Perhaps I used the wrong word. Instead of "troubled" I should have said: "Why should I be suprised by this." I meant to convey my cinicism of the Corporate State. But it appears I failed miserably.
Who cares that American Coporations are helping an oppressor? Are they bound to our higher ideals? Do they not owe it to their shareholders to meet the needs of these customers?
I know a bunch of people in IT in RTP area. Very few earn as much as 80k. Most earn less. Living from paycheck to paycheck is a reality for a family man, especially if the wife, or should I just stick to spouse, doesn't work so she can raise decent children.
BTW, FU
I know very many IT guys too. And true, they aren't pulling down 80K. I'm one and I'm an 18 month year away from earning that much. But this guy had an MBA and worked @ Nortel for 15 years. He was probably making more than 80K.
I (and most any other IT Guy) could find a job in 24 hours making 20 bucks per doing general desktop/sever support thru Manpower or Kelly. Anyone with real technology skills can do better than sorting mail for 13 bucks an hour. That this guy couldn't only reaffirms my opinion that the only letters more meaningless than MBA are MCSE.
I stand by my assertion that anyone making as much money as I do for 15 years that can't go 6 months without burning through their retirement is a dumbass, and deserves none of our empathy.
FYI, studies have shown that children of working mothers in the upper half of the payscale are actually better (behaved/socialized/acheivers) than those of stay-at-home moms. They are more "decent".
If you wish to express negative sentiments to me, please do so with a meaningful name. Saying "fuck you" as an Anonymous Coward is, well, cowardly.
Amen. I've heard enough crying from "MBA's" that worked at Nortel. That place was rife with skilless fat that needed triming. And most of the ones with actual technical experience can't do anything but program for a 20 year old telephone switch.
Last I checked, my 401K was for RETIREMENT!!! I'm not going to dip into it just because I don't want to support my famliy the way my grandfather did.
The fact is this guy probaby made 80K and lived check to check. No savings (since he dipped into his 401K after his SIX MONTH Full salary severence). Probably had a nice 400K house in Preston or Weston or Wakefield. Irresponsibly living beyond his means. Guess what buddy? You should've planned better.
Nobody knows what mlife is. You know why? Because they thought "Hey, if we buy some ad time for the SuperBowl, we could get a billion hits on the website", but didn't pause to think "What's gonna happen to our servers if we get a billion hits?"
Strange that these same management techniques which work so well on the poor and uneducated overseas are now being used domestically.
Not strange at all. I read in the article that most of the poeple were immigrants, including the author. And these policies have been present in the US for as long as factories have been. Check the history of Labor circa the late 19th century some time. It'll turn your stomach.
Yes, it's all about timing. The rest of the email outlined thier other goals:
1. To workout more
2. To eat better
3. To be nicer to the people we love
4. To not drink so much
The email closed with a lamentation about how these beginning of the year resolutions never seem to work, followed by a humorous panel from the comic strip "Cathy".
It reminds me of Pearl Harbor (the movie) where the movie sucks chick-movie ass for about an hour until they kill off Ben Inflict. Of course, he's not really dead, and comes back later to ruin the whole experience for you (provided you have a penis).
The only upside to anything positive happening to N'Sync is that the Backstreet Boys have to be really pissed off that N'Sync is getting props instead of them.
...is this the place for an idealist open-source developer like Jordan to be spending his time?
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." --Matthew v. 43-48.
I don't think too much piracy happens b/c of downloads. I'm not in that loop anymore, having misplaced my eye-patch, so i could be wrong.
In my personal experience, most piracy of Windows and Office happens by knowing someone who knows someone that burns a copy of thier disk, which they usually copied from work's copy.
Find the guy at work with the MSDN subscription, and you'll find a guy with plenty of people being nice to him.
Methinks the minute ANYONE starts to infringe on the Office Monopoly, Microsoft releases their Linux version, and said ANYONE retreats back into anonymitity.
If we've learned anything, it's that these guy don't fuck around, and they'd eat their son to save their daughter.
Would whomever decided to waste a mod point rating this guy's post redundant please look at the time stamps on the earlier posts? It's entirely reasonable that the other links were posted while this guy was still writing his up.
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One more vote for a complete change to the Aquafied theme. It loks great.
Will there be a microsoft.slashdot.org as well? I mean, there are certainly enough stories to justify it.
Perhaps I used the wrong word. Instead of "troubled" I should have said: "Why should I be suprised by this." I meant to convey my cinicism of the Corporate State. But it appears I failed miserably.
Ah well.
