I mean, what if Europe demanded to know the secret ingredients to certain food products.
Well, then their competitors would be no better off since their chemists have already figured that out, but their customers allergic to those ingredients would sure be better off.
I know a woman who avoids Chinese food because she knows she's allergic to soy, but didn't understand why McDonald's made her sick for years until I found her a reference to their usage of soy. Mind, she's blonde, but still.
Perhaps you should read the poll, instead of the article.
68% of Americans polled are comfortable with the Bush Administration conducting wiretaps of Americans "about whom the government is suspicious". Most people are OK with the idea that if your phone number shows up in the outgoing call list of terrorists overseas, your calls might get listened to.
Not just a majority, a comfortable supermajority.
You might also want to look at the differences in support between the overall numbers and those boiled down to "likely voters". As always, people who don't vote don't like the government, but people who actually give a crap enough to go vote have a different story to tell.
Work all the overtime you can, and put all that extra money in the bank. Live cheap for a while.
Once you've got enough in the bank, start leaving on time every day. Just plain flat ignore requests to stay late. Eventually they'll fire you, and you'll live off your savings while you look for another job full-time.
Any potential employer who doesn't understand your frustration at being death-marched is probably somebody you don't want to work for anyway, so the fact that you left your previous employment before you had a new job won't hurt you.
The problem with "listen to your customers" is that there weren't enough of them to sustain the business. They were attempting (I leave the judgement as to whether they succeeded to others) to listen to their POTENTIAL customers about why they weren't buying.
I am pretty sure planting a few hundred hydrogen bombs a couple of miles below the surface of the planet at strategic locations, and detonating them, would make the world uninhabitable.
Briefly. To some species. Millions of species would survive the entire time, and species diversity would be back where it is today in a geologic eyeblink. But it's telling that you had to come up with an example that would require a tremendous amount of effort to a deliberate end.
So... how long before the forces of ennui at Disney get to Steve and John, driving them out like Roy? How long before Pixar films are littered with the dumb, ultra-hip Disney characters populate the films?
Disney gives Pixar millions of dollars to make films. Disney then makes billions of dollars from those films. So, you're suggesting that their gameplan is to shoot the goose that lays the golden eggs right between the eyes?
Responsibility for training is yours, but only a foolish company would fail to provide it anyway. You've chosen to work in a field that's constantly moving. Other fields with similar requirements, such as medicine, insurance, and accounting, are full of professionals who go out and get their own continuing education, and large companies that spend their own money to make sure their employees get it because that may not be their responsibility, but it's darn sure the right thing to do, both for the business and for the employee.
The problem here is likely one of falling for Microsoft's sales pitches. Many people in IT management believe that no training is required to administrate Windows systems, because Microsoft tells them no training is required. The result? Crappy systems, crappy networks, crappy performance; Microsoft isn't just driving Moore's Law, it's driving Sturgeon's too.
The deal wasn't exactly "here's some money now eff off we own you." It was more like "here, you can have my living room if you'll take the 'Pixar' sign down and replace it with this 'Disney' sign". Disney has been bankrolling all their films for years anyway, and Steve Jobs is now the largest single Disney stockholder.
Here's what I had to do to get my built-in WLAN on my cheapo generic Averatec rebranded Uniwill laptop to work with Ubuntu Breezy:
Boot the CD. Type in my WEP key when prompted.
I've since switched to WPA/PSK and it's a little more complicated, but I think I've made the point here. Instead of "you will" you should be saying "you might". The state of WLAN on Linux isn't good, but it's getting better fast, and a little research before you buy goes a long way.
Yet another reason I think SOX considerations will lead to a resurgence in Thin Client computing. How thin, and what form, still to be decided.
Something on the fat side, running Linux, with the local storage being used only for caching, paging, etc. would be my preference. However, even if you returned to PS/2 user interface connections and left off USB, this would only result in somebody developing PS/2 thumb drives.
Ultimately it comes down to hiring good people, treating them well so they're less likely to rip you off, and prosecuting the holy crap out of them if they do. Some of them will still rip you off.
