But I honestly feel like this Administration is doing their level best to put as much possible power into the hands of a single individual (ie, KING) as possible.
Right now technically according to law -- the President has the authority to be KING (literally) if we are in a state of emergency -- deemed by the President.
I'm just sad Americans are too simple minded to realize it nowadays -- I wish people were more active in their politics, but most people are self minded (myself included mostly) and I guess it's a willful ignorance.
So you're basing your judgment on your 'company' who uses it, and doesn't like it? And you find the GUI a mess and too many clicks?
Sorry to tell you, but Sharepoint's power is leveraged through the people who support it, develop it, and have a vision for using it. I'll agree with you with regards to Firefox, but this is not a surprise -- I mean, even Outlook webmail looks like crap in Firefox.
Being visually appealing, easy to use, etc... is a function of how it's set up. I admit the defaults aren't great, but if you can't navigate through the default menus, you have no business using a computer.
And yes, I'll chalk this up to MS blind hatred, because you can't produce a single argument that tells me why it's bad software in and of itself -- just that it has a bad GUI. The users you talk to obviously share that sentiment, and I think mostly the fault lies with your shit admins for those boxes... but that's just a guess.
We have had rave reviews since we brought it online here, because we've consolidated so many things into it, and also streamlined change management process and other workflows into it. It helps though, that our devs are familiar with developing the workflows and using Sharepoint, and so am I.
Because Sharepoint is kind of like this already, it keeps everybody in our organization synchronized as far as our documentation and other things.
Of course, the willingness to bash is always entertaining, but the primary strength of Microsoft is its OWN interoperability, and making it easier for folks to keep synchronized only enhances their market position.
But please, continue with the bashing... it really makes *Nix seem like a viable alternative when all the sysadmins for those systems shit on Microsoft, without having any other arguments why to go for Linux other than "Open Source".
And for the record, I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows on my workstation PC.
Yea that's all I can see now... I get to level 60, and I'm supposed to get my flying "mount" but they push it to level 70 when they release afterburner to get through the atmosphere.
Nah, World of Warcraft is good enough for me. I'll just wear a space helmet while playing and it should amount to about the same thing.
Which means frankly, that MS is going to own Yahoo.
I don't know if this is good or bad, but time will tell... The shareholders hear only the sounds that money makes, and they are going to sell out quickly, especially in the midst of this recession.
The problem is, matter of factly, that nothing competes with Office as it stands. Nothing. Not OpenOffice, not Apple's Keynote/Pages, or anything else.
Microsoft has to have its hand forced. Look at Internet Explorer. Firefox came out, was a BETTER browser, and now Microsoft is finally promising standards compliance in IE8. It may, or may not be the case that it will happen, but enough to realize that they have to beat Firefox on its own turf, since it is now the superior browser.
All I am saying is, that if you can beat the MS Office suite of products, then you can win against Microsoft. But that's a product that is really, really good.... and I don't see it as MS taking the fight lying down either.
I'm saying that Windows machines have the ability now, to be reasonably secure enough for 99.9% of attackers to be kept out -- IF the Admins are good enough to keep them that way.
The same is true of Linux.
Additionally, if you found that Linux had the market share of Windows, I'd be hard pressed to see it make the strides over time (from 98 to XP for example) that Microsoft has.
I have friends who are hardcore Linux admins. I have friends who work for Microsoft. I'd say they are both extremely smart, and I'd venture to guess that Microsoft doesn't tend to hire stupid programmers too often. So why is it that people assume Microsoft is stupid -- I mean, their employees are extremely smart, and there are often limits put on what they can, and can't accomplish due to the nature of supporting their business.
That's just my thought. Your immediate defense of Linux and semi-Microsoft bash tells me you're not a lot different than the folks I was mentioning that do exactly that.
I have to kind of sit back and laugh, since the defense to Apache/Linux comes in the form of "bad scripting" or other holes created by poor admin skills.
And I totally agree.
