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You forgot:
At least one of the kids will be dressed in a soccer uniform
The mother will have just-above-shoulder-length blond hair
She will emerge from the grocery store with three baskets of groceries having just charged over $800 to her platinum card and not even blinking
She works at a desk covered with picture frames and stuffed animals, has never been laid off, and has no real job responsibilities except to make copies of holiday party announcements on colored paper.
Her husband has even fewer job responsibilities, but works at a desk that cost more than the car and spends all of his time in meetings or talking to "Bob" and makes about $3/minute.
From a default install, get IIS (any version) to run a CGI script written in Python in less than 15 minutes with no reboots.
It's just like setting up networking in Win9x: you could be the world's greatest expert in it, but it WILL NOT WORK on the first reboot, no matter WHAT you do. It will take multiple restarts, multiple reboots, and the first attempt WILL fail, that and every subsequent attempt reading the same group of files from the CD-ROM, of course.
OTOH, in Apache, because there is some logic to the system, it is more likely to work the first time and as an added bonus, there aren't any reboots.
It would never occur to me to run IIS for any kind of web server or web development. Too much wasted time.
Eventually the dissenting states will be forced to give up the fight because they simply can't afford the up-front cost of litigation.
There are states in this suit with annual budgets that dwarf Microsoft's assets. Microsoft has a lot of money, sure, and they have a lot of annual revenue from sales, but it doesn't even begin to compare to the amounts of money state governments have available.
Note: I'm not all that happy states have all that money either, since it all comes from higher taxes...
For the average Joe (i.e. someone who isn't apt-get'ing tonnes of MB a night) $40 a month just for the broadband service is a lot of cash.
eh, not really.. the average Joe makes a $300 car payment. the average Joe drops $1800/month on a mortgage/apartment. $40 isn't very much money at all.
Microsoft owns the start page, the defaults, the windowing environment, and the content standards. It turns out they also own the traffic, the audience management, and if you're watching closely what they're doing with Windows Media, they're going to force you to pay licenses to show your own content on-line.
..and they're not the only ones. Seems royalties are due often when a particular codec is used to make or even use a digital video file for a business. Yes, DivX too.
Now, I'm sure most companies would buy a product to make digital videos with a particular codec, but the thought of writing a check to a third party in order to use a particular file format seems just a bit much, especially when the contents of that file are 100% owned by that company.
"huge departure" it always raises a question mark. Why? What's wrong with the original version? If it was good enough for nine sequels, why change it into something else? Why not a completely new game?
Oh, wait. I forgot. There ARE NO NEW GAMES, only SEQUELS AND CLONES, and if you can make one game into BOTH A SEQUEL AND A CLONE, then you've achieved the ultimate in marketing.
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It's a crying shame when people who work for the same company can't even talk to each other. Just another in a long, winding list of the internal problems with the "corporate culture"
Anyone catch this gem on the right side panel:
"stall long enough and the arguments become mute"
sigh... on second thought, let's *start* with the school system and fix business later.
Sure, but it wasn't made in Hollywood. That's what I mean. If it isn't the 87th remake of some 60s or 70s television show (clone), some canned comedy or flimsy drama (clone), or licensed from a book (licensed clone), or a sequel to one of these, it doesn't get made.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's success is just further proof that more is possible, and it didn't cost eleventy-trillion dollars either.
One. ONE decent memorable character. ONE good storyline that wasn't licensed from a book. (Notice where the REALLY good movies come from?) ONE skillful use of setting, or non-canned music, or silence, or symbolism, or metaphor.
All the money in Hollywood, and NONE OF THESE THINGS can be produced, apparently.
But they can spend NINE FIGURES on CG!! Oh, sure. No problem.
Funny. The game industry is trying desperately to be Hollywood, and Hollywood is trying frantically to be the game industry.
Maybe instead of the THX thing, they'll put up a sign that says:
I especially liked the part about how "we're not sitting around fat dumb and happy... we're building better products and taking care of our customers..."
Really? Gee. I just spent two hours trying to work around a bug in IE 5 that has gone unresolved (according to MS's web site) for almost three years, and that displays graphics in a div element TOTALLY WRONG.
Couldn't work around it, so we're only about 90% right on IE. Who knows what happens on other Win* platforms...
...naturally, Mozilla 0.9.6 nailed it ice-cold perfect, first try...
First you can't get the job, then some (usually incompetent) manager decides one day they don't like you anymore and you're back looking again.
