Most folks could cope with arrogance if they are offered top dollar for their skill set. Trouble is, Microsoft has never offered salaries even matching industry average, not to mention exceeding. Not for individual contributors, anyway.
Adam Barr threw the idea on his blog - MSFT should start paying 120% of industry average. You won't believe how many talented people are willing to cope with moderate amounts of bullshit if the pay is good.
Their hiring bar for college/university grads is pretty low. You have no experience to speak of, so you're a clean slate, nobody expects any miracles from you. Now if you HAVE worked somewhere before things change pretty drastically for you. Folks who interview you expect experience and knowledge. You're more likely to get tough problems to solve in each 1 hour session. If you don't solve them, or at least don't stumble upon the correct path to solve them, you won't be hired.
Why is this? I don't know. I think the consensus is that folks who have worked elsewhere are "tainted", and it's hard to re-program them to accept MSFT culture. So unless you really kick ass, your chances are pretty slim if you worked anywhere else.
What's the point of upgrading the current generation of dvd player when it can't output HDTV anyway. These things will be gone and forgotten in two years.
and a clown to boot. Now if Stallman said something I'd listen. But Stallman won't air such bullshit. GPL is the sole reason why Linux exists and progresses. It doesn't allow lage companies to create and extend their own closed flavors of linux, kinda like it happened with UNIX two decades ago. More precisely, they can create and extend their own flavors (like Google does), they just can't redistribute them without giving away the new IP.
Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" Doctor: "Then don't do this"
If the court says folks were breaking the law, then by definition they were breaking the law. End of story. Don't like it? Try to get the laws changed, or buy the god damn CDs, or boycott the music industry by refusing to listen to the music it publishes. Stealing is not the answer.
Gotta admit, they have some smart people there. Yes, firefox is a superior browser, technologically. Yes, it's open source. Yes, it supports CSS2 a little better and yes, it supports alpha channel in PNGs. Does any of this matter as far as Joe Sixpack is concerned? Not a bit!
What does matter then? The stuff they're emphasizing - tabbed browsing, design, and integration. You can spend hours explaining what's better to a layman, and in the end they'll use the browser that looks better and is more comfortable. Plus, if they approach security of IE7 with the same rigor we've seen in IIS6 (which I doubt highly, considering such a short product cycle), security will not be a problem.
It is time for Firefox/Mozilla devs to pile on the goodies. Get us some SVG and CSS3, get web devs (at least some of them) to use these cool technologies, and make Microsoft play catch-up again.
I think they mean the technology they've co-developed with Microsoft. There was an article on slashdot a while ago. A regular hard drive with 128M of high-speed flash cache. This will address some of the power dissipation problems (you don't need to move the heads all the time, just when there are cache misses), make things much faster (lightspeed if it's in the cache, no 10ms seek delay) and won't make the cost go through the roof.
I've actually read TFA. They recommend JBOD configurations to their clients. One drive goes titsup and you've lost 400GB of data. Do they at least offer some kind of mirroring/redundancy solution to back the data up to another array?
When writing to your senators, please use soft paper. Best of all, use bathroom tissue. This way you will make it comfortable for senators to "work" through your mails.
It's an incredibly hard, thankless work if you choose to do it right. About 90% of it is mundane key-punching, about 50% - stupid boilerplate code, or writing libraries that will allow you to somewhat reduce this percentage. Very rarely do you have time to do something "the right way".
I enjoy my hobby programming a lot more than my development job.
But you can do EVERYTHING with Windows from either windows scripting host script (either VBS or JS - your choice) or from the command line. Those who are still clicking boxes deserve to be fired.
>> their PC based solutions running Windows 2003 >> Server were cracked on a weekly basis
Microsoft runs a shitload of web presence on W2K3, and the only case when they had a breach was when admins simply ignored applying patches. Maybe your admin is incompetent? Mind you, I run Linux on my servers myself, but having apps broken into on "a weekly basis" indicates that someone is not doing their job. VMS ain't gonna change that.
How much can you realistically spend per month if you're, say, Bill Gates? 20-30K? And that brings your overall tax burden to what? 0.5%? This means middle class and poor folks get a stiff 23% on every purchase whereby, say Larry Ellison's tax rate is 2%. Is this fair? Considering that tax is technically a price you pay for being well off, it's not, because, say Warren Buffett is much better off than I am.
My job will not pay any less than it pays right now. There's this supply and demand thing, if it pays less people will go work on something that pays more.
And right now the rich people are the ones moving jobs to India and giving themselves $10M+ bonuses for shitty performance.
If the rich are only taxed by what they spend, the amount of tax they'll pay will be negligible to them. If you spend, say, $20-30K a month, you get taxed much less than you would under the "regular" tax system in your tax bracket. I'm your typical "middle class" guy, but even I'm against reducing taxation for the rich. If anything, they should be taxed more, they won't go broke anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like Steve Jobs is getting all the things he said he couldn't have. Dual core processors, low-power G5's for laptops, everything.
Most folks could cope with arrogance if they are offered top dollar for their skill set. Trouble is, Microsoft has never offered salaries even matching industry average, not to mention exceeding. Not for individual contributors, anyway.
Adam Barr threw the idea on his blog - MSFT should start paying 120% of industry average. You won't believe how many talented people are willing to cope with moderate amounts of bullshit if the pay is good.
