You obviously aren't seeing what others are seeing. Everyone I talk to who has seen offshoring agrees that basically the company axes entire projects at a time. So, even if the numbers look like 10% of the software developers in your company are laid off...they common criteria for layoffs is not how good you are...but what project you are on.
This seems to me like a specific example of an old technology, like virtual memory. It sounds like treating a physical media device as updatable memory. Which...is what I would think virtual memory is. Does making this specifically for writable CDs make this unique? Am I missing the uniqueness of this patent?
I wouldn't normally reply here but you have no email listed.
I was an IS (Info. science) major at Pitt (even though I spend all day designing/writing software now)...never went to class...and spent most of my senior year working 30-40 hr weeks as a co-op at my current employer.
I had 2 good IS teachers while at Pitt...but both of them were mainly focussed on our grad program. Joe Kabara and Marek Druzdzel. Those two teachers taught me more in 2 classes than I learned over my entire degree.
I may get docked karma for this...but as a Univ. of Pittsburgh alumni its my responsibility to trash Penn State whenever possible. Promising to trash Penn State is about the only thing you have to do to graduate from Pitt...since the coursework is so easy.
I do not believe this is a big surprise move by MS. They are, after all, the devil:-)
But seriously, I have wondered for a long time how long RedHat and other companies would get away wiht providing tools that help people transition to Linux. Such as the tools that mount ntfs or fat filesystems. Microsoft knows nothing of the spirit of cooperation as proven by the way they treat their business "partners." Instead of working together to achieve something great as in a partnership, Microsoft waits til they think its profittable and normally competes head to head with their partners by buying out one of their competitors.
Now, in the same fashon, they will charge for something that was free. Compnaies are hooked into using the FAT filesystem. And, like a drug dealer, they start charging for the drugs that keeps the user flying high now that they are hooked by the first freebies.
Intelligent companies will figure a way to not be exploited by MS. Of course, if they were intelligent, they should have seen this coming from MS.
Lawmakers give the FTC the jurisdiction to do this. FTC does it. Law enforcers/interperters say the FTC "overstepped its authority". Now...I know the US system allows judges to question laws and their legality wrt citizen's rights...but to say they didn't have the authority seems incorrect. What am I missing?
Seriously...while we all hate spam...someone *really* wants spammers in jail? On the right is the rapist, then murderer, then child molester, then spammer.
You can skip commercials...but I think the inter-corporate relationship is different.
It is not legal to take Friends, air it on Fox instead of NBC and have Fox get money (commercials) for it without a contract in place that pays NBC.
I view the action of allowing others to profit off ads from their website as the same thing. Company Z uses Company X's content to key Company Y's ads that makes Company Y & Z money without paying Company X. If there is money to be made on Company X's content, they deserve a cut.
I personally see only one problem. Companies make such large investments in IT infrastructure (hardware and bandwidth let alone people and software) that they deserve to be able to find ways to regain those costs on their sites. This site (/.) and many other are expensive to run and maintain, let alone the huge initial costs.
So my problem is this...(UHaul case aside) could allowing changes to the site by third party software be denying companies the funds they deserve for providing the service? Each visitors costs them money. Do they not deserve to pick up the couple pennies for that?
Big Blue's Open Source Java IDE (slashdot link)
on
Java IDEs?
·
· Score: 2
Check out IBM's Eclipse and/or Slashdot's post about it a couple days ago here.
From the article..."With only 13 episodes in the first season, the first three-disc set will be fleshed out with loads of extra material, including the original shorts that debuted on ``The Tracey Ullman Show'' and never-before-seen lost episode."
According to the author..."The licence has only ever granted right to redistribute/use, not modify. "
Dang...it looks like I can't submit those patches to that major security hole I found...I guess I will just have to exploit everyone til they learn.;-)
No..but seriously...having an "open source" product without having the ability to modify kinda makes it a bad model. This creates a dependency on the author of the product to get a patch out. IANAL...but this seems worse than MS...because if you are relying on something that has 1 main author in this model...you technically could only get a fix from him/her. At least MS has a team of maintenance developers in case one is in the hospital.
