yes I am aware it's an incomplete and unresearched argument, especially taking into account that MS might have been trying to do the same (appeal to the youngsters) via XBox.
The true problem for MS is that Linux managed (more then Unix ever did) to grab the attention of whole generation of youngsters and future IT advisers. Who, in few years time, will be able to affect decisions in some bigger companies and governments.
The big difference is that Linux and open-source community is basically always asking 'How should we do this?', and this appeals to the teenage mind, they like to be asked for their opinion, actually programmer of any age likes to be asked that. They like to commit there bug fixes, even if they are badly written and never implemented.
MS on the other hand (has five fingers, sorry it's a Steven Wright joke) never asks, but instead (almost) always tells you 'Here's how we think you should do this.'. This might appeal to the non-IT businessmen, but it annoys the hell out of enthusiastic youngsters.
For this reason, a lot of IT youngsters are literally flocking toward Linux and other open source OS-s they discover through it.
Again this is unresearched, and technically unsupported opinion. However I think there is something to it (otherwise I wouldn't be saying it, right?), and truly believe it has some basis in truth. I wouldn't mind looking into it once, or if someone proved me wrong but with well researched arguments;)
I don't think Microsoft has so much lost confidence of its customers. Not in a way that many people changed their opinion of microsoft. It just that they never gained the confidence of younger generations. Yes those annoying college students from 90s that always despised MS, have come to position where they can influence important decisions.
MS take a cue from terrorist and fundamentalist organizations don't try to appeal to the businessmen and old gray heads, always appeal to the younger generations cause in a few years they will be the future gray heads and businessmen.
I don't think the RIAA behavior should be discussed anymore. Let's start doing something substantial (at least those that think RIAA is acting out of order). Actually there probably are loads activity groups out there that are already doing this, maybe they need (even) more support.
wow Spaceship Two...how long did it take to come up with that name
what will this this spaceship be called...how about spaceship, no! spaceship two, hell yeah! Meeting adjourned.
They said lets call this hotel something tree, so they had a meeting, it was quite short. how about tree, no! double tree, hell yeah! Meeting adjourned. I had my heart set on quadruple tree. Well we were almost there.
The only thing i can advise, is have a small personal project aside. Yes program on your own (or join an interesting Open source project), when the project will be finished is not as important as using all the proper practices while doing it. That means flexible design, patterns, comments and such. Show yourself at home that given time, you can actually make good code.
Then maybe after a while some of those good habits will seep into your daily work. Very few companies will care about the code, they usually only care about the deadlines.
don't worry they'll find a way... there would be movie expansions...which you would have to pay for these would be only critical updates.
You'll get the cgi update or minor dialogue corrections for free, but if you want the movie version where Keanu is replaced by a real actor...welll you would have to pay for that.
Look at it this way...before games were touted as interactive movies Now movies will be advertised as non-interactive games, using the same business model of mmorpg's and what not.
my thoughts exactly...this is only a problem because the way they do business. I know the world isn't simple black and white, but some companies use that as an excuse to do...just about anything.
I say these employee mails, might be more of solution then a problem.
However a lot of my friends had C64, and while some programmed on it, it was mostly for games. In someways I always saw it more as predecessor to gaming consoles than PC's.
Fond memories of gathering at friends house and playing c64. There's a certain chart to having to use screwdriver to tune the tape drive head, it made loading the game a little game of it self.
C64 was a great computer, but I still love my ZX more, its rubber buttons, Jetpac and that really cool quickshot joystick I got later...it had an autofire option.
Bah, while computing is much, better, easier and more useful these days...much of its charm is gone.
'personal' items...for that you got to have perosnality
and we can't have any of those in this company can we?
Seriously...this could be a step in the right direction. I think a lot of smaller IT companies have been doing this, or something very similar for a while.
