Regardless of whether or not an employee feels "entitled" to these types of "perks", things like casual Internet access and access to personal email are quickly becoming ubiquitous. If an employer doesn't offer these types of "perks" soon, they'll be looking to SOS for temps to fill the spots of employees who have gone elsewhere. Comparing email access to having personal masseuses is a little bit of a stretch too - I have worked at several jobs where IM/Email was my only contact with my family because I was on site and had no immediate access to a phone.
Sure, it's in the power of an employer to grant or deny these perks, but when a company takes such a hard line attitude towards its own employees, you can bet that they'll act just like they're being treated, and if they feel that is unfairly, well, there it is...
He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of the company
Oh please! Microsoft could run in the red for ten years before they had to start thinking about maybe laying someone off if things don't turn around in the next five or ten years.
...cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support...
You mean Microsoft released an operating system before it was really finished? It costs too much? Requires "more" than their previous OS (I'm guessing you mean resources)? Poor driver support? NO!!! SURELY NOT! - That has NEVER happened before! Well, except for the last time they released an OS...oh, and then there was that time before last too...and the time before that...
it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees
No. In order for Microsoft to be "[brought]... to its knees", there would have to be a failure on a much larger scale than Vista, and it would need to happen repeatedly over the course of say, eight to ten years. Long before that happens, someone in Microsoft management would go crack some skulls.
wow...what century are you living in? just curious - those are lofty ideals, but ultimately unrealistic...and frankly, people like you who actually have the gaul to call soldiers "murderers" because they have followed orders by their elected officials and superiors is just mind boggling...especially when you consider the recourse they have is to be drummed out of the service and possibly even put into prison.
What you're really saying then is that the 100,000+ soldiers over seas should all be tried and punished under Iraqi law? Which would probably mean death for however many of them are responsible for the death of an enemy...bloody harsh
now, the "elected officials and superiors", maybe...
I was also disappointed by the list. Mostly because of content, but also because it contained a link to the New 7 Wonders website, which has simply got to be a joke. A list that some place put together to "represent global heritage throughout history" and the pyramids at Giza was simply a runner up?!?!? How lame do you have to be to put together a "seven wonders of the world" list where the pyramids don't warrant a place on the list, especially considering that they're the only thing still around from the bloody original list...
I like the comment above about OOo not being able to cure stupidity, but I honestly think this guy needs to take another look. I'm a long time MS Office user (since Office 2 - the one prior to Office 95) and honestly, I absolutely loathe Office 2007. I'm not sure who the designers where listening to when they took the new UI cues, but it certainly wasn't people who use the product.
The best thing Microsoft has ever done to push widespread adoption of OOo was to release Office 2007. It adds absolutely ZERO functionality (that I and a majority of Office users care about) and obfuscates everything you once knew how to do in previous versions in some awful UI cooked up by someone who loves mouse clicks and causing users to hunt for simple functionality.
Since I was forced to install Office 2007 on my machine at work I've been using OOo and while I certainly don't think it's the best thing since ice, it's certainly better than the UI that MS put on Office 2007.
While the grammar made me cringe a bit, the intent was hilarious. Why its mod is set as "Insightful" is beyond me, but that's no fault of the original author.
DVDs by mail isn't such a big hairy deal that I need to jump on the phone and hold for who knows how long to express that I never got a disc that was sent when I can just shoot off an email saying "It's been a week, the disc you sent never got here, could you try again?" and forget about it.
Netflix has a button on their website where you tell it which video you have "out" that never reached you. It takes them about another day to get you another one (depending on where you're at in relation to the warehouse where the DVD is at). Cake
I've yet to have a problem with them that I couldn't solve quite easily via their website.
The balance of the probabilities is that the blogger is wrong
Except that he's not wrong. He has proved that there was indeed an error. Regardless of anything else, including that me might be a "yahoo" or that he even might wear purple underwear, the fact that he proved there was a flaw in the origination of the numbers is indisputable. It's truth. He could be a serial liar who runs around setting kittens on fire. All the people in the known universe could have conceded that he's a total crackpot. It's all immaterial.
