Google is a company that offers a service, web searches, and pays for it by means of advertisment placing.
If they were just and advertisement company they would just put a website with searchable advertisements, it would be closer in spirit to the Yellow Pages.
Many of us don't like them , amongst many other reasons, because they have acted illegally immorally and unethically.
Would you knowingly make business with a trader you know for certain that has broken the law? Lets say a plumber. Would you allow him to fix your shower if you know he has been stealing good shower parts for example?
Many folks think that this dislike of MS is some irrational flight of fancy, but go on, tell me you are that understanding when it comes to dealing with any other entity making business with you.
And then read the fallout where the readers debunk what the article says, including posts to problems with IE that for some reason were completely ignored when doing the compilation.
I will just point out that Firefox is #1 because they *patched* the most vulnerabilities.
Only in Bizarro Planet this would define the most unsafe application.
In order to pretend they were not acting anti competitively (yeah, right) they made explorer pretty much the core of your desktop experience.
This,as any Linux/UNIX (even OSX) knows, is not necessary at all.
By growing a little Frankenstein driven by marketing and legalese rather than need and technical merit, they are left with an unworkable pile of binary mess that will be almost impossible to untangle.
Their bad actions are coming back to haunt them...
To have the privilege to pay hundreds of dollars for software that requires on top of it antivirus, firewall, a basic database, and please add the word processor and the spreadsheet, neither of which is free in Windows cloud coo-coo land, and also imaging software.
Do you think that the constant nagging for you to install whatever they want to install in your computer, is an advantage?
Is it an advantage to be forced to contribute to the profits of a company that is actually convicted of acting illegally in both the US and EU? (just for starters).
Look pal, if you enjoy being mistreated, well, to each one his own, I have nothing against masochists, but I don't want to partake on such unorthodox pleasures.
In the UK all major retailers are offering Linux netbooks, on their shops, side by side with laptops running MS fare.
The horse bolt the gate already, trying to close that gate now, specially with those monopolistic, bully tactics is not going to work, everybody is aware that MS got away with murder with a slap in the wrist last time, there are many people out there ready to spill the beans if MS even thinks about misbehaving, specially "business partners" that get stabbed in the back by this immoral company.
In Mexico I learned the countries from all the world (Geography, secondary school) with their respective capital cities and the most important rivers, lakes and mountain ranges on each continent.
We used to have 4 Geography exams per year, which often included maps where we had to identify those features.
Rot memory? Yes, but to this day I know where Buthan, Burundi or Liechtenstein are, and can at least say in which countries the Ganges, the Mississippi or the Nile are.
Then when the business people or people higer up in the chain food show up the developers all of the sudden need their manager to clean the mess they left behind.
Many developers that think they are stars are nowhere to be seen when they overlook something and the ship starts sinking.
You can't have it both ways, if you want to have a manager between you and the people that is going to put pressure on your team you will have to allow this person to do his mangement job, even if you don't always agree.
Otherwise, step up to the plate and lets see how long you last. It may be shorter than you think.
If you are managing (look up the word in a dictionary) you can't just let people do whatever they want.
If I need a project in Java and one of the divas in my team starts to do the damn thing in Python he will get a piece of my mind or worst.
This mindset that managers have to accommodate their teams and roll over is nonsensical.
There should be a degree of accommodation for sure, but there is a point where you have to draw lines in the sand, otherwise the situation could get out of hand. That is part of your job as a manager. It is not pretty or pleasant but needs doing, then do it properly.
As for this namby-pamby "we are all equals in a team" I could not disagree more. The chunk of responsibility somebody managing a team is much bigger than the one of one individual developer, we all know this, to pretend otherwise is unrealistic.
There should be a relationship of trust and respect, but a good manager knows that he has responsibilities for all the team and the layer of management above him (which means other teams may be waiting for his team to work efficiently).
If a developer starts to go all primadona then it is much easier to contain the problem right there, even if that means the difficult developer will hate the managerial guts of his boss.
If the conflict is completely unsolvable sometimes is much easier and better to build a team from scratch than to waste time agreeing to disagree. Good developers normally understand this and can get along, the guy that thinks is Linus Torvalds incarnation may need to go and play with his penguins elsewhere.
Life is tough and sometimes is not pretty, as simple as that.
You can have only so many cooks, one more and the broth gets spoiled.
Part of being a team player is to understand what is your place in the machinery of your team and then work efficiently there, if other people are tasked with designing something and you are tasked with implementing it, your snipping to the design may be counter-productive.
... of somebody that will bring problems eventually.
Pretty much all the professions you mention have regular meetings to report work they are doing.
Honestly, you just need to have been in a hospital ward to know doctors have regular meetings to asses the needs of the patients, and this is not only the junior doctors, senior specialists do this as well to ensure treatment is adequate and to asses possible different course of treatments, and unless I am becoming stupid and my eyes are deceiving me, they write the outcome of the report themselves and put if in the patient's file. Sorry, forgot to mention two relative of mines are doctors, just in case you thought I am talking from my derriÃre.
