Meh. We all need breaks from nose-down working. A little diversion with a headhunter (especially if it's approved by management) is a great way to improve morale ("Yeah, I told that guy we required 10 years of C# experience for our new lead developer. That'll keep him hunting and not calling us.") and provide a little diversion. People != machines. We're significantly better, but require special care.
You don't know any developers you could send this to? I know of at least 2 or 3 within earshot of me that could use reading it. Even if you didn't need the info directly yourself, don't you wish you had access to it to show someone sometimes?
As another data point, I use my Wii with a 42" HDTV, and I know of at least one other person that does the same. And you know what? Zelda still looks beautiful. It may not show all of Link's zits, but that's more than made up for with the amount of fun the system provides.
Just north and west of Denver. But you could always use this wonderful "intarweb" thing and possibly this newfangled site called google. I hear it's useful.
Bullshit. The reason Windows doesn't have dependency "problems" is because you end up having multiple versions of the same library loaded, because it's a pain in the ass to have an actual shared library, as there's no versioning support for libraries available in the system.
I'm not an OSX user, but their "point releases" add major new applications and functionality. Not like a service pack, it's more like the move from Win95->Win98.
Because Linux isn't beholden to content companies, and doesn't treat people that use it like criminals by default. When someone is truly acting in your best interests, the same action can be a 180 morally from someone who's trying to extract as much from you as they can without any altruism involved. It's not that we're too cheap to pay for software, it's that we're too proud to just bend over and take it up the ass from someone who just wants as much as they can take, rather than providing a fair product at a fair price.
I second that. I was in a typing class using Wordperfect, and learned to program C++ with Borland, because those were the "standards". And I tell you, that test I took clicking the button to use the "mail merge" feature in Wordperfect with the templates and data already set up for me has been an invaluable lesson:rolleyes:
Ok, how about "Well, it's supposed to corrupt the file if Excel saves something over 60MB. Next time, stop using all the features Excel provides to make annotations and such, because they don't work right when you might actually want to save your work. Oh, and your data is toast. Excel can't recover it, but OpenOffice.org can."
Post your letters online, and their responses. They have no expectation of privacy when the communication travels over a public, unencrypted network. The only way to get companies to change their behavior is by hitting them in the wallet. You not buying there is a drop in a bucket. Lots of people learning that they're shitheads is the other 5 gallons.
Most people don't need modems. If you want one, you can buy one, but most people have broadband, and a modem is just extra cost and resource reservation on a computer when I'd say well over 50% of people who buy the machines never use it. I haven't used a modem in years, and I only know of one person who has in the last 3 years, and that stopped almost a year ago.
Nintendo's gotten better in the last 20 years. I can't say Sony has started to treat consumers better, so they're still on my shitlist. I'll give a company a chance to change... will you?
Write a plugin? I mean, there are things like Foxmarks that already do bookmark synchronization... it shouldn't be too hard to just write a plugin to ensure that you always have the corporate bookmark set from a random website, and you don't even have the overhead of SQL then, either. Just a single HTML file somewhere. Settings, you can access those from a plugin, too...
And you get jack-shit that's useful done, so bogged down in bureaucracy that you can't even install a simple application to help with your work without pages of forms and IT approvals and such, just to install and use gvim. And that's just from the Forestry people I've worked with. No thanks.
...nothing to click? So what are all these screenshots?. What you've said is that you tried to do something non-standard, didn't take adequate precautions to be able to repair it, and it broke your computer. Do you change BOOT.INI options in Windows willy-nilly? I fail to see how it's Ubuntu's fault that it didn't keep you from breaking your computer by doing something stupid. Do you also randomly replace the gas in your car with diesel to try to get it to run faster?
if it was #linuxhelp on chatjunkies, it could have happened. They have a low tolerance for ignorance. They'll usually point you to where you need to go to learn about it, especially if you ask the question properly (hint: DON'T phrase it as "Linux sucks! I can't get it to do X!"). The only thing that a lot of people don't get is that Linux geeks expect you to connect the dots yourself. We'll give you the sheet of dots, but you've still gotta draw the lines.
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Once a month is not "seldomly". More than once is way too often. Your company is operating unethically, and you're helping them do so. Scuzzball.
Meh. We all need breaks from nose-down working. A little diversion with a headhunter (especially if it's approved by management) is a great way to improve morale ("Yeah, I told that guy we required 10 years of C# experience for our new lead developer. That'll keep him hunting and not calling us.") and provide a little diversion. People != machines. We're significantly better, but require special care.
