Many small development houses are watching your progress, mine included.
Whether or not your projects survive the patent minefield you have helped me get open source on my co-worker's radar screens. Not that I work with M$ fanboys, but 100% of our customers are heavily vested in Windows technology... which relegates Linux to 'hobby' status for me.
Secure out of the box doesn't matter. Secure after I have installed the many third party programs I require to run my business matters. Secure after my clients install the latest OS 'update' matters.
There is no way to absolutely positively guarantee any complex product can remain safe over a period of time as the environment it runs in will change through both vendor and user additions to that environment. And anyways, the market does not want to wait for 'secure.' The market hardly waits for 'workable.'
Bruce's question is interesting on some levels, but seems shallow in a number of ways. That being said I read him all the time.
I didn't post a single negative comment about cracking DRM. There are simply more important things to be discussing than our access to privatley generated content such as movies.
But forgive me. The first thing I read upon waking up was that gunmen had siezed hostages in Nigeria, my congress was folding over the Iraq withdrawal, and certain drugs commonly prescribed to menopausal women were significant contributors to cancer.
Why am I modded Troll for thinking that having access to movies is really an insignificant issue? I wasn't even disrespectful. Then again, I have liked very few things Hollywood has produced anytime recently.
Do we walk away. This issue is so stupid it is insulting. We could be discussing important issues but are wasting time on this.
My gripe on this issue is similar to my gripes about U.S. politics. The whole friggin system is irrelevant.
All apologies to those who feel that DRM is still a relevant freedom related issue... But I honestly feel that discussing this is just a drain on resources that could be directed towards more fertile topics.
I have no doubt that many/.ers can make arguments to the contrary, and I respect your opinions. Forgive me for being sick over this waste of intelligent resources.
I grew up in Southern California where there were both many prestigious universities and many highly regarded community colleges.
The community colleges were staffed by people with degrees & years of workplace experience.
The prestigious universities were staffed by people with degrees & years of academic accomplishment.
My friends who went to the community colleges & worked intro level positions in their chosen field to pay for it are doing better in the workplace. Some of my friends who went to the big schools are still working in their chosen fields.
Degrees are an important metric. Who you are learning from, however, has everything to do with your effectiveness in the workplace.
Not that Google is breaking down my door, but I wouldn't work there just based on this article.
One of the top gripes I have with corporate culture is all the bullshit language that is employed. What is this 'Happiness Survey?' This smells of new-age rebranding. Aren't they talking about 'workplace satisfaction?' Don't most companies conduct workplace satisfaction surveys? The companies I have worked for do.
What is this Culture Czar position? You take workplace issues to HR, who coordinates with all other departments to implement the corporate workplace vision. Some companies are better at it than others, but rebranding the position doesn't make Google any better at it.
Google produces innovation based on incentive... which is basic capitalism. It's great that they want the incentives to be more than just cash, but this just feels like a while lot of cheerleading. These tactics don't strike me as being professional. It feels like more spin in an age of way-too-much-spin.
I used to really enjoy going to the movies... it's just too damned hard to find one with sound comparable to my home system, clarity comparable to my flatscreen, and sanitary standards of some sort. My home system is a total patchwork of commodity parts, not high end by any means.
Not to hold up progress or anything, but the theaters in my area have more pressing concerns than getting a 3d system in place... Like the basics.
A 3d system like this might get one visit out of me a year when there is some sort of nature documentary playing. That's not going to stop the incursion of DVD's into the theater's turf.
4. Bundle the fastest service response time w/said expensive solution. 5. Profit!
IBM made their rep w/me late one night in rural Vermont. I was troubleshooting my client's sole server (an ancient AIX rig) and shit started coming up wonky (hardware!?!?). This wasn't the sort of operation that had spare parts sitting around.
Worse yet, the client had all 14 of their locations (all running dumb terminals) running through this one server and their inventory and POS systems were going to be offline in the morning unless...
I still can't believe the response time for what had to be one of IBM's smallest, most outdated corporate clients. The IBM tech coordinated everything w/a third party on-site technician & we were up & running with shiny new parts in a matter of two hours (most of which was travel time)... Which gave me an hour or two to sleep before calling the company Pres in the morning to explain why they were going to have a big ole IBM bill in the mail.