And to even suggest fighter pilots don't need to be tightly controlled is so stupid that I will not even try to clarify things for you (my dad, an ex high rank soldier, say you must be mad).
How are you going to know where is your project standing in respect to your deadlines?
How are you going to learn about what your charges are doing without reports of some kind? To claim a manager is ignorant of what people are doing without spelling out how exactly he is supposed to know is ridiculous.
Trust is all good and dandy, but I need to manage a project, I do trust you, but that does not mean I will not try to collect objective information about where we are so I can take off your back layers of management higher up in the food chain.
A developer that can't produce a simple report of what he is doing is unprofessional and should not be developing to earn a living.
I will assume you are under 25 years old and that your computing teachers are rubbish.
Those of use slightly older remember that SunOS became popular as a desktop operating system, very popular in the academic circles and in certain industries that required serious processing power in a compact package.
Later Sun machines like the Sparc Classic, Sparc LC, Sparc Station 10 and the Ultra 10 became classics of the computer industry that you would spot in trading desks in banks, as workstations in oil companies and as CAD stations in Formula 1 teams, amongst multitude of many other roles.
Sun developed a graphical environment called OpenView and was the first UNIX commercial company to put Gnome as the default on offering for their desktop machines.
There are many more points that disprove your silly assertion, but I'll leave it at that.
Plenty of good administrators and politicians, where did that get us? To global climate change and a car industry without any incentives to become socially responsible.
If only politicians and good administrators are the solutions to our problems we can as well stop the fairy tale democracy would be and let professional politicians and administrators do as they wish since they *obviously" know better.
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Name successful BSD OSes and DBs.
Lets compare market share.
I rest my case.
So are TV stations advertisement companies also?
Is the Superbowl also an advertisement event?
Google is a company that offers a service, web searches, and pays for it by means of advertisment placing.
If they were just and advertisement company they would just put a website with searchable advertisements, it would be closer in spirit to the Yellow Pages.
It is as simple as that.
Many of us don't like them , amongst many other reasons, because they have acted illegally immorally and unethically.
Would you knowingly make business with a trader you know for certain that has broken the law? Lets say a plumber. Would you allow him to fix your shower if you know he has been stealing good shower parts for example?
Many folks think that this dislike of MS is some irrational flight of fancy, but go on, tell me you are that understanding when it comes to dealing with any other entity making business with you.
Why do you need to bring the "holier than thou give them something useful" nonsense if the poster is not asking about that?
Who carries proof of all the licences you should have?
Challenge any gal you fancy to a chess game, that is a great ice breaker. Honestly.
If the answer is "I don't know how to play" then the heaven of chess mentoring opens to you.
"I don't wan to play!" then reply with "what would you like to play?"
And so on. There is no chance that you will get no for an answer.
In the internet the world "only" has very little meaning.
Those Linux hippies and their complicated nonsense.
So once again, Protect mode? Where is that in the Control Panel? Why is the memory not protected by default? I am Joe the Plumber, why should I care!
32 bits Vista!? Is that cheaper or more expensive than 31 bits Vista? And 33?
Argh ....
And then read the fallout where the readers debunk what the article says, including posts to problems with IE that for some reason were completely ignored when doing the compilation.
I will just point out that Firefox is #1 because they *patched* the most vulnerabilities.
Only in Bizarro Planet this would define the most unsafe application.
In order to pretend they were not acting anti competitively (yeah, right) they made explorer pretty much the core of your desktop experience.
This,as any Linux/UNIX (even OSX) knows, is not necessary at all.
By growing a little Frankenstein driven by marketing and legalese rather than need and technical merit, they are left with an unworkable pile of binary mess that will be almost impossible to untangle.
Their bad actions are coming back to haunt them...
In BBC Radio 5 Live an MS representative was giving the suggested steps to protect Windows machines, the full 4 of them.
The newsreader and presenter, Anita Anand asked if it would not be easier just to switch to another browser.
The MS guy replied with the platitudes to be expected, the important point is that mainstream non technical media are getting the idea.
I can have the real thing for free!
I have been doing that for the last 8 years.
I think geeks that are still using Windows only do so for one of these reasons: technical ignorance, laziness or duress.
To have the privilege to pay hundreds of dollars for software that requires on top of it antivirus, firewall, a basic database, and please add the word processor and the spreadsheet, neither of which is free in Windows cloud coo-coo land, and also imaging software.
Do you think that the constant nagging for you to install whatever they want to install in your computer, is an advantage?
Is it an advantage to be forced to contribute to the profits of a company that is actually convicted of acting illegally in both the US and EU? (just for starters).
Look pal, if you enjoy being mistreated, well, to each one his own, I have nothing against masochists, but I don't want to partake on such unorthodox pleasures.
In the UK all major retailers are offering Linux netbooks, on their shops, side by side with laptops running MS fare.
The horse bolt the gate already, trying to close that gate now, specially with those monopolistic, bully tactics is not going to work, everybody is aware that MS got away with murder with a slap in the wrist last time, there are many people out there ready to spill the beans if MS even thinks about misbehaving, specially "business partners" that get stabbed in the back by this immoral company.