You don't know any developers you could send this to? I know of at least 2 or 3 within earshot of me that could use reading it. Even if you didn't need the info directly yourself, don't you wish you had access to it to show someone sometimes?
And if people can't look in front of them to tell that the cars are stopped, there's something seriously wrong. Brake lights still help.
As another data point, I use my Wii with a 42" HDTV, and I know of at least one other person that does the same. And you know what? Zelda still looks beautiful. It may not show all of Link's zits, but that's more than made up for with the amount of fun the system provides.
They make this neat thing called the "Internet", and I hear you can even order one through this newfangled technology.
Naah. Fedora ain't pointless. It's a great corporate desktop to go along with the RHEL servers. Not a home-user desktop, though.
Just north and west of Denver. But you could always use this wonderful "intarweb" thing and possibly this newfangled site called google. I hear it's useful.
Bullshit. The reason Windows doesn't have dependency "problems" is because you end up having multiple versions of the same library loaded, because it's a pain in the ass to have an actual shared library, as there's no versioning support for libraries available in the system.
I'm not an OSX user, but their "point releases" add major new applications and functionality. Not like a service pack, it's more like the move from Win95->Win98.
Because Linux isn't beholden to content companies, and doesn't treat people that use it like criminals by default. When someone is truly acting in your best interests, the same action can be a 180 morally from someone who's trying to extract as much from you as they can without any altruism involved. It's not that we're too cheap to pay for software, it's that we're too proud to just bend over and take it up the ass from someone who just wants as much as they can take, rather than providing a fair product at a fair price.
I second that. I was in a typing class using Wordperfect, and learned to program C++ with Borland, because those were the "standards". And I tell you, that test I took clicking the button to use the "mail merge" feature in Wordperfect with the templates and data already set up for me has been an invaluable lesson :rolleyes:
Ok, how about "Well, it's supposed to corrupt the file if Excel saves something over 60MB. Next time, stop using all the features Excel provides to make annotations and such, because they don't work right when you might actually want to save your work. Oh, and your data is toast. Excel can't recover it, but OpenOffice.org can."
Post your letters online, and their responses. They have no expectation of privacy when the communication travels over a public, unencrypted network. The only way to get companies to change their behavior is by hitting them in the wallet. You not buying there is a drop in a bucket. Lots of people learning that they're shitheads is the other 5 gallons.
Most people don't need modems. If you want one, you can buy one, but most people have broadband, and a modem is just extra cost and resource reservation on a computer when I'd say well over 50% of people who buy the machines never use it. I haven't used a modem in years, and I only know of one person who has in the last 3 years, and that stopped almost a year ago.
Nintendo's gotten better in the last 20 years. I can't say Sony has started to treat consumers better, so they're still on my shitlist. I'll give a company a chance to change... will you?
Can I have both? I don't want to tag all my bookmarks, some of them I just want in a temporary "area", just a quick drag is all it is now.
Write a plugin? I mean, there are things like Foxmarks that already do bookmark synchronization... it shouldn't be too hard to just write a plugin to ensure that you always have the corporate bookmark set from a random website, and you don't even have the overhead of SQL then, either. Just a single HTML file somewhere. Settings, you can access those from a plugin, too...
What company is it? I'll call in an anonymous tip ;)
I was gonna say that they must have been using Excel to keep the spreadsheet of patents.
And you get jack-shit that's useful done, so bogged down in bureaucracy that you can't even install a simple application to help with your work without pages of forms and IT approvals and such, just to install and use gvim. And that's just from the Forestry people I've worked with. No thanks.
When it hits $1000 they start to ask questions. Didn't you wonder about the oddity of the $995 amount?
...nothing to click? So what are all these screenshots?. What you've said is that you tried to do something non-standard, didn't take adequate precautions to be able to repair it, and it broke your computer. Do you change BOOT.INI options in Windows willy-nilly? I fail to see how it's Ubuntu's fault that it didn't keep you from breaking your computer by doing something stupid. Do you also randomly replace the gas in your car with diesel to try to get it to run faster?
if it was #linuxhelp on chatjunkies, it could have happened. They have a low tolerance for ignorance. They'll usually point you to where you need to go to learn about it, especially if you ask the question properly (hint: DON'T phrase it as "Linux sucks! I can't get it to do X!"). The only thing that a lot of people don't get is that Linux geeks expect you to connect the dots yourself. We'll give you the sheet of dots, but you've still gotta draw the lines.