did he grab any prune juice while on the way out of the store.
Zen of SOA / Art Of War
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The Zen of SOA
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I didn't see a section devoted to governance of SOA because without a strong IT Department your "Zen of SOA" will quickly become the "Art of Interdepartment War" as each division of the company will try to control or influence the service if they they have to connect to it. A strong IT Department can push back on the other departments for the greater good of the company and force departments with rogue apps to eventually use the services.
For a second there I thought the title said "RIAA Interference Leads To Nobel Prize". I have found their interference with people's lives to be creative, but Nobel Prize worthy...hardly.
...then everyone who codes for a living will have to consider buying insurance to hedge their risk...
Well...not exactly everyone...just U.S. programmers will have to buy insurance. This gives a another huge wage advantage to offshored foriegn workers and provides an accelerator to companies to offshore programming work.
Any programming work that must stay in the U.S. (e.g. military, homeland security, intelligence) will be more expensive to cover workers with that insurance. And since that work is typically government contracts the U.S. taxpayer will ultimately flip the bill. I'm sure the insurance for something like avionics control software will be very expensive.
This will be very interesting to see how they enforce this during GenCon (or other cons for that manner). A small admissions fee is charged for each gaming event to cover the room, electricity, etc. I doubt all the groups running the WW gaming events have licenses. So is White Wolf going to shut down these games if they don't have licenses?
I want to see WW enforcers come in with flamethrowers torching character sheets and kicking us out of the rooms. It would be the highlight of GenCon.
Just like programming...consider stocking shelves as implementing a sorting algorithm and passing out shopping carts as developing a shopping cart module for an ecommerce site.;^)
Gymnasium. Fit, relaxed people think better, it's a fact.
Car parking. Enough of it, close enough to the building.
I've never understood the idea that its ok to work out in a gym for an hour but god forbid you should walk 5 minutes to get to your car. I say scrap the gym and put the parking lot a mile from work to force some excercise on the workers.
I mean, really, teachers are giving kids detention for talkking DURING THE ADS on Channel One.
I was in high school when Channel One first started and most of us (including the teachers) treated it as a joke. I didn't know some teachers now treat it this seriously. Things have gone downhill.
IBM: Trouble with Linux. Linux Users: Oh no - what kind of trouble? IBM: One on't shared codes gone owt askew on base code. Linux Users: Pardon? IBM: One on't shared codes gone owt askew on base code. Linux Users: I don't understand what you're saying. IBM: [slightly irritated and with exaggerated clear accent] One of the shared codes has gone out askew on the base code. Linux Users: Well what on earth does that mean? IBM: *I* don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble with Linux, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of SCO Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD] [The door flies open and CEO Darl McBride of Santa Cruz enters, flanked by two junior members. Chris Sontag has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang is just Cardinal Fang] Darl McBride: NOBODY expects the SCO Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to money.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again. [The Inquisition exits] IBM: I didn't expect a kind of SCO Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [The SCO Group burst in] Darl McBride: NOBODY expects the SCO Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to money, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn! [To Chris Sontag] I can't say it - you'll have to say it. Chris Sontag: What? Darl McBride: You'll have to say the bit about 'Our chief weapons are...' Chris Sontag: [rather horrified]: I couldn't do that... [Darl McBride bundles them outside again] IBM: I didn't expect a kind of SCO Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [The SCO Group enter] Chris Sontag: Er.... Nobody...um.... Darl McBride: Expects... Chris Sontag: Expects... Nobody expects the...um...the SCO...um... Darl McBride: Inquisition. Chris Sontag: I know, I know! Nobody expects the SCO Inquisition. In fact, those who do expect - Darl McBride: Our chief weapons are... Chris Sontag: Our chief weapons are...um...er... Darl McBride: Surprise... Chris Sontag: Surprise and -- Darl McBride: Okay, stop. Stop. Stop there - stop there. Stop. Phew! Ah!... our chief weapons are surprise...blah blah blah. Cardinal, read the charges. Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit copyright infringement against the SCO Group. 'My old man said follow the--' Chris Sontag: That's enough. [To Linux Users] Now, how do you plead? Linux Users: We're innocent. Darl McBride: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! [DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER] Chris Sontag: We'll soon change your mind about that! [DIABOLICAL ACTING] Darl McBride: Fear, surprise, and a most ruthless-- [controls himself with a supreme effort] Ooooh! Now, Chris -- the rack! [Chris Sontag produces a plastic-coated dish-drying rack. Darl McBride looks at it and clenches his teeth in an effort not to lose control. He hums heavily to cover his anger] Darl McBride: You....Right! Tie them down. [Fang and Chris Sontag make a pathetic attempt to tie them on to the drying rack] Darl McBride:Right! How do you plead? Linux Users: Innocent. Darl McBride: Ha! Right! Chris, give the rack [oh dear] give the rack a turn. [Chris Sontag stands their awkwardly and shrugs his shoulders] Chris Sontag: I.... Darl McBride: [gritting his teeth] I *know*, I know you can't. I didn't want to say anything. I just wanted to try and ignore your crass mistake. Chris Sontag: I... Darl McBride: It makes it all seem so stupid. Chris Sontag: Shall I...? Darl McBride: No, just pretend for God's sake. Ha! Ha! Ha! [Chris Sontag turns an imaginary handle on the side of the dish-rack] [Cut to them torturing a man, Linus Torvalds] Darl McBride: Now, Li
1) Users are pure evil. 2) Civilization is made up of users. 3) Computer professionals are responsible for the collapse of civilization. 4) Computer professionals will therefore destroy all evil.;^)...Cool!
I say inform your local newspaper or television news station. As you say, since the cable company is almost a monopoly in the area, I'll bet a number of people would love to know about how their local ISP is "spying" on them without them knowing. Most local news outlets are always looking for juicy stories about companies screwing over consumers.
Re:No, this is not about W3C staff wanting RAND sp
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W3C Ponders RAND Again
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It's about what to do if we're working on a specification that the community (including the open source community) needs/wants, and we discover that some aspect of it is covered by software patents.
That may be part of it but I'm not so sure that it is the only thing they are talking about. The following seems to suggest a lot more than just patent discovery.
"Extensions" that may require royalties could be done at W3C or by another standards organization....The consensus seemed to be that specs built on top of Core work (extensions?) are valuable and that standardizing them is important.
Found this in the reply to the message linked
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W3C Ponders RAND Again
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From: dank@kegel.com If I understand correctly, the W3C's position on RAND as described in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-2002022 6/#sec-Exception
which says
"In the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential,
but is not available on RF terms, then a Patent Advisory Group
(PAG) will be launched to resolve the conflict."
implies that RAND will be used only when a patent is truly
essential. But the proposal you mentioned above talks about
extensions. By definition, an extension is not essential.
Therefore the W3C's existing public statements don't support
the kind of exception proposal you mentioned.
You are aware you're treading on very dangerous ground here, I'm sure.
Care to identify the three participants who are eager to
introduce extensions that require royalty payments?
- Dan
I need to buy this guy a beer and a pizza because he replies to the heart of the matter. What part of NO did a few members not understand from the last time they tried going this way. Well, let me reiterate, NO, NO, NO. I'd love to join W3C and kick some ass over there but unfortunately I don't have the $5,750 to cover their 'affiliate' membership fee. Bastards!
Slashdot Mirror
BURGER TIME.
'Nuff Said
did he grab any prune juice while on the way out of the store.
I didn't see a section devoted to governance of SOA because without a strong IT Department your "Zen of SOA" will quickly become the "Art of Interdepartment War" as each division of the company will try to control or influence the service if they they have to connect to it. A strong IT Department can push back on the other departments for the greater good of the company and force departments with rogue apps to eventually use the services.
For a second there I thought the title said "RIAA Interference Leads To Nobel Prize". I have found their interference with people's lives to be creative, but Nobel Prize worthy...hardly.
