Let us not forget that in the U.K. there is no Bill of Rights, and as royal subjects (not citizens), the Government can legally do pretty much whatever they want to its people.
Second, we tend to experience things in a linear fashion (barring some really good drugs)--It's called time. What's so non-linear about this browser? It pulls things off the web out of context. Yeah, that's exactly what I like, information out of context.
Just as much he argues the web is linear (click from one thing to the next, following structure), I can argue it's not (I can go hit my bookmarks at anytime, or jump somewhere randomly).
Frankly, unless he's built some kind of Improbability Drive into the thing I don't see how this is terribly new.
First, non-linear is rapidly becoming one of those psuedo-intellectual words I can't stand, joining the ranks of paradigm, post-modern, and psuedo-anything. Depending on scale and scope, nearly anything can be seen as either linear or non-linear. Euclid brought us non-linear geometry, Orson Welles brought us non-linear cinematography, now we have non-linear web browsing. Oh joy.
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He didn't sound particularly new to the working world, just to these "job search engines". Hell, most of the freaking world uses Word.
Wait until you try on office politics - its not who you know, its who you blow, kiddo.
These cute little cliches posing as witticisms bug me. Unless you're a White House Intern, it's not about blowing, it's about networking.
Sorry y'all, the only IP that I'm talking about comes after your 3 Martini lunch. This is a lesson we can learn from the suits... there's tremendous power in meeting other people and expanding the circle of people that you know/have met. Which do you think is more likely to get you a meaningful interview: Spamming a job search site or a new contact you met at your local IEEE meeting who you beamed your info to his Palm Pilot and oh-yeah-by-the-way-do-you-know-any-perl-because-a- friend-of-mine-is-putting-together-a-web -team-and-he-needs-a-perl-hacker? This will also help you keep tabs on what the latest in-demand buzzwords are, too.
Pick up a resume book, especially one that's printed this year and that targets IT. They talk about using keyword blocks, the HRIS equivalent of META tags. Apparently that's good enough to get you through round one of the draft... just make a little keyword block at the end and throw in all of the relevant buzzwords and acronyms you can think of. That way the computer (if there is one) gets everything that it needs and if it's a person then they'll ignore it because it's at the end anyway. Much more likely that it's a machine, though. I've never done this, having gotten all of my jobs through people who know people, but if you are going to start spamming companies it never hurts to talk to the machine directly. After all, you're an engineer, right? That's what you do...
Funny, how would I contact the linux community if I needed to?:-)
(There is a linuxcommunity.org, but the're not running a web server right now).
This is an unusually bold move for MS, though... I can't remember a time when they've out and out stepped like this. What could they be thinking? They know they're going to get whupped.
I think they're hoping that we'll be so disorganized that we can't formulate a coherent response--a potential weakness.
I wonder who owns the rights to Jimmy's visage? Does he have some sort of estate left?
Unrelated, that was one of the worst press releases I've read in recent memory. If I hear someone mention "branding" without reference to livestock, I'm going to quit my job and move to Arizona and live in the friggin desert. Fsck these boomers.
While reading (skimming) this discussion, I was disappointed to find no references about the key issue here: morality.I assume that most people would agree with me: killing anybody in this way, no matter who you are or what cause you represent, is wrong.(emphasis added)
If I may ask, what is the right way to kill people?
Do you support the death penalty? Is that the right way to kill people? What about bombing abortion clinics? Is that the right way to kill people?
Moral relativism is bunk. It's also boring. Take a stand.
I think this notion of the sanctity of life is a bunch of bullshit (those of you who've heard George Carlin on this topic will understand).
If everything that has lived before is now dead, and everything alive now is going to die, where does the sacred part come in? --Carlin.
I live in the UK and, although change is happening, it takes a very different form. The power of institutions is very much eroded and is often seen as an irrellevence to the "european" youth. The experience of living and working internationally, creating products for an international market and choosing which country and currency to have your bank account in is a liberating one; the internet is just one of the mechanisms used to make this happen. However language will always be a barrier to free movement, hence the highly intelligent are more free than the uneducated, regardless of computer knowhow.
What you've described isn't that much different from what's going on in the states. Political apathy among 20somethings is at an all time high. As for other institutions, such as The Media and Large Corporations, their influence is as pervasive as anywhere else... I will grant you that in Europe and the UK it's much easier to travel to other countries (maybe because they're all so tiny:-) ), but that's an economic reality that's true anywhere.
It also doesn't hurt that the UK has a system of higher education that does a good job of insulating students from reality, either.
--GP
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The/. and Freshmeat cameos were listed in a sidebar as "alternative sites" (also listed was apache.org). Across the page from them was listed "Best web server: IIS 4.0"... then they referenced the sidebar with the a comment to the effect of 'If you don't want to be tied to MS, check out these alternative sites".
It's actually startling how much mindshare linux is getting these days... there were about 10 different references in the current issue, up from about nil last month. What next, an article in Windows magazine titled "Maybe IIS isn't for you"?
I've considered cancelling all of my dead tree subscriptions... every time I pick one up, it's usually old news that I read on the net, sometimes months ago (pefect example: the whole "Free PC" thing). If you want to play a fun game, track an item of news as it hits the mainstream media. The trail is usually something like this:
/. -> HotWired -> Wired (print) -> CNN or CNet TV ->PC Magazine
OK, maybe it's not all that much fun, but it does give you a certain sense of smug superiority when you can sit there and say "Oh yeah, I heard about that _months_ ago..."
Even though I go between windows and linux on a daily basis, I still use Netscape.... I even install Win98 without IE4.. because I believe in the values Netscape had (has?). It's good vs. evil... netscape vs. microsoft.
What if there is no good? What if it's just evil vs. Evil?
