Posts by ecofeco 8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010
It all makes sense when you realize the ultimate goal is to force everyone to move BACK to the mainframe/dumb terminal time share subscription model.
No joke. Azure, Sharepoint, Hypervisor and 365 (or their decedents) will be ALL that is available to end users within 10 years. You will then be micropayment'd to death and not even realize how useless and expensive your computer has become for real work.
The second a company thinks they can fuck me over and then tell me I have a bad attitude is the second they are dropped and they can sue me for any remainder.
I have literally almost come to blow with employees who thought I was inconveniencing them. In a car! I've gotten some fired. Do not fuck with me as customer.
You just described the U.S. No joke.
You can barely spend $100 bill* these days and $50 bill will get you odd looks. Many small shops absolutely will NOT accept a $100 bill. (*bill=note)
It is not the thin edge of scraping paper money. We are way past that point. We are almost at the end game of making paper money if not illegal, then useless by default.
I old enough to remember the $1000 and $500 bill. Flash one of those these days and you will be talking to the cops on the spot, yet they are still perfectly legal tender.
There is no mystery and no need for convoluted analysis if you actually work in hardware side of IT: Win 7 represented a huge and costly sea change from XP for businesses. The adoption had a very real price tag and businesses are in no hurry to disrupt their current systems and incur those costs again.
Many businesses, and rather large brand name ones, finally moved over only just last year or the year before which means they have finally and only recently ironed out the problems and have their systems running smoothly because there is FAR more to adopting new OS's than just installing the server and desktop environment and saying "done".
Fascism would be the correct description and has been since the U.S. Supreme Court grant corporations equal protection under the law in 1886. Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 US 394.
This more or less gave corporations early person-hood, a condition not needed as the whole point of incorporation was limited liability in the first place.
My little joke about Corporate Communist Capitalism is only to make people aware that American corporations have far too much power and little real* accountability and have successfully obscured this fact with bingo word salad.
*beyond fines and and regulations and audits, they can literally kill people and still stay in business while the leaders can escape any jail time as long as they were not personally caught stealing or committing outlandish fraud. Regular fraud gets a stern warning.
I've never heard of this guy but the history is fascinating.
I've also learned quite a bit from the posts. Technical things that are not in my work-a-day realm and all very interesting.
As for the sniping, snark and insults, I am certainly not qualified to comment on those either one way or another, except that Microsoft is still the evil empire until they show otherwise. And by that I mean deliver a useful, reliable product to us end-users and not the make-do, Rube Goldberg contraption they've been selling for decades.
So much like the round-robin ouroboros email process they use to get things (not)done.
Seriously, the day to day bureaucratic metric nightmare for the average IBM contractor employee and managers is literally taking up half of their 8 hour workday.
Do not EVER work for IBM. It looks good on your CV/resume, but you will never again respect them nor recommend them nor accept work for them. Barring a "transformative" miracle, their time is coming to an end over the next decades.
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