I would claim it a simply paranoia and simply misunderstaning HOW real life happens that I get in politics, how I get work, etc.
Yep, clever people sometimes do stupid or "uneasy for everyone" things, but usually are sorry about that, so almost everyone forgives them, forgets that and life moves on. Beatles haven't lost nothing of their star power when they admitted they used stimulators while rock'n'rolling in Hamburg. And let's be clear - most people don't care HOW much you have been drunk in one party twenty years ago - if you didn't broke a law, didn't hit anyone, didn't drive car while drunk - you have ALMOST nothing to worry about. ALMOST nothing but spin doctors, but hey, they will be there for you anyway:)
Privacy is overhyped. But worries about blogging from both sides - individuals and companies - also are too...just worries and nothing more. Certainly, there are several individuals who will do stupid things, but they will do that anyway.
About company information and blogging - well, if you are working here, you have agreement and usually, certain level of loyality, I suppose. If you are not and have problems with attitude or even hate your work, then you are in trouble anyway, and sure have to leave, with or without trolling about your employer in blog. If you don't have to work anywhere else - then simply avoid talk bad or anything about work, because it could create confusion and frustrate and won't help anyone, even yourself. Keep it profesional, not personal.
Be reasonable. Learn to be that way. It is not matter of blogging, it is matter of people and their attitude to others.
Didn't want to spend my time on reply to your excelent post, but hey, you got me here:)
In short - sadly, people like to be owned, to be part of the crowd. And what is biggest IT user crowd in world? Right, vir...sorry, Windows:)
People like to be beaten, used, cracked, their private information stolen, etc. But as long they don't have to take responsibility - hey, there are Microsoft to blame (let's pretend that we don't know that those people have chosen Windows in first place and have no one else to blame but theirselfes) - you will see hype of new Windows, Office, whatever.
It's not like Linux users are sometimes different - there are lot of pseidogeeks or just kids who wants to "play with OS". No matter that they leave sshd turned on with root password something like 12345.
They are just users. They are weak to shiny, colorful things. It will be long time that they would like to use computer as tool, not as toy. Microsoft simply has a marketing aimed directly at them. Why do you think Vista has almost seven versions like collectionare Tomagochi?
As much you would like to make it unimportant, it IS important. Because it is not SOME Microsoft software, but it is new, hyped to death operational system, which is CORE business for them. And this beta is claimed that it will be finally "real one" by Microsoft apologists, which will be fast, won't break, freeze, crash, etc.
For me as IT guy seeing that Microsoft newest operational system beta can't handle such things is nor surprise, nor also any indication that Vista will be "final solution" for Microsoft to rulle IT world. It won't. Any childish claims that only Microsoft can get it right, that Microsoft will own desktop, and nothing will stop it them...
Well, Microsoft will come and go. Hype will come and go. And Vista will be remembered as Windows ME "Again" edition:)
First, it is speech. Second, these ARE hate speech. If you still don't get it, I will try to explain in polite, peacful way.
Yes, *lot* of Muslims and Islamists has serious problems with other people from other nations and reality around them. Their religion constitutes happy life AFTER death and this world life is claimed meaningless. They are quite savage and usually very dumb and are willing to listen whatever their charistmatic leaders throw at them. Their beliefs are mostly so heavily out of date with "modern POV" about human life that it causes such irrigation from other people. Because they don't understand why muslim are ready to die and take some innocent with him.
BUT you left other side out, therefore you are just "picking cherries out of cake" to suit our POV, which borders with emotional, hate speech. There are lot of intelectual, clever Muslims. There are fanatics at Jews side, at Christian side which have promoted lot of "let's destroy those towelheads". Yes, they are not burning buildings, but do another nasty things, including destroying idea of Islam as "normal religion". You would be surprised how big oddities you can find in Bible, First part. So why Islam, which is as brother of Christianity and Judaism, should be different?
Why you should also ignore fact, that West is very guilty about lack of good, intelectual rullers in Middle East? That West almost always have treated Arabs AND Jews (until last hunder years) as SECOND class citizens?
It is easy to blame Islam, Muslim, Koran on current situation. Reality, however, is so difficult that I hardly see how such "editorials" help to understand situation. You are mererly expressing your opinion and it belongs to blogging, commenting here, whatever. But not to news.
I propably will be modded down to hell by Microsoft PR guys here as troll or something, but I would like to point out that Beta or not, drivers usually should in this stage of version. For example, I run Ubuntu Dapper betas for three months and...emmm...it works:) Almost any hardware I have trown at it simply works, or works after checking out Wiki/several Synaptic sessions.
