Get with the program. The parent post said: "I defected to Ubuntu 8 years ago because I saw it "just work" on some random laptop. "
Linux systems make amazing servers, amazing development platforms and are vital for learning how unix-like OSes work. I never recommend Linux systems as a deskop environment to anyone who isn't a programmer. Even then, they'd be better off on MacOS and use VMs to launch Linux and Windows instances.
I completely agree with you. It used to be that Macs had an unreasonable price premium, but now PCs as a whole (Mac and non-mac) have dropped so much in price, that $1500 on a laptop can buy you an amazing machine.
They are IMHO, by far the best laptops out there right now, and their price is perfectly reasonable. I ran MacOS as my primary desktop a few years ago, and I used a 2012 MBP as my work machine at my last gig.
My most recent attempt to use Ubuntu on my Thinkpad resulted in me using an external wifi dongle because the internal one wouldn't work, and then after getting things the way I could use them, and accepting that sleeping was risky, my hibernate wouldn't restore, and all the other bugs I could fix later... I settled down to get some work done and I learned that my system randomly would lock solid without error.
I had to get some work done and I already burned 20 hours troubleshooting, so I put my Windows disk back in and loaded Ubuntu on VirtualBox for my Linux stuff.
I was mistaken for American in Eastern Turkey. A young Kurdish man followed me, invited me for tea and thanked me for my country's involvement in Iraq. I didn't have the heart to tell him I wasn't American.
I think the U.S. screwed up dramatically, but some people are very thankful for the U.S. involvement. We rarely hear uncontroversial stories.
I'm okay with Ballmer being friends with Gates and getting a company.
I'm kinda okay with Ballmer being inept and driving it in circles for a decade. He's practically a founder and he was personally chosen by the founder. He should feel guilty that a lot of people's careers were screwed up by his poor leadership, but without Gates in Microsoft, Apple and Google flourished.
Sometimes the personal relationships and unfairness at the top is the stuff which leads to a company's wild success. Apple and Facebook are good examples.
But to teach two courses?
It's a discredit to the schools.
He should be pulled out in a cage as a specimin of "real business leaders" and studied from a distance.
Microsoft's janitor's certainly have more qualifications. They've had to at least interview and apply for a job in their life.
Battery life, camera, sound quality, gps resolution aren't as good. You have to root the phone to be able to control your privacy, and if you're talking about privacy, forget Google apps. Best go go Cyanogenmod.
Last place I work was run by millenial developers.
They told me "the code is the documentation".
I asked them "ok, what are the requirements?"
They gave me a blank stare.
"How can we write code until we know what we're trying to accomplish?"
"You want to write a 300 page Word doc that nobody's going to read?"
I was at a loss... "no, but a doodle on a napkin might be enough. I need *something*"
Possibly the most educational 6 months of my life. Didn't accomplish much, everything got thrown out for not fulfilling the non-existent requirements. Despite the maddness, the people were nice. It took a long time for me to really understand what was going on. In the end, I was glad to leave the gig. The company was made of three one-man developer shows who didn't understand that the stuff in the heads of three developers were separate and unrelated requirements documents for separate projects. It was impossible to contribute to any project without reading the mind of the developer.
They measured their own success in achiving goals after they were accomplished. Which meant that the stars shone, but contributors rarely had successes.
My mixed feelings are because Uber should fail on its own to compete with Berlin's transit system and cabs. Instead of banning them, they should find a way to offer licensing and insurance to the drivers.
The hard part about Thai taxis is finding them. As a tourist, you'll be swarmed by conmen with tuktuks, fake cabs and motos. Meanwhile, the legit taxis won't be in a hurry to find you because they won't speak English. I'd forgive anyone for thinking that Thai cabs are corrupt. They didn't seem to be to me, but they were not easy to find.
OTOH, in Malaysia, the taxis are so severely corrupt that I had to consider them to not exist. Ask at a taxi stand for a metered fare? "The meter is broken" from every single driver. Prices? You would think you were in London.
In Athens, pre-GPS days, I spent 10 minutes touring the downtown to get around the block. The driver insisted that he had to work around the one-way streets. Who'd have thunk it would have cost an extra Eur 20 to take a cab from the wrong side of the street?
I have mixed feelings about Berlin banning uber. The Berlin transit system is incredible, the Berlin taxis are affordable and safe, and there's German language ride-share tools which are great if you need to get to a neighbouring city and can't afford the train, or can't find a bus. Uber seems unnecessary.
Most of my time in IT has been in fortune 500 companies, major consulting firms and banks.
The new cubicles barely have filing cabinets.
security issues and workforce mobility make paper strongly undesirable.
People don't need paper, so programs designed to format stuff for A4 or Letter are disappearing.
People need collaboration and sharing, so online tools are greatly helpful, and generally don't require the recipient to have $300 worth of software, and non guarantee that it will render correctly.
