The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer.
I've been known to do the same in Apple stores. If it isn't on some form of script, they bluster. It's almost as if they expect only to meet the religious, and they're not used to talking to non-believers.
But I've got my own problems with John Lewis atm. My third laptop in eighteen months is dying (*), this one after just ten weeks. Each time it's taken them two months to replace, despite claiming it would just be two weeks. And this is from a different manufacturer.
@TSE - you love people in the Tory party you politically agree with, and think the rest are idiots.
No. I'm quite the fan of Owen Paterson when he's not banging on about the EU.
Thought it was a shame he was sacked, he did a stellar job on GM foods. Pure evidence and science based approach.
I thought Owen Patterson was doing a good job too.
On climate change he's an idiot. "Despite his voting record "moderately for" laws to stop climate change,[24] he is a climate change sceptic,[23] and has not accepted David MacKay's offer of a briefing on climate change science.[25] During his time in office, Paterson cut funding for climate change adaptation by approximately 40%. In 2014 the outgoing Environment Agency chair Chris Smith said that flood defence budget cuts had left the agency underfunded and hampered its ability to prevent and respond to flooding in the UK.[26][27][28] When asked in a 2013 BBC interview about the alleged failure of a badger cull he had been responsible for, Paterson famously replied that "the badgers have moved the goalposts."
Yes, if he believes that he shouldn't be voting for laws designed to harm our economy without having the slightest impact on the planet's ecosystem.
Quite. There's a difference between believing that the climate is changing, and believing that the appropriate response is to offshore all our heavy industry and millions of jobs to the Far East.
These things need to be properly global in nature, through the WTO and the UN. That means getting the USA, China and India on board, if they're not then it isn't worth doing from a pollution point of view. From a socialist tax-raising point of view, sure, but it won't reduce worldwide pollution.
Some French airline is blaming Brexit for the cancellation of their Luton to Newark business only flight. Yes, it was Brexit and not the fact that they were trying to sell business flights out of Luton and into Newark for £1100 when the BA flight from City to JFK is ~£1500.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer.
I've been known to do the same in Apple stores. If it isn't on some form of script, they bluster. It's almost as if they expect only to meet the religious, and they're not used to talking to non-believers.
But I've got my own problems with John Lewis atm. My third laptop in eighteen months is dying (*), this one after just ten weeks. Each time it's taken them two months to replace, despite claiming it would just be two weeks. And this is from a different manufacturer.
Grrrr ...
(*) Fan failure.
Did the shit hit the fan, damaging it....?
I blame PB. I've been eating too much popcorn around it.
I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine. I think the extra fans have helped. Hope so, anyway. I can afford a tenner for that, but hundreds of pounds for a new console would not go down well, if at all.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer.
I've been known to do the same in Apple stores. If it isn't on some form of script, they bluster. It's almost as if they expect only to meet the religious, and they're not used to talking to non-believers.
But I've got my own problems with John Lewis atm. My third laptop in eighteen months is dying (*), this one after just ten weeks. Each time it's taken them two months to replace, despite claiming it would just be two weeks. And this is from a different manufacturer.
Grrrr ...
(*) Fan failure.
Did the shit hit the fan, damaging it....?
I blame PB. I've been eating too much popcorn around it.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer. .
PC World employees are normally a good target for this activity.
Glad to know it wasn't just me that used to bait crappy salesmen in tech shops!
John Lewis and the big department stores were generally knowledgable and would ask a colleague rather than try and bluster, but the big Currys/Dixons/PCW were terrible - clearly trained only on how to upsell shitty worthless extended warranties.
@TSE - you love people in the Tory party you politically agree with, and think the rest are idiots.
No. I'm quite the fan of Owen Paterson when he's not banging on about the EU.
Thought it was a shame he was sacked, he did a stellar job on GM foods. Pure evidence and science based approach.
I thought Owen Patterson was doing a good job too.
On climate change he's an idiot. "Despite his voting record "moderately for" laws to stop climate change,[24] he is a climate change sceptic,[23] and has not accepted David MacKay's offer of a briefing on climate change science.[25] During his time in office, Paterson cut funding for climate change adaptation by approximately 40%. In 2014 the outgoing Environment Agency chair Chris Smith said that flood defence budget cuts had left the agency underfunded and hampered its ability to prevent and respond to flooding in the UK.[26][27][28] When asked in a 2013 BBC interview about the alleged failure of a badger cull he had been responsible for, Paterson famously replied that "the badgers have moved the goalposts."
Yes, if he believes that he shouldn't be voting for laws designed to harm our economy without having the slightest impact on the planet's ecosystem.
Quite. There's a difference between believing that the climate is changing, and believing that the appropriate response is to offshore all our heavy industry and millions of jobs to the Far East.
These things need to be properly global in nature, through the WTO and the UN. That means getting the USA, China and India on board, if they're not then it isn't worth doing from a pollution point of view. From a socialist tax-raising point of view, sure, but it won't reduce worldwide pollution.
The whole point of tht climate change circus was that after the collapse of communism it offered an alternative not yet discredited philosophy and reason to try and replace capitalism with a socialist command economy, whether it made any difference to the climate was not really important other than if the measures failed and warming continued it gave even more justification for shrill alarmism.
