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‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CIO Responds

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Post by causality0 »

toast0 wrote: post #213
causality0 wrote: post #212

Government IT expenditures are insane. At work I have an i7 and 32GB of RAM with a spinning hard disk chaining the whole workstation to the ground. Booting up, logging in, and launching a browser takes over fifteen minutes at my last count, most of which is waiting for it to become responsive again after launching Edge. Frankly I'd love an explanation as to why Windows 7 works just fine on a hard drive but Windows 10…

> Frankly I'd love an explanation as to why Windows 7 works just fine on a hard drive but Windows 10 staggers around like it's been shot. Windows 7 had an independent QA team, and Windows 10 did not. I'd guess that some Microsoft developers and testers for 7 had SSDs, but most had spinning disks; but during the 10 development, most developers were using SSDs and neglected to test with spinning hard drives. It's terri…

I really need to look into whether there's an ecosystem of customized Win7 builds with ongoing user-created security patches. I'm so weary of hating my operating system.

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Post by vanilla_nut »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #15
ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #3

Not to be missed in the article: The Air Force has a "chief of esports and virtual fitness"

The US army has sponsored development of games quite a lot; I remember a friend of mine who was really into America's Army, that must've been 15 years ago now.

I loved the TV show Stargate SG-1 as a kid. From what I’ve heard, they had a really positive relationship with the air force and got all kinds of special privileges to film in official locations as a result.

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Post by pc86 »

slingnow wrote: post #200
pc86 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why aren't regular people allowed to just get in an aircraft and start flying after a couple of hours of practice? I mean, they are. Student pilots often solo at 8-10 hours total flight time.

First of all, that's on the low end of the spectrum, so "often" is a stretch. Second, that only takes into account seat time, not all of the other study required to understand the instruments and other assorted knowledge.

It certainly falls into the category of "a couple hours of practice" - reading the PHAK or FAR/AIM doesn't qualify as "practice" to any reasonable person.
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