They're even hiring, right now, here in the US. If you're good you can apply, too. India is mainly for expansion and sustained engineering so far. I know of only two moderately large pieces of code that are being developed by MS India, but then again, MS has done this since fuck knows when. These two pieces of code weren't technically "outsourced", because they were _started_ over there. Do you know that the first versions of DirectX were developed in Israel? There's also MS Research division in China. You sure can pick a few REALLY bright folks out of 1.5 billion people, and you'd be stupid if you didn't. And MS is not stupid. Arrogant? Yes. Heavy? Yes. Relentless? Yes. Stupid? No.
It's not like I support mindless outsourcing, either. But Microsoft is one of the few companies that are doing this the right way, without fucking their employees or treating them like dirt. Why? I think they recognize the fact that software development is HARD and they can't afford shooting themselves in the foot by sacrificing this country's IT talent for some abstract "shareholder value". After all, a significant percent of those shareholders are MS employees.
And let me remind you folks. They're hiring. If you're GOOD, send them a resume. Get free coke, good job and more freedom than you know what to do with.
Artists? Screw the artists. CDs cost $1 in Russia. Software is $2. Artists or software makers don't get A DIME. It's a nice business model, but not very sustainable.
Who is this guy and why does he capitalize these words? Can I become President and Founder, too, just because I know how to recompile linux kernel and install KDE on top of it?
Here's what I want from PC manufacturers
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A small fanless (or just very quiet) box with 256MB RAM, and two network ports that would take no more than 40-50W of power (this is critical as I want it to be running 24x7). Processor doesn't matter, but it has to be PC compatible. I want this all in a small package (Micro ATX or smaller) with power supply and 20GB hard drive built in for $300. Oh, and it has to be Linux and FreeBSD compatible, too. I don't care if it can't run Windows.
Boss: When do you expect to finish the project? Me: Hmmm, lemme see, I think I'll finish it by year 2014, and then it may not work. Boss: OK, here's your paycheck. By the way, we've approved that $20M yearly budget increase.
Boy, wouldn't that be sweet? Software industry is a wrong domain to work in right now. Those bloodsucking PHBs demand results every freaking week.
I do trust the guy and I know he did work as a dealer for a long time. Lemme tell you, if you bet $10M on roulette, you're going to get another dealer right away.:0) Your odds aren't small enough for them to risk $300M+.
Do a simple google search for "roulette dealer cheat" and see for yourself. IT IS NOT an urban legend. There's a reason why there are live dealers, not just a spring launcher. BTW, most people place their bets before dealer even spins the wheel. Also seasoned gamblers usually have a "system" and knowing and defeating all kinds of "systems" is one of the things that a dealer has to do.
And guess what, he was the guy who throws the ball. He says that he could throw the ball with such a precision that it would fall within a very small range of numbers from the target and most of the time it would fall onto whatever number he wanted. There are at least a few folks like this in any casino. Floor manager brings them in when someone starts winning REAL big to "reduce the odds".
He said the only way to win on roulette more or less reliably is to play against the guy who has more money than you. If the guy selects some numbers or colors, put your money onto opposite colors and numbers that are far from his numbers if possible. The guy will throw a ball in such a way as to screw the guy who put the most money into the game.:-)
one that allows you to select you the User Agent string to misrepresent yourself as Explorer or an older version of Mozilla. That could be handy at times.
What are they spending all this money on? $30K toilet seats, "military-style" again?
Russians use something like this, too
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Russians use something like this, too, against Chechen insurgents (calling them "rebels" is fundamentally wrong). Their drone is called "Pchela" it's quite a bit bigger and requires at least two soldiers to launch (from what I've seen on TV).
Here's some info: A Pchela (remotely piloted reconnaissance drone that provides television surveillance of ground targets) weighs 130 kilograms (loaded), has an operational range of 110 to 150 kilometers, can fly at altitudes ranging from 100 meters to 3 kilometers, and cruises at speeds from 11- to 150 kilometers an hour. Combat-recorded range: 55 kilometers. Its flight endurance is 2 hours (it needs 20 liters of gasoline for this). Its power plant is piston plus two solid rockets takeoff boosters (power at 32hp). Onboard of the Russian drone are a video camera, a still camera, a mapping camera, and a secure radio. It uses a parachute for landing. Pchela is probably equal in capability to many Western UAV in the same class. However, it is a slower, tactical unmanned aerial vehicle than, for example, the Russian the 800-kilometer-per-hour Reis UAV.