Besides, these thousands of people you're speaking of have nothing to say about what the blogger has done, they were simply using numbers published by another entity that this blogger proved were inaccurate. Just because he has an opinion differing from yours and that you and others think he's a "yahoo" doesn't amount to anything. He proved there was a flaw, he published the proof and the originating entity (in the case NASA apparently) admits it was in fact a flaw and has republished the corrected values.
There isn't an argument from a scientific perspective
Well, as far as I know, almost all parts of the US have laws against consenting adults having sex in private.
Huh? So..."consenting adults" can't have sex in private because "almost all parts of the US have laws against [it]"? Does that mean I have to start dragging my wife out onto the lawn when I'm feeling a bit frisky? Maybe the book section at Wal-Mart...I have been meaning to pick up that new reference book...
"Addiction is an ugly word, but it is a reality. And what are the results of TV addiction? Deterioration. Deterioration of family togetherness, closeness. Deterioration of mind and spirit. We've lost the art of family conversation. We don't read. Our children are not stimulated to read. They are missing the great treasures, the literature of the ages. But the worst result of the addiction is a lack of interest in God and the Scriptures. Divine love as well as human love is leaving the home of the family addicted to television."
-- Father Morton A. Hill, S.J., founder of Morality in Media
(Twin Circle, 1981)
Frightening on many levels, one being that the government gave them money for it.
Aside from government funding (which is a glaring offense), what level is that quote frightening on? Is it the idea of turning off the TV and reading ("great treasures, the literature of the ages")? Family togetherness? Family conversation? Stimulating our children to read? Divine love? Human love?
Man...those are some frightening ideas...let's burn that guy at the stake...
Sad but true trend. Some of us old timers just can't warm up to the consoles - you'll pry my mouse and keyboard from my cold dead hands. I just wish they'd bring out the games they have for the consoles on the PC all the time...
It's not like the day M$ rolls out DX10.1 your computer is going to turn itself off and not power up ever again. It's not even like you'll know the bloody difference...ever, probably.
The average/. reader will have upgraded their graphics card two or three times before this even matters anyway...
"Science" has absolutely nothing to do with "consensus" or "majority". When I hear (read) someone say (type) things like "thousands of studies based on several million observations [say this/that/the other]", I already know the argument is bunk. It's a difficult concept to grasp - I'm not surprised that most people don't understand it. I simply can't state it better than did Michael Crichton from his testimony before the US Senate:
In essence, science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid-and merits universal acceptance-only if it can be independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method means it is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It's verifiable whether you like the results of a study, or you don't.
Just because there are a thousands or millions or billions of "observations" to the contrary, one single "truth" trumps them. Whether or not this person is a "yahoo" has nothing to do with it. He found the error and even the originators of the numbers admit the flaw he found was verified. Your obviously emotional response says only that you are not willing to approach this argument apolitically and therefore scientifically and therefore your claim of viewing the "BIG PICTURE" is invalid at best.
Finally a reasonable (even if offensively stated) opinion on the whole matter. Let's fix the fact that we're polluting our world reasonably by investing in alternative fuels and recycling and instead of pouring billions into these pretend methods of fixing problems (Kyoto accord), how about we put that money into areas that we have problems with RIGHT NOW - like hunger and medical care. Heaven forbid we stop thousands of children from dying every day and offer our people real medical care.
Because we all know that the governments and corporations that will make billions if not trillions off of "fixing" global warming are of course not self-serving and have "our" short-term interests at heart...
Please...stop this nonsense about fixing global warming and stopping the impending doom and spend the billions on fixing actual problems we have NOW, like world hunger and the poor state of medical care. Absolutely shameful farce...
Stop with the idiotic "bring our sons home" rhetoric.
Wow...okay, I happen to think that the invasion of Iraq was a crappy idea - we missed the target by a letter. That being said, I also believe that now that we're over there, we should stop dicking around and get the job done. I personally believe that pulling out of Iraq will accomplish only causing us to look weak to our enemies, innocent Iraq citizens will die and the terrorist movement will gain a homeland. Basically, I think pulling out of Iraq would be the biggest mistake since Chamberlain said "Hitler just wants some Mandlove Rohlicky...he'll go back home in a couple months".
