erm.. Microsoft. They're the only ones with a second-rate attitude to mobile devices, although I heard than WinMo 7 will come out (eventually) and have support for social networking!
I use the mobile device marketplace as a way to explain to managers that Linux is the next big thing - they already know mobile is the big marketplace (gartner et al told them so) but they don't realise that Intel with Moblin, Nokia with Maemo, Palm with webOS, and Google with Android are all Linux OSs.
I understand yuour attitude, but if you think about it, its one where you really don;t care about your job. Where the job you do is of little importance to you.
Most people I know are driven to do the best they can, regardless of whether they are employed by someone else or working for themselves. Its a condition of human nature to try to do your utmost, just for the sake of doing it. Not to please the boss, not to earn more.
Imagine if everyone had your opinion. Society would collapse in a heap of crap. (left out by the trash men as they couldn't be bothered to pick it up this time round):)
Yeah? But what does Gartner group say? Let me have a wild guess... Hyper-V is the only Hypervisor out there... all others are pseudo-visors... Microsoft is the only OS vendor out there.... and they do very nice lunches.
Maybe they could have done things better, but who cares? I'm still working.
fair enough, and there is a lot to be said that inferior technology that works is good technology, even if you think you could do better with something else. (the collorary of that is that sometime the existing tech is fine, yet plenty of "hotshot" admins/coders/geeks think they know better)
However, in the cases where the technology is truly bad (like the "Enterprise-class" software we have to use at work) then you will only harm your self-confidence, your sense of self-worth and your overall satisfaction with yourself. After a while you'll start to not give a damn about other things too, and your skills will slowly fade, and the next thing you know - you're stuck in a crappy job you hate.
Sometimes you need to vote with your feet, there are plenty of jobs still out there - you may have to do well in the interview, 'cos they're not hiring any chimp who brings a copy of 'C# for dummies' with him, but good people will always be employed.
Most people don't keep that on their email accounts...
Most people don't keep that *what* on their email accounts?
Private stuff? Passwords? User ids? $25,000,000 money-making invitations? Shakespeare quotes?
I know one fact about email which makes it an incredibly important security risk - the 'I forgot my password' link. Log on to a site you think the user uses, click that 'forgot' link, read his new password a few moments later. erm.. profit.
That said, this is google mail we're talking about, the one that bills itself as "store everything on us" we're safe and you'll never lose an email again thanks to our massive storage, indexing and searching facilities. So, for some people email is downloaded immediately and never stored on the server, for many many others, it stays right on the server.
I'd have cancelled the account, the way it was handled is not acceptable, even a free service has reasonable expectations of security. To let it linger for 3 days... that's simply not good enough.
Bragging as a thin attempt to make yourself look better when you suck is worthless. Managers are not stupid.
Not stupid, but ignorant. Trouble is that if you're good at bragging/bitching/backstabbing when you're worthless, you can make a career out of it until you're promoted to project manager. I've seen it happen 3 times now I think it happens far to often for me to trust PMs:)
well, the DoHS can't get green or blue bulbs now tungsten ones have been banned:)
Cat: Forget Red -- let's go all the way up to Brown Alert!
Kryten: There's no such thing as a Brown Alert, sir.
Cat: You won't be saying that in a minute! And don't say I didn't alert you!
"Purple alert! Purple alert!" "What's a purple alert?" "Well, it's like not as bad as a red alert, but a bit worse than a blue alert -- sort of a mauve alert."
Bear to another, so this guy comes over in his lightweight 'bear proof' suit, I tried clawing him - no effect, I tried biting him, no effect, I tried shouting at him, no effect. So I sat on the bugger until he stopped wriggling.
but even then, they still want something akin to Windows' Group Policy (to lock down a user's desktop so they can't install games, have configuration options set for them etc).
The common answer to this is to use Puppet, but if KDE supported it directly, it'd suddenly become the more corporate-friendly option.
Using Gnome because its simpler is like using Windows for the same reason:)
As GNOME foundation is running out of money, will this change the major distro's support, or will they stump up the shortfall when Gnome needs it?
Personally, I'd like to see Redhat, Debian or Ubuntu take KDE as the default. There's no reason not to now, and I'd like to see the competition between the desktop environments increase, that should drive more features and polish! If the KDE community have made such significant feature updates without being a major distro's default says a lot (of good) about it.
