OK, I had accepted the fact that H1B's killed the IT job market for Americans. Competition and all that. That's just fine. Shit happens. But if Americans can't work in India, then let's kick the damn H1B's out of this country. I had NO IDEA that Americans couldn't get an Indian job. If that really is true (although no real good source was cited), I say fuck 'em and give 'em the boot until India wants to open up it's doors to American workers.
but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about.
Now, I don't use a whole heck of a lot of OSS software, but isn't there an OSS spellchecker in there somewhere? If you're going to use "childish" in a business letter, I'd think you'd at least run spell check on it before you fired it out into the open. Linux and other OSS projects are looking more and more, well, childish by the day.
This is really fucked up. A Nazi-esque "Homeland Security" dept (sorry about breaking into your house, tapping your phone, seizing your property, and arresting you without a warrant, but Bob's girlfriend's roommate's secretary said you were a terrorist) in the gov't now is going to help select companies with their marketing? What in the FUCK is going on in this country? This makes Nazi Germany seem sane by comparison. Let's throw these fuckers out of the White House next election and return to some kind of sanity.
I know of a certain industry online, that if they find you fucked with their computers, won't bother with the authorities. The owners will fly out to where the kid lives, and beat the living shit out of him. It's happened before, and it'll happen again. This kid should consider himself *lucky* that he didn't step on the wrong people's toes. He should consider himself *lucky* that he's just gonna get sued and not lose any body parts. Very fucking lucky.
The reason is simple. A product of any kind has to satisfy a demand. What demand or problem were e-books filling? They pretty much offer nothing (other than searching) that books don't offer, plus a shitload of extra money and complexity. They're pretty damn pointless, actually.
This is exactly why I only buy unencrypted e-books and sci-fi magazines from Fictionwise
That's funny. The format is use is 100% unencrypted, and 100% compatible with any reader. And, I get to buy them from my LOCAL retailer. The format I like is called "paper". It's only been around for a few thousand years, but I think it's going to catch on one of these days.
B. The ARTICLE says that MS is claiming that it's unfair. That's my point. MS never said, "It's unfair". Big difference. "unfair" is well, unfair editorializing.
Good troll article. MS never said anything abotu "fair". The only place "fair" or "unfair" was used in this article was the headline. It was not used in any quotes attributed to Microsoft.
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The people that do matter don't actually produce anything, the lawyers and the CEO's, they try to see how little they can pay the "overhead" while still meeting various buisiness benchmarks(production, PE ratios, etc).
How incredibly naive. Those people bring the parts together. I don't recall the last time a single inventor created, say, a new silicon wafer process to make chip maknig dirt cheap. I don't remember the last major drug breakthrough coming from a guy in his garage. I don't seem to recall a single seamstress bringing cheap clothes to millions of people. CEO's are there for a very real reason.
More and more the american worker is just dirt that's tilled for whatever it can produce
So what's your point? Labor is just that... a resource like anything else. Companies pay as little for as much work as they can get on the market place, and employees work as little to earn as much as they can on the marketplace. It's always been this way with every employer/employee relationship. You sound like some silly union organizer. "Companies bad. Employees good." Right
Obviously, they did. People wouldn't have bought from them if they didn't. A few points: Marketing. They brought Windows and Office to market. They introduced PC computing to the market. That's value. Standardization. Another thing that they brought to market that proved ultimately useful to consumers. So just because they didn't write a program that was brank spanking new and innovative, that doesn't mean that they didn't add value.
I love that word. It can really be used anywhere. I'm surprised that Slashdot used it. Well, I gotta run. I gotta take a cyber-shit in my cyber-toilet. Hope I remember to cyber-flush.
Yup, and MS gets to look like a hero for donating their consulting services, which will amount to "Buy Microsoft products". Favorite line from the article:
So then, consulting services are free now? The way I see it, any kind of donation is a good one. I don't know a lot of school systems that are as ungrateful as you appear to be that would turn down free *anything*. A donation is a donation, so unless you personally donate a large amount of money to your local school system, you have no room to talk.
Because in most inner city, US schools, kids have no access to technology at all, asshole. This is without a doubt, a good thing. Or maybe you just like the idea of kids growing up with no technology education?
Give back? Sure, they may write OSS software, but it's for their own boxes so that they can SELL more. It has *nothing* to do with "giving back". Sure, they write OSS drivers for the IBM Enterprise Class 123ABC Server. Big deal. All they're doing is adding onto what is already millions and millions of hours of free labor. It's equivalent to renting a commercial building to run a business out of. Even if somebody gave it to you for FREE, you're still going to put money into fixing it up. Is that out of gratitude to the landlord? No. It's to make more money. It's incidental if it helps out the landlord, but the business is there primarily to make a buck. I can tell you, if somebody gave me a run down building for free, and said, "Use it as is", I sure would, and I'd spend money to fix it up because, hey, free building. IBM is not in the business to "give back" any more than OSS writers are in it to line the pockets of IBM execs.
