Dear All, This discussion on the dependance of M$ products by the organizations only reminds me of the good old (but famous) 'fortune' cookie:
Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What's the first question that the computer community asks?
"Is it PC compatible?"
Regards,
Senthil
Mr M senthil kumar wrote:
Dear All, This discussion on the dependance of M$ products by the organizations only reminds me of the good old (but famous) 'fortune' cookie:
Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What's the first question that the computer community asks?
"Is it PC compatible?"
Regards,
Senthil
Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
Looking back to the days of my initiation into computing (there weren't any desktops then - and the very first desktop experience of mine was on CP/M!), it was solely used for number crunching, rather to do chores that can only be handled by this "stupid calculator - rather fast" device.
Desktops - the way it was introduced - by the IBM/M$ combine - has many parallels - with story of many a drug addict - in the beginning everything was free/easily available (nothing was free really; only they all seemed to look the other way!) until addicted - after that, the noose tightened?
We ended up zombies? do we need to?
hi,
this is in reply to an old thread, but none the less. take a look at the job pages of leading dailies - how many actually mention explicitly the format ? this is an outcome of "wordprocessed document=MS Word document" that plagues a lot of such organisations. Oh by the way, recently a friend had the misfortune of sending in a OO document saved as .doc for a job - received a reply that they do not support using 'pirated software' and this is from a leading MNC DTP company ! the hitch in this case was that although they have a template - this 'should' be used only with MS Word 2000. this would have meant an upgrade for my friend and he circumvented with OOv1.1
i really fail to understand why do companies not accept plain text or html resumes - saves both parties enormous amount of trouble. perhaps appropriate fora (does one to admit proposals along these lines exist ?) should be approached.
regards sankarshan
--- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 01/02/2004
-
Harish CM -
Mr M senthil kumar -
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay