I will accept your argument against the stereotypes the day shops have an equal distribution. For now, 9 out of 10 shops I see are for women, or mostly-women.
In real life the stereotypes are still true. Sorry, but that's how it is.
I have a friend who worked in a shoe store. I asked him WHY is it so hard to find shoe sizes in my number (I'm 45 EUR/12 US). He gave me a very simple explanation:
ALL women are shoe size 36 or 37. And women that are 38 wear a 37 (I think that's about US size 6). Men have an incredible distribution: ANY shoe size from 36 to 46. And men make up for less than 10% of sales.
So unless you're an incredibly busy shop, it's just impossible to stock all models in all sizes for men. And even if you do, it's amazingly difficult to sell them. Women shoes? There are never enough!
Like you said: "lets go high tech and try to guess what a shopper wants". Yes. Shopper being the keyword here. Women are shoppers. Men aren't.
And as a store owner: you have absolutely not even the faintest idea of just how fucking difficult it is to sell some people "what they want". The customer will never tell you what he wants. I have a comic book store and constantly i get people asking "what do you recommend?". Cold, out of the blue, first time shopper who I have no idea what he likes or not, asks you what do you recommend. So what can one do? Ask them what they like? What they've read before? Fuck that shit. I just get something that's been sitting on the shelf for months and offer them that.
But like i said before: I run a shop. People WANT a salesperson creeping behind you. I think it makes them feel important. I've learned that you have to get up from your chair and start following them around, grabbing things from the shelves, and putting them in their hands. They buy a lot more when you do that.
Not all people are into the full self-service thing.
I was at this mall in Buenos Aires. The shops are arranged in a labyrinth fashion! All the floors look the same, and it's hard to find the bathrooms. Once you get out of the bathroom, it's complicated to find your way back. Because stairs going up are accessed from one side of the mall, and the ones going down are accessed through another side. Yes. It's very possible to get lost even in a small shopping mall.
This other mall has different sets of levels you access through different sets of stairs. You can't go from level 1 to level 2, you have to take the stairs from level 1 to 3, then go downstairs to level 2... complicated and tricky! Designed to get lost in there.
I run a shop. Some customers expect you to be over their shoulders all the time, and they actually get offended if you don't. I usually greet them and tell them to look around, and ask if they have any doubts. They look lost, get scared, and go away without even saying goodbye. A while later you hear from them saying "the service there is really bad".
You, sir, don't understand how the internet works, and you certainly don't understand how REAL LIFE works. I'm not going to argue with you any more. You're obviously a lost case.
I'd rather not have to check any boxes, thank you very much.
If I were a concerned parent, I'd be okay enabling a filter. But, like its been said, a tiny minority will bother disabling the filter, making it much more easier to track you for whatever reason. What guarantee do you have that this setting will not appear, later, in your credit report? With UKUSA agreements, what guarantee do you have that the US,CAN, AUS will not ban you from entering their countries because you disabled the filter (that blocks for "porn" and also blocks for "terrorism")?
Porn is a great excuse to disable the filters if you're looking for terrorist-related stuff!
Me: Hi Mr. Cisco, I need a Catalyst 4500, how much is it?
Cisco: Sure, fill in this form, send a copy of your last quarterly report, bank statements, and a letter of recommendation from some of your customers, and a sales executive will contact you.
Me: But i only want a switch?
Cisco: Please, we need that information.
Me: Okay...
(weeks later)
Cisco: HI THIS IS COCAINE JOE YOUR OVER ENTHUSIAST ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE, THE PRICE FOR THE CISCO CRS YOU ORDERED IS $3M AND A SUPPORT CONTRACT OF $5M
Me: Hey but I only asked for the price of a Catalyst 4500
Cisco: YES BUT WE HAVE DETERMINED IT WILL NOT MEET YOUR COMPANY'S REQUIREMENTS SO IN ORDER TO SUPPORT YOU WE HAVE TO SELL YOU OUR LATEST AND GREATEST AND MORE EXPENSIVE!!!
Me: never mind, I'll find another vendor.
I especially love it when sales people try to sell you a $50,000 solution for a small business and claim that TCO is always lower. It seems, the higher the up-front cost, the lower the TCO is!
I just wish they worried about things that REALLY matter. See bug 392073, opened in 2007. I just can't believe this is so low in Mozilla's priority list. It's just silly.