How naive. It's really simple. IBM is trying to rake in a few billion selling software they don't have to pay for. I don't know what's giving you a warm fuzzy feeling. It's not charity. They're not "supporting the community", they're simply saving tens of millions on software development by letting gullible, naive college kids work for free. It's the same thing that happens at my local food co-op. The food co-op plasters the word "community" on everything, and people stand in line to "volunteer" there. The co-op is a business, and they're just using the same kind of gullible, naive people to work for free for them. Same fucking thing. Fuck it. Labor is expensive. Maybe I'll convert my business to a "co-op", and let the "community" "volunteer" to run my business while I sit in the back raking in the money.
A corrupt presidential candidate who is poised to lose an election suddenly wins when his corrupt brother, who happens to be a governor of a very populous state, "loses" thousands of votes, tipping the election in favor of his brother. the entire world knows about it, yet the corrupt presidential candidate is allowed to take office.
When I was a kid, IBM was a corporation. They're still a corporation. Now they're a corporation that's going to make a killing off of a bunch of gullible college kids' programming.
It would be nice to have a few more customers, but at the same time, I'm not selfish enough to ask the gov't to pay for broadband just so MY business would do better. I think it's still inherently wrong for the gov't to provide something like broadband for everybody. My sites aren't important. Just entertainment.
How's the latency on that wireless? I'd consider doing that if I lived closer to work, and if they had an OC-3....
Hell if I know. Fast as shit, though. After years of working at IT companies, this is one of the fastest connections I've seen. I've seen a full 10 Mpbs throughput, which is pretty damn nice for $0/month.
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OK, I had accepted the fact that H1B's killed the IT job market for Americans. Competition and all that. That's just fine. Shit happens. But if Americans can't work in India, then let's kick the damn H1B's out of this country. I had NO IDEA that Americans couldn't get an Indian job. If that really is true (although no real good source was cited), I say fuck 'em and give 'em the boot until India wants to open up it's doors to American workers.
but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about.
Now, I don't use a whole heck of a lot of OSS software, but isn't there an OSS spellchecker in there somewhere? If you're going to use "childish" in a business letter, I'd think you'd at least run spell check on it before you fired it out into the open. Linux and other OSS projects are looking more and more, well, childish by the day.
Now my question for Slashdotters is why are you TRYING to hide taht your a geek?
Simple. I like to get laid.
This is really fucked up. A Nazi-esque "Homeland Security" dept (sorry about breaking into your house, tapping your phone, seizing your property, and arresting you without a warrant, but Bob's girlfriend's roommate's secretary said you were a terrorist) in the gov't now is going to help select companies with their marketing? What in the FUCK is going on in this country? This makes Nazi Germany seem sane by comparison. Let's throw these fuckers out of the White House next election and return to some kind of sanity.
I know of a certain industry online, that if they find you fucked with their computers, won't bother with the authorities. The owners will fly out to where the kid lives, and beat the living shit out of him. It's happened before, and it'll happen again. This kid should consider himself *lucky* that he didn't step on the wrong people's toes. He should consider himself *lucky* that he's just gonna get sued and not lose any body parts. Very fucking lucky.
The reason is simple. A product of any kind has to satisfy a demand. What demand or problem were e-books filling? They pretty much offer nothing (other than searching) that books don't offer, plus a shitload of extra money and complexity. They're pretty damn pointless, actually.
This is exactly why I only buy unencrypted e-books and sci-fi magazines from Fictionwise
That's funny. The format is use is 100% unencrypted, and 100% compatible with any reader. And, I get to buy them from my LOCAL retailer. The format I like is called "paper". It's only been around for a few thousand years, but I think it's going to catch on one of these days.
... but was i the only one that got really frustrated because there were only .wmw versions of the starwarskid movies around?
Yes. Yes you were.
A. I like fucking profanity.
B. The ARTICLE says that MS is claiming that it's unfair. That's my point. MS never said, "It's unfair". Big difference. "unfair" is well, unfair editorializing.
And now Microsoft is saying that other people wanting to develop an OS is "unfair"?
RTFA Read The Fucking Article. MS never said anything about it being "unfair". Good troll, though.
Good troll article. MS never said anything abotu "fair". The only place "fair" or "unfair" was used in this article was the headline. It was not used in any quotes attributed to Microsoft.
