Guerilla warfare works only when the terrain allows it. The reason we haven't had a WW II-scale conflict since 1945 is nuclear weapons. Remove the concept of MAD and we are back to the 1940's - China would dominate (much more than it does today) Southeast Asia. Given their technological advantage, I would pick China over India in this real-world game of Risk - so they would split Asia with the Russian Federation, with the only hope for a free Europe being a forced confederation. Of course, if that happened we could drive south if desired and eradicate the drug-related violence on our southern border. Realistically, of course, the genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle.
What a bunch of brain-dead idiots. That decision rates up there with the Brazilians importing Africanized bees to improve honey production - anyone in the southern US knows how well *that* worked out. What the h*** do we have the International Space Station for?!!
Back in the 1980's I ran my first inter-building connection, across Broadway in lower Manhattan. We used a Con Ed tunnel for the run (I wonder how much that cost the bank). It came up beautifully for a day, then began intermittent outages. Three days of hair-pulling later, we had a Con Ed crewman down the manhole looking at our cable. He was a big Irish guy, had to be 6'2" / 210 at least. A few minutes later we hear "screee" and wonder what happened. A few seconds later the guy pops his head up holding a dead rat (yes, he was wearing gloves) and explained that we had installed the wrong cable between buildings. Lesson learned.
Start calling the cable manufacturers. Here's a link to get you started: http://www.bangkokcable.com/catalog/BCC_CATALOG/SPECIAL3EN.HTML
... that there's no reason only poor people should be shot either. His ego is putting Larry Ellison's to shame. One hopes he comes down with malaria some time - it's so often the gift that keeps on giving.
It's inexpensive ($95/yr for a private bank where I live in New Joisey) and there is a reasonable possibility it could be effective if my child contracted leukemia. I don't give a flying f*ck what anyone else thinks about it. Nor do I think anyone childless has any standing in this debate.
I have worked in brokerages, IB's and, lately, hedge funds. FOSS is definitely in use there, in the form of the Spring and Hibernate frameworks. Databases range from MySQL and Postgres to Oracle and SQL Server. You pays your nickel and takes your choice.
If you were to publish a project, written in Java using Spring and Hibernate talking to a Postgres back end (and be able to provide a back end to an Oracle or SQL Server), yours would not only be a very welcome addition to the FOSS portfolio but very likely have solid commercial potential.
So let's see...$1 max to produce the CD...maybe $1.50 for fancy packaging and shrink-wrap...fuel is up, so let's generously assign it $1.00 for its place on a pallet in a 40-foot trailer...and, say, $.50 for sales overhead and carrying costs...leaving us a grand total of $16 or so profit. And that is conservative.
I unwittingly accepted a large Ubuntu upgrade that included Firefox 3.0 not ong ago. Firefox 3.0 braks the Foxmarks add-on, which, as a consultant, I find very useful as I rarely know where I will be on a given day. What is the coordinating effort with the add-on authors?
That's how the recruiters do it - find out who is linked to, say, Sunsoft.com (por the D programming homepage, or your favorite open source project) and start the cold-calling/winnowing process from there.
Companies like Texas Memory Systems (no financial interest here!) have been producing large RAM disks for many years. One wonders why noone has worked with them to produce, say, 256GB drives. Sure, the form factor for a 1u unit is large, but the internals, if you take out the circuitry for the battery backup, doesn't take up all that much room that a good engineering team couldn't shrink it.
This technology will, when refined, allow us can use laser energy to accelerate particles greatly? How about something with a bigger mass, like say, a spaceship? Heinlein was right - the only way we will get into space efficiently is where there is a profit motive. Otherwise, scientists just gaze at their own navels.
- like the cable and phone companies, have conveniently forgotten that their infrastructure is built on a right-of-way that belongs to the public! Oil companies, scum of the earth that they may be, fund their own infrastructure, at least.
Sounds like time for a letter-writing campaign to one's Congressman and Senator. I'll be writing mine this evening.
I think you have two questions to ask yourself: "Can I live on the reduced pay comfortably (pay the rent, save some pennies for a rainy day)?" and, "What is more important to me, job content or job context?"
As a fifty-year-old (ouch, that hurt to type), I would say that now is the time of your life you are a) learning your trade technically (coding techniques, problem pattern recognition and how to avoid/resolve it) and b) don't have to worry about feeding a family. Go and have fun - and, once you have some good, solid experience under your belt at this job, think about where you want to be in this industry and look for a leading innovator to work for.
Lots o' humor here, but if you're seriously looking for a guideline -
What are your company's business problems and competitive challenges? How can IT help the company kick butt in the marketplace? Apply that filter to what you want technology-wise and present it in that manner and suddenly you will find people listening. If you don't know the answers to the question, ask. Are the problems you see in the group business problems, i.e., do they cost the company revenue? Are the process problems you see perceived as process problems by your in-house clients? I love gadgets and toys and to make my databases fly, but the point at the end of the day is to help the business succeed (hopefully padding one's resume in the process). If you sound interested only in technology to management, you will be dismissed (not from your job, but not taken seriously).
