Who is anyone kidding? Apart from IT and the costs of IT, labour is an area that is the most expensive for governments. How many people believe unionized labour provides the most value to the consumer - the tax paying public? Probably very few, yet goverments persist in using overpaid labour that are shielded by their unions for poor performance and threatens our services with job action.
Give me an example of any goverment that runs in a cost effective manner with customer care in the forefront - and I'll show you an area where people including me would pay top dollar to immigrate to.
I believe in the Open Source movement; however, one thing is for certain most people don't work for free. I don't, I'll be first to admit I do not share in some lofty idea that I would like to change the world for free. Like most, I'd rather make a pile of dough and change the world around me with that pile.
Apart from that rant, I'd like to say that there is a compromise here. What RMS does not state explicitly is that the point here is the.doc format is proprietary. One can save document from Word as an HTML file. It is free for Word users, and it saves them from the wrath of Open Source users. Clearly the thing to do is to include instructions on how to do a "Save As HTML" for the user. Of course those of you living in an Open Source vacuum probably would not know how to do this. From Office 2000, click on "File" and then select "Save As Web Page."
One final comment I'd like to make to all those Unix Admins, Unix Programmers, and Unix Whatevers out there. I find it pathetic that in search of a job you cannot find MS Word to just save a.doc of your resume to. I run Red Hat at home, and work with HPUX and AIX so I'm not just some Microsoft advocate. I believe in "use the best tool for the job at hand." If you want the job, just do what they want, why fight the system? Because they won't fight back, you just won't get the job.
The irony of course is that it took Microsoft to piss them enough to do this. So in fact Microsoft deserves credit no matter which one takes hold.
How many of you are guilty of re-using your passwords on various sites. All it takes is one of those sites to be stupid and store your password in plaintext somewhere. As soon as someone gets ahold of it, just build a spider that tries your login on every site that requires one.
If joeblow.com gets compromised, maybe I won't find out until something odd shows up. Whereas if Passport or the new thing gets broken into, I'm sure sparks will fly.
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The best form of urban transportation truly is cheap. If you need to spend money to make it feel more "right", donate $4000 to a charity and begin using this technical marvell. All you need to do is put one foot in front of the other. Think forwards, and you'll move forwards, think stop and you'll stop. You can even go in reverse and turn on a dime!
I walk to and from work each workday. I walk to pickup my groceries, pick up my laundry, go grab dinner, etc. Just like the visionary at Segway, I have a car for trips to the airport and when I visit my friends who live in suburbia.
I've been in IT for 10 years, no old timer but I do have a good cross section of jobs to draw upon to comment on this post.
I've been a sys admin, sales engineer, developer, infrastructure architect, dba, and code librarian. Every job that I have been at I have interacted with those within and outside of my department. This extends past the simple 5-9 (or is it 9-5? nah...) grind. I have close friendships that I have formed along the way, and above all wherever I work I intend to have fun! And I do, I've drunken into a stupor many a time. And I'm not just talking about the Christmas Party.
This is a stereotype that is actually very inaccurate. If you live in a social vacuum I suggest you immediately down a bottle of Vodka (or two for good measure) and engage in intelligent conversation with all in your company.
Just thinking from a logical sense, if you are willing to work for an idiot, what does that make the worker? I chose to not work for idiots by interviewing my interviewers when being interviewed for my job. A company who is serious about hiring quality staff, and a commitment to not become a episode of Dilbert will comprehend my serious questions as to management and how I would fit in at the potential employer. I am proud to say that I have only worked for one idiot, and as soon as that idiot was hired, I expressed that it was him or me. They chose him, no loss...there are plenty of jobs out there.
Of course the opportunity here is for somebody to create a "Academy of Internet Motion Pictures" Of course rejecting films NOT screened on the web first would be up to whoever starts this thing. In fact, instead of this "secret" vote by members of the Academy, voting should be open to the Internet...you know, the actual consumers of the films and not these "experts".
