Where the fuck did you get that from? The i3 laptop in question went from working on MS Win7 to being unbearable slow on MS Win10, something many have observed. It's just not designed for the older hardware, which is fair enough, but unfortunately the user installed an OS that was unsuitable. Calling me "delusional" only reflects on yourself since reality argued otherwise, and is really just a cowardly way of calling me a lair if you think what I wrote does not reflect what actually happened. Perhaps think a bit before handing out insults when someone is doing no more than providing an anecdote of where the right tool for the job is different to the right tool for your maxed out gaming rig or whatever the only computer you are using is.
It's because they want people previously trained in their internal company procedures by magic instead of actually training people. They either find none of those magical creatures or they get bullshit artists instead. What they do not understand is that with either a bit of training or merely just time on the job a large number of those applicants that do not come up to scratch with the unrealistic yardsticks are going to be just as good or far better than the bullshit artists that claimed they met the yardsticks.
You seriously put up Silicon Valley as an example that is supposed to apply to tech workers across the entire USA? While you are at it, why not put in salaries at Goldman Sachs as if that is normal everywhere?
It's not all that different from the old indentured servitude in some ways. A more honest way to do it would be to make them citizens and then employ them under the same circumstances as any other citizen that applies. For a long list of reasons that honest approach is not politically viable while the dishonest one with both control and downward wage pressure on citizens is. IMHO immigration in general is a huge mess and the H1-B is just one little twisted aspect of it.
For a bit of the 1990s I was unemployed, along with many other engineers, during an "engineering skills shortage" that justified bringing in cheaper migrant workers for jobs that were never advertised to citizens.
Ah, an intellectual with a highly reasoned argument and not childish sandpit yelling has appeared from nowhere to set us to rights! How am I the problem? Do you have an answer or was I wrong and it's just childish sandpit yelling?
Having 'educators' doing the teaching has been a disastor.
I don't normally make an issue of typos but that is funny. More seriously, it used to work very well in earlier times in the USA and it works very well in other places today. It turns out that subject matter experts know stuff that others do not - who would have thought?
and better at allocating multiple processor tasks than Windows 7.
I think a part of the problem is that many of those tasks are not something the user wants to have running while they are running a game or other single task. Just dropping back to MS Windows 7 removes some of those tasks dedicated to advertising etc that would be better scheduled for a time when the game or application is not running.
You may ignore it as only a problem with low end machines, but the resource issues with MS Windows 10 make it a very poor choice for some of the machines it is on. Over Xmas I made an i3 machine that is only used for Skype and Firefox usable again by rolling it back to MS Windows 7. The owner joked that the ten in MS Windows 10 is the minimum number of minutes it takes to start up.
You do know that they did the same with Vista? Right? Windows 7 is just a re-branded version of Windows Vista. In other words, Microsoft did double-down on Vista
It's not quite the same. There's still a Vista box here from someone who did an end run around IT to bring what was initially an utter piece of shit onto the premises. It wasn't just the drivers, it couldn't even connect to a MS Domain or Workgroup without some command line fucking about. After all the fixes it's stable and like MS Windows 7 with a few bits missing, many parts on the configuration side. I think it's even missing "ipconfig" from memory.
So surely, you're exaggerating. Maybe "some" or "many" games stop working but not "all".
Some stuff with 8 bit calls falls over. In my case currently that is an expensive niche CAD program (which works well on linux under WINE) and of all unlikely things a USB dongle licence updater (need to keep a WinXP machine around to run it).
Unless you're over 120 years old, your education wasn't THAT well-rounded
There's an old joke that starts - "throughout the civilized world, and America..." (Goon Show "The Whistling Spy Enigma" (broadcast September 28, 1954) So maybe closer to 70 years in other places:)
PS - it was a JOKE, don't go all "unamerican" on me just for a joke pointing out that the Oxbridge stuff was out of fashion in the USA written by someone from the English working class in the first place. PPS - as an aside, that episode starts with a line read with a Chicago accent - "The crimes you are about to hear have all been specially committed for this program".
Among the people I went to university with the guy that did the "useless" doctorate in history is currently the one with the highest salary. The philosophy etc types are the ones that end up in management early instead of passing through technical positions first.
Millennials have been SUCKERED into thinking they HAVE to have a college degree
It's because lazy HR people use that as their required evidence that an applicant can be bothered to get up in the morning and turn up for something. No degree, no chance with those folks. The trend spread and it seemed that for every trivial office clerical job and many other things besides a degree has become what is needed to get in the door for an interview. A lot of smaller places that don't have full time HR have not fallen into that trap, but unfortunately many outsource hiring to the sort of employment agencies that do have such lazy HR gatekeepers.
At some point it became less and less acceptable to tell anyone they sucked or needed to get their shit together because it wouldn't fly
That sort of stuff, and the remedial education that follows, was deemed too expensive so it doesn't happen much any more. Teachers are just as capable of it as they used to be, perhaps even more so, but there has to be enough of them to do the job.
idiotic administrators
I don't know when it started but having non-teachers manage schools has turned out to be just as stupid an idea as it appears. Nice balance sheets year after year but turning out a lot of kids that can't read.
