Last week, a friend of mine was working at a company which, among other things, had a large handful of Windows boxes. He managed to finagle me the right to use the equipment in off times to do some of my own computing research (strange porn techniques, mainly).
While using the machines, and offhandedly noticing that my friend was let go and replaced by five H1-B programmers, I noticed that Windows sucked, so I spent some time loading Linux on some unused boxen (for whatever reason, I didn't give the H1-B's the root PW).
In time, his former boss found out what I was doing and he came to me with a speech about corporate software standards and unsupported operating systems. This means that if something were to go wrong, like you being replaced by five H1-B programmers, there's nobody who could really figure out what you're doing, and I really don't have the authority to bless what you're doing.
A week later, I was replaced by *six* H1-B programmers, and ended up living with my mom.
Ms. Gaines is the vice president of Prime Image, a maker of devices like the Digital Time Machine that shorten audio and video recordings by up to 12 percent with "no discernible results."
No discernible results? And people are paying for this?
Incredibly, Oracle made it clear their intention was to discontinue all PeopleSoft products, ultimately forcing customers to convert to Oracle's application and database.
A few days ago I saw the back cover of a trade mag (I forget which one) which was a full-page ad from Oracle stating that they wouldn't discontinue any PeopleSoft product now or in the future, that they would continue to support those products, and continue to maintain them. Of course, conversion to Oracle tools would be discounted.
after they announced the lawsuit their stock went up $10 a share, and the VP sold over 100,000 shares that day!
I'd like to know where that information came from. Under SEC regulations, insiders are required to report large buy and sell transactions. A quick check at Quicken Insider Trading for SCO shows that so far, as of approximately 5/13, when the stock started to rise, only one Senior VP has sold 5,000 shares, on 6/20. No other insiders are listed.
A check at MSN Insider Trading for SCO shows additionally a Divisional Officer who sold 7,916 shares on 6/4.
That's not to say that you are definitely wrong. You could be right. The lying cheating scumbags commonly known as chief officers may be just lying in wait for enough time to go by that their sells can't technically be linked to the lawsuit.
--Rob
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you really need to move it to a linux/oracle system before your VMS tape gets eaten by mice...
I had that happen once... it was horrible!
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If Marvin wants to know why AI hasn't made major strides in the past 30 years (and, by the way, I would say that it has) he should look no further than his own bullying, arrogant approach.
Yeah, Minsky is a big poo-poo head! Poo-poo on you!
Take me for instance, I really thought Tobby was as quiet and good natured as he plays in his movies.
Naw, after Chamber of Secrets, Dobby started acting all uppity and stuff, knowing that he'd have to be rehired for Goblet of Fire. First he started stalking Emma Watson. Then he got to dumping whipped cream and sugared violet pudding over Chris Columbus's and Steve Kloves's heads until his part was expanded.
The added onus to this is the ability to hold massive teleconferences with several different locations, or showing events from several different areas at once.
Yeah, all those executives renting out IMAX theaters for the whole day is sure an onus to those of us who want to watch movies there instead.
I've been doing just about the maximum I can, by keeping my queue filled up and watching and returning movies promptly. I've never had waits for any movies. Then again, maybe I just don't watch the popular movies.
I've had one DVD lost when it was sent to me, and one that I thought was lost but showed up about two weeks after it was supposed to arrive.
I feel kind of bad that I'm losing Netflix money, though. IMHO it's a great service, if only for the availability of movies and for no late fees.
If the consequence of having many DVD's per month is not long waits, then maybe it's not getting movies requested through their request form. I've asked for Ben (197?) and Willard (197?), but who knows what criteria they use.
I do believe there is a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel though for the Internet economy...Borders are going to become looser
Actually, that's the worst thing that can happen to the U.S. economy. The US has one of the highest costs of living in the world. If borders become looser, and workflow equalizes across the world, then US IT salaries will drop to compete with the rest of the world where costs of living, and hence salaries, are lower.
We in the US *do* have it great, but we should be preparing ourselves for the crash to come.
Pollster: If you tell me your password, I'll give you this free pen.
Pollee: (distracted) Huh? Password?
Pollster: Here you go (gives free pen, ticks off "gave password for pen", writes down password as "password".)
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery." --Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
The mozilla.org team has decided on a new name for their browser component that will avoid name conflicts with other groups. The new name, announced with little fanfare, is "Mozilla". mozilla.org management promptly started an e-mail campaign to the mozilla.org developers, claiming that the "Mozilla" name was in use by mozilla.org way before mozilla.org selected "Mozilla" as a name, and that an alternate name should be chosen.
--Rob
"As well, some of the young rats are playful and like to jump on to the platform when an older rat is drinking, with the result that the water pours down on the drinker's head." -- Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
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Perhaps you long for the day when a business could completely lie in its advertising, but I don't.
I would love to have businesses lay completely in their advertising. CEO's would have to take daily coupon-mailer baths, and CIO's would be forced to watch their company's commercials for two hours each day.
Oh, lie.
--Rob
"The big rat got in the way. When I said, 'Go into the watering-can,' he went too, without in the least understanding -- he just followed the others."
--Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
Blah blah, Microsoft, blah sucks, blah licensing, idiots, blah blah, I use Linux, blah blah serves 'em right, what Ever, what Ever, I'll do what I want, blah blah boycott, blah. Mod +5 anti-Microsoft.
