Creativity and lazyness are different. You can dress creativley and still be smart.
I would not consider a dirty tshirt and jeans with dirty trainers or sandles to be "creative".
The hardest part for companies regarding OSS isn't just their presentation as a person its also their presentation of the product. A lot of the time companies want the supplier to come in, do a nice powerpoint presentation of their product and chat with the tech guys. Its very hard to do that with OSS and even when you can most of the time their presentations are awful. You can tell its been rushed and they don't know how to present anything. Now they are software developers and not marketing guys and that is part of the problem. OSS still needs to be "sold" to the company. Now internal techs can push to get an OSS tool used, lord knows I have tried a lot. I have had some successes but also a lot of knock backs. The company doesn't feel all that comfortable with ME trying to sell ANOTHER COMPANIES product. They ignore the fact there is not other company and its free, they see it as me trying to get my own way and a lot of managers get a bit defensive as its "their decision".
My advice to OSS groups is to dress smart (it won't kill you!), be clean (I have seen some OSS devs who have some serious hygene problems) and learn some basic presentation skills so you don't "umm" and "err" every 10 seconds.
Unfortunatly they don't always come out ahead. You see while your company may be better, you might not get hired for that big contract because of how your staff dress. Its not fair but its how things work. You see most managers are not techies and most managers are smart, infact I would go so far as to say very smart. If a manager isn't smart it can put other smart managers off, they start to think "hmm I hope he works better than he dresses". This causes the manager to pick the smart guy/company/whatever over the scruffy guy. Its not always true but it is in most cases. The number of very talented people I have seen turned down for jobs because of how they dressed (just for the interview in most cases) is shocking. And not just in one company!
Its unfortunate but its the way the world works.
But I read the press release as Vista will be available to MSDN/TechNet/[insert other business agreement name] in November 2006 when our code goes gold and we can stick it on a web server right away and it will be available in the shops and with most OEMs in January/February 2007 as we need to get all the DVDs printed and OEMs need a little bit of time to get their custom install methods finished.
a pair of Technics headphones I picked up 4 years ago for about £20 in Argos. Those Technies sure are comfy though. I have worn them all day and not had to take them off once. They are very comfortable and are very cool so you don't need to lift them up every 30 minutes to cool your ear down:)
Didn't they also confirm a Spring launch (for Japan at least) at E3 last year? I'm not sure if it was a confirmed launch date or not but I tend to take confirmed launche dates with a pinch of salt, especially 8 months before.
Perhaps I am in a minority but I do care for what work I do. I care for my company. My company pays me to do a job. If I am not happy with the terms (pay, freedoms, etc) then I leave, I am not being forced to work there.
Treating your employees like criminals and restricting access to data that they have no business in accessing are very different things.
Remember you own nothing at your work, it all belongs to the company. Restricting access to things you do not own is not treating you like a criminal.
I consider security a to priority but you are right, there are other reasons I use Windows. Applications being the biggest one. I actually purchased an iMac last September but Apple released the new iMac (with the built in iSight, etc. not the intel one) within a week so I returned it for a refund and have decided to wait until Apple has fully switched to Intel. As I figured this will take at least 24 months (I don't want a rev 0 or possibly rev 1 model) I bought a Dell that should be able to run Vista if I decided to use it as my primary OS otherwise it will run XP just fine until I can go to Mac.
I looked at serveral Linux distros as well, Ubuntu was very nice but I have to deal with computers at work every day (I work as a sysadmin) so at home I want a computer that Just Works (tm). You may laugh when I say I am running Windows but I want a computer that just works but to be honest I have never had a problem with this. When I installed Windows I did everything right from the start security wise (as I said I am a sysadmin so I know how to secure a Windows box). With Automatic Updates I never have to worry about doing Windows Update manually (although I tend to run it on patch tuesday as it is just 5 clicks and its patched), NOD32 (my AV) pops up a little message a few times a day to say its being updated. I use Firefox and Thunderbird so I don't ever get any spyware/malware installed. I know when something is trying to infect my system (as I see it at work at least 10 times a week) and I have never once had any problems on my home system. So as you can see Windows does just work. It never crashes, updates itself and the security tools I run on it do there jobs perfectly. I also run behind a hardware firewall (NAT/SPI). While Ubuntu is good (the best for home users IMHO) it takes a lot of work to get things work whereas everything I want on my home computer runs fine on Windows.
I hope this post better explains my position:)
I read this yesterday and to be honest I am disappointed. The only thing that I really care about is security. Everything else matters very little (to me anyway). I will give Vista a run when it comes out as I have a PC that should be capable of running it (runs the betas fine anyway) then I will make my final opinion. I am seriously considering a switch to another platform though.
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Creativity and lazyness are different. You can dress creativley and still be smart. I would not consider a dirty tshirt and jeans with dirty trainers or sandles to be "creative".
