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People give you money for running a CD copier. It's like piracy, only protected extensively by law. How can you be against making big fistfuls of cash? Are you some pinko communist sympathizer? China called, it wants its Marxist doctrines back. No, really.
Hardly anyone writes viruses for 16-bit windows nowadays, so Windows 3.11 is your best bet for rock-solid reliability, etc. Especially if you run it in Dosbox on Linux.
People don't hire programmers with degrees, they hire people with 4.5 years experience (no more, no less) in C# on Mono using Websphere/BEA on Solaris 2.7 connecting to commercial ATM switching equipment made by Horst Wessel GmbH (defunct), oh and recently, too.
I'm a programmer, just because I've used Visual Basic doesn't mean I can't use C++ (I've taught it in college FFS, but have no "commercial" experience). Heck, I didn't get hired in one job because, despite my embarrassingly extensive VB experience, I didn't have an eidetic knowledge of VB/ASP. I'm an expert, I learn what I need as I need it. If you only hire people with specific domain knowledge, you get the clueless monkey hackers that seem to write most of the code nowadays.
In conclusion, the CS labor market is teh sux0r, it isn't just Microsoft.
The judgement of an employee's effectiveness should be: is the work done (well)? Micromonitoring, much like Dubya's NCLB school testing, does little more than replace the real goal with a stupid measurement that causes the organization to focus on manipulating the metric outcomes instead of getting the job done. Yes, Mr. Deming, a well-designed metric measures actual success. In real life, however, metrics are made up by incompetent management monkeys, who fail to measure the metric's effectiveness in judging success. Continual process improvement means continual metric improvement, too. The problem is that you have to be able to judge success outside of the metric to improve it, and an inability to do this is what causes many people to fall back on metrics.
In conclusion, the inch is bigger than the centimeter, so as Americans we must avoid the metric system at all costs.
With Firefox, any feature of value that Google might provide can be provided by disinterested third parties who aren't burgeoning corporate empires. Isn't that what open source is supposed to be like?
The medium is the message! I'm OK, you're OK! Men are from Mars, women are from Venus! All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten! This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius! Don't trust anyone over 30!
Gibson needs to go back and learn how to write before his techno-utopianism has any credibility. After all, he is a writer, and if he isn't good at his primary job, his extracurricular plausibility suffers. It's like a second-rate actor spouting off about Scientology.
Before anyone defends his authorship, I suggest they stop thinking of Ayn Rand as a gifted novelist as well.
Token and useless actions such as "contacting your representative" without a wad of cash in hand or "spreading awareness" to an uneducated, hostile, and self-destructive public only serve to distract people from effective action. You are an unwitting Emmanuel Goldstein, a servant of the system, a member of the loyal opposition. You only serve to strengthen the system in the manner of a vaccine.
It's time to revise IP entirely, but this is a mere pipe dream. In reality, modern degenerated capitalism (syndicalism?) and the pernicious illusion of democracy have simply created a new type of serfdom. This is the cusp of a new dark age. Don't bother fighting it, you'll just die embittered.
I see a lot of little applications (usually bundled on a device driver CD) with ultra-kewel "skins" on them that have the same problem (look at the WMP skins, or any XMMS theme). Likewise, newer versions of Microsoft Office have stupid-looking toolbars and menus that aren't anything like standard Windows ones. I seem to recall that a consistent UI was one of the pitches for these GUIs in the first place. I'm assuming munging the UI in Office counts as a must-have upgrade since nothing substantive has changed since Office 97 or maybe 2000.
"blogosphere"? Considering that blogs are probably the dumbest form of communication possible (a linear log of rambling bullshit) I can only hope that the Blogosphere is destroyed by the Vogon Constructor Fleet to make way for a colonic bypass.
Just buy a cheap firewall appliance, FFS. There are plenty for under $100, and they will do you better than all the old Linux-ridden 486s in the world.
The crisp $100 bills are for lighting your cigar. The shiny nickels and dimes are for throwing at street urchins. The ones are for tipping the valet (tip: fold them over to double your largesse). The twenties are for doing lines of coke with the senator off the ass of a call girl.
Spammers are using open proxies and botnets, and are untraceable. Now you've given them a list of valid email addresses. "Dear Minor: Please forward this to Daddy in case he needs v1@9ra or c1@lis. Thank you, Mr. Direct Marketer. PS. Click on this link to play with your very own Bonzi Buddy and receive free candy!"
It's a sad day when 5 tons of TNT doesn't get any respect. When I was a lad, we didn't have these megamatons of TNT, we had one stick, and we had to blow off our fingers one by one.
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People give you money for running a CD copier. It's like piracy, only protected extensively by law. How can you be against making big fistfuls of cash? Are you some pinko communist sympathizer? China called, it wants its Marxist doctrines back. No, really.
Hardly anyone writes viruses for 16-bit windows nowadays, so Windows 3.11 is your best bet for rock-solid reliability, etc. Especially if you run it in Dosbox on Linux.
