So what? The point is, the guy is mocking his employer for blocking a website. "I guess some how what I would have read there would have made me a worse employee?"
It's funny because the guy's an idiot but can't see it. The very fact that an employee can't read articles on the internet while at work should make him a better employee, because if he isn't reading stories, he might get bored and actually do some work for his capitalist pig slavedriver of a boss. (Who he works for by choice might I add, but lets not let facts get in the way here on/.)
Most of the GNP is diverted into "homeland security" and "War on Terrorism/Drugs/Crime/Intellectual Property Theft". No it isn't. You are lying.
Public roads, health care and education is privatised and practically abandoned. No it isn't. How do you explain all the cars driving around, healthy people, and kids in school if these have all been abandoned?
Thanks to this policy, USA still has the mightiest military in the world and overwhelming military action is taken whenever and whereever the corporate republic deems necessary. Who do you suggest should have the mightiest military? If every country spends a proportional amount of its GDP on military, then of course the US will have the mightiest military. And as for military action, would it make more sense to you for them to determine it is necessary to take action, and then not? As for the latest conflict, Afghanistan, the general public is happy that the US took military action. Their lives now at least have a chance of improving. You would prefer the Afghanis to still be ruled by the Taliban, with public executions of women in soccer stadiums? Nice guy, thank god you're not in charge.
China is the World's only true superpower. aaahahahahahaaaa. Ummmm, how exactly do you define superpower? Economic might? Military might? They lose on both. Oh, population = superpower, ok. So why are so many of the citizens of the world's only superpower going without basic diet, medicine, and housing? Some superpower?
I can agree that some or many of the US policies are questionable, but everything you say is just plain silly. Have you ever thought about some of your opinions, and objectively examined them to see if they are logical? For your sake, I hope you are still in high school or college, the majority of your peers "think" the same way, so you can hardly be blamed I suppose. (Hmmm, maybe I was wrong, maybe education has been abandoned!!);)
hmmmm, someone's a little bitter. Career not progressing so well perhaps? Haven't you heard, there's no money in open source man!!!
aaaahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaa
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How many of these are ready for prime time, and how many are some guy pissing around in his basement, gets 25% done, posts it to a website, then gets distracted by some other cool project?
Here's an article (a bit outdated, June 2001) that looks at the viability of some of the languages offered at that time....
Not drawing any conclusions here....but really, how confident would you be about those 160 languages? How many users do they have? Or more to the point, how many non-experimental users do they have?
No, but the legal action against Microsoft was prompted mainly by politicians sympathetic (or on the payroll of) companies like Sun, Oracle, etc.
Don't mistake what Microsoft is doing, they are not paying off the government trying to get something, they are paying off the government trying to get Nothing. As in LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE.
I don't see how you can blame Microsoft for what they are doing. Political lobbysists are now more important than almost any other type of employee. You see, Microsoft can deal with competition in applications, development tools, operating systems, etc by developing new products & improving old ones. In ths business world, you fight fire with fire (in this business, software). When it comes to fighting the government, they only way they can fight this, is to hire "politicians" (lobbyists) of their own, thats the only way. Microsoft has not used political donations to get the government to use its unlimited resources to act in a way detrimental to its competitors, but their competitors are doing exactly this to them. They are just trying to get them to stop.
I think its a sad state of affairs, but any large, influential company that doesn't have a person or people in Washington these days is in serious trouble, cause you can bet your competitors do.
re:I realize it sounds extreme, but I think it is correct.
No it isn't. It's wrong. I would be preferable, but not required.
Re:Top managers need to know what is a reasonable request and what isn't. No they don't, they can ask a trusted programmer to tell them which requests are reasonable and why.
I assume you are referring to MS Office documents.....if these are not a standard (because 100% of computer users do not use them), then there is no such thing as a standard. In fact they are the de facto standard for office related tasks and information sharing, get over it.
Why do non-Outlook users always have to be the ones to conform to what Outlook users do?
You don't have to....if you get an office attachment, don't read it, its your choice. However, your boss may not agree with your idealism.
Fair enough. But why is it such an abhorrent crime then if someone designs a website that is readable only to internet explorer users (>80% of users). Slashdotters lose their minds when someone has a website that netscape 3 can't read properly, but this guy is some sort of a hero. I love hypocrisy!
If you have the type of job where you telecommute, and your employer can't afford the extra $100/month, you should be looking for another job cause your company is in an extremely precarious financial state.
