It's far more likely to gain promotion for your performance in the private sector world. In the public sector, it's a gotcha game. Results are optional - what is important is that you follow the rules no matter what, and don't step on any toes.
Government employees of any stripe live in perpetual fear of doing something 'against policy' or that violate someone else's area of responsibility lest they suffer for it. In fact, getting in people's way too much by doing too much work often results in a stunted career.
Even more perversely, people who are rotten employees get glowing reviews. The reason why is that it's almost impossible to fire a federal employee. Union, you see. Therefore, if a manager wants to get rid of a lousy performer (relatively speaking), the only way to do so is to transfer them out of their group. Hence, giving glowing reviews is standard. Otherwise, people will not want the badly reviewed employee and upper management tends to think a bad review of an employee means there is something wrong with the manager, rather than the (often) true problem of having wastrels on the government payroll.
Experience it yourself before you write off what I say.
That sea of generalizations is more like a sea of government drones with an occasional gem buried in there.
Maybe you're one of the tiny minority of those in civilian public service who are motivated and professional. Truth be told, most of those quit government service after a time because of the intense mediocrity around them and often become contractors. Peddling your influence acquired during government service is a lucrative business for many.
Only so many competent people have the stomach for the pathetic politicking required to rise through the ranks in government service. Ultimately, also, you reach the glass ceiling of political appointments, where career people aren't allowed to proceed upward because room must be made for cronies.
The military buys contractor services because government employees are both incompetent to accomplish technical tasks as well as too lazy to implement.
Let's be clear about this. Government employees by and large are government employees because they don't have to be competent and as long as they show up for work in the morning they can leave at 4pm and retire in 40 years without having to show any merit.
Hence, even for elections, contractors will have to be hired.
As for how I know - it's what I do for a living, buttress up the dead weight of government civilian employees.
When HP stopped being about engineering and started being about ham-fisted second rate marketing - well, I won't buy any of their products except printers and even there, i'm investigating other solutions.
Carly Fiorina will end up being the person who drove a stake through the heart of that company.
The site isn't about facts anymore, apparently. It's mostly about anti-this or that propaganda.
Just look at the banner - it no longer says 'run by a paralegal' but 'run by a journalist with a paralegal background'. This implies objectivity that just doesn't exist. I couldn't send my management there to read stuff, they'd think I was an OSS nutjob. So how is it helping, then?
Professionalism and evenhanded analysis was the hallmark of the initial articles on Groklaw, and what made it very popular. It was a much better site when it seemed run by an amateur and concentrated on the facts instead of spewing pro-OSS FUD, for that's what it is doing in many cases.
Considering the unlikely nature of your party polling even 3% of the popular vote nationwide, what are the ultimate goals of your candidacy? In addition, would it not be more productive to work on building a legislative bloc in locations where the Green party polls reasonably well, say in state legislatures, or even the US Congress over time?
I have to question your taste in flicks but hey, have at it.:-)
My point is that people want to use the hardware they buy and aren't going to pay more than they have to for the operating system. Microsoft capitalized on that to gain the market share that they currently have. Zero is a really attractive cost.
Why is $ the terminator in int 21h, function 9?
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Hmm? Could it be because Microsoft copied their OS from another popular operating system that was under copyright?
Yes, the beige box was a cultural landmark, not the actual IBM. So, what OS came with those beige boxes? A pirated copy of MS-DOS, more likely than not. I still have tens of the hand-labelled 5 1/4" floppy copies of DOS 2.1, 3.2, and 3.3 from those days. The trade in DOS copies was fairly brisk. No one had an excuse for paying for it. The 3.5" copies of 4.01, 5, etc are long gone, 3.5" floppies seem to bite the dust much faster. That was the favored format for Windows 2.03/2.10/3.0/3.1/3.11, so those copies are also gone. Had tons of them though. No serials there, just pirated OS goodness which nearly everyone shared in back in those days.
If people had to buy an operating system, due to not having friends who could execute the DISKCOPY command, the choice wasn't quite so clear then. IBM helpfully assisted by initially pricing PC-DOS at $60 and CP/M at $240, mostly due to the sweet deal on royalties Microsoft gave them initially due to their near-zero development cost.
I believe they ultimately paid $75k for the MS-DOS code and IBM helpfully did the debugging for them. Why work? After all, they'd swiped the technology.
Simple, I don't want to be part of their license tracking system. Win2k didn't require activation but XP does.
The computer is mine, I bought the components and built it with my own hands. Those bastards can get stuffed. I'll run Win2k until it isn't useful as a dual boot solution for playing games. Hopefully by then Cedega will be good enough to play everything i'm interested in playing.
MS-DOS wouldn't have become as popular as it was, and Windows in its turn, if they weren't allowing rampant piracy via lack of copy protection and winking at the pirates. This hypocritical attempt to maximize profits is a bunch of bullshit and will ultimately result in Microsoft's downfall once they piss off the wrong entity. They may have done so already.
Anyone who thinks Microsoft is justified in the measures they are taking at this point is either a total shill or ignorant of history.
