For those thinking MS business were kaput, think again and read this article.
Some persons predicted the end of MS soon, but forgot the marketing power of MS. Also that MS has been more aggresive in licensing it's technologies and offering more support and development tools, while on the other end people are discussing KDE is better than GNOME or Konkeror is better than Mozilla. Remember is not the technology what matters, is the implementation, the added value and usability that counts.
If you can afford to lose your job go ahead and speak frankly about the problems of the company. Want a tangible example rent the movie Jerry McWire.
Read this clear, N O B O D Y wants the truth because N O B O D Y can handle the truth, do you think the crappy costumer relations and bad quality products has came just a coincidence you have been living in wonderland too long.
Don't be stupid and think you can change the company and you will improve with it.
Even management need reasureness it doesn't matter what the state of things are, if they are wrong they don't want to know, read the Book the Dilbert principle.
On the other hand if your are comfortable giving your ideas for free to others take credit, go ahead, later in your career you'll see what consulting is about and how to make big bucks out of it.
Stop living in a world of fantasies if you want to pay your car and your house.
Ok here are some facts against this cocky 17 years old.
Canada is one of the leading nations in Cybersquatting.
He doesn't seem to have a trademark for his "company".
The nature of his business is somehow related to Microsoft's or any of its many sister companies.
Since the moment he asked for $10.000 for the domain, MS lawyers can assume intention for cybersquatting, guy first think then act, negotiation classes could help this guy.
This guy should remember he is living in Canada and justice is handled WAYYYYYYYYY different than the US's, no small fish is a legal threat in Canada, for this there are TONS of proofs.
Living in BC where there is a lot of MS supporters like Electronic Arts I don't think nobody will come forward for support.
Poor Canadians thinking they are smarter and better than the Americans, tsk tsk tsk.
Just because you don't work in a company with deep pockets that doesn't give you the right to criticize them.
Are you worried that the money they used came form the taxes, so what, most people cheat on their tax returns applications, is a win-win situation, geeks get cool gadgets to show off at conventions you get your rebate later this year.
Everybody in the geek world know the 'fashion' of recycling ink cartridges is only a scam to make others rich through the ink refilling industry operating beneath.
Shame on those who hide behind a false good cause to make money.
Plain and square: decency and honesty have no room these days.
The robot you are trying to talk to is not available, maybe it is in an area out of reaching range, didn't pay it's bill or got eaten by an intergalactic being.
The continuation of the India's Menace expands it's tentacles to the High Paid Rocket Scientists Contractors in the US.
Why should you pay only one Rocket Scientist when you can get 10 Fireworks specialists from India?. Also we have to consider who will be selling the parts to India developers, yes U.S. companies evading taxes like Neo evades bullets.
If I was able to travel in time I would shoot those who claimed that India's programmers where better programmers than U.S.'s and so HB1 visas where to be granted blindly to padded resumes.
Have you ever debuged sofware written in India? so you know what I mean.
The internet should be a self regulatory entity else we will end with politicians doing stupid decisions for it, like Chirac banning muslims scarfs from schools or be a puppet like new Canada's prime minister (you can see the strings in his face), even Bush with dinosaurs politics telling him what to do, don't let anyone choose for you else you'll end buying.99 cent crap burgers because someone says is good for your health.
The internet is the last resource for freedom, don't defend it like it is and we will loose it.
Instead of having all sorts of gadgets with you when traveling, plus all sorts of voltage adapters/convertors, here are some words that I think work fair good around the world.
For food:
Hamburger.
Mc Donald's.
For water:
Evian.
Perrier.
For car:
Toyota.
Nissan.
For a phone call:
AT&T.
If you need to send a message forget the bottle use the word FedEx.
After all is not that bad living in a world which brands everything but the air we breath:).
Never forget the useful SOS and the word NO. Is also helpful to learn the local word for please, potty, taxi and thanks.
Now all this words are for emergency situations else get a copy of the local travel guide from Mc Nally or any other source and you are more than set to go.
My final word is that we should'nt be umbilical cord attached to technologies left and right.
Regards.
While lot of companies claim multi millionare virtual losses on kids who "hack" their systems and deploy police task forces to bring them to justice, the common schmoe gets ripped left and right with no justice at all.
