I admit it: it's not an easy joke but... a real Google search result. Didn't expect that from my unique search site, will make me reconsider them as the first source for answers to most of my questions. Finally I understand all the critics against that site on/., which frankly I've never understood before (Well, I don't use their mail and apps, which also can explain why).
Thank you for enlightening me on their hidden side.
Very good link, thanks ! I mean Albino Black Ship site, I'll take a deeper look at it some day.
As for the French Military Victories link, I don't think it could be considered offensive in any way. It's a very widespread kind of easy humour targetting overwhelmingly numerous poorly educated people.
I've not tried it but the real search result would probably lead to when the French battleships kicked the ass of the English Kingdom's navy allowing the formation of the U.S.A.
Anyway that was a worthy troll attempt, the A.B.S. site looks quite interesting.
Although the article is not very precise about the source of the information, to me it's more important to watch how the 2 companies will handle this case. Beyong the real value of the OSes, more importantly business ethics is at stake here and if I was the big player I would prefer to lose this deal rather than having an endless battle and debate and possibly even worse about the way this deal was finally won. If you were one of the 2 parties, what would be your winning crisis management strategy ?
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By Anonymous Hero : anonymous writers from totalitarian countries are nothing like cowards.
Its not that they don't like it, they just don't feel they can rely on it yet.
A new OS is a risk, even if it comes from the major player in the OS world.
Since when businesses don't take risk ? They either die or take calculated risks every day, when benefits overtake inconvenients. The point is Vista benefits now are far lower than its related costs and risks -- or actually certitudes -- that it will bring to IT and users trouble, more work, for very very little -- if any -- advantage in daily tasks. That's why IT, they (we!) do NOT like it.
The simple fact is that vista would be a big improvement for most home users who are in the 'don't care, so long as my pc works' class.
(...) since what they want is a pc that will browse the web and play games. XP does this too, but the security model in XP is a disaster, Vista at least improves on it a bit.
Wrong ! Regardless of how hard MS tried to technically remove built-in security flaws from XP, the focus of hackers will move to Vista, and these are quicker than MS updates (amusingly XP might actually become indirectly a safer OS).
Keep in mind that most of the hackers are mafia or government-funded and have on hand the computers required to decrypt the keys opening the hidden gates that MS had to keep for government intelligence agencies. Actually they already did.
I've started with Mandrake 7.2, just to make better use of my h/w (and my time, and my brain!) than I could have done with Windows 98 at this time. Then upgraded to 8.0 , 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 "2005", 2006, now on 2007.
I also tried Suse/Novell but gave up, saw Debian (actually still using it on my Alumni website server) but left it to students with time, and saw Ubuntu and left it to my older brother who liked it as his small business laptop OS.
I'm glad we have Ubuntu, it seems to make Linux desk/laptops more widely popular which is beneficial to all Linuxes. I leave it for others as Mandriva 2007 fully satisfies my laptop needs of wireless browsing, website hosting, photo management, disc space management (the disk space view of file manager Konqueror is what I most badly miss on Windows !), secure e-mail & browsing, daily file backup, virus-free and unbeatable uptime, multi-lingual writing, etc... For free. Oh, I forgot to mentions usages... I could not mention publicly without obfuscating some kind of minority audience;)
But Mandriva, who is mostly funded by its server offer in French government offices needs a competitor to keep bringing quality releases on lap/desktops and Ubuntu plays perfectly this role, at least for now.
Speaking about getting paid to reply on internet posts, how do you contact with HR to apply such a position ? It seems that companies don't publicly advertise these jobs on their websites.
Do we HAVE TO work at contractors or even off-shore or can we find a confortable offer too from the manufacturer itself ?
I also received e-mail SPAMS for such offers which reached about all the Internet community, but seem to come from irrespectable sources. So what's the point not being able to contact directly the recruiter, I'm sure much better employees could be hired this way.
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I admit it: it's not an easy joke but ... a real Google search result. Didn't expect that from my unique search site, will make me reconsider them as the first source for answers to most of my questions. Finally I understand all the critics against that site on /., which frankly I've never understood before (Well, I don't use their mail and apps, which also can explain why).
Thank you for enlightening me on their hidden side.
Very good link, thanks ! I mean Albino Black Ship site, I'll take a deeper look at it some day. As for the French Military Victories link, I don't think it could be considered offensive in any way. It's a very widespread kind of easy humour targetting overwhelmingly numerous poorly educated people. I've not tried it but the real search result would probably lead to when the French battleships kicked the ass of the English Kingdom's navy allowing the formation of the U.S.A. Anyway that was a worthy troll attempt, the A.B.S. site looks quite interesting.
Although the article is not very precise about the source of the information, to me it's more important to watch how the 2 companies will handle this case. Beyong the real value of the OSes, more importantly business ethics is at stake here and if I was the big player I would prefer to lose this deal rather than having an endless battle and debate and possibly even worse about the way this deal was finally won. If you were one of the 2 parties, what would be your winning crisis management strategy ? --------- By Anonymous Hero : anonymous writers from totalitarian countries are nothing like cowards.
I've started with Mandrake 7.2, just to make better use of my h/w (and my time, and my brain!) than I could have done with Windows 98 at this time. Then upgraded to 8.0 , 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 "2005", 2006, now on 2007.
... For free. Oh, I forgot to mentions usages ... I could not mention publicly without obfuscating some kind of minority audience ;)
I also tried Suse/Novell but gave up, saw Debian (actually still using it on my Alumni website server) but left it to students with time, and saw Ubuntu and left it to my older brother who liked it as his small business laptop OS.
I'm glad we have Ubuntu, it seems to make Linux desk/laptops more widely popular which is beneficial to all Linuxes. I leave it for others as Mandriva 2007 fully satisfies my laptop needs of wireless browsing, website hosting, photo management, disc space management (the disk space view of file manager Konqueror is what I most badly miss on Windows !), secure e-mail & browsing, daily file backup, virus-free and unbeatable uptime, multi-lingual writing, etc
But Mandriva, who is mostly funded by its server offer in French government offices needs a competitor to keep bringing quality releases on lap/desktops and Ubuntu plays perfectly this role, at least for now.
Speaking about getting paid to reply on internet posts, how do you contact with HR to apply such a position ? It seems that companies don't publicly advertise these jobs on their websites.
Do we HAVE TO work at contractors or even off-shore or can we find a confortable offer too from the manufacturer itself ?
I also received e-mail SPAMS for such offers which reached about all the Internet community, but seem to come from irrespectable sources. So what's the point not being able to contact directly the recruiter, I'm sure much better employees could be hired this way.