1. all things being equal, the sexier sounding name wins. And "empeethree" has a simplistic, yet technical sound to it. Whereas AAC and WMA can be thrown right out the window. Ogg has some appeal, but nowhere near the sexiness of mp3.
I think it's the number that makes it sound cool. Numbers are very sexy and so are abbreviations, R2D2, p2p, two-by-four. So if any format is going to bring mp3 down on base of the name it has to have a number in it...and a cool abbreviation.
Oh and lower numbers are sexier as well.
Anyone got any ideas?
Ogg=o2g -> which is kind of cool because when you pronouce it ow-two-gee in my language (and languages of my region) it sounds like a word for 'abalienate, alienate, disaffect, estrange'...so you could say I o2g-ed a few songs last night.
From the article:
"I totally agree that before we go out and say, 'Oh look, this is the greatest dinosaur ever, and it has showed us this and showed us that,' we have to prove it to the scientific community. We're still waiting on a lot of that."
That's what I love about (true?) scientists, their caution and skepticism even towards their own discoveries. If only people in other professions were so cautious. There are some possibly in the open-source community. I guess that happens when you take money out of equation. Cause when there is money in something people often want to seem confident in their product or discovery. Skepticism doesn't sell well.
I don't know perhaps like http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/0457206
Basically each major player will buy a social network, and they will compete. Spaming each others user comments. You'll have social network immigrants, and so on.
FYI I with anyone who buys last.fm, the only social network with a purpose (sort of).
Slashdot Mirror
not only that, they had to make sure you're using it, by monitoring you.
Thank you! :D
I love linguistics.
no one is trademarking WTF!
can you trademark the word trademark or the sign trademark?
yes I am aware it's an incomplete and unresearched argument, especially taking into account that MS might have been trying to do the same (appeal to the youngsters) via XBox.
;)
The true problem for MS is that Linux managed (more then Unix ever did) to grab the attention of whole generation of youngsters and future IT advisers. Who, in few years time, will be able to affect decisions in some bigger companies and governments.
The big difference is that Linux and open-source community is basically always asking 'How should we do this?', and this appeals to the teenage mind, they like to be asked for their opinion, actually programmer of any age likes to be asked that. They like to commit there bug fixes, even if they are badly written and never implemented.
MS on the other hand (has five fingers, sorry it's a Steven Wright joke) never asks, but instead (almost) always tells you 'Here's how we think you should do this.'. This might appeal to the non-IT businessmen, but it annoys the hell out of enthusiastic youngsters.
For this reason, a lot of IT youngsters are literally flocking toward Linux and other open source OS-s they discover through it.
Again this is unresearched, and technically unsupported opinion. However I think there is something to it (otherwise I wouldn't be saying it, right?), and truly believe it has some basis in truth. I wouldn't mind looking into it once, or if someone proved me wrong but with well researched arguments
I don't think Microsoft has so much lost confidence of its customers. Not in a way that many people changed their opinion of microsoft. It just that they never gained the confidence of younger generations. Yes those annoying college students from 90s that always despised MS, have come to position where they can influence important decisions.
MS take a cue from terrorist and fundamentalist organizations don't try to appeal to the businessmen and old gray heads, always appeal to the younger generations cause in a few years they will be the future gray heads and businessmen.
well said.
I don't think the RIAA behavior should be discussed anymore. Let's start doing something substantial (at least those that think RIAA is acting out of order). Actually there probably are loads activity groups out there that are already doing this, maybe they need (even) more support.
I never made the connection.
;)
However speaking strictly technically the vikings brought the language that is now English to England. So English came from...Germany....sort of.
Welsh, Irish and other Celtic languages are more English (as in from England) then English is.
May some cunning linguist (would that be called a cunnilingus) correct me if I am wrong.
Tho if we go all the way back...back...back....most (if not all) living languages are African.
Wait..what was this article about?
I know you're right. I am just glad my parents didn't name me Child Two. ;)
this image would have been more appropriate for this article http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicms.gif
what will this this spaceship be called...how about spaceship, no! spaceship two, hell yeah! Meeting adjourned.