On the other hand, maybe the facty that linux runs Gnome is the reason it has never been popular on the desktop. A switch to KDE might be enough to make people try it, like it and stick with it! (yeah, sure, dream on:) )
Considering these figures, you should not be surprised that KDE was reporting a positive balance of over $288,000. GNOME's total balance was not reported, but, considering that last year GNOME was expecting a short fall of some $40,000 [markmail.org], the chances are that its bank balance is nowhere near KDE's.
Crap, I need a car analogy; can someone help me out here?
So, KDE is a well-run BMW type of organisation - all German efficiency, modern design and cutting-edge technologies; whereas GNOME is more a bloated GM type org that desperately needs some bail-out money for its obsolete, resource-hogging designs and massive employee wage bill.
As car analogies go, I think that one works on so many levels:)
the trouble with a horizontal touch surface is that you still have arm fatigue, or your mouse will always be stuck down at the bottom where your elbows will end up resting.
Also, a full table for a screen will mean you still need a table for your papers, pencil, coffee mug, etc. You don't gain anything except neck ache.
For people who want a stylus mode, they might as well buy a graphics tablet, much like we had before "touch" got hype. I think the whole surface stuff is useless, it will make sense in specialist areas, but those areas already had their own hardware and drivers.
Touch is a solution looking for a problem, unfortunately, a problem that has already been solved.
I can give you one reason to hate them - bloat. There was a recent case where VMWare changed their small, lightweight GUI console to a web-based one written in Java that required installation using Tomcat.
As people rightly pointed out, this thing took up 500Mb RAM, that's enough to run another VM guest. People were not happy. This is the reason I dislike those framework apps, there's too much required just to get the smallest little application running.
This doesn't count the actual memory usage of apps written in the languages, its not so much a language failing as a design intention. You have a GC, you're told (and the frameworks use it a lot) to use memory as much as you like, throw it away when you're finished with it and the framework will tidy up after you. Obviously this has the effect of requiring much more memory in use at any time. It may be easier to program in, but its not easier on the end-user computer.
There's a few more bits that relate to 'making things easier and safer' for the programmer, which end up costing CPU and RAM, which are equally good reasons to dislike the languages/frameworks.
'Suckiness' is just a common subjective view, the above is more objective reason to hate the useless crap:)
Of course, Visual Studio Express doesn't come with any mobile development tools, which might be useful to someone wanting to write for mobile devices (not that this applies to the iPhone).
its a XML solution to.. whatever you want. XML is the ultimate, holy grail of all solutions in the.NET world so its not surprising that the fancy 'chuck out the old' GUI is implemented in a super complex XML structure that pretty much requires MS Expression Studio to work.
I'd think speed of movement counts a lot too - a bee zips about the place faster than you can react to it, a roach crawls along. Make it move very fast and you'll probably see something like the same response.
That said, women are always going to be more hardwired to flight than men, they just don't have the same "I'm big and strong" attitude men (are more likely to) have, present geeks excluded:)
I've only got a dual-CPU Xeon running at 2.8Ghz with 3Gb RAM. Pity me for my inconsequential hardware specs, I take it back Microsoft, turns out it was my fault all along, Office's not bloated after all:(
I'm all for switching to open source software. But MS Office works extremely well.
I think that was in the past, Office 2007 is a super slow dog. I thought the days of typing and then looking at the screen to see the letters draw themselves was something I'd never have to see again (unless it was over a particularly slow WAN link), but no - Office 2007 brings that "Retro" feel right on back.
I'm not sure about the others now, no graphical consistency, no real integration with Windows, settings hidden away in menus that are themselves hidden... its all become a bit of a over-engineered mess. Too much code has been added over the years to it.
OO.o may not be the perfect alternative however, but MSO is not the perfect office suite either.
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Yes, I'm sure that's what he meant. You have to spend 336 hours straight studying the Office ribbon before you can use it correctly.
It took me 336 hours to find the print icon on the ribbon bar, sigh.
erm.. Microsoft. They're the only ones with a second-rate attitude to mobile devices, although I heard than WinMo 7 will come out (eventually) and have support for social networking!
I use the mobile device marketplace as a way to explain to managers that Linux is the next big thing - they already know mobile is the big marketplace (gartner et al told them so) but they don't realise that Intel with Moblin, Nokia with Maemo, Palm with webOS, and Google with Android are all Linux OSs.
I understand yuour attitude, but if you think about it, its one where you really don;t care about your job. Where the job you do is of little importance to you.
