I'm a programmer. I program. I avoid meetings, other than impromptu chats with my colleagues and boss.
The rare appointment I have I ***write on my desk calendar*** - you know, one of those P-A-P-E-R thingies that you flip over each day.
To do list? Answer emails. Check web servers. Work on the same project that I've been working on for several weeks. Attend to interruptions (they announce themselves - I don't need to plan them). Strangely, I can remember all these items using my b-r-a-i-n. Maybe because they are the same every day.
PS: You don't actually need a mobile phone, a PDA, scheduling software, electronic calendars. At least, *I* don't.
Same deal in Australia, except we always hold our elections on a Saturday. There may be a bit of a queue in the mornings, but mid-afternoon, the local polling booth is nearly empty.
Paper ballots mean that scrutineers from all interested political parties can be present and watch the counting vote by vote. It is a great way to keep the system open and above board.
We get our national results that evening (polls close at 6pm, and counting starts immediately).
In a world where nearly everyone uses Windows, the idea of a machine - including a government-owned machine - being totally open to intruders is hardly novel. It is only too believable.
"It's why we didn't have rock and roll in the 1600s"
Yes, I can see how modern rock and roll is a vast improvement on, say, Shakespeare's lyrics. They were just so backward in the 1600s - no idea about real music, too primitive. And as for the Baroque era - no sophistication whatsoever. Britney Speares is centuries ahead of Shakespeare and Bach.
Babies are born knowing everything. Children still know just about everything. Adolescents know pretty much everything. People in their 20s know a surprising amount. People in their 30s still know a lot. People in their 40s. don't know much. And people in their 50s and 60s don't know anything.
From which I conclude: the less you know, the wiser you become.
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And user INERTIA (and related fear of the, gasp, UNKNOWN).
Most people won't change from a familiar environment unless they are seriously upset and angry at it. It is too easy to just sigh and keep on using the same ole thing. Present costs (learning a new OS) tend to trump future benefits (better OS, once learned).
But impulse buying a Mac Mini, or an OS switch at their workplace, might bring about a change in inertia and FOTU...
I mean, it is not surprising that the US is behind South Korea and Japan - but who'd have imagined they were behind _Canada_ too? Gosh, that puts the US at the bottom of the barrel, doesn't it?
VB was invented by Alan Cooper, who was NOT working for Microsoft at the time. He showed it to Bill Gates, who was impressed and bought it. See http://www.cooper.com/alan/father_of_vb.html for more details.
There is very little that Microsoft invented themselves. Microsoft is a great MARKETING company, not a great technology innovation company. They buy other people's ideas - or just copy them and drive the real inventers out of business. And if that sounds predatory, you're right!
Same EDS that had the whole state government of South Australia outsourced to them... and guess which state government was flooded and crippled for a couple of days by the great email virus attacks a couple of years back?
Windows sure is scalable - I have never seen such large-scale virus and related email problems as I have in Windows-only shops, such as the one run by EDS in South Australia. Other states without such ludicrous IT set-ups survived much better (like us with our Linux-based email system).
"Agility Alliance" sounds like a meeting of dinosaurs trying to ban mammals. May they have as much success!
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Was he not designed for our amusement? Or so that we could feel superior, even while we occupy less powerful positions?
Or maybe Life (with GWB in power) is just an intelligently designed practical joke at our expense?
As an Australian taxpayer, I wonder why the ATO didn't get their software written in some platform neutral medium, like Java.
Java apps will run on Linux, Macs, Sun boxes and Windows - and on plenty of other OSs too.
Women can tell you where the Neanderthal genes ended up: attached to the Y chromosome.
As he has joined the Bor^H^H^HMicrosoft, he has to be written out of the history of the Gentoo project.
So yes, he IS the former founder.
PS: Gentoo is looking for a new founder.
And as for your Founding Fathers, they are too busy rolling in their graves to intervene in US affairs.
I'm a programmer. I program. I avoid meetings, other than impromptu chats with my colleagues and boss.
The rare appointment I have I ***write on my desk calendar*** - you know, one of those P-A-P-E-R thingies that you flip over each day.
To do list? Answer emails. Check web servers. Work on the same project that I've been working on for several weeks. Attend to interruptions (they announce themselves - I don't need to plan them). Strangely, I can remember all these items using my b-r-a-i-n. Maybe because they are the same every day.
