Instead of using P2P from home, just do it from a rented server overseas and FTP the stuff from it.
Fortunately for every stupid law there's a fairly easy technical solution, and it will be this way at least until the current generation of legislators retire and is replaced with people with basic understanding of technology.
I'd add:
- Positive feedback to seller is not shown (or counted) until he leaves feedback (positive or not) to the buyer. I've always felt that the seller should leave positive feedback as soon as payment is received. Most of the power sellers I've dealt with, with thousands of positive feedbacks, never leave feedback themselves. I've made it a rule not to leave feedback when buying until the seller has left it for me, even if everything went smoothly. Also, when selling, I leave feedback as soon as I'm paid.
I hope to be wrong, but apparently it's impossible to run for president without the support of the same people and companies that are damaging the development of internet.
If you need funding from companies that would shut down internet if they could, how can you possibly do anything that actually helps internet development?
Any candidate that has received money (directly or indirectly) from a RIAA/MPAA affiliate or a telco (for example) is out of the question when it comes to internet matters.
I obviously can't mod you up since I posted, but this post of yours made my day.
Long time since I whipped my credit card to buy CDs (I got the bundle with Skaven's):-) A bit expensive but since I've been saving lately thanks to RIAA (well, their branch here, SGAE) I'll be ok...
Pick something, for example, a set of personal wikis. Start a "test run". Every time someone is asked how to do something by someone else, they don't explain verbally, they put it in their wiki. Between the requester's follow-up questions (also through the wiki) and the answers, there will be the "oral history" captured electronically.
You are missing my point. People is not going to do anything that in the long run they seem to be bad for them (or their employment). You can start all the wikis you want, but it's not going to help if people don't willingly use them, which is not going to happen.
Also, this idea implies that everything is eventually asked, which is not true. I can be doing my job just fine, getting documents from one stack, processing them somehow, and putting them in another stack - and no one ever asking what is what I do as long as I do it.
Improving the process = making it more efficient = making it require less manpower = layoffs. Again, no incentive to cooperate, and every incentive to sabotage.
See? That's exactly why an expert is needed to sell this to the staff. You need them to see the equation Improving the process = making it more efficient = people is more productive = we can produce more = we can make more money = we can give better bonuses.
You aren't going to get people on board by having a techie snooping around.
In order to (successfully) document all the processes in your company you are going to need support not only
from management but from all the staff as well. This is going to be the most difficult thing to get.
Forget about wikis and all technical solutions you can think of, for now. First, you need to explain everyone
what they get by documenting everything. For most people, explaining what they do, how, etc, means to give
away their value. I'm not saying it's true, it's just the way many people think, and this is why they refuse
to cooperate as much as possible. Asking someone to document everything sounds like '...so we can replace
you'. In particular, drop the 'hit by a bus' argument.
So, your project is probably not to be about documenting everything, but probably about improving those processes
as well, making life easier for everyone (and making it clear than that's the final goal), etc.
Once processes are more or less defined (or redefined) with the participation of staff (meaning that they get to give
feedback) you can implement a policy of 'all processes need to follow the documented procedure.
Procedure can be changed if needed'. This will in turn help to keep your documentation updated.
Anyway you are definitely going to need help from a change management specialist, human resources, etc.
Community law does not require the member states, in order to ensure the effective protection of copyright, to lay down an obligation to disclose personal data in the context of civil proceedings.
Notice the wording: Member states are not *required*... but they can, if they wish, lay down such an obligation.
I wonder if this ruling will have any effect on other cases in other countries.
Probably not. The Spanish law doesn't require telcos to disclose the requested information (actually they would get in serious trouble if they provided it to third parties without a judge involved), and the EU said that said law is ok, but other countries could have a different law and that would be ok as well.
Actually the most represented group are lawyers, but I hear they are only useful for the first weeks of training (once the more aggresive groups start taking decapitation 101 they tend to dissapear).
Lookup for terrorist in monster if you don't believe me...
I think any serious demo list needs to include Second Reality.
While obviously there are more impressive demos from a graphics point of view (since SR is 15 years old), I'm still to see one with a better soundtrack and a better integration of video and audio.
Skaven's music is still one of my favourites - I wish it was properly resampled, as obviously S3M and MOD are a bit outdated:-)
This assumes that once you have destroyed your opponent's robotic army you are done. However most likely is that after the robots will come humans, so in the end you are going to lose both.
