Yeah, I can beleive that, I remember my father ~1990 (we were living in Moscow at the time), making a passing joke about how pretty soon we'd be going to the food shops and asking for 300 grams of 'food', rather being more specific, as the shops were getting to the stage where on certain days you'd only have one thing (like say cottage cheese) in the entire store...
Yes, that'd probably be the only case where this would apply, but I find that an alternative is to code in my favourite worstation OS (linux), and test in Vista in a VM. This has the benefit of saving you ~$800 in OS license costs, and that is a lot of beer money.
Also saves me the hassle of actually using the darned thing for doing work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly happy to use windows to play games (ever tried to get Stalker to run under Wine?), but I'd hate to code in it:/
OEM Vista Home Basic $105 OEM Vista Home Premium $136 OEM Vista Business $166 OEM Vista Ultimate $229 OEM Vista Workstation (AKA 2008 server) $1090
Wow, that's quite a markup for a workstation OS!
(All prices in AU$)
Why not run a decent 'Workstation' OS like Solaris or Linux? If you want a 'home PC', Vista is fine, but Windows is not a 'Workstation' OS, and it never was.
Well, if done in not in an overkill manner, it wouldn't be that bad; for example stuff you download that was ripped from the SciFi channel, has a SciFi logo in the corner.
As a result (being someone who doesn't have cable) I now know that Battlestar is broadcasted on the SciFi channel.
As a personal example, for me that was relatively unobtrusive advertising at work.
There is nothing stopping the traditional advertising model working in this distribution model. Show say a tiny Coca Cola (or whatever) logo in the top left corner of episode or movie that you are showing, and the advertiser would be happy!
I think this could be a win win situation for everyone, and could also spill over into the p2p distribution market en masse.
That's my hope anyway, as I'm sick and tired of internet distribution channels being demonised as for pirates only... meh
I (grudgingy to some extent) have to agree. If it wasn't for Microsoft we wouldn't have the PC as such a ubiquitous part of the modern western home. As much as Apple is now billed to be as the computer for the average, non computer literate person, back in the day Macs were unaffordable compared to say a Gateway or an Osborne running Win 95.
Thanks to Microsoft we now have your grandma planning her round the world trip on Google Earth and poking you on Facebook, for better or for worse.
Having said all that, I'm dying to see what will happen in the next couple of years with the advent with AUS$ 1600 iMacs and Dell selling cheap as chips Ubuntu comps (both easier to run, and don't require a pound of flesh to Symantec or McAffee).
Pimp My Datacenter Maybe I'm just too old to get it (26), but when did pimps become cool, and the word pimp become a verb commonly used to describe a process of improvement? I mean, when I was growing up, a pimp was a scumbag who hooked women (and some men) with drugs and threats and made them turn tricks. Hardly something laudible.
"Will Apple have to raise salaries to match the market rate, or face defections?"
Yes! Nope. Not only are Apple employees more than likely as fanatical about the product as the loyal Apple consumers (and if you're unkind you can say that they drank the Kool-Aid).
Pride in what you do and a sense of corporate individuality is a huge factor in determinining the loyalty of employees.
Look at Games Workshop as an example. They borderline brainwash staff to love their job, and then they pay them so little that they generally have to share accomodation with fellow staff. And yet the staff turnover is surprisingly low for such a relatively crappy and intensive job.
What corporate stranglehold? Look, in Sydney where I'm from there's heaps of great community or government sponsored radio stations (I personally like and sponsor FBI) that exist because people want to hear something other than top 40 drivel. I'm sure such radio stations exist everywhere. There's plenty on the 'net too.
Also, the commercial aspect of music has really brought a lot of diversity to our ears. If it wasn't for the 'corporate stranglehold' as you call it, Pink Floyd would have been nothing but a pub jazz band, and no-one outside of New Orleans would have heard of Satchmo. Nor would the Seattle Grunge movement or Goa trance (both movements equally made influential AND exploited by the commercial music scene) have been made popular to inspire hordes of other interesting splinter genres and bands.
