Uh, sorry, but with the advent of the Pixel, which costs significantly more than both put together and is far less functional than either, Google fans now wear the cost-no-object crown. iPad owners are downright frugal in comparison.
Let's wait to see what the sales of the Pixel are before we say that cost is no object to Google fans, shall we?
Reading a book is much different than reading a resume and picking out important details.
If I'm just going to scan the resume and look for keywords, I may as well just let the online candidate review system take care of it.
This is exactly why "candidate management systems", as you mentioned in your first post, don't work. So why did you mention in your post that you rely on it? All they do is scan for keywords.
If I have 18 or so years experience, but no degree, my resume will not be put above someone that only has 2 years experience plus a degree. I've seen these systems in action and the degree always gets placed before experience no matter the amount, even though I'm quite sure someone with 18 years on the job will have not just more practical experience, but will also have much more experience in general, from business practices to office politics.
Reddit plus Ars Technica could probably replace it handily. How many "summaries" could simply be replaced by a better title - or just opening up the article?
I generally like what people post on Reddit, but damn, the up-vote/down-vote herd mentality is awful. Wish they had a better way to moderate.
I rely on Hulu for most of my entertainment, since I don't have cable - and actually can't get, due to remoteness.
Without cable, how do you get broadband Internet? If satellite, then how do you avoid getting your service terminated for going over the typical cap of 10 GB/mo (source: exede.com)? And if satellite, why can't you get satellite TV?
I'm in an area that gets DSL, albeit only 2M down, through Century Link (they suck) but still fast enough to stream video as long as I'm not doing anything else on the connection.
As for satellite caps, I could get Sky Blue, which has much higher caps, but the price is also much higher. I do have a huge antenna on the roof that can pull in the major network stations from the nearest city, about 100 miles away, but I almost never watch live TV, unless it's the local news.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view of cable/sat companies), I rely on Hulu for most of my entertainment, since I don't have cable - and actually can't get, due to remoteness. No way around the site without flash.
But also: MSNBC (TRMS, occasionally Morning Joe). Pretty much any decent video site still uses flash.
Nobody cares about some underpowered turd running Windows 7 or 8 when the primary niche of netbooks, media consumption and web browsing, is done far better on an iPad or a decent Android tablet.
I purchased my first netbook ( a 1st gen EeePC) long before tablets were out. Of course I used it for consumption, but the primary purpose for me was getting work done while traveling. It was (and still is) much easier to cart around something I could put on an airplane tray table and work than it was to lug around my 15 inch laptop and end up slumping in my seat to view the screen.
A lot of other traveling workers did the same. Sure, I would never edit video or music on one, but any kind of document processing or other "office" type work could easily be done. As others here have said, I'd buy another one - the form factor suits me. I still use my Aspire One that I bought last year for most things these days.
Spend your spare time chasing kids off your lawn with a broom, yelling at clouds and getting the 4 pm dinner special at your local diner.
If you're single/divorced/widowed and don't have anyone to support, definitely go this route.
At 60 you should have already realized long ago that money's fine, but if you have enough to live comfortably (not that a greeter job would provide that. really), then you have that much more time/energy to do other things you really like - some of which may turn into a nice side or freelance business.
I've been watching ABC's hokey "Once Upon a Time". It started out all well and good, mostly about Prince Charming, Snow White and the Queen. Then they added Jiminy Cricket, then Tinkerbell. I thought, "Oh well, it's all Disney, let's see how this plays out." Then came the Mad Hatter, Mulan, Captain Hook, and, in this week's episode, Dr. Frankenstein. Never mind that Universal actually owns the copyright on the image of the Frankenstein monster image (the story itself is in the public domain, from what I understand). To be fair, they never did actually show the monster's likeness in the episode.
So, look for an upcoming episode featuring Darth Vader as another villain.
But really... how 'useful' is the Internet?? Sure, I can get email and facebook and twitter and all kinds of almost instantaneous communication. I can look up things and get answers really fast. But how has that changed my life from what it was even 10 years ago?? Very little. It's great to be able to access IMDB and look up the actors in a movie I'm watching, but who really needs it?...
The sad fact is that hardly anyone really needs high speed Internet at home. Many just want it.
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It's great to download movies and books. Love Kindle and NetFlix. Used to just go to the library or video store to get books or movies. Before that, I just didn't watch that much TV.
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The Internet is a nice convenience, it is far from a necessity.Except to people who have never learned how to live without it.
