i agree with a lot of your general point; but the thing you fail to mention is that cigarettes, cars, and the common flu are not, at this moment, trying to find ways to wipe out massive numbers of americans. ie, their future threat cannot be extrapolated from their past effects.
if jaysus wanted us to be the leeders in th devul majick den he woulda made us the leedres! if jaysus wnts thu chinamen to be the devyl majick peeple then they will be the devyl majik peepul! but ehyt will not be leedres in nuthin becuase they got the devyl eyes an maybe ecept the majik but it will not hep thm anyways!
now git to yer bible an stop tawkin abot debvul majick! aint no need to be aksin abut the majic until jaysus is in yr hert and hee tells you to look at the majick!
There are people as good as or better than you who'll do your job for less.
that's why we're unionized. (flips the bird to the man. and to all the deluded libertarians on/. as well.)
The short future is projects managed in US but implemented abroad - the far future is too scary to think about at all - they're gonna take all our jobs:(.
don't worry about it. by then, the Peak Oil crisis will obsolete all your fancy technological skills. skills in natural farming of local crops, and working with hand tools, will be far more valuable.
So, O pure and holy F/OSS guru, one should only work at Microsoft if it were the last place on earth?
yeah, pretty much. and if everyone had the same pathetic blase attitude that you do toward the state of the computing market, that could well be the case.
Let me guess; you still live in your parents' basement and haven't paid a bill in your life, right?
guess again. i'm a middle-aged systems analyst, own home, wife, two dogs, one cat.
i also have two eyes that see fairly well, a sense of history, and a mind that can put the two together. if you think F/OSS developers selling out microsoft has no implications aside from a geek getting a job, you are willfully ignorant.
when the nazi's took over poland, they took thousands of their intellectuals into the woods and shot them. the idea is to demoralize the target population, and depopulate it of intelligent resistance.
you can't *quite* get away with that in corporate america just yet, but the next best thing, when you have X*10 billion dollars in the bank getting moldy, is just to hire them away.
sorry to interrupt all the guffawin' and shuckin' and jivin'. carry on with the lame star wars references and other assorted jokery.
Add to that that Microsoft wants to hire good engineers. I don't think they hired him because of his OSS involvement, but because of his skills.
good engineers come out of college every day, and MS has the money to pay for them. hell, it's a little after graduation season now.
microsoft wants to put robbins on a slide and study him under a microscope. then they want to take the knowledge they get from him and use it to attack/undermine the community.
wake the fuck up, people. robbins is sleeping with the enemy for some extra rations, plain and simple.
Daniels Robbins is a very smart, friendly individual that has exerted a *HUGE* amount of time, effort, and finances on Gentoo.
As a seriously busy individual, he always took time out to talk to the little guy.
how appropriate that this reads like an obituary. he's dead to the community. fuck robbins.
Unfortunately, his work with Gentoo never paid the bills enough for him to rely upon it.
How can you possibly insult someone that has a family to support, and bills to pay? He has paid his dues!
this is not an insult. robbins should be called out for what he is. F/OSS isn't like the fucking peace corps where you go out for a year or two and then leave it behind. it's an on-going movement and philosophy.
imagine if robbins spent a couple years protesting against baby seal clubbing, and then decided he'd done his part and took a lucrative job clubbing baby seals. would everyone get misty-eyed and send him off with a fond farewell? it's fucking disgusting.
in my book, hooking up with microsoft destroys any credibility and good will one may have developed during their association with F/OSS. i refuse to believe that the only job he could get is with microsoft. if it were me, i'd get out of the tech business before i greased my hole for them.
I hope Daniel Robbins will take his customary brilliance to Microsoft and do great things. Of all corporations that need a breath of fresh air, Microsoft is foremost. Business Model reinvention la? Perhaps we can look forward to new Microsoft products being GPL'd:)
you have got to be kidding me. yeah, that's what he'll be doing at microsoft - helping them GPL their products. you're either a stone-cold idiot or a shill.
IIRC, cue cat was a bar code scanner that allowed you to scan an item and be automatically directed to a web page on that item containing information and documentation for it.
to me, this seems like a not-so-bad idea. let's say you have an item and need the owner's manual for it - just scan and go right to the page that has a link to it.
granted, tech has changed a bit since they first came out, and a bar code reader (or RFID reader) integrated into a cell phone or PDA might make more sense, but they weren't quite so ubiquitous when cue cat came out.
the next version of Microsoft Office (Office 12) will default to newly-developed XML file formats in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new formats will apparently include XML files along with other files (images, etc) inside of a Zip file.
whoa! microsoft innovates again! take THAT you derivative open source weenies!
