Eventually you'll use this account the same way as all the others. You can't help it. They all started nice and good citizens of Slashdot but eventually turned into this and this, which is what got you into karma hell to begin with. You are being given a chance that you choose to throw away because you're too proud and self-centered.
In any case you'll just blame everything on M$ and carry on with the same useless drivel.
Similarly, the use of a non-Microsoft core product like a browser on a Microsoft OS (since most FF users run it on Windows anyway) tends to chip away at the FUD related to the bundling of IE and the various irrational claims that Microsoft somehow sabotages applications that are not theirs.
So who's winning the marketing war again? The price of some browser market share is a small price to pay for that.
As for your claim that Microsoft has pushed the idea that "they alone" can build software solutions for Windows, try again. Microsoft's greatest strength is in the platform they've provided for other companies to write software on, and most normal people recognize this as the truth.
Well, if real life experience includes being able to cut and run when you realize that the guy above you is an asshole that will hang you out to dry, then I totally agree. In my case the director didn't need permission to fire the PM, since he hired him to begin with.
But yeah, of course it's detrimental for people to leave projects. It's true for PMs, analysts and developers alike.
As for the relationship with the CEO, as the AC that replied to you said, it's impossible in a large company. The best you'll do is a VP, if that. Even at the company that I'm at where there can't be more than 200 people, I get to see the CEO maybe once every six months. Never mind in the one that has forty thousand. Which is funny considering the project I'm working on is vital to the continued survival of the company. But that's how it goes.
Uh-oh. twitter, we have a problem. You need to remove this link from your journal. All anyone has to do is click "Parent" a few times to get to this. I don't think it was your intention to reveal your super-secret identity, was it?
I mean, I even carried a link to one of your ramblings outside of Slashdot on my sig for a while because it was absolutely precious, but I removed it because it revealed your name, and who you are in real life is irrelevant to what you're doing here. But if you don't mind at all and you're including links to that in your journal, I'll just start linking to it again.
You don't understand, twitter lives and dies by Slashdot karma. It is the most important thing for him, to be modded up and his lame journal ramblings accepted by the people he believes are his peers (but generally are just pissed off at him).
If there are a few of us who point out the fact that he has ten or twelve accounts that reply to each other (I mean, for the love of god) and he gets modded down for it, then maybe that will force him to reasses what he's doing. Absolutely nothing is gained by manipulating the moderation system here. Nothing.
Not really. I've worked with shitty PMs but also with good ones (in large projects) where the fault lies entirely on the people above them.
On a project a few years ago (your typical Fortune 500 $LARGE_COMPANY here), our PM was forced to declare that a large release that had taken 6 months to get to "it's kinda working" was "complete" and shipped to UAT even though system testing was incomplete and all we did was give the end users a pile of steaming shit. But the director of the group got to "meet" his deadline, and therefore get his much-desire performance rating.
Of course fixing bugs once the app is in UAT is four times as difficult as in the integration environment, with the corresponding lag in defect correction time. So UAT went on and on and on... until it was supposed to be the final release date. Said users were hysterical and pissed off, and said director was out of his fucking mind trying to come up with inventive ways to ship said steaming pile of shit to production while blaming someone else for the smell of said pile.
His first executive action was to fire the PM and have him escorted out of the building (he was a contractor like me). His second action was to request that the Offshore Solutions team add four more developers to the already swelled-beyond-comprehension development team in India. You know, throwing bodies at the problem. The next thing was to go to his VP and claim that he had been misled by the PM, who by this time was checking out the classifieds at home and therefore unavailable for comment.
In the end, we all went through the usual death march and shipped the thing about three weeks late. The director got his rating (not his fault you understand) and the users had to deal with the remnants of the steaming pile of shit. I get paid either way so no skin off my ass.
Projects are late (or they fail) because the people who are supposed to be in charge of delivering them have no fucking clue as to how software is developed. Fix that problem, and you'll ship all the software you want on time and under budget.
I'm fortunate to be in a project right now where the guy in charge is a former developer who doesn't require a bonus to pay his mortgage, and all the two PMs do is move little bars on an MS Project file while mercifully leaving me and my team alone to actually write the software. We've released two major versions of the app so far the past two years and are on track to deliver the third version sometime this October. On time and under budget. The secret? Iterative development (SCRUM-like) with heavy user involvement in feature sprints. No waterfall bullshit for me anymore, thank $DEITY.
