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This Dilbert cartoon and this Dilbert cartoon are the perfect illustrations for your post. Look at those links in order, one follows the other.

"Candidate must have an IQ of 300, two centuries of Unix experience and a track record of wining Nobel prizes."

This Dilbert cartoon and this Dilbert cartoon are the perfect illustrations for your post. Look at those links in order, one follows the other.

"Candidate must have an IQ of 300, two centuries of Unix experience and a track record of wining Nobel prizes."

I do fear that success of this sort will only lead to backlash and a more intense milking of the failing biz plan that they are clinging to like the parasites they are.

If you can think of any way possible the RIAA labels can become even more evil than they already are, you've got a better imagination than I do. Either that or you're in management.

I do fear that success of this sort will only lead to backlash and a more intense milking of the failing biz plan that they are clinging to like the parasites they are.

If you can think of any way possible the RIAA labels can become even more evil than they already are, you've got a better imagination than I do. Either that or you're in management.

But what did the garbageman say?

Many Microsoft employees seem to function as an incubator of innovations for contributions to the value chain.

Quote from the article: ... a Microsoft spokesperson in the US told Computerworld: "We're aware of it, but are listening first and foremost to feedback we hear from partners and customers about what makes sense based on their needs. That's what informed our decision to extend the availability of XP initially, and what will continue to guide us."

So much of what comes from Microsoft seems depersonalized, as though employees just go through the motions, realizing that nothing they do will change the basic nature of the fundamental failures in the company.

Incompetence hangs in the air like the cold stench of death.

Someone with little experience (who will leave when they see they've developed skills someone will actually pay for) someone who can't get a better gig right now and promises to remain for ages (but won't) someone who can't get a job with better conditions because they are actually worth the little you pay, or maybe worth a little less A mixture of the above

In my last IT job I was given stupid deadlines and bullied so much with managers physically hitting me when I told them their dadline was stupid, that I had a breakdown. Now luckily who I work for is a company that treats its workers well, and I'm paying for this by having a very low salary (I don't have a car). Money and benefits used to be important to me, but not any more. I think everybody's priorities and what they expect from their job changes during their lives, and any workplace that doesn't respect these changes gets dumped by employees. I am now in a caring, relaxing environment where not too much is expected of me and I'm quite happy to be a "Wally". I'm not looking for other jobs that pay more because I know these jobs are more heavily "managed". I have a CS degree from on of the World top 5 universities, but I am happy to earn $40k for a looooong time in this job.

...side note...

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071226.html

Similar problem.

I think the parent was referring to this.

You've played this game before...

Or he reads Dilbert regularly.

Mordac, the preventer of information services, makes a statement on security versus usability:

http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071116.html

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071016.html

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007113333116.gif

1) Can past In-duh-vidual comments seed the filters.?

2) Will those members automatically included in a whitelist?

If not:

3) Does membership there qualify for a white list (or black list)?

Not only that! "Scott is also the executive sponsor for Microsoft's Operational Enterprise Risk Management efforts and supports the integration of management principles from the Quality & Business Excellence team, which drive continuous and breakthrough process improvements across the company."

I'm guessing he got fired for using the Dilbert mission statement generator on his CV.

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071031.html

That's the right way to handle traffic in the net - drop the priority for packages that aren't sensitive and promote packages that are sensitive to delays. If the lines are up to their throughput limit this is the way to go, and doing it right will not have any really bad effect on the users.

Intentionally dropping data packages is much more evil since that interferes with the functionality and ultimately drives up the network traffic - not down - since many more packages has to be sent and re-sent to provide communication. Bad network conditions also spins power-users to tweak their network settings to be more aggressive. And if the the conditions gets really bad there is a risk that P2P software developers circumvents this by sending redundant information driving the bandwidth use even higher.

But it also has to be figured out if this really is intentional or if the ISP is using equipment with bugs that actually causes this behavior. Since Google is one of the sites that's frequently used it may be that there is a buffer overflow in a router. And if there is a company policy for a certain vendor and a certain setup of that equipment this has a tendency to spread.