Then why do we always sit here and blast Windows and Microsoft, when in fact good admins keep their boxes running with an optimal uptime, performance, etc? I will agree with the 95/98/ME era, but coming into XP and 2003 Server, I think that it comes down to the skill of the admin to eek out the performance out of the Windows boxes rather than to expect it like most people here do. It seems quite hypocritical to me, but hey.. I'll probably be modded down for coming to a logical argument that might cast Microsoft in a positive light. I'm not a zealot, but I've seen both sides of the coin and I know that Windows boxes can be stable and bulletproof, if you have a good admin. And those admins get blue screens -- when hardware fails. I don't know what happens in Linux, but last I checked it doesn't deal with a bad RAM chip any better than Windows does.
The Hadith are NOT Islam. They are the tales of how Muhammad lived his life, and obviously an encouragement for Muslims to act in a similar manner. If it was meant to be for all ages, then we would be brushing our teeth with sticks, eating with only our hands, all have beards etc. These are suggestions, not laws in Islam.
The law of Islam is in the Quran. There are no other books and no other teachings that should be prescribed as a "necessity" in that religion. I am not saying the Hadith are a bad thing in any way, but don't confuse that with the "rules" of Islam.
It is also the Hadith that allow maniacs to 'justify' their actions too. Hell, even the Quran itself does, though every religious book that is open to interpretation also allows for people to justify their actions.
It is all the same stories. I believe in the morals of the religions, not of the specifics in the stories surrounding it.
I have not reverted Islam, nor have I claimed it to begin with... so I suppose that makes me from a Muslim household, though rather agnostic. I will give you that point.
And I don't know what my grandparents would say -- they all died when I was young and the only one I did know wasn't too fond of me because of my "American" upbringing.
Honestly, Muslims around the world need to shut the fuck up.
If you complain about something, especially on the internets -- people are going to do it MORE. What happened after the complaints on the drawings of Muhammad? MORE were made by random people all across the internet.
You cannot expect people to respect your religion just "because". Jews, Christians, etc... are all mocked all over the internet on a daily basis. Muslims are no exception to this.
The inherent problem is, that they are quick to complain and rarely change anything in a negative light about themselves. It's why I am non-practicing now, even though I do stick to the tenets of morality (which are largely the same as Christianity or Judiasm -- because they are frankly just stolen and modified) the religion preaches. I cannot get along with people who are so virulent in their attacks of the "West", "blasphemers" (like they think of those editing Wikipedia now), etc.
Besides... as a friend told me -- Wikipedia is a "non prophet organization".
The most problematic thing I come across is that when you run from your racks to your patch panels, the switches are usually located FAR away from the actual patches. This makes an entanglement of wires that is IMPOSSIBLE to fix.
If you are smart, your patch cabinet should have patches above, and below your set of switches. You should make room for some redundancy -- if a switch goes out, you need room to swap in and out easily. You should *NOT* make it so that your patch cables go OUT OF THE SAME PATCH CABINET. If you do your interconnects properly (fiber from switch to switch), you need only a single fiber cable to run from each cage to a fiber cage.
Heed my warnings, because once you try to fix what is reasonably unfixable, you will wonder what I was talking about.
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But I honestly feel like this Administration is doing their level best to put as much possible power into the hands of a single individual (ie, KING) as possible.
Right now technically according to law -- the President has the authority to be KING (literally) if we are in a state of emergency -- deemed by the President.
I'm just sad Americans are too simple minded to realize it nowadays -- I wish people were more active in their politics, but most people are self minded (myself included mostly) and I guess it's a willful ignorance.
Still sad though. And kind of scary.
Play Starcraft.
Makes you think, requires a bit of dexterity, it's cheap, and it runs on the crappiest of hardware.
Play the UMS games (Use Map Settings) -- they are games in and of themselves. Things like Tower Defence and others are popular here.
Trust me, easy to pick up, casual gameplay, and lots of fun!
So you're basing your judgment on your 'company' who uses it, and doesn't like it? And you find the GUI a mess and too many clicks?