I didn't vote for the guy, but he made it to president so that alone deserves respect from every single American
Why? Obama didn't get that. Especially from the Birther-in-chief Trump himself. Trump should have to earn respect just like everyone else. His past is a massive handicap but it is possible that he will do something to earn respect.
Does someone who heads a cyber-security company have to actually be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification?
Not the problem, the problem is the inability of someone to distinguish such a person from a used car salesman with a slick line in pretending to be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification. A person without any exposure to an industry is going to make newbie mistakes. That's not the sort of thing you want in an important post.
That's a vanishingly rare situation and that person probably actually knew far more about what they are managing than you are stating. I'm almost certain you didn't see them when they were new to that industry - is that the case? The newbie mistakes would have happened before you met the person.
Where I am a politically well connected accounts clerk (not even an actual accountant) was put in charge of a large railway company and demonstrated what usually happens in that situation. When the topic is utterly alien to you fuckups happen, such as not training new people to replace those who leave. Maybe she thought driverless trains had got to the point where they can do more than just sit there. Think back to what you've seen yourself and you'll find a lot of examples of people out of their depth. I've certainly seen a lot. One "rockstar" CEO I worked for managed to black out an entire city for a few weeks. He talked a LOT about "quality" but preventative maintainance was just a cost center that could be cut. It turned out that having a work schedule of several months to repair the only backup line isn't all that useful when you need the backup line NOW.
It was very obviously a deal to get Hillary off his back during the primaries. As for idiot, she's a lot of things so you have no excuse for choosing one of the few insults that doesn't fit.
Good point, people are often appointed to lead Intelligence organizations despite exhibiting no sign of intelligence. That is not a good thing. Neither is this current situation.
And also, why are you insulting our president?
It seems to have been the thing to do for the last eight years and more. Birther stuff and all that. Going AWOL and all that. Why suddenly expect people to adhere to standards that the current President elect did not adhere to?
Protect American jobs! The only cost is screwing some foreigners!
It's a very old approach with very old examples of unintended consequences. The reason the fourth crusade ended up in Constantiople/Byzantium/Istanbul in 1204 is mainly because of some tariffs. A current example is kids getting fat on corn syrup because cane sugar is a protected industry and jacked the prices up due to not having to worry about cheap imports. Another is car manufacturing moving to Mexico to take advantage of cheap steel instead of the expensive US stuff in a protected market.
Maybe, but he knows fuckall about the topic he's supposed to be dealing with. It's like hiring someone from Pepsi to run a telecommunications company or a Microsoft exec to run a phone manufacturing company - no actually far far more stupid than either of those catastrophic appointments.
For contrast, note that Bush appointed a crony as head of FEMA
Contrast? It's the same sort of fish out of water crony story so there is no contrast.
There's a vast amount of that in the health industry where frequently the new patent is written in such a way as to also prevent competitors being able to use the old one.
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Where the fuck did you get that from? The i3 laptop in question went from working on MS Win7 to being unbearable slow on MS Win10, something many have observed. It's just not designed for the older hardware, which is fair enough, but unfortunately the user installed an OS that was unsuitable. Calling me "delusional" only reflects on yourself since reality argued otherwise, and is really just a cowardly way of calling me a lair if you think what I wrote does not reflect what actually happened.
Perhaps think a bit before handing out insults when someone is doing no more than providing an anecdote of where the right tool for the job is different to the right tool for your maxed out gaming rig or whatever the only computer you are using is.
It's because they want people previously trained in their internal company procedures by magic instead of actually training people.
They either find none of those magical creatures or they get bullshit artists instead.
What they do not understand is that with either a bit of training or merely just time on the job a large number of those applicants that do not come up to scratch with the unrealistic yardsticks are going to be just as good or far better than the bullshit artists that claimed they met the yardsticks.
You do not appear to understand yet that to Trump you are the other side.
You seriously put up Silicon Valley as an example that is supposed to apply to tech workers across the entire USA?
While you are at it, why not put in salaries at Goldman Sachs as if that is normal everywhere?
It's not all that different from the old indentured servitude in some ways.
A more honest way to do it would be to make them citizens and then employ them under the same circumstances as any other citizen that applies. For a long list of reasons that honest approach is not politically viable while the dishonest one with both control and downward wage pressure on citizens is.
IMHO immigration in general is a huge mess and the H1-B is just one little twisted aspect of it.
For a bit of the 1990s I was unemployed, along with many other engineers, during an "engineering skills shortage" that justified bringing in cheaper migrant workers for jobs that were never advertised to citizens.
Ah, an intellectual with a highly reasoned argument and not childish sandpit yelling has appeared from nowhere to set us to rights!
How am I the problem?
Do you have an answer or was I wrong and it's just childish sandpit yelling?
President Romney?
Did I miss something or did you?
I don't normally make an issue of typos but that is funny.
More seriously, it used to work very well in earlier times in the USA and it works very well in other places today. It turns out that subject matter experts know stuff that others do not - who would have thought?
