Much simpler than Gates makes out. Buy or steal ideas and technology from other people. Then create a competitive product and incorporate it ideally into the OS.
Similar approach some countries are now following. A sure winner. You save on R & D and improve on others mistakes. And undercut the competition. -
DOS - from Seattle Computing for $80k;
Windows and Mouse - Xerox Parc;
Excel - Visicalc / Lotus;
Word - Wordperfect and Wordstar;
PowerPoint - Harvard Graphics;
SQL - Sybase;
IE - All the browsers before;
VB - Gates bought concept from Alan Cooper;
c# - Java wannabe;
The list goes on and on. Except for MSBasic that Gates wrote it is difficult to think of anything significant the company has come up with.
All with design philosophy - 'Never ever make a simple solution or follow published standards when a complex in house Microsoft approach is possible."
I'm no fan of the EU, but in this case I think they should move the fine up to $10 billion.
Excellent post - you don't want to make weapons. I suggest you contact the Chinese and Middle Eastern nationals and make sure they are doing the same.
Pretty sure they will see you point of view immediately. Good for you!
Incidentally you have the correlation all wrong. It is between higher education and left wing professors who provide an unworldly perspective. I believe the correlation is about.98
Well bully for you - guess you were looking at your Che poster as you wrote this. What undergraduate nonsense - capitalist economics....... yada yada yada...
Surely you are adult enough to figure out that the genius of capitalism is that personal greed is harnessed in a way that benefits a wider group. Without despised capitalism you would not be even using a computer you silly adolescent.
The one's that I know in Toronto are too busy abusing the system, bringing in their relatives for free medical treatment or avoiding taxes by having the man of the house working back in their original country while the kids are educated here.
But hey, its nice to know your crowd are helping out. Funny thing when I occasionally help out at the shelters I never see them. Guess they are just having an off night.
Here's another one: a Canadian, American and Scotsman are involved in an accident and die and go to heaven. St Peter meets them and says how sad it is to see three young men dead in the prime of their life.
"Tell you what", says St Peter, "you pay me a thousand bucks each and you can go back". The American immediately coughs up and - miracle of miracle, he comes back from the dead.
"Incredible", the American says to those standing at his bedside, "there is life after death". He then recounts the story. "Well if that's the case why haven't the other two come back to life. " some wise guy asks at his bedside.
"Oh, those two guys. The Scotsman is still haggling over the price and the Canadian is waiting for the government to pay".
I've employed Brazilians in the IT industry - my impression is good, hard workers and competent.
My understanding is Brazil's economy is going gang busters. That is not the same in Canada so be prepared to shop around to get a job and the pay is likely to be mediocre.
I lived in Auckland for a while and spent quite a few months working on projects in Oz - mainly living in Sydney. I now live in Canada
As you'd expect there are similarities and differences. The similarities are similar approach to work, resume (not too long), work approach etc. . Differences are that Canadian experience is valued - now you don't have that, so make sure you have a few decent references available from where you worked before.
Again because of the huge influx of migrants recruiters are often suspicious of overseas credentials and qualifications. Again it should not be too much of a problem though.
The biggest difference is that, surprisingly, the recruitment industry is not as well developed here as it is in Oz and NZ. A lot of jobs are found through contacts, friends and ex-colleagues.
So you have to network, network, network. Make contacts, talk to people, email people and just keep going. Recruiters in the IT industry tend to see you as a commodity - don't expect the friendliness of Oz. They won't bother with you or even respond unless they see a way of placing you. Some ways that is better - you don't get led down the garden path.
You will find Canadians less outgoing than Aussies - that can be strange - they are much more like the older English. Reserved. Not unfriendly, just reserved. They don't laugh and joke very much.
I would say don't cut any bridges back in Oz and don't send your stuff over until you have been here for a few months. Vancouver in the rainy season can be very very depressing. Beautiful as it is, the crappy weather can wear you down.
An option would be to look to Alberta where there is an oil boom going . More employment opportunities. But cold enough to freeze them right off.
Hope this helps
Companies are staffed by humans. Humans are irrational and often legislate and make rules for the small number of situations that can go wrong rather than the broader positive experiences.
Go and see HR. If they cannot help or won't, be philosophical. You did the right thing and they did not accept your very decent approach.
Great stuff - geeks talking politics - great insights and life experience to fall back on drinking all that pop and watching Youtube videos.
