Absolutely I should. I want to work less, and get by with less. I certainly don't deserve free software just because some college kids were too naive to protect themselves. I'm not a bastard. I'm not going to take advantage of them.
Am I the only one on the planet that does what he can to keep Java, Flash, and Shockwave OFF of his computer? The last thing I want is a big website telling me where I can actually *find* this crap-ola.
You do know what COM is, don't you? Because of COM, IE is used in almost every commercial, shrink-wrapped application sold today. It's impossible NOT to use IE unless you simply don't use your computer.
Reading the posts in this article make me realize that the community of Slashdot is very rapidly deteriorating. I've been reading and posting to Slashdot for many years (under another much older ID).
It seems that very recently, a lot of the good, throughtful regular posters are gone, and now we're left with nothing but "M$ sucks, so I don't care." trolls and Linux fanboys.
Now I know that Slashdot has always been a haven for Linux zealots and anti-MS zealots, but that's always been tempered with thoughtful posts, too, that weren't so A. Rabid and B. Clueless.
What I'm wondering is if anybody else has noticed, or if I'm just imagining things. Now, I know a lot of people were talking about giving up on Slashdot in the past few months because the editors have been doing such a terrible job (really bad articles, multiple, multiple dupes, not even correct spelling)... so I'm wondering if a lot of those people really *have* given up and left Slashdot. I'm starting to realize that I'm less inclined to hang out here now, and I've been coming here since... oh, about 1998. If so, where's the next real place for geeks to hang out, as opposed to *just* the anti-MS kids, although I know there will be *some* of that in any geek community?
As an experienced IT person, I gotta say that if you were a smart soon-to-graduate senior, you wouldn't be writing off a job at the largest, most well-respected, most stable company in the entire industry (and possibly the country). You really can't afford to be that naive as a "soon-to-graduate senior" if you want a job of any kind. You're at the absolute bottem of the totem pole. You should be grateful and say, "thank you" to ANY company that will offer you any kind of job, especially Microsoft. As is, it sounds like you're going to be delivering pizzas with your newly minted degree.
A fact is a fact, regardless of whether or not *you* think it's a fact. So believe what you want, I really don't care either way. I was pointing out a trend that some people may be interested in seeing. If you want to say that the sky is green and up is down, by all means, go ahead. It doesn't effect me or reality in any way, whatsoever.
What, would you really like me to go through and find every "XXX Adopting Linux!" post, and match each one with the corresponding "XXX Ending Linux Rollout" article? Go do it yourself. I'm pointing out the fact that it's a trend. I certainly don't need to prove it. If you're interested, go look it up yourself.
As with all major Linux rollouts, it'll eventually be scrapped. Anybody care to suggest when it'll be formally announced that the project is a failure? Of course, this post will be modded as a "troll", but it's true. Every major "Linux rollout" article that I've seen here has been reversed anywhere from a few months to a year or two later. Of if they weren't scrapped entirely, then they were perhaps "re-evaluated" or "put on the back burner indefinitely". It'll be *real* news when some large company or government has implemented something like this, and stuck with it for at least a year.
I'd still argue that anybody using Wikipedia as an authoritative source is an idiot. By definition, Wikipedia is NOT authoritative in any way, whatsoever. It may have a lot of data, but the quality of the data is absolute crap (ie: anybody can change anything). As soon as a majority of people start calling Wikipedia "factual", then we, as a society, will have lost all grip on reality.
Seriously. Somebody please explain what the big deal... is this just watching streaming video through the iTunes software? If so, who cares? I've been watching streaming video through Winamp, Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime, and every other video player for years now. What's so revolutionary about this, exactly? Is this the first time Apple fetishists have been able to watch streaming video, or something?
I'm just wondering.... what do you use wireless for with a console? Wireless controllers? Are the massive, like 9' cables that current controllers come with not long enough? If I were to sit any further away than the cables on the PS2 controller allow, I wouldn't be able to see the game!
Microsoft has to learn how to accept competition and not try to kill it or buy it out.
