Re: The American way !!!
The American CORPORATE way is ALWAYS to steal.
Always.
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XP when I got my first large scale corporate support job. I'd been fixing PCs for years before as far back as DOS 3 and worked my way up to NT 4 as a small scale server admin. But it wasn't until XP that I was working for really large deployments. i.e. thousands instead of a few hundred.
XP was a bloody nightmare. Unstable, slow, and unpredictable. XP was where I learned to hate MS.
The love for XP is insanity. Win 7 was also garbage until SP 2 made it tolerable. How have people forgotten about the BSOD?
MS has never made a good OS, but at least I've hardly ever seen a BSOD in years. Still hate MS though. An OS that constantly gets in its own way.
I've worked contract for years only it's really temp work. And once you get on the temp train, almost nobody wants to hire you onto the client company, or any company. Oh they say temp-to-hire, but it never is.
Temp workers are always treated as second class. No paid sick days, no paid holidays, no raises, the most expensive self-paid "benefits" plans. (how paying for your own "benefit" is a benefit in any way has yet to be explained to me.)
So good the NLRB told google to kiss ass! Long term temp work has to go.
Disruption is coming one way or the other.
We either do it in a somewhat controlled way or catastrophes and disasters do as they please.
Place your bets on which is more likely. Because you are. Betting your life that is.
As for pipe dreams of solar shading, keep smoking whatever is in that pipe and see where that gets you.
Well written article.
I first became aware of mini computers and then PCs in the mid 1970s. I did not learn how to use them until the mid 1980s. It was far too expensive for me at the time and I had to catch as catch can.
But every word of this article is the truth. I saw it in real time. We now use crippled, overpriced tech every day and nobody knows any different. And the brand stan-bois are the worst.
And it just gets worse every year. Which means this article will eventually disappear down the memory hole and outside of some of us who may remember it in the future, it will be gone and the morons will keep marching while looking at the those of us who know as some kind of cranks.
Much like the article I read about learned helplessness in software writing these days. I can no longer find the article (see reason above), but it detailed how and why software is utter shite these days. This El Reg article makes a great addendum to that lost article.