Most people I know are driven to do the best they can, regardless of whether they are employed by someone else or working for themselves. Its a condition of human nature to try to do your utmost, just for the sake of doing it. Not to please the boss, not to earn more.
Imagine if everyone had your opinion. Society would collapse in a heap of crap. (left out by the trash men as they couldn't be bothered to pick it up this time round) :)
Yeah? But what does Gartner group say? Let me have a wild guess ... Hyper-V is the only Hypervisor out there ... all others are pseudo-visors... Microsoft is the only OS vendor out there.... and they do very nice lunches.
Maybe they could have done things better, but who cares? I'm still working.
fair enough, and there is a lot to be said that inferior technology that works is good technology, even if you think you could do better with something else. (the collorary of that is that sometime the existing tech is fine, yet plenty of "hotshot" admins/coders/geeks think they know better)
However, in the cases where the technology is truly bad (like the "Enterprise-class" software we have to use at work) then you will only harm your self-confidence, your sense of self-worth and your overall satisfaction with yourself. After a while you'll start to not give a damn about other things too, and your skills will slowly fade, and the next thing you know - you're stuck in a crappy job you hate.
Sometimes you need to vote with your feet, there are plenty of jobs still out there - you may have to do well in the interview, 'cos they're not hiring any chimp who brings a copy of 'C# for dummies' with him, but good people will always be employed.
Most people don't keep that on their email accounts...
Most people don't keep that *what* on their email accounts?
Private stuff?
Passwords?
User ids?
$25,000,000 money-making invitations?
Shakespeare quotes?
I know one fact about email which makes it an incredibly important security risk - the 'I forgot my password' link. Log on to a site you think the user uses, click that 'forgot' link, read his new password a few moments later. erm.. profit.
That said, this is google mail we're talking about, the one that bills itself as "store everything on us" we're safe and you'll never lose an email again thanks to our massive storage, indexing and searching facilities. So, for some people email is downloaded immediately and never stored on the server, for many many others, it stays right on the server.
I'd have cancelled the account, the way it was handled is not acceptable, even a free service has reasonable expectations of security. To let it linger for 3 days... that's simply not good enough.
Bragging as a thin attempt to make yourself look better when you suck is worthless. Managers are not stupid.
Not stupid, but ignorant. Trouble is that if you're good at bragging/bitching/backstabbing when you're worthless, you can make a career out of it until you're promoted to project manager. I've seen it happen 3 times now I think it happens far to often for me to trust PMs :)
well, the DoHS can't get green or blue bulbs now tungsten ones have been banned :)
Cat: Forget Red -- let's go all the way up to Brown Alert!
Kryten: There's no such thing as a Brown Alert, sir.
Cat: You won't be saying that in a minute! And don't say I didn't alert you!
"Purple alert! Purple alert!"
"What's a purple alert?"
"Well, it's like not as bad as a red alert, but a bit worse than a blue alert -- sort of a mauve alert."
- Lister and Holly
Bear to another, so this guy comes over in his lightweight 'bear proof' suit, I tried clawing him - no effect, I tried biting him, no effect, I tried shouting at him, no effect. So I sat on the bugger until he stopped wriggling.
And those BIOS-based dedicated 'fakeraid' controllers certainly aren't special at all.
Software RAID is often much faster than the fakeraid hardware controllers, and much easier to update :)
but even then, they still want something akin to Windows' Group Policy (to lock down a user's desktop so they can't install games, have configuration options set for them etc).
The common answer to this is to use Puppet, but if KDE supported it directly, it'd suddenly become the more corporate-friendly option.
Using Gnome because its simpler is like using Windows for the same reason :)
As GNOME foundation is running out of money, will this change the major distro's support, or will they stump up the shortfall when Gnome needs it?
Personally, I'd like to see Redhat, Debian or Ubuntu take KDE as the default. There's no reason not to now, and I'd like to see the competition between the desktop environments increase, that should drive more features and polish! If the KDE community have made such significant feature updates without being a major distro's default says a lot (of good) about it.
On the other hand, maybe the facty that linux runs Gnome is the reason it has never been popular on the desktop. A switch to KDE might be enough to make people try it, like it and stick with it! (yeah, sure, dream on :) )
From TFA:
Considering these figures, you should not be surprised that KDE was reporting a positive balance of over $288,000. GNOME's total balance was not reported, but, considering that last year GNOME was expecting a short fall of some $40,000 [markmail.org], the chances are that its bank balance is nowhere near KDE's.
