My reason: Microsoft is evil --- taking for granted that Microsoft's business and software != OSS regarding its'openness to software code and its' philosophy about how to deal with a community.
One example as to why Microsoft's business practices are reprehensible.
Anyone ever use real-time stock based applications i.e. real-time quotes, charts?
Before Microsoft was banned, by court of law, from distributing JAVA, all online stock brokers used the Microsoft version of JAVA. Well apparently this version broke SUN's JAVA and therefore you had to use Microsoft's OS if you wanted to use these real-time applications. Forget Linux, Unix, Mac etc...
Correct me if I am wrong, but one of the benefits of JAVA was its platform independent properties. Now Microsoft found a way to make JAVA platform DEPENDENT and therefore destroying its main feature. In my humble opinion, this is truly arrogant and completely uncalled for even in a competitive business environment.
So whatever I can do that has a detrimental effect on Microsoft's monopoly, I will. I would not, however, encourage someone to use software that is broken as a replacement to applications they already use.
That is just it, the US govenment has forbidden breeder reactors; unless something has changed. Funny thing is is that breeders produce much less radioactive waste. From memory, breeders utilize 97% of the fuel and we only use about 3% now; the rest goes into the ol' cooling pools. Relating to the story, I think it would be a great idea to produce hydrogen with breeder reactor tecnology and then store waste 200 feet under the salt flats.
I recently did a phone interview with google and this prompted a onsite interview. I quess the phone interview went well! However, the onsite interview was anything but professional.
5 questions they asked and shortened answers I provided.
Q1. So, which Google benefits do you find most interesting.
A1. {Standard Reply}
R1. Well, we don't offer those here. They are only avaliable at our corporate office location.
Q2. Oh, I quess I am supposed to ask you where you see yourself, career wise, in five years.
A2. fsck you: jk, I gave them some bs reply, but wanted to say, "Ill be happy to simply have a job."
Q3. So why are you applying for a lower level position with 8 years experience.
A3. IM UNEMPLOYED
Q4. So why are you applying for a lower level position with 8 years experience.
A4. Jees, not again. Hey IM UNEMPLOYED
Q5. So why are you applying for a lower level position with 8 years experience.
A5. Dude, you are really starting to piss me the hell off. Are you so stupid as to not even understand the state the IT employment situation is in over the last 3 years?
modded interesting because lack of knowledge regarding radioactive material.
I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see anything that said the radioactive material was leaked. If so, then disregard this. I think it highly unlikely that fish have eaten any radioactive particles which, if leaked, would have already settled on the ocean floor. Fish cannot be activated as you would the gold in soil, for instance. So, it probably isn't much of a danger in that regard.
And to support the "forest fire" opinion, CNN thought this title would be appropriate.
"North Korea cloud 'not nuke blast'"
You are right and CNN thinks that we are the dumbest shitheads in the world!
Here is how it works and even more so in the Google ipo. The employeees and friends will get rich and you will try to make a little money. Quess what? Employees can sell thier shares the first day of the ipo? translation: NO lock-up period , they can dump their shares on investors by the millions causing the stock to decline. Google employees own more that 50% of shares outstanding: translation; you have no voting power in the company. You realise that Google has offered $3.00 for each share they illegally issued to their employees. But wait, the stock price is supposed to $100.:)
Too many more problems to mention and Google should have just stayed private. Greed is really powerful!
PS. Who would buy shares in the piece-of-shit ipo offering? Many will, but the only people that are garenteed to become rich are employees and friends. period!
PSS. It is ok to be niave and idealistic, but reality and greed will often stomp all over those notions.
The articles I have read state that the dutch auction and the way this IPO will go was used so that the founders of Google can remain in control of the company. And I say "YEAH RIGHT." It will be a PUBLIC company, not a private company that sells shares to the public. However, from this article, the avaliable shares is reduced by millions and Google have already giving out more shares to its employees than it is selling to the public. So, in a sense, the founders will remain in control as they have more voting rights. But, this is BS, because when the shareholders don't have control of THIER company, then all decisions are made by only a few.
"And the stories are all very similar. For instance, in Argentina, they used Grimaldi, a shoe manufacturer as the example. When you dig into the story, you discover that the company that was supposed to carry out Grimaldi's migration to Linux is a Windows certified partner and a windows-only shop. The idiots could not get sendmail or postfix up-and-running and thus claim that it doesn't work. They then told Grimaldi, surprise, surprise, not to bother with Linux because it just doesn't work."
I have been using Linux at home and work for 10+ years and after many hours of sendmail setup adventures, I too claim that sendmail doesn't work .
rcr
Real nice. A company goes bankrupt and the first comment on the subject is how to take advantage of their misfortune. And worse yet, it is modded a 5! I think the real issue is how it sucks to be put out of business because of a lawsuit.
How about you pay the employees enough money to buy food for their families asshole!
And Pam, from the article, is the maintainer of that site. Funny how Groklaw dismisses many issues related to patent issues in Linux, and its founder sells Linux patent insurance.
Can I ignore thr FORD analogy?
Anyway,
You say that an end user must research browsers so that he/she may CHOOSE one more preferable?
Ok, yur right.
But let me ask you 1 question.
Could you tell which browser UNIX I could use for this scenerio?
I need to run "java-vm" aplications that provide; real-time stock quotes, charts, etc...
I would like to know, however I already know the answer.
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My reason: Microsoft is evil --- taking for
granted that Microsoft's business and software
!= OSS regarding its'openness to software code
and its' philosophy about how to deal with a
community.
One example as to why Microsoft's business
practices are reprehensible.
