Ummm, well last time I heard that the filtering through project managers and analysts saved Microsoft money...
Oh that's right, Vista is a revolution!
It's like ridiculous. Who is to say that you can't write great software in China? Who is to say that you can't write shit software in the US? Y'know, I mean who is to say that good software is harder to write than bad software?
Who is to say that all people are not individuals, and that they can be tried out of context by a bunch of opinionated people with too much time on their hands online?
I quote SPAF. SPAF was there early. Sure, he has grey hair, and I wouldn't trust him to jailbreak my iphone. I suspect that he was young... er... when he wrote these.
Axiom 1:
"The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does not even resemble the real world."
Corollary 1: "Attempts to change the real world by altering the structure of the Usenet is an attempt to work sympathetic magic -- electronic voodoo."
Corollary 2: "Arguing about the significance of newsgroup names and their relation to the way people really think is equivalent to arguing whether it is better to read tea leaves or chicken entrails to divine the future.
Axiom 2:
"Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense."
Corollary 3: "An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards could produce something like Usenet."
Corollary 4: "They could do a better job of it."
Axiom 3:
"Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Usenet."
Corollary 5: "In an unmoderated newsgroup, no one can agree on what constitutes the 10%."
Corollary 6: "Nothing guarantees that the 10% isn't crap, too."
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
"Don't sweat it -- it's not real life. It's only ones and zeroes."
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts."
"Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted."
Now, as for the youthful arrogance thing...
I was hacking in ResEdit at the age of 10. I was playing gameboy aged 8, in 1988, and not being sad and nerdy. And I had Hundreds of Megahertz by the time I was 14. All to my very self in my bedroom. And I used them. All of them.
Show me the guy with the time machine, born in 1965, who did these things at that age.
See?
That's what makes me different to the previous generation.
Now the next kids, born today, who grow up with the iphone as being old hat...
think about it. I'll be employing them as managers when I'm 47, and they're 20. Otherwise I'm dead in the water. Innit.
Have you heard of age compression?
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Ummm, well last time I heard that the filtering through project managers and analysts saved Microsoft money... Oh that's right, Vista is a revolution! It's like ridiculous. Who is to say that you can't write great software in China? Who is to say that you can't write shit software in the US? Y'know, I mean who is to say that good software is harder to write than bad software? Who is to say that all people are not individuals, and that they can be tried out of context by a bunch of opinionated people with too much time on their hands online? I quote SPAF. SPAF was there early. Sure, he has grey hair, and I wouldn't trust him to jailbreak my iphone. I suspect that he was young... er... when he wrote these. Axiom 1: "The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does not even resemble the real world." Corollary 1: "Attempts to change the real world by altering the structure of the Usenet is an attempt to work sympathetic magic -- electronic voodoo." Corollary 2: "Arguing about the significance of newsgroup names and their relation to the way people really think is equivalent to arguing whether it is better to read tea leaves or chicken entrails to divine the future. Axiom 2: "Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense." Corollary 3: "An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards could produce something like Usenet." Corollary 4: "They could do a better job of it." Axiom 3: "Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Usenet." Corollary 5: "In an unmoderated newsgroup, no one can agree on what constitutes the 10%." Corollary 6: "Nothing guarantees that the 10% isn't crap, too." "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." "Don't sweat it -- it's not real life. It's only ones and zeroes." "The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts." "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted."
Now, as for the youthful arrogance thing... I was hacking in ResEdit at the age of 10. I was playing gameboy aged 8, in 1988, and not being sad and nerdy. And I had Hundreds of Megahertz by the time I was 14. All to my very self in my bedroom. And I used them. All of them. Show me the guy with the time machine, born in 1965, who did these things at that age. See? That's what makes me different to the previous generation. Now the next kids, born today, who grow up with the iphone as being old hat... think about it. I'll be employing them as managers when I'm 47, and they're 20. Otherwise I'm dead in the water. Innit. Have you heard of age compression?