I worked for someone like you at a previous job. As a power hungry middle-manager, you took the project in a ridiculous route and played both sides of the management fence to pin bad ideas on the team behind closed doors.
You said that you would much prefer to have 10 average to sub-par developers that would listen to every dumb idea you had then to have 3 brilliant people that might challenge your assumptions, but inevitably could get the project done faster and smarter and cheaper.
Because of you, the talent at said company is gone and the project is a year behind schedule.
oh and BTW, the windshield is necessary to allow a human driver to continue breathing at today's highway speeds. it's very hard to properly exhale at 50-60 mph.
Please explain skydiving then. I jumped and fell in free fall for 50 seconds and I assure you I wasn't holding my breath.
My understanding is that your skin breathes as well.
Good responses.
How do you feel about billboards on the highway?
(I know this isn't a perfect comparison, but bear with me)
Is it really a big deal if you have to look at a few to get to where you are going? You don't have to buy the products advertised, you don't even have to look at them, and if they supported the roads you drove on, would it really be a big deal? (Assuming of course the billboards didn't actually fly across the road, and you had to drive through them)
First, the advertising money *you* are spending is not your money. At what point did you start losing money to visit websites? It comes from the advertisers, and only if you visit the website.
Secondly, would you feel the same way about not caring when "a few hundred thousand websites go dark" if one of them was Slashdot?
(be careful with this one)
I think advertising is a necessary evil of the internet, and allows smaller companies the ability to display their own content and their own web applications. I do agree; however, that ads with sound, ads that crawl across the content, and full page ads that you must click through are the devil and should be banished by any means necessary. You shouldn't have to trick your users into clicking them.
I'm not denying that there is an issue. Those with valid, first-person stories are the ones I can identify with.
To the guy that frequent remote desktops into his computer and can't easily do it now because it is disabled on Vista - I feel for him.
However, there are numerous stories being modded up that are from friends of a friend or "my company won't even install it". It is to those - the ones that haven't even tried Vista, but instead hate on it because it is cool on Slashdot to do - that I say, give it a try. It isn't half as bad as people make it out to be.
The negative word of mouth is unreal - they've definitely botched this system somehow. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if most of it was focused towards the Ribbon of their Office suite and not at the OS itself.
Like I mentioned elsewhere, I have 4GB of RAM, so maybe I'm missing some of the performance issues...
I agree with you. My lappy has 4 gig RAM, so maybe I don't notice much of the performance problems.
But compiz-fusion is sick and makes Vista look silly. On the flip side, Linux/Mac/Vista GUI is all fluff and as far as Vista is as a system that runs programs, I have no complaints.
Actually, UAC is a bit slow as non-admin.
You guys happy?! See what I did there. I complained.
Point taken. It is just that with the mod system, most posts praising Vista never really reach the top (I've seen a few). Typically, posts that make it to the top meet or contain one of the following criteria:
1) MS failed
2) Why my work doesn't use MS anymore
3) Obligatory, Ballmer/chair joke
4) How Slashdot doesn't use Avatars (and for obvious reasons)
5) Poster still has his V-Card
6) Your SPAM solution will not work because (fill out form)
7) Trolling
8) Vista is the largest failure on the planet and any stat proving it must be true and not worth researching, so here it is
9) Some joke about Engineering/Math that I have to read 8 paragraphs about in Wikipedia for me to understand.
10) 1) 2) 3)??? 4)Profit
Slashdot is ridiculous. Everyone here is complaining about a system they don't use and haven't seen. Microsoft is cool to hate these days, but for those of us that do use it - i don't know many complaining.
I dual boot Linux and Vista x64, and I like both.
In fact, Vista boots faster.
And I'm not posting Anon.
I'm glad you explained that b/c I was having a really hard time understanding that site. I just pushed the big colorful buttons and it either checked my bandwidth or installed a virus.
Either way it looked pretty and didn't do what I was hoping it would do.
Slashdot Mirror
Any lawyers here to start a class action lawsuit for false advertising?
Let me know which companies need that VB6 rewrite.
/roll
I could always use a good contracting gig.
I'm certain 20% of humans can't do that.
I worked for someone like you at a previous job. As a power hungry middle-manager, you took the project in a ridiculous route and played both sides of the management fence to pin bad ideas on the team behind closed doors.
You said that you would much prefer to have 10 average to sub-par developers that would listen to every dumb idea you had then to have 3 brilliant people that might challenge your assumptions, but inevitably could get the project done faster and smarter and cheaper.
Because of you, the talent at said company is gone and the project is a year behind schedule.