We are in a world willing to isolate and outcast countries if they don't comply with "anti terrorist" laws but if a global issue like these scams goes on the internet, they are other issue.
Take for instance Nigeria, a country swept by corruption, 19th century laws and no utility services at all (appart aids, malaria, famine and others), is it really a priority to let them have access to the internet for the sake of world integration, browse porn or any other reason if they don't act fast on stoping the crooks cold.
Organizations like RIPE, in charge to allocate the IP addresses for most of the countries where this scams are comming from, should have a more active role in preventing these situations than claiming they are no responsible for illegal activities carried over other ISPs. If an ISP fails 3 times in stoping scams they should get their IP spaces de-allocated.
Ok, some people deserve what they've got from these scams just because they are greedy, but take the guy from this story (if all the facts are true), a retiree in the US has not much help from the goverment as he should, why blame him for trying to secure his financial security. Add the fact that not all people on the internet understands it and barely some of them know how to operate a computer. This is analphabetism in the 21st century.
Schlumberger does the same with their employees and they walk out in masses too.
I laughed out laud when I heard Schlumberger does the better to keep key employees, what they don't say is they only keep they managers who fit within the dilbert principle nicely.
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Great time waster, so little to accomplish.
For those thinking MS business were kaput, think again and read this article.
Some persons predicted the end of MS soon, but forgot the marketing power of MS. Also that MS has been more aggresive in licensing it's technologies and offering more support and development tools, while on the other end people are discussing KDE is better than GNOME or Konkeror is better than Mozilla. Remember is not the technology what matters, is the implementation, the added value and usability that counts.
Your droids have to remain outside. :)
If you can afford to lose your job go ahead and speak frankly about the problems of the company. Want a tangible example rent the movie Jerry McWire.
Read this clear, N O B O D Y wants the truth because N O B O D Y can handle the truth, do you think the crappy costumer relations and bad quality products has came just a coincidence you have been living in wonderland too long.
Don't be stupid and think you can change the company and you will improve with it.
Even management need reasureness it doesn't matter what the state of things are, if they are wrong they don't want to know, read the Book the Dilbert principle.
On the other hand if your are comfortable giving your ideas for free to others take credit, go ahead, later in your career you'll see what consulting is about and how to make big bucks out of it.
Stop living in a world of fantasies if you want to pay your car and your house.
Ok here are some facts against this cocky 17 years old.
Canada is one of the leading nations in Cybersquatting.
He doesn't seem to have a trademark for his "company".
The nature of his business is somehow related to Microsoft's or any of its many sister companies.
Since the moment he asked for $10.000 for the domain, MS lawyers can assume intention for cybersquatting, guy first think then act, negotiation classes could help this guy.
This guy should remember he is living in Canada and justice is handled WAYYYYYYYYY different than the US's, no small fish is a legal threat in Canada, for this there are TONS of proofs.
Living in BC where there is a lot of MS supporters like Electronic Arts I don't think nobody will come forward for support.
Poor Canadians thinking they are smarter and better than the Americans, tsk tsk tsk.
December 21st, 2012 A.D end of Mayan Calendar and possibly the human race.
2015 end of the christian church (if they don't comply with molestation lawsuits :)).
2032 the y2k for old Unix based computers.
Talking about project busters :).
Offtopic!!!!, guy you have your sense of humor in your ass.
Hail the stupid moderators!!!.
Remember to ask that next time at the pump maybe you'll get someone to fall for it and pay the bill for you.
Terabyte disk = $1200 usd.
Air ticket to Thaiti first class = $6000 usd.
Having a Margarita by the beach = $20 usd
Blackmailing your former employer with all their sensitive databases now in your posession= PRICELESS!!!.
Gee Murdock what are we going to do tomorrow night?
Same thing we do every night Jover, release a new Debian build to take over the world!!!.
They are kinky they are pinky and the brain brain brain brain brain!!!!
My prison native land
true hostage feel
in every place I go....
And so it goes....
Sieg Hail BIG BROTHER Sieg Hail!!!!!
If the count reaches 10 is a technical K.O. (knock out).
Just because you don't work in a company with deep pockets that doesn't give you the right to criticize them.