Who cares that American Coporations are helping an oppressor? Are they bound to our higher ideals? Do they not owe it to their shareholders to meet the needs of these customers?
Why should I be troubled by this?
Never mind rights for "elecronic" life forms. I'm hoping Humans still have rights in 2020.
I know a bunch of people in IT in RTP area. Very few earn as much as 80k. Most earn less. Living from paycheck to paycheck is a reality for a family man, especially if the wife, or should I just stick to spouse, doesn't work so she can raise decent children.
BTW, FU
I know very many IT guys too. And true, they aren't pulling down 80K. I'm one and I'm an 18 month year away from earning that much. But this guy had an MBA and worked @ Nortel for 15 years. He was probably making more than 80K.
I (and most any other IT Guy) could find a job in 24 hours making 20 bucks per doing general desktop/sever support thru Manpower or Kelly. Anyone with real technology skills can do better than sorting mail for 13 bucks an hour. That this guy couldn't only reaffirms my opinion that the only letters more meaningless than MBA are MCSE.
I stand by my assertion that anyone making as much money as I do for 15 years that can't go 6 months without burning through their retirement is a dumbass, and deserves none of our empathy.
FYI, studies have shown that children of working mothers in the upper half of the payscale are actually better (behaved/socialized/acheivers) than those of stay-at-home moms. They are more "decent".
If you wish to express negative sentiments to me, please do so with a meaningful name. Saying "fuck you" as an Anonymous Coward is, well, cowardly.
Amen. I've heard enough crying from "MBA's" that worked at Nortel. That place was rife with skilless fat that needed triming. And most of the ones with actual technical experience can't do anything but program for a 20 year old telephone switch.
Last I checked, my 401K was for RETIREMENT!!! I'm not going to dip into it just because I don't want to support my famliy the way my grandfather did.
The fact is this guy probaby made 80K and lived check to check. No savings (since he dipped into his 401K after his SIX MONTH Full salary severence). Probably had a nice 400K house in Preston or Weston or Wakefield. Irresponsibly living beyond his means. Guess what buddy? You should've planned better.
Nobody knows what mlife is. You know why? Because they thought "Hey, if we buy some ad time for the SuperBowl, we could get a billion hits on the website", but didn't pause to think "What's gonna happen to our servers if we get a billion hits?"
Heh. I knew a chick in high school that thought Lake Erie was the Atlantic Ocean.
Or even PrimusSucks.com :)
Not strange at all. I read in the article that most of the poeple were immigrants, including the author. And these policies have been present in the US for as long as factories have been. Check the history of Labor circa the late 19th century some time. It'll turn your stomach.
Yes, it's all about timing. The rest of the email outlined thier other goals:
1. To workout more
2. To eat better
3. To be nicer to the people we love
4. To not drink so much
The email closed with a lamentation about how these beginning of the year resolutions never seem to work, followed by a humorous panel from the comic strip "Cathy".
The pre-installed RAM comes in a standard, 168pint DIMM slot which apparently is a bitch to get at.
:)
But enough about my PowerMac 8500...
Here it is.
The only upside to anything positive happening to N'Sync is that the Backstreet Boys have to be really pissed off that N'Sync is getting props instead of them.
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." --Matthew v. 43-48.
In my personal experience, most piracy of Windows and Office happens by knowing someone who knows someone that burns a copy of thier disk, which they usually copied from work's copy.
Find the guy at work with the MSDN subscription, and you'll find a guy with plenty of people being nice to him.
Methinks the minute ANYONE starts to infringe on the Office Monopoly, Microsoft releases their Linux version, and said ANYONE retreats back into anonymitity.
If we've learned anything, it's that these guy don't fuck around, and they'd eat their son to save their daughter.
Agreed. That was a rather silly comment for the submitter to make. I use it @ home to lay on the couch and surf the net, or work from home/recliner.
and, as you say, my company uses it extensively for difficult or impossible to cable areas. It's far from a "toy".
What a brilliant fucking observation. One that's only been made 1.44 Quintillion times the last few days.
What are your other interests? Do you like statistics? Do well in Biology? Try Bioinformatics.
Care about networks, planning infrastructures and solving related problems? Look into being a SysAdmin.
Like beer? Get drunk.
Yes, that sounds acceptable. Just hate to see someone lose karma for trying to help out.
Would whomever decided to waste a mod point rating this guy's post redundant please look at the time stamps on the earlier posts? It's entirely reasonable that the other links were posted while this guy was still writing his up.
Try to be a bit less anxious to punish.