Anyway, as IT guy I would say that such driver problems gives OS bad name, so it is rather strange that Microsoft have major problems with it. Maybe it was too early to call it beta.
Yeah, and when I eat meat with bones, there are thoughts that I can accidentaly choke or something.
Get a grip. People, who are itended to spam/scam/steal, will do it anyway, anywhere. It is not matter of desperation - it is matter of ethics. I fail to see how American spam kings which have serious bunch of money in Swiss banks - and propably didn't live badly before that - do spamming out of despair.
419 spamming is seperate issue and propably we don't know very much about that.
They are opinion pieces at it's best, and certainly contains heavy bashing, trolling and hate speach. I am against censorship as next liberal guy, but these guys don't deserve any kind of additional promotion, in my humble opinion.
For interest, can you point out web adreses where I can check out those "like every other CG artist wannabe student's final year project"? I would like to check out, really.
And by the way, yeah, I consider it also a art. Bad, good - it is another, *subjective* matter.
It is interesting that Slashdot crowd got a little bit trollish about quality of movie and skiping it as "unimportant". I tend to disagree here.
Movie by itself is truly piece of art. Yes, technically there ARE many problems. Character's movement where out of place in lot of moments, lip-syncing was heavy problem. But in overall, I have checked out movie about three times - first time got me confused - and I say it made me think. It is quet interesting in short movie genre and I would disagree that is just "showcase" for Blender. It stands on it's own. Let's not mention that it was hard to imagine in first place that it was created with Blender.
Project is a success. It gained some serious attention to Blender - check out Blender and 3D software forums - and gain Blender some serious supporters. I think Ton achieved what he wanted - kudos to him about that.
There is several myths and misunderstandings why Lotus Notes are hated or loved by IT and/or fellow users. First of all, let's claim what Lotus Notes is and what it's not.
First of all, LN is _platform_. Heavy, huge, interesting, effective (yes, it is that word) platform. What is NOT - it is NOT e-mail client. And there comes paradox - Usually, IT dept. will follow hype of CEOs and other managers and will buy IBM promises. However, when implemented, it's usually where it stucks. Why? Because there is NO ONE to port all old apps/functionality needed to abolish all old apps and go fully LN. Using LN alone is nonsense - email client is total nightmare and that poisons all efect of it's usage.
LN is powerful and quite capable of doing great things. Except that there is need for good admins and coders to get to those great things. Usually, it is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Pass popcorn, it should be entertaining to watch..
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My bet: after four rounds it will be 2:2 and they will solve it out of court.
And in the same time, I welcome our ligitation overlords...Ohh crap, I think I will go to China.
Yawn, last time I installed Centrino based Vaio, it required first install Intel drivers for wireless. Today, I inserted Ubuntu LiveCD (Dapper Flight 7, beta for June release) and it found it automatically. Of course, it is easer to bash Linux distros on old myths than verify every claim yourself.
For your surprise, OS X is not so usable as it could be (Believe me, I know what I talking about after 2 years recent work with OS X). However, OS X relays on so many bits and pieces of free software like Samba, Apache (Server), etc.
For example, for admins, OS X is very handcuffing. For users it is a bliss, but it lacks so many small things. And it is unstable as hell. However, it is quite secure.
And did I forget to mention that it only runs on Apple hardware?:)
Seems you have tested Linux some two years ago. With Ubuntu last version Dapper such problems are no issue anymore.
What you should not forget that Linux desktop is envolving very rapidly, because we *have* to do catch up. No denying that. But we are getting better and better. And now we close to replace some part of Windows market with cheap, working, easy solutions.
Most interesting stuff is that Dapper includes now perfectly working Gstreamer 0.10, which includes gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-uggly and ffmpeg-gstreamer, which enables play divx/wma/quicktime prioritary stuff. Enabling them is very easy for advanced user and could be improved with giving a choice to enable those codecs when user can't play them.
I am really sorry to see you with zero mod as AC, and I don't have points to spare, because you are emotionally absolutely right.
And most frightening is, that those "man in power" see it is as truth, as it should be, and see their mottives utterly right. Yeah, common sense, heh, where have you gone:( Or maybe running a company or country sometimes is not connected with common sense at all. It could be that harsh truth.
