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You do realize that that is an advertising photo, and its purpose is NOT to depict a realistic scenario? Just checking... 
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Sure I do. What do you want to advertise with such a photo? Does it really demonstrate your competence? What should potential customers think about whatever product you want to sell?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I think it is used to get women and girls into tech. at least that is where I have seen the ads. I assure you, the girls don't give a f*** if it is accurate or not. 
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I am willing to bet 95% (at least) of their target audience doesn't know exactly what they are looking at, let alone whether it's accurate or not. If you do know that stuff then, by definition, you are not their target audience.
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Slacker007 wrote: its purpose is NOT to depict a realistic scenario
Hello, I am that person who believes everything I see on the Internet.
Totally ruined it for me. 
Also, would this be that stuff I've heard about....fake news?
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In summary, the OP should never had been made. Ok, ooooohhhh, we know you can solder.
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Well, they do claim that women have a higher pain threshold than men...
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Yeah. You can fry it all Barbie.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Models in stock photo collections are practically never professionals, except in the profession of looking attractive. They must be told everything little detail, and if there is noone there telling them, they will do things the way that first come to mind. They are like stuntmen in action movies, being called in for a clip lasting five seconds, having no idea about the movie as a whole.
For her next photoshot she might hold knitting needles for the first time, and any grandmother will immediately see that she has no clue about how to do it. Or maybe she will be in the kitchen, making her first dough with yeast, having no idea about how to knead it. (Or maybe do like one of my fellow students: The recepie said to let the rolls stand on plate for fifteen minutes, and he thought: That makes no sense unless I turn the plate on! so he cooked the dough for fifteen minutes before proceeding, or trying to proceed... This is a true story!)
There is no reason to laugh at the girl. We should rather frown at the photographers who forget to bring in a professional solderer to make sure things look right. Or a grandma who knows how to knit. A baker (or maybe the same grandma  ) to show how to knead a dough.
Unless the photo was deliberately made as a joke, which is a definite possibility.
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Member 7989122 wrote: There is no reason to laugh at the girl.
I don't think anyone here seriously was.
Member 7989122 wrote: We should rather frown at the photographers who forget to bring in a professional solderer to make sure things look right.
I wouldn't necessarily blame the photographer either, but whoever said he wanted a picture of someone doing some soldering and then putting his stamp of approval on this one.
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Looking at a new rig later this year, them 8th gen coffee lake intels don't look half bad.
but,
windows 7 not supported! no video driver, no usb drivers (incl usb 2 coz they piggy back the new intel usb 3.x driver)
and it's intel's fault - they wont do the drivers.
so: figured boot linux and run 7 in a vm, but searching around linucs isn't grokking the coffee lake very well either (even after a mess of farting around updating portions of the kernel with experimental drivers it's still far from stable.)
so looks like no choice, gonna have to sacrifice one of my precious w7 licences for an upgrade to w10 (which is still doable for free.)
anyway, gonna be a few months away, (after a couple of antipodean holidays),
things may improve before then.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Lopatir wrote: things may improve before then.
I wouldn't bank on it. It's had nearly three years and it still not as good as Win7. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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not so much w10 improving,
more along the lines of linuc properly supporting the platform (so I can vm into 7)
(have a feeling intel wont ever release divers for w7 coz they want to keep microsof friended.)
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Lopatir wrote: have a feeling intel wont ever release divers for w7 coz...
Good one.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm not surprised - they are all needed in Thailand!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If you don't trust Linux to work on it, run 10 as a host, and 7 in a Hyper-V VM? Hyper-V runs under 10; it's no longer an exclusive to Windows Server.
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So you are the guy who put a chair on a ladder and a stool on that chair to change the light bulb, also the unvoluntary inventor of the Salto Mortale[^]?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I only suggested to run 10 as the VM host, rather than Linux. Same count. I wasn't suggesting to runs VMs within VMs within VMs within (...)
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Or he could just not host anything in something else and get rid of Windows altogether.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, he said he wanted to run Windows 7. I was trying to offer solutions within those parameters. If you're free to change the goalposts, then yeah, it's time to ditch Windows if Microsoft wants to play those games.
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In the long term you will have to use increasingly weirder constructs. Of course they try to finally herd you to Win 10, so the choice is between playing along and moving to Win 10 or leaving it entirely. Everything inbetween will be difficult, just because they don't want you to do that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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too true...
- first they tried hyping it,
- next was force feeding,
- then came baiting ('free now, later you pay' - which btw false if you have a valid 7/8 licence)
- then they tried sweetening ('10 can do this, 7 cant,' '10 is faster' - btw: it's not faster)
- then they tried scare ('10 will always be safe, 7 will fail')
- now they're bypassing the consumer and manipulating the physical/infra.
more than once they also suggested 'everyone has 10 except you' - but the stats proved (and still do) otherwise
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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