So...confirmation received that fabricating quotes is A-OK according to journalistic standards.
Hint: a press release is journalism. They often end up printed verbatim in the newspaper.
Errrr....no. The fact that some newspapers have abdicated their journalistic duties does not magically make press releases "journalism". They are spin, pure and simple.
The journalism part is distilling these releases into a usable story.
As an aside, I actually agree with you in part, but I think that the causality you see is more due to standard of living than any cutural bias. That factor is more dependant on the pervasiveness of the western capitalist system that currently rules the globe ie western capitalist = do OK. Anything else doesn't.
IMO Singapore and Hong Kong largely "western" by your definition due to colonial history, but I think Japan has a western "interface" that's developed to interface with the western economic world. IMO Japan is by and large not "western". You can stretch the definition of western to fit Japan, but it would be artificial as it has more in common with Korea than Holland or the US.
No, actually I do "get it" as you say. I am a Western Asian. Notice that this is not a contradiction.
At the risk of stating the bloody obvious, if you mean non-western SAY non-western. To use Asian/Indian implies race - to think otherwise is naive. If you don't mean to then DON'T USE THESE TERMS. Use the racial terms (Asian/Indian) and you will be called out on race grounds.
Use EASTERN or NON-WESTERN and we are not having this conversation.
Comments like this remind me of that Simpsons ep with the head of the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon
"Great. Put it in an envelope and mail it to last week when I might have cared."
What was the state of web apps back when Notes was doing what Notes does? You'd have to be in some sort of reality distortion field if you think web apps then were even remotely up to the task.(IMO they're still not - web apps suck, but that's beside the point.)
"Most of the "non-standard" features in Notes are a direct result of two factors; Notes was created prior to a market-dominating windowing interface and needed it's own paradigm and it was and is multi-platform (although the Mac client is the only non-Windoze one left these days, it previously had OS/2, AIX, and Solaris clients).
How is any of this relevent to recent (if we can consider 2001 recent) versions? "
I always thought that not pissing off one's current customers (ie those used to the current interface) was relevant. You may not be in that group, but I assure you there are a large number that are. They may not appreciate being forced to change for no good reason.
Firstly, please reread your post substituting "Black","Jewish" or "Anglo" where you've used Asian & Indian. Personally I find your post simplistic in the extreme and borderline offensive. But then what does that matter, you're not here to please the likes of me. Where you miss the point is that the main issue is not Indian/Chinese/anything not US alleged cultural proclivities, it's offshoring as a process. Bad business outcomes are not unique to projects outsourced to Asia and it behooves us as alleged professionals to analyse the problem in a dispassionate, semi-scientific manner. It is perfectly possible to have a discussion on the shortcomings of the process, including cross-cultural issues, without descending into this simplistic, "neo colonial" (for want of a better term) and, quite frankly, BS generalizations on a people you have shown yourself eminently unqualified to judge.
Secondly, how one can blanket assess the people who made the Taj Mahal and glorius Hindu temples as "non creative engineers" beggars belief. Later, when more outsourcing goes to China, I'm sure those who follow your sentiments would criticize the makers of the Forbidden City as a bunch of uncreative sods who can't whack two bricks together on account of some imagined "cultural handicap".
"Movies: RottenTomatoes, imdb, and MetaCritic have saved me dozens of hours of time I might have wasted on crap (like Matrix Revolutions, or TimeLine)."
IMO you're denying yourself one of the life's little luxuries - to be able to see something, form your own opinion and enjoy it (or not) for what it is. Some of my most memorable movies didn't rate with the critics, while some of their favs (Mulholland Drive anyone?) just left me pondering what passes for entertainment at times.
At times you'll feel robbed but, hey, that's life.
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Why is this flamebait? Anyone who's actually run a retail storefront would identify with his arguments, if not agree with them.
It's a business issue not a spray against Linux.
" That seems like a violation of the fifth amnmendment"
;)
Dude...Canada - remember?
So...confirmation received that fabricating quotes is A-OK according to journalistic standards.
Hint: a press release is journalism. They often end up printed verbatim in the newspaper.
