If you read the summary, it says Deprecated in Win8 and scheduled to be removed in a future version. Of course, by "a future version", that could be Win10 for all we know. MS has deprecated features in the past that remained well beyond the "next" release.
Just use the "back" short-cut key. (Hint, it works in your Web Browser AAAANNNNDD your File "Browser".) Since you're a Linux guy, you should be well versed in keyboard short-cuts and with looking stuff up.
Every OS has strengths and weaknesses. There is no fight, just the right tool for the right job. Those that understand this and embrace them all win in the end.
I think it is more about money than anything else.....otherwise, companies wouldn't be outsourcing as much as they do. Although, if you are 45 and aren't keeping up with technology, that is yet another valid reason.
I'm nearing that range, but I've maintained my skills and am viewed as being much more valuable than the sterotype because I know the new stuff as well or better than the young guys and I know the old stuff better than they do. On top of that, I have insight into how to do things well that only come from experience. Not to mention the experience with the business processes that you only learn by being in a company for a few years.
If you didn't have Time Zones and everyone used UTC, you'd still be doing the same mental math you do today, just in the opposite direction.
If it's 4am everywhere, is that "awake time" or "sleep time" for the locations involved? If it's 4am here, what time is it there? Same effort.
Time Zones are convenient because you know the relative time (to daylight hours) easily. Otherwise, you'd need a chart that says India daylight is between X hr and Y hr while New York daylight is between A hr and B hr. Everyone knows that the typical workday is somewhere between 8am and 6pm for most office workers regardless of their location.
+1 for common sense. I'm all for shifting clocks 30 minutes to split the difference and calling it done. Time Zones are still useful because we are driven by the sun......and you need to know whether your colleague in India will be up or not if you schedule a meeting a 5pm local time (hint, probably not).
Keep in mind, this was the late 90's. Wolfram Alpha wasn't around at the time. But yeah, I know to use multiple search sources and various search terms.
I've proposed that if it's on the Internet, I can find it within an hour. A lot of that comes from knowing how to formulate search queries. A co-worker challenged me back in the late 90's with "how far does a bullet fall at 1,000 yards when fired from an M-16".....it took me 45 minutes and a little bit of math......I'm sure it's easier today.
No need to be anonymous. I've said the same thing for quite a while.
Until someone can tell me which version of Linux is best for which uses and which window manager is best for which uses, I'll stick to Windows where I don't have to think about those decisions. I'm not scared of config files or compiling code or anything like that. But with Linux, there are so many spin-offs because one person decided they didn't like one aspect of this other version and it's a jumbled mess with no central control (that's a pro and a con). But, with too many choices, Linux will never win the desktop......because the mindless masses don't want that much choice.
But, can your OS of choice scroll your browser window even when the mouse is hovering over a different window? I actually find it convenient that my window focus doesn't change unless I initiate that change.
My point was that knowing my hometown (place of birth) and birthdate wasn't sufficient to distinguish the first five digits of my SSN given that I have an example of a person with the same place of birth and same birth date (my twin). It's a counter example to the hypothesis that knowing those two bits of information give you the first 5 digits.
You've added another variable which cannot be gleaned from FB (as far as I know).....that variable is one of a) assignment date, b) application date, or c) pile the application landed in. If those three variables were included, I'm pretty sure their accuracy wouldn't have been as high as it was.
I have a twin. We were (obviously) born in the same place at roughly the same time (three minutes apart). The first five digits of our SSNs differ.....I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine by how much.
Actually, it's the fault of the banking industry for comandeering a government number for a purpose other than what it was intended. An SSN was not supposed to be a unique identifier for anyone other than Uncle Sam as they go to collect Social Security tax money and then pay it back out.
It's up to you to sign or not sign that agreement. I always make it quite clear during the interview / hiring process that I do work on the side and that I won't agree to any terms where the company owns work not related to what they are paying me for. I also keep a hard line between them so that there is no chance of assuming that something I did on my time could be considered work for my employer (example: my day to day job at one time included working on HR systems -- my side work never encroached upon the HR space or the field that my company works in).
This has never cost me a job (I've actually been offered every position I applied for -- mainly because I use strong networking skills to find jobs), but even if it had, there are plenty of other jobs that will allow me to work in my current mode.