Actually more fun than the guy from the Nvidia article who explains multi-threading - wow that was a revelation - and now I see it: life is multi-threaded. While Clinton and Obummer duke it out Iran is getting the nukes out.
You miss the point. It is not names like Yahoo or Google it is the names of programs and utilities on the Linux desktop. Names that a cool and clever to a geek are actually cryptic to the average user.
Currently there is a case in Alberta, Canada where the Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) is charging a journalist with 'hate speech' crimes for publishing the Mohammed cartoons. Canada's obsession of not offending anyone or any religion (except for whites of course) is such that the HRC would take precedence over any privacy issues related to anything political.
Only explanation is that the IEEE is being paid off by Misfit. Come on, anybody who has been in software for any length of time knows that Misfit has not produced anything noteworthy ever. Even PowerPoint - Gates' pride and joy had a precursor - Harvard Graphics.
Great post - the Chinese powers will keep the economic miracle going until the Olympic Games at all costs because to do otherwise would be to lose face. As most people know in Chinese culture (actually many Asian cultures) losing face is almost worse than death.
I spent a few months in China at one of the big network labs there and it was clear everybody went around trying to save face at all costs. It was more important than getting the job done. My view is that the obsession coupled with fascist - that is authoritarian, tendencies in the country is ultimately a disaster in the making. Unfortunately we will all be affected by the economic collapse if it happens.
Despite the almost universal adulation for the Chinese miracle (US business 'cos they think, erroneously, that they will make money out of it; the rest of the world because they are rooting, erroneously since China is a fascist state, for America to fall from number one) there is an element of the king without clothes about the whole Chinese boom.
I guess we will have to wait and see, but take care of you investments in the months straddling the Beijing Olympics.
You have to be kidding - the very last organization in the world that should get its hands on the Internet is the UN. It is corrupt, squanders other peoples money, is fraught with special interest groups (often the head of a group or team at the UN hires his or her cronies from the old country) and in many areas is basically incompetent.
It is a fact that people are hired on their skin colour and non-Western bona fides in many situations - there are many instances where the best man for the job - a white American male - is overlooked because of the deep anti-Americanism that permeates the organization.
Why you may wonder do I say these things - because I worked as part of it (in Africa) for 5 years.
So back to the Internet. For all America's faults at least it is democratic and so groups can influence the direction of the Internet and have some input into its direction as it evolves. Under the UN and many other countries there is no guarantee that the openess will continue.
I should add that I am not American.
Could it be that Jane Fonda is almost single handedly responsible for Global Warming? Her activism in the 70s culminating in the China Syndrome movie put an effective moratorium on nuclear energy use in the US. Other countries went right on - for example 80% of France's electricity comes from nuclear power stations.
The IPCC reckons that it was about the mid 70s when CO2 emissions started reaching a critical point for GW - if the US had built and used nuclear energy power plants through the following two decades many US drivers may well now be plugging their cars into the power grid every evening. (A useful side effect is that the Middle East nations and Chavez would not be arrogantly rolling in the money that we pay them every time we fill up. Dictatorships funded by drivers everywhere.)
Alas even liberals and progressives are subject to the law of unintended consequences
1. Venus was once like Earth is now .
2. Earth was once like Mars is now
3. They had Venusian SUVs that heated up the planet (but no Venusian Al Gore) .
4. Venusian scientists terraformed Earth .
5. Our ancestors moved to Earth (those who did not believe in Venusian Warming, stayed behind) .
6. The rest is history, however, there is serious consideration now for terraforming Mars just in case .
Well you are just naive if you would rather have China, Russia and Iran or some other nutbar country having control of this resource. Standard liberal fare is that the US government is 'out to get its citizens'. Man, you don't know what living in a crappy police state is about so you just fantasize about the danger(I am not American). For a real authentic police state experience move to one of these dyfunctional countries - lots to choose from. Then if you still have your position - great - it will be based on substance and I'll respect it.
What were you trying to achieve with your satirical blog? Perhaps you have valid issues, but I wonder how self righteous (that is how your posting comes over) you will feel about this incident in say 5 or 10 years time. Alas, rightly or wrongly, actions in the adult world have consequences. Sometimes even when you are right you get screwed, that's the way it is.
