The "need" of being an back-stabber to survive is not absolutely true. I've worked for a company where being a good/excellent professional was enough.
But I've worked in other places aswell, and (unless I'm very unlucky) I've noticed that you do have to be a bastard in most companies. Your professional qualities are, well, secondary.
It sounds illogical, and one would expect such company to fail, but there's always some hard-working people who manage to get things working, and those people carry the deadweights in their shoulders.
Sadly as it is, being a backstabber is good for you professionally. Even sadder is the fact this is an universal truth, not confined to any specific country.
I get so tired of people whining about how crappy Vista is because it doesn't support their 7 year old printer correctly. "Did you download drivers from the manufacture?"... "What's that?"
I'd like to see one of these anti MS zealots download driver and kernel source for any Linux distro, compile, and use their device within 2 hours and then look me in the eye when they try and tell me about how much better it worked for them.
Uh... Sorry?
Long gone were the days you had to compile a Linux kernel itself, or even bothering to install the driver manually. It's all prepackaged for you.
Now you're complaining that users lack technical knowledge in order to install a driver to use under Windows? (excuse me, Windows?)
That's incredibly ironic.
And taking into consideration his aversion to academics, he's probably dumb as well.
That's what an academic would say.
The problem with academics is that they outrightly disregard any information which wasn't formally codified as an academic work. If something is outside their world, to them it simply doesn't exist.
They're very proud of themselves and absolutely certain that their stand on anything is the most correct. So, yeah, many times you see a fantastic failure because the real world is not an university's lab.
Nope. My HP laptop, running X64 Vista Ultimate, has absolutely no problems, either.
My Ubuntu system in the living room, however, is another story. Getting video cards to work in it is an excersize in futility. Getting pretty much ANYTHING working in it requires reading several MAN pages, getting a wireless ROM code on my hard drive, trying 4 different drivers (3 of which came with Ubuntu, 2 of those cause the machine to lock up while attempting to init the card, vista had no problems with it).
Interesting that you've mentioned having a HP notebook.
I've bought one HP notebook last year and had no problems installing and running Mandriva. Ubuntu worked (no wireless support because of lack of firmware) but I had to pass kernel parameters such as noapic nothis nothat etc.
That said, I will never again buy a HP notebook. Let me put this straight: HP notebooks are pieces of shit.
The hardware was so buggy you couldn't help but notice the Linux kernel warnings while booting. Sometimes the HD simply stopped responding and would stay that way until I powercycled the machine. 3D for anything over 2-3 minutes, machine frozen.
So let's update the notebook's firmware. Oh, what? The firmware update tool runs only under Windows?! So I had to backup my data, reinstall the horrid Vista which came with the machine, update the firmware and reinstall Linux.
While it solved (well, workarounded the bugs) the HD issue. I didn't try 3D, but is not a real concern for _me_ anyway. There are still some warnings during Linux boot time, so it's not like the machine is fully normal.
To be fair notebooks are not the only cheapo quality from HP. I've already had a traumatic experience with HP's slightly-better-than-beige-boxes x86 servers at work.
So, really, if you want to complain that Linux is not good (or really bad) for XYZ reasons, no problem. But, please, compare Linux/Vista/etc using proper hardware. Not under the garbage from HP.
I used to have a Commodore64 and learned 6502 Assembler on it. When I got a PC (a 286) I felt nostalgic for the C64 and bought a cheap one. I used it about ten minutes and realized what a mistake it was. Fortunately I was able to sell it right away.
When you were young, did your parents forced you to use a C64 while chained to a wall, while expecting for the dialy meal of a dry bread and a dirty glass with tap water?
I've never had a C64, I had a MSX instead but I respected the capabilities of the former.
I don't regret my 8-bit days, the resources were limited but I've learned to write software and enjoyed the games from an era when each improvement was like "wow" instead of "yawn, more polygons per second" of the current games.
If at least you exchanged that for an Amiga.. But a 286 PC?
You mean that bleep-bloop sounding DOS monotasker 64kB-segment-limited machine so exciting as a convention on insurance?
Been in Africa. The threat out there, honestly, isn't Linux. 'Coze - whatever they say about it - Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Specially in places where education is still a lagwagon. Don't expect anyone who can barely read to figure out why on earth their network isn't working, because their Linux distro doesn't support their cheapo noname network card.
