It seems pretty amazing to me that the VP for Security for one of the biggest IT companies in the world should have to have this type of learning experience.
Why is it surprising? People at the VP level, particularly in large companies, spend all day on the phone, in meetings, culling reports for good news, and having visions. Er, vision. They don't actually do the things that their departments do.
I found a few that criticise US foreign policy, and I'm selling the recordings to that conservative dork I read about the other day!
What?!?! Someone at an allegedly-elite American university criticizing America, particularly its foreign policy, and when there is a Republican in the White House, no less? Why, you'll be claiming Hitler was a racist, next!
If you've ever been in Microsoft's HQ you'll see it's a company like any else, with one exception: people really believe that their work will change the world, for the better or worse.
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, the New Deal, like the Salvation Army, set off to save mankind from it's inherent, incurable swinishness. Like the Salvation Army, it wound up running flophouses.
Drawing the parallel is left as an exercise for the reader.
If i lived next door to a crazy, nuclear-armed country with a million-man infantry
you mean like... the US??
Yes, like the US. We live next to Canadians and Cubans, two military-mad nuclear weirdos, and that is bound to make people crazy. Heck, just look at Florida, absolutely swarming with Canadians and awash with Cubans.
Also, keep in mind that Europe sent all their criminals and religious loons here to the US, and now they are shocked, shocked they say, that we Americans act like this. Tchah!
Who in their right mind would pay for television episode downloads? IRC and Bittorrent has these episodes in glorious XVid format without the bullshit commercials.
Um, it could be that some people believe in paying for something that isn't theirs, and that they may perceive IRC and Bittorrent to be stealing? I know, these wacky oldsters with their fax machines and hula hoops and libertarian ideas about property rights...
It may be ridiculous, but given the choice between shaking hands with a hog farmer who just came in from the barn and a businessman who just walked out of the bathroom without washing up, I'm going with the hog farmer.
For one thing, the hog farmer probably won't try to take your watch.
Add to that the following statement (my own): "Being a Microsoft proponent in an argument about operating systems is like being a white male in a discussion on discrimination."
Um, aren't you discriminating against us white guys? Luckily, Jesse Jackson always fights for the repressed and the discriminated, so he... Oh, Jesse can't make it? Well, then, Martha Burke will... What? She has a tee time with Hootie Johnson? Oh, Hootie and the Blowfish. Well, our great political advocate... hey, who is our great political advocate?
Any Windows user who can distinguish a computer from a tire knows that Windows is insecure,
You wouldn't say that if you knew some of the people in this office. Then again, to quote Bobcat Golthwaite, "If I showed you a doughnut, a mop, and a v*gina, could you pick it out of a lineup?"
Yeah, the Hail Mary; sorry about that, I'm busy getting ready to pipe in noise to the RCA Dome this weekend, so I'm a bit distracted.
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Just when you forget about Doug Flutie and the Immaculate Reception, you find out he's still on an NFL roster. The Apple Cell Phone Rumour [TM] seems to have taken on a similar life of its own, though at least we'll be spared having to see commercials for Apple Cell Phone Flakes Cereal.
A lot of people seem to be missing a point, talking about OS X on a Sun box. Apple bought NeXTStep, which is more or less an old version of OS X, when they bought NeXT. If Apple and Sun had merged, I've a feeling the resulting "OS X" would be veeeery different from what we see today.
I say this because back in the day, I worked at a well-known national space agency which shall remain nameless, using a variety of Unix boxes. NeXTStep was by far the best desktop I'd ever seen, and until OS X came out, nothing else had ever come close. I'm not sure what would have happened if Sun and Apple had merged, but I doubt the UI on a Mac would be any better.
It may be a word now, but will anyone still be using it 50 years from now?
English has abandoned a lot of words that would seem to be useful. While someone may be ruthless, how many are ruthful? "Ugsome" used to be the opposite of handsome, but it just disappeared. One great loss is "velleity", which meant a desire that isn't strong enough for you to act upon. What a great word, yet it's gone. Not only that, but American colonists preserved many words that disappeared in England later, the classic example being "fall" for the season after summer and before winter. The language would be even further impoverished if not for us damn yankees.
I'm sure that "podcast", like others, will disappear one day; English is too dynamic a language to not shed words. That doesn't make it invalid right now, though.