Anyway - one of the interesting things reported is that accessing Google through IP address works fine, but not through the DNS resolution. This makes me suspect that the problem is rather related to a certain server or a DNS resolution problem that triggers this problem. Can be an intermediate DNS server that can't handle load-balancing but instead directs all traffic to a single server, which ultimately gets soaked. (maybe not the server, but the channel to the server).

And ultimately - there possibilities available range from being evil to being stupid. Just the kind of story you can read in Dilbert.

The American Ideal. ...or...

more to your point.

You need this:
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070909.html

older folks such as myself don't use this mashup crap because it sounds STUPID.

That's because you're too busy using email.

The name alone implies that it's some sort of hap-hazardly created frankenstein stuff that 10 year olds create.

Welcome to Web 2.0. Now don't go telling anybody else about this.

The name does not indicate at all, in any way what a mashup is or does.

You must be new here....

No, I'm not trolling, this isn't flamebait, I'm giving MY take on it from the perspective of someone near 50 years old. Why not call this stuff, what ever it is, by a name that gives people a sense of what it's about?

If you're truly in the demographic you describe, you can't tell me you've not played with this. Lighten up, give the kids a chance. We had ours and look what we did with it.

Because Linux is less resource intensive, he's able to upgrade his distro several times on the same hardware, putting himself in the situation of having a new kernel with old hardware and old drivers that don't load in the new kernel.

Hear here! I have an ANCIENT AMD K6-2/450 doing backups. It has 2.5 TB of hard disks in it, and its only purpose in life is to copy files over the network every day. It's 10 years old, and has been in continuous 24x7 duty all along. Rock stable, too - why change it when it works fine and performance isn't an issue?

I haven't had to upgrade my PC through the last three releases and it works fine. Hell, I have Vista running on a laptop with only a 1.4GHz processor and it runs fine.

You sir, are an amazingly patient person. I credit you for your lack of desire to do meaningful work. Wally would be proud!

Let the flames begin!

Sorry, couldn't help it.

> Furthermore, in the workplace, many people listen to music and access large files on network shares. Clearly, Vista is *broken* for these uses. Not a good indication of Vista being business ready.

Employers don't want employees listening to musing while they work. It hurts productivity. This is actually a designed-in feature from the r2 of the requirements docs developed after 3 rounds of intensive customer feedback workshops.

Reminds me of a recent Dilbert:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Funny. But sad.

Reminds me of a recent Dilbert:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Funny. But sad.

Reminds me of a recent Dilbert:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Funny. But sad.

Wow! For a moment I doubted my own intelligence there, trying to get anything specific out of the press release. Then I realized I had read similar sentences on the 'Dilbert Mission Statement Generator'.

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career /bin/ms.cgi

So, according to the Dilbert Systems Interconnection model the layers would be:

Layer 15: Phil, The Prince of Insufficient Light
Layer 14: Mordac, the Director of Information Services
Layer 13: Catbert, Human Resources director
Layer 12: The Pointed Hair Boss
Layer 11: Carol the secretary
Layer 10: Dilbert
Layer 9: Asok, the intern
Layer 8: User

There's a neat trick you can play with Markov chains to generate this sort of text.

Or just use the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator with a few minor edits here and there.

I've always been impressed with the Dilbert Ultimate House http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/duh/index.ht ml as an example of a cool looking and functionally efficient dwelling. If anybody could lay down the cash for one, Woz could.

Most large companies are run by clueless bozos who will be happy to outsource your job to the lowest bidder, and really don't care much about your job satisfaction

IIS already has a pretty dramatic marketshare lead when it comes to the Fortune 1000.

This is the M$ zenith. The seeds M$ sewed back in the 80s and 90s are bearing fruit. All of those "free" copies of Windoze and Office bought the loyalty of millions of clueless MBA corporate wanna-be types. Their unmitigated ignorance and greed is also apparent in other mismanagement. It is only in big dumb companies that technical competence can be so thouroughly overridden by idealog management. Such irrational practices, can turn on a dime. Reality will catch up with these people, despite the size of their companies and it's already happening.

Working for most of the Fortune 1000 is miserable right now - they have their employees by the balls and they know it. Much of their M$ heavy stock funded retirement plans never gained their value back, so these companies are filled with old people who can't retire and are being worked to death. Their management is lining their pockets with bonuses while they fire employees, sell off capital and let the rest go to hell. The Mississippi River bridge collapse was just the beginning of the problems we will soon see. Power grids, plants, telephone networks and other vital infrastructure are all being run down under the stewardship of greedy asswipes who think they are rock stars.

