I made $200,000 a year in NYC just because I was willing to go into companies in a world of pain and rewrite their systems from scratch.
Said the primadonna no different than me. You didn't go in a quarter of that pay and fix the existing system. you might think between your left and right ear that yours will be easier to maintain, but by the way you said "you" rewrote it that will not be the case. You did do the good thing of giving them the features they wanted at the time, but down the road the same type of issues with the old system will reappear again, and they'll hire another primadonna or two or three.
good god, that phrase about the ribbon says it all. you don't know a horrible, productivity hindering UI when you see one. The reason people like LibreOFfice is that it doesn't have one. The ribbon is garbage, the real people in the real world I know hate it. The only ones who say they like it are a few on Slashdot and some other geek forums.
And you don't think its strange others DON'T have this problem? Blame the software, yeah, because you obviously could never have fucked up the install of the software.
The world cares that open office is Oracle Abandonware. The world gives that the finger. All of Oracle's open source projects are turning into train wrecks. Oracle's acquisition of Sun is turning into a train wreck. Get off the train.
That's why I only like to work on new projects. Let drones maintain it and deal with any architectural flaws and burn out doing it, that's why they get half my pay.
Not true that click tracking avoidable just because javascript isn't on
there are other ways the noscript to track clicking. In the dot-com boom, I worked for a company for which people voluntarily signed up to get e-mail deals from vendors in specific categories. You could, for instance, check "sporting goods" and get coupons from sports shoe makers; or check "automotive maintenance" and get coupons and deals for oil changes or brake jobs. Anyway, the users agreed to marketing tracking. We made each URL in emails unique, put in "beacon pixels" in both emails and web pages, correlated web logs, cookied, etc. etc. Some of those things didn't depend on javascript. we could even tell if someone forwarded email to someone else, who responded to "campaigns",.
In the downturn after the executive branch allowed (neocon agenda facilitating) sept 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. governemt allowed a massive wave of H1B immigrants to drive IT salaries downward. Then the IRS enacted rules to make it extraordinarily difficult for engineer or IT worker to be independent consultant, rather saying such a person was in most cases an "employee" and subject to such taxes and rules. Then certain consulting firms owned by those of a certain ethnic group were the preferred ones to get outsourced IT work as companies reduced internal IT staff. This is just one tiny piece of a larger picture, where a very small group of wealthy elite, with most of the world's governments in their pocket, are building their New World Order.
market cap isn't real money and isn't real wealth. It is only what you can get for a stock if a small number of people sell it. Exxon has real hard assets that dwarf Apple's. Exxon sells something that people *need*. When the fad is over because others can do what Apple can do at much lower cost, Apple's market cap will shrivel. Market cap is just a measure of hope and hype.
the magnets of older drives are wrong size for newer capacity use, so are the electronics and servo "wrong". Remember we're talking five to seven year life on average
if you're talking about removing the nickel cladding from the magnets, to get the material to make new different sized magnets and then reclad them, that's complicated process
there are companies that "recycle" them, but to be cost-effective they take a fee for "erasing" your data. and there's always "refurbished" drives.
You are correct about control, but remember that only need be the equivalent of "self-destruct" that every missile test has.
So you turn the machine loose on the enemy, maybe it gets out of hand, a general lifts the cover on The Red Button, and *pow* no more problem (self destruct charge took out a pre-school and a bus load of nuns, but hey, war is hell)
To really make the point effectively, Theo de Raadt should get a free eval copy of vmware ESX, and demonstrate one virtual machine compromising another by code corruption. There are many, many businesses and governments who would like to know that's possible. I'm just an engineer, not rich, but I'd like to ante up some money with some other people here. I'll donate $300 to OpenBSD if anyone on that team can show a vm in ESX being *owned" by another through the hypervisor (not network or console attack), Anyone with me?
you don't need to be a bread expert to know that someone belittling very good bread with no claims of substance, and going so far as to say the bread is no good because the baker make some special cookies on the side while still making excellent bread, is just trying to be self-important asshole.
br/.
Unlike browsers, the linux kernel version number change does not cause any inconvenience, his whining about that is just silly and pointless.
if your machine/software corrupts the shared storage without vmware knowing about it, oops time to go back to a snapshot, hope its not corrupt too. Shared nothing service clustering with proper transaction based replication is far more robust, trivial for the major business applications like databases, email, middleware, file sharing, authentication. I've worked with vmware for a decade, it's wonderous stuff but its not fullproof and not always the best solution. It is mostly used to make up for MS-Window's lack of being a real OS.
watch HP go on buying rampage for the things you mentioned (they've actually been doing that for years, all kinds of disparate expensive software and consulting solutions offered, what a steaming pile). I predict good products will be destroyed and many good people thrown out on the street
you say this because our most advanced technology is never weaponized or used for military purpose? supercomputers for nuclear weapons simulations, rocket motors for missiles, the most accurate gps for weapons guidance and battlefield positioning, the most advanced encryption for military communication. fastest and highest flying aircraft....
maybe C# will be ok but Mono's future is in doubt, depends on Icaza's Xamarin company and however many developers he was able to get that were booted from Novell
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I made $200,000 a year in NYC just because I was willing to go into companies in a world of pain and rewrite their systems from scratch.
Said the primadonna no different than me. You didn't go in a quarter of that pay and fix the existing system. you might think between your left and right ear that yours will be easier to maintain, but by the way you said "you" rewrote it that will not be the case. You did do the good thing of giving them the features they wanted at the time, but down the road the same type of issues with the old system will reappear again, and they'll hire another primadonna or two or three.
good god, that phrase about the ribbon says it all. you don't know a horrible, productivity hindering UI when you see one. The reason people like LibreOFfice is that it doesn't have one. The ribbon is garbage, the real people in the real world I know hate it. The only ones who say they like it are a few on Slashdot and some other geek forums.
