Actually this is considered slow for a Microsoft post; Most of them get Godwin'd a bit faster... especially if one invokes the name of 'the gates' or 'the monkeyboy'. Then sacrifices a goat and inserts a blank CD with a pentagram on it for formatting.
Ooops... now I have compared them to Satan. I've double Godwin'd! DOH!
Please... only people who can't take a joke would call a Godwin. Besides, calling a Godwin is just as bad as invoking one so STFU!
Integrity and politics? Isn't it illegal to use the two in the same sentence?
They all cheat and lie... only one is hate motivated while the other is not. If I HATE gays, athiests and peace, I vote republican because they will give me the war I want, let me keep my guns and bomb abortion clinics and beat up fags.
Well I doubt they will go with an OS all there own but what MIGHT happen is a proprietary file system.
Though most likely, you get a.NET developer to develop apps for the Windows desktop. I've been watching Monster up here in Seattle and they have been trying to recruit Windows testers and other stuff so it only makes sense that they are trying to put out apps for Windows.
Beat you to it. Announced to management this week that I was looking so that they could start finding a replacement. Was told it would take at least 4 months; I told them it would take longer if they wanted someone with my skillset that would comply with their rules.
I'm also finding I can make 1.2 - 1.5 times what I am currently making as well. I'm being nice at this point because I kind of feel bad for them and want them to be able to maintain everything I built but know that their development will be on hold for at least a year due to the transition.
If you are really that curious, you could probably figure it out by going through somebody's past posts. I'm sure by process of elimination (and without the original poster giving anything away), it could be deduced but not implicitly said.:)
And while it would bring me great joy to come in the last week with a pink mohawk and henna tattoos on my face and arms and stand in front of the place smoking a pack of cigarettes for my lunch break each day, I will probably remain on a contractual basis for 6 months to a year just to help them out.
Yeah and the funny thing is that the employer doesn't realize that when I leave, they are going to find it impossible to find a replacement unless they get rid of those rules.
I'm staying on as long as I can to find a replacement but I know that I am going to get a new job MONTHS before they can find a replacement. In fact, I'm betting they won't be able to find a replacement until near Otober of this year.
You are so close, it's scary. The head of the company (and the owner) went to a Disney management school... I kid you not. And they follow these Disney like rules in an obsessive compulsive manner so as to border on insanity at times.
Yep and so did these guys and I thought I'd get used to it. But having people micromanage creative types becomes old fast. I once got a 'talking to' for walking on the 'non blue carpet' in a common area. It's pretty sad.
I myself am leaving a Microsoft vendor and heading to FOSS as a result of our compnaies inflexible rules. Here is an example:
- Everyone at the company wears the exact same uniform (supplied by the company)
- I'm not allowed to decorate my office, bring in furniture other than their supplied furniture and can only have one picture in my office.
- I'm not allowed to have facial hair, wierd haircuts (dreads count as wierd), tattoos, peircings, etc.
- I am micromanaged to death
This is hell but now that the market has rebounded, I'm finding I can mae easily 1.5 times as much as I make here and I don't have to deal with this bullshit anymore.
Wow... you named 2. This is practicaly the booming capitol of open source. JAVA which is taught in every community college and PERL.
Good luck finding anything on Linux, PHP, RUBY, Python, Apache, Sendmail, mysql, openssl, etc.
But you sure called those 2 things. I'm amazed that Linus and Stallman don't move up here immediately.
I don't know how many 'web developers' I have talked to who claim they can't find a job. I talk to one a month who was cranked out of these local schools (minus the U Dub of course) who only know IIS and some Visual basic and zero about SSL, databases, server side scripting, etc.
In a way, I'm thankful because it just means fewer qualified people to take my job away from me.:)
Oh yes but there are those of us in Redmond who work for MS related companies and are getting management to move to Linux and open source apps.
There are a few of us up here and I'm amazed at how none of the schools in this area (minus the U of W) teach anything but MS scripting and coding shit.
So in other words, it's Windows fault. Even if someone wanted to do that, it would be darn near impossible due to lack of access to the underlying code base.
My point still stands. Windows makes itself slower and regardless of what app is on it, they will always run slower unless it is integrated into the OS.
Ownership of a corporation is down to it's largest shareholders. Bil Gates IS the largest shareholder followed by Steve Ballmer.
Bill just isn't CEO who is the person who runs the show. But for all intents and purposes, when the largest shareholder speaks, the board and the CEO listen and RARELY differ.
So while no one can be sole owner, he is the most influential and largest stockholder; he just doesn't handle the day to day responsibilities... that's Steve's job.
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Only Hitler would try to claim that was a joke.
Only Hitler would dupe an entry.
Actually this is considered slow for a Microsoft post; Most of them get Godwin'd a bit faster... especially if one invokes the name of 'the gates' or 'the monkeyboy'. Then sacrifices a goat and inserts a blank CD with a pentagram on it for formatting.
Ooops... now I have compared them to Satan. I've double Godwin'd! DOH!
Please... only people who can't take a joke would call a Godwin. Besides, calling a Godwin is just as bad as invoking one so STFU!
That's like asking if there are any nice versions of Hitler.
