ROFL. I love it when people quote Gartner if it suits their point but attack them when the "study" in case is "obviously [slanted|paid for|bought|bribed] [by|towards] Microsoft".
And be the poster school for this person's next FUD propaganda scheme. C'mon, tell us. Who is this person? Larry Ellison? Sure as heck ain't anyone who works with open source, that's for sure.
And while you're at it:
Sell more of your school's decisions to the highest bidder. Next thing you know, the NFL will be paying you to drop your basketball program.
Instead of finding a balance between Microsoft and *nix-like systems to teach students, FORCE THEM to NOT use Microsoft. Yeah, way to go. Narrow their possibilities of getting a job instead of doubling them. Does the "deal" include banning any commercial software of any type as well? If yes, all the more stupid. If not, then you're not pro-open source, you're just plain stupid anti-Microsoft. Hey, get your granpa a Slashdot account. He'd be a great fanboy.
Be prepared for students either not joining or simply dropping out and moving to other schools. Here's a free clue: not everyone in the world is rabidly anti-Microsoft.
we finished a large project in schedule and under budget and the boss hired a troupe of Swedish strippers to surprise us as we returned from the conference room where the project recognition awards were given out - I received $4,000 and a paid vacation to Bermuda.
We partied the night away and then each of us was given the keys to a suite at the best hotel in town, where we spent the next four days fornicating like rabbits and watching reruns of the best Superbowl games of all times.
*poof*
Oh. Where was I? Oh, yeah. I once won a "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" t-shirt in an office raffle. That was nice.
Dunno. I've used it on and off for a few years and I still have trouble following the code. Not that I don't understand it, just that it's... weird. Too many years of block languages, I suppose.
Python is a language that is just as old, and arguably better from
Welcome to Perlandia. Didja bring your toothbrush, toilet paper and asbestos suit?
But seriously, we go back to the whole whitespace thing... I think Python is essentially a "cleaner" language but that just kills it for me. It's not more readable if you're used to block-oriented languages to begin with. Possibly for newbies.
Dunno. I get turned off to think that if I miss a tab somewhere I'll get a compiler error. A brace, sure. But whitespace??
Clearly, the reporter did not climb that fence. [...] It's unlikely the reporter would be prosecuted for trespassing; the Laboratory does not have law enforcement authority to prosecute, and none of the proper authorities witnessed the trespass
I was the impression (probably because of one of those feverish Discovery marathons I tend to engage in when I get tired of coding) that the nice folks who guard US installations that contain either nuclear weapons of nuclear materials are allowed under federal mandate to shoot to kill. In fact that's what the warning messages posted along the fences of those facilities read - "lethal force authorized" or some such.
If that's the case Mr. Wired there (let's uncover the government's stupidity, for liberals everywhere!) was lucky he just stepped on some cow dung, as opposed to getting a 5.56 round in the chest.
Mwahaha. Corel was one fsked up company. They were irrelevant right after they released Draw 4.0, which bombed big time. People just didn't upgrade from 3.0, which in contrast was a great product that made them what they were in the early 90s. By the time 5.0 came out, it was too late as people moved to other products and the "desktop publishing revolution" started to die out. Ditto Aldus (although not because of crappy quality).
From then on they tried just about anything Cowpland could dream of, including moving to Linux (yeah, there's a core business focus for you). They practically killed Wordperfect by themselves, even before Microsoft took equity in them. By the time Word 6.0 was out, WP was dead in the water anyway.
Thats exactly right. And thats where they made enough money so that a 90% loss is actually no loss at all. They gained market share which is M$ #1 priority.
It's called "running a business". It's a time-honored tradition that companies all over the world tend to follow, much to the delight of the people who own shares in said companies.
It would be even better if you just did it instead of crowing about it on Slashdot (of all places). Indeed, saying "I quit my job because blah blah blah Micro$soft is evil, blah blah" would be several magnitudes better than what you're doing, here.
In my opinion this is about the most ass-backwards thing a person can do, mainly because -by your own admission - you work with Microsoft products, not on Microsoft products. I personally know two people who have quit Microsoft because they felt they were working for a company whose value system was diametrically opposed to theirs. I respect that, even though I don't necessarily agree with it.
You, on the other hand, come across as more pathetic and grandstanding than anything else.
But on the same note... When someone breaks into your apartment building, because the manager assigns all new tenants a default building access code of "1234" or "1111", who's fault is it? I would consider that to be lack of judgement on the manager's part for not forcing new tenants to select their own unique code, and preventing people from selecting easily guessed codes.
If the apartment complex was nice enough that I wanted to live there, I'd change the code myself.
