Also...Good luck trying to find all of the dependent COM components that will be spread throughout the system32 directory and other directories. It is, unfortunately, not as simplistic as it is with the Mac.
I drew plans about how to electrocute a co-worker using the tube from a computer monitor. I left it sitting on my desk when I went on vacation. It even had the coworkers name and some stuff that looked like amperage calculations (making sure the jolt was deadly of course). I heard my manager photocopied it and put it back on my desk.
This probably works if you have enough time to oversee the whole process. I wouldn't trust a contractor as far as I could thrown him to oversee the building of the house. As the book points out, they are generally bad project managers. (I'm sure having Jack Daniels for breakfast doesn't help.) For that matter, I wouldn't trust my wife to manage the job as far as I could throw her either, but thats another problem altogether....
Building you own house doesn't look like a job for a software engineer in my opinion. I'm sure the software deadlines would never be hit if all the engineers here oversaw the building of their house.
But at least we don't have to download that huge Java JVM and install it on our XP machines. Now all we have to do is download this really big service pack....oh wait...
You should have realized it was a joke - however lame it was.
By the way, this is just another example of a premature attack by OS zealots. Just as the case of the cross-platform virus discussed previously, the Nimda file is installed as part of the help system, but is never loaded by the help system. As the tounge-in-cheek editorial posted by the illustrious Slashdot editors put it, "Only a complete moron would get infected by this virus." So unless someone in Korea is stupid enough to uninstall IE 6.0 (required for.Net to run), install IE 5.5, and then load the Nimda file, it is unlikely that they will get infected. For every MS goof, there is an equal goof in the OS community. (But we all know people that point that out get modded down....)
You have to pay for support every 12 months, which I dislike. Particularly since at irregular intervals they change their core engine and render all older versions of the software incompatible with new updates.
How can you expect them to fund their research efforts without some sort of recurring income? If they are public, they are also doing the 12 month license thing so they can give some sort of future projections so their stock price doesn't ride a roller coaster. I agree that releasing FUD press releases is sleazy, but the recurring license thing lets them employ good people in stable jobs. Unfortunately, life in commercial software is not as simple as it is for open source software. Sure, you can get paid writing OS software, but some people don't like the idea of living with 5 other roomates and eating cold pizza for breakfast every day. If they are actively updating their virus definitions, then the cost should be worth it.
Now if MSFT made a virus cleaner, you would probably have to wait 3 months for a patch. From what I've seen, the AV companies tend to come out with fixes fairly quickly. Having people available to do that type of work on short notice takes some money.
This wouldn't be that impressive. What would impress me is if they could figure out how to make Barney the killer purple dinosaur pop on the screen and scream, "Don't touch!" every time my daughter toddles up to the TV to push the buttons.
Wow, there is never anything to watch on TV, so now there won't ever be anything to download either.
Remember that employers ideally want idiot-savants who are brilliant at their work, but neither know their value nor seek their own best interests.
Well, thats pretty cynical. If these are the type of people you are experiencing in your career, I'd suggest moving to a new area of work that is still within the bounds of your career. Maybe you'll get into a different culture set. After interviewing with Microsoft, I would definately say that they definately do this type of idiot-seeking. Everyone I talked to seemed to be a primadonna, but that isn't much coming from a SQL programmer. (Had I wanted a job as a SQL programmer, I wouldn't have gotten a CS degree.)
I just left a company that was making outrageous counter offers to keep me. I didn't say anything about it being too-little or enough money, they just assumed that was what I was after. I mean doubling your salary is great for short term, but it was so that I'd stay while they liquidated the company. I left because I was tired of doing first level phone support after they laid off all of them. Kind of hard to develop products that make the company money while you're telling people how to press buttons.
What, don't like Spam, Spam, Spam that says, "Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger?" You know they only had your health and welfare in mind when they came up with this idea. I'm sure you're making Ray Kroq turn in his grave.