Some French airline is blaming Brexit for the cancellation of their Luton to Newark business only flight. Yes, it was Brexit and not the fact that they were trying to sell business flights out of Luton and into Newark for £1100 when the BA flight from City to JFK is ~£1500.
And as we discussed here before, the BA001 is a *MUCH* better experience.
No surprise that support for junior doctors is eroding. They have been poorly led and badly advised. Just like the miners were.
What I don't understand is why the BMA approved of the deal a few months ago but now they have called 5-day strikes over it. What changed over the summer?
The BMA didn't approve it, they ballotted the affected doctors and 58% rejected it. The BMA JDC leadership resigned and new leaders with a mandate to continue industrial action were elected.
The leadership is not as radical as the membership. Next weeks strike is off, but this was because of inadequate time to prepare. The strike for 5 days from 5 Oct remains planned. That is a few days after imposition starts. It could be stopped if imposition was suspended and talks over the outstanding issues restarted.
What is the point of striking after imposition? You really think an agreed contract that is in place is going to be reversed after being imposed?
The government should take the same approach as Ronald Reagan to the Air Traffic Controllers.
Reversal?
Imposition starts on 1 October but the rollout is slow (and NHS HR departments hopelessly unprepared) and doesn't reach all grades of junior until next August.
The strike will be a disaster but imposition is a disaster too. It fails to address the real issues and will further demoralise and antagonise a truculent workforce with a major existing retention and recruitment problem. It is not a battle with a good outcome for anyone.
Except long-term the NHS patients who will have a seven day NHS in perpetuity long after this transitional dispute is history.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer. .
PC World employees are normally a good target for this activity.
Glad to know it wasn't just me that used to bait crappy salesmen in tech shops!
John Lewis and the big department stores were generally knowledgable and would ask a colleague rather than try and bluster, but the big Currys/Dixons/PCW were terrible - clearly trained only on how to upsell shitty worthless extended warranties.
I actually don't really know how PC World are still in business. They are expense, awful customer experience and know bugger all about the products they are trying to sell. Comet went busto for the same reasons and I presumed PC World would go the same way, but by some miracle their trading figures seem to be holding up.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer.
I've been known to do the same in Apple stores. If it isn't on some form of script, they bluster. It's almost as if they expect only to meet the religious, and they're not used to talking to non-believers.
But I've got my own problems with John Lewis atm. My third laptop in eighteen months is dying (*), this one after just ten weeks. Each time it's taken them two months to replace, despite claiming it would just be two weeks. And this is from a different manufacturer.
Grrrr ...
(*) Fan failure.
That's why Apple are awesome, I had a faulty macbook, booked a genius bar appointment, and they swappped it there and then for a new one.
Until they decide on spurious grounds you've opened or damaged your device and void the warranty.
You've completely ignored the substance of the argument to try and sneet at "Brexiteers"
I'd assume this is deliberate as you're smart enough to know you are doing so.
The ECJ says "you will do this under penalty of fines"
The ECHR says "we don't think that what you have done is compatible with the Treaty. Please go away and think again"
There is a fundamental difference between those two positions in terms of what it means for the UK.
Of course there is. But the practicalities are that we are embracing a European body, are part of it, have and will be incorporating its terms into our laws, and we all think that is a great thing. Even David Davis agrees.
It is a textbook example of how we can work within and be part of such an institution.
We have also committed not to leave the ECHR which means that any BoR will incorporate ECHR provisions. And that's great.
Do you not think that it is at least worthy of note to wonder out loud (and especially on an internet chat room) how strange it is that one european body we are happy with and the other we are not?
Well of course there is the "take note of" vs the "you must" and that I get. But practically, we end up in the same place.
Practically we may not and, even if we do so, it's choice not compulsion.
The actual provisions of the ECHR (not as stretched by the ECJ - although I take @DavidL point) are not that onerous. But, once again, Parliament gets to decide what it incorporates into any bill of rights.
If the EU operates like the ECHR I would have been fine with it. Personally it was the direction of travel that was the issue not the status quo.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer. .
PC World employees are normally a good target for this activity.
Glad to know it wasn't just me that used to bait crappy salesmen in tech shops!
John Lewis and the big department stores were generally knowledgable and would ask a colleague rather than try and bluster, but the big Currys/Dixons/PCW were terrible - clearly trained only on how to upsell shitty worthless extended warranties.
I actually don't really know how PC World are still in business. They are expense, awful customer experience and know bugger all about the products they are trying to sell. Comet went busto for the same reasons and I presumed PC World would go the same way, but by some miracle their trading figures seem to be holding up.
Lack of competition and merging their operations with Currys.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer. .
PC World employees are normally a good target for this activity.
Glad to know it wasn't just me that used to bait crappy salesmen in tech shops!
John Lewis and the big department stores were generally knowledgable and would ask a colleague rather than try and bluster, but the big Currys/Dixons/PCW were terrible - clearly trained only on how to upsell shitty worthless extended warranties.
I actually don't really know how PC World are still in business. They are expense, awful customer experience and know bugger all about the products they are trying to sell. Comet went busto for the same reasons and I presumed PC World would go the same way, but by some miracle their trading figures seem to be holding up.
Lack of competition and merging their operations with Currys.
