I was diagnosed with CTS a LONG time before it was fashionable, and even before I got into a keyboard-centric career. It was in high school, and periodically I would experience numbness in my fingers and that sensation of my hands falling asleep. My doctor (back in the late '70's) gave me a list of things to try before falling back on surgury...
1. While keyboard work can complicate CTS, it's not *neccessarily* a direct cause. I've lived with CTS a LONG time, asymptomatic, by being careful. I use those geeky pads that sit at the bottom of your keyboard to help boost my hands up a bit, and that seems to do the trick for me.
2. Driving (a lot of driving) is actually harder on your carpal tunnel than keyboard work. Resting your wrists on the steering wheel is very bad for CTS. Again, I know it sounds stupid, but use the old "10 O'Clock and 2 O'Clock" steering wheel holding method, and you'll reduce the stress on your wrists. This is a technique where one actually HOLDS the steering wheel (yes, with your hands!) at a comfortable distance. When you sit down in your car and grab the steering wheel, note how close you are to the wheel and how "bent" your wrists are in order to hold the wheel. Try to straiten your wrists as much as possible.
3. Develop good habits where you keep your wrists as strait as possible, when writing typing or driving. Extreme and extended bending of the wrists aggravates CTS.
4. Finally, try getting wrists splints and sleep with them on. I did this for about six months, it's not something you have to do the rest of your life -- just until your symptoms go away.
For me, the CTS got worse when I was a Domino's Pizza driver (back in the early '80's) than anytime later when I actually worked at a keyboard. Changing my driving habits and using the wrist splints at night virtually eliminated my CTS symptoms. I still have to be careful, but I don't have to live with the symptoms every day.
My mother is a data control type person (operator) who had it much worse and ended up getting the surgury. She could barely drive for six months and it took years for her to recover her full wrist strength. She had the surgury in the heydays of the '80s "fix it with drugs or surgury" phenominon. She later confessed that she wished her doctor had recommended other threatments first rather than just going strait under the knife.
Standard Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. Before persuing a treatment plan, you should consult with your physician. Etc. Etc.
Right, what's at issue here is export and carrying (e.g. on your notebook), not posession.
Also, a friend of mine who works for a defense contractor who does, in fact, have a license to carry munitions overseas told me that once you get it, you lose many freedoms; e.g. you can no longer travel to certain countries, even personal, etc. 'Course, in his case he designs missiles so I guess the issue is a lot less academic for his case.
>To protect against this, I've been reflexually >registering domain names left and right which >have anything to do with my work. This is >annoying, time consuming, and >expensive
And so is running a small business!
Reflexually registering any domain names which have anything to do with your work is a lot different than registering the domain name that is your company name -- what did Avery Dennison think, that they could save the $100 and just let their domain name sit idly until they got around to paying for it?
Come on, if they wanted to protect the name under the.net TLD, they should have back when they registered their.com. addres back in 1996? Or perhaps anytime since?
It does look bad for them that avery.com was registered in 1996, showing that they recognized the importance of their trademark back then, yet didn't get around to recognizing the importance of the.net TLD until 2 years later?
I've seen a few comments about "I want to own some Red Hat stock" --- well, guys; bear in mind what you're being qualified for is the IPO, not the stock. Anybody who has a trading account with any broker can place a market order to buy as soon as they are trading. Sure, you won't get the IPO price -- but you will get some stock, if you really want it. And if you planned to buy cheaep at the IPO and then sell on the first big swing, that's why they don't want you to participate anyway...
I was born in '63 (June), so I don't directly recall his father's death, or the historic "salute".
However, I found myself this week grieving JFK Jr.'s death more than I thought I should, and I couldn't figure out why until I read this article.
Certainly I feel a certain sadness for his family's loss. But, aside from he being the first really "famous" person from my generation, I had almost no inate connection to him or his politics or life's aspirations until his death. I never read George.
But still, I could not put my finger on why I felt so badly about his death, until it struck me after reading this: I get those pangs of grief whenever I see one of those techno-images: John-John saluting his father's casket is probably the most powerful one. But I think it's even been brought out that he didn't even remember those times, only through people telling him about it later.
What bothers me the most about it, in retrospect, is that I no longer have any control over it. The media pushes these powerful images into my field of vision in very pervasive ways. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not one of those "Aliens are transmitting secret messages into my brain" kooks. But what bothers me is, even if I turned off my computer and T.V., there were even billboards around Chicagoloand advertising one paper's or another T.V. New Network's coverage of the "tragedy." News stands between here and work had placards in big letters shouting "JFK, Jr. -- 1960 - 1999" There was no escaping this media event.