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Much simpler than Gates makes out. Buy or steal ideas and technology from other people. Then create a competitive product and incorporate it ideally into the OS. Similar approach some countries are now following. A sure winner. You save on R & D and improve on others mistakes. And undercut the competition. - DOS - from Seattle Computing for $80k; Windows and Mouse - Xerox Parc; Excel - Visicalc / Lotus; Word - Wordperfect and Wordstar; PowerPoint - Harvard Graphics; SQL - Sybase; IE - All the browsers before; VB - Gates bought concept from Alan Cooper; c# - Java wannabe; The list goes on and on. Except for MSBasic that Gates wrote it is difficult to think of anything significant the company has come up with. All with design philosophy - 'Never ever make a simple solution or follow published standards when a complex in house Microsoft approach is possible." I'm no fan of the EU, but in this case I think they should move the fine up to $10 billion.
Excellent post - you don't want to make weapons. I suggest you contact the Chinese and Middle Eastern nationals and make sure they are doing the same. Pretty sure they will see you point of view immediately. Good for you! Incidentally you have the correlation all wrong. It is between higher education and left wing professors who provide an unworldly perspective. I believe the correlation is about .98
Well bully for you - guess you were looking at your Che poster as you wrote this. What undergraduate nonsense - capitalist economics....... yada yada yada... Surely you are adult enough to figure out that the genius of capitalism is that personal greed is harnessed in a way that benefits a wider group. Without despised capitalism you would not be even using a computer you silly adolescent.
Interesting, though useless fact: Ottawa is the coldest capital in the world. Much colder than Moscow.
The one's that I know in Toronto are too busy abusing the system, bringing in their relatives for free medical treatment or avoiding taxes by having the man of the house working back in their original country while the kids are educated here. But hey, its nice to know your crowd are helping out. Funny thing when I occasionally help out at the shelters I never see them. Guess they are just having an off night.
Here's another one: a Canadian, American and Scotsman are involved in an accident and die and go to heaven. St Peter meets them and says how sad it is to see three young men dead in the prime of their life. "Tell you what", says St Peter, "you pay me a thousand bucks each and you can go back". The American immediately coughs up and - miracle of miracle, he comes back from the dead. "Incredible", the American says to those standing at his bedside, "there is life after death". He then recounts the story. "Well if that's the case why haven't the other two come back to life. " some wise guy asks at his bedside. "Oh, those two guys. The Scotsman is still haggling over the price and the Canadian is waiting for the government to pay".
I've employed Brazilians in the IT industry - my impression is good, hard workers and competent. My understanding is Brazil's economy is going gang busters. That is not the same in Canada so be prepared to shop around to get a job and the pay is likely to be mediocre.
Are you a lawyer? I've moved countries several times and the last person I ever bothered with was a lawyer. Never had the need for one when moving....
I lived in Auckland for a while and spent quite a few months working on projects in Oz - mainly living in Sydney. I now live in Canada As you'd expect there are similarities and differences. The similarities are similar approach to work, resume (not too long), work approach etc. . Differences are that Canadian experience is valued - now you don't have that, so make sure you have a few decent references available from where you worked before. Again because of the huge influx of migrants recruiters are often suspicious of overseas credentials and qualifications. Again it should not be too much of a problem though. The biggest difference is that, surprisingly, the recruitment industry is not as well developed here as it is in Oz and NZ. A lot of jobs are found through contacts, friends and ex-colleagues. So you have to network, network, network. Make contacts, talk to people, email people and just keep going. Recruiters in the IT industry tend to see you as a commodity - don't expect the friendliness of Oz. They won't bother with you or even respond unless they see a way of placing you. Some ways that is better - you don't get led down the garden path. You will find Canadians less outgoing than Aussies - that can be strange - they are much more like the older English. Reserved. Not unfriendly, just reserved. They don't laugh and joke very much. I would say don't cut any bridges back in Oz and don't send your stuff over until you have been here for a few months. Vancouver in the rainy season can be very very depressing. Beautiful as it is, the crappy weather can wear you down. An option would be to look to Alberta where there is an oil boom going . More employment opportunities. But cold enough to freeze them right off. Hope this helps
The high point was when Gates bought the source code that formed the basis for MSDOS. He paid less than $100K and made billions.
Companies are staffed by humans. Humans are irrational and often legislate and make rules for the small number of situations that can go wrong rather than the broader positive experiences. Go and see HR. If they cannot help or won't, be philosophical. You did the right thing and they did not accept your very decent approach.
Great stuff - geeks talking politics - great insights and life experience to fall back on drinking all that pop and watching Youtube videos. Actually more fun than the guy from the Nvidia article who explains multi-threading - wow that was a revelation - and now I see it: life is multi-threaded. While Clinton and Obummer duke it out Iran is getting the nukes out.