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Who is anyone kidding? Apart from IT and the costs of IT, labour is an area that is the most expensive for governments. How many people believe unionized labour provides the most value to the consumer - the tax paying public? Probably very few, yet goverments persist in using overpaid labour that are shielded by their unions for poor performance and threatens our services with job action.
Give me an example of any goverment that runs in a cost effective manner with customer care in the forefront - and I'll show you an area where people including me would pay top dollar to immigrate to.
I believe in the Open Source movement; however, one thing is for certain most people don't work for free. I don't, I'll be first to admit I do not share in some lofty idea that I would like to change the world for free. Like most, I'd rather make a pile of dough and change the world around me with that pile.
.doc format is proprietary. One can save document from Word as an HTML file. It is free for Word users, and it saves them from the wrath of Open Source users. Clearly the thing to do is to include instructions on how to do a "Save As HTML" for the user. Of course those of you living in an Open Source vacuum probably would not know how to do this. From Office 2000, click on "File" and then select "Save As Web Page."
.doc of your resume to. I run Red Hat at home, and work with HPUX and AIX so I'm not just some Microsoft advocate. I believe in "use the best tool for the job at hand." If you want the job, just do what they want, why fight the system? Because they won't fight back, you just won't get the job.
Apart from that rant, I'd like to say that there is a compromise here. What RMS does not state explicitly is that the point here is the
One final comment I'd like to make to all those Unix Admins, Unix Programmers, and Unix Whatevers out there. I find it pathetic that in search of a job you cannot find MS Word to just save a
The irony of course is that it took Microsoft to piss them enough to do this. So in fact Microsoft deserves credit no matter which one takes hold.
How many of you are guilty of re-using your passwords on various sites. All it takes is one of those sites to be stupid and store your password in plaintext somewhere. As soon as someone gets ahold of it, just build a spider that tries your login on every site that requires one.
If joeblow.com gets compromised, maybe I won't find out until something odd shows up. Whereas if Passport or the new thing gets broken into, I'm sure sparks will fly.
The best form of urban transportation truly is cheap. If you need to spend money to make it feel more "right", donate $4000 to a charity and begin using this technical marvell. All you need to do is put one foot in front of the other. Think forwards, and you'll move forwards, think stop and you'll stop. You can even go in reverse and turn on a dime!
I walk to and from work each workday. I walk to pickup my groceries, pick up my laundry, go grab dinner, etc. Just like the visionary at Segway, I have a car for trips to the airport and when I visit my friends who live in suburbia.
I've been in IT for 10 years, no old timer but I do have a good cross section of jobs to draw upon to comment on this post.
I've been a sys admin, sales engineer, developer, infrastructure architect, dba, and code librarian. Every job that I have been at I have interacted with those within and outside of my department. This extends past the simple 5-9 (or is it 9-5? nah...) grind. I have close friendships that I have formed along the way, and above all wherever I work I intend to have fun! And I do, I've drunken into a stupor many a time. And I'm not just talking about the Christmas Party.
This is a stereotype that is actually very inaccurate. If you live in a social vacuum I suggest you immediately down a bottle of Vodka (or two for good measure) and engage in intelligent conversation with all in your company.
Just thinking from a logical sense, if you are willing to work for an idiot, what does that make the worker? I chose to not work for idiots by interviewing my interviewers when being interviewed for my job. A company who is serious about hiring quality staff, and a commitment to not become a episode of Dilbert will comprehend my serious questions as to management and how I would fit in at the potential employer. I am proud to say that I have only worked for one idiot, and as soon as that idiot was hired, I expressed that it was him or me. They chose him, no loss...there are plenty of jobs out there.
Of course the opportunity here is for somebody to create a "Academy of Internet Motion Pictures" Of course rejecting films NOT screened on the web first would be up to whoever starts this thing. In fact, instead of this "secret" vote by members of the Academy, voting should be open to the Internet...you know, the actual consumers of the films and not these "experts".