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No, this is the kind of uninformed anti-Microsoft vitriol that really makes me mad. Yes, many years ago, back before most people remember, Microsoft did some things that were unethical. They got their hand slapped, there were repercussions, and they suffered their punishment. No, it had nothing to do with Netscape, if you think Microsoft was mean to Netscape you're a fool.
The fact is that most companies who have been decimated by Microsoft have done so by releasing shit products. Netscape 3.0 was a shit product. Lotus 1-2-3 4.0 was a shit product. Every product Corel ever released was a shit product. Novell too, except for Netware 3.x which was closely followed by the dreck known as Netware 4. Wordperfect? Shit product. DBase IV? Shit product.
C'mon, this isn't fiction, everyone who's been in the IT industry more than a few years knows I'm right. If you wanna complain about Microsoft then talk to me about things like Desqview, or FoxBase, or Magellan or New Wave. But if the best you've got to offer is Netscape then you're just regurgitating shit because you think it makes you sound smart.
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No, you're a moron. Microsoft bought one of the first SCO "Linux licenses" and may or may not have invested some money in the company. After all, it's run by a bunch of psycho nutballs, so why not bet a couple bucks that they might get lucky? But to suggest that this was funded by Microsoft is utter bullshit, and to suggest that Microsoft DEVELOPERS wanted SCO to win is a joke. Somewhere in the upper echelons of Microsoft there is probably an executive whose job it is to ask "okay, so ignoring all rules of etiquette, what are some of the ways we can beat this whole Linux thing?" But I can promise you, of the 75,000 employees at Microsoft, 74,900 of them just want to win by making a better OS...
Disagree with us if you like, but that doesn't make us evil.
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Huh? What's this got to do with Microsoft? And why on earth would a developer -- by definition a geek -- be upset that SCO's little sleaze-fest is nearing its end? I work for Microsoft and I was pumping my fist in the air when I read this. So chill out with the vitriol and the constant "ZOMGOMGOMG everything's a microsoft conspiracy!"
Ask them some open-ended questions that make them talk about themselves and their strengths. Based on their responses are they intelligent and articulate? Do they bounce all over with no direction, or are they able to apply logic to progress to a conclusion, even if it's just to build a strong case for why they're good for the job? Ask them some tough questions that they won't know the answer to. Not to make the interview miserable, but to see if they're capable of coming up with creative ideas, and more importantly -- are they capable of saying "I don't know, I need help here." Ask them how they would handle a situation where they seemed to be spending a lot of time fixing very similar problems. When you ask questions do they always jump to technology, or are they capable of grasping that sometimes the best fix for a problem isn't a tool, but a process, or training, or involving the right people. There's nothing more counter-productive than the PC technician who fiddles with dials for hours and always fixes the problem eventually but has no idea how he did it and next time around the same problem still takes hours to fix. You want someone who is willing to document, and share knowledge, and constantly improve, and follow & improve processes.
The part of Hawking will be played by Tom Cruise, as a rogue astrophysicist who only has 24 hours to develop a unified field theory, and prevent terrorists from opening a black hole in downtown Manhattan!
So buy some cheap land and go farm it. Be self-sufficient. Nobody is forcing you to buy-in to the American capitalist dream, only yourself. "It's not realistic"? Yeah right. Only because you discount it as a possibility from the get-go.
Hunh? Did you just have a two-way argument all alone???
No, it's not just labour laws, it's also corporate citizenship. Apple as a company should show more respect for their employees, be they in North America, India, or anywhere else. If this was a company making calendars for sale at the Dollar Store I would understand it, but it's Apple.
"On May 15, Apple officials addressed us and were highly appreciative of the workforce and the task it would execute in India. I wonder why they never said anything even then," said another fired employee.
Seems pretty cold to me. In a lot of developing countries like this a job at a major multinational serves to support not just the family but the entire extended family. No doubt some of these people even had to quit other jobs to join Apple, and can't return. I worked many years for the international division of a large multinational and saw first-hand the culture of abusing foreign workers because management knew they could work them 14 hours a day and the people couldn't say or do anything about it. And since these people are all classified as "professionals" no one can swoop into the factory to blow the whistle, you have to work whatever overtime is demanded of you, for free. Pretty crummy if you ask me.
Some industrious Hollywood upstart read this post and is already working on a terrifying thriller about the perils of anything that involves machines. It's about a brilliant but evil criminal mastermind who hijacks the automatic aircraft guidance system and aims a crowded airliner directly at the White House. But little did he know, there would be one passenger on board he wasn't expecting.
