I doubt anyone would really cyber stalk me from here, more cyber annoy me to the point of kicking their ass so I think I am fine. The people on here would most likely send me grandma or lesbian porn spam because they think they are funny. They also might create a fake profile to befriend me or my boyfriend at the time to play email games. Another tactic a Slashdot type might take would be to break into my AIM account and write stupid crap and pretend to be me and generally embarrass the heck out of me. That is Slashdot's speed pretty much.
Nobody in their right mind would want my identity, I have shit credit after widowhood, I buy everything with cash. If someone tried to steal my credit life they would be SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED.
I am uncomfortable about the general public having my mortgage information though, I think that should be more personal, but it isn't.
I don't know, I don't think most people are on private status. And really funny pics or reading someone's status doesn't really give you much insight into a person on Facebook.
I am not happy about the mortgage information online, but if it is public domain there is not much you can do. I would rather someone know that I am taking my dog for a walk or going to the grocery store before they knew how much I paid for a house, what my address is and what my social security number is through a scannable document.
It seems that Facebook is just a quick means of getting the word out about how Gaza feels about a corrupt government and gives them a place to vent. What is really great is that people are actually using Facebook to organize protests against a corrupt government and a President that they obviously do not want. Sounds kind of like bitching about Bush really.
I keep waiting to hear of a buzz word for Facebook like myspace is called "cry space." Seriously, Facebook and Myspace are places to bitch sometimes which is good, people have to get the misery out somehow.
I actually looked it up because I was curious, I didn't think they had children at all. Bill does have three kids. I had no idea. He really fits the profile for a true capitalist despite him trying to give his money away to charities, they are tax write offs anyway probably to offset his huge assets.
He supposedly plans to give each of his three children 10 million a piece when he passes. He said by then he will have given most of his money away. Linus better get in line. Just kidding. I think he has a ton of money too despite being cut of a different ilk than Bill Gates.
I don't know, I think the "so called" luster or salad days of Microsoft happened back in the 90's. They will never be amazing again, not that they were that amazing in the 90's when Windows 97 came out, LOL.
Bill's getting old and Melinda doesn't have too many good years left if any at all for a family. I am surprised he doesn't retire and have some babies. I guess he was happy with continuing with making his mark on history as a baby boomer philanthropist which is what I guess he thought would make his image work for this decade. I didn't get that whole deal.
I guess he is happier just working and making Slashdot/Linux people miserable or their source of amusement. He will need someone to carry on his legacy. Usually men with that much power and money want at least one child.
I know this post will probably upset you a bit but in would not be practical for Microsoft to change their business model midstream which I am sure you understand, it is unfortunate that is the what happened with the computer industry in the past twenty years.
Maybe they will ease up and apply a "mixed" approach, but I doubt it. They started closed and will probably remain with a closed source code philosophy.
FOSS models can be commercialized and have been very successful at being open and making a profit. I think the reason Linux is not as popular as it should be is because no one knows about it and also I can't spend the time with it trying my own set up, it just isn't practical for the average user like me.
I would love to have a choice, just like I would love to be able to decide on on paying for only the channels on TV that I want to watch. I would save a ton of money and get rid of all the crap I don't need.
But Microsoft is in the business of making money, and yes screwing the average user over in general, but if you don't know that you are being screwed it really doesn't concern people. LOL
Most computer users are not savvy enough to realize it, or just don't care. Heck maybe there just need to be more companies like Canonical or Mozilla, etc. They will give Microsoft a run for it's money, who knows? Force them to change if the average user migrates to Ubuntu or Redhat in record numbers. That is probably what has to happen.
I just don't think Microsoft will ever change their business model because they don't have to, they are kind of vicious. Unless they are forced by the market to do so really.
I guess the answer is to try and change the market so drastically that they are forced to adopt an open source model. If that happened no one would even choose Microsoft anyway probably. And unless Microsoft grows a conscience (LOL) I doubt that will happen. Maybe Bill Gates will get less greedy and capitalistic in his old age.
