If you're annoyed about other people using their phones near your holiness then you are probably annoyed by real conversations too.
Though to be fair, when did people discover that they had to look all macho and shit talking into a phone held sideways, away from and in front of their face?
And my homies - when you go the movies, why do you all need to wear the headsets? Do you think you're on Pimp My Ride?
So passengers who get IRATE when they are required to strip in public, open up their bags, disassemble their notebook computer, watch their notebook computer wander off in someone else's hands and then get lectured because that passenger forgot to take his keychain off even though the metal detector didn't squawk anyhow
will be be interogated, cavity searched, threatened with arrest and detained for several hours.
Oh wait that happened already. So fuck the airlines, fuck the airport 'security' assholes, fuck the fucking department homefucking land security fuck Tom Ridge, George Bush and the gov. and whateverfucking state you live in. Fuck the national guard and the FBI. Fuck those mullahfuckers who caused this shit to occur. Fuck their countries their goats their fucked up iron age living in fucking caves caliphate. Fuck those fat smug useless bitches at the airline counter, fuck the pilots, the crew and all the passengers may they gargle fucking shit in jet fueled hell for eternity.
Clearly if a major customer like the EU wants a custom version of all Windows from now on then each release will have to be regression tested differently. That translates to all EU specific releases will take somewhat longer to get out the door. I think 6 months is fair.
About 1% of American jobs are moving to India & co.
American jobs of ALL kinds have been leaving the states since 1950 and guess what? About 14% of all jobs in the US are in manufacturing.
The problem is that jobs are moving its that Americans are not maintaining their bleeding edge skillset which normally, at least for the last 200 years contributed to creating NEW jobs to take their place.
If you really want your smock-wearing industrial production line type techie job to stay in this country then you should be willing to watch the next generation of knowledge workers pass you by. And when it does, expect it to pay less and less each year.
Isn't all this pulse checking getting boring already?
Hi we're a bunch of nerdy Linux geeks and Linux is rilly rilly kewl and 1337 to install (which I guess as an end consumer you're going to do a LOT of as a matter of course in your normal purchase cycle?)
So trust us, here's a bunch of distros that are all only about 40% harder to install and run than Windows and when you're done they will run more or less 80% of what you originally intended Windows to run more or less 90% as well.
This is a UN inspired rationale to PREVENT poor countries from investing in compute technology. Clearly the UN 'university' would prefer that all that economic development shift back to rich countries, 'where it belongs' instead of consuming precious natural resources otherwise critical for homeless urchins, women chained to power looms and puppies.
Perhaps Mr. Raymonds' problem is that he EXPECTS all open source stuff to work flawlessly first time out of the box instantly just BECAUSE it's open source.
In the Windows world it's always a little like being a landmine tester by hitting it with a hammer. So we expect that the configuration dialog for the printer device will just hang or crash for no obvious reason. We expect that MS common UI design isn't and most of the critical functions are never in the same place.
Predictable Failure. We hope for a minimal effort, at best. But in the OS world we think sheer brilliance will save us all no matter how obscure. So when it doesn't we experience a level of frustration and disappointment we're not accustomed to.
What do you do if you are a company who's most basic money generating product is predicated on secrecy? What value do you bring to the table if that secrecy is compromised?
Point taken that w/o a tightly controlled version control, integration test and security QA process you are bound to collect intentional and unintentional bugs and problems
BUT
All of those same things are true in closed source code too. And once introduced into a closed system, problems tend to persist far longer and resist all attempts to correct them.
The key to privacy is 'covenience' which roughly translates to how hard it is to preserve your own privacy.
Not the other way around, you dolts.
But now we live in an online world where doing practically anything except watching an ad requires 'registration'. So you HAVE to give up some information everytime. And even where all/most of that information is bogus you still have to thrash through it.
Think of it - most online purchases require a great deal of 'registration' - -
- "Are you one of our favored accounts?" - "Please log in and we'll retrieve your profile."
and what they've basically done is take a system that works more or less ok - shop, pay, ship, thanks - and perverted it into an exercize that more or less makes the actual purchase secondary and the mad type type type type type typing of pages and pages of information for them to store the real point of it all. And 6 months from now when you've forgotten your password, account, secret questions #1, 2 and 3 and you try to purchase another box of screws or printer ink or god knows what and you need to have them send you your password again it's clear that the real purpose of this is the information itself and buying something is merely a door prize to the event.