Yes, excessive commercialism in the music industry sucks, but it is not as bad or as prevalent as you make it out to be.
and gasoline killed steam, and steam killed sail, and sail killed slave rowers...
Its called progress. That's all fine, but how is killing music progress? Not that you'd possibly be able to kill music with piracy, but I do think that there is some fantastic commercial music out there that would never exist if the industry was not profitable.
Is that an overreaction or are you just happy to see him?
Seriously, he did make a fairly valid point that SUVs (or 4 wheel drives as they are known here in Australia) stand to lose a lot of their resale value, except maybe in rural areas.
As someone not that familiar with string theory (and being unwilling to base my knowledge on Wikipedia alone), can someone please explain why this is wrong?
I'm guessing it's wrong as it got a Flamebait mod.
Ahem, I'm a (formerly) long haired, (currently) a Linux weenie, but I scrub up nicely. I had no problems with them as a result.
I don't think ANY recruiters or hiring managers for that matter will fare well with some sort of horrific nerd casualty like Melvin from Office Space.
Also, the financial end of town is actually one of the largest employers of IT workers, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Like I said, as recently as 18 months ago (when I last went to them), Michael Page had a department dealing solely with IT recruitment. The 4 staff I personally know there (them calling me with position offers etc...) average ~25 years old and have some sort of IT background.
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mineral oil mate, not water. You're probably thinking of some sort of liquid silicate polymer, but they are hugely expensive.
You mean mineral oil immersion?
linkage: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/12/puget-custom-computers-mineral-oil-cooled-pc/
Yeah, I can beleive that, I remember my father ~1990 (we were living in Moscow at the time), making a passing joke about how pretty soon we'd be going to the food shops and asking for 300 grams of 'food', rather being more specific, as the shops were getting to the stage where on certain days you'd only have one thing (like say cottage cheese) in the entire store...
Hooray for controlled economy!
Please mod parent up. For better or for worse (depending on your point of view), this is exactly what the west managed to do to the USSR.
Why not run a decent 'Workstation' OS like Solaris or Linux?
Solaris what?
Open Solaris is quite nice... To be frank it's the only Solaris/SunOS I have any reasonable experience in :/
Yes, that'd probably be the only case where this would apply, but I find that an alternative is to code in my favourite worstation OS (linux), and test in Vista in a VM. This has the benefit of saving you ~$800 in OS license costs, and that is a lot of beer money.
Also saves me the hassle of actually using the darned thing for doing work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly happy to use windows to play games (ever tried to get Stalker to run under Wine?), but I'd hate to code in it :/
OEM Vista Home Basic $105
OEM Vista Home Premium $136
OEM Vista Business $166
OEM Vista Ultimate $229
OEM Vista Workstation (AKA 2008 server) $1090
Wow, that's quite a markup for a workstation OS!
(All prices in AU$)
Why not run a decent 'Workstation' OS like Solaris or Linux? If you want a 'home PC', Vista is fine, but Windows is not a 'Workstation' OS, and it never was.
Meh.
Well, if done in not in an overkill manner, it wouldn't be that bad; for example stuff you download that was ripped from the SciFi channel, has a SciFi logo in the corner.
As a result (being someone who doesn't have cable) I now know that Battlestar is broadcasted on the SciFi channel.
As a personal example, for me that was relatively unobtrusive advertising at work.
There is nothing stopping the traditional advertising model working in this distribution model. Show say a tiny Coca Cola (or whatever) logo in the top left corner of episode or movie that you are showing, and the advertiser would be happy!
I think this could be a win win situation for everyone, and could also spill over into the p2p distribution market en masse.
That's my hope anyway, as I'm sick and tired of internet distribution channels being demonised as for pirates only... meh
I (grudgingy to some extent) have to agree. If it wasn't for Microsoft we wouldn't have the PC as such a ubiquitous part of the modern western home. As much as Apple is now billed to be as the computer for the average, non computer literate person, back in the day Macs were unaffordable compared to say a Gateway or an Osborne running Win 95.