That being said, people like you are doing absolutely nothing to help - In fact, just the opposite. It's nearly as much a battle against popular opinion as it is the enemy and spouting verbal tripe like that just doesn't help. Anyone with half a brain wants to "bring our sons home". How can you be that damn thick?
The preponderance of evidence says that global warming is happening and that it is anthropogenic.
The preponderance of evidence in the 1400's said that the world was flat and that sea monsters ate you if you took your boat too close to the edge.
Of course, one would like to believe that science today is slightly more realistic than the people of the 1400s. None the less, we know only what we can deduce from the evidence. Is the "globe(al)" warming? Absolutely! Did we (humans) cause it? We possibly contributed to it. I'll give you that we certainly contributed to it. In my understanding, that's about what the evidence attempts. Of course, I do tend to discount the plethora of "researchers" and "scientists" who come to a conclusion and then set about finding the evidence to back it up.
Does that mean that we should spend enough money to rid the world of hunger (look at estimates on implementing changes proposed in the Kyoto accord) on trying to prevent...what? "IT"? We don't even know...well, I guess those of you who've seen The Day After Tomorrow know all about what we're trying to prevent, right?
I think you may have misread the title to the parent post and therefore misunderstood the intention of the post. His post said "about time", as in "yay! finally they're doing what they said [here]".
Then again, he could have been trying to be a jerk...
Even if you're right---women are inferior mathematicians, sub-par engineers, shoddy historians, pathetic architects---what do you propose?
Wow...have a pretty big axe to grind do ya? I read the parent post and I can't see anywhere that he claims that women are any of these things:
That's not to say that women aren't suited for the IT field.
I can't tell if you're striking out against someone who has the balls to say how stupid political correctness is or if you're striking out against women. Those jabs at women came from _somewhere_ after all - from what I can see, ONLY from you.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't think of a better reason to eat the little fish thief...
wow...geek movie reference got missed there by a few folks ;)
/loves the WarGames
Regardless of whether or not an employee feels "entitled" to these types of "perks", things like casual Internet access and access to personal email are quickly becoming ubiquitous. If an employer doesn't offer these types of "perks" soon, they'll be looking to SOS for temps to fill the spots of employees who have gone elsewhere. Comparing email access to having personal masseuses is a little bit of a stretch too - I have worked at several jobs where IM/Email was my only contact with my family because I was on site and had no immediate access to a phone.
Sure, it's in the power of an employer to grant or deny these perks, but when a company takes such a hard line attitude towards its own employees, you can bet that they'll act just like they're being treated, and if they feel that is unfairly, well, there it is...
You mean Microsoft released an operating system before it was really finished? It costs too much? Requires "more" than their previous OS (I'm guessing you mean resources)? Poor driver support?
NO!!! SURELY NOT! - That has NEVER happened before! Well, except for the last time they released an OS...oh, and then there was that time before last too...and the time before that...
No. In order for Microsoft to be "[brought]
wow...what century are you living in? just curious - those are lofty ideals, but ultimately unrealistic...and frankly, people like you who actually have the gaul to call soldiers "murderers" because they have followed orders by their elected officials and superiors is just mind boggling...especially when you consider the recourse they have is to be drummed out of the service and possibly even put into prison.
What you're really saying then is that the 100,000+ soldiers over seas should all be tried and punished under Iraqi law? Which would probably mean death for however many of them are responsible for the death of an enemy...bloody harsh
now, the "elected officials and superiors", maybe...
I was also disappointed by the list. Mostly because of content, but also because it contained a link to the New 7 Wonders website, which has simply got to be a joke. A list that some place put together to "represent global heritage throughout history" and the pyramids at Giza was simply a runner up?!?!? How lame do you have to be to put together a "seven wonders of the world" list where the pyramids don't warrant a place on the list, especially considering that they're the only thing still around from the bloody original list...