More info available at: http://ufo.psu.ru/eng/dagestan.html
Joe Clueless downloads a program for his linux distro called pammypussyfuck. He launches the program. The program says "I need your root password to run, otherwise I can't access the screen". What Joe Clueless does in response to this? That's fucking right, enters the root password! So if users are clueless, how exactly is Linux more secure than Windows, anyway?
I'll rub the slashdot crowd the wrong way, but I EXPECT my OS to have rich multimedia abilities these days, and I wouldn't like to have Real on it just because Real decides they can force themselves upon me. Who do you think is stirring the shit? That's right, Real. I don't see why any of the European countries would oppose the decision. $100M is a nice chunk of cash, nobody will decline to participate. Next time they decide they need cash they'll say that DirectX shouldn't be there. In 10 years they'll only allow MS to ship bare kernel.
In my opinion what MS offered them was reasonable - they offered to include competing media players alongside with WMP. For some reason that wasn't enough, and EC decided to screw the innocent consumer by robbing him of convenience of having the best media player on the planet come for free with his Windows purchase, and go through the chores of installing it from the internet.
If things go well for Real, EC may decide to not only prohibit the distribution of WMP but also force MS to include that POS Real software. It's like forcing Coca Cola to sell _only_ Pepsi products from their vending machines.
I've yet to see my Windows XP box crash ONCE or catch any virus, or cause me any other headache. Yes, Win 9x and SE were crap, but let's give the credit where it's due - W2K and WXP are solid, robust products that just let me do my job and don't get in the way much.
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Where did 16-bit color modes go? 8 bit is just ain't enough for digital photography anymore.
This piece of crap crashes on Windws for no reason
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US companies will teach Russians, Indians and Chinese how to write software. Not just how to code, they have excellent coders and designers RIGHT NOW. What they don't have is experience ("been there done that" kind) and a general idea on how to make all the pieces work together. They need to know how to run software projects, end to end.
Then underpaid Russians, Indians and Chinese will form their own companies in their home countries and show their collective middle finger to US software industry. They will simply write better software for less, and no, they won't be in a need of CEOs, CIOs and other C*Os. Neither will they need US middle management which is currently so eager to outsource everything down to their underpants.
It is much easier and cheaper to hire 2-3 Americans to handle "cultural consulting" if the US is a target market than to pay millions to some MBA moron who doesn't know jack shit.
tell the government where their money should go? It's not related to Energiya, or whatever, just a general thought. I'd happily contribute $1K out of my yearly taxes to space exploration. It's a much wiser investment than $500 (average among tax paying americans) I indirectly spent last year on Iraq war.
Imagine what kind of amazing technology could NASA put out if they were getting $100B budget each year. We'd be all over the place in Solar system already and shuttle would be the most reliable thing in the world. Of course they will fail if you run them for decades!
>> Out of the 14 people who have been killed inflight in Spacecraft, all 14 died in Shuttle accidents.
How do you know? You wouldn't even know about Chernobyl if it wasn't for radiation coming to Europe. I bet there were DOZENS of Russian cosmonauts who died in flight.
In about 6 years I've been in software engineering I've yet to see ONE manager that was worth his/her salary. I specifically exclude program managers, though, because many of them WERE good. But the managers that actually manage people - they've either been useless or dangerous to the project.
Products are made by two-three really knowledgeable folks selflessly devoting their lives to the project they care about, not by a bunch of whip cracking managers who don't know jack shit and don't even care to know. In most projects high level managers are like monkeys with hand grenades. They're very confident and stupid and they don't know ANYTHING about the stuff they're trying to "manage".
