete bits that are redundant or dangle.
And I can type in my message in the nude. While I'm not bothered by it, others might be:)
It's really not Windows that's the issue. It's the vendors that don't support perfectly good equipment on newer versions of Windows.
I have an old HP Scanner that was perfectly functional on my Windows XP system. And it worked on my Windows 7 system using the internal scanning tool of Microsoft. It doesn't work on Windows 10 however.
I have a Sony Handycam that records to tape. The software to retrieve the video from the tape only works on Windows XP. I can't get it working in VirtualBox running XP on my Windows 7 system.
My nVidia cards (couple of older 560's) don't work with Windows 10 but work fine on Windows 7 (well, as far as the driver monkeys go anyway).
Neither of these systems needs to be on the 'net. They're just in place to let me keep using the other hardware that works fine on XP or 7.
On the flip side, a clean install of Windows 10 Pro on a brand new system (bought and built back in January) has a known audio buzzing problem. Playing videos or songs, or watching YouTube has the audio *buzzzz* for a second or two.
About a year after my ex bailed several years back, I realized I hadn't even turned on the TV for months. Busy reading, learning guitar, going on snowshoe hikes, bicycling, woodworking, etc, that I just couldn't make time to sit down to watch TV.
She'd watch Oprah, Dr Phil, Dr Oz, Gilmore Girls, Sex In The City, and others. I'd sit with her and semi-watch it but it was in an effort to participate in things she wanted to do.
Yea, I'm not into sports either. My girlfriend asked me if I'd watch the Superbowl with her (she follows her team) and about half way through the game (the Broncos one last year?) she told me to get out and play my guitar:)
"About 6 percent of nurses in the United States are men. However, men are represented in much higher numbers in nursing specialties that also pay higher salaries. For example, 49 percent of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in the U.S. are men. In 2005, the average salary for CRNAs was $160,000, significantly higher than the average floor nurses, who are mostly women. Of course, a master’s degree is required for a nursing specialization such as CRNA, which also increases the take-home salary."
"Men seem to go for higher education in nursing than women do, increasing their take-home earnings. There are more men in RN programs than in LPN programs, and more men in BSN programs than in RN diploma or ADN programs."
"Why is that? The data seemed especially striking because women don't just make up the overwhelming share of staff nurses, but represent about 90% of Chief Nursing Officers, too."
"I took the question to our in-house think tank, the Nursing Executive Center. (Collectively, they have several hundred years of experience studying the nursing industry, working in it, or both.)"
"One reason, they suggested: Some may be where the nurses work."
""Anecdotally, I hear that many men enter the “high tech” nursing specialties—such as critical care," the Center's Jennifer Stewart told me. "These are often higher paid nursing specialties." "
""Men also tend to aim for higher levels of education," Katherine Virkstis pointed out. "There are more men in RN programs than in LPN programs, and more men in BSN programs than in RN diploma or ADN programs.""
"Male registered nurses (RNs) make more than $5,000 per year than their female counterparts across most settings, specialty areas and positions, according to a UCSF-led study, and this earnings gap has not improved over the last three decades."
Yea, the dictionary ones are the worst. I'll do a search and pop into a site only to not find what I was looking for. A page search doesn't even find the words I was searching for on the page.
I think someone else made the same comment though. $12 a year was for an ad filled magazine. The ads paid part of the costs of printing, distribution, and paying for staff. With no ads, the price would have to go up.
I'm more in favor of paying my share of whatever the ad revenue brought in for whatever I'm reading. Not for the entire site.
On my iPad, I get the same ad on various forums and news type sites. I pop over to Amazon to check out the price of a specific guitar. From then on, whether or not I buy the guitar, I get ads from the various guitar sites (sweetwater, reverb, etc). The same ad, over and over again, following me around the 'net.
1 dollar a week is 4 to 5 dollars a month or $52 a year not $50 a month.
I have to weigh whether the few times I go to Wired is worth $1 month though. Do I really read enough Wired to justify that cost? I used to have a subscription years ago but the content wasn't interesting enough (kind of a People magazine of Tech) to maintain it.
Well I do have a CentOS 7 disk in addition to the Windows disk. Since I do game (Rocksmith), I am somewhat limited in my options; Microsoft, Apple, or Sony. At least as far as gaming is concerned.
I am right on the cusp of playing guitar without using the Windows partition but I still pop in now and then.
On the plus side, the flakiness of Firefox in Windows 10 is about the same level of flakiness of Firefox in CentOS (the nVidia drivers in both places I imagine) so other than Rocksmith and Carmageddon, using one or the other just depends on which one I select on boot.
Yep. That's where I was. I simply let it go and then tested my apps. Everything seems to still work but there wasn't a clean way to prevent the upgrade. I'm still checking some of the third tier apps I use (don't run very often but want to check) and can just reinstall Windows 7 if I find something horribly bad (yes, I have regular backups as well).