This obsession (not really, but still) is nothing new. There are a lot of people on/. that have replied to his bullshit for quite a few years. I can't take credit for it really (I'd say that belongs to willyhill and a few dedicated ACs), but I was happy his two main accounts got sent to karma hell. I really, really dislike people like twitter, in general.
The more lamers with 10 accounts there are here, the less serious conversations you are going to have in any case. He already thinks you're my sockpuppet (or a sockpuppet of someone he dislikes, it doesn't matter) so if he has accounts in good standing with karma and mod points, he can just punish you accordingly at his leisure.
There used to be a time when Slashdot was a pain in the ass to read because all the crapflooders, GNAA trolls, ASCII artists, page wideners, Klerck, bonch and all the other fauna. CmdrTaco and his crew have done a very good job of controlling that. Now the problem are people like twitter who create threads out of thin air using six or seven different accounts. The more success he has at it, the more other people will try to game the system that way. And then we'll go back to the same shit.
By the way, Slashdot karma is a reward and a form of punishment to him. Discounting things like family and work, it's very probably the most important thing in his life.
Hi twitter. There is nothing funny about that. I think it's sad that people like you use those things as a punchline to push your agenda, but ultimately it's irrelevant to this whole discussion anyway. I think it's funny that you would be outraged about my response to the OP, considering it was really more about the "Windows is the end of the world" tone than the theory about people being arrested and tortured because of this oversight - after all, it was you that snarkily tried to blame "M$" for the whole thing without much success. Your disingenuos request for comments is amusing in that context, wouldn't you agree?
No need to thank me for the response, BTW. Since you started this flamebait thread and created your 11th account in the name of trollingme personally, the least I can do is address your concerns - especially if you're linking to this post in the.sigs of a few of your sockpuppets.
Oh, by the way. When you have some time on your busy trolling schedule, I would appreciate it if you would post a response to this and this (posted as you might realize as a reply to this). Both threads are now expired, but let me know if you're up to it and I'll create a journal entry so we can discuss without being modded offtopic and so on. Thanks!
Yeah, but he still has two accounts with good karma. They should be modded down until they disappear from sight, in my very humble opinion. He has pretty much proved that he doesn't deserve the pixels used to render his posts.
For me, the whole wiki concept clashes with the need to know concept. It makes no sense for an organization like the CIA to make every information they have available to anyone inside the organization.
You're right, but they might have adapted the Wikimedia PHP code to be able to restrict access based on authentication. I have no idea how, maybe they do it by namespace or something like that. But since they have the source they can certainly do it.
I'd be surprised if there's total access over the whole thing for everyone within the agency. That would make no sense from a compartmental standpoint.
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In any case you'll just blame everything on M$ and carry on with the same useless drivel.
But I thought market share had nothing to do with this?
But spending a few minutes changing some settings to turn off the Office 2007 bar is UNACCEPTABLE, I bet.
So who's winning the marketing war again? The price of some browser market share is a small price to pay for that.
As for your claim that Microsoft has pushed the idea that "they alone" can build software solutions for Windows, try again. Microsoft's greatest strength is in the platform they've provided for other companies to write software on, and most normal people recognize this as the truth.
I'm just warning "him", twitter. You are free to keep it or remove it as you find it appropriate.
But yeah, of course it's detrimental for people to leave projects. It's true for PMs, analysts and developers alike.
As for the relationship with the CEO, as the AC that replied to you said, it's impossible in a large company. The best you'll do is a VP, if that. Even at the company that I'm at where there can't be more than 200 people, I get to see the CEO maybe once every six months. Never mind in the one that has forty thousand. Which is funny considering the project I'm working on is vital to the continued survival of the company. But that's how it goes.
I mean, I even carried a link to one of your ramblings outside of Slashdot on my sig for a while because it was absolutely precious, but I removed it because it revealed your name, and who you are in real life is irrelevant to what you're doing here. But if you don't mind at all and you're including links to that in your journal, I'll just start linking to it again.
If there are a few of us who point out the fact that he has ten or twelve accounts that reply to each other (I mean, for the love of god) and he gets modded down for it, then maybe that will force him to reasses what he's doing. Absolutely nothing is gained by manipulating the moderation system here. Nothing.
