Great book, I recommend it to all of you. It's just cool.
Anyway, I really think IBM is just using SF's free bandwidth:) hopefully they contribute! I didn't RTFA though, just wanted to comment on the awesomeness of The Art of War
- This would only give Linux MORE support, not less.
- Sounds a bit like VMWare? Yep... move along.
- Do you really think Linux's momentum is going to STOP? Not with the support it's getting globally (think non-US) and by IBM.
Foreign firms and educational institutions are sick of dealing with MS's bullcrap. Linux and OS X are slowly chipping away. Microsoft is a marketing company (and a damned good one) moreso than a technical company. The rest of the world wants a product that works, not buzzwords. It's a slow process but it will happen, and no lack of driver support on bleeding edge hardware is going to stop it.
Besides, other companies will follow NVidia's lead.
(/me wonders if he will someday look back at this post and absolutely laugh at himself... hopefully not)
Why not play the ultimate game of them all: Chess!
Chess requires simple commands, such as "A2 to A3", and although I can't find a voice activated one, I'm sure the head mouse would be fine.
I wish I was better at chess. In my opinion, it's one game that you can become great at and never get sick of. Everyone mentions games that you'll tire of in no time anyway... go to the daddy of them all.
I stuck with Mandrake. I support what Redhat is doing - we need good companies to make a solid corporate push - but if you couldn't see this happening from 10 miles out then you haven't been paying attention.
IBM is absolutely amazing lately, and this goes beyond Linux. IBM is making an absolutely enormous push into consulting - especially business consulting. They're doing incredibly well with it, and they're hiring great talent to do it.
Compare IBM to HP. IBM going with consulting-based strategies, HP going with low margin, shitty ass PCs and re-branded iPods.
Embrace IBM. If their Linux push works, and they continue to grow their consulting business -- watch when they merge the two powers. It will be monstrous.
I think this has already been mentioned here, but here's my solution:
Don't live in California.
This is going to do so much damage to costs in business (think of anything that delivers). Why would I want to start my business in Cali when I can be far more successful in other states? I personally won't support it.
I have no clue if this could work with mentally handicapped people, but I've been lately researching NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming. There's some great things in there about changing the way you use your brain and the way you behave.
There's a lot of books that have been written on learning using NLP, but I've never read any of them so I would recommend googling for that. One big thing about reading and spelling is that it's important to do it visually, not auditorily. I'm sure there are things that can help a whole lot.
As a sidenote, many slashdotters might like NLP. It was created/discovered by a mathematician/computer programmer turned psychologist, and is all about programming your brain. His name is Richard Bandler, I've so far read two of his seminar-based books, "Using Your Brain -- For a Change" and "Frogs Into Princes".
Educational institutions show where future markets are heading. We are a VERY early minority in lots of technologies.
It's obvious that this would happen. I live with 3 guys, and had 3 roommates last year too. We all have/had cellphones. Last year, my one roommate came to me asking to get a land line because he was going over his minutes with his cheating liar girlfriend, who was by far the worst person I've ever met in my life.
Like most of you other college slashdotters, my wallet DOES have a bottom. I told him hell no, it would end up costing me about $100 a year so that his retarded lazy-eyed girlfriend could call, let the phone ring 4.5 times and leave blank messages on the answering machine.
$100 ~= 10 cases of cheap beer (we drink Natty Light, haha)... I already have a cell phone, I'll keep my beer, thank you
Don't go there. I prefer to go to a University that spends its money on other stuff, like a really big football stadium where I got drunk every Autumn Saturday for the past 5 years. Ahhh... such memories.
Bringin her in was a complete mistake. HP has historically had a "promote from within" policy, and the completely shattered it with her.
She didn't understand HP values, she didn't understand HP innovation.
Go read the book Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. It was written in the early 90s, HP is smothered all over it. Not anymore... she did just about EVERY SINGLE THING YOU CAN DO to be NON-visionary.