It sounds like you're looking at internet use purely from a media consumer's point of view. And that's fine.
But, for a lot of us, it's a business tool, whether it's for our own content delivery (so you - a consumer, or another business, can consume) to long distance communication that wouldn't have been possible for us either financially or technically just a few years ago.
So, while you may not think it's a necessity (again, that's fine for you), it *IS* for some of us. I happen to live in a very rural area (NW Wisconsin) and conduct my business online. I'd be more than happy to pay for something faster than 1.5M, but it's just not available. There's BluSky satellite, which offers (much) faster speeds, but then we' re back to data caps.
On the other hand, as a contractor you don't need to provide your degree, just your CV. Oh, no CV? Time to get cracking.
I know it comes down to semantics, but I'd go so far as to say no CV, rather a brochure to market what you've done, client testimonials (perhaps without giving company names away) and what you have to offer.
I think the biggest mistake a freelancer can make is to set themselves up as someone applying for a job, rather than positioning themselves as someone who'll get a (specific) project done.
That said, if you don't have enough material to put something like this together, I agree: get cracking.
The LA Unified School District, starved for funds, has cut one week of instruction from the school year; it is threatening to cut a month from the school year if Proposition 30 (temporary tax hikes) doesn't go through. Public education in California is headed into the toilet, and it's taking the students with it.
LAUSD is probably the worst managed school district I've seen. You have things like the old Ambassador Hotel being converted into a "prestige" school t the tune of over half a billion dollarsw, while simultaneously shuttering other schools that could still serve a purpose for their communities. Or the Roybal Learning Center, coming in at close to 400 million. Or the Visual and Performing Arts High School, coming in at a little over 200 million.
And truthfully, it doesn't take much investigation to see that this is happening all across the country. We're putting more value on real estate than we are on our kids.
It might help if the cities he mentioned had any soul but I grew up in San Fran and let me tell you, after hours its a ghost town, and at other times of the day it is just a constant reminder of how completely f*ck*d we are as a society.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I moved to SF as a single person. My parents, who lived in the suburban sprawl of Phoenix, AZ, were always worried about me. It was hard for them to imagine that there were vibrant communities throughout the entire city that provided safety for everyone living in the area. In fact, I don't know of a single area in SF proper that there aren't corner stores and eateries that are open past midnight.
It was also hard for them to realize that it was relatively easy to become friends with owners and other patrons of all these corner spots, and we'd all eventually come to care for each other. If something happened to one of us, the rest of us would inquire what was happening, if there were anything any of us could do, whatever. Of course they couldn't understand that. Suburbs just don't offer that.
If anything is a ghost town, it's suburban America. But I can assure you, such a compact, diverse city as SF is hardly a ghost town. Growing up in SF, surely you realize that you never had to travel many blocks to find plenty of human activity. If not, you were most likely a shut-in.
What are you going to do, go be a 45 or 50 year old entering a new path? Right. That'll be taken seriously.
Many, many people switch careers mid-life. There's no reason to believe that you wouldn't be taken seriously. Whether an advanced degree would help or not is debatable, but switching careers (often to something completely different) happens often.
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.
She didn't leave to just go somewhere and vegetate. She's concentrating on her writing. I presume she'll be getting paid for it, too.
You know, you can start to focus on another passion/interest of yours while still working. If it becomes important enough, you'll eventually make an exit plan and figure out a way to live off it. You don't have to be rich to do it.
What these comments are dancing around is that if 0bama is reelected, businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach to the economy we have now, along with a massive tax hike. The US will likely continue with the Great Depression II in that case.
On the other hand, if Romney is elected, the country has a fighting chance to recover.
Which is a really myopic and uninformed way of looking at things.
Business taxes (and incentives) are determined at the state level, not federal level. Companies don't pick up and move to other states or anywhere else because of federal elections.
I don't use a "Start Page" in the sense iGoogle was originally intended to be, but I use it often, because I can easily put all the useful gadgets I use throughout the day (converters, dictionaries, timezone checkers, shipping rates, etc.), so I'll miss it too.
I suppose I can find replacements for most of what I use on yahoo or some other service. I haven't checked, though.
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Uh, sorry, but with the advent of the Pixel, which costs significantly more than both put together and is far less functional than either, Google fans now wear the cost-no-object crown. iPad owners are downright frugal in comparison.
Let's wait to see what the sales of the Pixel are before we say that cost is no object to Google fans, shall we?
