Certainly the US feels the same way; go after the distributors and not the 'users', but if a person is big enough to draw the attention of the 'powers that be', then you could face action (and while not a citizen of the UK, I'm sure that the legal system there works in the same fashion: make an example of this bloke as a warning to the rest of scene).
While it is easy to cop a prima donna attitude, and call the work environment unsupportive and hostile, there are times when in fact the abuse is what is happening. Iâ(TM)ve been there, and Iâ(TM)m sure others have too (Fâ(TM)d Company lists them by the ton) and have found being unemployed is preferred to the abuse at the office.
You owe no-one else at the company a job, that is job of the CEO / President / Founders / Partners, and to say that if so-n-so leaves the company is going to fail, so you canâ(TM)t, well, youâ(TM)re being dishonest then to the realities.
Iâ(TM)ve seen the key people leave companies and watched them fail, and in hindsight, it isnâ(TM)t the person(s) who leaves which caused the failure, it usually was other factors that lead up to the key people leaving.
Companies fail, itâ(TM)s life, and nothing is a given, but for taxes and death.
Because it would be easy to prove from AOL/TW's point of view that the code he wrote and is now giving away for free is their's. His contract states that they own all of his code.
Someone doing the US a favor by writing a program that would use the web to solve this issue by signing up everyone! By using the phone company's tools against them- maybe using a PHP program, we could lookup a number in an area code on the online Whitepages, screen scrape the data to fill out the form for the FTC & States.
RING TIME FOR FRODO Lyrics (C) 2001 by Terence Chua (to the tune of "Springtime for Hitler" by Mel Brooks)
Middle Earth was having trouble When we start our story Sauron had awakened To restore his former glory So in Hobbiton We looked there and found The way to stop that evil sod That wants to grind us down And now it's
Ring time for Frodo and Company We're setting out on the march Journeying through perpetual gloom Seeking to find the Cracks of Doom!
Ring time for Frodo and Company Ring wraiths are hot on our tails Ring time for Frodo and Company Watch out Mordor, we're hitting the trail!
(spoken) Just a word of sage advice - bashing Balrogs isn't nice! Life in darkness can't be finer - when you are a Nazgul rider!
(cue dance number)
Ring time for Frodo and Company (sound of bells ringing) Questing's the best thing for fun (sound of hoofbeats and clashing of swords) Searching through dark and dusty tombs (sound of screams falling into a dark abyss) Finding our way through Khazad-dum!
Ring time for Frodo and Company New friends to meet on our way Ring time for Frodo and Company And soon we'll be saving We're gonna be saving You know we'll be saving the day!
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Don't hurt me.
---------- Terence Chua khaos@tim.org WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org KhaOS@TinyTIM: telnet://yay.tim.org:5440 "The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
Perhaps there should be, but in the case of Texas, the title denotes a status, and legal requirements have been met. Until Texas develops an exam for Software Developers to become Software Engineers, they should not be called that.
PS- My business card reads: Sr. Web Application Developer (I'm also in MA).
My boss has nearly 100oz of gold in a bank vault. You can buy gold or most other precious metals by dealing with coin dealers.
As for the value of the dollar, everyone in this thead is correct that it's based on the idea of what we think it is worth. Nothing more, nothing less. Ditto for the Euro, Yen, and any other major currency.
I'm certain that this will happen, but I also think that any common language will have specialized lingo which will branch out to it's own 'speak', eg lawyers and law, or doctors and medician.
However, for those who do study the past and learn from it, having the information about dead languages is a useful tool. Certainly tells us about ourselves.
I just replace the computer every few years. Fresh install of OS, Applications and then I move the data over. Fairly painless way to keep them out of my hair.
Is hard. And once you do something that gathers attention of the masses, it's fairly easy to knock out copies as well.
That and everything is just theme and variation on what's been done before (not to say that maybe it isn't worth redoing...)
Information Overload
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How much information can the human mind handle before the datum become just noise?
I recall reading or seeing on TV once interviews with fighter jet pilots from the Korean War, and they were complaning to the engineers that there were too many audio alerts that were distracting them from doing their job, and could they put an off switch somewhere for those alerts?
I can see the same thing with the interface- how much data do we need to bombard ourselves with? The human mind can only subdivid our attention to so many tasks at once (I think the limit is 4 or 5).
I certainly can see places where moving into the 3rd dimention would help, but I see those as specialized tasks, not writing a letter or reading email.
If anoyone has bothered to read the PDFs about these chips you'll see that UV and sunlight will damage the chips. Plus, it appears that they have a life cycle of 6 months. Plus I think a pair of pliers would do the job so much faster (just crush the chip).
Now for the evil thought- if the chips are programmed to report if they've been bought or not, how hard would it be to reprogram all the RFID tags in a store that they've been paid for?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?Fuseaction= Students.Utah
And click on the MyUtahSearch.com graphic...
Long story short- my sig was in response to someone else's sig that read to the effect of "It's like calculating PI in Roman Numerals".
And while the romans never thought in terms of decimals, they did think in terms of fractions, (giving us the word decimation for example) -
www.m-w.comIMLogic does this, and is quite good at meeting these requirements (one of their coders is a friend of mine).
As for the daunting bit, hyperbole anyone?I think God can make a prior art claim on man and tru(e||th).
Me thinks that Unix has a lot of explaining to do to the Vatician.
That's My Site!
On the plus side, as I understand it, MS uses AIX and AS/400 to manage their accounting.