No second chance. No recourse. No way to pick up the pieces. Credit destroyed (again). Savings gone. Another three-month job on the resume. Next company always hesitant: not sure if you're "reliable" enough. Bills due, past due, late, delinquent... Start over. Again, and again, and again...
Put your degree at the end of the resume. Those years in college don't matter. Only experience matters. Move your experience at these three companies over here, because those don't count either. Oh, and don't list these projects, because that's the wrong platform, and those projects are the wrong language. So, here's your one-page, one-job, no-education resume which is supposed to show you have four years experience. Now, go get that job!
Didn't people have careers at one point? I seem to remember stories long ago of people who worked for years at the same company and didn't walk around in constant fear of being fired for no apparent reason.
Every IT job seems to start a clock the moment you are handed your W-4, and it is only a matter of time before the whining starts and everyone starts updating resumes.
Can't make any progress this way. Companies that whine about not being able to make any money ought to spend a couple of minutes looking at how much it costs to have an 85% turnover rate. Of course, what do they care? As long as they can keep the paychecks coming, they don't have to actually produce anything.
Ever notice how the plant-watering, stuffed-animal-decorated-desk-occupying, ALWAYS recently newlywed (usually female), picture frame surrounded HR types NEVER EVER EVER EVER want for a salary, or a new car, or a decade+ of gainful employment, even though they only spend three of every eight hours AT that desk, and can't tell the difference between there their and they're?
Do the IT people ever get that? Or are we rather making sure we don't leave anything valuable at work because our keycard might not work tomorrow?
I put in seven years learning numerous programming languages/platforms, etc. Four years of web development (server-side, mainly) Four years of Linux. Two years of Perl. Year of C++. Employers could care less. All wasted time. It's never enough. More, more, more.
How these columnists just wet themselves in the rush to declare something "dead?"
This is the same columnist who used to anchor the group of "Bob the office guy" columnists at PC Magazine with gems like "if you don't have a 21-inch monitor, then your PC is worthless."
Easy to say when all your hardware is comped there, Sparky. How about a column or two about something OTHER than how great it would be if we could just hook all these neat colorful high-tech little icons together and make a new enterprise application? Can't point and click your way through orbital mechanics, can you? Oops, there's another blue screen. Better upgrade Norton and Dr. Watson!
I always got the feeling that the constant pounding of the upgrade drum over there was really just so they could get a new "sleek" desktops of icons to click. This column is no different.
I'm sure IBM will close everything down now and go back to marketing something that columnists don't understand so they don't have to read "Is X dead yet?" "Time for X to go?" "X in 2002: What to expect" on every magazine cover.
X is dead, therefore you should buy Y. Same article, different nouns. Yawn.
For $30,000, you can get one teacher or 20 computers...do the math.
Or the administration can renovate the conference room in the elegantly appointed downtown offices.
Given these choices, I think that the newly-retired teacher will be starting a computer sales business while the administration decides between the walnut or mahogany paneling.
Is this the new trend for Linux? "Yes, our OS is free (as in beer *and* speech!), but in the long run, it'll cost you more than Windows if you want to actually keep it updated." I dunno...that doesn't sound appealing to me, and it doesn't sound like it fits within the creedo that has been trumpeted for the last 10 years.
Maybe my math is off, but it seems to me that the cost of buying the Windows equivalents of all the programs included with a recent Linux distribution would easily run into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
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+87 funny
You forgot:
At least one of the kids will be dressed in a soccer uniform
The mother will have just-above-shoulder-length blond hair
She will emerge from the grocery store with three baskets of groceries having just charged over $800 to her platinum card and not even blinking
She works at a desk covered with picture frames and stuffed animals, has never been laid off, and has no real job responsibilities except to make copies of holiday party announcements on colored paper.
Her husband has even fewer job responsibilities, but works at a desk that cost more than the car and spends all of his time in meetings or talking to "Bob" and makes about $3/minute.
From a default install, get IIS (any version) to run a CGI script written in Python in less than 15 minutes with no reboots.
It's just like setting up networking in Win9x: you could be the world's greatest expert in it, but it WILL NOT WORK on the first reboot, no matter WHAT you do. It will take multiple restarts, multiple reboots, and the first attempt WILL fail, that and every subsequent attempt reading the same group of files from the CD-ROM, of course.