Funny, my own experience is quite the opposite.
More than once I had hardware which required its very specific driver in Windows (the generic one did not work, despite being the same chipset). With Linux, it simply worked.
Linux is not a threat to Windows in Africa. Pirated Windows is.
Then there's no threat at all, because Microsoft is worried about a generation growing up using Linux (or anything non-Windows).
Most users here have no ideas about women, as most common computer users have no idea how to make Linux work. Just ask my roommate. He gets laid CONSTANTLY, but couldn't get Ubuntu to install and work.
disclaimer: I was able to get Ubuntu to pretty much work, and I have 3 kids, so I've been laid. I'm one of the minorities here lolol.
Er... What being laid has to do with the ability of installing Ubuntu or any other Linux?
A working Windows is pretty much a pain in the ass to install (reboot, reboot, install drivers, reboot, driver fail who-knows-why, reboot, install program, reboot etc etc).
About the fact you have a "roommate" and the ending "lolol"...
How old are you? And you have three kids?
Did you forget the condom or are you simply idiot?
Wherever I looked for answers on forums for technical issues, I always was met with vehement hostility. Everyone adopt Linux, where we hate all newbs.
Did you try searching the information you need, before posting to a forum?
What often happens is that a person - one who never bothered to search for the information he/she needs - simply post their problems and expect to be served as if they were paying for something.
Sorry, but such person is not expecting community support, that person is abusing it.
I don't know your case specifically, but if the hat fits in...
If you have access to a remote server which do not have bandwidth limitations (perhaps a friendly sysadmin in an university?) you may try a compressing proxy such as Ziproxy which recompresses pictures to lower quality and does some extra black magic aswell.
It seems that RabbIT does that too, but I've never used that software myself.
Sorry but no. You cannot compare Mexico to Brazil.
Except from speaking Spanish which is related to Portuguese, each country has its own problems, its own economic structure (Brazil is not a slave to the U.S. concerning exports, for example) and each has its own political structure. You can consider Brazil as being 5 different countries each with its own mentality, all which happen to speak the same language.
You may love your country, which has its own merits, and I respect that.
But, please, do not try to diminish Brazil archivements because it's doing something better than your country.
Please, let's not transform this into another BSD vs GPL discussion.
What you call a "open-source-only restrictions" is what the GPL-side folks believe make the license - in practical terms - more free than BSD.
People decide which license they believe is the most appropriate one for their projects and their own ethics.
By using BSD he now has this option, which he could choose to refuse.
By using something like GPL, he would never have even had the choice.
If he's the sole copyright holder, GPL licensing does not matter, he can release future code under any license he wants.
He may even close the code for future versions, or switch to BSD.
What he cannot do is to cancel the license for code already released under that. Unless the license has a provision allowing cancelation at copyright-holder's will, but in such case it could not be considered FOSS anyway.
From my own experience, I see those high-ranked under-30ies as people who (each to varying degrees):
- Smear other co-workers while promoting themselves, often claiming being the mastermind of someone else's project (weak-minded hard-working people being a perfect prey).
- Have a great political ability and quickly make friends with people at the upper levels.
- Whenever possible obtain knowledge of sensitive internal matters (usually irregular stuff happening at the upper levels) and make the right people aware of their knowledge.
- Are extroverted. Make an effort to show themselves as friendly to people in general.
- Are amoral and manipulative.
Very effective for your career indeed.
Too bad there are some problems when:
- You find someone like you, only smarter, and you're in his/her way.
- You find a disgruntled kamikazi worker who hates you and have the means to destroy your career.
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The "need" of being an back-stabber to survive is not absolutely true. I've worked for a company where being a good/excellent professional was enough.
But I've worked in other places aswell, and (unless I'm very unlucky) I've noticed that you do have to be a bastard in most companies. Your professional qualities are, well, secondary.
It sounds illogical, and one would expect such company to fail, but there's always some hard-working people who manage to get things working, and those people carry the deadweights in their shoulders.
Sadly as it is, being a backstabber is good for you professionally. Even sadder is the fact this is an universal truth, not confined to any specific country.
windows 7 after all the crap talk its just vista re skinned.
More like the same skin with a new tattoo.
I get so tired of people whining about how crappy Vista is because it doesn't support their 7 year old printer correctly. "Did you download drivers from the manufacture?"... "What's that?"