1. Start a rock band.
2. Donate all his money to Linus Torvalds
3. Become a World Series of Poker player and run with the circuit, if we saw him playing on TV, that would really get the word out about Windows 7.
4. Pose new for Playgirl. Yikes!:)
Maybe his staff should run these ideas by him and see what shakes out.
Oops except for Netscape, yeah I forgot that it went under. But I think Excite and Lycos are still around. Either way, the computer industry is volatile and changes so much and too quickly. It is where the user is at now. Trying to get people to migrate to something new is a hard business! I think I am going to put some money in Twitter. I think that is the next big thing. Microsoft and maybe Google is as long term in the tech world as it gets it seems.
I agree. I use Vista everyday and I am fine with it. I haven't had any problems at all and I think it will be remembered as an in between period. Windows 7 will be better and I will probably upgrade when the full version is introduced.
I know I am in the minority on this site, but I don't think Gate's image was that tarnished by Vista. Most of the average computer users think of Microsoft the same, we just got used to it. I know his company was started in the 70's, but seriously no one heard of the guy before the 90's really. At least outside of the computer world.
In the 90's Microsoft was in it's infancy as far as a commercial software, it blew up, in the double 00's it survived, and in the 10's we will see if it survives another round again.
For a software company to survive thirty years fully focusing on just software in general is a pretty damn great accomplishment. And despite what everyone says about Microsoft buying out Yahoo, I thought that would have been a good move for Yahoo and for Microsoft. Look at Netscape? Excite? Lycos? They are all small companies now. Out of the giants of the 90's, Amazon and Yahoo are it. It is kind of sad.
Predicting whether Microsoft will survive another decade, I guess we will see. I think Microsoft will be around for at least another decade or two, probably longer.:)
He is probably not denying his condition he just wants to stay within a sense of normalcy. I think he was being pretty responsible. He left the company and he plans to come back in the summer. Beyond that if it were me, I would keep things as quiet as possible too. Just my two cents.
Me too.:) I am about the same age, it doesn't make me feel old, it makes me laugh.:) Hey I enjoyed all of the hours I spent playing around on the graphics tablet Amigas in the computer "cluster" at school. I don't know if you remember that, in PA in the eighties my junior high called a computer lab a computer cluster. We didn't say hey, I am going to the lab, we said we are going to the cluster.
Now that makes me feel old, they changed the terminology. And the fact that we had like maybe 15 Amigas and another 10 Apple computers probably just from memory for a junior high of 500 kids. It was not that big of a room. LOL
Reading this I just thought about all of the hours I wasted when I was little playing Breakout. I didn't even remember that they sold something like this back in 1984. I remember the Amigas from junior high in the late 80's, I spent some time playing with the graphics tablet, this brings back some deep computer memories I completely forgot. I wasn't even into computers again until I was about 25.
I liked them in my childhood, then I went away for a long time, I barely used a computer except to type up a paper because I had to use them and I found my love again for them 1995, which lasted a good ten years or so or so and then it was ruined again around 2005. I am starting to love computers again now though. That is probably why I will never be a true "geek" or whatever you want to call it, I didn't stick with it consistently.
I think it is a bit of both.:) I am happy because it signifies a change, sets the tone for the next four years. Bush was handed a raw deal in the first four years, then kind of snow jobbed us the other four, in general.
I don't think people think Obama is the messiah, that is a bit much. I think most people think he will be a better president than Bush though, but Obama is a politician, and you know he has quite a job ahead of him. Let him have his day though, it is a day of celebration, not to speculate on everything! That will start tomorrow, LOL
If Doug is cutting a deal with Kelly's competition Jean, he is a hustler. Man, that is cut throat. You are right, it would spell doom for the company, that is pretty mercenary. They should stick Doug in CS. LOL
No one wants a hustle working for them unless they are in sales or own their own business. If Doug is that good, he should be in sales or have his own business if he actually went to Kelly's parallel. If Doug hustled this way, I don't think he would be in IT and middle managment, it would be a waste of his hustle talent.:)
Also what is funny, when I was reading this article I was considering taking another job off of my resume because I have been job hunting for weeks without much success. I already took two of the jobs I thought sucked off of my resume because I was fired from them. Meh, what are you going to do? LOL I didn't care about the jobs much anyway, I just needed a decent source of income while I went to school at night.