But what do you do if you hate christians, traditional values, and america?
:)
You become Muslim. Thank you thank you. I'll be here all week.
Integrity and politics? Isn't it illegal to use the two in the same sentence?
They all cheat and lie... only one is hate motivated while the other is not. If I HATE gays, athiests and peace, I vote republican because they will give me the war I want, let me keep my guns and bomb abortion clinics and beat up fags.
Ah to hell with it, I have karma to burn...
I believe the GOP category is called 'Lying Corporate Whores'.... but I could be wrong.
Netscape 4.0 codebase was thrown out with the bathwater. The Mozilla codebase (which Firefox is based on) is a complete rewrite.
Yet another example of a Windows zealot practicing vetriliquism through his anus.
LOL! No but I'll be designing the T-shirts. :)
:)
Place your orders today.
Let's see... half the resources, twice the security risk and ten times the price???
Where do I sign up to throw my IT budget down the drain?
Well I doubt they will go with an OS all there own but what MIGHT happen is a proprietary file system.
.NET developer to develop apps for the Windows desktop. I've been watching Monster up here in Seattle and they have been trying to recruit Windows testers and other stuff so it only makes sense that they are trying to put out apps for Windows.
Though most likely, you get a
Since when was Iowa the majority of the world?
Same rules... minus the moustache part. No facial hair whatsoever is allowed.
Beat you to it. Announced to management this week that I was looking so that they could start finding a replacement. Was told it would take at least 4 months; I told them it would take longer if they wanted someone with my skillset that would comply with their rules.
I'm also finding I can make 1.2 - 1.5 times what I am currently making as well. I'm being nice at this point because I kind of feel bad for them and want them to be able to maintain everything I built but know that their development will be on hold for at least a year due to the transition.
If you are really that curious, you could probably figure it out by going through somebody's past posts. I'm sure by process of elimination (and without the original poster giving anything away), it could be deduced but not implicitly said. :)
And while it would bring me great joy to come in the last week with a pink mohawk and henna tattoos on my face and arms and stand in front of the place smoking a pack of cigarettes for my lunch break each day, I will probably remain on a contractual basis for 6 months to a year just to help them out.
Yeah and the funny thing is that the employer doesn't realize that when I leave, they are going to find it impossible to find a replacement unless they get rid of those rules.
I'm staying on as long as I can to find a replacement but I know that I am going to get a new job MONTHS before they can find a replacement. In fact, I'm betting they won't be able to find a replacement until near Otober of this year.
You are so close, it's scary. The head of the company (and the owner) went to a Disney management school... I kid you not. And they follow these Disney like rules in an obsessive compulsive manner so as to border on insanity at times.
Yep and so did these guys and I thought I'd get used to it. But having people micromanage creative types becomes old fast. I once got a 'talking to' for walking on the 'non blue carpet' in a common area. It's pretty sad.
I myself am leaving a Microsoft vendor and heading to FOSS as a result of our compnaies inflexible rules. Here is an example:
- Everyone at the company wears the exact same uniform (supplied by the company)
- I'm not allowed to decorate my office, bring in furniture other than their supplied furniture and can only have one picture in my office.
- I'm not allowed to have facial hair, wierd haircuts (dreads count as wierd), tattoos, peircings, etc.
- I am micromanaged to death
This is hell but now that the market has rebounded, I'm finding I can mae easily 1.5 times as much as I make here and I don't have to deal with this bullshit anymore.
Wow... you named 2. This is practicaly the booming capitol of open source. JAVA which is taught in every community college and PERL.
:)
Good luck finding anything on Linux, PHP, RUBY, Python, Apache, Sendmail, mysql, openssl, etc.
But you sure called those 2 things. I'm amazed that Linus and Stallman don't move up here immediately.
I don't know how many 'web developers' I have talked to who claim they can't find a job. I talk to one a month who was cranked out of these local schools (minus the U Dub of course) who only know IIS and some Visual basic and zero about SSL, databases, server side scripting, etc.
In a way, I'm thankful because it just means fewer qualified people to take my job away from me.
Oh yes but there are those of us in Redmond who work for MS related companies and are getting management to move to Linux and open source apps.
There are a few of us up here and I'm amazed at how none of the schools in this area (minus the U of W) teach anything but MS scripting and coding shit.
And the students wonder why they can't get jobs.
So in other words, it's Windows fault. Even if someone wanted to do that, it would be darn near impossible due to lack of access to the underlying code base.
My point still stands. Windows makes itself slower and regardless of what app is on it, they will always run slower unless it is integrated into the OS.
It didn't even do anything!! Oh my no. A worm that does nothing... the horror! THE HORROR!!!
Ownership of a corporation is down to it's largest shareholders. Bil Gates IS the largest shareholder followed by Steve Ballmer.
Bill just isn't CEO who is the person who runs the show. But for all intents and purposes, when the largest shareholder speaks, the board and the CEO listen and RARELY differ.
So while no one can be sole owner, he is the most influential and largest stockholder; he just doesn't handle the day to day responsibilities... that's Steve's job.
can you imagine? All the viruses, worms, spam and other nafarious programs would suddenly just vanish!
Wow. It would be like the internet back in the 80's but with better content.