While you all give mad props to each other about how much you know and how silly this is, there really are thousands of admins and others who need to be told to scratch their ass with THIS finger. Whether it's institutional paranoia, fear or lack of knowledge, skill or training - most of the problems we experience out there are easily preventable if someone enforced it, someone audited it, someone got educated in it or someone was simply TOLD to do it.
It's kind of sad really all these nerds who pretty much owe their lives, livelihoods and amusement to advanced technology constantly pooh poohing this great science going on.
Ah well - the confluence of indifference, stupidity and radical Libertarian 'prices of everything'.
See If NASA promised that Mars science would guarantee the slashnerds could share illegal music for free forever I'm pretty sure those damn Trekkie buffoons could get behind it.
Live long and eat Cheetos, fat goofy weird comicbook store guy.
First off, nobody moves 300,000 desktops in one year. You retire maybe 20% per year and refresh them with new machines that can contain a new OS.
Next you have to insure that all of your custom desktop apps are rewritten OR - run under Wine or VM32.
Then you have to create a build and tune it for your network.
Then you have to push all of the legacy apps maintenance to sunset their own apps. You will need to do this for several years unless you plan on migrating entire business divisions at once.
Then and this a BIG thing, you need to train a desktop support infrastructure to maintain it. That includes break/fix, troubleshooting and helpdesk.
And Oh - you also need to develop national language support for all the desktop code, world wide in about 20 different languages including DBCS support and all the supporting documentation.
Sorry but this is relevant to such a small segment of the population as to be unimportant. I'm sure there are people who know the impedance of every type of gold Monster Cable that Radio Shack sells and can tell you chapter and verse of which part no's are the REAL Monster Cable too.
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If you're annoyed about other people using their phones near your holiness then you are probably annoyed by real conversations too.
Though to be fair, when did people discover that they had to look all macho and shit talking into a phone held sideways, away from and in front of their face?
And my homies - when you go the movies, why do you all need to wear the headsets? Do you think you're on Pimp My Ride?
Nope, phones aren't annoying, people are.
so here's what you ask.
What's the median training time the employeed spent/had during the last 5 years.
How much time/money did the employeed invest in their own career in the last 5 years.
Was that lost job largely done by low cost H1-B visa contractors HERE before going over THERE.
AT&T for decades was run like small country with a century long investment horizon guaranteed by federally mandated rates of return.
So passengers who get IRATE when they are required to strip in public, open up their bags, disassemble their notebook computer, watch their notebook computer wander off in someone else's hands and then get lectured because that passenger forgot to take his keychain off even though the metal detector didn't squawk anyhow
will be be interogated, cavity searched, threatened with arrest and detained for several hours.
Oh wait that happened already. So fuck the airlines, fuck the airport 'security' assholes, fuck the fucking department homefucking land security fuck Tom Ridge, George Bush and the gov. and whateverfucking state you live in. Fuck the national guard and the FBI. Fuck those mullahfuckers who caused this shit to occur. Fuck their countries their goats their fucked up iron age living in fucking caves caliphate. Fuck those fat smug useless bitches at the airline counter, fuck the pilots, the crew and all the passengers may they gargle fucking shit in jet fueled hell for eternity.
More bandwidth is good because then bad germs will kill more weak hosts faster.
Clearly if a major customer like the EU wants a custom version of all Windows from now on then each release will have to be regression tested differently. That translates to all EU specific releases will take somewhat longer to get out the door. I think 6 months is fair.
Now we are being told to accept that the EU now decides how US companies do business WITH ONE ANOTHER.
Getting a little too big for their britches.
And that's about it. Oh, and my keys and my phone.
About 1% of American jobs are moving to India & co.
American jobs of ALL kinds have been leaving the states since 1950 and guess what? About 14% of all jobs in the US are in manufacturing.
The problem is that jobs are moving its that Americans are not maintaining their bleeding edge skillset which normally, at least for the last 200 years contributed to creating NEW jobs to take their place.
If you really want your smock-wearing industrial production line type techie job to stay in this country then you should be willing to watch the next generation of knowledge workers pass you by. And when it does, expect it to pay less and less each year.
Isn't this cicular zen nonsense? The problem with Linux is that it is not Windows and the problem with Windows is that it is not something else.
My Ford Taurus is not a Honda Civic. There is no spoon, Neo.
Isn't all this pulse checking getting boring already?