You pay IBM for the absence of downtime, and it is worth every cent.
One of my biggest gripes about elections is how simplified the issues have become, and how difficult it is to understand what each candidate *really* stands for.
IF they instituted online voting they could have drop down boxes for each candidate with summaries of opinions and hyperlinks to voting records, speeches... Hell, they could even link in the publically disclosed lists of contributors. I believe most voters don't have the time or inclination to do this sort of research on their own, but might be more inclined if the info was more easily accesible.
A voter could spend all the time they like reading about each candidate and issue on the ballot *while* casting their vote.
All it would take is some legislation and a bit of funding to amass the linked materials.
Political spin would have a reduced effect on anyone with enough motivation to click a couple of links.
Companies that produce greenhouse emissions will get to make fewer upgrades to their plants if they invest in technology like this.
It is cheaper to earn emission credits through investing in someting like this (plus good PR) than to upgrade your manufacturing/refining/whatever facilities.
It seems like a good amount of concern about gong public revolves around shifting control.
Are there any business practices that you guys avoid that might be more difficult to avoid after going public?
Egregious VaporWare (or at least totally premature) announcements occur to me as a stockholder appeasing move that a lot of public companies make. Any opinion on this?
I wonder if Google is planning to leverage MySQL in a proxy warfare type scenario vs. M$.
The contention between the two giants has been heating up, and MySQL is steadily gaining ground on SQL Server for marketshare.
Couple that with Google's recent contributions to the MySQL project and statements by one of thier engineer's (Callahan?) that they would continue to enhance the DB & pump the code back into the community... focusing on stability, recovery, and fine tuning code.
Looks like Google could be contending with M$ on at least three fronts soon counting search, office, & now DB's through MySQL.
I want to see them rumble. The timing of this IPO is very interesting.
Should be self explanatory. This could be a start to addressing the 'nature gap.'
I know some educators/avid-birdwatchers who will be very interested in this technology.
I have lived in both the L.A. & NYC urban environments. Exposure to nature for many people in those areas is non-existent. Not that we should *force* nature on anyone, but there is a correlation between income & ability to escape the noise/stresses of urban life.
This book has been hot with educators & experimental children's museum consultants:
Over the past week we have heard about Intel's dominance and flashy new products, AMD's disastrous quarter, and now AMD's supposedly dominant new offering.
I read tech news daily and am getting sick of the media wars... It is no wonder casual users get fatigued trying to keep up. Casual opinions depend on which day (or week or month) a person chooses to research product offerings. It is no wonder I am always hitting a brick wall when trying to get my users to educate themselves so they can get more out of their tech. They don't know what to make of all the posturing.
This is not a function of the tech world developing *that* quickly. It is a result of the major players trying to out-strategize each other. I don't want to see anymore benchmarks (or hear about anymore promised software) until I am standing in front of a demo machine that is running the tech.
Obviously. Have you noticed the apathy of the people around you? I understand your lack of understanding on this if you are not American... but I am American, and I cannot get any sort of decent dialogue going on this issue outside my immediate group of friends.
The other people just repeat what they saw on the news or roll their eyes when the subject comes up.
If people want to confine their thinking on a subject to what they see on the news then let them see American caskets.
The war will be going on long enough as it is... only public attention beyond the headlines can get the oversight we need to keep the situation from turning into our very own little waterloo. Failing proper public attention we need shock value.
Alright, last try before I move on to something else...
'Proper journalistic standards' does not mean conforming to some governmental idea of truth. It means you do the following:
1: Use primary source material. How many times have rumors/opinions been reported as fact (including the notorious preliminary reporting of U.S. presidential election results)?
2: Avoid using inflamatory rhetoric/prejudicial language. Remember, you are not trying to 'convince' when you report news.. you are trying to inform.
3: You do NOT EVER exclude information because it does not conform to a viewpoint toward which you are prejudiced. You can leave it to only passing mention status, but actually glossing over primary source information that bears on a subject is immoral reporting practice.
4: You accept that as a journalist you are obligated to defend the rights of journalists. Even one journalist folding and revealing sources that could be harmed through retribution is an example of betraying the journalistic standard.