I'm not suggesting that we all become nutty kooks denouncing media and boycotting this and that. But I think that we need to take a very hard look at what we allow ourselves to be sucked into. In retrospect, I have no more reason to feel worse about JFK Jr.'s death than anyone else in the public eye. It's just how the media has presented it that has made my experience of it different. And, I realize now that if I don't want to be manipulated, I'm going to need to get my head clear and figure out what I'm going to do about it.
Yeah! Shame on them for needing two incomes to pay the rent, and put food on the table!
If they weren't so interested in having a roof over the kid's head, maybe they'd realize that mom would do fine entertaining him in their cardboard box.
But, my point is to "anonymize" the registered e-mail address, which seems to be the pivotal point.
For instance, if I offer a free, no ID no questions asked e-mail account with a limit of two messages per month (in or out), with the understanding that my "customer" will use his/her e-mail ID to sign up for a Yahoo! chat account.
THEN, after they sign up and get their confirmed Yahoo! ID, they can post all they want on Yahoo. I have no control over what they post on Yahoo, and they're not using their e-mail address to post; they're using Yahoo's interface and their own ISP connection. The isolated, non-traceable e-mail address I gave them was just used to sign up for and verify their "identity" on Yahoo.
I've noticed that many other chat pages do basically the same thing -- give us a valid email address, and you're OK by us to post.
OK, How about this: someone sets up a web-based service that offers an e-mail address, with no questions asked. Some services already come close, but most still require basic identification. What if there were a site that didn't even require that? Then, your Yahoo! ID could be faked, and the e-mail address you provide to sign up would be untraceable.
Take it one better; put the server itself virtual-hosted overseas.
I've thought about this very kind of service myself. I have no idea what the legal ramifications are, assuming that getting past some of the technical issues (e.g. preventing spam) are surmountable.
I had a problem early on with the links supplied to Amazon, but now I think I'm OK with it. Overall, I think that the reviews are fair (I mean, what can you say about reviewing Linux books anyway - they're all good...) and I can understand why a site that doesn't charge anything and has minimal advertising needs to try to grab whatever they can.
Hope I don't get a neg for this, but my plug would be for bookpool.com. Great prices on ORA stuff, quick shipping, Linux friendly. I wish they offered the same deal to linking sites as Amazon does, but I guess that's why they're cheaper. Oh well.
I know that this is now 12 days later and I never saw this reply, but for the record: What I don't want Deja collecting is what the article says they are collecting: surf habits, article postings, news groups you belong to, etc. That's far more valuable consumer data than my personal web page offers, which is all basically public record anyway.
HAH! Reminds me of stories I had in college. One guy thought "bottom up" programming was a derogetory term applied to a programmer with his head up his arse.
Another guy I met wanted some help with programming in "DOSE"... he kept saying "DOSE", just like that. Took me a while to figure out he needed help with Basic in DOS.
Let's see... then there was the Math teacher they shoved into a Basic class (back in the '80's, sorry) that didn't know how arrays worked or why someone would need them. She actually abdicated the class to me for a week because the school told her she had to spend a week on Arrays, but I was the only person in the school (at least taking that lame class) who knew how they were applied.
Let me say at the outset that I've been out of high school since 1981.
Back then, I was a geek. I think I was just lucky, though... it was a little different going to high school in Seattle. While geeks were outcasts from the Jock and Socialite point of view, we still were an easy 20% of the overall school population. It's hard to feel sorry for yourself sitting in the "geek" section of the cafeteria when you're sitting there with 300 other geeks. Actually, I think that the "outsiders" and loners at my H.S. outnumbered the Jocks, at the very least. So, while no one really liked us, exclusion wasn't an issue for a group that had more clubs and "owned more turf" on campus than some of the more self-indulged groups.
I guess I was blind to how bad it can be.
That blindness is what I now fear as a new parent. I've got a few more years before I have to worry about it, but I now live in a much more uptight city in a school district that makes outsiders feel like the kids I read in Katz' article. I like Chicago, and I don't want to move back to Seattle just for a better high school (hell, it's probably changed anyway). I just hope I can offer my son the guidance he'll need to make it through.
I loved the RedHat comment that if Mindcraft had called RedHat PR, they would have had the tuning staff.
I have a great idea. Let's benchmark installing NT 4 against Linux. What we'll do is arrange, in advance, for some Linux gurus to show up to install Linux on our test box.