Are you worried that the money they used came form the taxes, so what, most people cheat on their tax returns applications, is a win-win situation, geeks get cool gadgets to show off at conventions you get your rebate later this year.
Even Steven.
Canada population is only 8.5% of US's, to that reduce the number of people that live in poverty adn those who can affort it pay for it.
The number of carriers in Canada is very low compared to US's.
There is a BIG alliance between cdn carriers, some kind of psuedo monopoly, like the goverment itself.
Most politics in Canada lobby for private sectors over anything else.
Maybe the Canadian gov taxes the phones without canadians knowing about it.
And in the light side, Canadians are to drunk to see when they are getting ripped paying for wireless services.
Everybody in the geek world know the 'fashion' of recycling ink cartridges is only a scam to make others rich through the ink refilling industry operating beneath. Shame on those who hide behind a false good cause to make money. Plain and square: decency and honesty have no room these days.
The robot you are trying to talk to is not available, maybe it is in an area out of reaching range, didn't pay it's bill or got eaten by an intergalactic being.
Thanks for using BT Telecom..
The continuation of the India's Menace expands it's tentacles to the High Paid Rocket Scientists Contractors in the US.
Why should you pay only one Rocket Scientist when you can get 10 Fireworks specialists from India?. Also we have to consider who will be selling the parts to India developers, yes U.S. companies evading taxes like Neo evades bullets.
If I was able to travel in time I would shoot those who claimed that India's programmers where better programmers than U.S.'s and so HB1 visas where to be granted blindly to padded resumes.
Have you ever debuged sofware written in India? so you know what I mean.
Peace.
The internet should be a self regulatory entity else we will end with politicians doing stupid decisions for it, like Chirac banning muslims scarfs from schools or be a puppet like new Canada's prime minister (you can see the strings in his face), even Bush with dinosaurs politics telling him what to do, don't let anyone choose for you else you'll end buying .99 cent crap burgers because someone says is good for your health.
The internet is the last resource for freedom, don't defend it like it is and we will loose it.
My spare change...
Really true these days, thanks for the quote.
Instead of having all sorts of gadgets with you when traveling, plus all sorts of voltage adapters/convertors, here are some words that I think work fair good around the world.
For food:
For water:
For car:
For a phone call:
If you need to send a message forget the bottle use the word FedEx.
After all is not that bad living in a world which brands everything but the air we breath :).
Never forget the useful SOS and the word NO. Is also helpful to learn the local word for please, potty, taxi and thanks.
Now all this words are for emergency situations else get a copy of the local travel guide from Mc Nally or any other source and you are more than set to go.
My final word is that we should'nt be umbilical cord attached to technologies left and right. Regards.
Martians should be confused with so much robots incoming.
Their thoughts must be:
Regards and happy 2004!!!.
While lot of companies claim multi millionare virtual losses on kids who "hack" their systems and deploy police task forces to bring them to justice, the common schmoe gets ripped left and right with no justice at all.
We are in a world willing to isolate and outcast countries if they don't comply with "anti terrorist" laws but if a global issue like these scams goes on the internet, they are other issue.
Take for instance Nigeria, a country swept by corruption, 19th century laws and no utility services at all (appart aids, malaria, famine and others), is it really a priority to let them have access to the internet for the sake of world integration, browse porn or any other reason if they don't act fast on stoping the crooks cold.
Organizations like RIPE, in charge to allocate the IP addresses for most of the countries where this scams are comming from, should have a more active role in preventing these situations than claiming they are no responsible for illegal activities carried over other ISPs. If an ISP fails 3 times in stoping scams they should get their IP spaces de-allocated.
Ok, some people deserve what they've got from these scams just because they are greedy, but take the guy from this story (if all the facts are true), a retiree in the US has not much help from the goverment as he should, why blame him for trying to secure his financial security. Add the fact that not all people on the internet understands it and barely some of them know how to operate a computer. This is analphabetism in the 21st century.
Regards,
Schlumberger does the same with their employees and they walk out in masses too.
I laughed out laud when I heard Schlumberger does the better to keep key employees, what they don't say is they only keep they managers who fit within the dilbert principle nicely.
Want an example here is your answer:
Houston did have a problem.