I just counted how many positions I have held. I have had nine jobs in 15 years. Four of those jobs blew, two I quit, the other two I was fired.
I have also been on UC twice in those 15 years. I am starting to feel kind bad about being a slacker, better hold on to my widow money, LOL
I also believe in business you can be a nice person, good to your team and make hard decisions. Being ruthless can be necessary in business, but you can't be constantly ruthless. If people hate you at work, it tips the scales the other way too. Stuart might be too nice, he might need some coaching. I guess some people would see it as him just fighting for his job, but Doug is kind of a scumbag in the scenario.
If they are worried about cutting the fat, etc. think about all of the training they will have to incur costs from when people do not want to work under this kind of person and quit.
In the article it describes two management styles. The Stuart's of the world will consistently have/hold jobs. Being educated, able to handle your job responsibilities with tact and concern for your employees are skills that Doug doesn't possess. I would hate to work for a Doug. In fact, I have worked for a Doug types and Stuart types. I quit the Doug jobs. LOL Seriously, I am unemployed right now, and I am not afraid. I know I will find something. If you have a decent skill set, an education and have had relevant work experience then things will work out fine. If not, heck train for another arena that you are interested in!
I know I am not the norm, I have had six jobs in my 15 years of real job experience. I just don't see sticking with a company unless it is worth it, heck call me disloyal. I really wouldn't call it that, if companies treated their employees the way they should, most people wouldn't become job gypsies, LOL
I recently graduated and trust me if I don't find a job I really want right off the bat, I will take something I have to take and keep looking for the "long term" job with a growth pattern and a decent salary. I did it during my college years and I will continue to do it until I find the right place for myself.
I agree with you on some of your points, but c'mon give the woman a break. Her mindset in dealing with computers is narrow. If you are not extremely computer savvy, and you have only been exposed to Windows, that is what you are going to feel most comfortable going with, LOL
Most users want to pop in a CD or log in easily, etc, send their assignments quickly. Which you can do with Linux I am assuming probably fairly easily, you just have to get used to it, installing a distro is not for the faint hearted, partitioning disks, I am too afraid to do a dual boot, because I do not want to screw up my new Dell. I don't have an old laptop to practice on either. Linux seems to be for people that like to tinker.
I do not have hardly any Linux exposure except downloading a few freebie programs because I was too cheap to pay for the software. Honestly if you want more people to adopt Linux, start with that, people will get hooked with the free software, and then maybe think of adopting Linux as their OS. Just my opinion.
Also when you are starting an online program and you have never been in an online learning enviroment, you will have to grasp the way to use Blackboard or Angel or whatever the school uses effectively but getting your feet wet with one class with the level of what her current computer skills are at now.
Most people do not have the curiousity that would entail them to learn another OS. I just bought a Dell with Vista on it. I didn't buy MS Office because OO works perfectly fine and the docs can be saved in a Windows format. I might use a portable disc if I decided to use Linux, but it would never be my main OS because I am not partitioning my hard disk.
I am sure my opinion on this subject will be in the minority, but it is a woman's perspective. I also thought the person who said she should not be at a technical college at her age was extremely insulting, you can learn a lot about computers if you sleep, eat and breath it for a year and be up to speed, hell it changes so quickly anyway. But hey, you are right she is not a "self starter" or Nancy Drew. Maybe technical college will turn her into one, LOL
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Weapons, porn and the unemployment rate. Great.
LOL, Time to break out Clue I guess. It's fine.