No, you mount your rifle on a GPS controlled tripod. It should come with one of those remote fire button jobs. Everyone sits back and drinks beer, then presses the button when the tripod starts tracking an object. Now thats a vacation.
No no no....its not that. The machine is likely in the same room as the mixing engineer. This is the guy that ultimately needs to hear the stuff as clear as possible so he can assemble it and mix it properly. I used to have to deal with this all the time. I used to install audio mixing studios for post production, and the engineers were chronic complainers. "I can't sit under the A/C vent, its too cold. The A/C vent is too loud. The computer fan is too loud. The ights are too bright. The lights are too dim. The computer is too far away. I don't like the patch bay up there on the wall, I want it closer. I don't like the patch bay this close, I want it on the wall." Seesh.
You also have to get special equipment to extend the monitor cable so that it shows up clear if you put the box in another room. Digital mixing and editing is great, but they have to put an insane amount of buttons on the screen in order to fit all the functionality of a console on the screen. Many buttons usually means small buttons. If your screen is fuzzy from signal attenuation due to distance, its not a pleasant thing to have to look at this all day every day. A sound studio is like a major nightmare of UI design, mixing both software and hardware. The engineers also tend to be sort of artsy, so they tend to be more "needy" than say a software engineer would be. (Just give me a dark room, a good chair, and a mouse without deadspots in it and I'm happy.)
Days ago, Ottar Grepstad, director of the culture center and literary museum on the west coast of Norway, was busy selecting his expert of choice to hack a password known only by a dead man. It has been revealed that only minutes after his public appeal for a skiller hax0r to recover this password, his archive was ow3nd by Kevin Mitnick. The notorious hacker released information found in the archive that seems to indicate that Britney Spears was concieved by using frozen sperm from non other than Mike Tyson himself. The egg donor was only referred to in the archive as "Camilla" and it is suspected she is the same woman that Prince Charles is dating.
ith the Recent court ruling in the netherlands that Kazaa cannot be held reponsible for the actions of it's users, the Music industry has lost.
Don't count on that. They still have more money and time to throw at the problem. My guess is that they will do so, at whatever level it takes. They are a big part of the US economy, so I would guess there will be some sort of political pressure through treaties or something.
For now, though, the seas are open and there is loot to be reaped.....er, music to be downloaded.
Moderating the parent of this message as flamebait was pure abuse of moderation privileges. The poster was right....there is a mind-set in business, however flawed it may be, that free or too cheap is bad.
Think about it....hire the cheapest bidder to paint your house. What generally happens? If the job gets done without them skipping out on you with the job half done, it looks like crap. Pay some real money for it, and you will generally (yes, not always) get a good and complete job.
So this makes me think of some low-life, sitting in a basement in front of a computer. He presses the send key, and suddenly jumps up and repeatedly screams, "Eat it bitch! Eat it all up! Hormel never tasted this good!" at the computer screen.
Spammers and those amateur pornography guys behind the camera....I can't figure out which one is sleazier.
Its ok....people don't like to have their self-created reality ruined. Fact is that the majority of the people that will see this glorified story about the quest for free drug money don't have any idea how run-down Venice still is. That "gentrified" statement about Venice was almost funny. I think there is one row of houses that are really nice, and they border Playa Del Rey. These are the $1M+ beachfront homes. Venice itself is still a dirty place where there are tons of homeless people. I also wonder if they know the difference between a professional street performer and what they might see in Venice.
Ah, Venice (California)....the shithole of the boardwalk. Walking down the beach, seeing the homeless people turned into street performers...Occasionally dodging bullets from gang gunfire.....how much better could it get?
Venice is still not a real nice place these days. I used to try to rollerblade there, but the asphalt part is so broken that you have to be real good in order not to fall on your face. Then if you try to rollerblade down the bike path, some old fart bikes along and screams, "You're not supposed to be here!!!" Los Angeles hospitality and culture at its finest.