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i agree with a lot of your general point; but the thing you fail to mention is that cigarettes, cars, and the common flu are not, at this moment, trying to find ways to wipe out massive numbers of americans. ie, their future threat cannot be extrapolated from their past effects.
walmart employees probably have never seen large, exotic bills like the $30 in their paychecks.
who cares what that piece of shit has to say.
now git to yer bible an stop tawkin abot debvul majick! aint no need to be aksin abut the majic until jaysus is in yr hert and hee tells you to look at the majick!
the negative publicity alone would be worth the patent...
um, i thought IE doesn't support PNG transparency? if not, COOL! SUCK IT IE USERS!
i was so sure they'd use my suggestion - "Monopolistic Pile of Shit".
holy crap!
i think it was very shortly after this one:
sarah, sally and sue
all think you're a dream
you can thank our patented
asbestos creame!
Burma Shave.
cool, we have targeting data, now all we need are some mortars.
that's why we're unionized. (flips the bird to the man. and to all the deluded libertarians on /. as well.)
The short future is projects managed in US but implemented abroad - the far future is too scary to think about at all - they're gonna take all our jobs :(.
don't worry about it. by then, the Peak Oil crisis will obsolete all your fancy technological skills. skills in natural farming of local crops, and working with hand tools, will be far more valuable.
i hope this doesn't have a ripple effect.
some have tunnel-vision. some are near-sighted.
yeah, pretty much. and if everyone had the same pathetic blase attitude that you do toward the state of the computing market, that could well be the case.
Let me guess; you still live in your parents' basement and haven't paid a bill in your life, right?
guess again. i'm a middle-aged systems analyst, own home, wife, two dogs, one cat.
i also have two eyes that see fairly well, a sense of history, and a mind that can put the two together. if you think F/OSS developers selling out microsoft has no implications aside from a geek getting a job, you are willfully ignorant.
a big fat check and a threat.
yeah, and how did they get that? they hired away the lead developer working on IronPython.
anyone see a pattern here? anyone?
may they both rot in hell, along with any other short-sighted morally challenged ingrates who go over to the other side.
you can't *quite* get away with that in corporate america just yet, but the next best thing, when you have X*10 billion dollars in the bank getting moldy, is just to hire them away.
sorry to interrupt all the guffawin' and shuckin' and jivin'. carry on with the lame star wars references and other assorted jokery.
good engineers come out of college every day, and MS has the money to pay for them. hell, it's a little after graduation season now.
microsoft wants to put robbins on a slide and study him under a microscope. then they want to take the knowledge they get from him and use it to attack/undermine the community.
wake the fuck up, people. robbins is sleeping with the enemy for some extra rations, plain and simple.
As a seriously busy individual, he always took time out to talk to the little guy.
how appropriate that this reads like an obituary. he's dead to the community. fuck robbins.
Unfortunately, his work with Gentoo never paid the bills enough for him to rely upon it.
How can you possibly insult someone that has a family to support, and bills to pay? He has paid his dues!
this is not an insult. robbins should be called out for what he is. F/OSS isn't like the fucking peace corps where you go out for a year or two and then leave it behind. it's an on-going movement and philosophy.
imagine if robbins spent a couple years protesting against baby seal clubbing, and then decided he'd done his part and took a lucrative job clubbing baby seals. would everyone get misty-eyed and send him off with a fond farewell? it's fucking disgusting.
in my book, hooking up with microsoft destroys any credibility and good will one may have developed during their association with F/OSS. i refuse to believe that the only job he could get is with microsoft. if it were me, i'd get out of the tech business before i greased my hole for them.
I hope Daniel Robbins will take his customary brilliance to Microsoft and do great things. Of all corporations that need a breath of fresh air, Microsoft is foremost. Business Model reinvention la? Perhaps we can look forward to new Microsoft products being GPL'd
you have got to be kidding me. yeah, that's what he'll be doing at microsoft - helping them GPL their products. you're either a stone-cold idiot or a shill.
Good luck Daniel!
fuck you.
frankly, i think the blog author just has a vendetta of some kind against his blog provider.
cool. so i'm the third guy?
my entire collection is in ogg
to me, this seems like a not-so-bad idea. let's say you have an item and need the owner's manual for it - just scan and go right to the page that has a link to it.
granted, tech has changed a bit since they first came out, and a bar code reader (or RFID reader) integrated into a cell phone or PDA might make more sense, but they weren't quite so ubiquitous when cue cat came out.
anyone care to examine the license - "GPL with Exception" - and give us an Evil / Not Evil summary?
whoa! microsoft innovates again! take THAT you derivative open source weenies!