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They're even hiring, right now, here in the US. If you're good you can apply, too. India is mainly for expansion and sustained engineering so far. I know of only two moderately large pieces of code that are being developed by MS India, but then again, MS has done this since fuck knows when. These two pieces of code weren't technically "outsourced", because they were _started_ over there. Do you know that the first versions of DirectX were developed in Israel? There's also MS Research division in China. You sure can pick a few REALLY bright folks out of 1.5 billion people, and you'd be stupid if you didn't. And MS is not stupid. Arrogant? Yes. Heavy? Yes. Relentless? Yes. Stupid? No.
It's not like I support mindless outsourcing, either. But Microsoft is one of the few companies that are doing this the right way, without fucking their employees or treating them like dirt. Why? I think they recognize the fact that software development is HARD and they can't afford shooting themselves in the foot by sacrificing this country's IT talent for some abstract "shareholder value". After all, a significant percent of those shareholders are MS employees.
And let me remind you folks. They're hiring. If you're GOOD, send them a resume. Get free coke, good job and more freedom than you know what to do with.
Artists? Screw the artists. CDs cost $1 in Russia. Software is $2. Artists or software makers don't get A DIME. It's a nice business model, but not very sustainable.
Who is this guy and why does he capitalize these words? Can I become President and Founder, too, just because I know how to recompile linux kernel and install KDE on top of it?
A small fanless (or just very quiet) box with 256MB RAM, and two network ports that would take no more than 40-50W of power (this is critical as I want it to be running 24x7). Processor doesn't matter, but it has to be PC compatible. I want this all in a small package (Micro ATX or smaller) with power supply and 20GB hard drive built in for $300. Oh, and it has to be Linux and FreeBSD compatible, too. I don't care if it can't run Windows.
Wake me up when they deliver something like this.
Boss: When do you expect to finish the project?
Me: Hmmm, lemme see, I think I'll finish it by year 2014, and then it may not work.
Boss: OK, here's your paycheck. By the way, we've approved that $20M yearly budget increase.
Boy, wouldn't that be sweet? Software industry is a wrong domain to work in right now. Those bloodsucking PHBs demand results every freaking week.
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I do trust the guy and I know he did work as a dealer for a long time. Lemme tell you, if you bet $10M on roulette, you're going to get another dealer right away. :0) Your odds aren't small enough for them to risk $300M+.
Do a simple google search for "roulette dealer cheat" and see for yourself. IT IS NOT an urban legend. There's a reason why there are live dealers, not just a spring launcher. BTW, most people place their bets before dealer even spins the wheel. Also seasoned gamblers usually have a "system" and knowing and defeating all kinds of "systems" is one of the things that a dealer has to do.
And guess what, he was the guy who throws the ball. He says that he could throw the ball with such a precision that it would fall within a very small range of numbers from the target and most of the time it would fall onto whatever number he wanted. There are at least a few folks like this in any casino. Floor manager brings them in when someone starts winning REAL big to "reduce the odds".
:-)
He said the only way to win on roulette more or less reliably is to play against the guy who has more money than you. If the guy selects some numbers or colors, put your money onto opposite colors and numbers that are far from his numbers if possible. The guy will throw a ball in such a way as to screw the guy who put the most money into the game.
It appears that it no longer exists.
one that allows you to select you the User Agent string to misrepresent yourself as Explorer or an older version of Mozilla. That could be handy at times.
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What are they spending all this money on? $30K toilet seats, "military-style" again?
Russians use something like this, too, against Chechen insurgents (calling them "rebels" is fundamentally wrong). Their drone is called "Pchela" it's quite a bit bigger and requires at least two soldiers to launch (from what I've seen on TV).
Here's some info:
A Pchela (remotely piloted reconnaissance drone that provides television surveillance of ground targets) weighs 130 kilograms (loaded), has an operational range of 110 to 150 kilometers, can fly at altitudes ranging from 100 meters to 3 kilometers, and cruises at speeds from 11- to 150 kilometers an hour. Combat-recorded range: 55 kilometers. Its flight endurance is 2 hours (it needs 20 liters of gasoline for this). Its power plant is piston plus two solid rockets takeoff boosters (power at 32hp). Onboard of the Russian drone are a video camera, a still camera, a mapping camera, and a secure radio. It uses a parachute for landing. Pchela is probably equal in capability to many Western UAV in the same class. However, it is a slower, tactical unmanned aerial vehicle than, for example, the Russian the 800-kilometer-per-hour Reis UAV.