I'd like to see one of these anti MS zealots download driver and kernel source for any Linux distro, compile, and use their device within 2 hours and then look me in the eye when they try and tell me about how much better it worked for them.
Uh... Sorry?
Long gone were the days you had to compile a Linux kernel itself, or even bothering to install the driver manually. It's all prepackaged for you.
Now you're complaining that users lack technical knowledge in order to install a driver to use under Windows? (excuse me, Windows?)
That's incredibly ironic.
To a "recruiter" in Bangalore, the United States looks like one homogenous entity with few cultural distinctions among locations.
Well, are you able to identify different cultural/social/whatever aspects from a region to another in Russia?
And taking into consideration his aversion to academics, he's probably dumb as well.
That's what an academic would say.
The problem with academics is that they outrightly disregard any information which wasn't formally codified as an academic work. If something is outside their world, to them it simply doesn't exist.
They're very proud of themselves and absolutely certain that their stand on anything is the most correct. So, yeah, many times you see a fantastic failure because the real world is not an university's lab.
Many new computers with 4+ gb of RAM have Vista 64bit by default.
You do realize that 4+ GB of ram would be useless without 64-bit, right?
That's bullshit. Please read about PAE.
Yeah... So much trouble for a cable getting laid.
My Intel processor claims that 63.99 bits should be enough for everybody.
Man, that joke is really old.
What next, jokes on writeback cache too?
While it's often used in the context of war, which generally means large numbers of people completely dead, maybe this guy isn't?
You mean the guy being half-dead, that caused by a meteorite?
Sounds like a B-movie plot to me.
Either the person was underage, or we also have degrees of human life importance (let's say the guy was an undegraduate illegal alien).
It depends on the context.
If you are searching the whole Local Group, it seems reasonable.
Yeah, the CD-ROM accessory was joked to exhaustion back then.
Nope. My HP laptop, running X64 Vista Ultimate, has absolutely no problems, either.
My Ubuntu system in the living room, however, is another story. Getting video cards to work in it is an excersize in futility. Getting pretty much ANYTHING working in it requires reading several MAN pages, getting a wireless ROM code on my hard drive, trying 4 different drivers (3 of which came with Ubuntu, 2 of those cause the machine to lock up while attempting to init the card, vista had no problems with it).
Interesting that you've mentioned having a HP notebook.
I've bought one HP notebook last year and had no problems installing and running Mandriva.
Ubuntu worked (no wireless support because of lack of firmware) but I had to pass kernel parameters such as noapic nothis nothat etc.
That said, I will never again buy a HP notebook.
Let me put this straight: HP notebooks are pieces of shit.
The hardware was so buggy you couldn't help but notice the Linux kernel warnings while booting.
Sometimes the HD simply stopped responding and would stay that way until I powercycled the machine.
3D for anything over 2-3 minutes, machine frozen.
So let's update the notebook's firmware.
Oh, what? The firmware update tool runs only under Windows?! So I had to backup my data, reinstall the horrid Vista which came with the machine, update the firmware and reinstall Linux.
While it solved (well, workarounded the bugs) the HD issue. I didn't try 3D, but is not a real concern for _me_ anyway.
There are still some warnings during Linux boot time, so it's not like the machine is fully normal.
To be fair notebooks are not the only cheapo quality from HP. I've already had a traumatic experience with HP's slightly-better-than-beige-boxes x86 servers at work.
So, really, if you want to complain that Linux is not good (or really bad) for XYZ reasons, no problem.
But, please, compare Linux/Vista/etc using proper hardware.
Not under the garbage from HP.
That's interesting, but of no real use.
/dev/sda > /dev/dsp
If you want to make a full HD backup in cheap analog audio media (such as casettes) try this:
cat
I used to have a Commodore64 and learned 6502 Assembler on it. When I got a PC (a 286) I felt nostalgic for the C64 and bought a cheap one. I used it about ten minutes and realized what a mistake it was. Fortunately I was able to sell it right away.
When you were young, did your parents forced you to use a C64 while chained to a wall, while expecting for the dialy meal of a dry bread and a dirty glass with tap water?
I've never had a C64, I had a MSX instead but I respected the capabilities of the former.
I don't regret my 8-bit days, the resources were limited but I've learned to write software and enjoyed the games from an era when each improvement was like "wow" instead of "yawn, more polygons per second" of the current games.