Then, we'll shoot a call in to Microsoft front-line tech support and ask them to send over an NT guru to install NT 4 for us.
I bet the MS guy will laugh about as hard as the RedHat tech support guy laughed when Mindcraft made the same request of him.
Then we'll publish results that the NT product wouldn't even jump out of the shrinkwrap on it's own, but the Linux installation went flawlessly in 30 minutes.
Heh heh, I really wish someone would do it, and publish it.
What if you've been a programmer for, say, ten years and you wrote a ton of reusable code at the beginning of your career, and now you're just reaping those benefits and plugging in code?
Another good poll would be "How fast do you turn around new development projects?" Would have to be delimited by user spec to 1st alpha or something since true rapid prototype and re-users never have "final" product code...
Rob you hit it directly on the head. When I hear LucasFilm now, I picture in my head "Big Spontaneous Popular Picture Company, Inc." and their marketing talking heads trying to figure out how to re-orchestrate something that happened naturally a long time ago.
I admit that Lucas is / was very skilled and will even conscede that the first three were no flukes, but on the other hand... come on! It's only a movie, it's not life.
The Lucas/Fox theatre rules remind me of that anal radio station head in "Good Morning, Vietnam." What were the final words his CO told him, "You're just mean. It's only radio." I think Lucas needs a good slap from Andy Sipewitz about now.
We used to call this "burnout"...
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So the late-twentieth-century $200K+ technology generation is facing it's first burnout. Wow, kinda dates me, I guess. I've forgotten more burnouts I've had than some people I know remember.
I guess eventually you learn to pace yourself and get more out of life. There really is longevity, stability, and personal life in this biz, you just have to know where to find it and you have to really want it once you do find it. Most people I know right now don't want it.
It was a good read, but in the immortal words of Roger Daltry, "This is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you..."
...As the Article points out, AOL is not the Red Cross, soup kitchen, church, mission, or school. It is also not a free software project or a free web site. It is a for-profit operation that otherwise charges people for access unless you agree to work for them.
Since Slashdot does not charge for access to it's web site, or any other "user fee" whatsoever, there's little parallel. Nor is the Free Software project in any danger, unless they are anywhere near making a profit (yeah, right).
Comparing Slashdot and other free and volunteer ventures to what AOL does for money is not a fair comparison, and I'm sure that none of these ventures are in any trouble.
I feel for you, brother. I'm at the other end of the spectrum - 29" inseam, I'm 5'7" tall. Haven't worn a pair of Dockers off the rack my whole life. Always gotta send 'em to the tailor first.
In reply to the others about attire, I work at one of the largest Investment Banking firms in the world (not just US), and we're casual here. Not just casual as in "yeah, you're a geek - you're allowed to wear that" but casual as in everyone from Management on down is in jeans and sneakers. Dress up day is Dockers, and I don't think we could have a casual day without violating some Chicago ordinance.
There's not always a need to dress up to make yourself, or your employer, feel better about you. My employer likes me for my technical, not my social skills.
Hate to be a "me too", but this is the same everywhere. Think of Intel as a franchise, rather than a product. Really, that's what it is -- a computer manufacturer decides to sell Intel products, or they don't. If they decide to base their product line on Intel products, they get some baggage with that. It's no different than a pizza joint deciding to franchise with Domino's.
Where advocacy is needed is not here. We need advocacy at the mfr/seller or reseller level; let them know that we want options (if we do.) Demand AMD products! Or whoever.
"Microsoft stock fell sharply this morning in brisk trading on ill-fated rumors that it was the 'yet unnamed' source of litigation against several web sites. Although there is no legal precedent or even advantage for targets of litigation to withold the names of aggressors, these sites set up April Fools schemes involving alleged lawsuits by 'unnamed' companies that most Linux advocates assumed to be Microsoft."
"Upon realization of the prank, traders brought Microsoft stock briskly back into the black, and it's currently trading at about 2.5 points above it's open."
Slashdot Mirror
I have patented being a Norwegan Company (tm). digi.no, take note!
:-)
I was diagnosed with CTS a LONG time before it was fashionable, and even before I got into a keyboard-centric career. It was in high school, and periodically I would experience numbness in my fingers and that sensation of my hands falling asleep. My doctor (back in the late '70's) gave me a list of things to try before falling back on surgury...
1. While keyboard work can complicate CTS, it's not *neccessarily* a direct cause. I've lived with CTS a LONG time, asymptomatic, by being careful. I use those geeky pads that sit at the bottom of your keyboard to help boost my hands up a bit, and that seems to do the trick for me.