Are you suggesting a new form of capitalism in which companies don't try to eliminate each other? You've got to be pretty naive to think that every other company on the planet that isn't an oligopoly (ie: Coke and Pepsi) isn't also trying to buy and/or kill the competition.
Don't forget that there's a large contingent of us who know that Linux is out there, but simply don't care. I know it's out there, I know that some people like it, but I really don't care enough to spend time trying to Google help for an OS when the current one I have (Windows 2000) isn't broken. If some Linux zealot were to approach me, foaming at the mouth about "Linuxth", my response would be "Why should I bother? I've got better things to do." It's on par with a mechanic insisting that people have to switch to Wankel rotary engines because they're better. 99.99% of people are gonna shrug their shoulders and say: "so what?"
I've always wondered this... how does one become an audiophile? Does it start with having something very large inserted up one's ass? That certainly explains the smug, assholish-ness, but it doesn't explain the sound sensitivity.
An excellent description of all the various flavors of Vista and their respective features and intended niches can be found here.
Do you mean all of the beta versions that 3rd parties are guessing will exist, or did they actually go into the future to get this information?
As of this point, "Vista" is still very much in early Beta. It hasn't been released to the public as a finished product, and hasn't come anywhere near being finalized, I'm sure. What's the point of punditizing something that doesn't even exist, and will probably still change substantially between it's current beta and final release? That's like critiquing next year's pop bands today.
Or you can have two devices clipped to your belt.
Minimalism in form with maximalism in functionality is the new black. Sleek and cool. Not clunky and lame.
Personally, I find anybody who clips anything to their belt as "clunky and lame". I just put my phone in my pocket.
Part of the problem with security is that it breeds complacency which keeps a country from taking the risks it needs to grow its economy.
Why do we need to grow our economy? Is our entire economy a giant Ponzi scheme that will collapse if it stops growing? Does it have something to do with Americans' need to breed like rabbits? Maybe the French are perfectly fine with a non-growing economy. Maybe that's a better lifestyle than one in which we're running like rats in a wheel all of the time.
This is the CIO of Unilever, one of the world's largest mega-corporation conglomerates. This guy makes big decisions that make a difference to a lot of people. My guess is that this guy didn't get his job because he's an idiot. I'd listen to what this guy has to say over an academian, any day.
Under what circumstances have you seen SQL Server be "unstable"? I've been a database guy for a *long* time and I've never seen any kind of "crashing". You're talking about a pretty prestigious database. Not quite on par with Oracle, but there's no comparison with something like MySQL.
I disagree. I'm looking at VC now because I *want* to divest. I've beat my brains getting my business to stand on it's own, and now that it does, I actually want a fucking break. Let somebody else take at least one of the reins for a while. What you're talking about is tech stuff, which is a different world from regular venture capital. You can still have a tech idea, bad or no, and get people to throw money at you like you're a wishing well. Besides, how many tech companies really start with little or no funding? I've never seen a tech company where the owner wasn't sitting his fat, pasty ass in a Herman Miller chair.
It looked like the DVD+R/-R thing was going to be a big deal. But it't already not an issue. Every cheap-o drive on the market now reads and writes both kinds of media without a hitch. And as competiton continues, and old machines get junked, it'll be 100% real soon. It's just software. Every new device has both little algorithims in it. Same thing with that wireless (junk in my opinion, but...) stuff. every cheap-o Staples wireless device handles 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, etc. No biggie. I only wish I could still get decent ISA cards cheap.:|
Unless you are a doctor, lawyer, or corporate whore, $30k is a LOT of money to most people.
Oh, I agree. But that's really not much if you want to launch an invention in today's market. $100K may not even get you the prototype. I'd say a cool million to get Random New Invention X even prototyped, produced, and just basically marketed, no matter what it is. Inventing is a rich man's game. It's getting much more expensive to do at an accellerated rate, I'd guess. It's kinda' like if you have to ask the price of the items on the menu without prices. If you have to ask, then you can't afford it. Sad, but true.
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I should get less than some people
Absolutely I should. I want to work less, and get by with less. I certainly don't deserve free software just because some college kids were too naive to protect themselves. I'm not a bastard. I'm not going to take advantage of them.