I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine. I think the extra fans have helped. Hope so, anyway. I can afford a tenner for that, but hundreds of pounds for a new console would not go down well, if at all.
Cooling in tech kit is always a problem.
I'm friends with an engineer whose first job was tracking down a problem with a computer in the mid-1980s. If you left it on continuously for months it might spontaneously combust. The cause - from memory - was that two tracks leading to the lithium CMOS battery were slightly too close. If the battery was full and it got too warm, the charging circuit polarity would reverse and the computer would go bang.
They had banks of computers running for months before they managed to replicate the problem.
For this reason, I have sympathy with Samsung's recent travails.
The Apple engineer who switched Macs to Intel processors was rejected from a job at the Genius Bar. JK Scheinberg, who was spent 21 years working for the tech giants, applied to work in an Apple Store after he retired.
The 54-year-old understandably thought he would be a good fit for the position - but he was turned down
Yo granddad you ain't got the skills to pay the bills...
Some of those Apple store managers are so up their own arse they would reject an anonymised application from a resurrected Steve Jobs.
In these sort of jobs it's how you look and who you know, not what you know. If you look over 35, you're dead.
Two decades ago myself and a few friends used to go around computer stores in London and show their salespeople to be utterly clueless idiots. We'd ask a technical question and get utterly invented answers, when we'd tell them the correct answer. .
PC World employees are normally a good target for this activity.
Glad to know it wasn't just me that used to bait crappy salesmen in tech shops!
John Lewis and the big department stores were generally knowledgable and would ask a colleague rather than try and bluster, but the big Currys/Dixons/PCW were terrible - clearly trained only on how to upsell shitty worthless extended warranties.
I actually don't really know how PC World are still in business. They are expense, awful customer experience and know bugger all about the products they are trying to sell. Comet went busto for the same reasons and I presumed PC World would go the same way, but by some miracle their trading figures seem to be holding up.
Mainly because they're not trying to sell to you and I. They're selling to the great unwashed masses - millions of whom would have bought their first PC (overpriced £1,500 Packard Bell, plus £300 warranty, on sub-prime usurious monthly payments) there, and the same people come back for more when that one breaks three years down the line. Sad.
Mr. Jessop, I tend not to play long sessions, which I think/hope helps.
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
@TSE - you love people in the Tory party you politically agree with, and think the rest are idiots.
No. I'm quite the fan of Owen Paterson when he's not banging on about the EU.
Thought it was a shame he was sacked, he did a stellar job on GM foods. Pure evidence and science based approach.
As a plant breeder I have deep reservations about GM crops.
Let me paraphrase you 'As a genetic modifier of plant DNA by the old slow methods I have deep reservations about those who seek to do it by design and a lot faster'.
The whole history of human agriculture is one of GM via selective interference in breeding of plants and animals.
I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine. I think the extra fans have helped. Hope so, anyway. I can afford a tenner for that, but hundreds of pounds for a new console would not go down well, if at all.
Cooling in tech kit is always a problem.
I'm friends with an engineer whose first job was tracking down a problem with a computer in the mid-1980s. If you left it on continuously for months it might spontaneously combust. The cause - from memory - was that two tracks leading to the lithium CMOS battery were slightly too close. If the battery was full and it got too warm, the charging circuit polarity would reverse and the computer would go bang.
They had banks of computers running for months before they managed to replicate the problem.
For this reason, I have sympathy with Samsung's recent travails.
There are some weird things going on with Android updates on my Sony phone too - now it gets noticeably warm when USB charging. I keep buggering laptop fans and keyboards - but it's all cat fluff and sawdust litter related.
The most annoying thing right now is how easy it is for a kitty to turn my screen upside by simply treading on it. Took me bloody ages to find how to reset it whilst twisting my neck/rotating the whole machine/typing. It happens so often I've got the shortcut memorised.
Interesting fact: when I started writing articles for PB in July I had 49 Twitter followers. Today I hit 250. A tiny amount, of course, but I like the trajectory!
You're well worth following - an interesting and honest Labour perspective. (and don't tweet spam every 5 mins unlike some!)
Mr. Jessop, I tend not to play long sessions, which I think/hope helps.
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
The issue now with laptops is over speccing - they've got so much faster in recent years, that unless you're doing video editing or hardcore gaming a basic model is more than sufficient. Also, Windows 10 sucks like a Sunday Sport girl who got a big tip - pay £80 more to get W7 if you want to be productive using it for work, or get a MacBook. And order online - laptopshop, Amazon or direct from the maker.
You've completely ignored the substance of the argument to try and sneet at "Brexiteers"
I'd assume this is deliberate as you're smart enough to know you are doing so.
The ECJ says "you will do this under penalty of fines"
The ECHR says "we don't think that what you have done is compatible with the Treaty. Please go away and think again"
There is a fundamental difference between those two positions in terms of what it means for the UK.
Of course there is. But the practicalities are that we are embracing a European body, are part of it, have and will be incorporating its terms into our laws, and we all think that is a great thing. Even David Davis agrees.
It is a textbook example of how we can work within and be part of such an institution.
We have also committed not to leave the ECHR which means that any BoR will incorporate ECHR provisions. And that's great.