I like the comment above about OOo not being able to cure stupidity, but I honestly think this guy needs to take another look. I'm a long time MS Office user (since Office 2 - the one prior to Office 95) and honestly, I absolutely loathe Office 2007. I'm not sure who the designers where listening to when they took the new UI cues, but it certainly wasn't people who use the product. The best thing Microsoft has ever done to push widespread adoption of OOo was to release Office 2007. It adds absolutely ZERO functionality (that I and a majority of Office users care about) and obfuscates everything you once knew how to do in previous versions in some awful UI cooked up by someone who loves mouse clicks and causing users to hunt for simple functionality. Since I was forced to install Office 2007 on my machine at work I've been using OOo and while I certainly don't think it's the best thing since ice, it's certainly better than the UI that MS put on Office 2007.
ToolCoolWebs
Not that it showcases much, but it's definitely the same company and actually has content.
No kidding! What a great analogy - this deserves to be modded as Insightful!
While the grammar made me cringe a bit, the intent was hilarious. Why its mod is set as "Insightful" is beyond me, but that's no fault of the original author.
pecan pieeee....
The same old tired, boring grind and stupid, inane and childish behavior by your fellow gamers?
I've yet to have a problem with them that I couldn't solve quite easily via their website.
Besides, these thousands of people you're speaking of have nothing to say about what the blogger has done, they were simply using numbers published by another entity that this blogger proved were inaccurate. Just because he has an opinion differing from yours and that you and others think he's a "yahoo" doesn't amount to anything. He proved there was a flaw, he published the proof and the originating entity (in the case NASA apparently) admits it was in fact a flaw and has republished the corrected values.
There isn't an argument from a scientific perspective
Man...those are some frightening ideas...let's burn that guy at the stake...
Sad but true trend. Some of us old timers just can't warm up to the consoles - you'll pry my mouse and keyboard from my cold dead hands. I just wish they'd bring out the games they have for the consoles on the PC all the time...
/cries for Call of Duty
It's not like the day M$ rolls out DX10.1 your computer is going to turn itself off and not power up ever again. It's not even like you'll know the bloody difference...ever, probably.
/. reader will have upgraded their graphics card two or three times before this even matters anyway...
The average
Finally a reasonable (even if offensively stated) opinion on the whole matter. Let's fix the fact that we're polluting our world reasonably by investing in alternative fuels and recycling and instead of pouring billions into these pretend methods of fixing problems (Kyoto accord), how about we put that money into areas that we have problems with RIGHT NOW - like hunger and medical care. Heaven forbid we stop thousands of children from dying every day and offer our people real medical care.
Because we all know that the governments and corporations that will make billions if not trillions off of "fixing" global warming are of course not self-serving and have "our" short-term interests at heart...
Please...stop this nonsense about fixing global warming and stopping the impending doom and spend the billions on fixing actual problems we have NOW, like world hunger and the poor state of medical care. Absolutely shameful farce...
That being said, people like you are doing absolutely nothing to help - In fact, just the opposite. It's nearly as much a battle against popular opinion as it is the enemy and spouting verbal tripe like that just doesn't help. Anyone with half a brain wants to "bring our sons home". How can you be that damn thick?
Of course, one would like to believe that science today is slightly more realistic than the people of the 1400s. None the less, we know only what we can deduce from the evidence. Is the "globe(al)" warming? Absolutely! Did we (humans) cause it? We possibly contributed to it. I'll give you that we certainly contributed to it. In my understanding, that's about what the evidence attempts. Of course, I do tend to discount the plethora of "researchers" and "scientists" who come to a conclusion and then set about finding the evidence to back it up.
Does that mean that we should spend enough money to rid the world of hunger (look at estimates on implementing changes proposed in the Kyoto accord) on trying to prevent...what? "IT"? We don't even know...well, I guess those of you who've seen The Day After Tomorrow know all about what we're trying to prevent, right?
I think you may have misread the title to the parent post and therefore misunderstood the intention of the post. His post said "about time", as in "yay! finally they're doing what they said [here]".
Then again, he could have been trying to be a jerk...