You'd think that a multi-BILLION dollar company could assess a good deliverable date after more than 10 years.
Not if you've worked at multi-BILLION dollar companies. Here, we were fine until corporate got involved and they brought in "experts" to tell us why we were doing everything wrong, even though we were one of the (very) few companies within the corporation that was actually, you know, making money and keeping customers happy.
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Why is it surprising? People at the VP level, particularly in large companies, spend all day on the phone, in meetings, culling reports for good news, and having visions. Er, vision. They don't actually do the things that their departments do.
What?!?! Someone at an allegedly-elite American university criticizing America, particularly its foreign policy, and when there is a Republican in the White House, no less? Why, you'll be claiming Hitler was a racist, next!
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, the New Deal, like the Salvation Army, set off to save mankind from it's inherent, incurable swinishness. Like the Salvation Army, it wound up running flophouses.
Drawing the parallel is left as an exercise for the reader.
CUPERTINO, CA - Steve Jobs, who challenges that assertion, ...
NEW YORK - Today Lorne Micheals issued a press release ...
Having programmed for NeXTStep and being a longtime Mac owner/user, I've always looked at it as if NeXT bought Apple for -$450,000,000.
But Cardinal Balmer is using it for The Google Inquisition, My Lord!
you mean like... the US??
Yes, like the US. We live next to Canadians and Cubans, two military-mad nuclear weirdos, and that is bound to make people crazy. Heck, just look at Florida, absolutely swarming with Canadians and awash with Cubans.
Also, keep in mind that Europe sent all their criminals and religious loons here to the US, and now they are shocked, shocked they say, that we Americans act like this. Tchah!
Um, it could be that some people believe in paying for something that isn't theirs, and that they may perceive IRC and Bittorrent to be stealing? I know, these wacky oldsters with their fax machines and hula hoops and libertarian ideas about property rights ...
For one thing, the hog farmer probably won't try to take your watch.
No it isn't!!!!
[Crushes the Unbelieving Heathen Commie Scum with a cracked old Apple Cube]
Um, aren't you discriminating against us white guys? Luckily, Jesse Jackson always fights for the repressed and the discriminated, so he ... Oh, Jesse can't make it? Well, then, Martha Burke will ... What? She has a tee time with Hootie Johnson? Oh, Hootie and the Blowfish. Well, our great political advocate ... hey, who is our great political advocate?
Now that's exactly what I've been talking about!
Sincerely,
John Hinckley
You wouldn't say that if you knew some of the people in this office. Then again, to quote Bobcat Golthwaite, "If I showed you a doughnut, a mop, and a v*gina, could you pick it out of a lineup?"
Of course, that may be their focus, but their execution leaves a lot to be desired.
It's like Ford saying "Quality is Job 1." Great, glad to hear it; how about actually doing it?
He's certainly no Gannet newspaper editor ...
I say this because back in the day, I worked at a well-known national space agency which shall remain nameless, using a variety of Unix boxes. NeXTStep was by far the best desktop I'd ever seen, and until OS X came out, nothing else had ever come close. I'm not sure what would have happened if Sun and Apple had merged, but I doubt the UI on a Mac would be any better.
Um, IIRC, MOnica Lowinski has those names copyrighted.
Oh, I wouldn't say that ...
English has abandoned a lot of words that would seem to be useful. While someone may be ruthless, how many are ruthful? "Ugsome" used to be the opposite of handsome, but it just disappeared. One great loss is "velleity", which meant a desire that isn't strong enough for you to act upon. What a great word, yet it's gone. Not only that, but American colonists preserved many words that disappeared in England later, the classic example being "fall" for the season after summer and before winter. The language would be even further impoverished if not for us damn yankees.
I'm sure that "podcast", like others, will disappear one day; English is too dynamic a language to not shed words. That doesn't make it invalid right now, though.
Not if you've worked at multi-BILLION dollar companies. Here, we were fine until corporate got involved and they brought in "experts" to tell us why we were doing everything wrong, even though we were one of the (very) few companies within the corporation that was actually, you know, making money and keeping customers happy.
Sounds like someone needs to improve their driving skills and stop blaming the system.
Sounds like a realistic NASCAR race to me.
OTOH, the US Gran Prix game won't even start 14 out of 20 times.