Anyone ever use real-time stock based applications
i.e. real-time quotes, charts?
Before Microsoft was banned, by court of law, from
distributing JAVA, all online stock brokers
used the Microsoft version of JAVA. Well
apparently this version broke SUN's JAVA and
therefore you had to use Microsoft's OS if you
wanted to use these real-time applications.
Forget Linux, Unix, Mac etc...
Correct me if I am wrong, but one of the benefits
of JAVA was its platform independent
properties. Now Microsoft found a way to make
JAVA platform DEPENDENT and therefore
destroying its main feature. In my humble
opinion, this is truly arrogant and completely
uncalled for even in a competitive business
environment.
So whatever I can do that has a detrimental effect
on Microsoft's monopoly, I will. I would not,
however, encourage someone to use software
that is broken as a replacement to
applications they already use.
rcr
I agree, it was one of the dumbest cartoons that I have ever read.
That is just it, the US govenment has forbidden breeder reactors; unless something has changed. Funny thing is is that breeders produce much less radioactive waste. From memory, breeders utilize 97% of the fuel and we only use about 3% now; the rest goes into the ol' cooling pools. Relating to the story, I think it would be a great idea to produce hydrogen with breeder reactor tecnology and then store waste 200 feet under the salt flats.
I recently did a phone interview with google and this prompted a onsite interview. I quess the phone interview went well! However, the onsite interview was anything but professional.
5 questions they asked and shortened answers I provided.
Q1. So, which Google benefits do you find most interesting.
A1. {Standard Reply}
R1. Well, we don't offer those here. They are only avaliable at our corporate office location.
Q2. Oh, I quess I am supposed to ask you where you see yourself, career wise, in five years.
A2. fsck you: jk, I gave them some bs reply, but wanted to say, "Ill be happy to simply have a job."
Q3. So why are you applying for a lower level position with 8 years experience.
A3. IM UNEMPLOYED
Q4. So why are you applying for a lower level position with 8 years experience.
A4. Jees, not again. Hey IM UNEMPLOYED
Q5. So why are you applying for a lower level position with 8 years experience.
A5. Dude, you are really starting to piss me the hell off. Are you so stupid as to not even understand the state the IT employment situation is in over the last 3 years?
The answers given were, of coarse, fictitious.
modded interesting because lack of knowledge regarding radioactive material. I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see anything that said the radioactive material was leaked. If so, then disregard this. I think it highly unlikely that fish have eaten any radioactive particles which, if leaked, would have already settled on the ocean floor. Fish cannot be activated as you would the gold in soil, for instance. So, it probably isn't much of a danger in that regard.
And to support the "forest fire" opinion, CNN thought this title would be appropriate. "North Korea cloud 'not nuke blast'" You are right and CNN thinks that we are the dumbest shitheads in the world!
So you think that stealing music should be considered as noble as Washinton's stance or a Slave's revolt against thier oppresion?
Here is how it works and even more so in the Google ipo. The employeees and friends will get rich and you will try to make a little money. Quess what? Employees can sell thier shares the first day of the ipo? translation: NO lock-up period , they can dump their shares on investors by the millions causing the stock to decline. Google employees own more that 50% of shares outstanding: translation; you have no voting power in the company. You realise that Google has offered $3.00 for each share they illegally issued to their employees. But wait, the stock price is supposed to $100. :)
Too many more problems to mention and Google should have just stayed private. Greed is really powerful!
PS. Who would buy shares in the piece-of-shit ipo offering? Many will, but the only people that are garenteed to become rich are employees and friends. period!
PSS. It is ok to be niave and idealistic, but reality and greed will often stomp all over those notions.
The articles I have read state that the dutch auction and the way this IPO will go was used so that the founders of Google can remain in control of the company. And I say "YEAH RIGHT." It will be a PUBLIC company, not a private company that sells shares to the public. However, from this article, the avaliable shares is reduced by millions and Google have already giving out more shares to its employees than it is selling to the public. So, in a sense, the founders will remain in control as they have more voting rights. But, this is BS, because when the shareholders don't have control of THIER company, then all decisions are made by only a few.
So you are saying a private company can be forced to go public? rcr
"And the stories are all very similar. For instance, in Argentina, they used Grimaldi, a shoe manufacturer as the example. When you dig into the story, you discover that the company that was supposed to carry out Grimaldi's migration to Linux is a Windows certified partner and a windows-only shop. The idiots could not get sendmail or postfix up-and-running and thus claim that it doesn't work. They then told Grimaldi, surprise, surprise, not to bother with Linux because it just doesn't work." I have been using Linux at home and work for 10+ years and after many hours of sendmail setup adventures, I too claim that sendmail doesn't work . rcr
Real nice. A company goes bankrupt and the first comment on the subject is how to take advantage of their misfortune. And worse yet, it is modded a 5! I think the real issue is how it sucks to be put out of business because of a lawsuit. How about you pay the employees enough money to buy food for their families asshole!
And Pam, from the article, is the maintainer of that site. Funny how Groklaw dismisses many issues related to patent issues in Linux, and its founder sells Linux patent insurance.
From Vince's site, there is link to an active fraud case against Sal Wise. This seems to confirm its validtiy.
If not, then another would seem appropriate.
Great, then M$ can sue instead of the other shit company.
RPM database query !IDS
just the facts, mam
Can I ignore thr FORD analogy? Anyway, You say that an end user must research browsers so that he/she may CHOOSE one more preferable? Ok, yur right. But let me ask you 1 question. Could you tell which browser UNIX I could use for this scenerio? I need to run "java-vm" aplications that provide; real-time stock quotes, charts, etc... I would like to know, however I already know the answer.