Now give me a valid reason why Microsoft can't require strong passwords by default?
Why should they? To save themselves from stupid users and even stupider administrators? If you run a network and you don't have those rules in place, who's fault is it? Microsoft's?
But Unix is 1337 because by default it forces you to use a complicated password. All hail Unix!
I never claimed to have ANY information about how Microsoft works on the inside!
Yes you did! You know, because the correlation between the people they hire and the fact that "their software sucks" is a sure sign that you must know what you're talking about!
I also never said, "m$ is evil and the people who work there are ignorant whores"
Yes you did! If what they produce "sucks", then by your admission they must be ignorant.
or "everything m$ does is stolen from someone else!!!"
Yes you did!. To quote: Explain to me how software from MS is rock solid and filled with imaginative features, there were not stolen from someone else
Can you even read?! Do you always make up quotes to support your utterly unsupported posts?!
See above.
I asked a question. Someone responded back without supporting their position
That was not a question. It was redundant flamebait. And the AC that replied to you has as much need to substantiate his position as you did when you "asked" your "question".
Because Microsoft is a company, not a rabble. The people that write Microsoft software are beholden to everything from formal processes, product/project management and of course, features and marketing.
"m$ is evil and the people who work there are ignorant whores" and "everything m$ does is stolen from someone else" are among the beatiful pieces of FUD spread by the fine folks who advocate open source/free software. If your enemy looks stupid, it always makes you look good. Or at least that's how the theory goes, I guess.
But do share, if you obviously know so much about how Microsoft works on the inside. You must be a fountain of knowledge waiting to spring on the unsuspecting and undeserving Slashdot crowd. Tell us "how it is".
Did you compile KDE with gcc3? Did you enable --enable-final with your build? Did you optimize your CFLAGS? Did you prelink your binaries?
MY GOD!!! Why didn't I think of that!!1!! I now see the light my brother! I was stupid enough to think that the thing should just work, but boy, was I majorly wrong! Thank you, thank you!!!
But the scheduling system on top of which the X server runs kinda sucked, so in reality Linux wasn't such a great desktop
"Windoze" has the graphics subsystem "in the kernel" (not true, but still) and that's "bad". Linux uses a different approach (X is a client/server graphics system) that is considered "good" and not "unstable" and not as "sneaky" as "Windoze"
Now someone has come up with a way to make the Linux GUI more responsive.
So now Linux will be a better desktop than "Windoze".
Slashdot readers are predicting Linux will take over the desktop Any Moment Now.
Apply to some other technical area where Linux is "better" than "Windoze" - lather, rinse, repeat in a few months.
First off, I don't buy that "shape" and "tectonic plates" stuff - no, Central America is not a continent, but then neither is North America for that matter.
The North-Central-South division in this continent has probably been more political than geographical, but nonetheless the fact remains that people all over the world consider "Central America" to be the strip that runs between Yucatan in Mexico and northern Colombia.
BTW, the Panama Canal is artificial, so that doesn't hold up much either.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know. What do you think?
ROFL. I love it when people quote Gartner if it suits their point but attack them when the "study" in case is "obviously [slanted|paid for|bought|bribed] [by|towards] Microsoft".
Gotta love Slashdot.
And while you're at it:
- Sell more of your school's decisions to the highest bidder. Next thing you know, the NFL will be paying you to drop your basketball program.
- Instead of finding a balance between Microsoft and *nix-like systems to teach students, FORCE THEM to NOT use Microsoft. Yeah, way to go. Narrow their possibilities of getting a job instead of doubling them. Does the "deal" include banning any commercial software of any type as well? If yes, all the more stupid. If not, then you're not pro-open source, you're just plain stupid anti-Microsoft. Hey, get your granpa a Slashdot account. He'd be a great fanboy.
- Be prepared for students either not joining or simply dropping out and moving to other schools. Here's a free clue: not everyone in the world is rabidly anti-Microsoft.
BTW, I call bullshit on this one.Mod away. I'll go back to the journals now.
We partied the night away and then each of us was given the keys to a suite at the best hotel in town, where we spent the next four days fornicating like rabbits and watching reruns of the best Superbowl games of all times.
*poof*
Oh. Where was I? Oh, yeah. I once won a "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" t-shirt in an office raffle. That was nice.
Dunno. I've used it on and off for a few years and I still have trouble following the code. Not that I don't understand it, just that it's... weird. Too many years of block languages, I suppose.
You might want to seek professional help.
Was that sarcasm? I sometimes have trouble telling it apart from flamebait.
