ZDNet is a Cesspool
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Sounds like... 1996.
Ah, yes...sophomore year in high school. That sounds about right. I've yet to inspect their page source, but I'm wondering how many tables they're using.
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
I used to debate things on the internet. Your post points out the reasons why I rarely do that anymore. Pooled ignorance is still ignorance. I've also quit using most news sites because there is something wrong with having to watch a paper towel commercial before viewing a video on a plan wreck. I don't know what is sicker, the fact a report on a plane wreck is being used to sell paper towels or that I'd even want to see such a story.
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
I get the "paid shill" thing on another forum I frequent. It's really insane. Frothing at the mouth. Fortunately it's exactly one bad apple, so people don't pay him much mind.
IndifferentDisdain wrote:
Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year.
I love this crap. They've been saying this for what, more than 20 years now?
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
IndifferentDisdain wrote:
Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
Sounds like a certain well-known orange-coloured forum since down-voting was disabled. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
ZDNet has always been worthless and it's predecessor pretty bad as well.
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I used to debate things on the internet. Your post points out the reasons why I rarely do that anymore. Pooled ignorance is still ignorance. I've also quit using most news sites because there is something wrong with having to watch a paper towel commercial before viewing a video on a plan wreck. I don't know what is sicker, the fact a report on a plane wreck is being used to sell paper towels or that I'd even want to see such a story.
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
My employer offered several voluntary (read unpaid) training sessions over lunch when they rolled out Win7, Office 2k7, and Office 2k10. I think they might've done the same for Sharepoint upgrades.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
You missed the most important reason not to visit that, umm site. The site it self is horiably laid out with nothing but ads and popups. X|
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Does anyone here still read ZDNet? If not, and you're interested, here's what you can look forward to in the comments:
- M$, Crapple and LinSux account for about 70% of comments (especially the juvenile M$ nonsense).
- If you're pro-MSFT, or even just like one of their offerings, you're obviously a paid shill.
- Don't like a comment? Flag it as spam!
- Of course, they don't seem to really moderate their spam, so it doesn't do any good.
- Want to know if someone comments on your comment? It's easy: just search for your username, find the article in question (if it's listed; I suspect it only gets listed if your comment is on the first page), then scroll down.
This is of course not including the insane bias of many of the "journalists" who have spun such gems as "Windows 8 won't be adopted by business due to increased training costs to teach the users the new OS." I've worked for three companies: publicly traded, privately held Fortune 500, and now a privately-held startup, and I can guarantee I've received exactly 0 hours of OS training combined (and this includes non-technical positions as well); I'm curious if anyone has. Oh, and apparently this is the year of the Linux desktop. No, really, it's this year. </rant>
IndifferentDisdain wrote:
I'm curious if anyone has
Maybe I should run it as next week's poll.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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IndifferentDisdain wrote:
I'm curious if anyone has
Maybe I should run it as next week's poll.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
That'd be cool; I'm curious for the companies that do, is it during paid time or a lunch seminar or something along those lines as well. Nobody I've asked (mostly non-tech folks) has received formal OS training at all. If those results hold for the larger sample size, hopefully it's a journalism myth that can be quelled.