Do you not think that it is at least worthy of note to wonder out loud (and especially on an internet chat room) how strange it is that one european body we are happy with and the other we are not?
Well of course there is the "take note of" vs the "you must" and that I get. But practically, we end up in the same place.
Practically we may not and, even if we do so, it's choice not compulsion.
The actual provisions of the ECHR (not as stretched by the ECJ - although I take @DavidL point) are not that onerous. But, once again, Parliament gets to decide what it incorporates into any bill of rights.
If the EU operates like the ECHR I would have been fine with it. Personally it was the direction of travel that was the issue not the status quo.
Indeed. Even if it's difficult to leave now it would only have been harder in the future. And since the British people were never signed up to the Project, 'twere well it were done quickly.
Of course, if Brown had let us reject Lisbon or Blair had let us reject the euro...
But I've got my own problems with John Lewis atm. My third laptop in eighteen months is dying (*), this one after just ten weeks. Each time it's taken them two months to replace, despite claiming it would just be two weeks. And this is from a different manufacturer.
Grrrr ...
(*) Fan failure.
I buy all my non-Mac machines from these guys
itxchange.com
When the fan on my many year old laptop died, I called them up to buy a new laptop. They got another supplier to sell me a fan instead.
I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine. I think the extra fans have helped. Hope so, anyway. I can afford a tenner for that, but hundreds of pounds for a new console would not go down well, if at all.
Cooling in tech kit is always a problem.
I'm friends with an engineer whose first job was tracking down a problem with a computer in the mid-1980s. If you left it on continuously for months it might spontaneously combust. The cause - from memory - was that two tracks leading to the lithium CMOS battery were slightly too close. If the battery was full and it got too warm, the charging circuit polarity would reverse and the computer would go bang.
They had banks of computers running for months before they managed to replicate the problem.
For this reason, I have sympathy with Samsung's recent travails.
There are some weird things going on with Android updates on my Sony phone too - now it gets noticeably warm when USB charging. I keep buggering laptop fans and keyboards - but it's all cat fluff and sawdust litter related.
The most annoying thing right now is how easy it is for a kitty to turn my screen upside by simply treading on it. Took me bloody ages to find how to reset it whilst twisting my neck/rotating the whole machine/typing. It happens so often I've got the shortcut memorised.
No surprise that support for junior doctors is eroding. They have been poorly led and badly advised. Just like the miners were.
What I don't understand is why the BMA approved of the deal a few months ago but now they have called 5-day strikes over it. What changed over the summer?
The BMA didn't approve it, they ballotted the affected doctors and 58% rejected it. The BMA JDC leadership resigned and new leaders with a mandate to continue industrial action were elected.
The leadership is not as radical as the membership. Next weeks strike is off, but this was because of inadequate time to prepare. The strike for 5 days from 5 Oct remains planned. That is a few days after imposition starts. It could be stopped if imposition was suspended and talks over the outstanding issues restarted.
What is the point of striking after imposition? You really think an agreed contract that is in place is going to be reversed after being imposed?
The government should take the same approach as Ronald Reagan to the Air Traffic Controllers.
Reversal?
Imposition starts on 1 October but the rollout is slow (and NHS HR departments hopelessly unprepared) and doesn't reach all grades of junior until next August.
The strike will be a disaster but imposition is a disaster too. It fails to address the real issues and will further demoralise and antagonise a truculent workforce with a major existing retention and recruitment problem. It is not a battle with a good outcome for anyone.
Except long-term the NHS patients who will have a seven day NHS in perpetuity long after this transitional dispute is history.
But a seven day service where every day is slightly better than the current weekend support but far worse than the other 5 days in the a week...
Ken Livingstone's advice to people who doubt that Hitler supported Zionism: "Go on websites".
Websites like Stormfront and JewWatch?
Livingstone actually gets his history wrong - even the author he cites as supporting his views, doesn't. While there were some Nazis interested in Zionism because it would cause the British problems & earn Germany cash, that interest did not extend up the chain to anywhere near Hitler - and was quickly stamped out when the higher ups found out about it. Livingstone is not only mendacious and misdirecting, he's pure & simple flat out wrong.
Mr. Jessop, I tend not to play long sessions, which I think/hope helps.
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
The issue now with laptops is over speccing - they've got so much faster in recent years, that unless you're doing video editing or hardcore gaming a basic model is more than sufficient. Also, Windows 10 sucks like a Sunday Sport girl who got a big tip - pay £80 more to get W7 if you want to be productive using it for work, or get a MacBook. And order online - laptopshop, Amazon or direct from the maker.
I switched from Win7 to Win10 and don't have any problems with it.
I use the "Pro" version, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine. I think the extra fans have helped. Hope so, anyway. I can afford a tenner for that, but hundreds of pounds for a new console would not go down well, if at all.
It's probably just full of dust. Easy to fix. Power it down and remove the cables. Turn upside down and remove the 3 stickers on the back covering the screws that keep the bottom case on. You will need a T9 security bit to remove those. It's the one that looks like a star of David with a hole in the middle. Then you can lift off the bottom case exposing the fan. Some blasts of compressed air into that should solve your problems. Just leave it a few mins before powering it back up.
I see Ken Livingstone has snatched a massacre from the jaws of a rout.