That's like so last week. That is, weak.

http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert- 20070728.html

I recommend you send an email to Catbert, he has some uber-delicious tools. I've only seen a few, but they're quite useful!

I recommend you send an email to Catbert, he has some uber-delicious tools. I've only seen a few, but they're quite useful!

You said that already: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilb ert-20070611.html

"You can't save the earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice."

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/imag es/dilbert2004073470620.gif

I recommend you get a license to sell real estate

Scott Adams asked a question similar to yours. Here are the suggestions he got back.

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/duh/tour.htm l

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/duh/ Although this doesn't really address your technical questions exactly, there are surprisingly a lot of good ideas in there.

I thought work was like a Dilbert cartoon. Actually, when I worked in the video game industry for six years, management at one company did banned Dilbert cartons from cubicle walls since the similarities were amazingly relevent.

Even the new guy with a comic on Dilbert isn't safe.

The dossier itself is tame and probably a standard practice for large company PR firms:

Agreed. Nothing special here. A large number of Slashdot readers (myself included) don't mind being reminded from time to time that almost everything Microsoft does has a significant amount of skulduggery behind it. All companies seek to promote their products, all seek advantage over competitors, all cooperate with others only when it benefits them in some way. Microsoft it seems has made an art-form of doing maximum damage to others even when the resulting benefit to themselves is only minimal (if detectable at all). The company (seemingly) sees the world as a zero-sum game, they want all the marbles and want everyone else to have none, end of story. The Google motto "Don't be evil" is a direct reference to Microsoft. Even the company's (MS) most generous charity work (which hardly existed until the company had amassed more money than they knew how to spend) seems more like a trick to recover some level of respectability than a real attempt to do good. In a recent Dilbert cartoon (http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dil bert-20070316.html) Dilbert asks his boss "When we are done hosing our own company can we start hosing the competition?" His boss replies "Our customers are next". (It would have been funnier and more on-target if he has said something like "Our customers come FIRST!") But the message is the same, that there are companies, just as there are individuals who seem to delight more in doing harm to others than they do in doing good for themselves. Ballmer is rarely quoted as "Our product will be better", but instead likes to go on record saying "We will destroy them!". Any other company would have recognized him as a PR disaster long ago, but for Microsoft, his excesses go unnoticed as they would nowhere else. I found this quote from the PDF more interesting:

Other Influencers: Fred, per his MO, is relatively tight-lipped about other interviewees though we know he's talking to Winer, Scoble and he'll be talking to Tim O'Reilly. We also anticipate that he will contact original members of Jeff's team / others involved in the effort: Bryn Waibel, Len Prior, Chris Anderson {a Microsoft blogger; not the Wired editor in chief}, Don Box, David Ornstein, Ray Chen and Larry Osterman. We have outreached to them and will keep an open dialogue to see if we can gain more on the story based on their conversations. We're also trying to get him to talk to Charlene Li at Forrester who just published a positive report for us on the ROI of blogging.

Now for the /offtopic...

My guess is that Slashdot readership is down, although I haven't seen any number on how much. It used to be the only thing of its kind, and quite frequently a link from a Slashdot story would take down, or slow to uselessness even fairly robust servers. Many forums have come and gone and had little impact on the size of Slashdot readership, but two things have recently (I'm guessing) for the first time had a noticeable impact: Digg, and the popularity of RSS feeds. About all I can say about Digg is that I tried it and didn't like it very much. I like having a top-level selection process for stories (even though I don't always agree with what Slashdot selects, or when) rather than the "pure democracy" approach that Digg takes (or pretends to take). I don't get my view of science from radio shows that run at 1AM, or my view of history from Oliver Stone movies, but my guess is that many Digg posters can't distinguish between "West Wing" and a documentary on the White House. People have been trying to "game" Slashdot for years, with mixed success, but in Digg they have found a system much easier to game, and by and large I think the typical Digg user is more interested in the game tha

http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/d ilbert2007048874323.gif

See this first.

have you seen today's dilbert?

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