I think that the geeks should start referring to themselves as "Zits" to contrast themselves from the Its - not because it's and acronym for anything, but because it's evocative of their skin-tone resulting from a CRT-bathed life of no exercise, junk food and frequent and prodigious masturbation.
I can't think of a better way to prepare for an existence of sitting by oneself in front of a computer screen, safely distanced from the rest of the world.
Since most geeks have a hard time interacting with real people, not having to confront them (or sunlight) while getting a degree can only help get the mind and body ready for an lifetime full of junk food, carbonated beverages, florescent lighting and no girlfriends.
Lester Thurow is one of the bowtie wearing Liberal whiners who complain about the economy while they sit around there Cambridge offices and enjoy the fruits of it.
Also, in all the times I've seen him go into the Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square, he's never once tip anyone behind the counter.
In the Boston area anyone with a couple of years experience in the right areas could get a contract through an agency for 50 bucks an hour within a day. If you have 5+ years experience you can get 100 an hour. On your own you can expect to add 50 percent to that. Why anyone would waste there time working for a dead-end company is beyond me.
Of course, if you have an equity stake, that's a different matter all together; but working 80 hours a week to get a coffee mug and a hearty slap on the back at the end of a death march is for chumps.
Of course they've left a backdoor open for the government; it's all part of their negotiations with the DOJ: They've been given the green light to secure a monopoly so long as the government is allowed to access each and every computer that has installed Windows.
It's so painfully obvious that it pisses me off when people try to refute it. The government is *counting* on your passivity!
300 bit modems??!? I would have killed for that kind of performance. You kids today don't know what real struggle is. Why, I remember using my 4 bit modem with my steam-power Conestoga Mark VII with its Intel 2002 processor to connect up to good-ol' Prodigy. Yep, those were the days...
But alas, Gates and his Winged-Monkeys couldn't get any money out of us for using the service, so it had to go.
It's encouraging to see the strides that Canada and other third world countries have been making recently.
I honestly didn't realize that computers had made it that far north. Of course, where there are computers there's Gates. Don't let Canada become just another extension of Mikkkrosoft!
Alot of the snot-noses around here insist on calling it 'Alt+Ctrl+Del' when any moron can look down on the keyboard, scan left to right across the bottom and see, plain as day: Ctrl, then... Alt, then... Del. How much simpler do they have to make it!
It's all I can do to keep from grabbing them by their ponytails, shoving their faces into the keys, and dragging their pimply mugs across the pad. CTRL...ALT...DEL. Remember it dickwad.
I realize I'm a bit of a zealot on this one, but for Chr*st'sake, show the keyboard makers a little G*d-d*mn respect.
Only in a land were Mikkkrosoft reduces people to quivering wrecks is this possible. The school board is probably spending all their time rebuilding their Windows systems to understand what's HAPPENING!
Wasn't SGI going down the drain? The only problem with Linux is it seems be to getting embraced by a lot of loser companies that couldn't make it like Corel, SGI, etc.
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Are you telling me that there are multiple flavors of Linux out there?
How am I supposed to run my grandmother's Iron Lung if I don't even know what I'm getting?
Sorry Grannie, I'm going to have to hook you up to Windows 2000; it's not as reliable, but at least we know what we're getting...
I don't care what this guy says; Mozilla is going to succeed.
If I read one more pro-Microsoft, anti-Open Source article like these two I think I'm going to puke.
That's right.
They come up with a new way of doing things, and we'll catch right up.
Just remember Redmond, we'll always be one step behind!
I think that the geeks should start referring to themselves as "Zits" to contrast themselves from the Its - not because it's and acronym for anything, but because it's evocative of their skin-tone resulting from a CRT-bathed life of no exercise, junk food and frequent and prodigious masturbation.
Who do you thinks on top? Gates or Negroponte? Doggy-style or face-to-face?
Oh Boy! Where do I sign up?!
I can't think of a better way to prepare for an existence of sitting by oneself in front of a computer screen, safely distanced from the rest of the world.