The office suite is changing. MS Office has some improvements in electronic documents through OneNote, and Outlook/Exchange are doing some good jobs in Mobile Device Management. Sharepoint is improving collaboration. But these combinations of corporate infrastructure and office suites are very business-oriented, and mostly helpful for data self-determination, not for the general public.
LibreOffice seems to be doing none of this, and Thunderbird seems to be in maintainence mode, as though local email and calendaring has been solved and won't be addressed anymore. That said, I appreciate that the LibreOffice is continually improving in its specific areas, and Thunderbird is mostly feature-complete.
The economy seems to respond to increased availability of labour by reducing the pay for those who are working. The problem with this is that people work just as hard, but for less hourly.
The utopia of the reduced workweek will not come with people talking about how wonderful it is that they can spend more time with their families, it will come with strange goverment regulations like mandatory retirement, penalties for overtime, minimum wage, maximum workweeks, tax penalties on secondary incomes, etc. etc.
"You don't scream sexism and then exclusively talk about how a member of the same sex harassed you"
Who said that women don't discriminate against women?
Women are a BIG part of the problem. They don't get a pass for discriminating against women just because they're women and they "should understand".
They also don't automatically get a degree in feminism, nor become experts on gender politics.
Julie's description certainly sounds like a pattern of abuse. The media attention is because she's a woman in IT. There's a world of complicated issues around this whole article, and a huge amount of it is gender related.
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Get with the program. The parent post said: "I defected to Ubuntu 8 years ago because I saw it "just work" on some random laptop. "
Linux systems make amazing servers, amazing development platforms and are vital for learning how unix-like OSes work. I never recommend Linux systems as a deskop environment to anyone who isn't a programmer. Even then, they'd be better off on MacOS and use VMs to launch Linux and Windows instances.
I completely agree with you. It used to be that Macs had an unreasonable price premium, but now PCs as a whole (Mac and non-mac) have dropped so much in price, that $1500 on a laptop can buy you an amazing machine.
They are IMHO, by far the best laptops out there right now, and their price is perfectly reasonable. I ran MacOS as my primary desktop a few years ago, and I used a 2012 MBP as my work machine at my last gig.
Experiences vary.
My most recent attempt to use Ubuntu on my Thinkpad resulted in me using an external wifi dongle because the internal one wouldn't work, and then after getting things the way I could use them, and accepting that sleeping was risky, my hibernate wouldn't restore, and all the other bugs I could fix later... I settled down to get some work done and I learned that my system randomly would lock solid without error.
I had to get some work done and I already burned 20 hours troubleshooting, so I put my Windows disk back in and loaded Ubuntu on VirtualBox for my Linux stuff.
n.b. I've administered Linux systems since 1995.
Estimates are higher for the number of Shi'ites and Kurds slaughtered under Saddam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein's_Iraq#Number_of_Victims
I was mistaken for American in Eastern Turkey. A young Kurdish man followed me, invited me for tea and thanked me for my country's involvement in Iraq. I didn't have the heart to tell him I wasn't American.
I think the U.S. screwed up dramatically, but some people are very thankful for the U.S. involvement. We rarely hear uncontroversial stories.
I'm okay with Ballmer being friends with Gates and getting a company.
I'm kinda okay with Ballmer being inept and driving it in circles for a decade. He's practically a founder and he was personally chosen by the founder. He should feel guilty that a lot of people's careers were screwed up by his poor leadership, but without Gates in Microsoft, Apple and Google flourished.
Sometimes the personal relationships and unfairness at the top is the stuff which leads to a company's wild success. Apple and Facebook are good examples.
But to teach two courses?
It's a discredit to the schools.
He should be pulled out in a cage as a specimin of "real business leaders" and studied from a distance.
Microsoft's janitor's certainly have more qualifications. They've had to at least interview and apply for a job in their life.
Step #2, follow him into success.
Step #4, take over the company when he steps down.
Step #5, fail repeatedly throughout a decade.
Step #6, teach MBA class at Stanford and USC.
Your style of RPG was perfected a few years ago: http://progressquest.com/
I know the phone well.
Battery life, camera, sound quality, gps resolution aren't as good. You have to root the phone to be able to control your privacy, and if you're talking about privacy, forget Google apps. Best go go Cyanogenmod.
Wasn't your last update was 10 months ago? http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/31/google-galaxy-nexus-kitkat/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Jelly_Bean
Leaving three unpatched vulerabilities?
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/product_id-19997/version_id-161187/Google-Android-4.3.1.html
I'm using an iPhone 4s, it's still pretty awesome and still being actively sold and supported. Release date late 2011.
OTOH, Nexus 3 users, release date late 2011, no longer supported.
I just want a working phone. My Android sits in my desk for development and hacking.
Last place I work was run by millenial developers.