Unless someone installs a VM that monkeys with their browser configs, et cetera, to sit alongside the at least one other VM that is installed on any given machine. Great option.
I'll buy that software!
If your people are writing a lot of code with buffer overflows they are going to write crappy code in any language. End of story. If you and your coworkers can't be bothered to write solid code THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM. I am NOT going back to the functional equivalent of a BASIC runtime module to coddle you. I wouldn't buy Visual Basic programs either, for that matter.
Somehow I managed to write code that didn't have such vulnerabilities back in CP/M days and I still manage it.
If you insist on using Java then compile it so I don't have to deal with crappy VMs. Then you might sell stuff.
On the desktop I don't want to put up with the load times of a VM and the fact that many applications are written to a particular VM, whether that be a particular point rev of Sun's JVM or Microsoft's. So much for write once, run anywhere. So how many JVMs do I have to put up with on my machine to realize this nirvana of no buffer overflows, exactly?
In regards to being an amateur, I was in this business when you were in diapers, if your email address is any indication. Put simply, if I know the end user application is in Java and requires a VM I avoid it like the plague.
I will well and truly laugh when an enterprising individual manages to successfully run arbitrary code inside a JVM again. Yes, it's happened before, and will happen again. Maybe it'll shut some of you amateurs who think that "because it's Java, it's secure" up.
I remember paying $450 for an entire XT compatible with 640mb of RAM. The price without RAM was $200.
It was well over $1000 a meg at one point. The price of RAM has been dropping over the years though. In the early days (70's) you could spend that much on 64k of Static RAM.
The Lusitania sinking in 1915 had nothing to do with the US' declaration of war in 1917.
That had more to do with the Zimmermann note promising Mexico territorial adjustments in exchange for a declaration of war against the US, as well as sinkings of US flag merchant vessels in the North Atlantic.
Don't you think, in the interest of fairness and justice, that Osama should be tried by an international court instead? Trying him in the US would be like letting the victim of an alleged crime be the judge of the accused.
Like the Nuremberg Tribunal? No, I think summary execution is probably going to occur if/when he is obtained. He will have been resisting. That will avoid the legal issues just fine.
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It's far more likely to gain promotion for your performance in the private sector world. In the public sector, it's a gotcha game. Results are optional - what is important is that you follow the rules no matter what, and don't step on any toes.
Government employees of any stripe live in perpetual fear of doing something 'against policy' or that violate someone else's area of responsibility lest they suffer for it. In fact, getting in people's way too much by doing too much work often results in a stunted career.
Even more perversely, people who are rotten employees get glowing reviews. The reason why is that it's almost impossible to fire a federal employee. Union, you see. Therefore, if a manager wants to get rid of a lousy performer (relatively speaking), the only way to do so is to transfer them out of their group. Hence, giving glowing reviews is standard. Otherwise, people will not want the badly reviewed employee and upper management tends to think a bad review of an employee means there is something wrong with the manager, rather than the (often) true problem of having wastrels on the government payroll.
Experience it yourself before you write off what I say.
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You haven't met many civil servants, apparently, asshole.
Apparently you can't face the truth. Maybe you're one of the lazy ass government workers?
That sea of generalizations is more like a sea of government drones with an occasional gem buried in there.
Maybe you're one of the tiny minority of those in civilian public service who are motivated and professional. Truth be told, most of those quit government service after a time because of the intense mediocrity around them and often become contractors. Peddling your influence acquired during government service is a lucrative business for many.
Only so many competent people have the stomach for the pathetic politicking required to rise through the ranks in government service. Ultimately, also, you reach the glass ceiling of political appointments, where career people aren't allowed to proceed upward because room must be made for cronies.
Be insulted all you want - it's the truth.
The military buys contractor services because government employees are both incompetent to accomplish technical tasks as well as too lazy to implement.
Let's be clear about this. Government employees by and large are government employees because they don't have to be competent and as long as they show up for work in the morning they can leave at 4pm and retire in 40 years without having to show any merit.
Hence, even for elections, contractors will have to be hired.
As for how I know - it's what I do for a living, buttress up the dead weight of government civilian employees.
in the opinion of the grandfather, that's the beginning of mad cow disease.
Ask both of them. The answers will be interesting. Both are male, so i'd assume receiving but hey, if they give head that would be interesting too.
You would be surprised how many others did.
When HP stopped being about engineering and started being about ham-fisted second rate marketing - well, I won't buy any of their products except printers and even there, i'm investigating other solutions.
Carly Fiorina will end up being the person who drove a stake through the heart of that company.
Do you believe fellatio is sex?
The site isn't about facts anymore, apparently. It's mostly about anti-this or that propaganda.
Just look at the banner - it no longer says 'run by a paralegal' but 'run by a journalist with a paralegal background'. This implies objectivity that just doesn't exist. I couldn't send my management there to read stuff, they'd think I was an OSS nutjob. So how is it helping, then?
Professionalism and evenhanded analysis was the hallmark of the initial articles on Groklaw, and what made it very popular. It was a much better site when it seemed run by an amateur and concentrated on the facts instead of spewing pro-OSS FUD, for that's what it is doing in many cases.
