;o)
Always the shit kicker Laura. :)
Me... M$ doesn't bother me and I do have a relatively
positive view on MSFT (Even Exchange on days that I don't have to deal with
it). Not because they are involved with my paycheck in some fashion, if I
weren't working on their stuff I would be working on someone else's stuff and
still making money. Maybe more, maybe less, can't really tell. If I had to
guess, I would probably be paid more and I would be a high end UNIX or
application guy and not having to listen to admins tell me how great they are or
how amazing they were in their last job while screwing things up in their
current job. Then again, I could be pearl diving too, I am pretty good at it, I
made a "living" doing it for years and always have it to fall back on. Hopefully
the next time I do that though it will be in an eatery that I own.
:o)
What I *do think* about this though is that it makes the
person who uses it look kind of bad or possibly less intelligent. I try not to
look at them bad but I seem to inadvertently toss them into a category I reserve
for script kiddies and two bit hackers and OS Bigots (of any religion) and
others who consider themselves "L33T" or otherwise too cool for school. Folks
that use alternate spelling choices for words are doing their darndest to get me
to ignore them because it is a PITA to read something that has all the
purposeful misspellings in it. There is too much well written stuff out there to
waste your time trying to decode something written so poorly.
I think some people do it simply because MSFT is on top and
a lot of less skilled and/or less capable people like to make themselves look
better or important by trying to knock down or otherwise ridicule those who
have a higher perceived standing than themselves. I think overall Microsoft has
done more for commoditizing the PC industry and standardizing things in it than
any other company or group in the world. Without them, I think we would still be
in a world of very costly business machines and almost nothing reasonable
available for the home. While they may not do things the best, they actually get
things out there.
Oh yeah, I think as a whole, most MSFT employees are
severely underpaid for what they do for Microsoft and the community as a whole.
To even it out though, like in any company, there are people in (or were in)
MSFT that are/were lucky to even have a job. While I tend to hear a lot of nasty
things about MSFT as a company, hearing nasty things about individual employees
is not so common. I don't think the company is evil. Much of the time I think
that them trying to be purposely evil would be a stretch and tough for their
overall method of management and internal communication and something they would
have to spend considerable time trying to work at sort of like security...
;o) I think of MSFT mostly as an oversized puppy that tends to accidently
step on toes and accidently bite too hard when playing.
So anyway, not that I am looking for
an apology or think that the guy owes anyone one. I would just give a
recommendation to avoid language/spelling like that even if others are
doing it as it is certain to get at least some people to start ignoring them at
a minimum.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura A. Robinson
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: M$
Just
out of curiosity, what makes people think it's appropriate to refer
to Microsoft as "M$" on an MS-focused mailing list whose participants
include Microsoft employees, Microsoft contractors, Microsoft MVPs and various
other people who may have a relatively positive view of
Microsoft?
Laura
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jitendra Kalyankar
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Beginner's Book on Scripting - WSH or _vbscript_?This is the link to M$ to start with...very good info....
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Sincerely,
J
On 11/9/06, Stu Packett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello everyone. After reading through a lot of the posts on this mailing list, I realize I could make my job easier if I knew how to script. I have no experience in scripting, but would like to know what books do you recommend as a beginner's book on scripting? Also, I don't really know the difference between WSH and _vbscript_, so if anyone could explain that, I'd appreciate that. After browsing through Amazon, I saw several books on WSH and _vbscript_, but don't know where I should focus on. I'm also open to computer based training (CBT) videos of any exist. Thanks in advance.