Sure but that was the results of one of the research papers. Women feel they must know 100% about something before attempting it where Men feel like they must know about 60% about something before attempting it and will learn the rest on the job.
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Started with computers in 1980 as a Typesetter. Then a Timex Sinclair followed by a Color Computer and then an IBM. Professionally coding in 84. Building LANs and managing networks in 86. On the Internet at Johns Hopkins APL in 89 and managing 3+Share. Then 3+Open, LAN Manager, and Windows NT, then Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, and Linux at NASA. Now FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, and Tru64.
Downloaded Slackware in '93 I guess with all the 3.5" floppies. Mandrake, Red Hat, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, and still Slackware on my home gear (along with Windows and Apple gear).
Sure, but it's one that I recall. That doesn't mean there aren't quite a few more who indulge and did it right or at least didn't perform a DIY episiotomy. I don't follow sports so for all I know, some guys might just cut off their own balls but I don't think it's a fair comparison.
Work has decreed they will no longer provide a Company phone for us in IT per the corporate overlords and that we have to load the company email application on my personal phone, for which I'll receive a few bucks compensation a month (but they also dropped the internet compensation they've been paying for years).
Rather than giving the corporate monkeys World access to my personal phone, I added a second phone sufficient to run the company email application and isolated it from my personal data. New Apple account, don't browse the web other than for work related stuff, don't check my personal email.
16G is fine for what I need it for. More than that would be a waste of space.
It's the "there isn't a woman in the world" comment I'm responding to as there was at least one woman in Maryland I believe who attached a dildo to a saber saw and had to go to the hospital because the dildo came off.
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[John]
Not only that, if I move into an area where I don't have connectivity for a reason, the text doesn't stop. I can continue reading until I can't "turn the page".
[John]
Not only that, I can skip over the uninteresting stuff or things I already am aware of. Plus I can jump back a paragraph if I zoned out while reading or was distracted by a hottie walking by.
Plus when creating a message, I can edit it, change the order, or delete bits that are redundant or dangle.
And I can type in my message in the nude. While I'm not bothered by it, others might be :)
[John]
It's really not Windows that's the issue. It's the vendors that don't support perfectly good equipment on newer versions of Windows.
I have an old HP Scanner that was perfectly functional on my Windows XP system. And it worked on my Windows 7 system using the internal scanning tool of Microsoft. It doesn't work on Windows 10 however.
I have a Sony Handycam that records to tape. The software to retrieve the video from the tape only works on Windows XP. I can't get it working in VirtualBox running XP on my Windows 7 system.
My nVidia cards (couple of older 560's) don't work with Windows 10 but work fine on Windows 7 (well, as far as the driver monkeys go anyway).
Neither of these systems needs to be on the 'net. They're just in place to let me keep using the other hardware that works fine on XP or 7.
On the flip side, a clean install of Windows 10 Pro on a brand new system (bought and built back in January) has a known audio buzzing problem. Playing videos or songs, or watching YouTube has the audio *buzzzz* for a second or two.
[John]
About a year after my ex bailed several years back, I realized I hadn't even turned on the TV for months. Busy reading, learning guitar, going on snowshoe hikes, bicycling, woodworking, etc, that I just couldn't make time to sit down to watch TV.
She'd watch Oprah, Dr Phil, Dr Oz, Gilmore Girls, Sex In The City, and others. I'd sit with her and semi-watch it but it was in an effort to participate in things she wanted to do.
[John]
Yea, I'm not into sports either. My girlfriend asked me if I'd watch the Superbowl with her (she follows her team) and about half way through the game (the Broncos one last year?) she told me to get out and play my guitar :)
[John]
It's interesting to read that while male nurses are 6% to 10% of the total, female nurses still make less than a male nurse makes.
http://nursinglink.monster.com...
"About 6 percent of nurses in the United States are men. However, men are represented in much higher numbers in nursing specialties that also pay higher salaries. For example, 49 percent of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in the U.S. are men. In 2005, the average salary for CRNAs was $160,000, significantly higher than the average floor nurses, who are mostly women. Of course, a master’s degree is required for a nursing specialization such as CRNA, which also increases the take-home salary."
"Men seem to go for higher education in nursing than women do, increasing their take-home earnings. There are more men in RN programs than in LPN programs, and more men in BSN programs than in RN diploma or ADN programs."
https://www.advisory.com/daily...
"Why is that? The data seemed especially striking because women don't just make up the overwhelming share of staff nurses, but represent about 90% of Chief Nursing Officers, too."
"I took the question to our in-house think tank, the Nursing Executive Center. (Collectively, they have several hundred years of experience studying the nursing industry, working in it, or both.)"
