You know, the United States always seemed to be the place where government stayed out of people's lives. Now, it seems a few want to make Orwell seem like a conservative vision.
I think it'll come to a point, that if you don't want government in your life, you'll need to live in a country where the government has little technology.
Freedom has been lost while no one was paying attention.
A few years back, my company was interested in buying a component of our software in an OEM arrangement. We had a formalized code review meeting that spent three days on paper review of architecture and that sort of stuff
The second part of the week was a code walkthrough highlighting certain parts of the tricky code. My software development manager, for some unknown reason, decided to leave in original comments from the developers which included
- Dissatisfaction with a pay raise of only 22 percent
- Disatisfaction of some coding policies I had asked my development manager to implement (real tough policies like add *some* comments in code to explain it
- A reference to two of our female finance people
The President and myself spent a very hard Saturday meeting reassuring IBM that while the comments were unprofessional, the code and archtiecture was sound. I came within a hair of losing my job.
Yes, people were shown the door as a result, and I learned a big lesson on the difference between trust and due diligence.
I find it hard to believe that the answers won't be run through Microsoft's PR people before being posted.
I highly doubt MS going to let unreviewed answers appear on this site on such a touchy subject without some serious oversight happening.
Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"
The simple answer is that Windows does not suck.
I keep hearing about people like this who have these massive attacks on their PC once the system is exposed to air, much less the Internet.
I personally have never seen anything like that, and find it increasingly suspicious that these stories always start with "A friend of a friend's PC..." or "My Mom's PC..."
I think these stories all start with someone who thinks they know PCs and winds up with self-inflicted problems. Or just someone with some ill-defined anti-MS chip on their shoulder.
Personally, these stories are starting to bore me.
Someone with 8 programs from start to finish probably has a clue about at least understanding business problems.
1) Start a company
2) Find someone with experience to run it. It sounds like you don't want to bother with the business side of things even if you do understand it.
3) Insert yourself as hands-on CTO and Development Manager. This allows you to create your own development culture.
4) Find a development team with your beliefs ( this will NOT be hard. You'll find many experienced people who work smart, not hard.
5) Find a good Product Manager who is market driven but can talk to Development.
6) Profit!
"90% of the effort to finish the last 10% of the project."
Personally, I've been most successful when the project worked 'good enough' when 90% of it was done.
I completely agree with others above me on this thread who have said "Never look for perfection". Getting the system to something that 'just works' should always be the goal.
You must be new.
I've been working for in high-tech for about 20 years now for various companies, and I would not want my products to be evaluated on a level playing field. I will put in any tweak necessary to win a comparison.
This is not kindergarten...fair is nice, but I know my competitors are doing the same thing. And the old college try does not pay a very good Christmas bonus.
I would probably say that there are only about 20 sites on the Internet that I visit with any kind of regularity. Between Adblock and pop-up block, I've removed most advertising from the sites I visit. No ads makes the visit refreshing and a whole lot faster.
Whenever I do wander to a new site and get inundated with ads, it seems...so intrusive.
Total agreement. No way will I buy an IOmega product.
1)Bought a Zip drive. It died.
2) Bought a Click drive. Drive is okay but the Click disks keep dying.
3) Bought a CD writer. It died.
I am way past the "shame-on-me" stage, as the saying goes.
Agreed. It's the expression of ideas that help us advance. A proposal for a new way to solve problems can generate momentum and tangents that can help us in unknown ways.
I'm sure someone looked at Linux in the early days and said "I'm pretty happy with Unix, but maybe this Torvalds kid is on to something"
Slashdot Mirror
So they've admitted that IE is weak and Firefox et. al. is a compelling product. Knocks aside, I am very interested in seeing how this plays out.
It's time to get out of your parent's basement, get some sunshine, meet a girl and generally get on with your life.
You know, the United States always seemed to be the place where government stayed out of people's lives. Now, it seems a few want to make Orwell seem like a conservative vision.
I think it'll come to a point, that if you don't want government in your life, you'll need to live in a country where the government has little technology.
Freedom has been lost while no one was paying attention.
...or at least remember to lie when completing the Neilsen survey.