Pretty much my thought. If they have out-dated boxes, the odds that they'll do much more than click Next/Next/Next/Finish on an MSI to get your product up and running is close to nil. Writing a wrapper around IE is super simple, allows you to control the experience greatly. And since you control everything from web server to web page, you don't care what standards it supports as long as it supports your needs.
In most instances, you have to place the cans at the curb and not just have it in the bin on your property. This is likely to prevent those collecting the trash from being potentially subjected to tresspass lawsuits.
I'm pretty sure by voodoo (lowercase), he meant the sacrificing goats on the keyboard kind......not the Voodoo as in Voodoo Banshee, etc. graphics cards from yesteryear (although, those were some great cards back in the day).
If you are looking for a language that is supported out of the box on ever major operating system released in the past 10 years, the answer is Javascript. Editor -- the built in text editor; Execution -- browser; Debugging -- well, if it's a modern OS with a modern browser (IE8+, FF+FireBug, Chrome+FireBug) you can debug.
There are plenty of examples online. It has a visual result that gives instant gratification. It has a syntax that leads towards "real" languages (don't flame, you know what I mean). And, given the future direction of HTML5 + Javascript, it sets you up for future success if you decide to continue.
I'm not a technophobe. I've used computers since I was 12 (I'm 39 now). I prefer a command line over a GUI for a lot of activities. I can build a computer from the ground up. I can write complex programs in multiple languages.
And I don't use Linux because.....my apps all work in Windows (even the foss versions cater to Windows to gain an audience) and no one has yet to build a list of "this distro is best for you because of feature X" list.
Most of the downloads are actually hosted at Akamai or some other edge caching service......so those might not count even if they weren't excluded.....
Polarization is really easy to see on the Internet.....all you have to do is say: Which is better, vi or emacs? You'll get a very polarized field almost instantly.
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If you read the summary, it says Deprecated in Win8 and scheduled to be removed in a future version. Of course, by "a future version", that could be Win10 for all we know. MS has deprecated features in the past that remained well beyond the "next" release.
Just use the "back" short-cut key. (Hint, it works in your Web Browser AAAANNNNDD your File "Browser".) Since you're a Linux guy, you should be well versed in keyboard short-cuts and with looking stuff up.
Every OS has strengths and weaknesses. There is no fight, just the right tool for the right job. Those that understand this and embrace them all win in the end.
And here I was expecting Slash'em and Rouge-like to refer to the text based dungeon explorer games......so get off my digital lawn.
I think it is more about money than anything else.....otherwise, companies wouldn't be outsourcing as much as they do. Although, if you are 45 and aren't keeping up with technology, that is yet another valid reason.
I'm nearing that range, but I've maintained my skills and am viewed as being much more valuable than the sterotype because I know the new stuff as well or better than the young guys and I know the old stuff better than they do. On top of that, I have insight into how to do things well that only come from experience. Not to mention the experience with the business processes that you only learn by being in a company for a few years.
If you didn't have Time Zones and everyone used UTC, you'd still be doing the same mental math you do today, just in the opposite direction.
If it's 4am everywhere, is that "awake time" or "sleep time" for the locations involved? If it's 4am here, what time is it there? Same effort.
Time Zones are convenient because you know the relative time (to daylight hours) easily. Otherwise, you'd need a chart that says India daylight is between X hr and Y hr while New York daylight is between A hr and B hr. Everyone knows that the typical workday is somewhere between 8am and 6pm for most office workers regardless of their location.
+1 for common sense. I'm all for shifting clocks 30 minutes to split the difference and calling it done. Time Zones are still useful because we are driven by the sun......and you need to know whether your colleague in India will be up or not if you schedule a meeting a 5pm local time (hint, probably not).
Keep in mind, this was the late 90's. Wolfram Alpha wasn't around at the time. But yeah, I know to use multiple search sources and various search terms.
I've proposed that if it's on the Internet, I can find it within an hour. A lot of that comes from knowing how to formulate search queries. A co-worker challenged me back in the late 90's with "how far does a bullet fall at 1,000 yards when fired from an M-16".....it took me 45 minutes and a little bit of math......I'm sure it's easier today.
