I got this chance just a few weeks ago. Someone from Microsoft found my resume online and sent me an email wanting to discuss employment there. I relished with glee being able to reply and send "I'm very sorry but I wouldn't work at Microsoft if it was the last company on earth." They must have just hit "DELETE" because I never heard back from them.:-)
I know this is a bit of a rehash of stuff I have said before, but since we all know that MS is paying very close attention to everything written here on/., maybe repeating some basic concepts will beat the idea into their brains...
Fa fook's sake...If MS would pay as close attention to security issues as they do to what a bunch of nerds are saying about them on a website perhaps they'd be able to avoid more class action lawsuits. Yeah, right. If you live by paranoia, you'll die by paranoia. Pity.:-)
Looks like the lines are being drawn. Those who are creative enough to realize the marketing benefits of the future of Napster are ready for the new century. Those locked in the last century with all their lawyers are being exposed as merely old and in the way, like the Rolling Stones. Yup, kiddies, strip away all that irony-laden pomp and circumstance of a big old nasty metal band that you think "understands" you and what do you find? Just a big old nasty metal band with no sense of irony willing to wring your scrawny little neck while they have their nervous breakdown wondering if they're losing any of your money. They may as well just kiss their concert receipts goodbye. Or else just start touring with John Rocker.;-) Obviously we've seen the last of the two-year, seven continent world tours which end up being virtual industries ala the Stones and U2. The genie's been let out of the bottle and there's no going back now. At the end of the day you have to remember that the Internet is really just a new means of distribution. We're going from broadcast to narrowcast. Those creative enough to think through how to take advantage of this new method of distribution will "win" and those who want to hang on to the 20th century way of doing things are going to be dinosaurs faster than you can say Foghat.
You and me both, Captain. Living so close to Satan does one of two things, methinks. You either roll over and take it because everyone else does or it steels you and makes you defend your position in no uncertain terms.
I think it's so funny when an Anonymous Coward starts swearing and acting more intelligent than thou. Don't tell me, let me guess. You're really Bill Gates, right?:)
Let's not forget that only 25% of the world's population speaks English. Basically, if you don't have a multilingual website then you don't "get" the Internet. In a year or two English speakers will be swamped by all of the other languages on the net, primarily Spanish. Get used to it. Right now towerofbabel.com is the world's best kept secret. It will only be a year or two before it finally gets the attention it deserves. Gold rush? You ain't seen nothing yet.
"Hey d00d, can we codename the next one Whistler and the one after that Blackcomb?" "Sure, but you'll still have to debug them before you get enough time off to go skiing there." "But, d00d, I thought this was Microsoft! You know: The Lazy M! Man, that is SO bogus. I'm outta here. Where's my snowboard?"
Babel, the multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas (http://www.towerofbabel.com) is seeking Anti-WTO protest eyewitnesses. If you have been a part of any of the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, Babel would love to feature your up close and personal accounts with the possibility of having your content featured in our pages in whichever language you can translate it into as long as it is also in English. For more information email Malcolm Lawrence, Editor-in-Chief at malcolm@towerofbabel.com
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The more the Internet explodes the more Microsoft reveals itself to be completely clueless. The only question now is: will there be anything left for the government to break up?
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"Mayhap"? Lisa, is that you?
I got this chance just a few weeks ago. Someone from Microsoft found my resume online and sent me an email wanting to discuss employment there. I relished with glee being able to reply and send "I'm very sorry but I wouldn't work at Microsoft if it was the last company on earth." They must have just hit "DELETE" because I never heard back from them. :-)
I know this is a bit of a rehash of stuff I have said before, but since we all know that MS is paying very close attention to everything written here on /., maybe repeating some basic concepts will beat the idea into their brains...
:-)
Fa fook's sake...If MS would pay as close attention to security issues as they do to what a bunch of nerds are saying about them on a website perhaps they'd be able to avoid more class action lawsuits. Yeah, right. If you live by paranoia, you'll die by paranoia. Pity.
...at least Babel is trying. We're probably still the world's best kept secret.
http://www.towerofbabel.com
Looks like the lines are being drawn. Those who are creative enough to realize the marketing benefits of the future of Napster are ready for the new century. Those locked in the last century with all their lawyers are being exposed as merely old and in the way, like the Rolling Stones. Yup, kiddies, strip away all that irony-laden pomp and circumstance of a big old nasty metal band that you think "understands" you and what do you find? Just a big old nasty metal band with no sense of irony willing to wring your scrawny little neck while they have their nervous breakdown wondering if they're losing any of your money. They may as well just kiss their concert receipts goodbye. Or else just start touring with John Rocker. ;-) Obviously we've seen the last of the two-year, seven continent world tours which end up being virtual industries ala the Stones and U2. The genie's been let out of the bottle and there's no going back now. At the end of the day you have to remember that the Internet is really just a new means of distribution. We're going from broadcast to narrowcast. Those creative enough to think through how to take advantage of this new method of distribution will "win" and those who want to hang on to the 20th century way of doing things are going to be dinosaurs faster than you can say Foghat.
You and me both, Captain. Living so close to Satan does one of two things, methinks. You either roll over and take it because everyone else does or it steels you and makes you defend your position in no uncertain terms.
This guy needs to get laid.
I think it's so funny when an Anonymous Coward starts swearing and acting more intelligent than thou. Don't tell me, let me guess. You're really Bill Gates, right? :)
And your point is?
Let's not forget that only 25% of the world's population speaks English. Basically, if you don't have a multilingual website then you don't "get" the Internet. In a year or two English speakers will be swamped by all of the other languages on the net, primarily Spanish. Get used to it. Right now towerofbabel.com is the world's best kept secret. It will only be a year or two before it finally gets the attention it deserves. Gold rush? You ain't seen nothing yet.
"Hey d00d, can we codename the next one Whistler and the one after that Blackcomb?" "Sure, but you'll still have to debug them before you get enough time off to go skiing there." "But, d00d, I thought this was Microsoft! You know: The Lazy M! Man, that is SO bogus. I'm outta here. Where's my snowboard?"
Babel, the multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas (http://www.towerofbabel.com) is seeking Anti-WTO protest eyewitnesses. If you have been a part of any of the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, Babel would love to feature your up close and personal accounts with the possibility of having your content featured in our pages in whichever language you can translate it into as long as it is also in English. For more information email Malcolm Lawrence, Editor-in-Chief at malcolm@towerofbabel.com
Bill, Just how small IS your penis, anyway?
The more the Internet explodes the more Microsoft reveals itself to be completely clueless. The only question now is: will there be anything left for the government to break up?