I was working for an ISP in 1995/6, part of my job required some HTML and CGI coding, this makes 10 years web design. And that was in a little dirt backwater called Australia.
This marks my 22 year as a commercial programmer and my 26th as a programmer, and I have worked for many a large multi-national during that period. And I would have to agree with all his points, even today in our ever Politically Correct societies of the western world, appearence and presentation of one self accounts for more than one ability. Now don't get me wrong here you need the ability, but if candidate B is a better presented package externally you may find yourself at the bottom rung for a while.
Additionally I have seen very capable people passed over time and time again, because they have painted themselves into a corner by making themselves, or the perception, indosposable in that possition. How many times have you worked with someone senior in position who hold all his/her cards close to their chest, never relinquishing any information. because as long as they are the keeper of information they are superior. Yet after a few years you are their manager!;)
Then their are those with all the talent, and NFI on how to act, or should I say interact. The only reason they even have a job or are tollerated is their technical prowess, yet they seem to wonder why they are overlooked when it comes time to advance. I wonder.
Objectively speaking (objectivity being in short supply in this environment) some Microsoft products do provide better value in terms of functionality. From my point of view, Server 2003 is an excellent turn-key workgroup server, Office 2003 is an excellent collaboration suite (spare me the Linux banter about samba and OpenOffice.org, it's not the same).
I'll only pick on the OpenOffice.org statement first. Lets start with the most obvious point that always makes my blood boil, how many people use Office beyong the capabilities of Wordpad, seriously I have NFI on 90% or the fuctions available to me in word, and would never need to use them. As for Spreadsheets I have yet to find a need for VB scripting, and beyond adding,subtracting numbers, I only draw a few charts, again more than adequately covered by OpenOffice.
Yes OpenOffice isn't as polished as Office yet, but I challenge you to find an average user who can't drive it, nor use it for all their daily requirements. Sure your legal secutaries and accounts might have a few gripes, but Joe Public office worker wouldn't hardly notice.
Now for Outlook, I use Evolution at home and Outlook 2003 at work, not being the power user must know every thing about a product type, I'm buggered if I can find any differences.
In all honesty, most office workers only use Powerpoint to open novelty mail attachments they have recieved. Only marketing types use Powerpoint anyway.;)
Now as for your comments on Server 2003, yes Joe Office manager can install Server 2003, but can he really administer it, or does it take someone with knowledge, in which case it doesn't really matter whether it is Linux or Windows. Sure there are more "Windows Experts" out there, but I ask you do they really know how to lock down a server properly? Blaster would suggest not! I think the question to be asked here is, which camp are you more knowledgable in.
Using urldecode() to parse variables and urls or should I say decode is poor design, thus poor coding. Lumping all PHP code into one bin, is just knee jerk.
More on copyright. http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/ftaartic le.html
Google is your friend.
If you honestly believe that the changes will have little to no effect on everyday Australians then you are obviously not involved in Agriculture, where we lead research in many arenas, Copyright and IP law changes can an will impact this sector.
This dicussion is off topic, but my dissent for the FTA purely based on the fact that it imposes changes to our common law rather than focus on "Free Trade".
The fact that you believe that these changes won't impact on everyday Australians is the apathetic response the government was hoping form the public so not to impact its re-election. The mere fact that the Labor party jumped on the band wagon without any objection just shows the sorry state of affairs within the Australian political system.
Thanks to the FTA with the good ole US of A, free as in beer, we now have your patent laws, and we all know how good they are. And now you tell me that this whole spyware infest a computer to catch illegal activity is a good thing? I would suggest that our Federal Police pull their finger out and get a better clue to computer forensics then introduce laws that are knee jerk, as we are now discovering with the enforced copyright law changes thank to our "Free Trade" agreement.
I regret to inform you that I see no good from mimicing the US when it comes to law matters, nor internal security, the once land of the free has now become the land of deiminishing rights and sadly little Johnny Howard (our Prime Minister) thinks it is a good idea to follow suite, and the opposition party who just got handed a humiliating defeat in the election are most inaffective when it comes to arguing policy.