No need to be anonymous. I've said the same thing for quite a while.
Until someone can tell me which version of Linux is best for which uses and which window manager is best for which uses, I'll stick to Windows where I don't have to think about those decisions. I'm not scared of config files or compiling code or anything like that. But with Linux, there are so many spin-offs because one person decided they didn't like one aspect of this other version and it's a jumbled mess with no central control (that's a pro and a con). But, with too many choices, Linux will never win the desktop......because the mindless masses don't want that much choice.
But, can your OS of choice scroll your browser window even when the mouse is hovering over a different window? I actually find it convenient that my window focus doesn't change unless I initiate that change.
My point was that knowing my hometown (place of birth) and birthdate wasn't sufficient to distinguish the first five digits of my SSN given that I have an example of a person with the same place of birth and same birth date (my twin). It's a counter example to the hypothesis that knowing those two bits of information give you the first 5 digits.
You've added another variable which cannot be gleaned from FB (as far as I know).....that variable is one of a) assignment date, b) application date, or c) pile the application landed in. If those three variables were included, I'm pretty sure their accuracy wouldn't have been as high as it was.
I have a twin. We were (obviously) born in the same place at roughly the same time (three minutes apart). The first five digits of our SSNs differ.....I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine by how much.
Just saying.
Actually, it's the fault of the banking industry for comandeering a government number for a purpose other than what it was intended. An SSN was not supposed to be a unique identifier for anyone other than Uncle Sam as they go to collect Social Security tax money and then pay it back out.
It's up to you to sign or not sign that agreement. I always make it quite clear during the interview / hiring process that I do work on the side and that I won't agree to any terms where the company owns work not related to what they are paying me for. I also keep a hard line between them so that there is no chance of assuming that something I did on my time could be considered work for my employer (example: my day to day job at one time included working on HR systems -- my side work never encroached upon the HR space or the field that my company works in).
This has never cost me a job (I've actually been offered every position I applied for -- mainly because I use strong networking skills to find jobs), but even if it had, there are plenty of other jobs that will allow me to work in my current mode.
Quite a few of the popular Twitter follows (Weaton, Day, etc.) are also doing the whole Google+ thing.....
+1 Internets for you (because I'm all out of mod points)
Pretty much my thought. If they have out-dated boxes, the odds that they'll do much more than click Next/Next/Next/Finish on an MSI to get your product up and running is close to nil. Writing a wrapper around IE is super simple, allows you to control the experience greatly. And since you control everything from web server to web page, you don't care what standards it supports as long as it supports your needs.
In most instances, you have to place the cans at the curb and not just have it in the bin on your property. This is likely to prevent those collecting the trash from being potentially subjected to tresspass lawsuits.
I'm pretty sure by voodoo (lowercase), he meant the sacrificing goats on the keyboard kind......not the Voodoo as in Voodoo Banshee, etc. graphics cards from yesteryear (although, those were some great cards back in the day).
If you are looking for a language that is supported out of the box on ever major operating system released in the past 10 years, the answer is Javascript. Editor -- the built in text editor; Execution -- browser; Debugging -- well, if it's a modern OS with a modern browser (IE8+, FF+FireBug, Chrome+FireBug) you can debug.
There are plenty of examples online. It has a visual result that gives instant gratification. It has a syntax that leads towards "real" languages (don't flame, you know what I mean). And, given the future direction of HTML5 + Javascript, it sets you up for future success if you decide to continue.
This....
I'm not a technophobe. I've used computers since I was 12 (I'm 39 now). I prefer a command line over a GUI for a lot of activities. I can build a computer from the ground up. I can write complex programs in multiple languages.
And I don't use Linux because.....my apps all work in Windows (even the foss versions cater to Windows to gain an audience) and no one has yet to build a list of "this distro is best for you because of feature X" list.
Most of the downloads are actually hosted at Akamai or some other edge caching service......so those might not count even if they weren't excluded.....
AC just needs to go read this page.....
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlameWar?from=Main.HolyWar
Polarization is really easy to see on the Internet.....all you have to do is say: Which is better, vi or emacs? You'll get a very polarized field almost instantly.
Nah....most of us barely read the summary, much less click the links.