The new Flickr design, for example, looks very nice. Except on firefox it hangs for a couple of seconds with 100% CPU usage every time you scroll down. Buggy JS code? Maybe. But it kills the browser completely. They could at least try to run every tab as a separate process (maybe they should have shut the hell up instead of criticizing the competition when they did that? Anyone remember the "heat" google got for making Chrome run each tab as a separate process? Doesn't sound so silly now, does it?)
But for the non-tech folk out there who just thought it was going to be cool to be able to check his home computer from work, you can't blame him for trying. Maybe he thought clicking "enable remote access" didn't have such heavy security implications.
We learn from our own mistakes. Given your 4 digit UID, I seriously doubt your record is spotless. I'm sure you had a system or two compromised until you learned to become almost paranoid about security.
Different viruses. The one for windows attacks through RDP port. I've seen scans on port 5900 too. Nothing would keep a similar virus from attacking Mac if you run any sort of remote access and a weak password.
The virus for windows encrypt your files and demands a ransom. Nothing would keep a similar virus from doing the same on a mac, since you don't need admin privileges or any sort of exploit to manipulate your own files.
Is it? A malware program like this has been attacking windows computer lately. It scans IPs for port 3389 (remote desktop) and then tries to brute force into the system. Once it's inside, it runs a script that RARs all your files with a huge random password. Then they demand a $2000 ransom to recover it.
It happened to a customer of mine who "refused to run a VPN because it slowed things down" and had port 3389 open to the public. There are also scans on port 5900 (VNC server).
To be fair: neither an antivirus, nor Mac "invulnerability" would protect you from a brute force attack on remote access ports and using your user account to encrypt data. This particular virus doesn't even need administrative privileges to work.
Not only they make less money, they also have less access to...well, everything. Living on a city you can get groceries at, basically any time of the day. On an emergency you can be in the hospital within minutes. Your cell phone works. You can get very fast and cheap internet. Power is reliable and water is available.
Out in the country, the only "equal" service is satellite TV. Anything else is more expensive.
1. Never 2. They don't 3. There's wireless service (NOT cell phone service but wireless analog lines) 4. Why should they? 5. Are you a fucking retard? Did you even read the fucking SUMMARY? It says POOR PEOPLE are subsidizing the RICH.
But it did turn out pretty well for germany! The whole fucking country was destroyed after war and it's one of the most industrialized countries in the world now!
Let's not forget: the problem with immigration in the US is not the illegal immigrants. It's the non white immigrants;)
Don't believe me? Look at the linked facebook page "boo hoo, these are not Ellis Island immigrants, they are southern border" Wow. Come on. We all know it's a racism issue, but at least try to keep pretending it's about illegal immigration.
Ellis Island immigrants. As if the scum of Ireland, from 2 centuries ago was any better than the scum of Mexico. Oh yes - there is a difference: The irish were white.
The "web 2.0" buzzword meant "people generating content". People (as in: casual web users) have been generating content since forever (Geocities, for example). The difference is, Web 2.0 allows any idiot to do it. Comment forms, video upload, even image macro generators. We could say, the difference between "web 2.0" and the 90s is that you get to post your content in a conformist one-size-fits-all container, and give up your rights for it, along with your privacy (Facebook).
I think you're confused in the sense that "Web 2.0" was the main driving force of "new technologies" like CSS and Javascript - which are nothing new. But back in the 90s, everyone was using a ton of Tables and "shims" (1x1 transparent gifs) to layout content. CSS and HTML4 eliminated that bullshit. Sure: CSS brought a whole new set of problems (browser incompatibilities), but the "hacks" needed to make IE vs FF vs Chrome work are done behind the scenes.
Actually, a good "modern" website *SHOULD* be correctly visible without it's corresponding CSS (as per W3C recommendations. Also see: semantic web). The problem is that, sometimes, it's tricky to style a document in such a way. But anyway, google should be able to index the HTML properly, much easier than back when your content was scattered along a ton of tables.
Basically, "web 2.0" and "web 2.0-style design" are different things. Latter one being flat colors and rounded edges - which are out of style now, having moved to flat squares with drop shadows over bright colorful backgrounds.
The autists here think the world is completely orthogonal, cause-reaction. They think because you *say* you know a lot, then someone will hire you. This is not how it works in real life. HR managers care about degrees and certificates because they are a proof that you know at least *something* of what you say you know. Put yourself in the place of the HR manager looking for a new IT employee for a factory. IT is a tiny fraction of what goes on in that place, so the manager can't be bothered to run funny mind puzzles, quizzes and tests on every new applicant, like google does. Because the HR manager is not an IT person. He has to hire *all sorts of people*: engineers, technicians, workers, truck drivers, cleaning staff... sometimes you have to trust what a piece of paper says. You can't thoroughly check every candidate.