I think a part of the problem is that many of those tasks are not something the user wants to have running while they are running a game or other single task. Just dropping back to MS Windows 7 removes some of those tasks dedicated to advertising etc that would be better scheduled for a time when the game or application is not running.
You may ignore it as only a problem with low end machines, but the resource issues with MS Windows 10 make it a very poor choice for some of the machines it is on. Over Xmas I made an i3 machine that is only used for Skype and Firefox usable again by rolling it back to MS Windows 7. The owner joked that the ten in MS Windows 10 is the minimum number of minutes it takes to start up.
It's not quite the same. There's still a Vista box here from someone who did an end run around IT to bring what was initially an utter piece of shit onto the premises. It wasn't just the drivers, it couldn't even connect to a MS Domain or Workgroup without some command line fucking about.
After all the fixes it's stable and like MS Windows 7 with a few bits missing, many parts on the configuration side. I think it's even missing "ipconfig" from memory.
Some stuff with 8 bit calls falls over. In my case currently that is an expensive niche CAD program (which works well on linux under WINE) and of all unlikely things a USB dongle licence updater (need to keep a WinXP machine around to run it).
There's an old joke that starts - "throughout the civilized world, and America ..." (Goon Show "The Whistling Spy Enigma" (broadcast September 28, 1954) :)
So maybe closer to 70 years in other places
PS - it was a JOKE, don't go all "unamerican" on me just for a joke pointing out that the Oxbridge stuff was out of fashion in the USA written by someone from the English working class in the first place.
PPS - as an aside, that episode starts with a line read with a Chicago accent - "The crimes you are about to hear have all been specially committed for this program".
Sex work may be an option for some but I'd rather my children were doing something else.
Among the people I went to university with the guy that did the "useless" doctorate in history is currently the one with the highest salary. The philosophy etc types are the ones that end up in management early instead of passing through technical positions first.
It's because lazy HR people use that as their required evidence that an applicant can be bothered to get up in the morning and turn up for something. No degree, no chance with those folks. The trend spread and it seemed that for every trivial office clerical job and many other things besides a degree has become what is needed to get in the door for an interview.
A lot of smaller places that don't have full time HR have not fallen into that trap, but unfortunately many outsource hiring to the sort of employment agencies that do have such lazy HR gatekeepers.
That sort of stuff, and the remedial education that follows, was deemed too expensive so it doesn't happen much any more. Teachers are just as capable of it as they used to be, perhaps even more so, but there has to be enough of them to do the job.
I don't know when it started but having non-teachers manage schools has turned out to be just as stupid an idea as it appears. Nice balance sheets year after year but turning out a lot of kids that can't read.
Why? Obama didn't get that. Especially from the Birther-in-chief Trump himself.
Trump should have to earn respect just like everyone else. His past is a massive handicap but it is possible that he will do something to earn respect.
Not the problem, the problem is the inability of someone to distinguish such a person from a used car salesman with a slick line in pretending to be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification.
A person without any exposure to an industry is going to make newbie mistakes. That's not the sort of thing you want in an important post.
That's a vanishingly rare situation and that person probably actually knew far more about what they are managing than you are stating. I'm almost certain you didn't see them when they were new to that industry - is that the case? The newbie mistakes would have happened before you met the person.
Where I am a politically well connected accounts clerk (not even an actual accountant) was put in charge of a large railway company and demonstrated what usually happens in that situation. When the topic is utterly alien to you fuckups happen, such as not training new people to replace those who leave. Maybe she thought driverless trains had got to the point where they can do more than just sit there.
Think back to what you've seen yourself and you'll find a lot of examples of people out of their depth. I've certainly seen a lot. One "rockstar" CEO I worked for managed to black out an entire city for a few weeks. He talked a LOT about "quality" but preventative maintainance was just a cost center that could be cut. It turned out that having a work schedule of several months to repair the only backup line isn't all that useful when you need the backup line NOW.
It was very obviously a deal to get Hillary off his back during the primaries.
As for idiot, she's a lot of things so you have no excuse for choosing one of the few insults that doesn't fit.
That is not a good thing.
Neither is this current situation.
It seems to have been the thing to do for the last eight years and more. Birther stuff and all that. Going AWOL and all that. Why suddenly expect people to adhere to standards that the current President elect did not adhere to?
It's a very old approach with very old examples of unintended consequences. The reason the fourth crusade ended up in Constantiople/Byzantium/Istanbul in 1204 is mainly because of some tariffs.
A current example is kids getting fat on corn syrup because cane sugar is a protected industry and jacked the prices up due to not having to worry about cheap imports. Another is car manufacturing moving to Mexico to take advantage of cheap steel instead of the expensive US stuff in a protected market.
Contrast? It's the same sort of fish out of water crony story so there is no contrast.
It's a pity you can only be modded to five.
This is FEMA horse judge stuff all over again.
So much politics on Slashdot these days, but if things REALLY fuck up it becomes a geeky topic - last days of the old republic.
There's a vast amount of that in the health industry where frequently the new patent is written in such a way as to also prevent competitors being able to use the old one.