And you don't think its strange others DON'T have this problem? Blame the software, yeah, because you obviously could never have fucked up the install of the software.
The world cares that open office is Oracle Abandonware. The world gives that the finger. All of Oracle's open source projects are turning into train wrecks. Oracle's acquisition of Sun is turning into a train wreck. Get off the train.
if you want to talk about brutal reality....
That's why I only like to work on new projects. Let drones maintain it and deal with any architectural flaws and burn out doing it, that's why they get half my pay.
Not true that click tracking avoidable just because javascript isn't on
there are other ways the noscript to track clicking. In the dot-com boom, I worked for a company for which people voluntarily signed up to get e-mail deals from vendors in specific categories. You could, for instance, check "sporting goods" and get coupons from sports shoe makers; or check "automotive maintenance" and get coupons and deals for oil changes or brake jobs. Anyway, the users agreed to marketing tracking. We made each URL in emails unique, put in "beacon pixels" in both emails and web pages, correlated web logs, cookied, etc. etc. Some of those things didn't depend on javascript. we could even tell if someone forwarded email to someone else, who responded to "campaigns",.
In the downturn after the executive branch allowed (neocon agenda facilitating) sept 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. governemt allowed a massive wave of H1B immigrants to drive IT salaries downward. Then the IRS enacted rules to make it extraordinarily difficult for engineer or IT worker to be independent consultant, rather saying such a person was in most cases an "employee" and subject to such taxes and rules. Then certain consulting firms owned by those of a certain ethnic group were the preferred ones to get outsourced IT work as companies reduced internal IT staff. This is just one tiny piece of a larger picture, where a very small group of wealthy elite, with most of the world's governments in their pocket, are building their New World Order.
Not as long as companies believe facsimile can be accepted as having legal standing but e-mailed scanned images do not
silly 21st century boy, you are not thinking back far enough. Ox drawn carts were trucks.
market cap isn't real money and isn't real wealth. It is only what you can get for a stock if a small number of people sell it. Exxon has real hard assets that dwarf Apple's. Exxon sells something that people *need*. When the fad is over because others can do what Apple can do at much lower cost, Apple's market cap will shrivel. Market cap is just a measure of hope and hype.
the magnets of older drives are wrong size for newer capacity use, so are the electronics and servo "wrong". Remember we're talking five to seven year life on average
if you're talking about removing the nickel cladding from the magnets, to get the material to make new different sized magnets and then reclad them, that's complicated process
there are companies that "recycle" them, but to be cost-effective they take a fee for "erasing" your data. and there's always "refurbished" drives.
boring really: accelerating electron makes a photon, photon is absorbed by another electron which causes it to accelerate.
you can put "click-tracked" URLs in a PDF, 1990s boy.
You are correct about control, but remember that only need be the equivalent of "self-destruct" that every missile test has.
So you turn the machine loose on the enemy, maybe it gets out of hand, a general lifts the cover on The Red Button, and *pow* no more problem (self destruct charge took out a pre-school and a bus load of nuns, but hey, war is hell)
To really make the point effectively, Theo de Raadt should get a free eval copy of vmware ESX, and demonstrate one virtual machine compromising another by code corruption. There are many, many businesses and governments who would like to know that's possible. I'm just an engineer, not rich, but I'd like to ante up some money with some other people here. I'll donate $300 to OpenBSD if anyone on that team can show a vm in ESX being *owned" by another through the hypervisor (not network or console attack), Anyone with me?
you don't need to be a bread expert to know that someone belittling very good bread with no claims of substance, and going so far as to say the bread is no good because the baker make some special cookies on the side while still making excellent bread, is just trying to be self-important asshole.
br/. Unlike browsers, the linux kernel version number change does not cause any inconvenience, his whining about that is just silly and pointless.
if your machine/software corrupts the shared storage without vmware knowing about it, oops time to go back to a snapshot, hope its not corrupt too. Shared nothing service clustering with proper transaction based replication is far more robust, trivial for the major business applications like databases, email, middleware, file sharing, authentication. I've worked with vmware for a decade, it's wonderous stuff but its not fullproof and not always the best solution. It is mostly used to make up for MS-Window's lack of being a real OS.
watch HP go on buying rampage for the things you mentioned (they've actually been doing that for years, all kinds of disparate expensive software and consulting solutions offered, what a steaming pile). I predict good products will be destroyed and many good people thrown out on the street
you say this because our most advanced technology is never weaponized or used for military purpose? supercomputers for nuclear weapons simulations, rocket motors for missiles, the most accurate gps for weapons guidance and battlefield positioning, the most advanced encryption for military communication. fastest and highest flying aircraft....
low profits, money is finally driving HPs thinking. that NSA and similar contracts won't matter, they'll just go with the spin-off
as did microsoft and redhat
we have the same problem in "politics" with officials in high office
maybe C# will be ok but Mono's future is in doubt, depends on Icaza's Xamarin company and however many developers he was able to get that were booted from Novell
Wait a second ... GNOME 3 has a designer?
yes, in the sense that the contents of a backed up toilet at a gas station, after a busload of passengers defecated, have designers.
instead of "jumping the shark", we'll say something "went all GNOME3" or "rolled out the Unity UI" or "shat the Firefox 4 5 6 7 8 9..."
written on a machine that NO LONGER runs ubuntu nor firefox nor gnome