Clue Online
Well you are quite the detective, please don't sign me up for porn spam, thanks in advance. LOL
I doubt anyone would really cyber stalk me from here, more cyber annoy me to the point of kicking their ass so I think I am fine. The people on here would most likely send me grandma or lesbian porn spam because they think they are funny. They also might create a fake profile to befriend me or my boyfriend at the time to play email games. Another tactic a Slashdot type might take would be to break into my AIM account and write stupid crap and pretend to be me and generally embarrass the heck out of me. That is Slashdot's speed pretty much.
Nobody in their right mind would want my identity, I have shit credit after widowhood, I buy everything with cash. If someone tried to steal my credit life they would be SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED.
I am uncomfortable about the general public having my mortgage information though, I think that should be more personal, but it isn't.
Tony Blair's Ex bodyguard and some lady that owns an original Unicorn Jones art piece. I am luckily fairly invisible I guess.
I don't know, I don't think most people are on private status. And really funny pics or reading someone's status doesn't really give you much insight into a person on Facebook.
I am not happy about the mortgage information online, but if it is public domain there is not much you can do. I would rather someone know that I am taking my dog for a walk or going to the grocery store before they knew how much I paid for a house, what my address is and what my social security number is through a scannable document.
It seems that Facebook is just a quick means of getting the word out about how Gaza feels about a corrupt government and gives them a place to vent. What is really great is that people are actually using Facebook to organize protests against a corrupt government and a President that they obviously do not want. Sounds kind of like bitching about Bush really.
I keep waiting to hear of a buzz word for Facebook like myspace is called "cry space." Seriously, Facebook and Myspace are places to bitch sometimes which is good, people have to get the misery out somehow.
I actually looked it up because I was curious, I didn't think they had children at all. Bill does have three kids. I had no idea. He really fits the profile for a true capitalist despite him trying to give his money away to charities, they are tax write offs anyway probably to offset his huge assets.
He supposedly plans to give each of his three children 10 million a piece when he passes. He said by then he will have given most of his money away. Linus better get in line. Just kidding. I think he has a ton of money too despite being cut of a different ilk than Bill Gates.
I think it is more like putting lipstick on a capitalist.
I don't know, I think the "so called" luster or salad days of Microsoft happened back in the 90's. They will never be amazing again, not that they were that amazing in the 90's when Windows 97 came out, LOL.
Bill's getting old and Melinda doesn't have too many good years left if any at all for a family. I am surprised he doesn't retire and have some babies. I guess he was happy with continuing with making his mark on history as a baby boomer philanthropist which is what I guess he thought would make his image work for this decade. I didn't get that whole deal.
I guess he is happier just working and making Slashdot/Linux people miserable or their source of amusement. He will need someone to carry on his legacy. Usually men with that much power and money want at least one child.
I know this post will probably upset you a bit but in would not be practical for Microsoft to change their business model midstream which I am sure you understand, it is unfortunate that is the what happened with the computer industry in the past twenty years.
Maybe they will ease up and apply a "mixed" approach, but I doubt it. They started closed and will probably remain with a closed source code philosophy.
FOSS models can be commercialized and have been very successful at being open and making a profit. I think the reason Linux is not as popular as it should be is because no one knows about it and also I can't spend the time with it trying my own set up, it just isn't practical for the average user like me.
I would love to have a choice, just like I would love to be able to decide on on paying for only the channels on TV that I want to watch. I would save a ton of money and get rid of all the crap I don't need.
But Microsoft is in the business of making money, and yes screwing the average user over in general, but if you don't know that you are being screwed it really doesn't concern people. LOL
Most computer users are not savvy enough to realize it, or just don't care. Heck maybe there just need to be more companies like Canonical or Mozilla, etc. They will give Microsoft a run for it's money, who knows? Force them to change if the average user migrates to Ubuntu or Redhat in record numbers. That is probably what has to happen.
I just don't think Microsoft will ever change their business model because they don't have to, they are kind of vicious. Unless they are forced by the market to do so really.
I guess the answer is to try and change the market so drastically that they are forced to adopt an open source model. If that happened no one would even choose Microsoft anyway probably. And unless Microsoft grows a conscience (LOL) I doubt that will happen. Maybe Bill Gates will get less greedy and capitalistic in his old age.