Please brush up on the difference between state controlled media and journalistic standards.
to offer a fukyeah on this one. I was and continue to be very polarised against this war, but had the chance to meet a soldier on leave while at a friend's house a couple of months back (unusual company for my rather rabidly anti-military friends).
The guy was in a combat group that had lost a good number of soldiers while being deployed in some heavy fighting. This guy carried a gun and shot at baddies and all the rest.
But under it all he was just a geek who had needed money and a way out of his tiny dead end town... so joined the military in peace time to get some technical training. He experienced guilt and remorse over things that had happened. He questioned the reason he was there. He was going back so that 'someone else didn't have to go in his place.'
I for one will be looking for my old dice set to send... it's not like i use 'em.
Regards.
p.s. this guy had actually recieved fairly comprehensive networking training in the services, so he actually had made a good peace-time decision to improve his lot in life. Remember they aren't all rabid psychopaths.
His comment was a play on a conservative American figure (Bill O'Reilly) who belongs to a camp of commentators that use inflamatory rhetoric to whip the populace up.
I will check out the book you referenced when I get a chance.
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Many small development houses are watching your progress, mine included.
Whether or not your projects survive the patent minefield you have helped me get open source on my co-worker's radar screens. Not that I work with M$ fanboys, but 100% of our customers are heavily vested in Windows technology... which relegates Linux to 'hobby' status for me.
I look forward to the day that changes.
Regards.
Secure out of the box doesn't matter. Secure after I have installed the many third party programs I require to run my business matters. Secure after my clients install the latest OS 'update' matters.
There is no way to absolutely positively guarantee any complex product can remain safe over a period of time as the environment it runs in will change through both vendor and user additions to that environment. And anyways, the market does not want to wait for 'secure.' The market hardly waits for 'workable.'
Bruce's question is interesting on some levels, but seems shallow in a number of ways. That being said I read him all the time.
Regards.
Where is it appropriate to say 'let Hollywood take their ball and go home?'
Regards.
Think about this for a second.
I didn't post a single negative comment about cracking DRM. There are simply more important things to be discussing than our access to privatley generated content such as movies.
But forgive me. The first thing I read upon waking up was that gunmen had siezed hostages in Nigeria, my congress was folding over the Iraq withdrawal, and certain drugs commonly prescribed to menopausal women were significant contributors to cancer.
Why am I modded Troll for thinking that having access to movies is really an insignificant issue? I wasn't even disrespectful. Then again, I have liked very few things Hollywood has produced anytime recently.
Regards.
Do we walk away. This issue is so stupid it is insulting. We could be discussing important issues but are wasting time on this.
/.ers can make arguments to the contrary, and I respect your opinions. Forgive me for being sick over this waste of intelligent resources.
My gripe on this issue is similar to my gripes about U.S. politics. The whole friggin system is irrelevant.
All apologies to those who feel that DRM is still a relevant freedom related issue... But I honestly feel that discussing this is just a drain on resources that could be directed towards more fertile topics.
I have no doubt that many
Regards.
I grew up in Southern California where there were both many prestigious universities and many highly regarded community colleges.
The community colleges were staffed by people with degrees & years of workplace experience.
The prestigious universities were staffed by people with degrees & years of academic accomplishment.
My friends who went to the community colleges & worked intro level positions in their chosen field to pay for it are doing better in the workplace. Some of my friends who went to the big schools are still working in their chosen fields.
Degrees are an important metric. Who you are learning from, however, has everything to do with your effectiveness in the workplace.
Regards.
The rant is lame & is muddling distinctions.
On another note... I know plenty of college students who end up with Lotus on their new laptops because it is a cheaper bundle than MS Office.
So Lotus can now be bundled with Linux machines. Nice.
Baby-steps to the elevator.
Regards.
Not that Google is breaking down my door, but I wouldn't work there just based on this article.
One of the top gripes I have with corporate culture is all the bullshit language that is employed. What is this 'Happiness Survey?' This smells of new-age rebranding. Aren't they talking about 'workplace satisfaction?' Don't most companies conduct workplace satisfaction surveys? The companies I have worked for do.
