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Open Source Dress for Success University Opens
Roblimo writes "Linus Torvalds and his bosses at OSDL have finally realized that the biggest problem getting businesses to adopt GNU/Linux is that most FOSS programmers wear sandals and have ponytails. They've teamed up to offer style tips for the IT set. NewsForge Reports on comments from OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen, saying that if OSDSU works as planned, the open source community 'can be as successful at delivering new products, bug-free and on time, as Microsoft is doing with Vista.'" NewsForge is part of the OSTG family, along with Slashdot.
open-source dress is gonna be like soooooo cute! i can't wait LOLS
Beauty is just a light switch away.
pwned.
There are 10 types of people in the world; those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Finally! A serious article. I totally agree with this concept. I'm going to buy real shoes tomorrow!
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found here:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/1 746234
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
no text.
^_^
"MBA Eye for the OSS Guy," or something like that?
Can someone tell Zonk that April fools day only lasts for one day?
Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
I know, isn't this like, so great?
So can I get modded up now?
The biggest roadblock to adoption of linux isn't sandles and ponytails, it's soap and deoderant!! You can get away with long hair and sandals, just as long as you don't smell. I know that's what's keeping me from leaving my house right now.
Does this sig remind you of Agatha Christie?
My printer is out of yellow and cyan ink, so everything I print looks like /. !!!!
I want a pink tie with ponies.
IT'S NOT about appearances.
IT'S ABOUT BUSINESSES wanting TO CONTROL everything.
This AbSOlutely has to be the CUUUTIST tanktop on the WORLD!!!!111 OOoohhhh it is so DARLING!!!!@@!!1211 If you wore this to work one day, you would be the MOST darling, Uber CUUUTTIST IT-tech in the WORLD!!!!111111 How can you go wrong with PONIES!!!! OMG!111
OMG pwnies!!
I code in the nude, how will this affect me?
Is pink a good color? :P
I don't mean to be negative at all, I'm just concerned: If the OSDSU starts pushing people to wear Open Source clothing, is this necessarily a good thing? Sure, most of the garments are free and made with good karma, but the care tags are a foot long, the weaving on one sleeve is twice as think as the weaving on the other, and the inside of the watch pocket says "/* Mr T ate your mom's balls */"
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I'm getting sick of editors linking to inferior acticles, this one doesn't even include the example outfit. I would buy Linux from this guy...
http://www.affordableuplink.net/images/IT_ExampleDid Apple just buy slashdot? What's up with the colors?!?
A variant of this story was posted on March 28th. Either that one was an early April Fool's joke or this one isn't.
"OSDL"
if you guys would wear nice clothes, that would make your work just as good, secure, on-time etc. as real big companies like Microsoft!
It just goes to show that appearance really does matter!!!
Seriously! What if we can't all be overweight and bald? Would this be workplace discrimination?
I'll still like being skinny, having all my (long) hair, and wearing sandals.
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
Funny today, but like my hometown paper The Onion the jokes are the headlines.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Or maybe it's a foolow-up?
Mod parent up. All articles should be tagged BUMSEXUAL because everyone enjoys bum sex.
So sandals and long hair are lost,
If the line of success will be crossed,
We must not forget
Success does not permit
Gifting vibrating eggs to the boss
The best thing is that I can get away with directly antagonising them, because they're no longer moderators! HAHA!
Ok, joke is old. Enough is enough. I think we all are getting tired of the "OMG PONIES" crap now. It was funny the first 100 times, now it's just stupid. Switch the site back and freaking move on already... sheesh.
HAHA, don't you realise that the only reason that every story has been tagged gay is that we know that it's pissing people like you off? This certainly isn't the sort of website where you see the word "gay" is ever applied seriously. It's a joke, at your expense.
The MBA and the Geek reality show is soon coming to TV screen near you.
I did nothing earlier today when all posts were "gay". I didn't find it especially funny, but overall, I didn't care. When obviously enough people find reason to tag it as straight AS WELL, it just gets pointless. Of course, we can find that funny as well, and then we can tag along and tag with any word we find in the dictionary, but the tagging might after all be used for searching later on, and a total polluting of everything based on the April 1st posts is, well, not needed.
not needed? I direct you to this.
Also, cats > ponies. I'm just sayin'
I don't feel strongly about it, it's just like I would be irritated by code like:
x++; x--;
Irritated, simply because it's pointless. (Unless we're dealing with doubles, or close to overflow in a bounds-checking sandbox or any other such case). I'm happy with /. being pink and full of more or less funny stories for a day (or two...). You can't really say I've lowered the SNR much by these comments anyway, so why are YOU bugged by me noting this?
I saw that wonderful 'Open Source Dress' and was imagining the possibilities of the general public adding and removing patches at will. Presumably it was eventually all Open-not-repetitive. Oh well.
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On another note, I want some not_repetitive_mod points. No real reason, I don't need them. I sat here for a minute and tried to think of a way to get some, but all the standard stereotypical jokes have already been made. Then I realized that funny doesn't affect my karma.