Am I the only one on the planet that does what he can to keep Java, Flash, and Shockwave OFF of his computer? The last thing I want is a big website telling me where I can actually *find* this crap-ola.
You do know what COM is, don't you? Because of COM, IE is used in almost every commercial, shrink-wrapped application sold today. It's impossible NOT to use IE unless you simply don't use your computer.
Reading the posts in this article make me realize that the community of Slashdot is very rapidly deteriorating. I've been reading and posting to Slashdot for many years (under another much older ID).
It seems that very recently, a lot of the good, throughtful regular posters are gone, and now we're left with nothing but "M$ sucks, so I don't care." trolls and Linux fanboys.
Now I know that Slashdot has always been a haven for Linux zealots and anti-MS zealots, but that's always been tempered with thoughtful posts, too, that weren't so A. Rabid and B. Clueless.
What I'm wondering is if anybody else has noticed, or if I'm just imagining things. Now, I know a lot of people were talking about giving up on Slashdot in the past few months because the editors have been doing such a terrible job (really bad articles, multiple, multiple dupes, not even correct spelling)... so I'm wondering if a lot of those people really *have* given up and left Slashdot. I'm starting to realize that I'm less inclined to hang out here now, and I've been coming here since... oh, about 1998. If so, where's the next real place for geeks to hang out, as opposed to *just* the anti-MS kids, although I know there will be *some* of that in any geek community?
Or is this all just in my head?
As an experienced IT person, I gotta say that if you were a smart soon-to-graduate senior, you wouldn't be writing off a job at the largest, most well-respected, most stable company in the entire industry (and possibly the country). You really can't afford to be that naive as a "soon-to-graduate senior" if you want a job of any kind. You're at the absolute bottem of the totem pole. You should be grateful and say, "thank you" to ANY company that will offer you any kind of job, especially Microsoft. As is, it sounds like you're going to be delivering pizzas with your newly minted degree.
A fact is a fact, regardless of whether or not *you* think it's a fact. So believe what you want, I really don't care either way. I was pointing out a trend that some people may be interested in seeing. If you want to say that the sky is green and up is down, by all means, go ahead. It doesn't effect me or reality in any way, whatsoever.
What, would you really like me to go through and find every "XXX Adopting Linux!" post, and match each one with the corresponding "XXX Ending Linux Rollout" article? Go do it yourself. I'm pointing out the fact that it's a trend. I certainly don't need to prove it. If you're interested, go look it up yourself.
As with all major Linux rollouts, it'll eventually be scrapped. Anybody care to suggest when it'll be formally announced that the project is a failure? Of course, this post will be modded as a "troll", but it's true. Every major "Linux rollout" article that I've seen here has been reversed anywhere from a few months to a year or two later. Of if they weren't scrapped entirely, then they were perhaps "re-evaluated" or "put on the back burner indefinitely". It'll be *real* news when some large company or government has implemented something like this, and stuck with it for at least a year.
I'd still argue that anybody using Wikipedia as an authoritative source is an idiot. By definition, Wikipedia is NOT authoritative in any way, whatsoever. It may have a lot of data, but the quality of the data is absolute crap (ie: anybody can change anything). As soon as a majority of people start calling Wikipedia "factual", then we, as a society, will have lost all grip on reality.
Seriously. Somebody please explain what the big deal... is this just watching streaming video through the iTunes software? If so, who cares? I've been watching streaming video through Winamp, Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime, and every other video player for years now. What's so revolutionary about this, exactly? Is this the first time Apple fetishists have been able to watch streaming video, or something?
Wireless is extra
I'm just wondering.... what do you use wireless for with a console? Wireless controllers? Are the massive, like 9' cables that current controllers come with not long enough? If I were to sit any further away than the cables on the PS2 controller allow, I wouldn't be able to see the game!
Microsoft has to learn how to accept competition and not try to kill it or buy it out.
Are you suggesting a new form of capitalism in which companies don't try to eliminate each other? You've got to be pretty naive to think that every other company on the planet that isn't an oligopoly (ie: Coke and Pepsi) isn't also trying to buy and/or kill the competition.