I see the Blairite Tory BBC are trying to undermine Labour's efforts to prove there's no antisemitism problem, as the lovely Lady Shami made clear in her report.
I switched from Win7 to Win10 and don't have any problems with it.
I use the "Pro" version, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
I am running Windows 10 on a couple of machines without a problem, but I have a major problem with one laptop
Updates are mandatory now (which I don't have a problem with) but the mandatory update failed on this machine. Now it tries to reinstall it, and reboots, and fails, every day.
I can't decline the install. I can't get the install to succeed.
Mr. Jessop, I tend not to play long sessions, which I think/hope helps.
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
The issue now with laptops is over speccing - they've got so much faster in recent years, that unless you're doing video editing or hardcore gaming a basic model is more than sufficient. Also, Windows 10 sucks like a Sunday Sport girl who got a big tip - pay £80 more to get W7 if you want to be productive using it for work, or get a MacBook. And order online - laptopshop, Amazon or direct from the maker.
I switched from Win7 to Win10 and don't have any problems with it.
I use the "Pro" version, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
You're one of the lucky ones. I've a customer PC on my bench now that upgraded to W10 a couple of months ago, then got stuck on a forced update and now is in an irreparable boot loop. Am having to copy all the documents off it, then wipe the disk, reinstall W7 and restore the docs. Will cost her half the price of a new laptop to get it all fixed, and it was top spec a year ago. MS have screwed this up very badly, not least because they've removed most of the professional tools that us IT guys used to use to fix things in earlier versions.
Just seen a bit of Sky News. Apparently the police took four hours to arrest anyone, and have still only removed two out of nine of the cretins.
@Mr_Eugenides: It genuinely appears that all the #BlackLivesMatterUK protestors at London City Airport are white. Roaring.
@Mr_Eugenides: Didn’t any of the #BLMUK protestors realise that it might not look good if they were all white? Was not even a token black lefty available?
Just seen a bit of Sky News. Apparently the police took four hours to arrest anyone, and have still only removed two out of nine of the cretins.
@Mr_Eugenides: It genuinely appears that all the #BlackLivesMatterUK protestors at London City Airport are white. Roaring.
@Mr_Eugenides: Didn’t any of the #BLMUK protestors realise that it might not look good if they were all white? Was not even a token black lefty available?
I've a customer PC on my bench now that upgraded to W10 a couple of months ago, then got stuck on a forced update and now is in an irreparable boot loop.
The problem is dust gets trapped between the fan and the heat sink killing airflow so just sucking from the back doesn't help much. You need to get the bottom case off to get that dust out.
On the subject of IT could anyone please give some advice?
My wife's Laptop screen got smashed a few months ago. Still working but a spiderweb crack through the middle of the screen. I've always built my own PC's but just bought Laptops and this isn't a repair I'd done before. Model HPK 15-P183NA
I found a replacement screen online, bought it but after taking out the old one realised it wasn't the LED screen that was cracked but the front glass panel for the digitiser as it is a Touchscreen model. Seems to be integrated with the front bezel so I imagine the whole front bezel may need replacing.
I can't find any replacements online though, other than on ebay for used ones which are being charged often hundreds of pounds for. Any advice on where I could get a replacement? And if possible instructions/a video on how to do the repair myself - though it is sourcing the replacement I'm struggling with the most.
"I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine."
I am not surprised some modern games really are very demanding and having the kit work harder will generate more heat. I get the same thing on my PC and that has a total of seven fans. I see some of the top of the range stuff now has liquid nitrogen cooling systems.
If you have internal fans on a PS4 it is a really good idea to open it up every few months and make sure the fans are not getting clogged up with dust and crud. I have a chap come and do mine with his tins of compressed air and little vacuum cleaners, but that is just me being lazy.
Anyone care to speculate as to the cause of the coughing fits? Would be disastrous for Clinton to have a fit in one of the debates.
Well literally anything from the relatively trivial (post nasal drip or GERD) to a potentially terminal illness (Lung Cancer, OPD)
Basically you would need a LOT more information/symptoms than just a chronic cough to make a dignosis.
Chronic?
I read she's been suffering with a cough for some months?
Tim Kaine will have to go for POTUS. No other good soltuion I can think of.
Well if the cough is being caused by something trivial like post nasal drip then Hillary will be fine.
I had that at the start of the year, it was annoying. Lasted for about 3 months too.
My late father worked in the building/construction industry all his life and suffered from post nasal drip for 30 years (probably caused by dust, etc.) Didn't really seem to be any treatment other than to put up with it.
The constant phlegm, throat clearing, coughing, etc. Finished up making his life a misery.
Mr. Sandpit, yeah, I'd just be browsing the internet and word processing, mostly.
Mr. Drinker, thanks for that suggestion, although The Witcher 3 was one of the first games I bought, so I'd be surprised if dust were the whole story.
I have seen Youtube video guides to doing that sort of thing (using a cotton bud to get the dust rather than blasting compressed air). I'll see how things go for a while. Thanks for the T9 specification.
Just seen a bit of Sky News. Apparently the police took four hours to arrest anyone, and have still only removed two out of nine of the cretins.
@Mr_Eugenides: It genuinely appears that all the #BlackLivesMatterUK protestors at London City Airport are white. Roaring.