Any programming work that must stay in the U.S. (e.g. military, homeland security, intelligence) will be more expensive to cover workers with that insurance. And since that work is typically government contracts the U.S. taxpayer will ultimately flip the bill. I'm sure the insurance for something like avionics control software will be very expensive.
This will be very interesting to see how they enforce this during GenCon (or other cons for that manner). A small admissions fee is charged for each gaming event to cover the room, electricity, etc. I doubt all the groups running the WW gaming events have licenses. So is White Wolf going to shut down these games if they don't have licenses?
I want to see WW enforcers come in with flamethrowers torching character sheets and kicking us out of the rooms. It would be the highlight of GenCon.
Just like programming...consider stocking shelves as implementing a sorting algorithm and passing out shopping carts as developing a shopping cart module for an ecommerce site. ;^)
Will I be able to zoom in on Area 51? I don't want to try it out just to find out it has been censored out.
I believe 13,000,000 dead Russian civilians under Joseph Stalin's watch would disagree with you.
The story reminded me of this site. I'm not sure if the responses are real but I particularly enjoyed reading the Cthulhu response to a 419.
Car parking. Enough of it, close enough to the building.
I've never understood the idea that its ok to work out in a gym for an hour but god forbid you should walk 5 minutes to get to your car. I say scrap the gym and put the parking lot a mile from work to force some excercise on the workers.
The quote reminds of Nikita Kruschev pounding his shoe on the UN desk shouting "We will bury you" amongst other nonsense.
Winamp!....It really whips the elephant's ass!
I mean, really, teachers are giving kids detention for talkking DURING THE ADS on Channel One.
I was in high school when Channel One first started and most of us (including the teachers) treated it as a joke. I didn't know some teachers now treat it this seriously. Things have gone downhill.
Companies buying access to children in school began many years ago before the RIAA:
...and don't forget that soft drink companies had exclusive contracts with schools in return for support.
Channel One News for the masses
Nike Shoes for athletes
I'm sure the list is bigger than this, these are the ones that immediately come to mind.
I hope they can borrow Weta Digital's render farm to perfect some of the characters,...
Weird, I read the sentence this way (for obvious reasons): I hope they can borrow Weta Digital's render farm to prefect some of the characters,...
so that is what the sound of over a billion people laughing sounds like.
There must be at least 1 out of work /. reader who can fill this position in Arlington, VA.
o bs /jobs.htm
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/ohr/j
USPTO Job #: 03-050
Closing Date: 12/31/03
Description: Patent Examiner (Computer Engrg, Elec Engrg, Computer Science)
Salary: $32,819 - $70,959
Hoping to tip the scales in our favor.
IBM: Trouble with Linux.
...' ... our chief weapons are surprise...blah blah blah. Cardinal, read the charges.
Linux Users: Oh no - what kind of trouble?
IBM: One on't shared codes gone owt askew on base code.
Linux Users: Pardon?
IBM: One on't shared codes gone owt askew on base code.
Linux Users: I don't understand what you're saying.
IBM: [slightly irritated and with exaggerated clear accent] One of the shared codes has gone out askew on the base code.
Linux Users: Well what on earth does that mean?
IBM: *I* don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble with Linux, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of SCO Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD]
[The door flies open and CEO Darl McBride of Santa Cruz enters, flanked by two junior members. Chris Sontag has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang is just Cardinal Fang]
Darl McBride: NOBODY expects the SCO Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to money.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
[The Inquisition exits]
IBM: I didn't expect a kind of SCO Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD]
[The SCO Group burst in]
Darl McBride: NOBODY expects the SCO Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to money, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
[To Chris Sontag] I can't say it - you'll have to say it.
Chris Sontag: What?
Darl McBride: You'll have to say the bit about 'Our chief weapons are
Chris Sontag: [rather horrified]: I couldn't do that...
[Darl McBride bundles them outside again]
IBM: I didn't expect a kind of SCO Inquisition.
[JARRING CHORD]
[The SCO Group enter]
Chris Sontag: Er.... Nobody...um....