Don't forget that there's a large contingent of us who know that Linux is out there, but simply don't care. I know it's out there, I know that some people like it, but I really don't care enough to spend time trying to Google help for an OS when the current one I have (Windows 2000) isn't broken. If some Linux zealot were to approach me, foaming at the mouth about "Linuxth", my response would be "Why should I bother? I've got better things to do." It's on par with a mechanic insisting that people have to switch to Wankel rotary engines because they're better. 99.99% of people are gonna shrug their shoulders and say: "so what?"
Well, "wrong" is one word to use. The word I'd use is "liable". I think we'll see a class-action lawsuit soon.
I've always wondered this... how does one become an audiophile? Does it start with having something very large inserted up one's ass? That certainly explains the smug, assholish-ness, but it doesn't explain the sound sensitivity.
An excellent description of all the various flavors of Vista and their respective features and intended niches can be found here.
Do you mean all of the beta versions that 3rd parties are guessing will exist, or did they actually go into the future to get this information?
As of this point, "Vista" is still very much in early Beta. It hasn't been released to the public as a finished product, and hasn't come anywhere near being finalized, I'm sure. What's the point of punditizing something that doesn't even exist, and will probably still change substantially between it's current beta and final release? That's like critiquing next year's pop bands today.
Or you can have two devices clipped to your belt. Minimalism in form with maximalism in functionality is the new black. Sleek and cool. Not clunky and lame.
Personally, I find anybody who clips anything to their belt as "clunky and lame". I just put my phone in my pocket.
Part of the problem with security is that it breeds complacency which keeps a country from taking the risks it needs to grow its economy.
Why do we need to grow our economy? Is our entire economy a giant Ponzi scheme that will collapse if it stops growing? Does it have something to do with Americans' need to breed like rabbits? Maybe the French are perfectly fine with a non-growing economy. Maybe that's a better lifestyle than one in which we're running like rats in a wheel all of the time.
I think that we all know that it's already been tried, and baaaad things happened as a result:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/
Jeez, most people at least try to mask their jealousy at least a little bit...
This is the CIO of Unilever, one of the world's largest mega-corporation conglomerates. This guy makes big decisions that make a difference to a lot of people. My guess is that this guy didn't get his job because he's an idiot. I'd listen to what this guy has to say over an academian, any day.
Under what circumstances have you seen SQL Server be "unstable"? I've been a database guy for a *long* time and I've never seen any kind of "crashing". You're talking about a pretty prestigious database. Not quite on par with Oracle, but there's no comparison with something like MySQL.
I disagree. I'm looking at VC now because I *want* to divest. I've beat my brains getting my business to stand on it's own, and now that it does, I actually want a fucking break. Let somebody else take at least one of the reins for a while. What you're talking about is tech stuff, which is a different world from regular venture capital. You can still have a tech idea, bad or no, and get people to throw money at you like you're a wishing well. Besides, how many tech companies really start with little or no funding? I've never seen a tech company where the owner wasn't sitting his fat, pasty ass in a Herman Miller chair.
It looked like the DVD+R/-R thing was going to be a big deal. But it't already not an issue. Every cheap-o drive on the market now reads and writes both kinds of media without a hitch. And as competiton continues, and old machines get junked, it'll be 100% real soon. It's just software. Every new device has both little algorithims in it. Same thing with that wireless (junk in my opinion, but...) stuff. every cheap-o Staples wireless device handles 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, etc. No biggie. I only wish I could still get decent ISA cards cheap. :|
Unless you are a doctor, lawyer, or corporate whore, $30k is a LOT of money to most people.
Oh, I agree. But that's really not much if you want to launch an invention in today's market. $100K may not even get you the prototype. I'd say a cool million to get Random New Invention X even prototyped, produced, and just basically marketed, no matter what it is. Inventing is a rich man's game. It's getting much more expensive to do at an accellerated rate, I'd guess. It's kinda' like if you have to ask the price of the items on the menu without prices. If you have to ask, then you can't afford it. Sad, but true.