Problem is that ads on tv are plainly stupid and annoying. Advetisers have lost their touch with people and reality and that system works on self-support, t.i. inflated numbers of audience, "you must market your product very heavy...".
Some years ago ads where truly art, well, lot of them where. Now ads have gone on maximum flashy and abusrdly loud. This is nonsense, because it turns away people from products not to them. Even kids are annoyed by those quite stupid attempts to "sell you something".
Microsoft *have* PC desktop monopoly, period. It is nothing wrong with that. Problem is - they have used all their monopoly power and benefits what they have because of that to...crush competition in semilegal ways, but mostly, with problems of compability for them (t.i. competition).
It is illegal and really *should* be illegal. Personally I don't give a damn that Microsoft has bilions, that it has very big market cap. I simply don't use their products, because Linux *for me* works. OS X works. Windows - very rarerly. And ALL I want is God damnn compability in protocols and several very popular file formats (MS Office).
And all these years I have wondered - why they are so resisting to share their stack with other world? They want to be only ones? Then screw them. If you mess with my life such way, I will mess with you, Microsoft.
I don't care about mindshare - it is still very hard to find very good and clever specialist to configure or even fix Exchange (I don't say anything how it is good or bad in usage, but for IT guys it is usually nightmare to support it in serious envorement). It is still very hard to find solution to rare problem of drivers, Office, any out-of-date software. It is hard to configure different apps to use different libraries in Windows. For me, Windows mindshare is just one part of IT. If IT specialist doesn't know other things than Windows, then...he will be clearly lost at some point of his career.
So, no. Microsoft has monopoly on several very important markets. It abused its position so often that I even don't believe they can be pushed to change a little bit in rational way. And its brainshare is very lofty and unconcrete mess.
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I would claim it a simply paranoia and simply misunderstaning HOW real life happens that I get in politics, how I get work, etc.
:)
Yep, clever people sometimes do stupid or "uneasy for everyone" things, but usually are sorry about that, so almost everyone forgives them, forgets that and life moves on. Beatles haven't lost nothing of their star power when they admitted they used stimulators while rock'n'rolling in Hamburg. And let's be clear - most people don't care HOW much you have been drunk in one party twenty years ago - if you didn't broke a law, didn't hit anyone, didn't drive car while drunk - you have ALMOST nothing to worry about. ALMOST nothing but spin doctors, but hey, they will be there for you anyway
Privacy is overhyped. But worries about blogging from both sides - individuals and companies - also are too...just worries and nothing more. Certainly, there are several individuals who will do stupid things, but they will do that anyway.
About company information and blogging - well, if you are working here, you have agreement and usually, certain level of loyality, I suppose. If you are not and have problems with attitude or even hate your work, then you are in trouble anyway, and sure have to leave, with or without trolling about your employer in blog. If you don't have to work anywhere else - then simply avoid talk bad or anything about work, because it could create confusion and frustrate and won't help anyone, even yourself. Keep it profesional, not personal.
Be reasonable. Learn to be that way. It is not matter of blogging, it is matter of people and their attitude to others.
Didn't want to spend my time on reply to your excelent post, but hey, you got me here :)
:)
In short - sadly, people like to be owned, to be part of the crowd. And what is biggest IT user crowd in world? Right, vir...sorry, Windows
People like to be beaten, used, cracked, their private information stolen, etc. But as long they don't have to take responsibility - hey, there are Microsoft to blame (let's pretend that we don't know that those people have chosen Windows in first place and have no one else to blame but theirselfes) - you will see hype of new Windows, Office, whatever.
It's not like Linux users are sometimes different - there are lot of pseidogeeks or just kids who wants to "play with OS". No matter that they leave sshd turned on with root password something like 12345.
They are just users. They are weak to shiny, colorful things. It will be long time that they would like to use computer as tool, not as toy. Microsoft simply has a marketing aimed directly at them. Why do you think Vista has almost seven versions like collectionare Tomagochi?
As much you would like to make it unimportant, it IS important. Because it is not SOME Microsoft software, but it is new, hyped to death operational system, which is CORE business for them. And this beta is claimed that it will be finally "real one" by Microsoft apologists, which will be fast, won't break, freeze, crash, etc.
:)
For me as IT guy seeing that Microsoft newest operational system beta can't handle such things is nor surprise, nor also any indication that Vista will be "final solution" for Microsoft to rulle IT world. It won't. Any childish claims that only Microsoft can get it right, that Microsoft will own desktop, and nothing will stop it them...