PS: You don't actually need a mobile phone, a PDA, scheduling software, electronic calendars. At least, *I* don't.
Same deal in Australia, except we always hold our elections on a Saturday. There may be a bit of a queue in the mornings, but mid-afternoon, the local polling booth is nearly empty.
Paper ballots mean that scrutineers from all interested political parties can be present and watch the counting vote by vote. It is a great way to keep the system open and above board.
We get our national results that evening (polls close at 6pm, and counting starts immediately).
Well, mine's 8% more powerful than yours - I run base-13!
It would be a bit like re-writing the JVM in Java ...
"Lets bomb another country to releave our collective mutual stress."
Bomb your own country and cut down the transport costs. Bombs are heavy!
And blowing yourself up means never being stressed again.
In a world where nearly everyone uses Windows, the idea of a machine - including a government-owned machine - being totally open to intruders is hardly novel. It is only too believable.
I suppose you thought there were three twin babies, eh?
I say declare war on them. The Americans don't know where we are anyway. They'll launch a missile attack and take out Austria.
Darth Gates and Darth Ballmer?
Yeah, that figures. Microsith.
Naaah!
Company Z, led by Person Q, will beat both of them!
Linux Users of the World unite!
You have nothing to lose but your "software professional" chains!
- Karl M. Torvalds, noted revolutionary and Communist Plotter(TM).
"Let's see a raise of hands for everyone who knows where the Dock comes from. [link to jpg]"
GNUstep!
Well, it looks just like GNUstep.
'cept they changed the GNustep logo to that odd-looking thingy with the "N" in it.
"It's why we didn't have rock and roll in the 1600s"
Yes, I can see how modern rock and roll is a vast improvement on, say, Shakespeare's lyrics. They were just so backward in the 1600s - no idea about real music, too primitive. And as for the Baroque era - no sophistication whatsoever. Britney Speares is centuries ahead of Shakespeare and Bach.
I am an Earthling and proud of what this planet SHOULD be ... at least, until some alien turns up and complains about how provincial we Terrans are.
But then, do aliens post on Slashdot?
It would explain a lot.
Babies are born knowing everything. Children still know just about everything. Adolescents know pretty much everything. People in their 20s know a surprising amount. People in their 30s still know a lot. People in their 40s. don't know much. And people in their 50s and 60s don't know anything.
From which I conclude: the less you know, the wiser you become.
And user INERTIA (and related fear of the, gasp, UNKNOWN).
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Most people won't change from a familiar environment unless they are seriously upset and angry at it. It is too easy to just sigh and keep on using the same ole thing. Present costs (learning a new OS) tend to trump future benefits (better OS, once learned).
But impulse buying a Mac Mini, or an OS switch at their workplace, might bring about a change in inertia and FOTU
Now that should get the Canadians on side, eh?
I mean, it is not surprising that the US is behind South Korea and Japan - but who'd have imagined they were behind _Canada_ too? Gosh, that puts the US at the bottom of the barrel, doesn't it?
They created VB, did they?
VB was invented by Alan Cooper, who was NOT working for Microsoft at the time. He showed it to Bill Gates, who was impressed and bought it. See http://www.cooper.com/alan/father_of_vb.html for more details.
There is very little that Microsoft invented themselves. Microsoft is a great MARKETING company, not a great technology innovation company. They buy other people's ideas - or just copy them and drive the real inventers out of business. And if that sounds predatory, you're right!
Same EDS that had the whole state government of South Australia outsourced to them ... and guess which state government was flooded and crippled for a couple of days by the great email virus attacks a couple of years back?
Windows sure is scalable - I have never seen such large-scale virus and related email problems as I have in Windows-only shops, such as the one run by EDS in South Australia. Other states without such ludicrous IT set-ups survived much better (like us with our Linux-based email system).
"Agility Alliance" sounds like a meeting of dinosaurs trying to ban mammals. May they have as much success!
What's wrong with "obésitiel" for bloatware?
I think it expresses the idea very well.
Yes, and to his brothers Linut, Linuu, Linuv, and Linuw. And I'm sure I've seen a Linuz somewhere, too.
It's like the Marx brothers. Everyone had a name ending with -o. Well, in the Torvalds family, everyone has a name starting with Linu.