We already have laws that require ISP's to store mail and access logs, I see no reason to allow invassive surveillance of computers when they could just as easily monitor and trap all traffic at the isp end, this would be near on immpossible to detect.
Ever since the invasion of our free to air stations here in Australia of reality TV, I have found myself more and more drawn to use my computer. Not that I haven't in the past but even with 30+ channels of pay TV I still find myself these days in front of the computer instead of the idiot box.
2 main reasons for me, is the total lack of integrity in current affairs, what ever happened to having your own point of view. And secondly the absolute trivia that gets passed of as programming, especially reality TV shows, I especially feel for Americian/. ers if the tripe we get is the best you have to offer. On a side note we get CNN and Fox News on pay TV, how they call those stations news stations has me wondering.
WARNING:: Old Fart Recolection
Back in the dark recesses of time (1979) this 15year old wiz kid was playing with his Sinclair ZX81, and then 2 years later the good ole TSR80. Playing games (remember Asylum "DON'T LOOK UP") and programming the ole Z80, these activities were totally mistifing to the average Joe Person back then and probably even today.
Then came the good ole days of the bulletin board, where the staggering baud rates of 300 were reached, and continued to grow to the famed 9600 mark (remember this was the supposed limits of copper communications). And on and on we go...
My point being that there was and always will be 15 year old wiz kids that come up through the ranks that make us go (old foggy voice) wow them youngster sure are smart (/old foggy voice), what truely amazes me is the depth of knowledge and with each new generation. And as always the general public just don't get it, or don't understand exactly what it is all about.
Oz canetoad
P.S. some of the comments about KRATZ's facination with 15 years olds, are truely those of a 15 year old.
Slashdot Mirror
I was working for an ISP in 1995/6, part of my job required some HTML and CGI coding, this makes 10 years web design. And that was in a little dirt backwater called Australia.
This marks my 22 year as a commercial programmer and my 26th as a programmer, and I have worked for many a large multi-national during that period. And I would have to agree with all his points, even today in our ever Politically Correct societies of the western world, appearence and presentation of one self accounts for more than one ability. Now don't get me wrong here you need the ability, but if candidate B is a better presented package externally you may find yourself at the bottom rung for a while.
;)
Additionally I have seen very capable people passed over time and time again, because they have painted themselves into a corner by making themselves, or the perception, indosposable in that possition. How many times have you worked with someone senior in position who hold all his/her cards close to their chest, never relinquishing any information. because as long as they are the keeper of information they are superior. Yet after a few years you are their manager!
Then their are those with all the talent, and NFI on how to act, or should I say interact. The only reason they even have a job or are tollerated is their technical prowess, yet they seem to wonder why they are overlooked when it comes time to advance. I wonder.
All in all a good article and a good read.
I do believe that the pictures are 50/50 of Aceh and Sri Lanka.
o k/geos/ ce.html#People
Aceh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh
Est. 4.2M population
Sri Lanka
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbo
19.9M population
So the facts?
From the CIA world book on Sri Lanka;
Buddhist 70%, Hindu 15%, Christian 8%, Muslim 7% (1999)
I can see why you wouldn't, but continue to play your banjo...
Objectively speaking (objectivity being in short supply in this environment) some Microsoft products do provide better value in terms of functionality. From my point of view, Server 2003 is an excellent turn-key workgroup server, Office 2003 is an excellent collaboration suite (spare me the Linux banter about samba and OpenOffice.org, it's not the same).
;)
I'll only pick on the OpenOffice.org statement first. Lets start with the most obvious point that always makes my blood boil, how many people use Office beyong the capabilities of Wordpad, seriously I have NFI on 90% or the fuctions available to me in word, and would never need to use them. As for Spreadsheets I have yet to find a need for VB scripting, and beyond adding,subtracting numbers, I only draw a few charts, again more than adequately covered by OpenOffice.