... I like the iOS user experience better and the selection of apps is much nicer.
I don't believe this to be true any more.
Most major app players on iOS have also released Android versions of their software. The selection of available software is quite comparable.
No. But jokes prove nothing, on the 'net they spread so rapidly and so widely as to be useless for evaluating attitudes.
It wasn't just on the internet. The jokes and jeers were also in print - fairly respectable tech mags, at that.
Reading a book is much different than reading a resume and picking out important details.
If I'm just going to scan the resume and look for keywords, I may as well just let the online candidate review system take care of it.
This is exactly why "candidate management systems", as you mentioned in your first post, don't work. So why did you mention in your post that you rely on it? All they do is scan for keywords.
If I have 18 or so years experience, but no degree, my resume will not be put above someone that only has 2 years experience plus a degree. I've seen these systems in action and the degree always gets placed before experience no matter the amount, even though I'm quite sure someone with 18 years on the job will have not just more practical experience, but will also have much more experience in general, from business practices to office politics.
Reddit plus Ars Technica could probably replace it handily. How many "summaries" could simply be replaced by a better title - or just opening up the article?
I generally like what people post on Reddit, but damn, the up-vote/down-vote herd mentality is awful. Wish they had a better way to moderate.
I rely on Hulu for most of my entertainment, since I don't have cable - and actually can't get, due to remoteness.
Without cable, how do you get broadband Internet? If satellite, then how do you avoid getting your service terminated for going over the typical cap of 10 GB/mo (source: exede.com)? And if satellite, why can't you get satellite TV?
I'm in an area that gets DSL, albeit only 2M down, through Century Link (they suck) but still fast enough to stream video as long as I'm not doing anything else on the connection.
As for satellite caps, I could get Sky Blue, which has much higher caps, but the price is also much higher. I do have a huge antenna on the roof that can pull in the major network stations from the nearest city, about 100 miles away, but I almost never watch live TV, unless it's the local news.
But also: MSNBC (TRMS, occasionally Morning Joe). Pretty much any decent video site still uses flash.
>> There's an App for that...
> That uses HTTP...
to make API calls...
As any web browser would do.
There's an App for that...
That uses HTTP...
I liked other elements of it, but gad, the finger dragging from top to bottom. Don't like it.
Yes, please, let's give Congress another way to ignore the bigger problems of the day...
Nobody cares about some underpowered turd running Windows 7 or 8 when the primary niche of netbooks, media consumption and web browsing, is done far better on an iPad or a decent Android tablet.
I purchased my first netbook ( a 1st gen EeePC) long before tablets were out. Of course I used it for consumption, but the primary purpose for me was getting work done while traveling. It was (and still is) much easier to cart around something I could put on an airplane tray table and work than it was to lug around my 15 inch laptop and end up slumping in my seat to view the screen.
A lot of other traveling workers did the same. Sure, I would never edit video or music on one, but any kind of document processing or other "office" type work could easily be done. As others here have said, I'd buy another one - the form factor suits me. I still use my Aspire One that I bought last year for most things these days.
Spend your spare time chasing kids off your lawn with a broom, yelling at clouds and getting the 4 pm dinner special at your local diner.
If you're single/divorced/widowed and don't have anyone to support, definitely go this route.
At 60 you should have already realized long ago that money's fine, but if you have enough to live comfortably (not that a greeter job would provide that. really), then you have that much more time/energy to do other things you really like - some of which may turn into a nice side or freelance business.
I've been watching ABC's hokey "Once Upon a Time". It started out all well and good, mostly about Prince Charming, Snow White and the Queen. Then they added Jiminy Cricket, then Tinkerbell. I thought, "Oh well, it's all Disney, let's see how this plays out." Then came the Mad Hatter, Mulan, Captain Hook, and, in this week's episode, Dr. Frankenstein. Never mind that Universal actually owns the copyright on the image of the Frankenstein monster image (the story itself is in the public domain, from what I understand). To be fair, they never did actually show the monster's likeness in the episode.
So, look for an upcoming episode featuring Darth Vader as another villain.
What's actually wrong with Unity? Is there something you can point to, instead of just "ZOMG it's new I don't like it?"
It relies on Compiz for 3D. I'd be a Unity fan if it weren't for Compiz.
I know nothing about Diaspora, but I'm sure it's a hell of a lot more than you have ever done.
How can you be so sure? S/He's an AC, just like you.