As others have said, you need to define the relationship you will have with the company and then determine a fair market value for the work you will do.
As an open source product, you hold no proprietary rights in the code other than those stated in its license (I am assuming it's GPL'd), i.e., the commercial firm can grab your code and extend it themselves as long as they release the extensions (or license it from you for commercial use; and other possisiblities).
My suggestion: see if there is a faculty member with indie consulting experience and ask him to help you negotiate. It took me a few years and a number of scars to understand the fine print in contracts, strike a reasonable negotiating position and figure out from looking at a project what the market would bear. You are wise in asking for help; you may well be able to find it in yor university's CS/IS department.
The firm would obviously prefer to a) use the original author of a work as he understands the architecture/concept best and/or b) support open-source software. However, they are under no obligation to use you in particular. Don't pretend this is any more than a commercial transaction and price yourself accordingly.
Best of luck! Working for oneself is the only way to go!
I think developers (or DBA's:-) ) make better project managers than MBA's, *provided they understand business*. That means a) speaking to business managers in their own language and understanding their problems and perspectives and b) understanding what execution is. Honeywell's CIO defines it as. "aligning strategy with reality, goals with people." Take that philosphy as a project manager and, if you have any people skills at all, you will be a raging success. And on't forget to sweat the details!
What great practice for when the next UFO comes around. Fire a non-nuclear ICBM at it - use it for the next 'missile shield' test - send up some Air Force fightes to blow it to bits...c'mon, armed forces people, use your heads...
Lessee, why is he an idiot - can anyone say 'prickly pear' or 'domestic house cat'? How about Jamaicans discussing the mongoose infestation problem, or Guam residents discussing brown snakes. One does not import significant chunks of one ecosystem into another without drastic effects. The government should fly over Nancy Reagan to just say no.
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Guerilla warfare works only when the terrain allows it. The reason we haven't had a WW II-scale conflict since 1945 is nuclear weapons. Remove the concept of MAD and we are back to the 1940's - China would dominate (much more than it does today) Southeast Asia. Given their technological advantage, I would pick China over India in this real-world game of Risk - so they would split Asia with the Russian Federation, with the only hope for a free Europe being a forced confederation. Of course, if that happened we could drive south if desired and eradicate the drug-related violence on our southern border. Realistically, of course, the genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle.
What a bunch of brain-dead idiots. That decision rates up there with the Brazilians importing Africanized bees to improve honey production - anyone in the southern US knows how well *that* worked out. What the h*** do we have the International Space Station for?!!
The make vermin-resistant cable. Seriously.
Back in the 1980's I ran my first inter-building connection, across Broadway in lower Manhattan. We used a Con Ed tunnel for the run (I wonder how much that cost the bank). It came up beautifully for a day, then began intermittent outages. Three days of hair-pulling later, we had a Con Ed crewman down the manhole looking at our cable. He was a big Irish guy, had to be 6'2" / 210 at least. A few minutes later we hear "screee" and wonder what happened. A few seconds later the guy pops his head up holding a dead rat (yes, he was wearing gloves) and explained that we had installed the wrong cable between buildings. Lesson learned.
Start calling the cable manufacturers. Here's a link to get you started: http://www.bangkokcable.com/catalog/BCC_CATALOG/SPECIAL3EN.HTML
Good luck!
... that there's no reason only poor people should be shot either. His ego is putting Larry Ellison's to shame. One hopes he comes down with malaria some time - it's so often the gift that keeps on giving.
It's inexpensive ($95/yr for a private bank where I live in New Joisey) and there is a reasonable possibility it could be effective if my child contracted leukemia. I don't give a flying f*ck what anyone else thinks about it. Nor do I think anyone childless has any standing in this debate.
I have worked in brokerages, IB's and, lately, hedge funds. FOSS is definitely in use there, in the form of the Spring and Hibernate frameworks. Databases range from MySQL and Postgres to Oracle and SQL Server. You pays your nickel and takes your choice.
If you were to publish a project, written in Java using Spring and Hibernate talking to a Postgres back end (and be able to provide a back end to an Oracle or SQL Server), yours would not only be a very welcome addition to the FOSS portfolio but very likely have solid commercial potential.
Another product overengineered by General Dynamics...
OK, so it's only 350%...in an industry where 2-5% is considered a banner year (I used to work for Unilever).
So let's see...$1 max to produce the CD...maybe $1.50 for fancy packaging and shrink-wrap...fuel is up, so let's generously assign it $1.00 for its place on a pallet in a 40-foot trailer...and, say, $.50 for sales overhead and carrying costs...leaving us a grand total of $16 or so profit. And that is conservative.