If at least you exchanged that for an Amiga.. But a 286 PC?
You mean that bleep-bloop sounding DOS monotasker 64kB-segment-limited machine so exciting as a convention on insurance?
It's so contradictory that's depressing.
Opening the PS2 to home-brew developers could make an impact in second and third world countries.
Obviously you have no idea on what means '1st, 2nd and 3rd world'.
Been in Africa. The threat out there, honestly, isn't Linux. 'Coze - whatever they say about it - Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Specially in places where education is still a lagwagon. Don't expect anyone who can barely read to figure out why on earth their network isn't working, because their Linux distro doesn't support their cheapo noname network card.
Funny, my own experience is quite the opposite.
More than once I had hardware which required its very specific driver in Windows (the generic one did not work, despite being the same chipset). With Linux, it simply worked.
Linux is not a threat to Windows in Africa. Pirated Windows is.
Then there's no threat at all, because Microsoft is worried about a generation growing up using Linux (or anything non-Windows).
Most users here have no ideas about women, as most common computer users have no idea how to make Linux work. Just ask my roommate. He gets laid CONSTANTLY, but couldn't get Ubuntu to install and work.
disclaimer: I was able to get Ubuntu to pretty much work, and I have 3 kids, so I've been laid. I'm one of the minorities here lolol.
Er... What being laid has to do with the ability of installing Ubuntu or any other Linux?
A working Windows is pretty much a pain in the ass to install (reboot, reboot, install drivers, reboot, driver fail who-knows-why, reboot, install program, reboot etc etc).
About the fact you have a "roommate" and the ending "lolol"...
How old are you? And you have three kids?
Did you forget the condom or are you simply idiot?
Wherever I looked for answers on forums for technical issues, I always was met with vehement hostility. Everyone adopt Linux, where we hate all newbs.
Did you try searching the information you need, before posting to a forum?
What often happens is that a person - one who never bothered to search for the information he/she needs - simply post their problems and expect to be served as if they were paying for something.
Sorry, but such person is not expecting community support, that person is abusing it.
I don't know your case specifically, but if the hat fits in...
If you have access to a remote server which do not have bandwidth limitations (perhaps a friendly sysadmin in an university?) you may try a compressing proxy such as Ziproxy which recompresses pictures to lower quality and does some extra black magic aswell.
It seems that RabbIT does that too, but I've never used that software myself.
Sorry but no. You cannot compare Mexico to Brazil.
Except from speaking Spanish which is related to Portuguese, each country has its own problems, its own economic structure (Brazil is not a slave to the U.S. concerning exports, for example) and each has its own political structure. You can consider Brazil as being 5 different countries each with its own mentality, all which happen to speak the same language.
You may love your country, which has its own merits, and I respect that.
But, please, do not try to diminish Brazil archivements because it's doing something better than your country.
Where?
I could only locate a rugby-or-something-alike field.
Please, let's not transform this into another BSD vs GPL discussion.
What you call a "open-source-only restrictions" is what the GPL-side folks believe make the license - in practical terms - more free than BSD.
People decide which license they believe is the most appropriate one for their projects and their own ethics.
By using BSD he now has this option, which he could choose to refuse.
By using something like GPL, he would never have even had the choice.
If he's the sole copyright holder, GPL licensing does not matter, he can release future code under any license he wants.
He may even close the code for future versions, or switch to BSD.
What he cannot do is to cancel the license for code already released under that. Unless the license has a provision allowing cancelation at copyright-holder's will, but in such case it could not be considered FOSS anyway.
I disagree.
From my own experience, I see those high-ranked under-30ies as people who (each to varying degrees):
- Smear other co-workers while promoting themselves, often claiming being the mastermind of someone else's project (weak-minded hard-working people being a perfect prey).
- Have a great political ability and quickly make friends with people at the upper levels.
- Whenever possible obtain knowledge of sensitive internal matters (usually irregular stuff happening at the upper levels) and make the right people aware of their knowledge.
- Are extroverted. Make an effort to show themselves as friendly to people in general.
- Are amoral and manipulative.
Very effective for your career indeed.
Too bad there are some problems when:
- You find someone like you, only smarter, and you're in his/her way.
- You find a disgruntled kamikazi worker who hates you and have the means to destroy your career.