They said lets call this hotel something tree, so they had a meeting, it was quite short. how about tree, no! double tree, hell yeah! Meeting adjourned. I had my heart set on quadruple tree. Well we were almost there.
Mitch Hedberg was a funny guy.
The only thing i can advise, is have a small personal project aside. Yes program on your own (or join an interesting Open source project), when the project will be finished is not as important as using all the proper practices while doing it. That means flexible design, patterns, comments and such. Show yourself at home that given time, you can actually make good code.
Then maybe after a while some of those good habits will seep into your daily work. Very few companies will care about the code, they usually only care about the deadlines.
don't worry they'll find a way...
there would be movie expansions...which you would have to pay for
these would be only critical updates.
You'll get the cgi update or minor dialogue corrections for free, but if you want the movie version where Keanu is replaced by a real actor...welll you would have to pay for that.
Look at it this way...before games were touted as interactive movies
Now movies will be advertised as non-interactive games, using the same business model of mmorpg's and what not.
Not that bad...most humans can't tell the difference between hand and a woman.
Pavlov's Cat:
Day 6: Cat rang bell. I ate food.
There's an Eddie Izzard joke for everything.
my thoughts exactly...this is only a problem because the way they do business. I know the world isn't simple black and white, but some companies use that as an excuse to do...just about anything.
I say these employee mails, might be more of solution then a problem.
Damn the man. Save the empire
I went from ZX spectrum 48k to a 386 sx.
However a lot of my friends had C64, and while some programmed on it, it was mostly for games. In someways I always saw it more as predecessor to gaming consoles than PC's.
Fond memories of gathering at friends house and playing c64. There's a certain chart to having to use screwdriver to tune the tape drive head, it made loading the game a little game of it self.
C64 was a great computer, but I still love my ZX more, its rubber buttons, Jetpac and that really cool quickshot joystick I got later...it had an autofire option.
Bah, while computing is much, better, easier and more useful these days...much of its charm is gone.
Soon we'll have auto update functions in the movies.
Please wait.. the movie is being updated
The updates will fix visual bugs as well as plot holes.
I just can't to seem to find it.
Moons are just LOTR spin offs
One moon to rule them all.
I hope they are better then The Silmarillion
Agreed!
Where are you now?
Don't panic!
I am not panicking, I am just asking where are you now?
Don't panic!
Look...i am not panicking...
and so on and so on
they overstocked on G.E.C.K-s and waterchips.
oh and Ron Perlman soundclips : "War. War never changes"
'personal' items...for that you got to have perosnality and we can't have any of those in this company can we? Seriously...this could be a step in the right direction. I think a lot of smaller IT companies have been doing this, or something very similar for a while.
I think it's the number that makes it sound cool. Numbers are very sexy and so are abbreviations, R2D2, p2p, two-by-four. So if any format is going to bring mp3 down on base of the name it has to have a number in it...and a cool abbreviation.
Oh and lower numbers are sexier as well.
Anyone got any ideas?
Ogg=o2g -> which is kind of cool because when you pronouce it ow-two-gee in my language (and languages of my region) it sounds like a word for 'abalienate, alienate, disaffect, estrange'...so you could say I o2g-ed a few songs last night.
That's what I love about (true?) scientists, their caution and skepticism even towards their own discoveries. If only people in other professions were so cautious. There are some possibly in the open-source community. I guess that happens when you take money out of equation. Cause when there is money in something people often want to seem confident in their product or discovery. Skepticism doesn't sell well.
holy shits!
I am glad someone's actually done it.
as bonus it also answers my digged dugg question.
Life is great!
I don't know perhaps like http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/0457206 Basically each major player will buy a social network, and they will compete. Spaming each others user comments. You'll have social network immigrants, and so on.
FYI I with anyone who buys last.fm, the only social network with a purpose (sort of).