After all, what's cheaper; paying 20 people to develop an innovative concept, or paying one of those 20 to steal it from his employer and give it to you already-developed?
The other day I had, over a period of about 58 minutes, 4037 unsuccessful attempts at my root password from a single IP address at a University in Italy. This is a slightly unusual number, but a completely average occurance. Evidently they don't need the help of a site like this to find me.
I wish that kid had checked this site first; he'd have seen my IP is completely unremarkable. And if he wanted root on a Linux box that badly, I'd have sent him an Ubuntu CD.
There is already precedent for this; Upromise has tie-ins with the major supermarkets where data from your "loyalty-card" is used by corporations such as Coca-Cola to donate money into your children's college funds.
This model says your data isn't worth very much money, although this depends on what you buy. In the end the market will decide what the value is.
I'm working on a deep article about banning copyright (I'm opening a 6 figure music studio in Chicago this spring called No Copyright Studios) for artists who want to succeed without the cartels and their lifetime monopoly granted by government.
Excellent. With no copyright, the big music companies can just copy your recordings and sell them, without sending one dime to the artists. Sure, your artists can fight back by selling their music online, but the big music company will get all the CD sales because they can produce and distribute them cheaper than you can.
I think the first thing any browser developer should consider when adding a new tag or tag attribute to the DOM is "How can this be abused?" and explore that question to its fullest.
If you could read a single book and get everything I've learned in nearly 30 years of computing, you could replace me with a very small shell script.
If such a book existed, stories would be sitting on Slashdot for hours before the "FP" trolls, because we've all be scrambling to get jobs in our 2nd-best skillset.
In the end this will still be you paying for both ends of your connection; the content provider is just going to charge the cost back to you. Plus a small profit.
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I mean, what if Europe demanded to know the secret ingredients to certain food products.
Well, then their competitors would be no better off since their chemists have already figured that out, but their customers allergic to those ingredients would sure be better off.
I know a woman who avoids Chinese food because she knows she's allergic to soy, but didn't understand why McDonald's made her sick for years until I found her a reference to their usage of soy. Mind, she's blonde, but still.
Plame wasn't a private citizen. You lose.
Poor terrorists; I'm sure history will look poorly on those mean Republicans for the Terrorist Holocaust.
Perhaps you should read the poll, instead of the article.
68% of Americans polled are comfortable with the Bush Administration conducting wiretaps of Americans "about whom the government is suspicious". Most people are OK with the idea that if your phone number shows up in the outgoing call list of terrorists overseas, your calls might get listened to.
Not just a majority, a comfortable supermajority.
You might also want to look at the differences in support between the overall numbers and those boiled down to "likely voters". As always, people who don't vote don't like the government, but people who actually give a crap enough to go vote have a different story to tell.
Work all the overtime you can, and put all that extra money in the bank. Live cheap for a while.
Once you've got enough in the bank, start leaving on time every day. Just plain flat ignore requests to stay late. Eventually they'll fire you, and you'll live off your savings while you look for another job full-time.
Any potential employer who doesn't understand your frustration at being death-marched is probably somebody you don't want to work for anyway, so the fact that you left your previous employment before you had a new job won't hurt you.
The problem with "listen to your customers" is that there weren't enough of them to sustain the business. They were attempting (I leave the judgement as to whether they succeeded to others) to listen to their POTENTIAL customers about why they weren't buying.
AP, 2106: NASA scientists have determined that the Martian atmosphere contains a metric farkload of copper.
...it means the RIAA's web page is a massive copyright violation.
I am pretty sure planting a few hundred hydrogen bombs a couple of miles below the surface of the planet at strategic locations, and detonating them, would make the world uninhabitable.
Briefly. To some species. Millions of species would survive the entire time, and species diversity would be back where it is today in a geologic eyeblink. But it's telling that you had to come up with an example that would require a tremendous amount of effort to a deliberate end.
So... how long before the forces of ennui at Disney get to Steve and John, driving them out like Roy? How long before Pixar films are littered with the dumb, ultra-hip Disney characters populate the films?