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Bummer. Obviously I need to be insightful, or at least pretend to be. I can do things like observe people observing that anything here can get mod points today and make fun of them for making fun of other people. Unless they do it to me. That would make them a gay pony.
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See how clever I was? I made that wonderful quasi-insightful post and then put a surprise ending on it by referencing current events to make it funny also. But then if it's funny I don't get k-nonrepetitive. Dammit. At least I set it up so I qualify for both. I need a new angle here.
FUCK YOU MODS! +1 TROLL ALL THE WAY!
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Hmm. Lameness filter encountered for too much repetition? Is that an invitation to write like the spam I've been getting recently? I'll be happy to copy and paste some nonsense sentences if that will help.
What the? This is soooo not repetitive.
to accept the praise of personal wisdom is an affront to the very ideal i hold dear.
The only way for this to work would be to license under the GPL a guide on how to dress cool and program. I know I would follow anything open-source.
OMG! PONYTAILS!
I still say you're crazy for giving a shit about search though. I've been considering this sort of thing a lot myself lately. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to waste code and processor cycles on tags at all. It cost a lot of what would have been easily gained accuracy in 90% of cases, but I found tags too unpredictable compared to titles and article text anyway - they were causing chaos in a minority of searches, simply because Slashdotters can't be trusted.
But that's not my point. My point is that it doesn't matter in the slightest. It's at worst a corruption of a potential future search term on a tech website. The moment of fun we all got out of seeing "gay" come up on each story is worth more than that.
I hope potential employers someday finaly realize that the biggest problem getting me to work for 20-century style businesses who failed to enter the 21th is that they are loaded with suits who gave up their personality and individuality for..what? They should team up to offer style tips for them lemming suits.
APRIL FOOLS!
sic
microsoft programers are alwasesmoking pot and getting fat from all the free cokeacola
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/le2.jpg
... like EVERYONE I KNOW.
OMFG, he dresses just like
Although everyone knows you NEVER wear white socks with the Birkenstocks after Labor Day.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20020913.html
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
I have been in the working world for almost 16 years. I worked at various places that had different dress codes. Anymore, my attitude is my focus is getting the job done and getting it done where the poeple I serve are happy. Dress codes are fluff or in other words, bull$h!t. My work puts me behind the scene 99 percent of the time.
Currently I work for a major DoD contractor company in Colorado Springs. We also have several sites in Denver which I also worked at as well back in 2000. On Fri, I went to one of their sites in SW Denver in Jefferson County. The building used to be owned by John Mansfield Company back in the 1970's. I was on my way from home to Fraser by Winter Park for the weekend. I stopped by to see several of my old co-workers. I was waiting in the "foyer" of the building by the security station for one of them to show. I was dressed in ripped jeans, sweatshirt and Teva sandals. I crossed paths with this older man, he was dressed in Khaki's, dress shirt with sweater vest. He gave me a nasty look out of the corner of his eye. He then proceeded up the center stairs. I asked one of the security guards if that was the "executive offices" and the guy remarked yes. That explained the dirty look.
In my current job, I work at an USAF base. Our facility is controlled by a gov't executive. He is a stickler on the rules. He does not even permit Casual Friday. Before he took over, it was casual everyday. The executive is a retired army colonel. In my job as a Sys Admin, I get to pull cable and yet, no clothing allowance is provided. I basically thumb my nose at the dress code and wear jeans everyday anyway.
In my previous job, even though my manager was an @$$hole on certain things such as vacation usage, he left me alone on my dress. I wore jeans everyday since I was one of the lab people. It is suppose to be dress pants/slacks Mon to Thu and casual Friday. There were a few Friday's I showed up with my standard blue jeans, Harley Davidson T-shirt and my Teva's. My boss even saw me with the Teva's and remarked that I should wear socks with them.
Also with my previous job, one time, they sent out a note on Wed or Thu of an executive visit on a Friday afternoon. The note mentioned that the meeting was not only mandatory but also, we were told to "dress to impress" and not think of dressing casually that time. Even with my new job, I am out the door by 12 noon on Friday. I wore jeans anyway on that Friday but I also sat way in the back of the room. My manager was not happy that I showed such "disrespect".
In my first job after college, I worked for this company from 1990 to 1995 in Indiana. The executive management were former accountants. We had no Casual Friday. When we did business trips, it was an unwritten rule that you must dress even on weekends if you traveled. My last several years in the company, I said the hell with the unwritten rules. When I was out on trips, I went to company plants and they were filthy. I decided that I would only wear jeans on the trips. The maintainence on dress pants/slacks are a pain such as dry cleaning or ironing. Blue jeans are low maintainence. Just wash, rinse, dry and wear. Very simple.
So, that's why Microsoft is so successful. As we already knew, it's not their ability to write excellent software. It's also apparently not their monopolistic business practices. It's because they have short hair and dress nicely!