Can you really envision a bunch of Doctors strolling down the hall at your local hospital carrying one of these things.....with a PHONE hanging off of it from a cable for tethering purposes? This thing should either be a 4G device out of the box, or they just should not build it.
Why? We dont need this. We need a Storm 3 that WORKS! Why is RIM ignoring the market that made them successful? Let Apple have the consumers, let Droid have the geeks. Business needs a phone that just works, dammit. Oooh, a tablet. I can read my email with larger fonts? WTF?!?!?
Hey RIM, pssst! There is nothing wrong with having the boring, but secure, reliable but quick, phone that just works. NOTHING.
You are being distracted into oblivion by people who WONT BUY YOUR TABLET ANYWAY.
Yeah, but the Chub-ette at the front desk doesn't know that..., nor does her temp fill-in when she goes for that gastric bypass.... Point being, if they want in, they will get in. You have to stop them even if they are inside.
The correct answer is to put the ASA in front of an ISA or TMG server, and use it only for packet inspection and port blocking. Forward only the necessary ports for your business, and whatever is allowed is explicitly enabled AND authenticated by domain\user.
That way, nothing gets in OR out that is not expressly permitted, or tied to a specific user account. An internal effected machine cant send anything out the gateway if its not via 8080 with the firewall client, and with a rule naming its executable.
....and what is your solution when I come in and tell your fat receptionist that she looks nice in that moo-mu, and that I am there to fix the phones, but maybe we can go for a drink when I am done, and can I have access to the IT closet at 5:02pm?
Well, congrads for getting in, as it is a BIG help in looking for future work, or with VCs when you decide to strike out on your own. LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN, then at your first opportunity to be creative, RUN. There are still some brilliant people there, and not just the coders. I learned more lessons from some of the marketing people than from coders towards the success of my own ventures. Avail yourself of the internal classes, especially PUBLIC SPEAKING. Nothing you do in life will be more beneficial to you long term, than the ability to speak in front of people on a topic of interest.
Oh wait, you didn't ask for advice, did you? Okay, then just this; don't fuck a girl-microsoftie. She will move in, and she WONT LEAVE.
Microsoft is not the same company it was 18 years ago, when I started there.
Back then, if your code was shit, you heard about it. Not just from your lead, but from everyone up the chain. You got one, maybe two fuckups before you went on plan. If you were one to glance at the clock and be out the door at 5pm, you were not long for the company.
Back then, if you performed, you had a chance of becoming wealthy. Today? Well, good luck bitches.
When the options were flying, you didn't mind getting your ass chewed on a semi-regular basis, and you didn't mind living in your office for weeks on end, if it meant your project shipped on time. The stuff I heard back then, directed at me, at women, at minorities, or whoever the fuck you were, would welcome lawsuits today. Back then, nobody cared, we were shipping, and buying homes for cash.
What's the stock done for a decade? Nothing. A decent wage, and even great benefits are not enough to get smart people to work like slaves; ruin marriages, with some threatening suicide in the parking lots. For that, you need the promise of wealth.
And that time is OVER in Redmond. Some will still do well, but there is never going to be that sense that one day, you and the guy across the hall are going to be drag-racing your new Porsche's on the 520, if we can just get this fucking product out the door.
My first day in Redmond as an employee, I parked my Camry next to Bob McDowell's yellow Ferrari, and said to myself, "that's me one day, if I work my ass off, fuck having a life for now".
That day is long gone, and it aint coming back to Redmond.
Ballmer was the perfect guy to motivate back then, even though he was more focused on sales at the time. Today, he cant even say what he wants to say in public. He has to call Steve Jobs a visionary, rather than the spear up his ass, he really feels he is.
If anyone back then had told Ballmer that one day Apple would be worth more than Microsoft, he would have probably strongly suggested that you go work there, and get the fuck off the campus.
Ballmer is the right guy, its just the wrong day. Different people, different motivations, different skills, and thinner skins.
Actually neither. I'm a RETIRED developer, because of the investments I made in education, my own startup & and the tools I needed to do to serve my client base, which was Microsoft-oriented. If that makes me a douchebag, I'll take it. Its 10am in the morning. I'm going surfing. What are YOU doing this morning?