More info available at:
http://ufo.psu.ru/eng/dagestan.html
Joe Clueless downloads a program for his linux distro called pammypussyfuck. He launches the program. The program says "I need your root password to run, otherwise I can't access the screen". What Joe Clueless does in response to this? That's fucking right, enters the root password! So if users are clueless, how exactly is Linux more secure than Windows, anyway?
I'll rub the slashdot crowd the wrong way, but I EXPECT my OS to have rich multimedia abilities these days, and I wouldn't like to have Real on it just because Real decides they can force themselves upon me. Who do you think is stirring the shit? That's right, Real. I don't see why any of the European countries would oppose the decision. $100M is a nice chunk of cash, nobody will decline to participate. Next time they decide they need cash they'll say that DirectX shouldn't be there. In 10 years they'll only allow MS to ship bare kernel.
In my opinion what MS offered them was reasonable - they offered to include competing media players alongside with WMP. For some reason that wasn't enough, and EC decided to screw the innocent consumer by robbing him of convenience of having the best media player on the planet come for free with his Windows purchase, and go through the chores of installing it from the internet.
If things go well for Real, EC may decide to not only prohibit the distribution of WMP but also force MS to include that POS Real software. It's like forcing Coca Cola to sell _only_ Pepsi products from their vending machines.
I've yet to see my Windows XP box crash ONCE or catch any virus, or cause me any other headache. Yes, Win 9x and SE were crap, but let's give the credit where it's due - W2K and WXP are solid, robust products that just let me do my job and don't get in the way much.
Where did 16-bit color modes go? 8 bit is just ain't enough for digital photography anymore.
Tried it, blew it off. Highly unrecommended.
NUCULAR WEAPONS. You roll your troops in there and they evaporate the freakin' Missisipi with nucular warheads.
Microsoft raises the price of Windows by 10 dollars and Office by 20 dollars in EU to offset the losses incurred.
US companies will teach Russians, Indians and Chinese how to write software. Not just how to code, they have excellent coders and designers RIGHT NOW. What they don't have is experience ("been there done that" kind) and a general idea on how to make all the pieces work together. They need to know how to run software projects, end to end.
Then underpaid Russians, Indians and Chinese will form their own companies in their home countries and show their collective middle finger to US software industry. They will simply write better software for less, and no, they won't be in a need of CEOs, CIOs and other C*Os. Neither will they need US middle management which is currently so eager to outsource everything down to their underpants.
It is much easier and cheaper to hire 2-3 Americans to handle "cultural consulting" if the US is a target market than to pay millions to some MBA moron who doesn't know jack shit.
I'd rather spend $100K on a NASA screwdriver than on another super-heavy bunker buster. Hard to argue with this one, eh?
tell the government where their money should go? It's not related to Energiya, or whatever, just a general thought. I'd happily contribute $1K out of my yearly taxes to space exploration. It's a much wiser investment than $500 (average among tax paying americans) I indirectly spent last year on Iraq war.
Imagine what kind of amazing technology could NASA put out if they were getting $100B budget each year. We'd be all over the place in Solar system already and shuttle would be the most reliable thing in the world. Of course they will fail if you run them for decades!
>> Out of the 14 people who have been killed inflight in Spacecraft, all 14 died in Shuttle accidents.
How do you know? You wouldn't even know about Chernobyl if it wasn't for radiation coming to Europe. I bet there were DOZENS of Russian cosmonauts who died in flight.
In about 6 years I've been in software engineering I've yet to see ONE manager that was worth his/her salary. I specifically exclude program managers, though, because many of them WERE good. But the managers that actually manage people - they've either been useless or dangerous to the project.
Products are made by two-three really knowledgeable folks selflessly devoting their lives to the project they care about, not by a bunch of whip cracking managers who don't know jack shit and don't even care to know. In most projects high level managers are like monkeys with hand grenades. They're very confident and stupid and they don't know ANYTHING about the stuff they're trying to "manage".