Certainly the US feels the same way; go after the distributors and not the 'users', but if a person is big enough to draw the attention of the 'powers that be', then you could face action (and while not a citizen of the UK, I'm sure that the legal system there works in the same fashion: make an example of this bloke as a warning to the rest of scene).
That is, until you get busted for wazes and have to pay a £20,000 fine.
While it is easy to cop a prima donna attitude, and call the work environment unsupportive and hostile, there are times when in fact the abuse is what is happening. Iâ(TM)ve been there, and Iâ(TM)m sure others have too (Fâ(TM)d Company lists them by the ton) and have found being unemployed is preferred to the abuse at the office.
You owe no-one else at the company a job, that is job of the CEO / President / Founders / Partners, and to say that if so-n-so leaves the company is going to fail, so you canâ(TM)t, well, youâ(TM)re being dishonest then to the realities.
Iâ(TM)ve seen the key people leave companies and watched them fail, and in hindsight, it isnâ(TM)t the person(s) who leaves which caused the failure, it usually was other factors that lead up to the key people leaving.
Companies fail, itâ(TM)s life, and nothing is a given, but for taxes and death.
Because it would be easy to prove from AOL/TW's point of view that the code he wrote and is now giving away for free is their's.
His contract states that they own all of his code.
Someone doing the US a favor by writing a program that would use the web to solve this issue by signing up everyone!
By using the phone company's tools against them- maybe using a PHP program, we could lookup a number in an area code on the online Whitepages, screen scrape the data to fill out the form for the FTC & States.
Here ya all go
RING TIME FOR FRODO
Lyrics (C) 2001 by Terence Chua
(to the tune of "Springtime for Hitler" by Mel Brooks)
Middle Earth was having trouble
When we start our story
Sauron had awakened
To restore his former glory
So in Hobbiton
We looked there and found
The way to stop that evil sod
That wants to grind us down
And now it's
Ring time for Frodo and Company
We're setting out on the march
Journeying through perpetual gloom
Seeking to find the Cracks of Doom!
Ring time for Frodo and Company
Ring wraiths are hot on our tails
Ring time for Frodo and Company
Watch out Mordor, we're hitting the trail!
(spoken)
Just a word of sage advice - bashing Balrogs isn't nice!
Life in darkness can't be finer - when you are a Nazgul rider!
(cue dance number)
Ring time for Frodo and Company
(sound of bells ringing)
Questing's the best thing for fun
(sound of hoofbeats and clashing of swords)
Searching through dark and dusty tombs
(sound of screams falling into a dark abyss)
Finding our way through Khazad-dum!
Ring time for Frodo and Company
New friends to meet on our way
Ring time for Frodo and Company
And soon we'll be saving
We're gonna be saving
You know we'll be saving the day!
--------
Don't hurt me.
----------
Terence Chua khaos@tim.org
WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org
KhaOS@TinyTIM: telnet://yay.tim.org:5440
"The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
I don't see myself MSN'ng someone else with out getting slapped.
I guess irony is truly dead.
Too true. Wall Street is very short term in results, analyst driven, which would kill Google over the old term. Best stay where they are now.
Tell that to Bill Gates and Company.
Perhaps there should be, but in the case of Texas, the title denotes a status, and legal requirements have been met. Until Texas develops an exam for Software Developers to become Software Engineers, they should not be called that.
PS- My business card reads: Sr. Web Application Developer (I'm also in MA).
My boss has nearly 100oz of gold in a bank vault. You can buy gold or most other precious metals by dealing with coin dealers.
As for the value of the dollar, everyone in this thead is correct that it's based on the idea of what we think it is worth. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ditto for the Euro, Yen, and any other major currency.
I'm certain that this will happen, but I also think that any common language will have specialized lingo which will branch out to it's own 'speak', eg lawyers and law, or doctors and medician.
However, for those who do study the past and learn from it, having the information about dead languages is a useful tool. Certainly tells us about ourselves.
Linksys has some odd stuff that I really don't see CISCO holding on to- NAS, battery backup, KVM, etc.
Guess it will come down to if CISCO can leave Linksys alone or not.
I just replace the computer every few years.
Fresh install of OS, Applications and then I move the data over. Fairly painless way to keep them out of my hair.
You'd think that they'd place the money in a rainy day account or setup a trust fund for the schools or something?
Is hard. And once you do something that gathers attention of the masses, it's fairly easy to knock out copies as well.
That and everything is just theme and variation on what's been done before (not to say that maybe it isn't worth redoing...)
How much information can the human mind handle before the datum become just noise?
I recall reading or seeing on TV once interviews with fighter jet pilots from the Korean War, and they were complaning to the engineers that there were too many audio alerts that were distracting them from doing their job, and could they put an off switch somewhere for those alerts?
I can see the same thing with the interface- how much data do we need to bombard ourselves with? The human mind can only subdivid our attention to so many tasks at once (I think the limit is 4 or 5).
I certainly can see places where moving into the 3rd dimention would help, but I see those as specialized tasks, not writing a letter or reading email.
If anoyone has bothered to read the PDFs about these chips you'll see that UV and sunlight will damage the chips. Plus, it appears that they have a life cycle of 6 months. Plus I think a pair of pliers would do the job so much faster (just crush the chip). Now for the evil thought- if the chips are programmed to report if they've been bought or not, how hard would it be to reprogram all the RFID tags in a store that they've been paid for?