Errrr....no. The fact that some newspapers have abdicated their journalistic duties does not magically make press releases "journalism". They are spin, pure and simple.
The journalism part is distilling these releases into a usable story.
As an aside, I actually agree with you in part, but I think that the causality you see is more due to standard of living than any cutural bias. That factor is more dependant on the pervasiveness of the western capitalist system that currently rules the globe ie western capitalist = do OK. Anything else doesn't.
IMO Singapore and Hong Kong largely "western" by your definition due to colonial history, but I think Japan has a western "interface" that's developed to interface with the western economic world. IMO Japan is by and large not "western". You can stretch the definition of western to fit Japan, but it would be artificial as it has more in common with Korea than Holland or the US.
No, actually I do "get it" as you say. I am a Western Asian. Notice that this is not a contradiction.
At the risk of stating the bloody obvious, if you mean non-western SAY non-western. To use Asian/Indian implies race - to think otherwise is naive. If you don't mean to then DON'T USE THESE TERMS. Use the racial terms (Asian/Indian) and you will be called out on race grounds.
Use EASTERN or NON-WESTERN and we are not having this conversation.
Comments like this remind me of that Simpsons ep with the head of the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon
"Great. Put it in an envelope and mail it to last week when I might have cared."
What was the state of web apps back when Notes was doing what Notes does? You'd have to be in some sort of reality distortion field if you think web apps then were even remotely up to the task.(IMO they're still not - web apps suck, but that's beside the point.)
Solving yesterday's problems today isn't particularly Noteworthy (nyuk nyuk).
"Most of the "non-standard" features in Notes are a direct result of two factors; Notes was created prior to a market-dominating windowing interface and needed it's own paradigm and it was and is multi-platform (although the Mac client is the only non-Windoze one left these days, it previously had OS/2, AIX, and Solaris clients).
How is any of this relevent to recent (if we can consider 2001 recent) versions? "
I always thought that not pissing off one's current customers (ie those used to the current interface) was relevant. You may not be in that group, but I assure you there are a large number that are. They may not appreciate being forced to change for no good reason.
Firstly, please reread your post substituting "Black","Jewish" or "Anglo" where you've used Asian & Indian. Personally I find your post simplistic in the extreme and borderline offensive. But then what does that matter, you're not here to please the likes of me. Where you miss the point is that the main issue is not Indian/Chinese/anything not US alleged cultural proclivities, it's offshoring as a process. Bad business outcomes are not unique to projects outsourced to Asia and it behooves us as alleged professionals to analyse the problem in a dispassionate, semi-scientific manner. It is perfectly possible to have a discussion on the shortcomings of the process, including cross-cultural issues, without descending into this simplistic, "neo colonial" (for want of a better term) and, quite frankly, BS generalizations on a people you have shown yourself eminently unqualified to judge.
Secondly, how one can blanket assess the people who made the Taj Mahal and glorius Hindu temples as "non creative engineers" beggars belief. Later, when more outsourcing goes to China, I'm sure those who follow your sentiments would criticize the makers of the Forbidden City as a bunch of uncreative sods who can't whack two bricks together on account of some imagined "cultural handicap".Pfffffffffffft.
"Movies: RottenTomatoes, imdb, and MetaCritic have saved me dozens of hours of time I might have wasted on crap (like Matrix Revolutions, or TimeLine)."
IMO you're denying yourself one of the life's little luxuries - to be able to see something, form your own opinion and enjoy it (or not) for what it is. Some of my most memorable movies didn't rate with the critics, while some of their favs (Mulholland Drive anyone?) just left me pondering what passes for entertainment at times.
At times you'll feel robbed but, hey, that's life.
" i.e. software against which it makes no business sense to compete. This is good news if you are a user, bad news if you were a competitor."
;-)
So IE bundling is OK now? Sheesh...so hard to keep up
By and large I agree except for
"For example, the messenger service isn't used by anyone by spam senders, e-mail scripting was never a useful device to anyone"
Google these and you'll see that just because you haven't found a legitimate use for them doesn't mean there aren't any.
Add a me too here. HD broke Fri PM, tech arrived Monday AM with replacement.