Darl McBride: Expects...
Chris Sontag: Expects... Nobody expects the...um...the SCO...um...
Darl McBride: Inquisition.
Chris Sontag: I know, I know! Nobody expects the SCO Inquisition. In fact, those who do expect -
Darl McBride: Our chief weapons are...
Chris Sontag: Our chief weapons are...um...er...
Darl McBride: Surprise...
Chris Sontag: Surprise and --
Darl McBride: Okay, stop. Stop. Stop there - stop there. Stop. Phew! Ah!
Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit copyright infringement against the SCO Group. 'My old man said follow the--'
Chris Sontag: That's enough.
[To Linux Users] Now, how do you plead?
Linux Users: We're innocent.
Darl McBride: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
[DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER]
Chris Sontag: We'll soon change your mind about that!
[DIABOLICAL ACTING]
Darl McBride: Fear, surprise, and a most ruthless-- [controls himself with a supreme effort] Ooooh! Now, Chris -- the rack!
[Chris Sontag produces a plastic-coated dish-drying rack. Darl McBride looks at it and clenches his teeth in an effort not to lose control. He hums heavily to cover his anger]
Darl McBride: You....Right! Tie them down.
[Fang and Chris Sontag make a pathetic attempt to tie them on to the drying rack]
Darl McBride:Right! How do you plead?
Linux Users: Innocent.
Darl McBride: Ha! Right! Chris, give the rack [oh dear] give the rack a turn.
[Chris Sontag stands their awkwardly and shrugs his shoulders]
Chris Sontag: I....
Darl McBride: [gritting his teeth] I *know*, I know you can't. I didn't want to say anything. I just wanted to try and ignore your crass mistake.
Chris Sontag: I...
Darl McBride: It makes it all seem so stupid.
Chris Sontag: Shall I...?
Darl McBride: No, just pretend for God's sake. Ha! Ha! Ha!
[Chris Sontag turns an imaginary handle on the side of the dish-rack]
[Cut to them torturing a man, Linus Torvalds]
Darl McBride: Now, Li
Comedy is when you say fsck, tragedy is when I say fsck.
Doh!
Would we then be considered self-sacrificing heroes or self-destructive villains? Hmmm, such a fine line here.
1) Users are pure evil. ;^)...Cool!
2) Civilization is made up of users.
3) Computer professionals are responsible for the collapse of civilization.
4) Computer professionals will therefore destroy all evil.
I say inform your local newspaper or television news station. As you say, since the cable company is almost a monopoly in the area, I'll bet a number of people would love to know about how their local ISP is "spying" on them without them knowing. Most local news outlets are always looking for juicy stories about companies screwing over consumers.
It's about what to do if we're working on a specification that the community (including the open source community) needs/wants, and we discover that some aspect of it is covered by software patents.
...The consensus seemed to be that specs built on top of Core work (extensions?) are valuable and that standardizing them is important.
That may be part of it but I'm not so sure that it is the only thing they are talking about. The following seems to suggest a lot more than just patent discovery.
"Extensions" that may require royalties could be done at W3C or by another standards organization.
From: dank@kegel.com2 6/#sec-Exception
which says
"In the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential,
but is not available on RF terms, then a Patent Advisory Group
(PAG) will be launched to resolve the conflict."
implies that RAND will be used only when a patent is truly
essential. But the proposal you mentioned above talks about
extensions. By definition, an extension is not essential.
Therefore the W3C's existing public statements don't support
the kind of exception proposal you mentioned.
If I understand correctly, the W3C's position on RAND as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-200202
You are aware you're treading on very dangerous ground here, I'm sure. Care to identify the three participants who are eager to introduce extensions that require royalty payments? - Dan
I need to buy this guy a beer and a pizza because he replies to the heart of the matter. What part of NO did a few members not understand from the last time they tried going this way. Well, let me reiterate, NO, NO, NO. I'd love to join W3C and kick some ass over there but unfortunately I don't have the $5,750 to cover their 'affiliate' membership fee. Bastards!