Enter creepy movie announcer voice
From the director of Die Hard... Autopilot -- Prepare for the ride of your life!
"mainly just pieces of the game in progress and tech demos", including "an early level, a vehicle sequence, a few test rooms"
OOOoooo, an early level *and* some test rooms? Sounds like they've been busy these past ten years! If we're lucky maybe they've also completed a Pong mini-game, which leaves nothing left to create except the game itself.
Intellectually I think Stallman always makes some interesting points that people should integrate into their mental framework -- even if it's just to think "uhm, yeah, he's wrong." But as you say, his iconoclastic ideologies are just way off the deep end. He's got to come to grips with the fact that his opinions are subjective and that people who disagree with him aren't evil and unethical.
(Thx for the wiki link, BTW, it puts a word to exactly what I was thinking.)
"As for the music factories--a.k.a. the major record companies--what they want is power. They will never accept P2P sharing as long as it remains a way to escape from their power. For their abuses against the people, they deserve to be abolished, and that should be everyone's goal. "
Hee-hee, he's so cute when he's going all nazi. Don't use the words "producers," "content," or "intellectual property." MP3s are evil. CDs with DRM aren't really CDs, they're "fake CDs" and they're "the face of the enemy." I swear, if he doesn't stop gritting his teeth at the universe he's gonna wear them down to the nub...
It's a shame to see many libraries taking such a regressive approach to this. I happen to think libraries and access to information are the cornerstone of a free society -- they level the playing field and provide education and knowledge to people who otherwise couldn't afford it. However as a result of the digital age, our current standard of living and draconian copyright laws, the importance of libraries has diminished of late, as people turn to the web for information, buy their books at Barnes & Noble instead of borrowing them, or are merely incapable of borrowing copyrighted material because of digital or legal barriers created by content owners. What Google is doing here is progressive and in the spirit of free access to information. They're not giving away books, here. They're merely adding the ability to search for and view specific pieces of information. If anything this will only increase demand for the books they're scanning. And on top of that, it will provide access to information for a new generation who might not otherwise be able to afford it. Really now, I thought most librarians were more hip and with-it than this...
So if I host a file on my FTP site, and someone links to it without the customary "We love you" that makes it wrong? If you don't want it accessible to the world, don't host it to the world.
Wait a minute... So someone is punishing another person for using a hotlink on the web? Someone has spent too much time sniffing the corporate glue of "we own everything!". The web is *about* linking, and open data structures, and access to information. How does information suddenly become inviolate if it's not splashed with corporate logos? If you don't want it to be seen by the world, don't publish it to the world...
Yeah, folks, you don't need to agree with me but I was hardly flaming. People won't always say things you like to hear. Sometimes they'll be full of it, sometimes they'll be worth considering.
I'm sorry but IBM is speaking to European workers very clearly here, however I'm not sure they're listening. The constant strikes, the 5+ weeks of vacation, the voting down of the EU constitution to avoid US-style capitalism. These jobs are vanishing into India because of the cost and headache of dealing with European unions, workers, culture, and bureaucracy. Frankly it's a pain in the ass, and for a market that often has little growth potential. Asia isn't just where the cheap labour is, it's also where the growth is, and the governments eager to work with you, and the best bang-for-the-buck for companies seeking to invest. Until European workers learn to compete aggressively we'll keep on hearing stories like this of companies that just shrug and say "fine, have it your way." Apologies, but something's gotta give.
I've had to explain this to angry executives who couldn't dial in from the cottage/ski hill/resort so many times, I sound like a broken record. If you're in an area where the wired signal is awful, you can basically rest assured the wireless signal quality will be much worse. Wireless is by nature a less reliable medium, because it's passing through air and trees and walls -- as opposed to copper. If you're located somewhere so far from civilization that the wired infrastructure can't handle basic data, then neither will wireless. Don't believe the sales people.:\
Possible exception: your dad's the farmer who gave up part of his field for a cel phone tower. But even then don't bet on it.