Since most geeks have a hard time interacting with real people, not having to confront them (or sunlight) while getting a degree can only help get the mind and body ready for an lifetime full of junk food, carbonated beverages, florescent lighting and no girlfriends.
Lester Thurow is one of the bowtie wearing Liberal whiners who complain about the economy while they sit around there Cambridge offices and enjoy the fruits of it.
Also, in all the times I've seen him go into the Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square, he's never once tip anyone behind the counter.
If we can start these people churning out open source code, we won't have to work any more.
In the Boston area anyone with a couple of years experience in the right areas could get a contract through an agency for 50 bucks an hour within a day. If you have 5+ years experience you can get 100 an hour. On your own you can expect to add 50 percent to that. Why anyone would waste there time working for a dead-end company is beyond me.
Of course, if you have an equity stake, that's a different matter all together; but working 80 hours a week to get a coffee mug and a hearty slap on the back at the end of a death march is for chumps.
The only person responsible for that is the manager that let it happen.
Why don't you take your 'I hate Microsoft' jack-rag and wipe yourself off.
Don't believe anything that Gates says.
Of course they've left a backdoor open for the government; it's all part of their negotiations with the DOJ: They've been given the green light to secure a monopoly so long as the government is allowed to access each and every computer that has installed Windows.
It's so painfully obvious that it pisses me off when people try to refute it. The government is *counting* on your passivity!
300 bit modems??!? I would have killed for that kind of performance. You kids today don't know what real struggle is. Why, I remember using my 4 bit modem with my steam-power Conestoga Mark VII with its Intel 2002 processor to connect up to good-ol' Prodigy. Yep, those were the days...
But alas, Gates and his Winged-Monkeys couldn't get any money out of us for using the service, so it had to go.
I think you'd have to use the one that handles .gov addresses, such as:
http://www.nic.gov/cgi-bin/whois?s=nsa.gov
It's encouraging to see the strides that Canada and other third world countries have been making recently.
I honestly didn't realize that computers had made it that far north. Of course, where there are computers there's Gates. Don't let Canada become just another extension of Mikkkrosoft!
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These people have been in Gate's back pocket for a while now; why should this be any different?
Suck used to be good, now they're bad. This is the last straw.
This thing is going to be the biggest disaster in the history of software. They ought to put a sign in each box that says, "Kick Me Hard".
Who ever decides to roll this product out into their organization is putting their career in jeopardy.
This one really pisses me off.
Alot of the snot-noses around here insist on calling it 'Alt+Ctrl+Del' when any moron can look down on the keyboard, scan left to right across the bottom and see, plain as day: Ctrl, then... Alt, then... Del. How much simpler do they have to make it!
It's all I can do to keep from grabbing them by their ponytails, shoving their faces into the keys, and dragging their pimply mugs across the pad. CTRL...ALT...DEL. Remember it dickwad.
I realize I'm a bit of a zealot on this one, but for Chr*st'sake, show the keyboard makers a little G*d-d*mn respect.
Only in a land were Mikkkrosoft reduces people to quivering wrecks is this possible. The school board is probably spending all their time rebuilding their Windows systems to understand what's HAPPENING!
THIS IS THE HIDDEN COST!
Wasn't SGI going down the drain? The only problem with Linux is it seems be to getting embraced by a lot of loser companies that couldn't make it like Corel, SGI, etc.
Sounds like desperation more than anything else.
More Gates roadkill
WE can't get NT to run at all - never mind graphics. Good for nothing except erasing hard-drives.
Mikkkrosoft: software that 'werks.
Nice 2 C Gates wont need his shoes polished 2day.
Just what the world wants. Another jackass shoveling entrails into the maw of Mikkkrosoft.
Pope Gates got skillz
Open source the code and let us at it!
I'm glad to see Gates and his horde of ham-fisted winged monkey programmers have another company under their boot heal.
God damn them all to hell!
I sure hope the DNA sequences are released as open source. I want to contribute.