I'm not even an HP employee, and probably will never be, but good riddance to her. I feel bad for all of the HP employees over the past decade.
As "funny" as it is, this is the best way to do it in college. I am going to a buddy's house tomorrow for a case of beer, I've been putting his computer off forever.
It's nice to have people ask you for help, especially the hot girls, but there comes a time when enough is enough and you simply have to demand something back.
I came off a bit too harshly a few times, and now way fewer people bother me. While that sounds nice, I don't like coming off as an asshole.
Moral of the story - ask for something that will be enough so that they don't keep bothering you, but don't be a jerk.
Voxel.net used to be a premier service, with lots of Linux and BSD options. Does anyone have experience with them? I'm soon going to need similar options and would like to hear about them as well.
Hopefully he's read the book Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies... read the chapters on Promote From Within and Homegrown Management. If they don't have his successor chosen out and a solid management training program that recruits directly out of college, it's their own damned fault. The research is all there, suggesting what works best.
I'm not baffled when it comes to Office suites... MS Office is a very good product. Probably the only good product to come out of Microsoft, in my opinion.
We all know of the loads of problems with Windows and IE... but Office really never causes me problems at work, and I rarely have to support it (and if I do, it's operator error).
I love leveling the playing field and hope that open formats win out, but Office is the least of my problems with Microsoft at present.
Excellent read... this is something that I was going to do had I not been hired by my Dream Company... it would have been very useful, but now I'll let someoene else take the reigns.
I somewhat agree with them doing this, and think that they should be able to do whatever they want with their system. Go buy the damned software people.
But on the other end, I'd say that Microsoft might want to stop alienating their users. The next 5 years are NOT the time to do that when free alternatives are gaining momentum.
Right now I'm reading a book titled Crossing The Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, and I can't help but think about Firefox and Linux. If this stuff gets marketed right, Microsoft has a lot to fear. "The Chasm" is the part of the technology marketing cycle where it is VERY hard to jump from early adopters (such as many of ourselves) to the early majority, where the big chunks of market share are taken.
The book is great so far, even though I'm reading the older version published in 1991 and the stories are old. The fact is that if the OSS community can "cross the chasm" within the next 5 years, now is NOT the time for Microsoft to be alienating ANY of its userbase, customer or not.
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Anyway, I really think IBM is just using SF's free bandwidth :) hopefully they contribute! I didn't RTFA though, just wanted to comment on the awesomeness of The Art of War
- This would only give Linux MORE support, not less.
- Sounds a bit like VMWare? Yep... move along.
- Do you really think Linux's momentum is going to STOP? Not with the support it's getting globally (think non-US) and by IBM.
Foreign firms and educational institutions are sick of dealing with MS's bullcrap. Linux and OS X are slowly chipping away. Microsoft is a marketing company (and a damned good one) moreso than a technical company. The rest of the world wants a product that works, not buzzwords. It's a slow process but it will happen, and no lack of driver support on bleeding edge hardware is going to stop it.
Besides, other companies will follow NVidia's lead.
(/me wonders if he will someday look back at this post and absolutely laugh at himself... hopefully not)
Chess requires simple commands, such as "A2 to A3", and although I can't find a voice activated one, I'm sure the head mouse would be fine.
I wish I was better at chess. In my opinion, it's one game that you can become great at and never get sick of. Everyone mentions games that you'll tire of in no time anyway... go to the daddy of them all.
I stuck with Mandrake. I support what Redhat is doing - we need good companies to make a solid corporate push - but if you couldn't see this happening from 10 miles out then you haven't been paying attention.
If they're so smart, they better figure out how to use a damned condom
Compare IBM to HP. IBM going with consulting-based strategies, HP going with low margin, shitty ass PCs and re-branded iPods.
Embrace IBM. If their Linux push works, and they continue to grow their consulting business -- watch when they merge the two powers. It will be monstrous.