If you have TiVo, make sure you record it and set it to play back 10 times while you're at work.
A few years back, my company was interested in buying a component of our software in an OEM arrangement. We had a formalized code review meeting that spent three days on paper review of architecture and that sort of stuff
The second part of the week was a code walkthrough highlighting certain parts of the tricky code. My software development manager, for some unknown reason, decided to leave in original comments from the developers which included
- Dissatisfaction with a pay raise of only 22 percent
- Disatisfaction of some coding policies I had asked my development manager to implement (real tough policies like add *some* comments in code to explain it
- A reference to two of our female finance people
The President and myself spent a very hard Saturday meeting reassuring IBM that while the comments were unprofessional, the code and archtiecture was sound. I came within a hair of losing my job.
Yes, people were shown the door as a result, and I learned a big lesson on the difference between trust and due diligence.
I find it hard to believe that the answers won't be run through Microsoft's PR people before being posted. I highly doubt MS going to let unreviewed answers appear on this site on such a touchy subject without some serious oversight happening.
I appreciate the fanaticism, but they need to let it go.
Apart from raising funds like this for a for-profit endeavour, the legal issues would be Gi-normous.
Licensing, Direction, re-runs, actors contracts...where would one begin?
Getting those issues resolved alone would eat up the break from TV that this franchise needs to reload on some good ideas.
Please, give it a dignified rest. It deserves that.
Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"
The simple answer is that Windows does not suck.
I keep hearing about people like this who have these massive attacks on their PC once the system is exposed to air, much less the Internet.
I personally have never seen anything like that, and find it increasingly suspicious that these stories always start with "A friend of a friend's PC..." or "My Mom's PC..."
I think these stories all start with someone who thinks they know PCs and winds up with self-inflicted problems. Or just someone with some ill-defined anti-MS chip on their shoulder.
Personally, these stories are starting to bore me.
...try and verbalize "Y!Q"
or maybe I'll just skip that party.
Well, in my part of Canada, the temp has not gone much above -20 all week. Raising the temperature 11 degrees is not helping much.
Too bad I have to wait 100 years.
Someone with 8 programs from start to finish probably has a clue about at least understanding business problems. 1) Start a company 2) Find someone with experience to run it. It sounds like you don't want to bother with the business side of things even if you do understand it. 3) Insert yourself as hands-on CTO and Development Manager. This allows you to create your own development culture. 4) Find a development team with your beliefs ( this will NOT be hard. You'll find many experienced people who work smart, not hard. 5) Find a good Product Manager who is market driven but can talk to Development. 6) Profit!
I mean, wouldn't she be lonely? BAHAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thank you, I'll be here all week.
This almost made me shoot 7Up out my nose. If I had mod points, this would have gotten them all.
"90% of the effort to finish the last 10% of the project."
Personally, I've been most successful when the project worked 'good enough' when 90% of it was done.
I completely agree with others above me on this thread who have said "Never look for perfection". Getting the system to something that 'just works' should always be the goal.
You must be new. I've been working for in high-tech for about 20 years now for various companies, and I would not want my products to be evaluated on a level playing field. I will put in any tweak necessary to win a comparison. This is not kindergarten...fair is nice, but I know my competitors are doing the same thing. And the old college try does not pay a very good Christmas bonus.
....in Canada, Global warming is A Good Thing
I would probably say that there are only about 20 sites on the Internet that I visit with any kind of regularity. Between Adblock and pop-up block, I've removed most advertising from the sites I visit. No ads makes the visit refreshing and a whole lot faster. Whenever I do wander to a new site and get inundated with ads, it seems...so intrusive.
..welcome our new robotic overlords.
Total agreement. No way will I buy an IOmega product. 1)Bought a Zip drive. It died. 2) Bought a Click drive. Drive is okay but the Click disks keep dying. 3) Bought a CD writer. It died. I am way past the "shame-on-me" stage, as the saying goes.
Agreed. It's the expression of ideas that help us advance. A proposal for a new way to solve problems can generate momentum and tangents that can help us in unknown ways. I'm sure someone looked at Linux in the early days and said "I'm pretty happy with Unix, but maybe this Torvalds kid is on to something"