OTOH, in Apache, because there is some logic to the system, it is more likely to work the first time and as an added bonus, there aren't any reboots.
It would never occur to me to run IIS for any kind of web server or web development. Too much wasted time.
and of course, since Starcraft had far more hype, its graphics will never look dated, right?
Eventually the dissenting states will be forced to give up the fight because they simply can't afford the up-front cost of litigation.
There are states in this suit with annual budgets that dwarf Microsoft's assets. Microsoft has a lot of money, sure, and they have a lot of annual revenue from sales, but it doesn't even begin to compare to the amounts of money state governments have available.
Note: I'm not all that happy states have all that money either, since it all comes from higher taxes...
For the average Joe (i.e. someone who isn't apt-get'ing tonnes of MB a night) $40 a month just for the broadband service is a lot of cash.
eh, not really.. the average Joe makes a $300 car payment. the average Joe drops $1800/month on a mortgage/apartment. $40 isn't very much money at all.
I read it as "miles per second" in which case, it is .107c
Velocity: ~20000mps
.107c eh? Hey, why not step on the accelerator and get it to start increasing in mass by itself?
At these speeds, mass becomes a bit less relevant. This thing orbits Earth in under two seconds.
Make = participate
Consume = Get back on the couch
That's why I don't like the term "consumer" All I can see is a node on a Verio chart. "And here's the consumer segment..." bleh.
Gotta love that free market. All roads to the marketplace lead right up the courthouse steps.
Seems businesses don't *want* to compete any more. "Ehhhhh Your Honorrrrrrrr!!! We're entitled to that market.. it's ours!! wahhhhh!!!
It's worse than Little League.
sigh...
"I want one of those! Yes! Those!"
"IT SLICES IT DICES IT MOOSHES IT SQUOOSHES!!!
I'LL TAKE SIX DOZEN, THANK YOU!!!"
"No more late night TV, Opus?"
"YES, I THINK THAT'D BE BEST!"
Microsoft owns the start page, the defaults, the windowing environment, and the content standards. It turns out they also own the traffic, the audience management, and if you're watching closely what they're doing with Windows Media, they're going to force you to pay licenses to show your own content on-line.
..and they're not the only ones. Seems royalties are due often when a particular codec is used to make or even use a digital video file for a business. Yes, DivX too.
Now, I'm sure most companies would buy a product to make digital videos with a particular codec, but the thought of writing a check to a third party in order to use a particular file format seems just a bit much, especially when the contents of that file are 100% owned by that company.
Guess so. Took the contents of the message too. Well, that was a wasted 10 minutes.
and yeah, I'd call that a bug.
"huge departure" it always raises a question mark. Why? What's wrong with the original version? If it was good enough for nine sequels, why change it into something else? Why not a completely new game?
Oh, wait. I forgot. There ARE NO NEW GAMES, only SEQUELS AND CLONES, and if you can make one game into BOTH A SEQUEL AND A CLONE, then you've achieved the ultimate in marketing.
Note to Slashdot admins: The current anti-spam on the e-mail address doesn't work very well, for obvious reasons.
It's a crying shame when people who work for the same company can't even talk to each other. Just another in a long, winding list of the internal problems with the "corporate culture"
Anyone catch this gem on the right side panel:
"stall long enough and the arguments become mute"
sigh... on second thought, let's *start* with the school system and fix business later.
Didn't see it, but it's good to know that there is at least one movie that still has some literary elements included.
But I'll guess it took more than a few meetings to sell the story.
Sure, but it wasn't made in Hollywood. That's what I mean. If it isn't the 87th remake of some 60s or 70s television show (clone), some canned comedy or flimsy drama (clone), or licensed from a book (licensed clone), or a sequel to one of these, it doesn't get made.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's success is just further proof that more is possible, and it didn't cost eleventy-trillion dollars either.
MORE CLONES!!
MORE SEQUELS!!!
MORE PIXELS!!!!
HIGHER BUDGETS!!!!
MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE!!!!!
One. ONE decent memorable character. ONE good storyline that wasn't licensed from a book. (Notice where the REALLY good movies come from?) ONE skillful use of setting, or non-canned music, or silence, or symbolism, or metaphor.
All the money in Hollywood, and NONE OF THESE THINGS can be produced, apparently.
But they can spend NINE FIGURES on CG!! Oh, sure. No problem.
Funny. The game industry is trying desperately to be Hollywood, and Hollywood is trying frantically to be the game industry.