Besides, I still fail to see why a country which is likely to lose in the robotic war would accept these rules, when it makes a lot more sense to attack the other country's civil population - which in turn might reconsider the whole thing.
Fighting from the sofa is one thing, having bombs exploding nearby is quite different.
Mowing down a civilian populace does sow terror, of course, but keeping the civilians intact (if in the dark and without water) can be argued to be more effective.
When desperate enough civilians can become soldiers. In fact, some can be willing to die (being willing to die and accepting a certain risk are totally different things). This is proven day after day in the Gaza strip for example.
Obviously a country that can send robots instead of soldiers to fight is way more likely to become 'war happy' - so I'm not sure this robot thing is a good idea at all.
Besides, if your enemy expects your robots to defeat their army, what would be the point of fighting them in the first place? Attacking civilians seems a more logical step (I don't think it's reasonable to demand any country at war not to attack only military targets where there's none that can't be replaced easily).
(and no, I didn't read the whole 117 pages, but after a quick glance I reached the conclusion that whoever wrote the title didn't either, so I'm sharing my thoughts on the title, not the PDF)
Every job I've ever worked was salary based, and I've always understood that going a bit over 40 hours (and still being paid my regular salary) is in exchange for those slow weeks where I might only work 20 hours, and still collect 40 hours worth of salary.
On those slow weeks, are you expected to be at the office for 40 hours anyway, or they actually let you go home once you are done?
It's fine that for you the slow weeks compensate for the crunch ones, but if you are at your desk for at least 40 hours a week (working or not) then there's no compensation whatever, you are still giving away your free time.
I must say that I'm also willing to work more than 40 hours (any reasonable number of hours) when needed, but I'm actually getting my time back (in time, not in cash - which I actually prefer).
Microsoft agreed to:
* Initiate a Binary Format-to-ISO/IEC JTC 1 DIS 29500 Translator Project on the open source software development web site SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/ ) (...) The Translator Project will create software tools, plus guidance, showing how a document written using the Binary Formats can be translated to DIS 29500. The Translator will be available under the open source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license (...). The Translator Project will start on February 15, 2008.
* Make it even easier to get access to the Binary Formats documentation by posting it and making it available for a direct download on the Microsoft web site no later than February 15, 2008. The Binary Formats have been under a covenant not to sue and Microsoft will also make them available under its Open Specification Promise (see www.microsoft.com/interop/osp) by the time they are posted.
Learn from the ones that have succeeded, such as mysql or zend.
I'd suggest you start a company, as you are more likely to be taken seriously by possible clients. And become 'the' company to go for support, customization, etc.
There must be products who have succeeded as a one man show but honestly I can't think of any.
Also, drop the 'I don't have time to refine' attitude. If you want to make money, you have time to do whatever your clients require, unless you just feel it's wrong for your product and refuse to do it altogether.
In short, if you really want to make money, your priorities have to be the ones of your clients', unless you are confident that what you feel like doing today is what someone else will feel like buying tomorrow.
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Instead of using P2P from home, just do it from a rented server overseas and FTP the stuff from it.
Fortunately for every stupid law there's a fairly easy technical solution, and it will be this way at least until the current generation of legislators retire and is replaced with people with basic understanding of technology.
I think giving up 6 months of TV for sex makes more sense to you :-)
Imagine the excitement when I got an email from slashdot no less announcing that someone had replied to my post.
...only to find that not even me can distinguish the reply from spam :-)
Dude it was just a bad joke riding on frist pots visibility :-)
Now if I can get send one of those censoring muslims to whoever modded me offtopic...
jimw@wiki:/var/www/wikipedia/wiki>tar cz * |uuencode /dev/stdout |mail -s "Just in case" jimw_backup@gmail.com
I'd add: - Positive feedback to seller is not shown (or counted) until he leaves feedback (positive or not) to the buyer. I've always felt that the seller should leave positive feedback as soon as payment is received. Most of the power sellers I've dealt with, with thousands of positive feedbacks, never leave feedback themselves. I've made it a rule not to leave feedback when buying until the seller has left it for me, even if everything went smoothly. Also, when selling, I leave feedback as soon as I'm paid.
I hope to be wrong, but apparently it's impossible to run for president without the support of the same people and companies that are damaging the development of internet.
If you need funding from companies that would shut down internet if they could, how can you possibly do anything that actually helps internet development?