What is this Culture Czar position? You take workplace issues to HR, who coordinates with all other departments to implement the corporate workplace vision. Some companies are better at it than others, but rebranding the position doesn't make Google any better at it.
Google produces innovation based on incentive... which is basic capitalism. It's great that they want the incentives to be more than just cash, but this just feels like a while lot of cheerleading. These tactics don't strike me as being professional. It feels like more spin in an age of way-too-much-spin.
Regards.
Be worth my time to go to a theatre again.
I used to really enjoy going to the movies... it's just too damned hard to find one with sound comparable to my home system, clarity comparable to my flatscreen, and sanitary standards of some sort. My home system is a total patchwork of commodity parts, not high end by any means.
Not to hold up progress or anything, but the theaters in my area have more pressing concerns than getting a 3d system in place... Like the basics.
A 3d system like this might get one visit out of me a year when there is some sort of nature documentary playing. That's not going to stop the incursion of DVD's into the theater's turf.
Regards.
4. Bundle the fastest service response time w/said expensive solution.
5. Profit!
IBM made their rep w/me late one night in rural Vermont. I was troubleshooting my client's sole server (an ancient AIX rig) and shit started coming up wonky (hardware!?!?). This wasn't the sort of operation that had spare parts sitting around.
Worse yet, the client had all 14 of their locations (all running dumb terminals) running through this one server and their inventory and POS systems were going to be offline in the morning unless...
I still can't believe the response time for what had to be one of IBM's smallest, most outdated corporate clients. The IBM tech coordinated everything w/a third party on-site technician & we were up & running with shiny new parts in a matter of two hours (most of which was travel time)... Which gave me an hour or two to sleep before calling the company Pres in the morning to explain why they were going to have a big ole IBM bill in the mail.
You pay IBM for the absence of downtime, and it is worth every cent.
Regards.
One of my biggest gripes about elections is how simplified the issues have become, and how difficult it is to understand what each candidate *really* stands for.
IF they instituted online voting they could have drop down boxes for each candidate with summaries of opinions and hyperlinks to voting records, speeches... Hell, they could even link in the publically disclosed lists of contributors. I believe most voters don't have the time or inclination to do this sort of research on their own, but might be more inclined if the info was more easily accesible.
A voter could spend all the time they like reading about each candidate and issue on the ballot *while* casting their vote.
All it would take is some legislation and a bit of funding to amass the linked materials.
Political spin would have a reduced effect on anyone with enough motivation to click a couple of links.
Regards.
The lawsuit path *has to be* a short-lived strategy while the RIAA attempts to get some othe revenue generating system in place.
With DRM implementation plans facing so many hurdles has there been any talk of other avenues this organization might go down.
I refuse to believe that the RIAA believes their current strategy of making examples of isolated individuals will work in the long-term.
Are they fresh out of ideas or have I just missed some news on this front?
Regards.
Companies that produce greenhouse emissions will get to make fewer upgrades to their plants if they invest in technology like this.
It is cheaper to earn emission credits through investing in someting like this (plus good PR) than to upgrade your manufacturing/refining/whatever facilities.
Regards.
It seems like a good amount of concern about gong public revolves around shifting control.
Are there any business practices that you guys avoid that might be more difficult to avoid after going public?
Egregious VaporWare (or at least totally premature) announcements occur to me as a stockholder appeasing move that a lot of public companies make. Any opinion on this?
Regards and good luck.
I wonder if Google is planning to leverage MySQL in a proxy warfare type scenario vs. M$.
The contention between the two giants has been heating up, and MySQL is steadily gaining ground on SQL Server for marketshare.
Couple that with Google's recent contributions to the MySQL project and statements by one of thier engineer's (Callahan?) that they would continue to enhance the DB & pump the code back into the community... focusing on stability, recovery, and fine tuning code.
Looks like Google could be contending with M$ on at least three fronts soon counting search, office, & now DB's through MySQL.
I want to see them rumble. The timing of this IPO is very interesting.
Regards.
Should be self explanatory. This could be a start to addressing the 'nature gap.'
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I know some educators/avid-birdwatchers who will be very interested in this technology.
