Even though I use Firefox as my main browser, IE is so much faster at rendering pages, you can even see it. Mozilla/Firefox on the other hand renders like molasses.
The problem with this company is that you have to make a lot of random people feel good about themselves before you get a go ahead on anything. You want a permission to fart in your office? Ask a dozen other teams what their policy is, schedule two dozen meetings, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and only then will you get a go-ahead.
You know why this is? This is because of lousy management. A lot of people have become managers at MS simply because they wanted to become managers, not because they have necessary skills or are particularly fit for the job. A repercussion from this is that there's certain lack of leadership and vision from the very bottom to the very top.
This is unfortunate, because as a company Microsoft can kick everybody else's ass. We have SIXTY BILLION bucks and the best talent in the world, yet we still sit on our butts and wait until somebody else invents something to buy the company outright.
against them. Cancel your pager, change your cell phone number, cancel your "regular" phone service (who needs it anyway) open up another IM account. Once you're gone from work you're GONE.
If they don't release complete junk from time to time the frame of reference will be lost. You'll no longer know what a good movie is unless you see some bad ones. It's all relative.
EMPLOYEES. You know, those sneaky stealing bastards may remember something and simply re-type it at home if they want. I personally know a couple of folks who can memorize 3-4 pages of text (not just plain text, but with formulas, diagrams, etc.) by simply reading them once.
Good luck putting unpatched OS X box on the network. It has about as many holes as Windows (read the disclosures, dude). The only reason why there aren't that many viruses for it is because its marketshare is 3%.
Lost a little bit of data in each. All "accidents" are related to hard drive malfunction.
1. I had this 2.5 inch seagate hard drive with a proprietary connector. Once you disconnect the connector there's no indication as to how to reconnect it properly. No "missing pin", no "red dot", NOTHING. So I disconnected it, and reconnected it the wrong way. Bam! Hard drive is dead.
2. Bought a Western Digital Caviar drive. After a couple of months it died. Never bought WDC drives since.
3. Bought a Quantum Fireball drive. A couple of months later it died. Never bought Quantum drives since.
So right now there are two companies that I think I can rely on as far as hard drives are concerned. They're Hitachi and Seagate (3.5" drives only).
1. Nyquist theorem also assumes that the samples are real numbers, not 16 bit ints. 2. Phase is not important IF you have a perfect band limiting filter when doing ADC conversion and perfect sinc(x) filter on the output. Of course building a perfect noncausal filter (sinc(x)) is physically impossible, thus the higher sampling frequency. Only dogs can hear imperfections near 20KHz anyway.
The biggest problem with CDs right now is not their sampling frequency (although raising it to 96KHz would allow engineers to not pay so much attention to band-limiting - the aliasing would be well above 20KHz anyway which you can't hear, and sinc(x) filter could be simply omitted on the DAC end).
The biggest problem is that the samples themselves are 16 bit, so any kind of digital processing in your stereo that goes before DAC can screw up things pretty dramatically. The problem becomes especially bad for low-level signals.
Yes, per-cpu licensing, but ONLY for certain model numbers. Increase the model number by one (leave everything else the same) and ship any Linux distro you want with it.
RTFA, dude. The facts are not as scary as Linux zealots on Slashdot want you to think.
The part that they did forbid is shipping Linux for the same PC model number as the ones that shipped with OEM Windows. This was done solely to make it easier (and cheaper) for OEMs to count how many licenses they have to pay for. In fact Dell did ship Linux boxes at one time. It turned out to be a support nightmare and they've stopped doing this.
But here's what it has to be in order for me to pay money for satellite/cable: 1. Channels are sold "a la carte". If I want only Discovery and Food Network I should be able to purchase just them. 2. Paid (i.e. non-free) channels DO NOT air commercials. You can't have it both ways, folks. Either make the programming free or don't air commercials. 3. Pay per view stuff is a BUCK per movie, not 4.95. Set the price at whatever you want for events (sports, etc.), but movies can be rented locally on DVD for a buck a night. Therefore $4.95 is an unreasonable price.
You say new exciting hardware is coming soon and people stop buying the old hardware. Why spend tons of money on something that will be obsolete in a few months.
I got hired by a large software company to perf/stress test the app that was a mix of windows app and a webapp (very complex DHTML, custom ActiveX controls in some places, can run in online or offline mode, the latter is integrated with Outlook).