What is all this bitching about the price of tools, with MSDN out there for almost nothing? Frankly, if you dont have $2K for an Enterprise MSDN licensing, you really have no business doing a start up, do you? Beyond that, knowing Microsoft, if you have a good idea, you hardly pay for anything, ever. (Disclaimer, I'm a former MS employee) When I did my startup, having access to the tools as an MS Partner cost me practically nothing. Where there is a will, there is a way.....
You gotta make it look like an accident. Ya think with all the pirating you do, you might have gotten ONE episode of The Sopranos?
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The kind of people who buy Apple are not what could be considered "Individualistic" in any sense.
These are the kind of people who allow their self-worth to be determined by others; their cool-factor by how many Facebook friends they have, and what parties they are/not invited to.
They have convinced themselves of a form of technical superiority, when in reality, their platform is too small to be noticed by virus\malware providers, or most productivity app venders save a few like Adobe.
They consider themselves "Counter-culture" when in reality, they are the worst kind of lemmings.
Just watch next year, as hundreds of thousands of them toss their iPad for another one, because it will have a camera, and once again in a few years, for another feature that should have been in v1.0.
Does Apple have good technology? Sure. Is it beyond what anyone else could do? Never has been.
Can they market their platform beyond all common fucking sense to people seeking validation through faddish participation? Fuckin A!
Wanna see an Apple user's head explode? Ask them if their device supports IPv6, and watch them strain to answer without giving away that they dont know what the fuck you are talking about.
99% of what anyone needs in a firewall can be accomplished by an ISA2006 Server (reverse proxy and AD authentication) fronted by a Cisco Pix for port management.
If you can get past that, then you deserve the goodies, IMHO.
"We at Apple continue to be amazed at the number of people in the U.S. who will buy just about anything we put in front of them. We never expected the number of these doofus morons to grow, but hey, whose counting? We are simply THRILLED that we can slap a camera on this thing, and the same nuts will buy another one, throwing the old one on Ebay for the credit challenged wannabes who couldn't hack Round 1."
Suffice to say, we can probably get 3-4 rounds from these same people....maybe a USB port for the 3rd go round? Boy, will they lap THAT up...."
" For round 4.....we'll rumor Flash compatibility, but not deliver it, of course.....we'll please the masses with a custom Steve Jobs signature edition, complete with virtual-arrogance, and disdain for all things with pre-emptive multitasking! "
I generally agree that Fireworks is superior for web mockups. However, I hope they get around to fixing text handling, which is still awful after all these years, which forces me back to Photoshop or Illustrator just to add text parts. In other respects, Fireworks CS4 is pretty amazing; able to spit CSS layouts from slices and all that.
Every single disgruntled former Microsoftie who's pet project got canned, writes this same fucked up article. The same false 'innovation' premise, bla bla fuckin bla.....
First, lets establish that Microsoft (I am a former Microsoft employee myself) couldn't give a crap about innovating, its an exercise best left to those unconcerned about profits. Those of us who succeeded at Microsoft understood that our job was how to create/copy/simulate/obfuscate in the name of market leadership.
Its so tiring to see so many still willing to attach these lofty goals like 'innovation' to what is a really simple business challenge. Nobody (well a few, but they always leave to write these crappy articles) takes their Microsoft check to the bank feeling guilty and with less self-esteem because their high-marketshare product line isnt innovating the fuck out of technology.
Remember the line about the bear: "I dont have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you"?
That is how it is at Microsoft. I worked in the Exchange group, and later Visual Studio. Our job was NOT to come up with mind-blowing shit that glowed in the dark, it was to build products that give people reason to buy ours instead of THEIR's. Exchange never had to be slick, it just had to be better than Lotus Notes. SIMPLE.
Was Exchange innovative? Fuck no. Was it better than NOTES? Fuck yes.
That is the software business. We were never about design awards, and "oh we are so forward thinking", and all that shit.
Microsoft is, was, and always will be about profit for shareholders, bitches. Nothing more, nothing less.
Geeks can generally find a way to afford any hardware that we want. The problem is, we dont WANT to afford hardware that is grossly overpriced. It is also wrong to suggest that those who dont buy Apple products are somehow against Apple. I think you would find most people appreciate what Apple does, even if we dont want to pay those outrageous prices, in order to be part of the 'club'.
Apple doesnt to anything from a functional perspective that others dont; iPhone being a perfect example. My Blackberry had every feature that the iPhone3G had a year before the 3G was available. If there is anything about Apple that I personally resent, it might be their propensity to suggest innovation and features never existed until they incorporated them into their own products.