May be worth it if you really feel strong enough - matyrdom works for Jihadis why not you.
You miss the point. It is not names like Yahoo or Google it is the names of programs and utilities on the Linux desktop. Names that a cool and clever to a geek are actually cryptic to the average user.
Currently there is a case in Alberta, Canada where the Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) is charging a journalist with 'hate speech' crimes for publishing the Mohammed cartoons. Canada's obsession of not offending anyone or any religion (except for whites of course) is such that the HRC would take precedence over any privacy issues related to anything political.
Only explanation is that the IEEE is being paid off by Misfit. Come on, anybody who has been in software for any length of time knows that Misfit has not produced anything noteworthy ever. Even PowerPoint - Gates' pride and joy had a precursor - Harvard Graphics.
According to my calculations humans are evolving only 87.6 times faster than originally thought
Great post - the Chinese powers will keep the economic miracle going until the Olympic Games at all costs because to do otherwise would be to lose face. As most people know in Chinese culture (actually many Asian cultures) losing face is almost worse than death. I spent a few months in China at one of the big network labs there and it was clear everybody went around trying to save face at all costs. It was more important than getting the job done. My view is that the obsession coupled with fascist - that is authoritarian, tendencies in the country is ultimately a disaster in the making. Unfortunately we will all be affected by the economic collapse if it happens. Despite the almost universal adulation for the Chinese miracle (US business 'cos they think, erroneously, that they will make money out of it; the rest of the world because they are rooting, erroneously since China is a fascist state, for America to fall from number one) there is an element of the king without clothes about the whole Chinese boom. I guess we will have to wait and see, but take care of you investments in the months straddling the Beijing Olympics.
You have to be kidding - the very last organization in the world that should get its hands on the Internet is the UN. It is corrupt, squanders other peoples money, is fraught with special interest groups (often the head of a group or team at the UN hires his or her cronies from the old country) and in many areas is basically incompetent. It is a fact that people are hired on their skin colour and non-Western bona fides in many situations - there are many instances where the best man for the job - a white American male - is overlooked because of the deep anti-Americanism that permeates the organization. Why you may wonder do I say these things - because I worked as part of it (in Africa) for 5 years. So back to the Internet. For all America's faults at least it is democratic and so groups can influence the direction of the Internet and have some input into its direction as it evolves. Under the UN and many other countries there is no guarantee that the openess will continue. I should add that I am not American.
Could it be that Jane Fonda is almost single handedly responsible for Global Warming? Her activism in the 70s culminating in the China Syndrome movie put an effective moratorium on nuclear energy use in the US. Other countries went right on - for example 80% of France's electricity comes from nuclear power stations. The IPCC reckons that it was about the mid 70s when CO2 emissions started reaching a critical point for GW - if the US had built and used nuclear energy power plants through the following two decades many US drivers may well now be plugging their cars into the power grid every evening. (A useful side effect is that the Middle East nations and Chavez would not be arrogantly rolling in the money that we pay them every time we fill up. Dictatorships funded by drivers everywhere.) Alas even liberals and progressives are subject to the law of unintended consequences
1. Venus was once like Earth is now . 2. Earth was once like Mars is now 3. They had Venusian SUVs that heated up the planet (but no Venusian Al Gore) . 4. Venusian scientists terraformed Earth . 5. Our ancestors moved to Earth (those who did not believe in Venusian Warming, stayed behind) . 6. The rest is history, however, there is serious consideration now for terraforming Mars just in case .
Aha, so that is why Ontario is so uncompetitive and public service IT is so poor and flaky - unions!
Well you are just naive if you would rather have China, Russia and Iran or some other nutbar country having control of this resource. Standard liberal fare is that the US government is 'out to get its citizens'. Man, you don't know what living in a crappy police state is about so you just fantasize about the danger(I am not American). For a real authentic police state experience move to one of these dyfunctional countries - lots to choose from. Then if you still have your position - great - it will be based on substance and I'll respect it.
What were you trying to achieve with your satirical blog? Perhaps you have valid issues, but I wonder how self righteous (that is how your posting comes over) you will feel about this incident in say 5 or 10 years time. Alas, rightly or wrongly, actions in the adult world have consequences. Sometimes even when you are right you get screwed, that's the way it is.
Right, no more fighting at night. Let the buggers sleep or drink beer