I would like them if they were accepted as popular stuff. I mean, back in the day where they played Depeche Mode on the contemporary music stations, I listened to the radio. I also don't like Oakenfold because of any sort of "Underground" status....I just like the way it sounds. I don't tend to like Sara MacLachlan straight out, but I like what Oakenfold did with her stuff. I don't really know anything about Oakenfold to tell the truth. I just happened to download some mp3s of his while sweeping newsgroups for binaries, and then I was hooked.
Hey may be considered a DJ, but he does add some talent and artistry to the music he remixes. Those loops and samples have to be created and assembled into something that sounds better than the original song, which he seems to do fairly well. If he decided to remix a New Kids on the Block song, I would probably listen to it if it sounded good - even though everyone loves to hate them and I couldn't stand any of their stuff when they were popular.
The recording industry is not, contrary to popular belief, one large company. I keep wondering why the RIAA is claiming that "their" stuff is getting pirated, when they are really nothing more than the music-industry's version of the anti-software piracy association. A non-profit organization that has unlimited sources of fund to specifically exist to exterminate practices that are not in the interest of the members.
The music industry, for the most part, does not control the radio stations. Getting your song played is an endeavour in marketing, costing money like any other marketing device does. Did you think that new songs got played on the radio because people actually liked them? No, someone does some sort of market analysis and them determines which artists get that kind of exposure. The catch is that the music publishers, like any other business, does not like to pay for this. So they try to get new artists to sign contracts that pretty much makes it so that the burden of funding the marketing effort is the artist's cost of doing business. This is essentially what Courtney Love was complaining about in that big speech she did that knocked the industry. I find it ironic that she found their practices against anything she learned in high-school economics and at the same time downplayed the importanct of extended education by claiming all P2P had was "college boy" music. I believe had she gone to college, she probably wouldn't have been backed in a corner and forced to sign a record contract that had all this marketing expense tacked onto it. No one forces the artists to sign their contracts. However, as you hear about how some of the most popular bands lived before signing (shoplifting in order to eat, squatting in abandonded buildings, etc), you understand why they sign the first paper stuck in front of them. Have a college education or alternative career as backup, then you have more leverage to say no to certain items in the contract. It also depends on your selected manager, who has a lot of power to screw the artist too. I used to work in music studios, and some of the managers are ex-roadies. Most roadies are dumb as a box of rocks. (Like the time the Fleetwoood Mac roadie couldn't figure out why the circuit breaker kept popping when he plugged 2 refrigerators into an outlet.)
The whole payola thing got quashed, now they figured out a new way to get money to play music. They will figure out a new way to do it if their current way gets outlawed. The great thing about P2P is that you get to hear a lot of music that is not played on the radio. To tell the truth, I don't listen to the radio much anymore since I don't tend to like what they choose to play. If I had my choice, there would be a station that played Oakenfold, Sasha, Van Dyk, and all the other European artists that really know how to make music but have not gotten enough exposure in the US to make them mainstream. I guess this is what "college boy" music is....but I'll tell you, I'd rather listen to this than hear the "real music" that has Courtney Love droning and screaming into the microphone. (Who would have thought SHE would consider herself an audiophile?)
(If you like Courtney Love and you are insulted by this, sorry, but get over it.)
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Also...Good luck trying to find all of the dependent COM components that will be spread throughout the system32 directory and other directories. It is, unfortunately, not as simplistic as it is with the Mac.
I'm sure it wouldn't have worked....
Building you own house doesn't look like a job for a software engineer in my opinion. I'm sure the software deadlines would never be hit if all the engineers here oversaw the building of their house.
But at least we don't have to download that huge Java JVM and install it on our XP machines. Now all we have to do is download this really big service pack....oh wait...