But really ... how 'useful' is the Internet?? Sure, I can get email and facebook and twitter and all kinds of almost instantaneous communication. I can look up things and get answers really fast. But how has that changed my life from what it was even 10 years ago?? Very little. It's great to be able to access IMDB and look up the actors in a movie I'm watching, but who really needs it?...
The sad fact is that hardly anyone really needs high speed Internet at home. Many just want it.
It sounds like you're looking at internet use purely from a media consumer's point of view. And that's fine.
But, for a lot of us, it's a business tool, whether it's for our own content delivery (so you - a consumer, or another business, can consume) to long distance communication that wouldn't have been possible for us either financially or technically just a few years ago.
So, while you may not think it's a necessity (again, that's fine for you), it *IS* for some of us. I happen to live in a very rural area (NW Wisconsin) and conduct my business online. I'd be more than happy to pay for something faster than 1.5M, but it's just not available. There's BluSky satellite, which offers (much) faster speeds, but then we' re back to data caps.
On the other hand, as a contractor you don't need to provide your degree, just your CV. Oh, no CV? Time to get cracking.
I know it comes down to semantics, but I'd go so far as to say no CV, rather a brochure to market what you've done, client testimonials (perhaps without giving company names away) and what you have to offer.
I think the biggest mistake a freelancer can make is to set themselves up as someone applying for a job, rather than positioning themselves as someone who'll get a (specific) project done.
That said, if you don't have enough material to put something like this together, I agree: get cracking.
The LA Unified School District, starved for funds, has cut one week of instruction from the school year; it is threatening to cut a month from the school year if Proposition 30 (temporary tax hikes) doesn't go through. Public education in California is headed into the toilet, and it's taking the students with it.
LAUSD is probably the worst managed school district I've seen. You have things like the old Ambassador Hotel being converted into a "prestige" school t the tune of over half a billion dollarsw, while simultaneously shuttering other schools that could still serve a purpose for their communities. Or the Roybal Learning Center, coming in at close to 400 million. Or the Visual and Performing Arts High School, coming in at a little over 200 million.
And truthfully, it doesn't take much investigation to see that this is happening all across the country. We're putting more value on real estate than we are on our kids.
It might help if the cities he mentioned had any soul but I grew up in San Fran and let me tell you, after hours its a ghost town, and at other times of the day it is just a constant reminder of how completely f*ck*d we are as a society.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I moved to SF as a single person. My parents, who lived in the suburban sprawl of Phoenix, AZ, were always worried about me. It was hard for them to imagine that there were vibrant communities throughout the entire city that provided safety for everyone living in the area. In fact, I don't know of a single area in SF proper that there aren't corner stores and eateries that are open past midnight.
It was also hard for them to realize that it was relatively easy to become friends with owners and other patrons of all these corner spots, and we'd all eventually come to care for each other. If something happened to one of us, the rest of us would inquire what was happening, if there were anything any of us could do, whatever. Of course they couldn't understand that. Suburbs just don't offer that.
If anything is a ghost town, it's suburban America. But I can assure you, such a compact, diverse city as SF is hardly a ghost town. Growing up in SF, surely you realize that you never had to travel many blocks to find plenty of human activity. If not, you were most likely a shut-in.
What are you going to do, go be a 45 or 50 year old entering a new path? Right. That'll be taken seriously.
Many, many people switch careers mid-life. There's no reason to believe that you wouldn't be taken seriously. Whether an advanced degree would help or not is debatable, but switching careers (often to something completely different) happens often.
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.
She didn't leave to just go somewhere and vegetate. She's concentrating on her writing. I presume she'll be getting paid for it, too.
You know, you can start to focus on another passion/interest of yours while still working. If it becomes important enough, you'll eventually make an exit plan and figure out a way to live off it. You don't have to be rich to do it.
What these comments are dancing around is that if 0bama is reelected, businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach to the economy we have now, along with a massive tax hike. The US will likely continue with the Great Depression II in that case.
On the other hand, if Romney is elected, the country has a fighting chance to recover.
Which is a really myopic and uninformed way of looking at things.
Business taxes (and incentives) are determined at the state level, not federal level. Companies don't pick up and move to other states or anywhere else because of federal elections.
I suppose I can find replacements for most of what I use on yahoo or some other service. I haven't checked, though.
Represent your employer externally, if possible, at conferences, etc.
This is really bad advice. Represent YOURSELF and what you've accomplished, not your employer.
When you start representing someone other than yourself, with or without their permission, you put yourself in a legally precarious position.