If Microsoft has their way, I'd have to sign in to Passport before I could access Yahoo, or most anything else on the web. That's the crucial difference.
As would Yahoo, as would Sun. All companies would like to have every internet user in their database; that is not the crucial difference. The crucial difference is, presently, Microsoft is almost (AOL would be the other company) the only company that might be able to actually pull it off.
According to the lecturer, there are over 50 million handicapped people in the United States alone.
278 people in the US, 50 million handicapped....18%. So almost 1 in 5 people in the United States is handicapped. Athletes foot must be considered a handicap now.
Oh, I don't know - they seem to be doing a damn fine job of trying to stuff all those mistakes in. For years now a few of us have been saying on Slashdot that what the publishing concerns are gunning for is a pay to play world where you never own an actual product and never get to control any aspect of your temporary rental of the products you pay for - except for deciding when you press "play" (provided your subscription is up to date, natch).
You consider this a mistake on their part? It's very shrewd if they can pull it off.
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I bet you'll be proven wrong.
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key word: was. We have the capability of learning and progressing. Slowly but surely over time we are becoming better people. Muslims are essentially at a standstill culturally. Look how they treat their wives for chrissake!
Airbus (I think) and Bombardier (definitely) are subsidized by their respective governments. And like I said, the article is old, but the general idea of it is very true. When has the US ever asked anyone for help, when have they given it without being asked, and does anyone ever say thanks (and mean it)
This is an old article, but still very true today. In hindsight, America does things wrong, but overwhelmingly what they do is good. When was the last time you heard someone say thank you?
"The Americans" - Original Script
"LET'S BE PERSONAL" Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan.. the Truman Policy.. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws.. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters.. with the year less than half-over... has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
ORIGINAL SCRIPT AND AUDIO
COURTESY STANDARD BROADCASTING CORPORATION LTD.
The difference is, the United States goes to great lengths of planning and spending to hurt AS FEW civilians as possible. This act was intended to kill AS MANY civilians as possible. Can you see the difference?? If you see it, you seem to be ignoring it for some reason.
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"Thay can't lower prices. "
Yes they can.
"The Desktop market is already dead for them."
No it isn't. Granted, the upgrade cycle has slowed, but userbase continues to grow.
So what? The point is, the guy is mocking his employer for blocking a website.
/.)
"I guess some how what I would have read there would have made me a worse employee?"
It's funny because the guy's an idiot but can't see it. The very fact that an employee can't read articles on the internet while at work should make him a better employee, because if he isn't reading stories, he might get bored and actually do some work for his capitalist pig slavedriver of a boss. (Who he works for by choice might I add, but lets not let facts get in the way here on
Most of the GNP is diverted into "homeland security" and "War on Terrorism/Drugs/Crime/Intellectual Property Theft".
;)
No it isn't. You are lying.
Public roads, health care and education is privatised and practically abandoned.
No it isn't. How do you explain all the cars driving around, healthy people, and kids in school if these have all been abandoned?
Thanks to this policy, USA still has the mightiest military in the world and overwhelming military action is taken whenever and whereever the corporate republic deems necessary.
Who do you suggest should have the mightiest military? If every country spends a proportional amount of its GDP on military, then of course the US will have the mightiest military. And as for military action, would it make more sense to you for them to determine it is necessary to take action, and then not? As for the latest conflict, Afghanistan, the general public is happy that the US took military action. Their lives now at least have a chance of improving. You would prefer the Afghanis to still be ruled by the Taliban, with public executions of women in soccer stadiums? Nice guy, thank god you're not in charge.
China is the World's only true superpower.
aaahahahahahaaaa. Ummmm, how exactly do you define superpower? Economic might? Military might? They lose on both. Oh, population = superpower, ok. So why are so many of the citizens of the world's only superpower going without basic diet, medicine, and housing? Some superpower?
I can agree that some or many of the US policies are questionable, but everything you say is just plain silly. Have you ever thought about some of your opinions, and objectively examined them to see if they are logical? For your sake, I hope you are still in high school or college, the majority of your peers "think" the same way, so you can hardly be blamed I suppose. (Hmmm, maybe I was wrong, maybe education has been abandoned!!)
hmmmm, someone's a little bitter. Career not progressing so well perhaps? Haven't you heard, there's no money in open source man!!!
aaaahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaa
oops...forgot the URL:
http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_33.htm
How many of these are ready for prime time, and how many are some guy pissing around in his basement, gets 25% done, posts it to a website, then gets distracted by some other cool project?