I thought FUD was bad.
Considering the unlikely nature of your party polling even 3% of the popular vote nationwide, what are the ultimate goals of your candidacy? In addition, would it not be more productive to work on building a legislative bloc in locations where the Green party polls reasonably well, say in state legislatures, or even the US Congress over time?
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Gary Kildall is turning over in his grave at your lies. Besides, I don't have to prove my point, it's all out there on Google if you wish to look.
In other words you're full of shit asshole.
I have to question your taste in flicks but hey, have at it. :-)
My point is that people want to use the hardware they buy and aren't going to pay more than they have to for the operating system. Microsoft capitalized on that to gain the market share that they currently have. Zero is a really attractive cost.
Hmm? Could it be because Microsoft copied their OS from another popular operating system that was under copyright?
Yes, the beige box was a cultural landmark, not the actual IBM. So, what OS came with those beige boxes? A pirated copy of MS-DOS, more likely than not. I still have tens of the hand-labelled 5 1/4" floppy copies of DOS 2.1, 3.2, and 3.3 from those days. The trade in DOS copies was fairly brisk. No one had an excuse for paying for it. The 3.5" copies of 4.01, 5, etc are long gone, 3.5" floppies seem to bite the dust much faster. That was the favored format for Windows 2.03/2.10/3.0/3.1/3.11, so those copies are also gone. Had tons of them though. No serials there, just pirated OS goodness which nearly everyone shared in back in those days.
If people had to buy an operating system, due to not having friends who could execute the DISKCOPY command, the choice wasn't quite so clear then. IBM helpfully assisted by initially pricing PC-DOS at $60 and CP/M at $240, mostly due to the sweet deal on royalties Microsoft gave them initially due to their near-zero development cost.
I believe they ultimately paid $75k for the MS-DOS code and IBM helpfully did the debugging for them. Why work? After all, they'd swiped the technology.
The wave they rode was piracy and deceit.
Simple, I don't want to be part of their license tracking system. Win2k didn't require activation but XP does.
The computer is mine, I bought the components and built it with my own hands. Those bastards can get stuffed. I'll run Win2k until it isn't useful as a dual boot solution for playing games. Hopefully by then Cedega will be good enough to play everything i'm interested in playing.
MS-DOS wouldn't have become as popular as it was, and Windows in its turn, if they weren't allowing rampant piracy via lack of copy protection and winking at the pirates. This hypocritical attempt to maximize profits is a bunch of bullshit and will ultimately result in Microsoft's downfall once they piss off the wrong entity. They may have done so already.
Anyone who thinks Microsoft is justified in the measures they are taking at this point is either a total shill or ignorant of history.
Unless someone installs a VM that monkeys with their browser configs, et cetera, to sit alongside the at least one other VM that is installed on any given machine. Great option.
I'll buy that software!
If your people are writing a lot of code with buffer overflows they are going to write crappy code in any language. End of story. If you and your coworkers can't be bothered to write solid code THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM. I am NOT going back to the functional equivalent of a BASIC runtime module to coddle you. I wouldn't buy Visual Basic programs either, for that matter.
Somehow I managed to write code that didn't have such vulnerabilities back in CP/M days and I still manage it.
If you insist on using Java then compile it so I don't have to deal with crappy VMs. Then you might sell stuff.
On the desktop I don't want to put up with the load times of a VM and the fact that many applications are written to a particular VM, whether that be a particular point rev of Sun's JVM or Microsoft's. So much for write once, run anywhere. So how many JVMs do I have to put up with on my machine to realize this nirvana of no buffer overflows, exactly?
In regards to being an amateur, I was in this business when you were in diapers, if your email address is any indication. Put simply, if I know the end user application is in Java and requires a VM I avoid it like the plague.
I will well and truly laugh when an enterprising individual manages to successfully run arbitrary code inside a JVM again. Yes, it's happened before, and will happen again. Maybe it'll shut some of you amateurs who think that "because it's Java, it's secure" up.
kb, sorry. Out of practice with that, certainly.
I remember paying $450 for an entire XT compatible with 640mb of RAM. The price without RAM was $200.
It was well over $1000 a meg at one point. The price of RAM has been dropping over the years though. In the early days (70's) you could spend that much on 64k of Static RAM.
The Lusitania sinking in 1915 had nothing to do with the US' declaration of war in 1917.
That had more to do with the Zimmermann note promising Mexico territorial adjustments in exchange for a declaration of war against the US, as well as sinkings of US flag merchant vessels in the North Atlantic.
Don't you think, in the interest of fairness and justice, that Osama should be tried by an international court instead? Trying him in the US would be like letting the victim of an alleged crime be the judge of the accused.
Like the Nuremberg Tribunal? No, I think summary execution is probably going to occur if/when he is obtained. He will have been resisting. That will avoid the legal issues just fine.
Perhaps a black hole of Linux gaming?
Ye gods, the mods are stupid around this place.
"I didn't get it, so mod it offtopic!"