I have lived in both the L.A. & NYC urban environments. Exposure to nature for many people in those areas is non-existent. Not that we should *force* nature on anyone, but there is a correlation between income & ability to escape the noise/stresses of urban life.
This book has been hot with educators & experimental children's museum consultants:
link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Child-Woods-Children-N
Regards.
Over the past week we have heard about Intel's dominance and flashy new products, AMD's disastrous quarter, and now AMD's supposedly dominant new offering.
I read tech news daily and am getting sick of the media wars... It is no wonder casual users get fatigued trying to keep up. Casual opinions depend on which day (or week or month) a person chooses to research product offerings. It is no wonder I am always hitting a brick wall when trying to get my users to educate themselves so they can get more out of their tech. They don't know what to make of all the posturing.
This is not a function of the tech world developing *that* quickly. It is a result of the major players trying to out-strategize each other. I don't want to see anymore benchmarks (or hear about anymore promised software) until I am standing in front of a demo machine that is running the tech.
Guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Regards.
Obviously. Have you noticed the apathy of the people around you? I understand your lack of understanding on this if you are not American... but I am American, and I cannot get any sort of decent dialogue going on this issue outside my immediate group of friends.
The other people just repeat what they saw on the news or roll their eyes when the subject comes up.
If people want to confine their thinking on a subject to what they see on the news then let them see American caskets.
The war will be going on long enough as it is... only public attention beyond the headlines can get the oversight we need to keep the situation from turning into our very own little waterloo. Failing proper public attention we need shock value.
Regards.
Alright, last try before I move on to something else...
'Proper journalistic standards' does not mean conforming to some governmental idea of truth. It means you do the following:
1: Use primary source material. How many times have rumors/opinions been reported as fact (including the notorious preliminary reporting of U.S. presidential election results)?
2: Avoid using inflamatory rhetoric/prejudicial language. Remember, you are not trying to 'convince' when you report news.. you are trying to inform.
3: You do NOT EVER exclude information because it does not conform to a viewpoint toward which you are prejudiced. You can leave it to only passing mention status, but actually glossing over primary source information that bears on a subject is immoral reporting practice.
4: You accept that as a journalist you are obligated to defend the rights of journalists. Even one journalist folding and revealing sources that could be harmed through retribution is an example of betraying the journalistic standard.
Please brush up on the difference between state controlled media and journalistic standards.
Prolly not, but all of my other experience with soldiers was through my crazy friggin uncle. They were definitely ALL rabid psychopaths.
to offer a fukyeah on this one. I was and continue to be very polarised against this war, but had the chance to meet a soldier on leave while at a friend's house a couple of months back (unusual company for my rather rabidly anti-military friends).
The guy was in a combat group that had lost a good number of soldiers while being deployed in some heavy fighting. This guy carried a gun and shot at baddies and all the rest.
But under it all he was just a geek who had needed money and a way out of his tiny dead end town... so joined the military in peace time to get some technical training. He experienced guilt and remorse over things that had happened. He questioned the reason he was there. He was going back so that 'someone else didn't have to go in his place.'
I for one will be looking for my old dice set to send... it's not like i use 'em.
Regards.
p.s. this guy had actually recieved fairly comprehensive networking training in the services, so he actually had made a good peace-time decision to improve his lot in life. Remember they aren't all rabid psychopaths.
His comment was a play on a conservative American figure (Bill O'Reilly) who belongs to a camp of commentators that use inflamatory rhetoric to whip the populace up.
I will check out the book you referenced when I get a chance.
Regards.
American government, Russian government, Chinese government... they use both overt and covert tactics to control the media output.
One thing NONE of them do is encourage proper journalistic standards.
The whole 0% thing is in reference to the mandate that 50% of Russian news be optimistic.
Regards.
No pictures of caskets coming home from the mideast...
This whole thing is just a matter of degrees.
0% of any country's news must be proven factually accurate from what I can tell. Can we get some journalistic standards in the house? Anybody?
feel slightly better about the guy now... Don't ask me why.
Not that I ever hated the guy, I only know what I read about him.
Maybe if Bush recorded a protest song in a foreign language I would find his zealot-ous rhetoric easier to swallow.
Regards.
P.S. Hey... My first troll-bait post!!! *shakes his own hand*