So I was a low level guy, and a new guy on the block to boot. I've done a quick evaluation of available tools and the only thing that could accomplish the task the way I liked it (and the way it made sense) was Mercury Interactive Load Runner. The only problem was - it was $150K for a license, and nobody was going to spend this kind of money on performance.
So after whining to the management for a while, I sat down and wrote my own replacement for this $150K tool that did all I wanted.
You know what happened next? You've guessed right, I got attacked by the management, Dev manager in fact (I hope he burns in hell when he dies). And dev manager and product unit manager were pals, so no matter what I did, the Dev manager would have his smalltalk with PUM and bring whatever I was doing to a grinding halt.
I've done this thing anyway (weekends, overtime) and shipped two versions of this god damn product with it. Dev manager eventually got fired for not being careful enough with his language when talking to customers.
My career got screwed, though. I only got one promotion on that team despite busting my ass REAL hard and delivering world-class "business value".
The moral of the story - you either fuck the product and do what the management says, or you fuck the management and yourself and do the right thing. There's no third way out. The way I see it, it's always better to get fired for doing something than for doing nothing.
When you get your foot in the door, and find your first job, and (a year or two later) realize that you're not making progress and you want to move to something better NOTHING will change. The positions that you'll be trying to get will require not 5 but 10 years of experience and proficiency in five dozen different technologies. I wonder who really gets those positions. No one can be proficient in more than 3 or 4 different technologies.
And guess what will happen to his company when there are enough IT jobs around. They'll go titsup very quickly, because mistreated "business value generators" will simply throw in the towel.
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Even though I use Firefox as my main browser, IE is so much faster at rendering pages, you can even see it. Mozilla/Firefox on the other hand renders like molasses.
Prima donna programmers don't mix, period. I'd fire those motherfuckers at the first sight.
One problem (Patents) cancels another problem (RFID). Everyone's happy.
The problem with this company is that you have to make a lot of random people feel good about themselves before you get a go ahead on anything. You want a permission to fart in your office? Ask a dozen other teams what their policy is, schedule two dozen meetings, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and only then will you get a go-ahead.
You know why this is? This is because of lousy management. A lot of people have become managers at MS simply because they wanted to become managers, not because they have necessary skills or are particularly fit for the job. A repercussion from this is that there's certain lack of leadership and vision from the very bottom to the very top.
This is unfortunate, because as a company Microsoft can kick everybody else's ass. We have SIXTY BILLION bucks and the best talent in the world, yet we still sit on our butts and wait until somebody else invents something to buy the company outright.
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against them. Cancel your pager, change your cell phone number, cancel your "regular" phone service (who needs it anyway) open up another IM account. Once you're gone from work you're GONE.
If they fire you over this, sue for profit.
If they don't release complete junk from time to time the frame of reference will be lost. You'll no longer know what a good movie is unless you see some bad ones. It's all relative.
EMPLOYEES. You know, those sneaky stealing bastards may remember something and simply re-type it at home if they want. I personally know a couple of folks who can memorize 3-4 pages of text (not just plain text, but with formulas, diagrams, etc.) by simply reading them once.
Good luck putting unpatched OS X box on the network. It has about as many holes as Windows (read the disclosures, dude). The only reason why there aren't that many viruses for it is because its marketshare is 3%.
OK, folks. I'm a millionaire and I've put together this blog where you can help me to become a billionaire for free.
:0)
Nice thinking, dude. Try again.
about Microsoft being expensive, yet they spend MORE on BOTH hardware and software than they would if they went with Wintel.
OS upgrades for $130 every year. There goes your "OS X is cheap" argument. Three years, and you've paid Apple $390. Highly profitable I say. :0)
Lost a little bit of data in each. All "accidents" are related to hard drive malfunction.
1. I had this 2.5 inch seagate hard drive with a proprietary connector. Once you disconnect the connector there's no indication as to how to reconnect it properly. No "missing pin", no "red dot", NOTHING. So I disconnected it, and reconnected it the wrong way. Bam! Hard drive is dead.
2. Bought a Western Digital Caviar drive. After a couple of months it died. Never bought WDC drives since.
3. Bought a Quantum Fireball drive. A couple of months later it died. Never bought Quantum drives since.
So right now there are two companies that I think I can rely on as far as hard drives are concerned. They're Hitachi and Seagate (3.5" drives only).