People don't hire programmers with degrees, they hire people with 4.5 years experience (no more, no less) in C# on Mono using Websphere/BEA on Solaris 2.7 connecting to commercial ATM switching equipment made by Horst Wessel GmbH (defunct), oh and recently, too.
I'm a programmer, just because I've used Visual Basic doesn't mean I can't use C++ (I've taught it in college FFS, but have no "commercial" experience). Heck, I didn't get hired in one job because, despite my embarrassingly extensive VB experience, I didn't have an eidetic knowledge of VB/ASP. I'm an expert, I learn what I need as I need it. If you only hire people with specific domain knowledge, you get the clueless monkey hackers that seem to write most of the code nowadays.
In conclusion, the CS labor market is teh sux0r, it isn't just Microsoft.
The judgement of an employee's effectiveness should be: is the work done (well)? Micromonitoring, much like Dubya's NCLB school testing, does little more than replace the real goal with a stupid measurement that causes the organization to focus on manipulating the metric outcomes instead of getting the job done. Yes, Mr. Deming, a well-designed metric measures actual success. In real life, however, metrics are made up by incompetent management monkeys, who fail to measure the metric's effectiveness in judging success. Continual process improvement means continual metric improvement, too. The problem is that you have to be able to judge success outside of the metric to improve it, and an inability to do this is what causes many people to fall back on metrics.
In conclusion, the inch is bigger than the centimeter, so as Americans we must avoid the metric system at all costs.
With Firefox, any feature of value that Google might provide can be provided by disinterested third parties who aren't burgeoning corporate empires. Isn't that what open source is supposed to be like?
The medium is the message! I'm OK, you're OK! Men are from Mars, women are from Venus! All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten! This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius! Don't trust anyone over 30!
Gibson needs to go back and learn how to write before his techno-utopianism has any credibility. After all, he is a writer, and if he isn't good at his primary job, his extracurricular plausibility suffers. It's like a second-rate actor spouting off about Scientology.
Before anyone defends his authorship, I suggest they stop thinking of Ayn Rand as a gifted novelist as well.
Token and useless actions such as "contacting your representative" without a wad of cash in hand or "spreading awareness" to an uneducated, hostile, and self-destructive public only serve to distract people from effective action. You are an unwitting Emmanuel Goldstein, a servant of the system, a member of the loyal opposition. You only serve to strengthen the system in the manner of a vaccine.
In Soviet Amerika, system changes YOU.
Both copyrights and patents are befouled by the ongoing capitalist devolution.
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It's time to revise IP entirely, but this is a mere pipe dream. In reality, modern degenerated capitalism (syndicalism?) and the pernicious illusion of democracy have simply created a new type of serfdom. This is the cusp of a new dark age. Don't bother fighting it, you'll just die embittered.
Yes, but what percentage of the US spam is from botnets controlled by the Russkies? Puzzle me this.
You drink for long life?
I guarantee you that anybody who's seen the latest gear is forbidden to speak thereof. This ain't GNU/Linux kissed by RMS we're talking about.
In Korea, only old people use email.
Once the human race destroys itself. It's looking to be sooner every day...
I see a lot of little applications (usually bundled on a device driver CD) with ultra-kewel "skins" on them that have the same problem (look at the WMP skins, or any XMMS theme). Likewise, newer versions of Microsoft Office have stupid-looking toolbars and menus that aren't anything like standard Windows ones. I seem to recall that a consistent UI was one of the pitches for these GUIs in the first place. I'm assuming munging the UI in Office counts as a must-have upgrade since nothing substantive has changed since Office 97 or maybe 2000.
I keep seeing her on various websites I visit....uh, while doing sociological research, yeah.
Poor PJ, his crumbs are so big, why he badtalk us?
I gather that's greater than mu=1. Plus, the sonic boom makes for a nice shower of rotor fragments over your enemy.
Superfluous? Superfeen? Eh?
"blogosphere"? Considering that blogs are probably the dumbest form of communication possible (a linear log of rambling bullshit) I can only hope that the Blogosphere is destroyed by the Vogon Constructor Fleet to make way for a colonic bypass.
Does he replace all those fat 0s with skinnier 1s in the binary too?
Just buy a cheap firewall appliance, FFS. There are plenty for under $100, and they will do you better than all the old Linux-ridden 486s in the world.
The crisp $100 bills are for lighting your cigar. The shiny nickels and dimes are for throwing at street urchins. The ones are for tipping the valet (tip: fold them over to double your largesse). The twenties are for doing lines of coke with the senator off the ass of a call girl.
Remember etiquette! We are not savage beasts!
Heaven forfend!
Spammers are using open proxies and botnets, and are untraceable. Now you've given them a list of valid email addresses. "Dear Minor: Please forward this to Daddy in case he needs v1@9ra or c1@lis. Thank you, Mr. Direct Marketer. PS. Click on this link to play with your very own Bonzi Buddy and receive free candy!"
It's a sad day when 5 tons of TNT doesn't get any respect. When I was a lad, we didn't have these megamatons of TNT, we had one stick, and we had to blow off our fingers one by one.