@Mr_Eugenides: Didn’t any of the #BLMUK protestors realise that it might not look good if they were all white? Was not even a token black lefty available?
Mr. Jessop, I tend not to play long sessions, which I think/hope helps.
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
The issue now with laptops is over speccing - they've got so much faster in recent years, that unless you're doing video editing or hardcore gaming a basic model is more than sufficient. Also, Windows 10 sucks like a Sunday Sport girl who got a big tip - pay £80 more to get W7 if you want to be productive using it for work, or get a MacBook. And order online - laptopshop, Amazon or direct from the maker.
I switched from Win7 to Win10 and don't have any problems with it.
I use the "Pro" version, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
You're one of the lucky ones. I've a customer PC on my bench now that upgraded to W10 a couple of months ago, then got stuck on a forced update and now is in an irreparable boot loop. Am having to copy all the documents off it, then wipe the disk, reinstall W7 and restore the docs. Will cost her half the price of a new laptop to get it all fixed, and it was top spec a year ago. MS have screwed this up very badly.
I've found W8/10 bloody awful - my W8 laptop has now decided that it'll try updating during the night - then hangs for 90mins, then comes back to life - EVERY NIGHT. And it's screwed up my AVG - I can't uninstall it/fix it now either so it download updates/fails/hangs my machine. I turned off the interweb connection on Aug 10.
She's also entirely correct to place immigration control at the centre piece of the partition negotiations. It was what the electorate wanted. I'm just suggesting this is an insane way for a mature, stable and major industrial democracy to recast it's entire economic and Foriegn Policy. This kind of constitutional chaos and collapse is rather,erm, european. I can say with all sincerity that I'm praying for Theresa May. The
That "insanity" as you put it is one shared by the EU which has rather made a fetish of free movement and made it recast its economic and foreign policy. If there had been some more sense on the EU side about the principle of free movement and its consequences rather than its reiteration as if it were an unalterable bit of a catechism we might not be where we are today.
As I have stated before, people are not the same as goods, services and capital and the wholesale failure of the EU/British political establishment to understand this pretty basic - and, I'd have thought, obvious - fact is at the root of the issue we all now face.
No surprise that support for junior doctors is eroding. They have been poorly led and badly advised. Just like the miners were.
What I don't understand is why the BMA approved of the deal a few months ago but now they have called 5-day strikes over it. What changed over the summer?
The BMA didn't approve it, they ballotted the affected doctors and 58% rejected it. The BMA JDC leadership resigned and new leaders with a mandate to continue industrial action were elected.
The leadership is not as radical as the membership. Next weeks strike is off, but this was because of inadequate time to prepare. The strike for 5 days from 5 Oct remains planned. That is a few days after imposition starts. It could be stopped if imposition was suspended and talks over the outstanding issues restarted.
What is the point of striking after imposition? You really think an agreed contract that is in place is going to be reversed after being imposed?
The government should take the same approach as Ronald Reagan to the Air Traffic Controllers.
Reversal?
Imposition starts on 1 October but the rollout is slow (and NHS HR departments hopelessly unprepared) and doesn't reach all grades of junior until next August.
The strike will be a disaster but imposition is a disaster too. It fails to address the real issues and will further demoralise and antagonise a truculent workforce with a major existing retention and recruitment problem. It is not a battle with a good outcome for anyone.
Except long-term the NHS patients who will have a seven day NHS in perpetuity long after this transitional dispute is history.
But a seven day service where every day is slightly better than the current weekend support but far worse than the other 5 days in the a week...
I highly doubt it. Evening out provision of service is far more efficient. It means that t he buildings and machinery the NHS spends billions of pounds on doesn't lie idle for the vast majority of the week while everyone crams into a tiny window. There are 168 hours a week and we spend billions on using 25% of it.
@TSE - you love people in the Tory party you politically agree with, and think the rest are idiots.
No. I'm quite the fan of Owen Paterson when he's not banging on about the EU.
Thought it was a shame he was sacked, he did a stellar job on GM foods. Pure evidence and science based approach.
As a plant breeder I have deep reservations about GM crops.
Let me paraphrase you 'As a genetic modifier of plant DNA by the old slow methods I have deep reservations about those who seek to do it by design and a lot faster'.
The whole history of human agriculture is one of GM via selective interference in breeding of plants and animals.
No my concern is the lamentable lack of long term field trials as to the consequences of modified genes on the ecosystem. To assess the implication and effects of GM on flora and fauna you need trials over extended periods (decade(s)). That is not compatible with commercialisation, and the power of money is forcing the pace to generate revenue to give a return on the investment.
I'm happy to accept that anthropogenic climate change and the as yet unidentified consequences of GM on animals and plants are no more than a part evolution. They are no more than a consequence of the development of the Human race.
I don't think we know the bounds of either GM or climate change (upper or lower limits). Unfettered experimentation in the finely balanced sphere of Nature will cause the balance to change. It may be a beneficial change it may be a detrimental change. It is a high risk strategy where the risk could be mitigated.
On the subject of IT could anyone please give some advice?