Thanks to Microsoft we now have your grandma planning her round the world trip on Google Earth and poking you on Facebook, for better or for worse.
Having said all that, I'm dying to see what will happen in the next couple of years with the advent with AUS$ 1600 iMacs and Dell selling cheap as chips Ubuntu comps (both easier to run, and don't require a pound of flesh to Symantec or McAffee).
Exciting times ahead!
Yes, I know "get off my lawn" etc...
Yes! Nope. Not only are Apple employees more than likely as fanatical about the product as the loyal Apple consumers (and if you're unkind you can say that they drank the Kool-Aid).
Pride in what you do and a sense of corporate individuality is a huge factor in determinining the loyalty of employees.
Look at Games Workshop as an example. They borderline brainwash staff to love their job, and then they pay them so little that they generally have to share accomodation with fellow staff. And yet the staff turnover is surprisingly low for such a relatively crappy and intensive job.
Shouldn't that then be !Bruce Perens ?
Enough with the sexist and discussion provoking (read: flamebait) stories already.
Any programmer (whether male or female) who 'try to obfuscate things in the code' are on a fast tract to sacked-ville, and ignored-for-promotion town.
What are you basing this on? How is USB (the Universal Serial Bus protocol/standard) cheap crap?
You can't have played Tribes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsiege:_Tribes or OpFlash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_flashpoint much.
Even with total strangers they were quite good at forcing people to help each other.
What corporate stranglehold? Look, in Sydney where I'm from there's heaps of great community or government sponsored radio stations (I personally like and sponsor FBI) that exist because people want to hear something other than top 40 drivel. I'm sure such radio stations exist everywhere. There's plenty on the 'net too.
Also, the commercial aspect of music has really brought a lot of diversity to our ears. If it wasn't for the 'corporate stranglehold' as you call it, Pink Floyd would have been nothing but a pub jazz band, and no-one outside of New Orleans would have heard of Satchmo. Nor would the Seattle Grunge movement or Goa trance (both movements equally made influential AND exploited by the commercial music scene) have been made popular to inspire hordes of other interesting splinter genres and bands.
Yes, excessive commercialism in the music industry sucks, but it is not as bad or as prevalent as you make it out to be.
Its called progress. That's all fine, but how is killing music progress? Not that you'd possibly be able to kill music with piracy, but I do think that there is some fantastic commercial music out there that would never exist if the industry was not profitable.
Is that an overreaction or are you just happy to see him?
Seriously, he did make a fairly valid point that SUVs (or 4 wheel drives as they are known here in Australia) stand to lose a lot of their resale value, except maybe in rural areas.
As someone not that familiar with string theory (and being unwilling to base my knowledge on Wikipedia alone), can someone please explain why this is wrong?
I'm guessing it's wrong as it got a Flamebait mod.
Cheers!
guest@goosh.org:/web> man woman
help: woman
Error: command "woman" not found.
Whoever modded that 'Flamebait' should have moded that 'Insightful'.
Speaking as someone who used to live behind the Iron Curtain, and DAILY thanks his parents for emigrating to Australia.
Ahem, I'm a (formerly) long haired, (currently) a Linux weenie, but I scrub up nicely. I had no problems with them as a result.
I don't think ANY recruiters or hiring managers for that matter will fare well with some sort of horrific nerd casualty like Melvin from Office Space.
Also, the financial end of town is actually one of the largest employers of IT workers, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Like I said, as recently as 18 months ago (when I last went to them), Michael Page had a department dealing solely with IT recruitment. The 4 staff I personally know there (them calling me with position offers etc...) average ~25 years old and have some sort of IT background.
Michael Page in Sydney have a department specialising in IT. They're relatively young and above average in dealing with IT recruitment:
:)
http://www.michaelpage.com.au/
YMMV of course