"One reason, they suggested: Some may be where the nurses work."
""Anecdotally, I hear that many men enter the “high tech” nursing specialties—such as critical care," the Center's Jennifer Stewart told me. "These are often higher paid nursing specialties." "
""Men also tend to aim for higher levels of education," Katherine Virkstis pointed out. "There are more men in RN programs than in LPN programs, and more men in BSN programs than in RN diploma or ADN programs.""
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015...
"Male registered nurses (RNs) make more than $5,000 per year than their female counterparts across most settings, specialty areas and positions, according to a UCSF-led study, and this earnings gap has not improved over the last three decades."
[John]
Babylon 5?
[John]
Yea, the dictionary ones are the worst. I'll do a search and pop into a site only to not find what I was looking for. A page search doesn't even find the words I was searching for on the page.
Assholes.
[John]
Yep, I've never had a problem with "unskippable" ads.
[John]
I think someone else made the same comment though. $12 a year was for an ad filled magazine. The ads paid part of the costs of printing, distribution, and paying for staff. With no ads, the price would have to go up.
I'm more in favor of paying my share of whatever the ad revenue brought in for whatever I'm reading. Not for the entire site.
[John]
On my iPad, I get the same ad on various forums and news type sites. I pop over to Amazon to check out the price of a specific guitar. From then on, whether or not I buy the guitar, I get ads from the various guitar sites (sweetwater, reverb, etc). The same ad, over and over again, following me around the 'net.
[John]
1 dollar a week is 4 to 5 dollars a month or $52 a year not $50 a month.
I have to weigh whether the few times I go to Wired is worth $1 month though. Do I really read enough Wired to justify that cost? I used to have a subscription years ago but the content wasn't interesting enough (kind of a People magazine of Tech) to maintain it.
[John]
Installing a Novell Network. We all gathered in the conference room to watch.
[John]
Okay, that was funny :)
[John]
North of Virginia? At least in Northern Virginia the winters can be somewhat crappy although most of the crappy is really the crappy drivers.
[John]
Well I do have a CentOS 7 disk in addition to the Windows disk. Since I do game (Rocksmith), I am somewhat limited in my options; Microsoft, Apple, or Sony. At least as far as gaming is concerned.
I am right on the cusp of playing guitar without using the Windows partition but I still pop in now and then.
On the plus side, the flakiness of Firefox in Windows 10 is about the same level of flakiness of Firefox in CentOS (the nVidia drivers in both places I imagine) so other than Rocksmith and Carmageddon, using one or the other just depends on which one I select on boot.
[John]
EDLIN son, EDLIN. Now get off my lawn.
[John]
Yep. That's where I was. I simply let it go and then tested my apps. Everything seems to still work but there wasn't a clean way to prevent the upgrade. I'm still checking some of the third tier apps I use (don't run very often but want to check) and can just reinstall Windows 7 if I find something horribly bad (yes, I have regular backups as well).
[John]
Sure but that was the results of one of the research papers. Women feel they must know 100% about something before attempting it where Men feel like they must know about 60% about something before attempting it and will learn the rest on the job.
[John]
Started with computers in 1980 as a Typesetter. Then a Timex Sinclair followed by a Color Computer and then an IBM. Professionally coding in 84. Building LANs and managing networks in 86. On the Internet at Johns Hopkins APL in 89 and managing 3+Share. Then 3+Open, LAN Manager, and Windows NT, then Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, and Linux at NASA. Now FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, and Tru64.
Downloaded Slackware in '93 I guess with all the 3.5" floppies. Mandrake, Red Hat, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, and still Slackware on my home gear (along with Windows and Apple gear).
[John]
Sure, but it's one that I recall. That doesn't mean there aren't quite a few more who indulge and did it right or at least didn't perform a DIY episiotomy. I don't follow sports so for all I know, some guys might just cut off their own balls but I don't think it's a fair comparison.
[John]
Work has decreed they will no longer provide a Company phone for us in IT per the corporate overlords and that we have to load the company email application on my personal phone, for which I'll receive a few bucks compensation a month (but they also dropped the internet compensation they've been paying for years).
Rather than giving the corporate monkeys World access to my personal phone, I added a second phone sufficient to run the company email application and isolated it from my personal data. New Apple account, don't browse the web other than for work related stuff, don't check my personal email.
16G is fine for what I need it for. More than that would be a waste of space.
[John]
It's the "there isn't a woman in the world" comment I'm responding to as there was at least one woman in Maryland I believe who attached a dildo to a saber saw and had to go to the hospital because the dildo came off.
No, I'm not looking it up :)
[John]
Waiting for the protests from the folks who believe Sunscreen actually causes cancer (chemicals in the lotion vs the sun's rays).
[John]