2. Driving (a lot of driving) is actually harder on your carpal tunnel than keyboard work. Resting your wrists on the steering wheel is very bad for CTS. Again, I know it sounds stupid, but use the old "10 O'Clock and 2 O'Clock" steering wheel holding method, and you'll reduce the stress on your wrists. This is a technique where one actually HOLDS the steering wheel (yes, with your hands!) at a comfortable distance. When you sit down in your car and grab the steering wheel, note how close you are to the wheel and how "bent" your wrists are in order to hold the wheel. Try to straiten your wrists as much as possible.
3. Develop good habits where you keep your wrists as strait as possible, when writing typing or driving. Extreme and extended bending of the wrists aggravates CTS.
4. Finally, try getting wrists splints and sleep with them on. I did this for about six months, it's not something you have to do the rest of your life -- just until your symptoms go away.
For me, the CTS got worse when I was a Domino's Pizza driver (back in the early '80's) than anytime later when I actually worked at a keyboard. Changing my driving habits and using the wrist splints at night virtually eliminated my CTS symptoms. I still have to be careful, but I don't have to live with the symptoms every day.
My mother is a data control type person (operator) who had it much worse and ended up getting the surgury. She could barely drive for six months and it took years for her to recover her full wrist strength. She had the surgury in the heydays of the '80s "fix it with drugs or surgury" phenominon. She later confessed that she wished her doctor had recommended other threatments first rather than just going strait under the knife.
Standard Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. Before persuing a treatment plan, you should consult with your physician. Etc. Etc.
Right, what's at issue here is export and carrying (e.g. on your notebook), not posession.
Also, a friend of mine who works for a defense contractor who does, in fact, have a license to carry munitions overseas told me that once you get it, you lose many freedoms; e.g. you can no longer travel to certain countries, even personal, etc. 'Course, in his case he designs missiles so I guess the issue is a lot less academic for his case.
>To protect against this, I've been reflexually
.net TLD, they should have back when they registered their .com. addres back in 1996? Or perhaps anytime since?
.net TLD until 2 years later?
>registering domain names left and right which
>have anything to do with my work. This is
>annoying, time consuming, and
>expensive
And so is running a small business!
Reflexually registering any domain names which have anything to do with your work is a lot different than registering the domain name that is your company name -- what did Avery Dennison think, that they could save the $100 and just let their domain name sit idly until they got around to paying for it?
Come on, if they wanted to protect the name under the
It does look bad for them that avery.com was registered in 1996, showing that they recognized the importance of their trademark back then, yet didn't get around to recognizing the importance of the
I've seen a few comments about "I want to own some Red Hat stock" --- well, guys; bear in mind what you're being qualified for is the IPO, not the stock. Anybody who has a trading account with any broker can place a market order to buy as soon as they are trading. Sure, you won't get the IPO price -- but you will get some stock, if you really want it. And if you planned to buy cheaep at the IPO and then sell on the first big swing, that's why they don't want you to participate anyway...
I was born in '63 (June), so I don't directly recall his father's death, or the historic "salute".
However, I found myself this week grieving JFK Jr.'s death more than I thought I should, and I couldn't figure out why until I read this article.
Certainly I feel a certain sadness for his family's loss. But, aside from he being the first really "famous" person from my generation, I had almost no inate connection to him or his politics or life's aspirations until his death. I never read George.
But still, I could not put my finger on why I felt so badly about his death, until it struck me after reading this: I get those pangs of grief whenever I see one of those techno-images: John-John saluting his father's casket is probably the most powerful one. But I think it's even been brought out that he didn't even remember those times, only through people telling him about it later.
What bothers me the most about it, in retrospect, is that I no longer have any control over it. The media pushes these powerful images into my field of vision in very pervasive ways. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not one of those "Aliens are transmitting secret messages into my brain" kooks. But what bothers me is, even if I turned off my computer and T.V., there were even billboards around Chicagoloand advertising one paper's or another T.V. New Network's coverage of the "tragedy." News stands between here and work had placards in big letters shouting "JFK, Jr. -- 1960 - 1999" There was no escaping this media event.
I'm not suggesting that we all become nutty kooks denouncing media and boycotting this and that. But I think that we need to take a very hard look at what we allow ourselves to be sucked into. In retrospect, I have no more reason to feel worse about JFK Jr.'s death than anyone else in the public eye. It's just how the media has presented it that has made my experience of it different.
