The word work does not solely apply to high availability servers you know. If you're an accountant who needs to send an Excel version of the month-end figures to the board by 5pm that day WGA not letting you use your computer would be a real problem.
In the rest of Africa, people basically sit in the sun and wait for the bananas to grow, or they attack each other with spears and machetes to take each other's bananas.
I've worked for large private organisations and government departments and the assholes who take the piss are just as unlikely to be fired in the large private organisations because they're the talented politics players. They are just as crap at their jobs as anyone you despise in the government and if you want to say at least we don't pay for them, well actually if you're a customer you do pay for these guys. My personal opinion on incompetent staff is this though: I'd rather they were being paid a decent salary and pissing people off for 8 hours a day, than being unemployed and pissing people off 24 hours a day through crime.
It's hard to say whether the new testament is mythical; the existence of Christ and the Apostles is a matter of historical record, although Christ being the son of God is a matter of belief rather than evidence. Personally I was taught at my Catholic school that evolution was how God populated the earth, it's a mystery to me why US Christian fundies can't live with that one.
No, but experienced people don't just appear, they require training and experience, something that a lot of places seem unwilling to contribute to the industry at large. Having scarcity of talent doesn't benefit your business or any of the others at all. I'm speaking from a position of experience here being a mainframer that was chucked on the scrapheap at the age of 33. Although I have 15 years dealing with various major IT systems, have knowledge of VB (don't laugh) and Java and passed a C++ course with ease the last three years in IT were "no you can't have training in new tech" followed by "sorry we don't need you anymore" followed by "do you have 2+ years experience in new tech? No? Bye then". I'm a little bitter and I'm sorry for being sarcastic, especially since I wouldn't have a clue how to do what you require from a developer. I just get a little tired of hearing how it's impossible to find experienced IT people given my experience of how hard it is to get that experience in the first place.
Why? Do you think an incompetent private monopoly would do a better job? As a Brit who has to put up with incompetent private monopolies all the time, I beg to differ.
I used to be heavily addicted to another MMORPG. I now play WoW. I had no problem starting over since the previous MMORPG had become stale. I had no problem starting over, I still speak to people from the other game so I haven't lost the social part of it and WoW is a much better game plus I'm making new friends. I'm also not so heavily addicted to WoW which is good for my restarted social life. If WoW ever became stale for me I'd be off and probably more easily.
Well WoW has RP servers so I guess you could go roleplay on one of them. I assume the server code is the same as for the PvE and PvP servers but roleplaying is up to you and your imagination in any case.
The majority of users are corporate and believe me the key costs way more than the chains. Or do you think rewriting all those Windows apps can be done for free?
No-one is forced to use MS software just like no-one is forced to do anything else their management wants. Paying the bills might be a bit hard but hey at least you don't have to use Windows anymore.
But he isn't insisting on that, he's saying he's right to be suspicious of a company that has such a bad track record. Trust has to be earned, and although the words are positive, let's see how the actions pan out.
My country, the UK, had a system whereby only people who owned a certain amount of property could vote, the idea being similar to yours, i.e. keeping the great unwashed from mucking up the political system. It didn't work either. Voter apathy is the problem not voter ignorance; the fewer people that vote the more likely that special interests can subvert the political process.
Which is fine unless one of the programs runs at startup in which case you need to create a shortcut, set that to run with different credentials and then change the registry to point to the shortcut instead of the executable. User-friendly my arse.
Of course were IT people managed by people who understood IT and had respect for what is after all a profession then perhaps they'd work better. Physicians, architects and mechanical engineers generally get time to do their jobs; if doctors had the same crap bosses as IT staff did they would get 10 minutes to do brain surgery and after 8 minutes the boss would decide the patient would look better with an extra leg and three eyes. Crap management decisions lead to poor morale which can lead to poorr performance. Not that I haven't worked with some right cowboys, but the vast majority of my colleagues over the years have been hard-working, intelligent and completely put upon by the people in charge who don't have the slightest clue how things work. Why hire experts in a particular field if you're going to ignore everything they tell you and then blame them when things don't work right?
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The word work does not solely apply to high availability servers you know. If you're an accountant who needs to send an Excel version of the month-end figures to the board by 5pm that day WGA not letting you use your computer would be a real problem.
I thought IT communities were meant to be filled with rational people?
Huh? You must be very new to IT to think that.
In the rest of Africa, people basically sit in the sun and wait for the bananas to grow, or they attack each other with spears and machetes to take each other's bananas.
What an ignorant moron you are.