The other part is: social. I knew a LOT of shit about computers, and as far as I was concerned, everyone else was an idiot. CCNA courses changed my mind... A LOT. I met several people, VERY good, who really know their shit. Not in the training staff, but sitting next to me. I landed my first job by talking to the people next to me. There's always a friend of a friend who's looking for what you're selling. Social connections are really important. Even more than degrees, and much more than what you claim to know.
But people learning stuff on Coursera might know a lot, but they don't know anyone. And they don't know about "real life experience". Books can teach you a lot, but they only teach theory. Anecdotes and experience are invaluable, and those aren't on the course. Those you learn by raising your hand and asking, or by talking to the professor after class.
So you're stuck handing out resumes and hoping for the best.
I am a firm believer in traditional education. I also believe in *forcing* people to learn even the things they don't like. I fully agree with the basic education curriculum: chemistry and math next to language and philosophy. You will never know what you like if you don't try it. Grades are a matter of discussion and I don't completely agree with grades. I don't believe an "average" is a good indicator of anything. Someone can excel at math and suck at literature, and that's FINE. But when trying to get into engineering school, that bad grade in literature pulling your average down, is really dumb, because literature is irrelevant for engineering.
But it's better than nothing: if we didn't grade people, they wouldn't have a reason to even try. But they shouldn't be pushed to get the BEST GRADES in everything, because someone who just doesn't like literature will get frustrated with school because of it. Literature will consume so much of his time, he will start sucking at math too. As with everything in life: there should be a balance.
And for the autistic types out there: No system is perfect. DEAL WITH IT.
Thankfully in the spanish-speaking world the word Ingeniero (engineer) means a completely different thing. It's a degree, just like Doctor. You can't just call yourself an engineer, nor a company can name you a "doctor". Same thing with "architect".
Best you can call yourself if you don't have a real university degree is a "technician".
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I will accept your argument against the stereotypes the day shops have an equal distribution. For now, 9 out of 10 shops I see are for women, or mostly-women.
In real life the stereotypes are still true. Sorry, but that's how it is.
There are emergency exits and all, but if you're looking for a store... good luck.
Also, casinos in Las Vegas are like that too. Designed to hide the exits so you can't even tell if it's day or night.
I have a friend who worked in a shoe store. I asked him WHY is it so hard to find shoe sizes in my number (I'm 45 EUR/12 US). He gave me a very simple explanation:
ALL women are shoe size 36 or 37. And women that are 38 wear a 37 (I think that's about US size 6).
Men have an incredible distribution: ANY shoe size from 36 to 46. And men make up for less than 10% of sales.
So unless you're an incredibly busy shop, it's just impossible to stock all models in all sizes for men. And even if you do, it's amazingly difficult to sell them. Women shoes? There are never enough!
Like you said: "lets go high tech and try to guess what a shopper wants". Yes. Shopper being the keyword here. Women are shoppers. Men aren't.
And as a store owner: you have absolutely not even the faintest idea of just how fucking difficult it is to sell some people "what they want". The customer will never tell you what he wants. I have a comic book store and constantly i get people asking "what do you recommend?". Cold, out of the blue, first time shopper who I have no idea what he likes or not, asks you what do you recommend. So what can one do? Ask them what they like? What they've read before? Fuck that shit. I just get something that's been sitting on the shelf for months and offer them that.
I agree with you.
But like i said before: I run a shop. People WANT a salesperson creeping behind you. I think it makes them feel important. I've learned that you have to get up from your chair and start following them around, grabbing things from the shelves, and putting them in their hands. They buy a lot more when you do that.
Not all people are into the full self-service thing.
I was at this mall in Buenos Aires. The shops are arranged in a labyrinth fashion! All the floors look the same, and it's hard to find the bathrooms. Once you get out of the bathroom, it's complicated to find your way back. Because stairs going up are accessed from one side of the mall, and the ones going down are accessed through another side. Yes. It's very possible to get lost even in a small shopping mall.
This other mall has different sets of levels you access through different sets of stairs. You can't go from level 1 to level 2, you have to take the stairs from level 1 to 3, then go downstairs to level 2... complicated and tricky! Designed to get lost in there.
I run a shop. Some customers expect you to be over their shoulders all the time, and they actually get offended if you don't. I usually greet them and tell them to look around, and ask if they have any doubts. They look lost, get scared, and go away without even saying goodbye. A while later you hear from them saying "the service there is really bad".