Crap, I need a car analogy; can someone help me out here?
So, KDE is a well-run BMW type of organisation - all German efficiency, modern design and cutting-edge technologies; whereas GNOME is more a bloated GM type org that desperately needs some bail-out money for its obsolete, resource-hogging designs and massive employee wage bill.
As car analogies go, I think that one works on so many levels :)
Ultraviolet, of course, is a one-time hit and leaves no residual disinfecting agent in the water
Now where would they get large amounts of free UV radiation from in space..... :)
yeah, we usually invent all the cool technology that is used around the world, and then give it away :(
I guess Britain was the original open source provider :).
You mean like dumping toxic waste and other stuff requiring cleanup in the 3rd world?
eg. computer equiment that is melted down by chinese peasants, Toxic waste dumped off Somalia, or in the Ivory Coast, or Africa in general. Plenty more examples on Google.
So in this case, the Mafia is just continuing capitalism's "best-practice" in keeping the cost of toxic waste removal down.
the trouble with a horizontal touch surface is that you still have arm fatigue, or your mouse will always be stuck down at the bottom where your elbows will end up resting.
Also, a full table for a screen will mean you still need a table for your papers, pencil, coffee mug, etc. You don't gain anything except neck ache.
For people who want a stylus mode, they might as well buy a graphics tablet, much like we had before "touch" got hype. I think the whole surface stuff is useless, it will make sense in specialist areas, but those areas already had their own hardware and drivers.
Touch is a solution looking for a problem, unfortunately, a problem that has already been solved.
I can give you one reason to hate them - bloat. There was a recent case where VMWare changed their small, lightweight GUI console to a web-based one written in Java that required installation using Tomcat.
As people rightly pointed out, this thing took up 500Mb RAM, that's enough to run another VM guest. People were not happy. This is the reason I dislike those framework apps, there's too much required just to get the smallest little application running.
This doesn't count the actual memory usage of apps written in the languages, its not so much a language failing as a design intention. You have a GC, you're told (and the frameworks use it a lot) to use memory as much as you like, throw it away when you're finished with it and the framework will tidy up after you. Obviously this has the effect of requiring much more memory in use at any time. It may be easier to program in, but its not easier on the end-user computer.
There's a few more bits that relate to 'making things easier and safer' for the programmer, which end up costing CPU and RAM, which are equally good reasons to dislike the languages/frameworks.
'Suckiness' is just a common subjective view, the above is more objective reason to hate the useless crap :)
Of course, Visual Studio Express doesn't come with any mobile development tools, which might be useful to someone wanting to write for mobile devices (not that this applies to the iPhone).
its a XML solution to .. whatever you want. XML is the ultimate, holy grail of all solutions in the .NET world so its not surprising that the fancy 'chuck out the old' GUI is implemented in a super complex XML structure that pretty much requires MS Expression Studio to work.
I'd think speed of movement counts a lot too - a bee zips about the place faster than you can react to it, a roach crawls along. Make it move very fast and you'll probably see something like the same response.
As for rats, I don't think women would jump on a chair and scream for help like Mammy Two -shoes, but there's a healthy aversion to the things in relatively recent times. Today we don't have the same housing and health issues we had just 50 years ago, so we've lost what ever instincts we had against them.
That said, women are always going to be more hardwired to flight than men, they just don't have the same "I'm big and strong" attitude men (are more likely to) have, present geeks excluded :)
I've only got a dual-CPU Xeon running at 2.8Ghz with 3Gb RAM. Pity me for my inconsequential hardware specs, I take it back Microsoft, turns out it was my fault all along, Office's not bloated after all :(
I'm all for switching to open source software. But MS Office works extremely well.
I think that was in the past, Office 2007 is a super slow dog. I thought the days of typing and then looking at the screen to see the letters draw themselves was something I'd never have to see again (unless it was over a particularly slow WAN link), but no - Office 2007 brings that "Retro" feel right on back.
I'm not sure about the others now, no graphical consistency, no real integration with Windows, settings hidden away in menus that are themselves hidden... its all become a bit of a over-engineered mess. Too much code has been added over the years to it.
OO.o may not be the perfect alternative however, but MSO is not the perfect office suite either.
more importantly, how many programmers have they *fired* recently, and then recruited these not-so-cheap interns to replace them?