Their TV prices s**k too.
I unwittingly accepted a large Ubuntu upgrade that included Firefox 3.0 not ong ago. Firefox 3.0 braks the Foxmarks add-on, which, as a consultant, I find very useful as I rarely know where I will be on a given day. What is the coordinating effort with the add-on authors?
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That's how the recruiters do it - find out who is linked to, say, Sunsoft.com (por the D programming homepage, or your favorite open source project) and start the cold-calling/winnowing process from there.
Companies like Texas Memory Systems (no financial interest here!) have been producing large RAM disks for many years. One wonders why noone has worked with them to produce, say, 256GB drives. Sure, the form factor for a 1u unit is large, but the internals, if you take out the circuitry for the battery backup, doesn't take up all that much room that a good engineering team couldn't shrink it.
If the Hubble spots five different Enterprises by that hole, I'm outta here...
This technology will, when refined, allow us can use laser energy to accelerate particles greatly? How about something with a bigger mass, like say, a spaceship? Heinlein was right - the only way we will get into space efficiently is where there is a profit motive. Otherwise, scientists just gaze at their own navels.
They should try attending a Mensa meeting sometime...
- like the cable and phone companies, have conveniently forgotten that their infrastructure is built on a right-of-way that belongs to the public! Oil companies, scum of the earth that they may be, fund their own infrastructure, at least.
Sounds like time for a letter-writing campaign to one's Congressman and Senator. I'll be writing mine this evening.
p.s.: letters are more effective then email!
I think you have two questions to ask yourself: "Can I live on the reduced pay comfortably (pay the rent, save some pennies for a rainy day)?" and, "What is more important to me, job content or job context?"
As a fifty-year-old (ouch, that hurt to type), I would say that now is the time of your life you are a) learning your trade technically (coding techniques, problem pattern recognition and how to avoid/resolve it) and b) don't have to worry about feeding a family. Go and have fun - and, once you have some good, solid experience under your belt at this job, think about where you want to be in this industry and look for a leading innovator to work for.
Just my two cents -
But I figure it will goose Cablevision and Comcast into lowering their prices a bit...
And geeks support this?
Lots o' humor here, but if you're seriously looking for a guideline -
What are your company's business problems and competitive challenges? How can IT help the company kick butt in the marketplace? Apply that filter to what you want technology-wise and present it in that manner and suddenly you will find people listening. If you don't know the answers to the question, ask. Are the problems you see in the group business problems, i.e., do they cost the company revenue? Are the process problems you see perceived as process problems by your in-house clients? I love gadgets and toys and to make my databases fly, but the point at the end of the day is to help the business succeed (hopefully padding one's resume in the process). If you sound interested only in technology to management, you will be dismissed (not from your job, but not taken seriously).
I'm an independent consultant for a living.
As others have said, you need to define the relationship you will have with the company and then determine a fair market value for the work you will do.
As an open source product, you hold no proprietary rights in the code other than those stated in its license (I am assuming it's GPL'd), i.e., the commercial firm can grab your code and extend it themselves as long as they release the extensions (or license it from you for commercial use; and other possisiblities).
My suggestion: see if there is a faculty member with indie consulting experience and ask him to help you negotiate. It took me a few years and a number of scars to understand the fine print in contracts, strike a reasonable negotiating position and figure out from looking at a project what the market would bear. You are wise in asking for help; you may well be able to find it in yor university's CS/IS department.
The firm would obviously prefer to a) use the original author of a work as he understands the architecture/concept best and/or b) support open-source software. However, they are under no obligation to use you in particular. Don't pretend this is any more than a commercial transaction and price yourself accordingly.
Best of luck! Working for oneself is the only way to go!
I checked their site but found nothing about this... anyone know if they are supporting the TI WiFi chipsets? D-Link makes some nice cards...
I think developers (or DBA's :-) ) make better project managers than MBA's, *provided they understand business*. That means a) speaking to business managers in their own language and understanding their problems and perspectives and b) understanding what execution is. Honeywell's CIO defines it as. "aligning strategy with reality, goals with people." Take that philosphy as a project manager and, if you have any people skills at all, you will be a raging success. And on't forget to sweat the details!
What great practice for when the next UFO comes around. Fire a non-nuclear ICBM at it - use it for the next 'missile shield' test - send up some Air Force fightes to blow it to bits...c'mon, armed forces people, use your heads...
Lessee, why is he an idiot - can anyone say 'prickly pear' or 'domestic house cat'? How about Jamaicans discussing the mongoose infestation problem, or Guam residents discussing brown snakes. One does not import significant chunks of one ecosystem into another without drastic effects. The government should fly over Nancy Reagan to just say no.