-Risk perception has diverged from risk reality.-
"nude" not "new" either way it would not be pretty.
1. Start a rock band. 2. Donate all his money to Linus Torvalds 3. Become a World Series of Poker player and run with the circuit, if we saw him playing on TV, that would really get the word out about Windows 7. 4. Pose new for Playgirl. Yikes! :)
Maybe his staff should run these ideas by him and see what shakes out.
Oops except for Netscape, yeah I forgot that it went under. But I think Excite and Lycos are still around. Either way, the computer industry is volatile and changes so much and too quickly. It is where the user is at now. Trying to get people to migrate to something new is a hard business! I think I am going to put some money in Twitter. I think that is the next big thing. Microsoft and maybe Google is as long term in the tech world as it gets it seems.
I agree. I use Vista everyday and I am fine with it. I haven't had any problems at all and I think it will be remembered as an in between period. Windows 7 will be better and I will probably upgrade when the full version is introduced.
:)
I know I am in the minority on this site, but I don't think Gate's image was that tarnished by Vista. Most of the average computer users think of Microsoft the same, we just got used to it. I know his company was started in the 70's, but seriously no one heard of the guy before the 90's really. At least outside of the computer world.
In the 90's Microsoft was in it's infancy as far as a commercial software, it blew up, in the double 00's it survived, and in the 10's we will see if it survives another round again.
For a software company to survive thirty years fully focusing on just software in general is a pretty damn great accomplishment. And despite what everyone says about Microsoft buying out Yahoo, I thought that would have been a good move for Yahoo and for Microsoft. Look at Netscape? Excite? Lycos? They are all small companies now. Out of the giants of the 90's, Amazon and Yahoo are it. It is kind of sad.
Predicting whether Microsoft will survive another decade, I guess we will see. I think Microsoft will be around for at least another decade or two, probably longer.
He is probably not denying his condition he just wants to stay within a sense of normalcy. I think he was being pretty responsible. He left the company and he plans to come back in the summer. Beyond that if it were me, I would keep things as quiet as possible too. Just my two cents.
Me too. :) I am about the same age, it doesn't make me feel old, it makes me laugh. :) Hey I enjoyed all of the hours I spent playing around on the graphics tablet Amigas in the computer "cluster" at school. I don't know if you remember that, in PA in the eighties my junior high called a computer lab a computer cluster. We didn't say hey, I am going to the lab, we said we are going to the cluster.
Now that makes me feel old, they changed the terminology. And the fact that we had like maybe 15 Amigas and another 10 Apple computers probably just from memory for a junior high of 500 kids. It was not that big of a room. LOL
Reading this I just thought about all of the hours I wasted when I was little playing Breakout. I didn't even remember that they sold something like this back in 1984. I remember the Amigas from junior high in the late 80's, I spent some time playing with the graphics tablet, this brings back some deep computer memories I completely forgot. I wasn't even into computers again until I was about 25.
I liked them in my childhood, then I went away for a long time, I barely used a computer except to type up a paper because I had to use them and I found my love again for them 1995, which lasted a good ten years or so or so and then it was ruined again around 2005. I am starting to love computers again now though. That is probably why I will never be a true "geek" or whatever you want to call it, I didn't stick with it consistently.
-"I am a computer's fair weather friend."-
I think it is a bit of both. :) I am happy because it signifies a change, sets the tone for the next four years. Bush was handed a raw deal in the first four years, then kind of snow jobbed us the other four, in general.
I don't think people think Obama is the messiah, that is a bit much. I think most people think he will be a better president than Bush though, but Obama is a politician, and you know he has quite a job ahead of him. Let him have his day though, it is a day of celebration, not to speculate on everything! That will start tomorrow, LOL
If Doug is cutting a deal with Kelly's competition Jean, he is a hustler. Man, that is cut throat. You are right, it would spell doom for the company, that is pretty mercenary. They should stick Doug in CS. LOL
:)
No one wants a hustle working for them unless they are in sales or own their own business. If Doug is that good, he should be in sales or have his own business if he actually went to Kelly's parallel. If Doug hustled this way, I don't think he would be in IT and middle managment, it would be a waste of his hustle talent.