They told me "the code is the documentation".
I asked them "ok, what are the requirements?"
They gave me a blank stare.
"How can we write code until we know what we're trying to accomplish?"
"You want to write a 300 page Word doc that nobody's going to read?"
I was at a loss... "no, but a doodle on a napkin might be enough. I need *something*"
Possibly the most educational 6 months of my life. Didn't accomplish much, everything got thrown out for not fulfilling the non-existent requirements. Despite the maddness, the people were nice. It took a long time for me to really understand what was going on. In the end, I was glad to leave the gig. The company was made of three one-man developer shows who didn't understand that the stuff in the heads of three developers were separate and unrelated requirements documents for separate projects. It was impossible to contribute to any project without reading the mind of the developer.
They measured their own success in achiving goals after they were accomplished. Which meant that the stars shone, but contributors rarely had successes.
My mixed feelings are because Uber should fail on its own to compete with Berlin's transit system and cabs. Instead of banning them, they should find a way to offer licensing and insurance to the drivers.
The hard part about Thai taxis is finding them. As a tourist, you'll be swarmed by conmen with tuktuks, fake cabs and motos. Meanwhile, the legit taxis won't be in a hurry to find you because they won't speak English. I'd forgive anyone for thinking that Thai cabs are corrupt. They didn't seem to be to me, but they were not easy to find.
OTOH, in Malaysia, the taxis are so severely corrupt that I had to consider them to not exist. Ask at a taxi stand for a metered fare? "The meter is broken" from every single driver. Prices? You would think you were in London.
In Athens, pre-GPS days, I spent 10 minutes touring the downtown to get around the block. The driver insisted that he had to work around the one-way streets. Who'd have thunk it would have cost an extra Eur 20 to take a cab from the wrong side of the street?
I have mixed feelings about Berlin banning uber. The Berlin transit system is incredible, the Berlin taxis are affordable and safe, and there's German language ride-share tools which are great if you need to get to a neighbouring city and can't afford the train, or can't find a bus. Uber seems unnecessary.
"Maybe they were setting up a system to automatically detect and intercept all emails containing 'sensitive client information'."
...by sending the sensitive client information to random gmail accounts? I guess it didn't work.
"testing internal changes... with sensitive client information"
Should violate all security policies right there.
Most FOSS people I know just gave up waiting for good calendaring/contacts etc, and use Gmail and Android.
Taxis need regulation so that you don't have flocks of angry seagulls fighting over fares, or criminals picking up marks.
Given that the fighting still happens, and the conning still happens, I'd rather trust a website with a reputation based system, than a taxi driver.
None of that helps when you receive an attachment on your device.
Most of my time in IT has been in fortune 500 companies, major consulting firms and banks. The new cubicles barely have filing cabinets. security issues and workforce mobility make paper strongly undesirable.
People don't need paper, so programs designed to format stuff for A4 or Letter are disappearing.
People need collaboration and sharing, so online tools are greatly helpful, and generally don't require the recipient to have $300 worth of software, and non guarantee that it will render correctly.
The office suite is changing. MS Office has some improvements in electronic documents through OneNote, and Outlook/Exchange are doing some good jobs in Mobile Device Management. Sharepoint is improving collaboration. But these combinations of corporate infrastructure and office suites are very business-oriented, and mostly helpful for data self-determination, not for the general public.
LibreOffice seems to be doing none of this, and Thunderbird seems to be in maintainence mode, as though local email and calendaring has been solved and won't be addressed anymore. That said, I appreciate that the LibreOffice is continually improving in its specific areas, and Thunderbird is mostly feature-complete.
Temporary fixes are all we've got. People don't tend to care beyond their working life, which gives most people a 30-40 year horizon.
Permanent fixes tend to come with severe corruption and tyrants. Even if they're well-meaning.
The economy seems to respond to increased availability of labour by reducing the pay for those who are working. The problem with this is that people work just as hard, but for less hourly.
The utopia of the reduced workweek will not come with people talking about how wonderful it is that they can spend more time with their families, it will come with strange goverment regulations like mandatory retirement, penalties for overtime, minimum wage, maximum workweeks, tax penalties on secondary incomes, etc. etc.
"so, when one women is "bitchy" to another, its wrong to use a pejorative, used exclusively for women?"
Yes.
"You don't scream sexism and then exclusively talk about how a member of the same sex harassed you"
Who said that women don't discriminate against women?
Women are a BIG part of the problem. They don't get a pass for discriminating against women just because they're women and they "should understand".
They also don't automatically get a degree in feminism, nor become experts on gender politics.
Julie's description certainly sounds like a pattern of abuse. The media attention is because she's a woman in IT. There's a world of complicated issues around this whole article, and a huge amount of it is gender related.
50% of profits as a cap on liability? Great!
Now smaller unprofitable oil companies can take big risks.
FTFY