OMG! There was a way to work around the adult verification scheme? How many frustrating hours we spent trying
to learn American pop culture based adult verification questions in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore back in the 1980s. BTW there used to be some kind of unix computer called Apollo that had a
PC emulator and we used to play Leisure Suite Larry (in the land of lounge resorts) in that machine. Whatever happened to that company/computer?
What the article lists as "lessons to be learned from Open Source" is what is usually taught in Software Engineering 101. Come on, Modular Architecture, language agnostic coding, follow standards... This is the
lesson from Open Source? These are basic things that every software manager should know.
The problem with MSFT is not that they don't know these things. They do. But the internal power structure
in MSFT is so driven by "if the playing field is level, we will lose" cowards. So they still do things
that was ok when they held a 20% share against Word Perfect and 10% (by revenue) share against unix and mainframe
giants, back in the late 80 and early 90s. They got lots of money and grew too fat and have too many layers of management. So they go and hire
this dogbert to tell them what they already know.
It is called the Last Thursdayism. Essentially it claims that the world was created last Thursday with people
and memories in people about the time before Last Thursday, and with stars with photon streams stretching
all the way from there to here with premade fossils, all objects consistent with memories of people etc etc.
Yeah, it is completely self consistent and impossible to disprove!
Just this morning Slashdot has this big article about how IT professionals aspiring to break into
management should wear matched shoes and belts, wear ties and full sleeve shirts and no torn/frayed/stained
clothing. Read that piece and eliminate all those who follow those tips. Obviously they are aspiring professionals gunning for your job.
Real programming superstars, usually love coding so much they take precautions so that they are not
accidentally promoted to have management responsibilities like tracking vacation requests and
authorizing the expense accounts. So they make sure their belts don't match their shoes, their pants, if
and when they wear it, are
never ironed. If they are forced to wear ties, they pair it with half sleeved shirts. They are the
the programming superstars. But be prepared for huge number of false positives.
If a boss pays more attention to matched shoes and belt, or could be convinced that you are
a great "pay attention to detail person" by your choice of shoes and belt, he is a pointy haired boss. Organizations that employ such dolts as bosses are doomed for failure. If you can't get
to management positions because of your attire, leave that company. It is infested with all the
bad management types.
Someday I hope to see articles written by clueless hack journalists aimed at the MBA types asking
them to wear pocket protectors to impress their came-from-the-IT CEO.
I think a wise mode of action should be to agree with them and turn off the cell towers. Thus the
taliban would be lulled into some false sense of security. Then use mobile truck mounted antenna to
triangulate and locate their handsets and bomb them to their 72 waiting virgins in heaven.
Once all other nations adopt this super duper network centric warfare, Pakistan's ISP will quietly change
the routing tables of the internet and completely flummox these developed warriors. Only the soldiers on
donkeys, which Pakistan has abundantly, will be able to fight. That is the secret plan of Pakistan to become
the military super power.
There is no shortage of hot-air there? Right? And the car runs on hot air right? So putting two and two
together Washington DC will supply enough for the whole country. Supplemented by the state capitals...
All these pie in the sky projects are simple ways of creating high paying white collar jobs in the home districts of powerful senators. The real serious immediate threat facing America is the possibility of a terrorist group smuggling in a low grade weapon, nuclear, biological or chemical into the country and detonating it. These hypersonic toys do nothing to protect us against such threats. But border security
customs security and port security creates lots and lots of blue collar jobs at the ports and borders. Not at the home district of "bridge to nowhere" pork barrel Senators.
Regan talked about welfare queens. These hypersonic engineers are the new welfare queens.
Slashdot Mirror
A good friendly neighbor might let you in for free. Or for a fraction of the monthly fee. All above board. Might even be legal.
Anyway the universe IS 6000 years old, for large values of 6000
They forgot to take into account the time they did the experiment and the time they published the results.
A huge network of tubes! He probably even has a name for it. internet?
Rabies? Well, that is alright. My husband might be upset if it was babies. But rabies should be fine.
Troll? Off topic I could understand, but troll???
OMG! There was a way to work around the adult verification scheme? How many frustrating hours we spent trying to learn American pop culture based adult verification questions in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore back in the 1980s. BTW there used to be some kind of unix computer called Apollo that had a PC emulator and we used to play Leisure Suite Larry (in the land of lounge resorts) in that machine. Whatever happened to that company/computer?
You read 47 pages of that b.s. on a saturday. Please stand up to be recognized as "The Most Jobless Nerd of the Year".
The problem with MSFT is not that they don't know these things. They do. But the internal power structure in MSFT is so driven by "if the playing field is level, we will lose" cowards. So they still do things that was ok when they held a 20% share against Word Perfect and 10% (by revenue) share against unix and mainframe giants, back in the late 80 and early 90s. They got lots of money and grew too fat and have too many layers of management. So they go and hire this dogbert to tell them what they already know.
My GP got modded troll twice, funny 5 times, overrated twice, Redundant once and underrated once. Wondering who got that kind of mod points to waste?
To sBallmer:
Steve, Why is it taking forever to send emails?
From sBallmer:
To bGates:
Bill, 640 minutes for roundtrip for email should be enough for everyone.
Yeah, it is completely self consistent and impossible to disprove!
Real programming superstars, usually love coding so much they take precautions so that they are not accidentally promoted to have management responsibilities like tracking vacation requests and authorizing the expense accounts. So they make sure their belts don't match their shoes, their pants, if and when they wear it, are never ironed. If they are forced to wear ties, they pair it with half sleeved shirts. They are the the programming superstars. But be prepared for huge number of false positives.
Contact the slashdot admins and bribe them enough to find the real identity of 140Mandak262Jamuna who is definitely a programming super nova.
Ordy: No! You killed my father
Dark Matter: Ordy... I am your father
Someday I hope to see articles written by clueless hack journalists aimed at the MBA types asking them to wear pocket protectors to impress their came-from-the-IT CEO.
I think a wise mode of action should be to agree with them and turn off the cell towers. Thus the taliban would be lulled into some false sense of security. Then use mobile truck mounted antenna to triangulate and locate their handsets and bomb them to their 72 waiting virgins in heaven.
Once all other nations adopt this super duper network centric warfare, Pakistan's ISP will quietly change the routing tables of the internet and completely flummox these developed warriors. Only the soldiers on donkeys, which Pakistan has abundantly, will be able to fight. That is the secret plan of Pakistan to become the military super power.
Unless it supports CYM color maps natively we will be forced to use Photoshop.
There is no shortage of hot-air there? Right? And the car runs on hot air right? So putting two and two together Washington DC will supply enough for the whole country. Supplemented by the state capitals...
America will then become the Saudi Arabia of ip addresses. Price of oil will drop to something 200,000,000 barrels for one address. Woot!
Q: Vista SP1 gets locks up the machines after update.
A: [x] Fiction (wins a T-Shirt)
[ ] Fact (truth but no T-Shirt to you bad boy.)
BTW, Emperor Ashoka, won a bloody war, had a change of heart and renounced violence. His empire disintegrated shortly thereafter.
Regan talked about welfare queens. These hypersonic engineers are the new welfare queens.
Everyone knows USA has the best judicial system that money can buy, and what is he complaining about?