That much is true. Check out WinCVS for an excellent example. I'm constantly amazed at what that thing can do.
Welcome to Perlandia. Didja bring your toothbrush, toilet paper and asbestos suit?
But seriously, we go back to the whole whitespace thing... I think Python is essentially a "cleaner" language but that just kills it for me. It's not more readable if you're used to block-oriented languages to begin with. Possibly for newbies.
Dunno. I get turned off to think that if I miss a tab somewhere I'll get a compiler error. A brace, sure. But whitespace??
I was the impression (probably because of one of those feverish Discovery marathons I tend to engage in when I get tired of coding) that the nice folks who guard US installations that contain either nuclear weapons of nuclear materials are allowed under federal mandate to shoot to kill. In fact that's what the warning messages posted along the fences of those facilities read - "lethal force authorized" or some such.
If that's the case Mr. Wired there (let's uncover the government's stupidity, for liberals everywhere!) was lucky he just stepped on some cow dung, as opposed to getting a 5.56 round in the chest.
BWAHAHAHAH!!!
From then on they tried just about anything Cowpland could dream of, including moving to Linux (yeah, there's a core business focus for you). They practically killed Wordperfect by themselves, even before Microsoft took equity in them. By the time Word 6.0 was out, WP was dead in the water anyway.
But, I like your FUD. It's poetic.
It's called "running a business". It's a time-honored tradition that companies all over the world tend to follow, much to the delight of the people who own shares in said companies.
Bruce Willis
(OK, maybe two)
In my opinion this is about the most ass-backwards thing a person can do, mainly because -by your own admission - you work with Microsoft products, not on Microsoft products. I personally know two people who have quit Microsoft because they felt they were working for a company whose value system was diametrically opposed to theirs. I respect that, even though I don't necessarily agree with it.
You, on the other hand, come across as more pathetic and grandstanding than anything else.
Thanks?
If the apartment complex was nice enough that I wanted to live there, I'd change the code myself.
Logic's a bitch, eh? =)
Why should they? To save themselves from stupid users and even stupider administrators? If you run a network and you don't have those rules in place, who's fault is it? Microsoft's?
But Unix is 1337 because by default it forces you to use a complicated password. All hail Unix!
Yes you did! You know, because the correlation between the people they hire and the fact that "their software sucks" is a sure sign that you must know what you're talking about!
I also never said, "m$ is evil and the people who work there are ignorant whores"
Yes you did! If what they produce "sucks", then by your admission they must be ignorant.
or "everything m$ does is stolen from someone else!!!"
Yes you did!. To quote: Explain to me how software from MS is rock solid and filled with imaginative features, there were not stolen from someone else
Can you even read?! Do you always make up quotes to support your utterly unsupported posts?!
See above.
I asked a question. Someone responded back without supporting their position
That was not a question. It was redundant flamebait. And the AC that replied to you has as much need to substantiate his position as you did when you "asked" your "question".
do us all a favor and DON'T post.
Sure thing.
"m$ is evil and the people who work there are ignorant whores" and "everything m$ does is stolen from someone else" are among the beatiful pieces of FUD spread by the fine folks who advocate open source/free software. If your enemy looks stupid, it always makes you look good. Or at least that's how the theory goes, I guess.
But do share, if you obviously know so much about how Microsoft works on the inside. You must be a fountain of knowledge waiting to spring on the unsuspecting and undeserving Slashdot crowd. Tell us "how it is".
Well cry me a fucking river.
MY GOD!!! Why didn't I think of that!!1!! I now see the light my brother! I was stupid enough to think that the thing should just work, but boy, was I majorly wrong! Thank you, thank you!!!
*snort*
Or OS X users =)
*rimshot*
- Linux was a "better" desktop than "Windoze"
- But the scheduling system on top of which the X server runs kinda sucked, so in reality Linux wasn't such a great desktop
- "Windoze" has the graphics subsystem "in the kernel" (not true, but still) and that's "bad". Linux uses a different approach (X is a client/server graphics system) that is considered "good" and not "unstable" and not as "sneaky" as "Windoze"
- Now someone has come up with a way to make the Linux GUI more responsive.
- So now Linux will be a better desktop than "Windoze".
- Slashdot readers are predicting Linux will take over the desktop Any Moment Now.
Apply to some other technical area where Linux is "better" than "Windoze" - lather, rinse, repeat in a few months.The North-Central-South division in this continent has probably been more political than geographical, but nonetheless the fact remains that people all over the world consider "Central America" to be the strip that runs between Yucatan in Mexico and northern Colombia.
BTW, the Panama Canal is artificial, so that doesn't hold up much either.