Maybe instead of the THX thing, they'll put up a sign that says:
"The audience is yawning"
..and that's a BIG if...
I especially liked the part about how "we're not sitting around fat dumb and happy... we're building better products and taking care of our customers..."
Really? Gee. I just spent two hours trying to work around a bug in IE 5 that has gone unresolved (according to MS's web site) for almost three years, and that displays graphics in a div element TOTALLY WRONG.
Couldn't work around it, so we're only about 90% right on IE. Who knows what happens on other Win* platforms...
...naturally, Mozilla 0.9.6 nailed it ice-cold perfect, first try...
First you can't get the job, then some (usually incompetent) manager decides one day they don't like you anymore and you're back looking again.
No second chance. No recourse. No way to pick up the pieces. Credit destroyed (again). Savings gone. Another three-month job on the resume. Next company always hesitant: not sure if you're "reliable" enough. Bills due, past due, late, delinquent... Start over. Again, and again, and again...
Put your degree at the end of the resume. Those years in college don't matter. Only experience matters. Move your experience at these three companies over here, because those don't count either. Oh, and don't list these projects, because that's the wrong platform, and those projects are the wrong language. So, here's your one-page, one-job, no-education resume which is supposed to show you have four years experience. Now, go get that job!
Didn't people have careers at one point? I seem to remember stories long ago of people who worked for years at the same company and didn't walk around in constant fear of being fired for no apparent reason.
Every IT job seems to start a clock the moment you are handed your W-4, and it is only a matter of time before the whining starts and everyone starts updating resumes.
Can't make any progress this way. Companies that whine about not being able to make any money ought to spend a couple of minutes looking at how much it costs to have an 85% turnover rate. Of course, what do they care? As long as they can keep the paychecks coming, they don't have to actually produce anything.
Ever notice how the plant-watering, stuffed-animal-decorated-desk-occupying, ALWAYS recently newlywed (usually female), picture frame surrounded HR types NEVER EVER EVER EVER want for a salary, or a new car, or a decade+ of gainful employment, even though they only spend three of every eight hours AT that desk, and can't tell the difference between there their and they're?
Do the IT people ever get that? Or are we rather making sure we don't leave anything valuable at work because our keycard might not work tomorrow?
I put in seven years learning numerous programming languages/platforms, etc. Four years of web development (server-side, mainly) Four years of Linux. Two years of Perl. Year of C++. Employers could care less. All wasted time. It's never enough. More, more, more.
How these columnists just wet themselves in the rush to declare something "dead?"
This is the same columnist who used to anchor the group of "Bob the office guy" columnists at PC Magazine with gems like "if you don't have a 21-inch monitor, then your PC is worthless."
Easy to say when all your hardware is comped there, Sparky. How about a column or two about something OTHER than how great it would be if we could just hook all these neat colorful high-tech little icons together and make a new enterprise application? Can't point and click your way through orbital mechanics, can you? Oops, there's another blue screen. Better upgrade Norton and Dr. Watson!
I always got the feeling that the constant pounding of the upgrade drum over there was really just so they could get a new "sleek" desktops of icons to click. This column is no different.
I'm sure IBM will close everything down now and go back to marketing something that columnists don't understand so they don't have to read "Is X dead yet?" "Time for X to go?" "X in 2002: What to expect" on every magazine cover.
X is dead, therefore you should buy Y. Same article, different nouns. Yawn.
(spaghetti programming + OOP = ravioli programming).
LOL!!!!!!
+5 funny
Anyone who can "only" operate a Linux workstation or server will have no trouble clicking icons and typing Word documents.
Now, someone who can only operate Windows presented with
$
..THAT'S a problem.
For $30,000, you can get one teacher or 20 computers...do the math.
Or the administration can renovate the conference room in the elegantly appointed downtown offices.
Given these choices, I think that the newly-retired teacher will be starting a computer sales business while the administration decides between the walnut or mahogany paneling.
Is this the new trend for Linux? "Yes, our OS is free (as in beer *and* speech!), but in the long run, it'll cost you more than Windows if you want to actually keep it updated." I dunno...that doesn't sound appealing to me, and it doesn't sound like it fits within the creedo that has been trumpeted for the last 10 years.
Maybe my math is off, but it seems to me that the cost of buying the Windows equivalents of all the programs included with a recent Linux distribution would easily run into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Again, $10/month is not unreasonable.