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Let us not forget that in the U.K. there is no Bill of Rights, and as royal subjects (not citizens), the Government can legally do pretty much whatever they want to its people.
Just realized I forgot the second part. :-)
Second, we tend to experience things in a linear fashion (barring some really good drugs)--It's called time. What's so non-linear about this browser? It pulls things off the web out of context. Yeah, that's exactly what I like, information out of context.
Just as much he argues the web is linear (click from one thing to the next, following structure), I can argue it's not (I can go hit my bookmarks at anytime, or jump somewhere randomly).
Frankly, unless he's built some kind of Improbability Drive into the thing I don't see how this is terribly new.
--GP
First, non-linear is rapidly becoming one of those psuedo-intellectual words I can't stand, joining the ranks of paradigm, post-modern, and psuedo-anything. Depending on scale and scope, nearly anything can be seen as either linear or non-linear. Euclid brought us non-linear geometry, Orson Welles brought us non-linear cinematography, now we have non-linear web browsing. Oh joy.
He didn't sound particularly new to the working world, just to these "job search engines". Hell, most of the freaking world uses Word.
Wait until you try on office politics - its not who you know, its who you blow, kiddo.
These cute little cliches posing as witticisms bug me. Unless you're a White House Intern, it's not about blowing, it's about networking.Sorry y'all, the only IP that I'm talking about comes after your 3 Martini lunch. This is a lesson we can learn from the suits... there's tremendous power in meeting other people and expanding the circle of people that you know/have met. Which do you think is more likely to get you a meaningful interview: Spamming a job search site or a new contact you met at your local IEEE meeting who you beamed your info to his Palm Pilot and oh-yeah-by-the-way-do-you-know-any-perl-because-a- friend-of-mine-is-putting-together-a-web -team-and-he-needs-a-perl-hacker? This will also help you keep tabs on what the latest in-demand buzzwords are, too.
Pick up a resume book, especially one that's printed this year and that targets IT. They talk about using keyword blocks, the HRIS equivalent of META tags. Apparently that's good enough to get you through round one of the draft... just make a little keyword block at the end and throw in all of the relevant buzzwords and acronyms you can think of. That way the computer (if there is one) gets everything that it needs and if it's a person then they'll ignore it because it's at the end anyway. Much more likely that it's a machine, though. I've never done this, having gotten all of my jobs through people who know people, but if you are going to start spamming companies it never hurts to talk to the machine directly. After all, you're an engineer, right? That's what you do...
--GPFunny, how would I contact the linux community if I needed to? :-)
(There is a linuxcommunity.org, but the're not running a web server right now).
This is an unusually bold move for MS, though... I can't remember a time when they've out and out stepped like this. What could they be thinking? They know they're going to get whupped.
I think they're hoping that we'll be so disorganized that we can't formulate a coherent response--a potential weakness.
Come on Linus, come on Alan!
--GP
*Reborn Penguin Zealot*
I wonder who owns the rights to Jimmy's visage? Does he have some sort of estate left?
Unrelated, that was one of the worst press releases I've read in recent memory. If I hear someone mention "branding" without reference to livestock, I'm going to quit my job and move to Arizona and live in the friggin desert. Fsck these boomers.
While reading (skimming) this discussion, I was disappointed to find no references about the key issue here: morality.I assume that most people would agree with me: killing anybody in this way, no matter who you are or what cause you represent, is wrong.(emphasis added)
If I may ask, what is the right way to kill people?
Do you support the death penalty? Is that the right way to kill people? What about bombing abortion clinics? Is that the right way to kill people?
Moral relativism is bunk. It's also boring. Take a stand.
I think this notion of the sanctity of life is a bunch of bullshit (those of you who've heard George Carlin on this topic will understand).
If everything that has lived before is now dead, and everything alive now is going to die, where does the sacred part come in? --Carlin.
I live in the UK and, although change is happening, it takes a very different form. The power of institutions is very much eroded and is often seen as an irrellevence to the "european" youth. The experience of living and working internationally, creating products for an international market and choosing which country and currency to have your bank account in is a liberating one; the internet is just one of the mechanisms used to make this happen. However language will always be a barrier to free movement, hence the highly intelligent are more free than the uneducated, regardless of computer knowhow.
What you've described isn't that much different from what's going on in the states. Political apathy among 20somethings is at an all time high. As for other institutions, such as The Media and Large Corporations, their influence is as pervasive as anywhere else... I will grant you that in Europe and the UK it's much easier to travel to other countries (maybe because they're all so tiny :-) ), but that's an economic reality that's true anywhere.
It also doesn't hurt that the UK has a system of higher education that does a good job of insulating students from reality, either.
--GP
The /. and Freshmeat cameos were listed in a sidebar as "alternative sites" (also listed was apache.org). Across the page from them was listed "Best web server: IIS 4.0"... then they referenced the sidebar with the a comment to the effect of 'If you don't want to be tied to MS, check out these alternative sites".
It's actually startling how much mindshare linux is getting these days... there were about 10 different references in the current issue, up from about nil last month. What next, an article in Windows magazine titled "Maybe IIS isn't for you"?
I've considered cancelling all of my dead tree subscriptions... every time I pick one up, it's usually old news that I read on the net, sometimes months ago (pefect example: the whole "Free PC" thing). If you want to play a fun game, track an item of news as it hits the mainstream media. The trail is usually something like this:
/. -> HotWired -> Wired (print) -> CNN or CNet TV ->PC Magazine
OK, maybe it's not all that much fun, but it does give you a certain sense of smug superiority when you can sit there and say "Oh yeah, I heard about that _months_ ago..."
--GP
What if there is no good? What if it's just evil vs. Evil?