Sorry to tell you, but Sharepoint's power is leveraged through the people who support it, develop it, and have a vision for using it. I'll agree with you with regards to Firefox, but this is not a surprise -- I mean, even Outlook webmail looks like crap in Firefox.
Being visually appealing, easy to use, etc... is a function of how it's set up. I admit the defaults aren't great, but if you can't navigate through the default menus, you have no business using a computer.
And yes, I'll chalk this up to MS blind hatred, because you can't produce a single argument that tells me why it's bad software in and of itself -- just that it has a bad GUI. The users you talk to obviously share that sentiment, and I think mostly the fault lies with your shit admins for those boxes... but that's just a guess.
We have had rave reviews since we brought it online here, because we've consolidated so many things into it, and also streamlined change management process and other workflows into it. It helps though, that our devs are familiar with developing the workflows and using Sharepoint, and so am I.
Good quantification.
It's just entertaining that while both OSes have their place in certain activities, folks here (especially) will shit on MS just for the sake of it.
I honestly think Sharepoint is one of their best products... but please enlighten me why it's "shit".
Okay...
:)
That just means you're a shit Windows admin
I haven't had a problem on any of my Windows boxes.
Because Sharepoint is kind of like this already, it keeps everybody in our organization synchronized as far as our documentation and other things.
Of course, the willingness to bash is always entertaining, but the primary strength of Microsoft is its OWN interoperability, and making it easier for folks to keep synchronized only enhances their market position.
But please, continue with the bashing... it really makes *Nix seem like a viable alternative when all the sysadmins for those systems shit on Microsoft, without having any other arguments why to go for Linux other than "Open Source".
And for the record, I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows on my workstation PC.
Yea that's all I can see now... I get to level 60, and I'm supposed to get my flying "mount" but they push it to level 70 when they release afterburner to get through the atmosphere.
Nah, World of Warcraft is good enough for me. I'll just wear a space helmet while playing and it should amount to about the same thing.
Which means frankly, that MS is going to own Yahoo.
I don't know if this is good or bad, but time will tell... The shareholders hear only the sounds that money makes, and they are going to sell out quickly, especially in the midst of this recession.
http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/an-hour-and-a-h.html
An interesting read, rather than just the snippet in the article.
Just use Amazon's service.
You own what you buy, no DRM too. And it's relatively cheaper.
But why does MS have to adopt to the standard?
The problem is, matter of factly, that nothing competes with Office as it stands. Nothing. Not OpenOffice, not Apple's Keynote/Pages, or anything else.
Microsoft has to have its hand forced. Look at Internet Explorer. Firefox came out, was a BETTER browser, and now Microsoft is finally promising standards compliance in IE8. It may, or may not be the case that it will happen, but enough to realize that they have to beat Firefox on its own turf, since it is now the superior browser.
All I am saying is, that if you can beat the MS Office suite of products, then you can win against Microsoft. But that's a product that is really, really good.... and I don't see it as MS taking the fight lying down either.
You totally missed the point.
I'm saying that Windows machines have the ability now, to be reasonably secure enough for 99.9% of attackers to be kept out -- IF the Admins are good enough to keep them that way.
The same is true of Linux.
Additionally, if you found that Linux had the market share of Windows, I'd be hard pressed to see it make the strides over time (from 98 to XP for example) that Microsoft has.
I have friends who are hardcore Linux admins. I have friends who work for Microsoft. I'd say they are both extremely smart, and I'd venture to guess that Microsoft doesn't tend to hire stupid programmers too often. So why is it that people assume Microsoft is stupid -- I mean, their employees are extremely smart, and there are often limits put on what they can, and can't accomplish due to the nature of supporting their business.
That's just my thought. Your immediate defense of Linux and semi-Microsoft bash tells me you're not a lot different than the folks I was mentioning that do exactly that.
I have to kind of sit back and laugh, since the defense to Apache/Linux comes in the form of "bad scripting" or other holes created by poor admin skills.
And I totally agree.