WGA is usually punishment enough. No chairs needed.
Even stretching the dumb analogy, no.
Sorry, but where do you people come from and is it really necessary to be this stupid?
The next one to go will be my personal name troll.
You know he's just going to create more, though.
On a project a few years ago (your typical Fortune 500 $LARGE_COMPANY here), our PM was forced to declare that a large release that had taken 6 months to get to "it's kinda working" was "complete" and shipped to UAT even though system testing was incomplete and all we did was give the end users a pile of steaming shit. But the director of the group got to "meet" his deadline, and therefore get his much-desire performance rating.
Of course fixing bugs once the app is in UAT is four times as difficult as in the integration environment, with the corresponding lag in defect correction time. So UAT went on and on and on... until it was supposed to be the final release date. Said users were hysterical and pissed off, and said director was out of his fucking mind trying to come up with inventive ways to ship said steaming pile of shit to production while blaming someone else for the smell of said pile.
His first executive action was to fire the PM and have him escorted out of the building (he was a contractor like me). His second action was to request that the Offshore Solutions team add four more developers to the already swelled-beyond-comprehension development team in India. You know, throwing bodies at the problem. The next thing was to go to his VP and claim that he had been misled by the PM, who by this time was checking out the classifieds at home and therefore unavailable for comment.
In the end, we all went through the usual death march and shipped the thing about three weeks late. The director got his rating (not his fault you understand) and the users had to deal with the remnants of the steaming pile of shit. I get paid either way so no skin off my ass.
Projects are late (or they fail) because the people who are supposed to be in charge of delivering them have no fucking clue as to how software is developed. Fix that problem, and you'll ship all the software you want on time and under budget.
I'm fortunate to be in a project right now where the guy in charge is a former developer who doesn't require a bonus to pay his mortgage, and all the two PMs do is move little bars on an MS Project file while mercifully leaving me and my team alone to actually write the software. We've released two major versions of the app so far the past two years and are on track to deliver the third version sometime this October. On time and under budget. The secret? Iterative development (SCRUM-like) with heavy user involvement in feature sprints. No waterfall bullshit for me anymore, thank $DEITY.
So is the karma on most of your accounts.
The more lamers with 10 accounts there are here, the less serious conversations you are going to have in any case. He already thinks you're my sockpuppet (or a sockpuppet of someone he dislikes, it doesn't matter) so if he has accounts in good standing with karma and mod points, he can just punish you accordingly at his leisure.
There used to be a time when Slashdot was a pain in the ass to read because all the crapflooders, GNAA trolls, ASCII artists, page wideners, Klerck, bonch and all the other fauna. CmdrTaco and his crew have done a very good job of controlling that. Now the problem are people like twitter who create threads out of thin air using six or seven different accounts. The more success he has at it, the more other people will try to game the system that way. And then we'll go back to the same shit.
By the way, Slashdot karma is a reward and a form of punishment to him. Discounting things like family and work, it's very probably the most important thing in his life.
Otherwise I'm going to start seriously thinking about a switch to Opera now.
Thanks!
No need to thank me for the response, BTW. Since you started this flamebait thread and created your 11th account in the name of trolling me personally, the least I can do is address your concerns - especially if you're linking to this post in the .sigs of a few of your sockpuppets.
Oh, by the way. When you have some time on your busy trolling schedule, I would appreciate it if you would post a response to this and this (posted as you might realize as a reply to this). Both threads are now expired, but let me know if you're up to it and I'll create a journal entry so we can discuss without being modded offtopic and so on. Thanks!
Sure twitter. My pleasure. Literally.
Yeah, but he still has two accounts with good karma. They should be modded down until they disappear from sight, in my very humble opinion. He has pretty much proved that he doesn't deserve the pixels used to render his posts.
When I said "more to come" I didn't think you'd create a name troll for me. Good job.
Are you serious? Or were you going for the funny mod here?
You're right, but they might have adapted the Wikimedia PHP code to be able to restrict access based on authentication. I have no idea how, maybe they do it by namespace or something like that. But since they have the source they can certainly do it.
I'd be surprised if there's total access over the whole thing for everyone within the agency. That would make no sense from a compartmental standpoint.
This is not exposed to teh intertubes my man. It runs on the CIA's internal secure network. It just happens to use Wikimedia as the engine.