And the word is, your days are limited.
If you are 65, then you should have less than 10% of your money in stocks... and that's on the highly risky side.
As you get older, you are supposed to re-balance your portfolio so as to prevent this exact scenario from happening.
Too bad corruption in Alaska doesn't hurt hurt her chances for re-election. Just look at Mr. Tubes.
Sorry about the above post. I felt the dire need to disobey you.
oh and BTW, the windshield is necessary to allow a human driver to continue breathing at today's highway speeds. it's very hard to properly exhale at 50-60 mph.
Please explain skydiving then. I jumped and fell in free fall for 50 seconds and I assure you I wasn't holding my breath. My understanding is that your skin breathes as well.
I followed your link and it says 85 million.
You act like they are storing important information in the DB... like it is a BANK or something.
(Assuming of course the billboards didn't actually fly across the road, and you didn't have to drive through them)
There fixed that.
Good responses. How do you feel about billboards on the highway? (I know this isn't a perfect comparison, but bear with me)
Is it really a big deal if you have to look at a few to get to where you are going? You don't have to buy the products advertised, you don't even have to look at them, and if they supported the roads you drove on, would it really be a big deal? (Assuming of course the billboards didn't actually fly across the road, and you had to drive through them)
Your logic escapes me.
First, the advertising money *you* are spending is not your money. At what point did you start losing money to visit websites? It comes from the advertisers, and only if you visit the website.
Secondly, would you feel the same way about not caring when "a few hundred thousand websites go dark" if one of them was Slashdot?
(be careful with this one)
I think advertising is a necessary evil of the internet, and allows smaller companies the ability to display their own content and their own web applications. I do agree; however, that ads with sound, ads that crawl across the content, and full page ads that you must click through are the devil and should be banished by any means necessary. You shouldn't have to trick your users into clicking them.
HP DV9500:
.Net platform.
2.4 GHz core 2 duo T7700
4GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Vista Ultimate x64
Paid for by companies that want websites done on the
I'm not denying that there is an issue. Those with valid, first-person stories are the ones I can identify with.
To the guy that frequent remote desktops into his computer and can't easily do it now because it is disabled on Vista - I feel for him.
However, there are numerous stories being modded up that are from friends of a friend or "my company won't even install it". It is to those - the ones that haven't even tried Vista, but instead hate on it because it is cool on Slashdot to do - that I say, give it a try. It isn't half as bad as people make it out to be.
It is a perception issue to some degree.
The negative word of mouth is unreal - they've definitely botched this system somehow. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if most of it was focused towards the Ribbon of their Office suite and not at the OS itself.
Like I mentioned elsewhere, I have 4GB of RAM, so maybe I'm missing some of the performance issues...
I agree with you. My lappy has 4 gig RAM, so maybe I don't notice much of the performance problems.
But compiz-fusion is sick and makes Vista look silly. On the flip side, Linux/Mac/Vista GUI is all fluff and as far as Vista is as a system that runs programs, I have no complaints.
Actually, UAC is a bit slow as non-admin.
You guys happy?! See what I did there. I complained.
Point taken. It is just that with the mod system, most posts praising Vista never really reach the top (I've seen a few). Typically, posts that make it to the top meet or contain one of the following criteria:
1) MS failed
2) Why my work doesn't use MS anymore
3) Obligatory, Ballmer/chair joke
4) How Slashdot doesn't use Avatars (and for obvious reasons)
5) Poster still has his V-Card
6) Your SPAM solution will not work because (fill out form)
7) Trolling
8) Vista is the largest failure on the planet and any stat proving it must be true and not worth researching, so here it is
9) Some joke about Engineering/Math that I have to read 8 paragraphs about in Wikipedia for me to understand.
10) 1) 2) 3)??? 4)Profit
Slashdot is ridiculous. Everyone here is complaining about a system they don't use and haven't seen. Microsoft is cool to hate these days, but for those of us that do use it - i don't know many complaining. I dual boot Linux and Vista x64, and I like both. In fact, Vista boots faster. And I'm not posting Anon.
I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit with GRUB for Ubuntu, but BitLocker is turned off. No problems here thankfully.
I wish I had points to mod you up.
Obviously, it was stored by XML. :P
@$criptah, I think we found one!
Additionally, when I visited Tribe.com, I received a 404... maybe they are gone for good.
I'm glad you explained that b/c I was having a really hard time understanding that site. I just pushed the big colorful buttons and it either checked my bandwidth or installed a virus. Either way it looked pretty and didn't do what I was hoping it would do.