I've worked for large private organisations and government departments and the assholes who take the piss are just as unlikely to be fired in the large private organisations because they're the talented politics players. They are just as crap at their jobs as anyone you despise in the government and if you want to say at least we don't pay for them, well actually if you're a customer you do pay for these guys.
My personal opinion on incompetent staff is this though: I'd rather they were being paid a decent salary and pissing people off for 8 hours a day, than being unemployed and pissing people off 24 hours a day through crime.
It's hard to say whether the new testament is mythical; the existence of Christ and the Apostles is a matter of historical record, although Christ being the son of God is a matter of belief rather than evidence. Personally I was taught at my Catholic school that evolution was how God populated the earth, it's a mystery to me why US Christian fundies can't live with that one.
No, but experienced people don't just appear, they require training and experience, something that a lot of places seem unwilling to contribute to the industry at large. Having scarcity of talent doesn't benefit your business or any of the others at all.
I'm speaking from a position of experience here being a mainframer that was chucked on the scrapheap at the age of 33. Although I have 15 years dealing with various major IT systems, have knowledge of VB (don't laugh) and Java and passed a C++ course with ease the last three years in IT were "no you can't have training in new tech" followed by "sorry we don't need you anymore" followed by "do you have 2+ years experience in new tech? No? Bye then".
I'm a little bitter and I'm sorry for being sarcastic, especially since I wouldn't have a clue how to do what you require from a developer. I just get a little tired of hearing how it's impossible to find experienced IT people given my experience of how hard it is to get that experience in the first place.
It's obviously false since Best Buy will require non-geek behaviour like bathing every day and not slobbering over customers' teenage daughters.
Because the more lock-ins Microsoft has the harder it is for users to switch to alternatives.
Why? Do you think an incompetent private monopoly would do a better job? As a Brit who has to put up with incompetent private monopolies all the time, I beg to differ.
You know what companies used to do when they couldn't find experienced staff? They trained people. You may have heard of the concept.
And maybe you shouldn't get so worked up just because someone else can't spell.
The MS zealots on slashdot are far more vocal, hysterical and obnoxious than those they scream at these days.
Nobody would leave WoW to start over.
I used to be heavily addicted to another MMORPG. I now play WoW. I had no problem starting over since the previous MMORPG had become stale. I had no problem starting over, I still speak to people from the other game so I haven't lost the social part of it and WoW is a much better game plus I'm making new friends. I'm also not so heavily addicted to WoW which is good for my restarted social life. If WoW ever became stale for me I'd be off and probably more easily.
Well WoW has RP servers so I guess you could go roleplay on one of them. I assume the server code is the same as for the PvE and PvP servers but roleplaying is up to you and your imagination in any case.
Firefox appears on quite a few coverdisks as well, that's where my non-techie dad got his copy from, and he's quite happy with it.
The majority of users are corporate and believe me the key costs way more than the chains. Or do you think rewriting all those Windows apps can be done for free?
No-one is forced to use MS software just like no-one is forced to do anything else their management wants. Paying the bills might be a bit hard but hey at least you don't have to use Windows anymore.
But he isn't insisting on that, he's saying he's right to be suspicious of a company that has such a bad track record. Trust has to be earned, and although the words are positive, let's see how the actions pan out.
My country, the UK, had a system whereby only people who owned a certain amount of property could vote, the idea being similar to yours, i.e. keeping the great unwashed from mucking up the political system. It didn't work either. Voter apathy is the problem not voter ignorance; the fewer people that vote the more likely that special interests can subvert the political process.
Because getting World of Warcraft to run on Linux is a fair bit harder than putting up with the aggravations of running Windows on an LUA.
Why can't I just set the executable to run with admin rights, why do I need to create an extra file?
Or alternatively have digitally signed macros and don't allow any non-signed macros to run.
Which is fine unless one of the programs runs at startup in which case you need to create a shortcut, set that to run with different credentials and then change the registry to point to the shortcut instead of the executable. User-friendly my arse.
Of course were IT people managed by people who understood IT and had respect for what is after all a profession then perhaps they'd work better. Physicians, architects and mechanical engineers generally get time to do their jobs; if doctors had the same crap bosses as IT staff did they would get 10 minutes to do brain surgery and after 8 minutes the boss would decide the patient would look better with an extra leg and three eyes.
Crap management decisions lead to poor morale which can lead to poorr performance. Not that I haven't worked with some right cowboys, but the vast majority of my colleagues over the years have been hard-working, intelligent and completely put upon by the people in charge who don't have the slightest clue how things work. Why hire experts in a particular field if you're going to ignore everything they tell you and then blame them when things don't work right?
No he's doing something good for them.