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No, this is the kind of uninformed anti-Microsoft vitriol that really makes me mad. Yes, many years ago, back before most people remember, Microsoft did some things that were unethical. They got their hand slapped, there were repercussions, and they suffered their punishment. No, it had nothing to do with Netscape, if you think Microsoft was mean to Netscape you're a fool. The fact is that most companies who have been decimated by Microsoft have done so by releasing shit products. Netscape 3.0 was a shit product. Lotus 1-2-3 4.0 was a shit product. Every product Corel ever released was a shit product. Novell too, except for Netware 3.x which was closely followed by the dreck known as Netware 4. Wordperfect? Shit product. DBase IV? Shit product. C'mon, this isn't fiction, everyone who's been in the IT industry more than a few years knows I'm right. If you wanna complain about Microsoft then talk to me about things like Desqview, or FoxBase, or Magellan or New Wave. But if the best you've got to offer is Netscape then you're just regurgitating shit because you think it makes you sound smart.
No, you're a moron. Microsoft bought one of the first SCO "Linux licenses" and may or may not have invested some money in the company. After all, it's run by a bunch of psycho nutballs, so why not bet a couple bucks that they might get lucky? But to suggest that this was funded by Microsoft is utter bullshit, and to suggest that Microsoft DEVELOPERS wanted SCO to win is a joke. Somewhere in the upper echelons of Microsoft there is probably an executive whose job it is to ask "okay, so ignoring all rules of etiquette, what are some of the ways we can beat this whole Linux thing?" But I can promise you, of the 75,000 employees at Microsoft, 74,900 of them just want to win by making a better OS... Disagree with us if you like, but that doesn't make us evil.
Huh? What's this got to do with Microsoft? And why on earth would a developer -- by definition a geek -- be upset that SCO's little sleaze-fest is nearing its end? I work for Microsoft and I was pumping my fist in the air when I read this. So chill out with the vitriol and the constant "ZOMGOMGOMG everything's a microsoft conspiracy!"
Ask them some open-ended questions that make them talk about themselves and their strengths. Based on their responses are they intelligent and articulate? Do they bounce all over with no direction, or are they able to apply logic to progress to a conclusion, even if it's just to build a strong case for why they're good for the job? Ask them some tough questions that they won't know the answer to. Not to make the interview miserable, but to see if they're capable of coming up with creative ideas, and more importantly -- are they capable of saying "I don't know, I need help here." Ask them how they would handle a situation where they seemed to be spending a lot of time fixing very similar problems. When you ask questions do they always jump to technology, or are they capable of grasping that sometimes the best fix for a problem isn't a tool, but a process, or training, or involving the right people. There's nothing more counter-productive than the PC technician who fiddles with dials for hours and always fixes the problem eventually but has no idea how he did it and next time around the same problem still takes hours to fix. You want someone who is willing to document, and share knowledge, and constantly improve, and follow & improve processes.
The part of Hawking will be played by Tom Cruise, as a rogue astrophysicist who only has 24 hours to develop a unified field theory, and prevent terrorists from opening a black hole in downtown Manhattan!
>"The amount of Portland cement could build more than 80 Hoover dams, or lay six sidewalks to the moon"
Wait a minute, nobody told me six sidewalks to the moon was one of the options! I would have totally voted for the sidewalk thing...
So buy some cheap land and go farm it. Be self-sufficient. Nobody is forcing you to buy-in to the American capitalist dream, only yourself. "It's not realistic"? Yeah right. Only because you discount it as a possibility from the get-go.
Hunh? Did you just have a two-way argument all alone???
No, it's not just labour laws, it's also corporate citizenship. Apple as a company should show more respect for their employees, be they in North America, India, or anywhere else. If this was a company making calendars for sale at the Dollar Store I would understand it, but it's Apple.
"On May 15, Apple officials addressed us and were highly appreciative of the workforce and the task it would execute in India. I wonder why they never said anything even then," said another fired employee.
Seems pretty cold to me. In a lot of developing countries like this a job at a major multinational serves to support not just the family but the entire extended family. No doubt some of these people even had to quit other jobs to join Apple, and can't return. I worked many years for the international division of a large multinational and saw first-hand the culture of abusing foreign workers because management knew they could work them 14 hours a day and the people couldn't say or do anything about it. And since these people are all classified as "professionals" no one can swoop into the factory to blow the whistle, you have to work whatever overtime is demanded of you, for free. Pretty crummy if you ask me.
Some industrious Hollywood upstart read this post and is already working on a terrifying thriller about the perils of anything that involves machines. It's about a brilliant but evil criminal mastermind who hijacks the automatic aircraft guidance system and aims a crowded airliner directly at the White House. But little did he know, there would be one passenger on board he wasn't expecting.
Enter creepy movie announcer voice
From the director of Die Hard... Autopilot -- Prepare for the ride of your life!