Oh, all right already!
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery."
--Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
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Last week, a friend of mine was working at a company which, among other things, had a large handful of Windows boxes. He managed to finagle me the right to use the equipment in off times to do some of my own computing research (strange porn techniques, mainly).
While using the machines, and offhandedly noticing that my friend was let go and replaced by five H1-B programmers, I noticed that Windows sucked, so I spent some time loading Linux on some unused boxen (for whatever reason, I didn't give the H1-B's the root PW).
In time, his former boss found out what I was doing and he came to me with a speech about corporate software standards and unsupported operating systems. This means that if something were to go wrong, like you being replaced by five H1-B programmers, there's nobody who could really figure out what you're doing, and I really don't have the authority to bless what you're doing.
A week later, I was replaced by *six* H1-B programmers, and ended up living with my mom.
The End
Ms. Gaines is the vice president of Prime Image, a maker of devices like the Digital Time Machine that shorten audio and video recordings by up to 12 percent with "no discernible results."
No discernible results? And people are paying for this?
--Rob
A few days ago I saw the back cover of a trade mag (I forget which one) which was a full-page ad from Oracle stating that they wouldn't discontinue any PeopleSoft product now or in the future, that they would continue to support those products, and continue to maintain them. Of course, conversion to Oracle tools would be discounted.
--Rob
I'd like to know where that information came from. Under SEC regulations, insiders are required to report large buy and sell transactions. A quick check at Quicken Insider Trading for SCO shows that so far, as of approximately 5/13, when the stock started to rise, only one Senior VP has sold 5,000 shares, on 6/20. No other insiders are listed.
A check at MSN Insider Trading for SCO shows additionally a Divisional Officer who sold 7,916 shares on 6/4.
That's not to say that you are definitely wrong. You could be right. The lying cheating scumbags commonly known as chief officers may be just lying in wait for enough time to go by that their sells can't technically be linked to the lawsuit.
--Rob
I had that happen once... it was horrible!
Yeah, Minsky is a big poo-poo head! Poo-poo on you!
--Rob
(sorry -- I'm feeling childish today)
Naw, after Chamber of Secrets, Dobby started acting all uppity and stuff, knowing that he'd have to be rehired for Goblet of Fire. First he started stalking Emma Watson. Then he got to dumping whipped cream and sugared violet pudding over Chris Columbus's and Steve Kloves's heads until his part was expanded.
That friggin' house-elf is a menace!
--Rob
In Soviet Russia...
--Rob
Is that, like, a measurement unit for child porn?
Sorry.
--Rob
I did ask RMS that once, a long time ago. IIRC, he said that "free" was shorter, and he liked it better. But don't quote me on that.
--Rob
Yeah, all those executives renting out IMAX theaters for the whole day is sure an onus to those of us who want to watch movies there instead.
--Rob
I've had one DVD lost when it was sent to me, and one that I thought was lost but showed up about two weeks after it was supposed to arrive.
I feel kind of bad that I'm losing Netflix money, though. IMHO it's a great service, if only for the availability of movies and for no late fees.
If the consequence of having many DVD's per month is not long waits, then maybe it's not getting movies requested through their request form. I've asked for Ben (197?) and Willard (197?), but who knows what criteria they use.
--Rob
I guess I'll see you in Redmond.
--Rob
Actually, that's the worst thing that can happen to the U.S. economy. The US has one of the highest costs of living in the world. If borders become looser, and workflow equalizes across the world, then US IT salaries will drop to compete with the rest of the world where costs of living, and hence salaries, are lower.
We in the US *do* have it great, but we should be preparing ourselves for the crash to come.
--Rob
Pollster: If you tell me your password, I'll give you this free pen.
Pollee: (distracted) Huh? Password?
Pollster: Here you go (gives free pen, ticks off "gave password for pen", writes down password as "password".)
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery." --Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
The mozilla.org team has decided on a new name for their browser component that will avoid name conflicts with other groups. The new name, announced with little fanfare, is "Mozilla". mozilla.org management promptly started an e-mail campaign to the mozilla.org developers, claiming that the "Mozilla" name was in use by mozilla.org way before mozilla.org selected "Mozilla" as a name, and that an alternate name should be chosen.
--Rob
"As well, some of the young rats are playful and like to jump on to the platform when an older rat is drinking, with the result that the water pours down on the drinker's head." -- Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
I would love to have businesses lay completely in their advertising. CEO's would have to take daily coupon-mailer baths, and CIO's would be forced to watch their company's commercials for two hours each day.
Oh, lie.
--Rob
"The big rat got in the way. When I said, 'Go into the watering-can,' he went too, without in the least understanding -- he just followed the others." --Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery."
--Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
Sorry.
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery."
--Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
Oh, all right already!
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery."
--Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
They're still here.
--Rob
"Mother says there are rats in the rockery."
--Ratman's Notebooks (1968)
Are you from the planet where corporations listen to customers? 'Cuz it sure ain't mine...
--Rob
No, "Big Ben" is really the name of the giant rat in the tower whose job it is to run on the treadmill that winds the clock.
OK, so I'm several days late for April Fool's, *and* I'm a Willard fan. But at least I dodged the third strike because I'm not an AC!
--Rob
Third strike: Unfunny -5. Oops.