Their hiring bar for college/university grads is pretty low. You have no experience to speak of, so you're a clean slate, nobody expects any miracles from you. Now if you HAVE worked somewhere before things change pretty drastically for you. Folks who interview you expect experience and knowledge. You're more likely to get tough problems to solve in each 1 hour session. If you don't solve them, or at least don't stumble upon the correct path to solve them, you won't be hired.
Why is this? I don't know. I think the consensus is that folks who have worked elsewhere are "tainted", and it's hard to re-program them to accept MSFT culture. So unless you really kick ass, your chances are pretty slim if you worked anywhere else.
What's the point of upgrading the current generation of dvd player when it can't output HDTV anyway. These things will be gone and forgotten in two years.
and a clown to boot. Now if Stallman said something I'd listen. But Stallman won't air such bullshit. GPL is the sole reason why Linux exists and progresses. It doesn't allow lage companies to create and extend their own closed flavors of linux, kinda like it happened with UNIX two decades ago. More precisely, they can create and extend their own flavors (like Google does), they just can't redistribute them without giving away the new IP.
Looks better than Apple G5, and uses a _real_ processor (Opteron).
Now replace all references to Sun in the parent with references to Microsoft and remove open source and you'll get a good description of Slashdot.
Go ahead and patent the patent process. Then impose heavy licensing fees, a million dollars per patent should be enough.
You can buy it for less than $50 and run 10mbps of traffic through it.
Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"
Doctor: "Then don't do this"
If the court says folks were breaking the law, then by definition they were breaking the law. End of story. Don't like it? Try to get the laws changed, or buy the god damn CDs, or boycott the music industry by refusing to listen to the music it publishes. Stealing is not the answer.
Gotta admit, they have some smart people there. Yes, firefox is a superior browser, technologically. Yes, it's open source. Yes, it supports CSS2 a little better and yes, it supports alpha channel in PNGs. Does any of this matter as far as Joe Sixpack is concerned? Not a bit!
What does matter then? The stuff they're emphasizing - tabbed browsing, design, and integration. You can spend hours explaining what's better to a layman, and in the end they'll use the browser that looks better and is more comfortable. Plus, if they approach security of IE7 with the same rigor we've seen in IIS6 (which I doubt highly, considering such a short product cycle), security will not be a problem.
It is time for Firefox/Mozilla devs to pile on the goodies. Get us some SVG and CSS3, get web devs (at least some of them) to use these cool technologies, and make Microsoft play catch-up again.
Ain't competition grand?
Then we'll see. Until then you can't even reliably say that computers are better than humans at playing chess.
I think they mean the technology they've co-developed with Microsoft. There was an article on slashdot a while ago. A regular hard drive with 128M of high-speed flash cache. This will address some of the power dissipation problems (you don't need to move the heads all the time, just when there are cache misses), make things much faster (lightspeed if it's in the cache, no 10ms seek delay) and won't make the cost go through the roof.
I will buy this card when it's passive cooled, draws 15 watts of power and costs $50. This day will come in a couple of years.
I've actually read TFA. They recommend JBOD configurations to their clients. One drive goes titsup and you've lost 400GB of data. Do they at least offer some kind of mirroring/redundancy solution to back the data up to another array?
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
:-)
If there's a situation where this old saying fits perfectly that would be it.
When writing to your senators, please use soft paper. Best of all, use bathroom tissue. This way you will make it comfortable for senators to "work" through your mails.
That would be "kooperating", thankyouverymuch
It's an incredibly hard, thankless work if you choose to do it right. About 90% of it is mundane key-punching, about 50% - stupid boilerplate code, or writing libraries that will allow you to somewhat reduce this percentage. Very rarely do you have time to do something "the right way".
I enjoy my hobby programming a lot more than my development job.
But you can do EVERYTHING with Windows from either windows scripting host script (either VBS or JS - your choice) or from the command line. Those who are still clicking boxes deserve to be fired.
>> their PC based solutions running Windows 2003
>> Server were cracked on a weekly basis
Microsoft runs a shitload of web presence on W2K3, and the only case when they had a breach was when admins simply ignored applying patches. Maybe your admin is incompetent? Mind you, I run Linux on my servers myself, but having apps broken into on "a weekly basis" indicates that someone is not doing their job. VMS ain't gonna change that.
1. Download, install and configure Slackware until you really like it.
2. After about half a year move on to RedHat/Fedora or Ubuntu to simplify package management.
#1 is necessary, because without it you won't understand "how shit works".
There you go, problem solved.
How much can you realistically spend per month if you're, say, Bill Gates? 20-30K? And that brings your overall tax burden to what? 0.5%? This means middle class and poor folks get a stiff 23% on every purchase whereby, say Larry Ellison's tax rate is 2%. Is this fair? Considering that tax is technically a price you pay for being well off, it's not, because, say Warren Buffett is much better off than I am.
My job will not pay any less than it pays right now. There's this supply and demand thing, if it pays less people will go work on something that pays more.
And right now the rich people are the ones moving jobs to India and giving themselves $10M+ bonuses for shitty performance.
If the rich are only taxed by what they spend, the amount of tax they'll pay will be negligible to them. If you spend, say, $20-30K a month, you get taxed much less than you would under the "regular" tax system in your tax bracket. I'm your typical "middle class" guy, but even I'm against reducing taxation for the rich. If anything, they should be taxed more, they won't go broke anyway.