And, I realize now that if I don't want to be manipulated, I'm going to need to get my head clear and figure out what I'm going to do about it.
Yeah! Shame on them for needing two incomes to pay the rent, and put food on the table!
If they weren't so interested in having a roof over the kid's head, maybe they'd realize that mom would do fine entertaining him in their cardboard box.
Yeah, me too. As parents, several of us at work are picturing how today would be going for the parents:
1. Talk to kid about event.
2. Find new day care by tonight.
3. Call attorney.
But, anyway -- scary but funny story. Anyone who has a toddler is shaking off the heebies right now.
Yea! We must be vigilant.
But let us not becometh "Knee Jerks".
But, my point is to "anonymize" the registered e-mail address, which seems to be the pivotal point.
For instance, if I offer a free, no ID no questions asked e-mail account with a limit of two messages per month (in or out), with the understanding that my "customer" will use his/her e-mail ID to sign up for a Yahoo! chat account.
THEN, after they sign up and get their confirmed Yahoo! ID, they can post all they want on Yahoo. I have no control over what they post on Yahoo, and they're not using their e-mail address to post; they're using Yahoo's interface and their own ISP connection. The isolated, non-traceable e-mail address I gave them was just used to sign up for and verify their "identity" on Yahoo.
I've noticed that many other chat pages do basically the same thing -- give us a valid email address, and you're OK by us to post.
OK, How about this: someone sets up a web-based service that offers an e-mail address, with no questions asked. Some services already come close, but most still require basic identification. What if there were a site that didn't even require that? Then, your Yahoo! ID could be faked, and the e-mail address you provide to sign up would be untraceable.
Take it one better; put the server itself virtual-hosted overseas.
I've thought about this very kind of service myself. I have no idea what the legal ramifications are, assuming that getting past some of the technical issues (e.g. preventing spam) are surmountable.
Any comments?
I had a problem early on with the links supplied to Amazon, but now I think I'm OK with it. Overall, I think that the reviews are fair (I mean, what can you say about reviewing Linux books anyway - they're all good...) and I can understand why a site that doesn't charge anything and has minimal advertising needs to try to grab whatever they can.
Hope I don't get a neg for this, but my plug would be for bookpool.com. Great prices on ORA stuff, quick shipping, Linux friendly. I wish they offered the same deal to linking sites as Amazon does, but I guess that's why they're cheaper. Oh well.
Good review, I'll probably get the book.
I know that this is now 12 days later and I never saw this reply, but for the record: What I don't want Deja collecting is what the article says they are collecting: surf habits, article postings, news groups you belong to, etc. That's far more valuable consumer data than my personal web page offers, which is all basically public record anyway.
HAH! Reminds me of stories I had in college. One guy thought "bottom up" programming was a derogetory term applied to a programmer with his head up his arse.
Another guy I met wanted some help with programming in "DOSE"... he kept saying "DOSE", just like that. Took me a while to figure out he needed help with Basic in DOS.
Let's see... then there was the Math teacher they shoved into a Basic class (back in the '80's, sorry) that didn't know how arrays worked or why someone would need them. She actually abdicated the class to me for a week because the school told her she had to spend a week on Arrays, but I was the only person in the school (at least taking that lame class) who knew how they were applied.
I've read all the arguments: everyone does this, people can get the information other ways, the information isn't useful anyway.
Not with my Deja account, they don't.
I just deleted my Deja Community, and sent Deja instructions to delete my email account and my profile.
Deja needs to be slapped.
Let me say at the outset that I've been out of high school since 1981.
Back then, I was a geek. I think I was just lucky, though... it was a little different going to high school in Seattle. While geeks were outcasts from the Jock and Socialite point of view, we still were an easy 20% of the overall school population. It's hard to feel sorry for yourself sitting in the "geek" section of the cafeteria when you're sitting there with 300 other geeks. Actually, I think that the "outsiders" and loners at my H.S. outnumbered the Jocks, at the very least. So, while no one really liked us, exclusion wasn't an issue for a group that had more clubs and "owned more turf" on campus than some of the more self-indulged groups.
I guess I was blind to how bad it can be.
That blindness is what I now fear as a new parent. I've got a few more years before I have to worry about it, but I now live in a much more uptight city in a school district that makes outsiders feel like the kids I read in Katz' article. I like Chicago, and I don't want to move back to Seattle just for a better high school (hell, it's probably changed anyway). I just hope I can offer my son the guidance he'll need to make it through.