In Mexico I learned the countries from all the world (Geography, secondary school) with their respective capital cities and the most important rivers, lakes and mountain ranges on each continent.
We used to have 4 Geography exams per year, which often included maps where we had to identify those features.
Rot memory? Yes, but to this day I know where Buthan, Burundi or Liechtenstein are, and can at least say in which countries the Ganges, the Mississippi or the Nile are.
Then when the business people or people higer up in the chain food show up the developers all of the sudden need their manager to clean the mess they left behind.
Many developers that think they are stars are nowhere to be seen when they overlook something and the ship starts sinking.
You can't have it both ways, if you want to have a manager between you and the people that is going to put pressure on your team you will have to allow this person to do his mangement job, even if you don't always agree.
Otherwise, step up to the plate and lets see how long you last. It may be shorter than you think.
If you are managing (look up the word in a dictionary) you can't just let people do whatever they want.
If I need a project in Java and one of the divas in my team starts to do the damn thing in Python he will get a piece of my mind or worst.
This mindset that managers have to accommodate their teams and roll over is nonsensical.
There should be a degree of accommodation for sure, but there is a point where you have to draw lines in the sand, otherwise the situation could get out of hand. That is part of your job as a manager. It is not pretty or pleasant but needs doing, then do it properly.
As for this namby-pamby "we are all equals in a team" I could not disagree more. The chunk of responsibility somebody managing a team is much bigger than the one of one individual developer, we all know this, to pretend otherwise is unrealistic.
There should be a relationship of trust and respect, but a good manager knows that he has responsibilities for all the team and the layer of management above him (which means other teams may be waiting for his team to work efficiently).
If a developer starts to go all primadona then it is much easier to contain the problem right there, even if that means the difficult developer will hate the managerial guts of his boss.
If the conflict is completely unsolvable sometimes is much easier and better to build a team from scratch than to waste time agreeing to disagree. Good developers normally understand this and can get along, the guy that thinks is Linus Torvalds incarnation may need to go and play with his penguins elsewhere.
Life is tough and sometimes is not pretty, as simple as that.
You can have only so many cooks, one more and the broth gets spoiled.
Part of being a team player is to understand what is your place in the machinery of your team and then work efficiently there, if other people are tasked with designing something and you are tasked with implementing it, your snipping to the design may be counter-productive.
... of somebody that will bring problems eventually.
Pretty much all the professions you mention have regular meetings to report work they are doing.
Honestly, you just need to have been in a hospital ward to know doctors have regular meetings to asses the needs of the patients, and this is not only the junior doctors, senior specialists do this as well to ensure treatment is adequate and to asses possible different course of treatments, and unless I am becoming stupid and my eyes are deceiving me, they write the outcome of the report themselves and put if in the patient's file. Sorry, forgot to mention two relative of mines are doctors, just in case you thought I am talking from my derriÃre.
And to even suggest fighter pilots don't need to be tightly controlled is so stupid that I will not even try to clarify things for you (my dad, an ex high rank soldier, say you must be mad).
Honestly. In which planet are you living?
You are joking, aren't you?
Who is going to document that visit? How are you going to control the unwieldy nature of informal chats?
Chats with your charges is a necessary but not sufficient task to keep a project running smoothly.
Although I agree that daily reports are silly, the opposite position of not having reports at all is even sillier.
How are you going to know where is your project standing in respect to your deadlines?
How are you going to learn about what your charges are doing without reports of some kind? To claim a manager is ignorant of what people are doing without spelling out how exactly he is supposed to know is ridiculous.
Trust is all good and dandy, but I need to manage a project, I do trust you, but that does not mean I will not try to collect objective information about where we are so I can take off your back layers of management higher up in the food chain.
A developer that can't produce a simple report of what he is doing is unprofessional and should not be developing to earn a living.
People solving problems that cost lots of money don't care about how many USB devices you can connect to a machine.
I will assume you are under 25 years old and that your computing teachers are rubbish.
Those of use slightly older remember that SunOS became popular as a desktop operating system, very popular in the academic circles and in certain industries that required serious processing power in a compact package.
Later Sun machines like the Sparc Classic, Sparc LC, Sparc Station 10 and the Ultra 10 became classics of the computer industry that you would spot in trading desks in banks, as workstations in oil companies and as CAD stations in Formula 1 teams, amongst multitude of many other roles.
Sun developed a graphical environment called OpenView and was the first UNIX commercial company to put Gnome as the default on offering for their desktop machines.
There are many more points that disprove your silly assertion, but I'll leave it at that.
Sun is ahead of the curve (yet again frankly) and is introducing optimizations that allow Solaris/ZFS to take decisions to optimize the use of SSDs
Plenty of good administrators and politicians, where did that get us? To global climate change and a car industry without any incentives to become socially responsible.
If only politicians and good administrators are the solutions to our problems we can as well stop the fairy tale democracy would be and let professional politicians and administrators do as they wish since they *obviously" know better.
The only problem is that they actually don't ....