The hardest part for companies regarding OSS isn't just their presentation as a person its also their presentation of the product. A lot of the time companies want the supplier to come in, do a nice powerpoint presentation of their product and chat with the tech guys. Its very hard to do that with OSS and even when you can most of the time their presentations are awful. You can tell its been rushed and they don't know how to present anything. Now they are software developers and not marketing guys and that is part of the problem. OSS still needs to be "sold" to the company. Now internal techs can push to get an OSS tool used, lord knows I have tried a lot. I have had some successes but also a lot of knock backs. The company doesn't feel all that comfortable with ME trying to sell ANOTHER COMPANIES product. They ignore the fact there is not other company and its free, they see it as me trying to get my own way and a lot of managers get a bit defensive as its "their decision". My advice to OSS groups is to dress smart (it won't kill you!), be clean (I have seen some OSS devs who have some serious hygene problems) and learn some basic presentation skills so you don't "umm" and "err" every 10 seconds.
Unfortunatly they don't always come out ahead. You see while your company may be better, you might not get hired for that big contract because of how your staff dress. Its not fair but its how things work. You see most managers are not techies and most managers are smart, infact I would go so far as to say very smart. If a manager isn't smart it can put other smart managers off, they start to think "hmm I hope he works better than he dresses". This causes the manager to pick the smart guy/company/whatever over the scruffy guy. Its not always true but it is in most cases. The number of very talented people I have seen turned down for jobs because of how they dressed (just for the interview in most cases) is shocking. And not just in one company! Its unfortunate but its the way the world works.
Shit actually looks like I am wrong, I was thinking of Merom, the successor to Yonah (which are the current chips).
Core Duo has EM64T (Intel's version of AMD64) support. So your answer is yes.
But I read the press release as Vista will be available to MSDN/TechNet/[insert other business agreement name] in November 2006 when our code goes gold and we can stick it on a web server right away and it will be available in the shops and with most OEMs in January/February 2007 as we need to get all the DVDs printed and OEMs need a little bit of time to get their custom install methods finished.
a pair of Technics headphones I picked up 4 years ago for about £20 in Argos. Those Technies sure are comfy though. I have worn them all day and not had to take them off once. They are very comfortable and are very cool so you don't need to lift them up every 30 minutes to cool your ear down :)
Didn't they also confirm a Spring launch (for Japan at least) at E3 last year? I'm not sure if it was a confirmed launch date or not but I tend to take confirmed launche dates with a pinch of salt, especially 8 months before.
Perhaps I am in a minority but I do care for what work I do. I care for my company. My company pays me to do a job. If I am not happy with the terms (pay, freedoms, etc) then I leave, I am not being forced to work there.
Treating your employees like criminals and restricting access to data that they have no business in accessing are very different things. Remember you own nothing at your work, it all belongs to the company. Restricting access to things you do not own is not treating you like a criminal.
I consider security a to priority but you are right, there are other reasons I use Windows. Applications being the biggest one. I actually purchased an iMac last September but Apple released the new iMac (with the built in iSight, etc. not the intel one) within a week so I returned it for a refund and have decided to wait until Apple has fully switched to Intel. As I figured this will take at least 24 months (I don't want a rev 0 or possibly rev 1 model) I bought a Dell that should be able to run Vista if I decided to use it as my primary OS otherwise it will run XP just fine until I can go to Mac. I looked at serveral Linux distros as well, Ubuntu was very nice but I have to deal with computers at work every day (I work as a sysadmin) so at home I want a computer that Just Works (tm). You may laugh when I say I am running Windows but I want a computer that just works but to be honest I have never had a problem with this. When I installed Windows I did everything right from the start security wise (as I said I am a sysadmin so I know how to secure a Windows box). With Automatic Updates I never have to worry about doing Windows Update manually (although I tend to run it on patch tuesday as it is just 5 clicks and its patched), NOD32 (my AV) pops up a little message a few times a day to say its being updated. I use Firefox and Thunderbird so I don't ever get any spyware/malware installed. I know when something is trying to infect my system (as I see it at work at least 10 times a week) and I have never once had any problems on my home system. So as you can see Windows does just work. It never crashes, updates itself and the security tools I run on it do there jobs perfectly. I also run behind a hardware firewall (NAT/SPI). While Ubuntu is good (the best for home users IMHO) it takes a lot of work to get things work whereas everything I want on my home computer runs fine on Windows. I hope this post better explains my position :)
I read this yesterday and to be honest I am disappointed. The only thing that I really care about is security. Everything else matters very little (to me anyway). I will give Vista a run when it comes out as I have a PC that should be capable of running it (runs the betas fine anyway) then I will make my final opinion. I am seriously considering a switch to another platform though.