Apple would be fine allowing one to believe that no phone had true GPS or A2DP until the G3, and I know more than one iPhone owner who believed that until I set them straight. I truly appreciate Apple's marketing prowess, and their product design abilities are unmatched. There are just a number of us who can appreciate Apple without paying more than twice the average price for similar technology. This past Christmas, I purchased THREE HP laptops on Black Friday for LESS than the price of MacBook Pro with the same feature set, same RAM, and and bigger disks.
Is the MacBook a better machine anyway? Perhaps, but NOT 3+ times better.
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....dont forget that all cards of the Fermi class are known to improve Penile girth. Sadly, SLI is required for length.
.....and kill off Cold Fusion once and for all.
Can you really envision a bunch of Doctors strolling down the hall at your local hospital carrying one of these things.....with a PHONE hanging off of it from a cable for tethering purposes? This thing should either be a 4G device out of the box, or they just should not build it.
Hey RIM, pssst! There is nothing wrong with having the boring, but secure, reliable but quick, phone that just works. NOTHING.
You are being distracted into oblivion by people who WONT BUY YOUR TABLET ANYWAY.
I believe the trend began with Windows ME.
Yeah, but the Chub-ette at the front desk doesn't know that..., nor does her temp fill-in when she goes for that gastric bypass.... Point being, if they want in, they will get in. You have to stop them even if they are inside.
That way, nothing gets in OR out that is not expressly permitted, or tied to a specific user account. An internal effected machine cant send anything out the gateway if its not via 8080 with the firewall client, and with a rule naming its executable.
....and what is your solution when I come in and tell your fat receptionist that she looks nice in that moo-mu, and that I am there to fix the phones, but maybe we can go for a drink when I am done, and can I have access to the IT closet at 5:02pm?
"It aint a firewall, unless it stops shit going in BOTH DIRECTIONS."
As for your question, who the fuck knows?
Oh wait, you didn't ask for advice, did you? Okay, then just this; don't fuck a girl-microsoftie. She will move in, and she WONT LEAVE.
Back then, if your code was shit, you heard about it. Not just from your lead, but from everyone up the chain. You got one, maybe two fuckups before you went on plan. If you were one to glance at the clock and be out the door at 5pm, you were not long for the company.
Back then, if you performed, you had a chance of becoming wealthy. Today? Well, good luck bitches.
When the options were flying, you didn't mind getting your ass chewed on a semi-regular basis, and you didn't mind living in your office for weeks on end, if it meant your project shipped on time. The stuff I heard back then, directed at me, at women, at minorities, or whoever the fuck you were, would welcome lawsuits today. Back then, nobody cared, we were shipping, and buying homes for cash.
What's the stock done for a decade? Nothing. A decent wage, and even great benefits are not enough to get smart people to work like slaves; ruin marriages, with some threatening suicide in the parking lots. For that, you need the promise of wealth.
And that time is OVER in Redmond. Some will still do well, but there is never going to be that sense that one day, you and the guy across the hall are going to be drag-racing your new Porsche's on the 520, if we can just get this fucking product out the door.
My first day in Redmond as an employee, I parked my Camry next to Bob McDowell's yellow Ferrari, and said to myself, "that's me one day, if I work my ass off, fuck having a life for now".
That day is long gone, and it aint coming back to Redmond.
Ballmer was the perfect guy to motivate back then, even though he was more focused on sales at the time. Today, he cant even say what he wants to say in public. He has to call Steve Jobs a visionary, rather than the spear up his ass, he really feels he is.
If anyone back then had told Ballmer that one day Apple would be worth more than Microsoft, he would have probably strongly suggested that you go work there, and get the fuck off the campus.
Ballmer is the right guy, its just the wrong day. Different people, different motivations, different skills, and thinner skins.
Actually neither. I'm a RETIRED developer, because of the investments I made in education, my own startup & and the tools I needed to do to serve my client base, which was Microsoft-oriented. If that makes me a douchebag, I'll take it. Its 10am in the morning. I'm going surfing. What are YOU doing this morning?
What is all this bitching about the price of tools, with MSDN out there for almost nothing? Frankly, if you dont have $2K for an Enterprise MSDN licensing, you really have no business doing a start up, do you? Beyond that, knowing Microsoft, if you have a good idea, you hardly pay for anything, ever. (Disclaimer, I'm a former MS employee) When I did my startup, having access to the tools as an MS Partner cost me practically nothing. Where there is a will, there is a way.....