By the way, this is just another example of a premature attack by OS zealots. Just as the case of the cross-platform virus discussed previously, the Nimda file is installed as part of the help system, but is never loaded by the help system. As the tounge-in-cheek editorial posted by the illustrious Slashdot editors put it, "Only a complete moron would get infected by this virus." So unless someone in Korea is stupid enough to uninstall IE 6.0 (required for .Net to run), install IE 5.5, and then load the Nimda file, it is unlikely that they will get infected. For every MS goof, there is an equal goof in the OS community. (But we all know people that point that out get modded down....)
If I were MS, I'd buy all 3 computers in Korea and give them new ones.
How can you expect them to fund their research efforts without some sort of recurring income? If they are public, they are also doing the 12 month license thing so they can give some sort of future projections so their stock price doesn't ride a roller coaster. I agree that releasing FUD press releases is sleazy, but the recurring license thing lets them employ good people in stable jobs. Unfortunately, life in commercial software is not as simple as it is for open source software. Sure, you can get paid writing OS software, but some people don't like the idea of living with 5 other roomates and eating cold pizza for breakfast every day. If they are actively updating their virus definitions, then the cost should be worth it.
Now if MSFT made a virus cleaner, you would probably have to wait 3 months for a patch. From what I've seen, the AV companies tend to come out with fixes fairly quickly. Having people available to do that type of work on short notice takes some money.
Wow, there is never anything to watch on TV, so now there won't ever be anything to download either.
Now, unless I'm misinformed (wouldn't be the first time), the University of Pennsylvania made the ENIAC as the first electronic digital computer.
So what computer is it that you are referring to?
Well, thats pretty cynical. If these are the type of people you are experiencing in your career, I'd suggest moving to a new area of work that is still within the bounds of your career. Maybe you'll get into a different culture set. After interviewing with Microsoft, I would definately say that they definately do this type of idiot-seeking. Everyone I talked to seemed to be a primadonna, but that isn't much coming from a SQL programmer. (Had I wanted a job as a SQL programmer, I wouldn't have gotten a CS degree.)
I just left a company that was making outrageous counter offers to keep me. I didn't say anything about it being too-little or enough money, they just assumed that was what I was after. I mean doubling your salary is great for short term, but it was so that I'd stay while they liquidated the company. I left because I was tired of doing first level phone support after they laid off all of them. Kind of hard to develop products that make the company money while you're telling people how to press buttons.
What, don't like Spam, Spam, Spam that says, "Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger?" You know they only had your health and welfare in mind when they came up with this idea. I'm sure you're making Ray Kroq turn in his grave.
No, you mount your rifle on a GPS controlled tripod. It should come with one of those remote fire button jobs. Everyone sits back and drinks beer, then presses the button when the tripod starts tracking an object. Now thats a vacation.
Why is everyone so uppity about McDonald's wanting to send you an IM on your cell phone whenever you are within a block?
You also have to get special equipment to extend the monitor cable so that it shows up clear if you put the box in another room. Digital mixing and editing is great, but they have to put an insane amount of buttons on the screen in order to fit all the functionality of a console on the screen. Many buttons usually means small buttons. If your screen is fuzzy from signal attenuation due to distance, its not a pleasant thing to have to look at this all day every day. A sound studio is like a major nightmare of UI design, mixing both software and hardware. The engineers also tend to be sort of artsy, so they tend to be more "needy" than say a software engineer would be. (Just give me a dark room, a good chair, and a mouse without deadspots in it and I'm happy.)
Of course it ceases to exist. I mean, when trees fall in the woods and no one is around, you know they don't make any noise, right?
Days ago, Ottar Grepstad, director of the culture center and literary museum on the west coast of Norway, was busy selecting his expert of choice to hack a password known only by a dead man. It has been revealed that only minutes after his public appeal for a skiller hax0r to recover this password, his archive was ow3nd by Kevin Mitnick. The notorious hacker released information found in the archive that seems to indicate that Britney Spears was concieved by using frozen sperm from non other than Mike Tyson himself. The egg donor was only referred to in the archive as "Camilla" and it is suspected she is the same woman that Prince Charles is dating.