My wife's Laptop screen got smashed a few months ago. Still working but a spiderweb crack through the middle of the screen. I've always built my own PC's but just bought Laptops and this isn't a repair I'd done before. Model HPK 15-P183NA
I found a replacement screen online, bought it but after taking out the old one realised it wasn't the LED screen that was cracked but the front glass panel for the digitiser as it is a Touchscreen model. Seems to be integrated with the front bezel so I imagine the whole front bezel may need replacing.
I can't find any replacements online though, other than on ebay for used ones which are being charged often hundreds of pounds for. Any advice on where I could get a replacement? And if possible instructions/a video on how to do the repair myself - though it is sourcing the replacement I'm struggling with the most.
Mr. Sandpit, yeah, I'd just be browsing the internet and word processing, mostly.
Mr. Drinker, thanks for that suggestion, although The Witcher 3 was one of the first games I bought, so I'd be surprised if dust were the whole story.
I have seen Youtube video guides to doing that sort of thing (using a cotton bud to get the dust rather than blasting compressed air). I'll see how things go for a while. Thanks for the T9 specification.
You can also use a handheld vacuum cleaner aimed expertly at the fans every few weeks, that does the trick for me as it clears out the dust from the fans and anywhere that is easy to reach.
The underlying issue is that the thermal paste on the processor has been applied incorrectly, that's not an easy problem to fix, but if you keep the fans clear of dust then you won't have a problem.
Incidentally, given Amazon a quick perusal and the bits and pieces don't seem too pricey (although I'd prefer to spend no money, a new console would obviously cost rather more). What I might do is see how things go, then possibly get them when the time for Christmas shopping arrives [I tend to do that early, and with a new novel possibly out in December I don't want to have to worry about that whilst also remembering to buy everyone a present].
Edited extra bit: I do apologise for blathering on about this, although fans and the like do seem a common problem.
Edited extra bit: do you mean a mini-vac or just the extensions on a normal vacuum cleaner? [Also, with the console opened u?]
I think 'expertly' would be asking too much. My hands are quite unsteady.
Mr. Jessop, I tend not to play long sessions, which I think/hope helps.
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
The issue now with laptops is over speccing - they've got so much faster in recent years, that unless you're doing video editing or hardcore gaming a basic model is more than sufficient. Also, Windows 10 sucks like a Sunday Sport girl who got a big tip - pay £80 more to get W7 if you want to be productive using it for work, or get a MacBook. And order online - laptopshop, Amazon or direct from the maker.
I switched from Win7 to Win10 and don't have any problems with it.
I use the "Pro" version, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
You're one of the lucky ones. I've a customer PC on my bench now that upgraded to W10 a couple of months ago, then got stuck on a forced update and now is in an irreparable boot loop. Am having to copy all the documents off it, then wipe the disk, reinstall W7 and restore the docs. Will cost her half the price of a new laptop to get it all fixed, and it was top spec a year ago. MS have screwed this up very badly.
I've found W8/10 bloody awful - my W8 laptop has now decided that it'll try updating during the night - then hangs for 90mins, then comes back to life - EVERY NIGHT. And it's screwed up my AVG - I can't uninstall it/fix it now either so it download updates/fails/hangs my machine. I turned off the interweb connection on Aug 10.
I was in a computer workshop this morning (my iMac has a problem upgrading to El Capitan) and the technician there remarked that it was also known as Crapitan. I laughed; Apples answer to W10. No he said, Windows 10 is fine on a new machine; it’s upgrading which causes the problem. Which tallies with my Windows-using friends experience.
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These things need to be properly global in nature, through the WTO and the UN. That means getting the USA, China and India on board, if they're not then it isn't worth doing from a pollution point of view. From a socialist tax-raising point of view, sure, but it won't reduce worldwide pollution.
I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine. I think the extra fans have helped. Hope so, anyway. I can afford a tenner for that, but hundreds of pounds for a new console would not go down well, if at all.
John Lewis and the big department stores were generally knowledgable and would ask a colleague rather than try and bluster, but the big Currys/Dixons/PCW were terrible - clearly trained only on how to upsell shitty worthless extended warranties.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/prove-you-didnt-tamper-with-iphone-3605087/
+ others.
And that's leaving aside their recent utter bogus bricking of phones in the Error 53 debacle, which they rapidly stepped back from.
Ken Livingstone has gone on to defend Keith Vaz and has managed to segue onto Hitler was a Zionist
The actual provisions of the ECHR (not as stretched by the ECJ - although I take @DavidL point) are not that onerous. But, once again, Parliament gets to decide what it incorporates into any bill of rights.
If the EU operates like the ECHR I would have been fine with it. Personally it was the direction of travel that was the issue not the status quo.
I'm friends with an engineer whose first job was tracking down a problem with a computer in the mid-1980s. If you left it on continuously for months it might spontaneously combust. The cause - from memory - was that two tracks leading to the lithium CMOS battery were slightly too close. If the battery was full and it got too warm, the charging circuit polarity would reverse and the computer would go bang.
They had banks of computers running for months before they managed to replicate the problem.
For this reason, I have sympathy with Samsung's recent travails.
https://twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/773094527989080064
Mr. Sandpit, must admit, I have the technical aptitude of a potato. If/when I need a new device, I'll likely ask here for recommendations (I'll put it off as long as possible, mind).
What does it matter if they are 54 ?
You aren't looking for a date...