Here's an article (a bit outdated, June 2001) that looks at the viability of some of the languages offered at that time....
Not drawing any conclusions here....but really, how confident would you be about those 160 languages? How many users do they have? Or more to the point, how many non-experimental users do they have?
No, but the legal action against Microsoft was prompted mainly by politicians sympathetic (or on the payroll of) companies like Sun, Oracle, etc.
Don't mistake what Microsoft is doing, they are not paying off the government trying to get something, they are paying off the government trying to get Nothing. As in LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE.
I don't see how you can blame Microsoft for what they are doing. Political lobbysists are now more important than almost any other type of employee. You see, Microsoft can deal with competition in applications, development tools, operating systems, etc by developing new products & improving old ones. In ths business world, you fight fire with fire (in this business, software). When it comes to fighting the government, they only way they can fight this, is to hire "politicians" (lobbyists) of their own, thats the only way. Microsoft has not used political donations to get the government to use its unlimited resources to act in a way detrimental to its competitors, but their competitors are doing exactly this to them. They are just trying to get them to stop.
I think its a sad state of affairs, but any large, influential company that doesn't have a person or people in Washington these days is in serious trouble, cause you can bet your competitors do.
No it isn't. It's wrong. I would be preferable, but not required.
Re:Top managers need to know what is a reasonable request and what isn't.
No they don't, they can ask a trusted programmer to tell them which requests are reasonable and why.
You silly little boy....
it's something to sneeze at if your odds of winning the prize are incredibly small.
I don't think Afghan terrorists are as easily fooled by trolls as you.
ahhhahahaaaaaaa
Why do non-Outlook users always have to be the ones to conform to what Outlook users do?
You don't have to....if you get an office attachment, don't read it, its your choice. However, your boss may not agree with your idealism.
Fair enough. But why is it such an abhorrent crime then if someone designs a website that is readable only to internet explorer users (>80% of users). Slashdotters lose their minds when someone has a website that netscape 3 can't read properly, but this guy is some sort of a hero. I love hypocrisy!
LOL!!!
If you have the type of job where you telecommute, and your employer can't afford the extra $100/month, you should be looking for another job cause your company is in an extremely precarious financial state.
If Microsoft has their way, I'd have to sign in to Passport before I could access Yahoo, or most anything else on the web. That's the crucial difference.
As would Yahoo, as would Sun. All companies would like to have every internet user in their database; that is not the crucial difference. The crucial difference is, presently, Microsoft is almost (AOL would be the other company) the only company that might be able to actually pull it off.
If you read the EULA, you will probably find that your "rights" have been defined and are not being violated.
According to the lecturer, there are over 50 million handicapped people in the United States alone.
278 people in the US, 50 million handicapped....18%. So almost 1 in 5 people in the United States is handicapped. Athletes foot must be considered a handicap now.
You consider this a mistake on their part? It's very shrewd if they can pull it off.
I bet you'll be proven wrong.
key word: was.
We have the capability of learning and progressing. Slowly but surely over time we are becoming better people. Muslims are essentially at a standstill culturally. Look how they treat their wives for chrissake!
Well you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. A 7 year old boy could easily figure this out.
Huh?? You;ll have to enlighten me on this one....
Airbus (I think) and Bombardier (definitely) are subsidized by their respective governments. And like I said, the article is old, but the general idea of it is very true. When has the US ever asked anyone for help, when have they given it without being asked, and does anyone ever say thanks (and mean it)
This is an old article, but still very true today. In hindsight, America does things wrong, but overwhelmingly what they do is good. When was the last time you heard someone say thank you?
.. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
.. with the year less than half-over... has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
"The Americans" - Original Script
"LET'S BE PERSONAL" Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times
When the Americans get out of this bind
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters
ORIGINAL SCRIPT AND AUDIO
COURTESY STANDARD BROADCASTING CORPORATION LTD.
(c) 1973 BY GORDON SINCLAIR
PUBLISHED BY STAR QUALITY MUSIC (SOCAN)
A DIVISION OF UNIDISC MUSIC INC.
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The difference is, the United States goes to great lengths of planning and spending to hurt AS FEW civilians as possible. This act was intended to kill AS MANY civilians as possible. Can you see the difference?? If you see it, you seem to be ignoring it for some reason.
where did you hear this? do you have a link?