Well, Microsoft will come and go. Hype will come and go. And Vista will be remembered as Windows ME "Again" edition
First, it is speech. Second, these ARE hate speech. If you still don't get it, I will try to explain in polite, peacful way.
Yes, *lot* of Muslims and Islamists has serious problems with other people from other nations and reality around them. Their religion constitutes happy life AFTER death and this world life is claimed meaningless. They are quite savage and usually very dumb and are willing to listen whatever their charistmatic leaders throw at them. Their beliefs are mostly so heavily out of date with "modern POV" about human life that it causes such irrigation from other people. Because they don't understand why muslim are ready to die and take some innocent with him.
BUT you left other side out, therefore you are just "picking cherries out of cake" to suit our POV, which borders with emotional, hate speech. There are lot of intelectual, clever Muslims. There are fanatics at Jews side, at Christian side which have promoted lot of "let's destroy those towelheads". Yes, they are not burning buildings, but do another nasty things, including destroying idea of Islam as "normal religion". You would be surprised how big oddities you can find in Bible, First part. So why Islam, which is as brother of Christianity and Judaism, should be different?
Why you should also ignore fact, that West is very guilty about lack of good, intelectual rullers in Middle East? That West almost always have treated Arabs AND Jews (until last hunder years) as SECOND class citizens?
It is easy to blame Islam, Muslim, Koran on current situation. Reality, however, is so difficult that I hardly see how such "editorials" help to understand situation. You are mererly expressing your opinion and it belongs to blogging, commenting here, whatever. But not to news.
I propably will be modded down to hell by Microsoft PR guys here as troll or something, but I would like to point out that Beta or not, drivers usually should in this stage of version. For example, I run Ubuntu Dapper betas for three months and...emmm...it works :) Almost any hardware I have trown at it simply works, or works after checking out Wiki/several Synaptic sessions.
Anyway, as IT guy I would say that such driver problems gives OS bad name, so it is rather strange that Microsoft have major problems with it. Maybe it was too early to call it beta.
Poor PledgeBank, went down realy fast. And for good reasons :)
If it would be mine words, I would say - THANKS GOD!
There are things where commercial interest and companies are welcome. THIS is not that case.
And believe me, I am not some anti-business freak. Simply, there are many places where monetary interest of big companies is not welcome.
Yeah, and when I eat meat with bones, there are thoughts that I can accidentaly choke or something.
Get a grip. People, who are itended to spam/scam/steal, will do it anyway, anywhere. It is not matter of desperation - it is matter of ethics. I fail to see how American spam kings which have serious bunch of money in Swiss banks - and propably didn't live badly before that - do spamming out of despair.
419 spamming is seperate issue and propably we don't know very much about that.
They are opinion pieces at it's best, and certainly contains heavy bashing, trolling and hate speach. I am against censorship as next liberal guy, but these guys don't deserve any kind of additional promotion, in my humble opinion.
For interest, can you point out web adreses where I can check out those "like every other CG artist wannabe student's final year project"? I would like to check out, really.
And by the way, yeah, I consider it also a art. Bad, good - it is another, *subjective* matter.
It is interesting that Slashdot crowd got a little bit trollish about quality of movie and skiping it as "unimportant". I tend to disagree here.
Movie by itself is truly piece of art. Yes, technically there ARE many problems. Character's movement where out of place in lot of moments, lip-syncing was heavy problem. But in overall, I have checked out movie about three times - first time got me confused - and I say it made me think. It is quet interesting in short movie genre and I would disagree that is just "showcase" for Blender. It stands on it's own. Let's not mention that it was hard to imagine in first place that it was created with Blender.
Project is a success. It gained some serious attention to Blender - check out Blender and 3D software forums - and gain Blender some serious supporters. I think Ton achieved what he wanted - kudos to him about that.
There is several myths and misunderstandings why Lotus Notes are hated or loved by IT and/or fellow users. First of all, let's claim what Lotus Notes is and what it's not.
First of all, LN is _platform_. Heavy, huge, interesting, effective (yes, it is that word) platform. What is NOT - it is NOT e-mail client. And there comes paradox - Usually, IT dept. will follow hype of CEOs and other managers and will buy IBM promises. However, when implemented, it's usually where it stucks. Why? Because there is NO ONE to port all old apps/functionality needed to abolish all old apps and go fully LN. Using LN alone is nonsense - email client is total nightmare and that poisons all efect of it's usage.