1. Nyquist theorem also assumes that the samples are real numbers, not 16 bit ints.
2. Phase is not important IF you have a perfect band limiting filter when doing ADC conversion and perfect sinc(x) filter on the output. Of course building a perfect noncausal filter (sinc(x)) is physically impossible, thus the higher sampling frequency. Only dogs can hear imperfections near 20KHz anyway.
The biggest problem with CDs right now is not their sampling frequency (although raising it to 96KHz would allow engineers to not pay so much attention to band-limiting - the aliasing would be well above 20KHz anyway which you can't hear, and sinc(x) filter could be simply omitted on the DAC end).
The biggest problem is that the samples themselves are 16 bit, so any kind of digital processing in your stereo that goes before DAC can screw up things pretty dramatically. The problem becomes especially bad for low-level signals.
Yes, per-cpu licensing, but ONLY for certain model numbers. Increase the model number by one (leave everything else the same) and ship any Linux distro you want with it.
RTFA, dude. The facts are not as scary as Linux zealots on Slashdot want you to think.
Paying $50 for TV per month is retarded. I use rabbit ears instead ($20 one time expense). It lets me watch 9 channels which is more than enough.
The part that they did forbid is shipping Linux for the same PC model number as the ones that shipped with OEM Windows. This was done solely to make it easier (and cheaper) for OEMs to count how many licenses they have to pay for. In fact Dell did ship Linux boxes at one time. It turned out to be a support nightmare and they've stopped doing this.
But here's what it has to be in order for me to pay money for satellite/cable:
1. Channels are sold "a la carte". If I want only Discovery and Food Network I should be able to purchase just them.
2. Paid (i.e. non-free) channels DO NOT air commercials. You can't have it both ways, folks. Either make the programming free or don't air commercials.
3. Pay per view stuff is a BUCK per movie, not 4.95. Set the price at whatever you want for events (sports, etc.), but movies can be rented locally on DVD for a buck a night. Therefore $4.95 is an unreasonable price.
You say new exciting hardware is coming soon and people stop buying the old hardware. Why spend tons of money on something that will be obsolete in a few months.
Strange.
In my free time I don't read any PC related magazines. Books? Absolutely, but the magazines are just waste of time.
I subscribe to only one magazine, National Geographic, and then mostly because of the photography that accompanies their articles.
A voice of reason on slashdot. This site must have been spoofed or something.
I got hired by a large software company to perf/stress test the app that was a mix of windows app and a webapp (very complex DHTML, custom ActiveX controls in some places, can run in online or offline mode, the latter is integrated with Outlook).
So I was a low level guy, and a new guy on the block to boot. I've done a quick evaluation of available tools and the only thing that could accomplish the task the way I liked it (and the way it made sense) was Mercury Interactive Load Runner. The only problem was - it was $150K for a license, and nobody was going to spend this kind of money on performance.
So after whining to the management for a while, I sat down and wrote my own replacement for this $150K tool that did all I wanted.
You know what happened next? You've guessed right, I got attacked by the management, Dev manager in fact (I hope he burns in hell when he dies). And dev manager and product unit manager were pals, so no matter what I did, the Dev manager would have his smalltalk with PUM and bring whatever I was doing to a grinding halt.
I've done this thing anyway (weekends, overtime) and shipped two versions of this god damn product with it. Dev manager eventually got fired for not being careful enough with his language when talking to customers.
My career got screwed, though. I only got one promotion on that team despite busting my ass REAL hard and delivering world-class "business value".
The moral of the story - you either fuck the product and do what the management says, or you fuck the management and yourself and do the right thing. There's no third way out. The way I see it, it's always better to get fired for doing something than for doing nothing.
When you get your foot in the door, and find your first job, and (a year or two later) realize that you're not making progress and you want to move to something better NOTHING will change. The positions that you'll be trying to get will require not 5 but 10 years of experience and proficiency in five dozen different technologies. I wonder who really gets those positions. No one can be proficient in more than 3 or 4 different technologies.
And guess what will happen to his company when there are enough IT jobs around. They'll go titsup very quickly, because mistreated "business value generators" will simply throw in the towel.