Hi we're a bunch of nerdy Linux geeks and Linux is rilly rilly kewl and 1337 to install (which I guess as an end consumer you're going to do a LOT of as a matter of course in your normal purchase cycle?)
So trust us, here's a bunch of distros that are all only about 40% harder to install and run than Windows and when you're done they will run more or less 80% of what you originally intended Windows to run more or less 90% as well.
This is a UN inspired rationale to PREVENT poor countries from investing in compute technology. Clearly the UN 'university' would prefer that all that economic development shift back to rich countries, 'where it belongs' instead of consuming precious natural resources otherwise critical for homeless urchins, women chained to power looms and puppies.
Go figure, what are the odds of THAT happening?
Perhaps Mr. Raymonds' problem is that he EXPECTS all open source stuff to work flawlessly first time out of the box instantly just BECAUSE it's open source.
In the Windows world it's always a little like being a landmine tester by hitting it with a hammer. So we expect that the configuration dialog for the printer device will just hang or crash for no obvious reason. We expect that MS common UI design isn't and most of the critical functions are never in the same place.
Predictable Failure. We hope for a minimal effort, at best. But in the OS world we think sheer brilliance will save us all no matter how obscure. So when it doesn't we experience a level of frustration and disappointment we're not accustomed to.
Hey I used to have a 10 slot SBC case with 10 2-way Intel 512MB 1GB DASD SBCs in it.
That would be one than 10, wouldn't it?
What do you do if you are a company who's most basic money generating product is predicated on secrecy? What value do you bring to the table if that secrecy is compromised?
Point taken that w/o a tightly controlled version control, integration test and security QA process you are bound to collect intentional and unintentional bugs and problems
BUT
All of those same things are true in closed source code too. And once introduced into a closed system, problems tend to persist far longer and resist all attempts to correct them.
Reality bears this out.
"Good afternoon Mr. Yakmura."
The key to privacy is 'covenience' which roughly translates to how hard it is to preserve your own privacy.
Not the other way around, you dolts.
But now we live in an online world where doing practically anything except watching an ad requires 'registration'. So you HAVE to give up some information everytime. And even where all/most of that information is bogus you still have to thrash through it.
Think of it - most online purchases require a great deal of 'registration' - -
- "Are you one of our favored accounts?"
- "Please log in and we'll retrieve your profile."
and what they've basically done is take a system that works more or less ok - shop, pay, ship, thanks - and perverted it into an exercize that more or less makes the actual purchase secondary and the mad type type type type type typing of pages and pages of information for them to store the real point of it all. And 6 months from now when you've forgotten your password, account, secret questions #1, 2 and 3 and you try to purchase another box of screws or printer ink or god knows what and you need to have them send you your password again it's clear that the real purpose of this is the information itself and buying something is merely a door prize to the event.
While you all give mad props to each other about how much you know and how silly this is, there really are thousands of admins and others who need to be told to scratch their ass with THIS finger. Whether it's institutional paranoia, fear or lack of knowledge, skill or training - most of the problems we experience out there are easily preventable if someone enforced it, someone audited it, someone got educated in it or someone was simply TOLD to do it.
It's kind of sad really all these nerds who pretty much owe their lives, livelihoods and amusement to advanced technology constantly pooh poohing this great science going on.
Ah well - the confluence of indifference, stupidity and radical Libertarian 'prices of everything'.
See If NASA promised that Mars science would guarantee the slashnerds could share illegal music for free forever I'm pretty sure those damn Trekkie buffoons could get behind it.
Live long and eat Cheetos, fat goofy weird comicbook store guy.
Shucks. Or more correctly
Lucy me point Ba-na-na
First off, nobody moves 300,000 desktops in one year. You retire maybe 20% per year and refresh them with new machines that can contain a new OS.
Next you have to insure that all of your custom desktop apps are rewritten OR - run under Wine or VM32.
Then you have to create a build and tune it for your network.
Then you have to push all of the legacy apps maintenance to sunset their own apps. You will need to do this for several years unless you plan on migrating entire business divisions at once.
Then and this a BIG thing, you need to train a desktop support infrastructure to maintain it. That includes break/fix, troubleshooting and helpdesk.
And Oh - you also need to develop national language support for all the desktop code, world wide in about 20 different languages including DBCS support and all the supporting documentation.
Sorry but this is relevant to such a small segment of the population as to be unimportant. I'm sure there are people who know the impedance of every type of gold Monster Cable that Radio Shack sells and can tell you chapter and verse of which part no's are the REAL Monster Cable too.