LN is powerful and quite capable of doing great things. Except that there is need for good admins and coders to get to those great things. Usually, it is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
My bet: after four rounds it will be 2:2 and they will solve it out of court.
And in the same time, I welcome our ligitation overlords...Ohh crap, I think I will go to China.
Yawn, last time I installed Centrino based Vaio, it required first install Intel drivers for wireless. Today, I inserted Ubuntu LiveCD (Dapper Flight 7, beta for June release) and it found it automatically. Of course, it is easer to bash Linux distros on old myths than verify every claim yourself.
Just for info.
Emmm, From witch time Windows allows DVDs out of box? AFAIK, Windows requires a proper commercial DVD player, too.
For your surprise, OS X is not so usable as it could be (Believe me, I know what I talking about after 2 years recent work with OS X). However, OS X relays on so many bits and pieces of free software like Samba, Apache (Server), etc.
:)
For example, for admins, OS X is very handcuffing. For users it is a bliss, but it lacks so many small things. And it is unstable as hell. However, it is quite secure.
And did I forget to mention that it only runs on Apple hardware?
Hey, thanks man, it is really good to know that! :)
Bad that I don't have mode points, your post are much more important...
...NOT GPL here. AFAIK, Nvidia doesn't allow ANYONE, except maybe some commercial distros, distribute their drivers with GPL software, more or less.
There are certainly legal gotchas with such distribution as Kororaa, but my pick is that GPL is "lesser evil" here.
IE7 will be bundled with most popular OS in the world, Firefox is still free download and is bundled only by few distros as default browser.
Next question?
Seems you have tested Linux some two years ago. With Ubuntu last version Dapper such problems are no issue anymore.
What you should not forget that Linux desktop is envolving very rapidly, because we *have* to do catch up. No denying that. But we are getting better and better. And now we close to replace some part of Windows market with cheap, working, easy solutions.
Most interesting stuff is that Dapper includes now perfectly working Gstreamer 0.10, which includes gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-uggly and ffmpeg-gstreamer, which enables play divx/wma/quicktime prioritary stuff. Enabling them is very easy for advanced user and could be improved with giving a choice to enable those codecs when user can't play them.
Most of Automatix stuff is not needed anymore.
I am really sorry to see you with zero mod as AC, and I don't have points to spare, because you are emotionally absolutely right.
:( Or maybe running a company or country sometimes is not connected with common sense at all. It could be that harsh truth.
And most frightening is, that those "man in power" see it is as truth, as it should be, and see their mottives utterly right. Yeah, common sense, heh, where have you gone
Problem is that ads on tv are plainly stupid and annoying. Advetisers have lost their touch with people and reality and that system works on self-support, t.i. inflated numbers of audience, "you must market your product very heavy...". Some years ago ads where truly art, well, lot of them where. Now ads have gone on maximum flashy and abusrdly loud. This is nonsense, because it turns away people from products not to them. Even kids are annoyed by those quite stupid attempts to "sell you something".
Yeah, right...
Microsoft *have* PC desktop monopoly, period. It is nothing wrong with that. Problem is - they have used all their monopoly power and benefits what they have because of that to...crush competition in semilegal ways, but mostly, with problems of compability for them (t.i. competition).
It is illegal and really *should* be illegal. Personally I don't give a damn that Microsoft has bilions, that it has very big market cap. I simply don't use their products, because Linux *for me* works. OS X works. Windows - very rarerly. And ALL I want is God damnn compability in protocols and several very popular file formats (MS Office).
And all these years I have wondered - why they are so resisting to share their stack with other world? They want to be only ones? Then screw them. If you mess with my life such way, I will mess with you, Microsoft.
I don't care about mindshare - it is still very hard to find very good and clever specialist to configure or even fix Exchange (I don't say anything how it is good or bad in usage, but for IT guys it is usually nightmare to support it in serious envorement). It is still very hard to find solution to rare problem of drivers, Office, any out-of-date software. It is hard to configure different apps to use different libraries in Windows. For me, Windows mindshare is just one part of IT. If IT specialist doesn't know other things than Windows, then...he will be clearly lost at some point of his career.
So, no. Microsoft has monopoly on several very important markets. It abused its position so often that I even don't believe they can be pushed to change a little bit in rational way. And its brainshare is very lofty and unconcrete mess.
Hmmmmm. No. Windows as OS is not Yours and never will be, according to EULA. Next thing to steam on?
There are some reaosns why some 5-6% of PC users decide to stick with Linux and BSD.