You gotta make it look like an accident. Ya think with all the pirating you do, you might have gotten ONE episode of The Sopranos?
These are the kind of people who allow their self-worth to be determined by others; their cool-factor by how many Facebook friends they have, and what parties they are/not invited to.
They have convinced themselves of a form of technical superiority, when in reality, their platform is too small to be noticed by virus\malware providers, or most productivity app venders save a few like Adobe.
They consider themselves "Counter-culture" when in reality, they are the worst kind of lemmings.
Just watch next year, as hundreds of thousands of them toss their iPad for another one, because it will have a camera, and once again in a few years, for another feature that should have been in v1.0.
Does Apple have good technology? Sure. Is it beyond what anyone else could do? Never has been.
Can they market their platform beyond all common fucking sense to people seeking validation through faddish participation? Fuckin A!
Wanna see an Apple user's head explode? Ask them if their device supports IPv6, and watch them strain to answer without giving away that they dont know what the fuck you are talking about.
If you can get past that, then you deserve the goodies, IMHO.
Suffice to say, we can probably get 3-4 rounds from these same people....maybe a USB port for the 3rd go round? Boy, will they lap THAT up...."
" For round 4.....we'll rumor Flash compatibility, but not deliver it, of course.....we'll please the masses with a custom Steve Jobs signature edition, complete with virtual-arrogance, and disdain for all things with pre-emptive multitasking! "
Went back to listen to the call in show on 911. Very interesting hearing those stunned voices on that day.
I generally agree that Fireworks is superior for web mockups. However, I hope they get around to fixing text handling, which is still awful after all these years, which forces me back to Photoshop or Illustrator just to add text parts. In other respects, Fireworks CS4 is pretty amazing; able to spit CSS layouts from slices and all that.
6.7 Billion in profits in the last quarter.
First, lets establish that Microsoft (I am a former Microsoft employee myself) couldn't give a crap about innovating, its an exercise best left to those unconcerned about profits. Those of us who succeeded at Microsoft understood that our job was how to create/copy/simulate/obfuscate in the name of market leadership.
Its so tiring to see so many still willing to attach these lofty goals like 'innovation' to what is a really simple business challenge. Nobody (well a few, but they always leave to write these crappy articles) takes their Microsoft check to the bank feeling guilty and with less self-esteem because their high-marketshare product line isnt innovating the fuck out of technology.
Remember the line about the bear: "I dont have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you"?
That is how it is at Microsoft. I worked in the Exchange group, and later Visual Studio. Our job was NOT to come up with mind-blowing shit that glowed in the dark, it was to build products that give people reason to buy ours instead of THEIR's. Exchange never had to be slick, it just had to be better than Lotus Notes. SIMPLE.
Was Exchange innovative? Fuck no. Was it better than NOTES? Fuck yes.
That is the software business. We were never about design awards, and "oh we are so forward thinking", and all that shit.
Microsoft is, was, and always will be about profit for shareholders, bitches. Nothing more, nothing less.
I want a cool, quiet 300G for 200 dollars. Imagine....a computer needing to cool only the CPU/Chipset.......I can only dream.
Suggestions: Kara aint no ghost, but a clone or maybe.....A CYLON, bitches?
Let the President live to set foot on Earth, before killing her off, heartless bitches?
Dont kill the hot black chick via suicide; let her F#$@ her way to an early grave?
Must we RAM the BASESTAR? I mean, really?
Go back to Season 2's "Exodus" for inspiration. Do that shit again!
Apple doesnt to anything from a functional perspective that others dont; iPhone being a perfect example. My Blackberry had every feature that the iPhone3G had a year before the 3G was available. If there is anything about Apple that I personally resent, it might be their propensity to suggest innovation and features never existed until they incorporated them into their own products.
Apple would be fine allowing one to believe that no phone had true GPS or A2DP until the G3, and I know more than one iPhone owner who believed that until I set them straight. I truly appreciate Apple's marketing prowess, and their product design abilities are unmatched. There are just a number of us who can appreciate Apple without paying more than twice the average price for similar technology. This past Christmas, I purchased THREE HP laptops on Black Friday for LESS than the price of MacBook Pro with the same feature set, same RAM, and and bigger disks.
Is the MacBook a better machine anyway? Perhaps, but NOT 3+ times better.