As a plant breeder I have deep reservations about GM crops.
The whole history of human agriculture is one of GM via selective interference in breeding of plants and animals.
The most annoying thing right now is how easy it is for a kitty to turn my screen upside by simply treading on it. Took me bloody ages to find how to reset it whilst twisting my neck/rotating the whole machine/typing. It happens so often I've got the shortcut memorised.
https://twitter.com/roadto326/status/773096735660998656
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdRhnAA6Glg
Scots do want a rerun on the EU referendum, the one they're not going to get....
.... but don't want a rerun on the Independence referendum, the one they're definitely positively absolutely maybe going to get.....
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/more-than-half-would-back-second-vote-on-europe-jfghv25k6
Of course, if Brown had let us reject Lisbon or Blair had let us reject the euro...
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When the fan on my many year old laptop died, I called them up to buy a new laptop. They got another supplier to sell me a fan instead.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005491.html
Basically you would need a LOT more information/symptoms than just a chronic cough to make a dignosis.
I switched from Win7 to Win10 and don't have any problems with it.
I use the "Pro" version, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
http://www.playbuzz.com/wrtvdigital10/can-you-pass-a-u-s-citizenship-test
Updates are mandatory now (which I don't have a problem with) but the mandatory update failed on this machine. Now it tries to reinstall it, and reboots, and fails, every day.
I can't decline the install. I can't get the install to succeed.
At some point I will have to reimage it
Horrendous pussyfooting about.
The charity that Keith Vaz is closely associated with has retained Carter-Ruck and is firing off legal letters as well.
The most terrifying 6 words in the English language:
Ken is here to defend you.
And if you don't have a can of compressed air to hand, these are great
https://eustore.ifixit.com/en/Tools/Cleaning-Tools/Dust-Blower.html
@Mr_Eugenides: Didn’t any of the #BLMUK protestors realise that it might not look good if they were all white? Was not even a token black lefty available?
Frankly a better course of action would be a "tearful" appearance on morning telly...
On Youtube, though my computer crashed when I viewed. Bloody thing gets hot then crashes...oh deep joy.
We will probably find out they are all RARs on their gap yaaaahs.
My wife's Laptop screen got smashed a few months ago. Still working but a spiderweb crack through the middle of the screen. I've always built my own PC's but just bought Laptops and this isn't a repair I'd done before. Model HPK 15-P183NA
I found a replacement screen online, bought it but after taking out the old one realised it wasn't the LED screen that was cracked but the front glass panel for the digitiser as it is a Touchscreen model. Seems to be integrated with the front bezel so I imagine the whole front bezel may need replacing.
I can't find any replacements online though, other than on ebay for used ones which are being charged often hundreds of pounds for. Any advice on where I could get a replacement? And if possible instructions/a video on how to do the repair myself - though it is sourcing the replacement I'm struggling with the most.
"I'm a bit worried about my PS4, and recently bought a fan stand for it due to concerns over cooling. For remasters, it's very quiet, but for some new games (The Witcher 3) is can sometimes scream like a jet engine."
I am not surprised some modern games really are very demanding and having the kit work harder will generate more heat. I get the same thing on my PC and that has a total of seven fans. I see some of the top of the range stuff now has liquid nitrogen cooling systems.
If you have internal fans on a PS4 it is a really good idea to open it up every few months and make sure the fans are not getting clogged up with dust and crud. I have a chap come and do mine with his tins of compressed air and little vacuum cleaners, but that is just me being lazy.
The constant phlegm, throat clearing, coughing, etc. Finished up making his life a misery.
Mr. Drinker, thanks for that suggestion, although The Witcher 3 was one of the first games I bought, so I'd be surprised if dust were the whole story.
I have seen Youtube video guides to doing that sort of thing (using a cotton bud to get the dust rather than blasting compressed air). I'll see how things go for a while. Thanks for the T9 specification.
As I have stated before, people are not the same as goods, services and capital and the wholesale failure of the EU/British political establishment to understand this pretty basic - and, I'd have thought, obvious - fact is at the root of the issue we all now face.
So many clever people. So little common sense.
I don't think he's ever missed something juicy.
I'm happy to accept that anthropogenic climate change and the as yet unidentified consequences of GM on animals and plants are no more than a part evolution. They are no more than a consequence of the development of the Human race.
I don't think we know the bounds of either GM or climate change (upper or lower limits). Unfettered experimentation in the finely balanced sphere of Nature will cause the balance to change. It may be a beneficial change it may be a detrimental change. It is a high risk strategy where the risk could be mitigated.
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/New-Pull-Genuine-HP-Pavilion-15-Touchscreen-Panel-assmebly-Digitizer-709171-001-/181615616404?hash=item2a49226194:g:U1sAAOSwj0NUgIl1
The underlying issue is that the thermal paste on the processor has been applied incorrectly, that's not an easy problem to fix, but if you keep the fans clear of dust then you won't have a problem.
Edited extra bit: I do apologise for blathering on about this, although fans and the like do seem a common problem.
Edited extra bit: do you mean a mini-vac or just the extensions on a normal vacuum cleaner? [Also, with the console opened u?]
I think 'expertly' would be asking too much. My hands are quite unsteady.
Which tallies with my Windows-using friends experience.