Yes OpenOffice isn't as polished as Office yet, but I challenge you to find an average user who can't drive it, nor use it for all their daily requirements. Sure your legal secutaries and accounts might have a few gripes, but Joe Public office worker wouldn't hardly notice.
Now for Outlook, I use Evolution at home and Outlook 2003 at work, not being the power user must know every thing about a product type, I'm buggered if I can find any differences.
In all honesty, most office workers only use Powerpoint to open novelty mail attachments they have recieved. Only marketing types use Powerpoint anyway.
Now as for your comments on Server 2003, yes Joe Office manager can install Server 2003, but can he really administer it, or does it take someone with knowledge, in which case it doesn't really matter whether it is Linux or Windows. Sure there are more "Windows Experts" out there, but I ask you do they really know how to lock down a server properly? Blaster would suggest not! I think the question to be asked here is, which camp are you more knowledgable in.
Yes the exploit exists, poor coding.
Using urldecode() to parse variables and urls or should I say decode is poor design, thus poor coding. Lumping all PHP code into one bin, is just knee jerk.
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/2004-05/05c ib03.pdf
c le.html
More on copyright.
http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/ftaarti
Google is your friend.
If you honestly believe that the changes will have little to no effect on everyday Australians then you are obviously not involved in Agriculture, where we lead research in many arenas, Copyright and IP law changes can an will impact this sector.
This dicussion is off topic, but my dissent for the FTA purely based on the fact that it imposes changes to our common law rather than focus on "Free Trade".
The fact that you believe that these changes won't impact on everyday Australians is the apathetic response the government was hoping form the public so not to impact its re-election. The mere fact that the Labor party jumped on the band wagon without any objection just shows the sorry state of affairs within the Australian political system.
Thanks to the FTA with the good ole US of A, free as in beer, we now have your patent laws, and we all know how good they are. And now you tell me that this whole spyware infest a computer to catch illegal activity is a good thing? I would suggest that our Federal Police pull their finger out and get a better clue to computer forensics then introduce laws that are knee jerk, as we are now discovering with the enforced copyright law changes thank to our "Free Trade" agreement.
I regret to inform you that I see no good from mimicing the US when it comes to law matters, nor internal security, the once land of the free has now become the land of deiminishing rights and sadly little Johnny Howard (our Prime Minister) thinks it is a good idea to follow suite, and the opposition party who just got handed a humiliating defeat in the election are most inaffective when it comes to arguing policy.
We already have laws that require ISP's to store mail and access logs, I see no reason to allow invassive surveillance of computers when they could just as easily monitor and trap all traffic at the isp end, this would be near on immpossible to detect.
Ever since the invasion of our free to air stations here in Australia of reality TV, I have found myself more and more drawn to use my computer. Not that I haven't in the past but even with 30+ channels of pay TV I still find myself these days in front of the computer instead of the idiot box.
/. ers if the tripe we get is the best you have to offer. On a side note we get CNN and Fox News on pay TV, how they call those stations news stations has me wondering.
2 main reasons for me, is the total lack of integrity in current affairs, what ever happened to having your own point of view. And secondly the absolute trivia that gets passed of as programming, especially reality TV shows, I especially feel for Americian
WARNING:: Old Fart Recolection
Back in the dark recesses of time (1979) this 15year old wiz kid was playing with his Sinclair ZX81, and then 2 years later the good ole TSR80. Playing games (remember Asylum "DON'T LOOK UP") and programming the ole Z80, these activities were totally mistifing to the average Joe Person back then and probably even today.
Then came the good ole days of the bulletin board, where the staggering baud rates of 300 were reached, and continued to grow to the famed 9600 mark (remember this was the supposed limits of copper communications). And on and on we go...
My point being that there was and always will be 15 year old wiz kids that come up through the ranks that make us go (old foggy voice) wow them youngster sure are smart (/old foggy voice), what truely amazes me is the depth of knowledge and with each new generation. And as always the general public just don't get it, or don't understand exactly what it is all about.
Oz canetoad
P.S. some of the comments about KRATZ's facination with 15 years olds, are truely those of a 15 year old.