Any candidate that has received money (directly or indirectly) from a RIAA/MPAA affiliate or a telco (for example) is out of the question when it comes to internet matters.
I obviously can't mod you up since I posted, but this post of yours made my day.
:-) A bit expensive but since I've been saving lately thanks to RIAA (well, their branch here, SGAE) I'll be ok...
Long time since I whipped my credit card to buy CDs (I got the bundle with Skaven's)
Also, this idea implies that everything is eventually asked, which is not true. I can be doing my job just fine, getting documents from one stack, processing them somehow, and putting them in another stack - and no one ever asking what is what I do as long as I do it.
You aren't going to get people on board by having a techie snooping around.
In order to (successfully) document all the processes in your company you are going to need support not only from management but from all the staff as well. This is going to be the most difficult thing to get.
Forget about wikis and all technical solutions you can think of, for now. First, you need to explain everyone what they get by documenting everything. For most people, explaining what they do, how, etc, means to give away their value. I'm not saying it's true, it's just the way many people think, and this is why they refuse to cooperate as much as possible. Asking someone to document everything sounds like '...so we can replace you'. In particular, drop the 'hit by a bus' argument.
So, your project is probably not to be about documenting everything, but probably about improving those processes as well, making life easier for everyone (and making it clear than that's the final goal), etc.
Once processes are more or less defined (or redefined) with the participation of staff (meaning that they get to give feedback) you can implement a policy of 'all processes need to follow the documented procedure. Procedure can be changed if needed'. This will in turn help to keep your documentation updated.
Anyway you are definitely going to need help from a change management specialist, human resources, etc.
Probably not. The Spanish law doesn't require telcos to disclose the requested information (actually they would get in serious trouble if they provided it to third parties without a judge involved), and the EU said that said law is ok, but other countries could have a different law and that would be ok as well.
Actually the most represented group are lawyers, but I hear they are only useful for the first weeks of training (once the more aggresive groups start taking decapitation 101 they tend to dissapear).
Lookup for terrorist in monster if you don't believe me...
I think any serious demo list needs to include Second Reality.
:-)
While obviously there are more impressive demos from a graphics point of view (since SR is 15 years old), I'm still to see one with a better soundtrack and a better integration of video and audio.
Skaven's music is still one of my favourites - I wish it was properly resampled, as obviously S3M and MOD are a bit outdated
This assumes that once you have destroyed your opponent's robotic army you are done. However most likely is that after the robots will come humans, so in the end you are going to lose both.
Besides, I still fail to see why a country which is likely to lose in the robotic war would accept these rules, when it makes a lot more sense to attack the other country's civil population - which in turn might reconsider the whole thing.
Fighting from the sofa is one thing, having bombs exploding nearby is quite different.
Obviously a country that can send robots instead of soldiers to fight is way more likely to become 'war happy' - so I'm not sure this robot thing is a good idea at all.
Besides, if your enemy expects your robots to defeat their army, what would be the point of fighting them in the first place? Attacking civilians seems a more logical step (I don't think it's reasonable to demand any country at war not to attack only military targets where there's none that can't be replaced easily).
(and no, I didn't read the whole 117 pages, but after a quick glance I reached the conclusion that whoever wrote the title didn't either, so I'm sharing my thoughts on the title, not the PDF)
It's fine that for you the slow weeks compensate for the crunch ones, but if you are at your desk for at least 40 hours a week (working or not) then there's no compensation whatever, you are still giving away your free time.
I must say that I'm also willing to work more than 40 hours (any reasonable number of hours) when needed, but I'm actually getting my time back (in time, not in cash - which I actually prefer).
I hear that the commentator guys are finishing a new product that instead of commenting your code is able to comment other's.
But I'd love to be wrong.
Learn from the ones that have succeeded, such as mysql or zend.
I'd suggest you start a company, as you are more likely to be taken seriously by possible clients. And become 'the' company to go for support, customization, etc.
There must be products who have succeeded as a one man show but honestly I can't think of any.
Also, drop the 'I don't have time to refine' attitude. If you want to make money, you have time to do whatever your clients require, unless you just feel it's wrong for your product and refuse to do it altogether.
In short, if you really want to make money, your priorities have to be the ones of your clients', unless you are confident that what you feel like doing today is what someone else will feel like buying tomorrow.
By the way, is anyone using it already?