Gladly. I just got a job in Austin, TX, and couldn't be happier. Not many cities in your state come close to matching up to this one.
I wouldn't have cared if I could no longer get to .cx anyway... not since they banned my home page!
Don't live in California.
This is going to do so much damage to costs in business (think of anything that delivers). Why would I want to start my business in Cali when I can be far more successful in other states? I personally won't support it.
It's also hypocritical. It punishes success.
A cool application, nonetheless.
There's a lot of books that have been written on learning using NLP, but I've never read any of them so I would recommend googling for that. One big thing about reading and spelling is that it's important to do it visually, not auditorily. I'm sure there are things that can help a whole lot.
As a sidenote, many slashdotters might like NLP. It was created/discovered by a mathematician/computer programmer turned psychologist, and is all about programming your brain. His name is Richard Bandler, I've so far read two of his seminar-based books, "Using Your Brain -- For a Change" and "Frogs Into Princes".
It's obvious that this would happen. I live with 3 guys, and had 3 roommates last year too. We all have/had cellphones. Last year, my one roommate came to me asking to get a land line because he was going over his minutes with his cheating liar girlfriend, who was by far the worst person I've ever met in my life.
Like most of you other college slashdotters, my wallet DOES have a bottom. I told him hell no, it would end up costing me about $100 a year so that his retarded lazy-eyed girlfriend could call, let the phone ring 4.5 times and leave blank messages on the answering machine.
$100 ~= 10 cases of cheap beer (we drink Natty Light, haha)... I already have a cell phone, I'll keep my beer, thank you
Actually, everyone on slashdot should read it. You won't be able to stop paralleling it with linux, firefox, etc...
But for Joe Sixpack, you're probably right. Once they see it though, it is quite nice.
Don't go there. I prefer to go to a University that spends its money on other stuff, like a really big football stadium where I got drunk every Autumn Saturday for the past 5 years. Ahhh... such memories.
She didn't understand HP values, she didn't understand HP innovation.
Go read the book Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. It was written in the early 90s, HP is smothered all over it. Not anymore... she did just about EVERY SINGLE THING YOU CAN DO to be NON-visionary.
I'm not even an HP employee, and probably will never be, but good riddance to her. I feel bad for all of the HP employees over the past decade.
It's nice to have people ask you for help, especially the hot girls, but there comes a time when enough is enough and you simply have to demand something back.
I came off a bit too harshly a few times, and now way fewer people bother me. While that sounds nice, I don't like coming off as an asshole.
Moral of the story - ask for something that will be enough so that they don't keep bothering you, but don't be a jerk.
I wasn't aware that somebody had a gun to peoples' heads in China forcing them to work for low wages.
Haha I typed in "blowjob" and then my city but all that was returned were politicians and lawyers! Pretty damn funny...
Thanks
Hopefully he's read the book Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies... read the chapters on Promote From Within and Homegrown Management. If they don't have his successor chosen out and a solid management training program that recruits directly out of college, it's their own damned fault. The research is all there, suggesting what works best.
We all know of the loads of problems with Windows and IE... but Office really never causes me problems at work, and I rarely have to support it (and if I do, it's operator error).
I love leveling the playing field and hope that open formats win out, but Office is the least of my problems with Microsoft at present.
Try lots of shit and see what works :)
But on the other end, I'd say that Microsoft might want to stop alienating their users. The next 5 years are NOT the time to do that when free alternatives are gaining momentum.
Right now I'm reading a book titled Crossing The Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, and I can't help but think about Firefox and Linux. If this stuff gets marketed right, Microsoft has a lot to fear. "The Chasm" is the part of the technology marketing cycle where it is VERY hard to jump from early adopters (such as many of ourselves) to the early majority, where the big chunks of market share are taken.
The book is great so far, even though I'm reading the older version published in 1991 and the stories are old. The fact is that if the OSS community can "cross the chasm" within the next 5 years, now is NOT the time for Microsoft to be alienating ANY of its userbase, customer or not.