In the Canadian province of Alberta, the epicenter of a boom in the production of bitumen from oil sands, senior geoscientists saw a 14.5% rise in salary this year, to $231,000. When you include overtime, truck drivers in the province are earning up to $170,000.
The System Preferences application is found in your Applications folder and is also available at any time from the Apple menu at the top-left of the screen (click the Apple logo). It may also be in your Dock at the bottom of the screen - the icon is a set of interlinked cogs, like the image above.
Startup Settings is a menu of the various ways in which you can start Windows 10 and Windows 8, including the well known diagnostic startup option called Safe Mode. Startup Settings replaced the Advanced Boot Options menu available in previous versions of Windows.