You can't please everybody.
You were in JAPAN, dude. What did you expect?
You, sir, don't understand how the internet works, and you certainly don't understand how REAL LIFE works. I'm not going to argue with you any more. You're obviously a lost case.
I'd rather not have to check any boxes, thank you very much.
If I were a concerned parent, I'd be okay enabling a filter. But, like its been said, a tiny minority will bother disabling the filter, making it much more easier to track you for whatever reason. What guarantee do you have that this setting will not appear, later, in your credit report? With UKUSA agreements, what guarantee do you have that the US,CAN, AUS will not ban you from entering their countries because you disabled the filter (that blocks for "porn" and also blocks for "terrorism")?
Porn is a great excuse to disable the filters if you're looking for terrorist-related stuff!
Sounds a lot like Cisco.
Me: Hi Mr. Cisco, I need a Catalyst 4500, how much is it?
Cisco: Sure, fill in this form, send a copy of your last quarterly report, bank statements, and a letter of recommendation from some of your customers, and a sales executive will contact you.
Me: But i only want a switch?
Cisco: Please, we need that information.
Me: Okay...
(weeks later)
Cisco: HI THIS IS COCAINE JOE YOUR OVER ENTHUSIAST ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE, THE PRICE FOR THE CISCO CRS YOU ORDERED IS $3M AND A SUPPORT CONTRACT OF $5M
Me: Hey but I only asked for the price of a Catalyst 4500
Cisco: YES BUT WE HAVE DETERMINED IT WILL NOT MEET YOUR COMPANY'S REQUIREMENTS SO IN ORDER TO SUPPORT YOU WE HAVE TO SELL YOU OUR LATEST AND GREATEST AND MORE EXPENSIVE!!!
Me: never mind, I'll find another vendor.
I especially love it when sales people try to sell you a $50,000 solution for a small business and claim that TCO is always lower. It seems, the higher the up-front cost, the lower the TCO is!
I just wish they worried about things that REALLY matter. See bug 392073, opened in 2007. I just can't believe this is so low in Mozilla's priority list. It's just silly.
The new Flickr design, for example, looks very nice. Except on firefox it hangs for a couple of seconds with 100% CPU usage every time you scroll down. Buggy JS code? Maybe. But it kills the browser completely. They could at least try to run every tab as a separate process (maybe they should have shut the hell up instead of criticizing the competition when they did that? Anyone remember the "heat" google got for making Chrome run each tab as a separate process? Doesn't sound so silly now, does it?)
Yes, but new pones don't have the ability of wake up from poweroff for alarms.
BUT BUT BUT... crowdsorcing!!!
Good for you. I use port knocking.
But for the non-tech folk out there who just thought it was going to be cool to be able to check his home computer from work, you can't blame him for trying. Maybe he thought clicking "enable remote access" didn't have such heavy security implications.
We learn from our own mistakes. Given your 4 digit UID, I seriously doubt your record is spotless. I'm sure you had a system or two compromised until you learned to become almost paranoid about security.
Different viruses. The one for windows attacks through RDP port. I've seen scans on port 5900 too. Nothing would keep a similar virus from attacking Mac if you run any sort of remote access and a weak password.
The virus for windows encrypt your files and demands a ransom. Nothing would keep a similar virus from doing the same on a mac, since you don't need admin privileges or any sort of exploit to manipulate your own files.
Is it? A malware program like this has been attacking windows computer lately. It scans IPs for port 3389 (remote desktop) and then tries to brute force into the system. Once it's inside, it runs a script that RARs all your files with a huge random password. Then they demand a $2000 ransom to recover it.
It happened to a customer of mine who "refused to run a VPN because it slowed things down" and had port 3389 open to the public. There are also scans on port 5900 (VNC server).
To be fair: neither an antivirus, nor Mac "invulnerability" would protect you from a brute force attack on remote access ports and using your user account to encrypt data. This particular virus doesn't even need administrative privileges to work.
Not only they make less money, they also have less access to...well, everything. Living on a city you can get groceries at, basically any time of the day. On an emergency you can be in the hospital within minutes. Your cell phone works. You can get very fast and cheap internet. Power is reliable and water is available.
Out in the country, the only "equal" service is satellite TV. Anything else is more expensive.
1. Never
2. They don't
3. There's wireless service (NOT cell phone service but wireless analog lines)
4. Why should they?
5. Are you a fucking retard? Did you even read the fucking SUMMARY? It says POOR PEOPLE are subsidizing the RICH.
chavez, like every other latin american dictator and pseudo-revolutionist, preferred the term "Comandante", instead of presidente.