Also what is funny, when I was reading this article I was considering taking another job off of my resume because I have been job hunting for weeks without much success. I already took two of the jobs I thought sucked off of my resume because I was fired from them. Meh, what are you going to do? LOL I didn't care about the jobs much anyway, I just needed a decent source of income while I went to school at night.
I just counted how many positions I have held. I have had nine jobs in 15 years. Four of those jobs blew, two I quit, the other two I was fired. I have also been on UC twice in those 15 years. I am starting to feel kind bad about being a slacker, better hold on to my widow money, LOL
I also believe in business you can be a nice person, good to your team and make hard decisions. Being ruthless can be necessary in business, but you can't be constantly ruthless. If people hate you at work, it tips the scales the other way too. Stuart might be too nice, he might need some coaching. I guess some people would see it as him just fighting for his job, but Doug is kind of a scumbag in the scenario.
If they are worried about cutting the fat, etc. think about all of the training they will have to incur costs from when people do not want to work under this kind of person and quit.
In the article it describes two management styles. The Stuart's of the world will consistently have/hold jobs. Being educated, able to handle your job responsibilities with tact and concern for your employees are skills that Doug doesn't possess. I would hate to work for a Doug. In fact, I have worked for a Doug types and Stuart types. I quit the Doug jobs. LOL Seriously, I am unemployed right now, and I am not afraid. I know I will find something. If you have a decent skill set, an education and have had relevant work experience then things will work out fine. If not, heck train for another arena that you are interested in!
I know I am not the norm, I have had six jobs in my 15 years of real job experience. I just don't see sticking with a company unless it is worth it, heck call me disloyal. I really wouldn't call it that, if companies treated their employees the way they should, most people wouldn't become job gypsies, LOL
I recently graduated and trust me if I don't find a job I really want right off the bat, I will take something I have to take and keep looking for the "long term" job with a growth pattern and a decent salary. I did it during my college years and I will continue to do it until I find the right place for myself.
Never heard of Cowboy Bebop anime but I like Keanu. I guess Slashdot is full of Keanu haters.
I agree with you on some of your points, but c'mon give the woman a break. Her mindset in dealing with computers is narrow. If you are not extremely computer savvy, and you have only been exposed to Windows, that is what you are going to feel most comfortable going with, LOL
Most users want to pop in a CD or log in easily, etc, send their assignments quickly. Which you can do with Linux I am assuming probably fairly easily, you just have to get used to it, installing a distro is not for the faint hearted, partitioning disks, I am too afraid to do a dual boot, because I do not want to screw up my new Dell. I don't have an old laptop to practice on either. Linux seems to be for people that like to tinker.
I do not have hardly any Linux exposure except downloading a few freebie programs because I was too cheap to pay for the software. Honestly if you want more people to adopt Linux, start with that, people will get hooked with the free software, and then maybe think of adopting Linux as their OS. Just my opinion.
Also when you are starting an online program and you have never been in an online learning enviroment, you will have to grasp the way to use Blackboard or Angel or whatever the school uses effectively but getting your feet wet with one class with the level of what her current computer skills are at now.
Most people do not have the curiousity that would entail them to learn another OS. I just bought a Dell with Vista on it. I didn't buy MS Office because OO works perfectly fine and the docs can be saved in a Windows format. I might use a portable disc if I decided to use Linux, but it would never be my main OS because I am not partitioning my hard disk.
I am sure my opinion on this subject will be in the minority, but it is a woman's perspective. I also thought the person who said she should not be at a technical college at her age was extremely insulting, you can learn a lot about computers if you sleep, eat and breath it for a year and be up to speed, hell it changes so quickly anyway. But hey, you are right she is not a "self starter" or Nancy Drew. Maybe technical college will turn her into one, LOL