The people that do matter don't actually produce anything, the lawyers and the CEO's, they try to see how little they can pay the "overhead" while still meeting various buisiness benchmarks(production, PE ratios, etc).
How incredibly naive. Those people bring the parts together. I don't recall the last time a single inventor created, say, a new silicon wafer process to make chip maknig dirt cheap. I don't remember the last major drug breakthrough coming from a guy in his garage. I don't seem to recall a single seamstress bringing cheap clothes to millions of people. CEO's are there for a very real reason.
More and more the american worker is just dirt that's tilled for whatever it can produce
So what's your point? Labor is just that... a resource like anything else. Companies pay as little for as much work as they can get on the market place, and employees work as little to earn as much as they can on the marketplace. It's always been this way with every employer/employee relationship. You sound like some silly union organizer. "Companies bad. Employees good." Right
doesn't necessarily add much value.
Obviously, they did. People wouldn't have bought from them if they didn't. A few points: Marketing. They brought Windows and Office to market. They introduced PC computing to the market. That's value. Standardization. Another thing that they brought to market that proved ultimately useful to consumers. So just because they didn't write a program that was brank spanking new and innovative, that doesn't mean that they didn't add value.
.NET wouldn't have allowed us to migrate like this.
.NET, and a properly writen app, you probably wouldn't have had to migrate at all.
With
I love that word. It can really be used anywhere. I'm surprised that Slashdot used it. Well, I gotta run. I gotta take a cyber-shit in my cyber-toilet. Hope I remember to cyber-flush.
Yup, and MS gets to look like a hero for donating their consulting services, which will amount to "Buy Microsoft products". Favorite line from the article:
So then, consulting services are free now? The way I see it, any kind of donation is a good one. I don't know a lot of school systems that are as ungrateful as you appear to be that would turn down free *anything*. A donation is a donation, so unless you personally donate a large amount of money to your local school system, you have no room to talk.
In what way is this such a beutifully good thing?
Because in most inner city, US schools, kids have no access to technology at all, asshole. This is without a doubt, a good thing. Or maybe you just like the idea of kids growing up with no technology education?
Here's my picture. My name is John Smith, and I live on Main St. in Smallville, USA.
Give back? Sure, they may write OSS software, but it's for their own boxes so that they can SELL more. It has *nothing* to do with "giving back". Sure, they write OSS drivers for the IBM Enterprise Class 123ABC Server. Big deal. All they're doing is adding onto what is already millions and millions of hours of free labor. It's equivalent to renting a commercial building to run a business out of. Even if somebody gave it to you for FREE, you're still going to put money into fixing it up. Is that out of gratitude to the landlord? No. It's to make more money. It's incidental if it helps out the landlord, but the business is there primarily to make a buck. I can tell you, if somebody gave me a run down building for free, and said, "Use it as is", I sure would, and I'd spend money to fix it up because, hey, free building. IBM is not in the business to "give back" any more than OSS writers are in it to line the pockets of IBM execs.
How naive. It's really simple. IBM is trying to rake in a few billion selling software they don't have to pay for. I don't know what's giving you a warm fuzzy feeling. It's not charity. They're not "supporting the community", they're simply saving tens of millions on software development by letting gullible, naive college kids work for free. It's the same thing that happens at my local food co-op. The food co-op plasters the word "community" on everything, and people stand in line to "volunteer" there. The co-op is a business, and they're just using the same kind of gullible, naive people to work for free for them. Same fucking thing. Fuck it. Labor is expensive. Maybe I'll convert my business to a "co-op", and let the "community" "volunteer" to run my business while I sit in the back raking in the money.
There's a sucker born every minute.
A corrupt presidential candidate who is poised to lose an election suddenly wins when his corrupt brother, who happens to be a governor of a very populous state, "loses" thousands of votes, tipping the election in favor of his brother. the entire world knows about it, yet the corrupt presidential candidate is allowed to take office.
Oh wait...
When I was a kid, IBM was a corporation. They're still a corporation. Now they're a corporation that's going to make a killing off of a bunch of gullible college kids' programming.
It would be nice to have a few more customers, but at the same time, I'm not selfish enough to ask the gov't to pay for broadband just so MY business would do better. I think it's still inherently wrong for the gov't to provide something like broadband for everybody. My sites aren't important. Just entertainment.
I take it that you've done some wardriving and found an open access point that you aim they yagi at?
Actually, a local municipality provides free, public, wide open broadband that nobody uses.
How's the latency on that wireless? I'd consider doing that if I lived closer to work, and if they had an OC-3....
Hell if I know. Fast as shit, though. After years of working at IT companies, this is one of the fastest connections I've seen. I've seen a full 10 Mpbs throughput, which is pretty damn nice for $0/month.