"mainly just pieces of the game in progress and tech demos", including "an early level, a vehicle sequence, a few test rooms"
OOOoooo, an early level *and* some test rooms? Sounds like they've been busy these past ten years! If we're lucky maybe they've also completed a Pong mini-game, which leaves nothing left to create except the game itself.
Intellectually I think Stallman always makes some interesting points that people should integrate into their mental framework -- even if it's just to think "uhm, yeah, he's wrong." But as you say, his iconoclastic ideologies are just way off the deep end. He's got to come to grips with the fact that his opinions are subjective and that people who disagree with him aren't evil and unethical. (Thx for the wiki link, BTW, it puts a word to exactly what I was thinking.)
"As for the music factories--a.k.a. the major record companies--what they want is power. They will never accept P2P sharing as long as it remains a way to escape from their power. For their abuses against the people, they deserve to be abolished, and that should be everyone's goal. "
Hee-hee, he's so cute when he's going all nazi. Don't use the words "producers," "content," or "intellectual property." MP3s are evil. CDs with DRM aren't really CDs, they're "fake CDs" and they're "the face of the enemy." I swear, if he doesn't stop gritting his teeth at the universe he's gonna wear them down to the nub...
It's a shame to see many libraries taking such a regressive approach to this. I happen to think libraries and access to information are the cornerstone of a free society -- they level the playing field and provide education and knowledge to people who otherwise couldn't afford it. However as a result of the digital age, our current standard of living and draconian copyright laws, the importance of libraries has diminished of late, as people turn to the web for information, buy their books at Barnes & Noble instead of borrowing them, or are merely incapable of borrowing copyrighted material because of digital or legal barriers created by content owners. What Google is doing here is progressive and in the spirit of free access to information. They're not giving away books, here. They're merely adding the ability to search for and view specific pieces of information. If anything this will only increase demand for the books they're scanning. And on top of that, it will provide access to information for a new generation who might not otherwise be able to afford it. Really now, I thought most librarians were more hip and with-it than this...
Also found nearby was the world's oldest chicken ball, and world's oldest heat lamp.
When your idea of being "offbeat" involves cloning a terrific show like "The Daily Show," chances are you aren't too hip...
So if I host a file on my FTP site, and someone links to it without the customary "We love you" that makes it wrong? If you don't want it accessible to the world, don't host it to the world.
Wait a minute... So someone is punishing another person for using a hotlink on the web? Someone has spent too much time sniffing the corporate glue of "we own everything!". The web is *about* linking, and open data structures, and access to information. How does information suddenly become inviolate if it's not splashed with corporate logos? If you don't want it to be seen by the world, don't publish it to the world...
Yeah, folks, you don't need to agree with me but I was hardly flaming. People won't always say things you like to hear. Sometimes they'll be full of it, sometimes they'll be worth considering.
I'm sorry but IBM is speaking to European workers very clearly here, however I'm not sure they're listening. The constant strikes, the 5+ weeks of vacation, the voting down of the EU constitution to avoid US-style capitalism. These jobs are vanishing into India because of the cost and headache of dealing with European unions, workers, culture, and bureaucracy. Frankly it's a pain in the ass, and for a market that often has little growth potential. Asia isn't just where the cheap labour is, it's also where the growth is, and the governments eager to work with you, and the best bang-for-the-buck for companies seeking to invest. Until European workers learn to compete aggressively we'll keep on hearing stories like this of companies that just shrug and say "fine, have it your way." Apologies, but something's gotta give.
I've had to explain this to angry executives who couldn't dial in from the cottage/ski hill/resort so many times, I sound like a broken record. If you're in an area where the wired signal is awful, you can basically rest assured the wireless signal quality will be much worse. Wireless is by nature a less reliable medium, because it's passing through air and trees and walls -- as opposed to copper. If you're located somewhere so far from civilization that the wired infrastructure can't handle basic data, then neither will wireless. Don't believe the sales people. :\
Possible exception: your dad's the farmer who gave up part of his field for a cel phone tower. But even then don't bet on it.
> Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.
Come on, folks, I'm a rabid Firefox fan and even *I* know this kind of rhetoric doesn't belong on the front page...
I suspect the folks at Netscape could really benefit from this. (See preceding article...)
>If they don't survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners.
Oh that would be so cool. Finally, the Star Wars fandom community recognized by a mainstream award!
*crosses fingers*
If AOL makes enough money with their IPO, maybe they can afford to buy a big media company. :P