Don't count on that. They still have more money and time to throw at the problem. My guess is that they will do so, at whatever level it takes. They are a big part of the US economy, so I would guess there will be some sort of political pressure through treaties or something.
For now, though, the seas are open and there is loot to be reaped.....er, music to be downloaded.
Think about it....hire the cheapest bidder to paint your house. What generally happens? If the job gets done without them skipping out on you with the job half done, it looks like crap. Pay some real money for it, and you will generally (yes, not always) get a good and complete job.
Spammers and those amateur pornography guys behind the camera....I can't figure out which one is sleazier.
The people who make robotic CD duplicating machines are apparently doing pretty well right now.....Just ask Eminem.
Its ok....people don't like to have their self-created reality ruined. Fact is that the majority of the people that will see this glorified story about the quest for free drug money don't have any idea how run-down Venice still is. That "gentrified" statement about Venice was almost funny. I think there is one row of houses that are really nice, and they border Playa Del Rey. These are the $1M+ beachfront homes. Venice itself is still a dirty place where there are tons of homeless people. I also wonder if they know the difference between a professional street performer and what they might see in Venice.
Venice is still not a real nice place these days. I used to try to rollerblade there, but the asphalt part is so broken that you have to be real good in order not to fall on your face. Then if you try to rollerblade down the bike path, some old fart bikes along and screams, "You're not supposed to be here!!!" Los Angeles hospitality and culture at its finest.
Hey may be considered a DJ, but he does add some talent and artistry to the music he remixes. Those loops and samples have to be created and assembled into something that sounds better than the original song, which he seems to do fairly well. If he decided to remix a New Kids on the Block song, I would probably listen to it if it sounded good - even though everyone loves to hate them and I couldn't stand any of their stuff when they were popular.
Either that, or you forgot to save enough beer money to buy a DAT machine and a CD player.
The music industry, for the most part, does not control the radio stations. Getting your song played is an endeavour in marketing, costing money like any other marketing device does. Did you think that new songs got played on the radio because people actually liked them? No, someone does some sort of market analysis and them determines which artists get that kind of exposure. The catch is that the music publishers, like any other business, does not like to pay for this. So they try to get new artists to sign contracts that pretty much makes it so that the burden of funding the marketing effort is the artist's cost of doing business. This is essentially what Courtney Love was complaining about in that big speech she did that knocked the industry. I find it ironic that she found their practices against anything she learned in high-school economics and at the same time downplayed the importanct of extended education by claiming all P2P had was "college boy" music. I believe had she gone to college, she probably wouldn't have been backed in a corner and forced to sign a record contract that had all this marketing expense tacked onto it. No one forces the artists to sign their contracts. However, as you hear about how some of the most popular bands lived before signing (shoplifting in order to eat, squatting in abandonded buildings, etc), you understand why they sign the first paper stuck in front of them. Have a college education or alternative career as backup, then you have more leverage to say no to certain items in the contract. It also depends on your selected manager, who has a lot of power to screw the artist too. I used to work in music studios, and some of the managers are ex-roadies. Most roadies are dumb as a box of rocks. (Like the time the Fleetwoood Mac roadie couldn't figure out why the circuit breaker kept popping when he plugged 2 refrigerators into an outlet.)
The whole payola thing got quashed, now they figured out a new way to get money to play music. They will figure out a new way to do it if their current way gets outlawed. The great thing about P2P is that you get to hear a lot of music that is not played on the radio. To tell the truth, I don't listen to the radio much anymore since I don't tend to like what they choose to play. If I had my choice, there would be a station that played Oakenfold, Sasha, Van Dyk, and all the other European artists that really know how to make music but have not gotten enough exposure in the US to make them mainstream. I guess this is what "college boy" music is....but I'll tell you, I'd rather listen to this than hear the "real music" that has Courtney Love droning and screaming into the microphone. (Who would have thought SHE would consider herself an audiophile?)
(If you like Courtney Love and you are insulted by this, sorry, but get over it.)