Disney gives Pixar millions of dollars to make films. Disney then makes billions of dollars from those films. So, you're suggesting that their gameplan is to shoot the goose that lays the golden eggs right between the eyes?
They called a planet with a surface temp of -220 "Earthlike". They're clearly insane.
Responsibility for training is yours, but only a foolish company would fail to provide it anyway. You've chosen to work in a field that's constantly moving. Other fields with similar requirements, such as medicine, insurance, and accounting, are full of professionals who go out and get their own continuing education, and large companies that spend their own money to make sure their employees get it because that may not be their responsibility, but it's darn sure the right thing to do, both for the business and for the employee.
The problem here is likely one of falling for Microsoft's sales pitches. Many people in IT management believe that no training is required to administrate Windows systems, because Microsoft tells them no training is required. The result? Crappy systems, crappy networks, crappy performance; Microsoft isn't just driving Moore's Law, it's driving Sturgeon's too.
The deal wasn't exactly "here's some money now eff off we own you." It was more like "here, you can have my living room if you'll take the 'Pixar' sign down and replace it with this 'Disney' sign". Disney has been bankrolling all their films for years anyway, and Steve Jobs is now the largest single Disney stockholder.
Here's what I had to do to get my built-in WLAN on my cheapo generic Averatec rebranded Uniwill laptop to work with Ubuntu Breezy:
Boot the CD.
Type in my WEP key when prompted.
I've since switched to WPA/PSK and it's a little more complicated, but I think I've made the point here. Instead of "you will" you should be saying "you might". The state of WLAN on Linux isn't good, but it's getting better fast, and a little research before you buy goes a long way.
Yet another reason I think SOX considerations will lead to a resurgence in Thin Client computing. How thin, and what form, still to be decided.
Something on the fat side, running Linux, with the local storage being used only for caching, paging, etc. would be my preference. However, even if you returned to PS/2 user interface connections and left off USB, this would only result in somebody developing PS/2 thumb drives.
Ultimately it comes down to hiring good people, treating them well so they're less likely to rip you off, and prosecuting the holy crap out of them if they do. Some of them will still rip you off.
After all, what's cheaper; paying 20 people to develop an innovative concept, or paying one of those 20 to steal it from his employer and give it to you already-developed?
The other day I had, over a period of about 58 minutes, 4037 unsuccessful attempts at my root password from a single IP address at a University in Italy. This is a slightly unusual number, but a completely average occurance. Evidently they don't need the help of a site like this to find me.
I wish that kid had checked this site first; he'd have seen my IP is completely unremarkable. And if he wanted root on a Linux box that badly, I'd have sent him an Ubuntu CD.
There is already precedent for this; Upromise has tie-ins with the major supermarkets where data from your "loyalty-card" is used by corporations such as Coca-Cola to donate money into your children's college funds.
This model says your data isn't worth very much money, although this depends on what you buy. In the end the market will decide what the value is.
We're using Linux and treating it just like we do Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows, where we also can't identify everybody who wrote the OS.
The auditors don't seem to be having a problem with it. Wonder how much Microsoft paid IT Observer for that FUD?
I'm working on a deep article about banning copyright (I'm opening a 6 figure music studio in Chicago this spring called No Copyright Studios) for artists who want to succeed without the cartels and their lifetime monopoly granted by government.
Excellent. With no copyright, the big music companies can just copy your recordings and sell them, without sending one dime to the artists. Sure, your artists can fight back by selling their music online, but the big music company will get all the CD sales because they can produce and distribute them cheaper than you can.
I think the first thing any browser developer should consider when adding a new tag or tag attribute to the DOM is "How can this be abused?" and explore that question to its fullest.
The BODY tag fails that test.
Yeah, get outta here, you geeks!
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If you could read a single book and get everything I've learned in nearly 30 years of computing, you could replace me with a very small shell script.
If such a book existed, stories would be sitting on Slashdot for hours before the "FP" trolls, because we've all be scrambling to get jobs in our 2nd-best skillset.
In the end this will still be you paying for both ends of your connection; the content provider is just going to charge the cost back to you. Plus a small profit.
Fudge is the Linux of roleplaying. d20 is more like Java.