But it did turn out pretty well for germany! The whole fucking country was destroyed after war and it's one of the most industrialized countries in the world now!
Let's not forget: the problem with immigration in the US is not the illegal immigrants. It's the non white immigrants ;)
Don't believe me? Look at the linked facebook page "boo hoo, these are not Ellis Island immigrants, they are southern border" Wow. Come on. We all know it's a racism issue, but at least try to keep pretending it's about illegal immigration.
Ellis Island immigrants. As if the scum of Ireland, from 2 centuries ago was any better than the scum of Mexico. Oh yes - there is a difference: The irish were white.
OK, what exactly are you talking about?
The "web 2.0" buzzword meant "people generating content". People (as in: casual web users) have been generating content since forever (Geocities, for example). The difference is, Web 2.0 allows any idiot to do it. Comment forms, video upload, even image macro generators. We could say, the difference between "web 2.0" and the 90s is that you get to post your content in a conformist one-size-fits-all container, and give up your rights for it, along with your privacy (Facebook).
I think you're confused in the sense that "Web 2.0" was the main driving force of "new technologies" like CSS and Javascript - which are nothing new. But back in the 90s, everyone was using a ton of Tables and "shims" (1x1 transparent gifs) to layout content. CSS and HTML4 eliminated that bullshit. Sure: CSS brought a whole new set of problems (browser incompatibilities), but the "hacks" needed to make IE vs FF vs Chrome work are done behind the scenes.
Actually, a good "modern" website *SHOULD* be correctly visible without it's corresponding CSS (as per W3C recommendations. Also see: semantic web). The problem is that, sometimes, it's tricky to style a document in such a way. But anyway, google should be able to index the HTML properly, much easier than back when your content was scattered along a ton of tables.
Basically, "web 2.0" and "web 2.0-style design" are different things. Latter one being flat colors and rounded edges - which are out of style now, having moved to flat squares with drop shadows over bright colorful backgrounds.
But he's not allowed to drink...
The autists here think the world is completely orthogonal, cause-reaction. They think because you *say* you know a lot, then someone will hire you. This is not how it works in real life. HR managers care about degrees and certificates because they are a proof that you know at least *something* of what you say you know. Put yourself in the place of the HR manager looking for a new IT employee for a factory. IT is a tiny fraction of what goes on in that place, so the manager can't be bothered to run funny mind puzzles, quizzes and tests on every new applicant, like google does. Because the HR manager is not an IT person. He has to hire *all sorts of people*: engineers, technicians, workers, truck drivers, cleaning staff... sometimes you have to trust what a piece of paper says. You can't thoroughly check every candidate.
The other part is: social. I knew a LOT of shit about computers, and as far as I was concerned, everyone else was an idiot. CCNA courses changed my mind... A LOT. I met several people, VERY good, who really know their shit. Not in the training staff, but sitting next to me. I landed my first job by talking to the people next to me. There's always a friend of a friend who's looking for what you're selling. Social connections are really important. Even more than degrees, and much more than what you claim to know.
But people learning stuff on Coursera might know a lot, but they don't know anyone. And they don't know about "real life experience". Books can teach you a lot, but they only teach theory. Anecdotes and experience are invaluable, and those aren't on the course. Those you learn by raising your hand and asking, or by talking to the professor after class.
So you're stuck handing out resumes and hoping for the best.
I am a firm believer in traditional education. I also believe in *forcing* people to learn even the things they don't like. I fully agree with the basic education curriculum: chemistry and math next to language and philosophy. You will never know what you like if you don't try it. Grades are a matter of discussion and I don't completely agree with grades. I don't believe an "average" is a good indicator of anything. Someone can excel at math and suck at literature, and that's FINE. But when trying to get into engineering school, that bad grade in literature pulling your average down, is really dumb, because literature is irrelevant for engineering.
But it's better than nothing: if we didn't grade people, they wouldn't have a reason to even try. But they shouldn't be pushed to get the BEST GRADES in everything, because someone who just doesn't like literature will get frustrated with school because of it. Literature will consume so much of his time, he will start sucking at math too. As with everything in life: there should be a balance.
And for the autistic types out there: No system is perfect. DEAL WITH IT.
Thankfully in the spanish-speaking world the word Ingeniero (engineer) means a completely different thing. It's a degree, just like Doctor. You can't just call yourself an engineer, nor a company can name you a "doctor". Same thing with "architect".
Best you can call yourself if you don't have a real university degree is a "technician".