Then why do we always sit here and blast Windows and Microsoft, when in fact good admins keep their boxes running with an optimal uptime, performance, etc? I will agree with the 95/98/ME era, but coming into XP and 2003 Server, I think that it comes down to the skill of the admin to eek out the performance out of the Windows boxes rather than to expect it like most people here do. It seems quite hypocritical to me, but hey.. I'll probably be modded down for coming to a logical argument that might cast Microsoft in a positive light. I'm not a zealot, but I've seen both sides of the coin and I know that Windows boxes can be stable and bulletproof, if you have a good admin. And those admins get blue screens -- when hardware fails. I don't know what happens in Linux, but last I checked it doesn't deal with a bad RAM chip any better than Windows does.
Just food for thought.
Now if only I had mentioned this earlier to somebody... I could have gotten a big payout, or at least had a frivolous lawsuit.
When I take out 20 guys before I finally die :)
:p
That way I can use the voice chat to rub it in their faces after the fact
The Hadith are NOT Islam. They are the tales of how Muhammad lived his life, and obviously an encouragement for Muslims to act in a similar manner. If it was meant to be for all ages, then we would be brushing our teeth with sticks, eating with only our hands, all have beards etc. These are suggestions, not laws in Islam.
The law of Islam is in the Quran. There are no other books and no other teachings that should be prescribed as a "necessity" in that religion. I am not saying the Hadith are a bad thing in any way, but don't confuse that with the "rules" of Islam.
It is also the Hadith that allow maniacs to 'justify' their actions too. Hell, even the Quran itself does, though every religious book that is open to interpretation also allows for people to justify their actions.
It is all the same stories. I believe in the morals of the religions, not of the specifics in the stories surrounding it.
I have not reverted Islam, nor have I claimed it to begin with... so I suppose that makes me from a Muslim household, though rather agnostic. I will give you that point.
And I don't know what my grandparents would say -- they all died when I was young and the only one I did know wasn't too fond of me because of my "American" upbringing.
Manners, are not really defined in Islam. Morals on the other hand....
I'm a rude person at times, but I don't have patience for idiots. I guess that makes me un-Islamic then.
Honestly, Muslims around the world need to shut the fuck up.
:)
If you complain about something, especially on the internets -- people are going to do it MORE. What happened after the complaints on the drawings of Muhammad? MORE were made by random people all across the internet.
You cannot expect people to respect your religion just "because". Jews, Christians, etc... are all mocked all over the internet on a daily basis. Muslims are no exception to this.
The inherent problem is, that they are quick to complain and rarely change anything in a negative light about themselves. It's why I am non-practicing now, even though I do stick to the tenets of morality (which are largely the same as Christianity or Judiasm -- because they are frankly just stolen and modified) the religion preaches. I cannot get along with people who are so virulent in their attacks of the "West", "blasphemers" (like they think of those editing Wikipedia now), etc.
Besides... as a friend told me -- Wikipedia is a "non prophet organization".
So why are they worried ANYWAY?
"Start pirating U2 Music because there's not a CD worth buying any more."
That's about the same translated statement Metallica made at the time.
Now can I have my 6 digit UIN back, after you lost my damn account?
One is threaded conversations like GMail offers. I found that very useful.
The second is IMAP, so I can sync my email and calendar to my phone on the fly.
That's all that's left. I already prefer it to Gmail by far, if they add that in, I won't even think Gmail can catch up.
also crash themselves.
Just saying...
What a surprise?
It's a question mark on purpose people...
The most problematic thing I come across is that when you run from your racks to your patch panels, the switches are usually located FAR away from the actual patches. This makes an entanglement of wires that is IMPOSSIBLE to fix.
If you are smart, your patch cabinet should have patches above, and below your set of switches. You should make room for some redundancy -- if a switch goes out, you need room to swap in and out easily. You should *NOT* make it so that your patch cables go OUT OF THE SAME PATCH CABINET. If you do your interconnects properly (fiber from switch to switch), you need only a single fiber cable to run from each cage to a fiber cage.
Heed my warnings, because once you try to fix what is reasonably unfixable, you will wonder what I was talking about.