I'll second that! (And not just because I'm sitting 10 feet from Rich, and he's a good shot. :-)
It took me since last August to get two domains and one handle set with the correct addresses since I moved.
Pay less? Hell, I'd pay more to get better service. Get the messages registrars: IT'S NOT THE MONEY. It's how you treat us.
I loved the RedHat comment that if Mindcraft had called RedHat PR, they would have had the tuning staff.
I have a great idea. Let's benchmark installing NT 4 against Linux. What we'll do is arrange, in advance, for some Linux gurus to show up to install Linux on our test box.
Then, we'll shoot a call in to Microsoft front-line tech support and ask them to send over an NT guru to install NT 4 for us.
I bet the MS guy will laugh about as hard as the RedHat tech support guy laughed when Mindcraft made the same request of him.
Then we'll publish results that the NT product wouldn't even jump out of the shrinkwrap on it's own, but the Linux installation went flawlessly in 30 minutes.
Heh heh, I really wish someone would do it, and publish it.
What if you've been a programmer for, say, ten years and you wrote a ton of reusable code at the beginning of your career, and now you're just reaping those benefits and plugging in code?
Another good poll would be "How fast do you turn around new development projects?" Would have to be delimited by user spec to 1st alpha or something since true rapid prototype and re-users never have "final" product code...
Rob you hit it directly on the head. When I hear LucasFilm now, I picture in my head "Big Spontaneous Popular Picture Company, Inc." and their marketing talking heads trying to figure out how to re-orchestrate something that happened naturally a long time ago.
I admit that Lucas is / was very skilled and will even conscede that the first three were no flukes, but on the other hand... come on! It's only a movie, it's not life.
The Lucas/Fox theatre rules remind me of that anal radio station head in "Good Morning, Vietnam." What were the final words his CO told him, "You're just mean. It's only radio." I think Lucas needs a good slap from Andy Sipewitz about now.
So the late-twentieth-century $200K+ technology generation is facing it's first burnout. Wow, kinda dates me, I guess. I've forgotten more burnouts I've had than some people I know remember.
I guess eventually you learn to pace yourself and get more out of life. There really is longevity, stability, and personal life in this biz, you just have to know where to find it and you have to really want it once you do find it. Most people I know right now don't want it.
It was a good read, but in the immortal words of Roger Daltry, "This is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you..."
...As the Article points out, AOL is not the Red Cross, soup kitchen, church, mission, or school. It is also not a free software project or a free web site. It is a for-profit operation that otherwise charges people for access unless you agree to work for them.
Since Slashdot does not charge for access to it's web site, or any other "user fee" whatsoever, there's little parallel. Nor is the Free Software project in any danger, unless they are anywhere near making a profit (yeah, right).
Comparing Slashdot and other free and volunteer ventures to what AOL does for money is not a fair comparison, and I'm sure that none of these ventures are in any trouble.
Otis,
I feel for you, brother. I'm at the other end of the spectrum - 29" inseam, I'm 5'7" tall. Haven't worn a pair of Dockers off the rack my whole life. Always gotta send 'em to the tailor first.
In reply to the others about attire, I work at one of the largest Investment Banking firms in the world (not just US), and we're casual here. Not just casual as in "yeah, you're a geek - you're allowed to wear that" but casual as in everyone from Management on down is in jeans and sneakers. Dress up day is Dockers, and I don't think we could have a casual day without violating some Chicago ordinance.
There's not always a need to dress up to make yourself, or your employer, feel better about you. My employer likes me for my technical, not my social skills.
Hate to be a "me too", but this is the same everywhere. Think of Intel as a franchise, rather than a product. Really, that's what it is -- a computer manufacturer decides to sell Intel products, or they don't. If they decide to base their product line on Intel products, they get some baggage with that. It's no different than a pizza joint deciding to franchise with Domino's.
Where advocacy is needed is not here. We need advocacy at the mfr/seller or reseller level; let them know that we want options (if we do.) Demand AMD products! Or whoever.
I can see the CNNfn story now...
:-)
"Microsoft stock fell sharply this morning in brisk trading on ill-fated rumors that it was the 'yet unnamed' source of litigation against several web sites. Although there is no legal precedent or even advantage for targets of litigation to withold the names of aggressors, these sites set up April Fools schemes involving alleged lawsuits by 'unnamed' companies that most Linux advocates assumed to be Microsoft."
"Upon realization of the prank, traders brought Microsoft stock briskly back into the black, and it's currently trading at about 2.5 points above it's open."
Any alternate theories?