As always...please correct me if I interperted this incorrectly.
I bet you will find that 90% of the companies out there will let you buy your own chairs and whatnot so that you don't get a bad back. Its worth it...so go do it.
I'd like a list of small bands that pass out full mp3 tracks so you can here there works. So far, I found this awesome artist (listening to his mp3s made me buy his CD), John Lardieri and apparently this artist, Down to Zero, will be putting their MP3s out. Anyone else contribute to this list?
Ya know...in a service based industry like we are (arguably) moving into, this is a non-problem. In the end the people with the best overall service (from tech support to consulting and everything in between) will get the work. So, you can say that it sucks...but I am of the belief that it can and will just get better.
I wonder if he would partially attribute this decision to the accident he was involved in. It seems like events like that make us appreciate life... and, depending on your view, get out from behind your computer for a bit.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/ads.html
e Win95.jpg
n ilaSitesCom/welibm.jpg
I prefer this one:
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads5/Appl
or this one:
http://static.userland.com/manilasites/images/MMa
Whew! Glad you mispelled qwerty or that would be totally insecure!
You obviously aren't seeing what others are seeing. Everyone I talk to who has seen offshoring agrees that basically the company axes entire projects at a time. So, even if the numbers look like 10% of the software developers in your company are laid off...they common criteria for layoffs is not how good you are...but what project you are on.
This seems to me like a specific example of an old technology, like virtual memory. It sounds like treating a physical media device as updatable memory. Which...is what I would think virtual memory is. Does making this specifically for writable CDs make this unique? Am I missing the uniqueness of this patent?
I wouldn't normally reply here but you have no email listed.
I was an IS (Info. science) major at Pitt (even though I spend all day designing/writing software now)...never went to class...and spent most of my senior year working 30-40 hr weeks as a co-op at my current employer.
I had 2 good IS teachers while at Pitt...but both of them were mainly focussed on our grad program. Joe Kabara and Marek Druzdzel. Those two teachers taught me more in 2 classes than I learned over my entire degree.
I may get docked karma for this...but as a Univ. of Pittsburgh alumni its my responsibility to trash Penn State whenever possible. Promising to trash Penn State is about the only thing you have to do to graduate from Pitt...since the coursework is so easy.
I do not believe this is a big surprise move by MS. They are, after all, the devil :-)
But seriously, I have wondered for a long time how long RedHat and other companies would get away wiht providing tools that help people transition to Linux. Such as the tools that mount ntfs or fat filesystems. Microsoft knows nothing of the spirit of cooperation as proven by the way they treat their business "partners." Instead of working together to achieve something great as in a partnership, Microsoft waits til they think its profittable and normally competes head to head with their partners by buying out one of their competitors.
Now, in the same fashon, they will charge for something that was free. Compnaies are hooked into using the FAT filesystem. And, like a drug dealer, they start charging for the drugs that keeps the user flying high now that they are hooked by the first freebies.
Intelligent companies will figure a way to not be exploited by MS. Of course, if they were intelligent, they should have seen this coming from MS.
Lanham act info: http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/
What possesses someone to try such weird random words in google. Thats the real trick...google wrote an engine to amuse the crazy users.
Lawmakers give the FTC the jurisdiction to do this. FTC does it. Law enforcers/interperters say the FTC "overstepped its authority". Now...I know the US system allows judges to question laws and their legality wrt citizen's rights...but to say they didn't have the authority seems incorrect. What am I missing?
...straight to death sentence!
Seriously...while we all hate spam...someone *really* wants spammers in jail? On the right is the rapist, then murderer, then child molester, then spammer.
But all I hear is the sounds of Billy saying "Its not fair! Its not fair! I can't use my monopoly to get them like I did Be."
Ryan McVay is the photographer.
According to this site
You can skip commercials...but I think the inter-corporate relationship is different.
It is not legal to take Friends, air it on Fox instead of NBC and have Fox get money (commercials) for it without a contract in place that pays NBC.
I view the action of allowing others to profit off ads from their website as the same thing. Company Z uses Company X's content to key Company Y's ads that makes Company Y & Z money without paying Company X. If there is money to be made on Company X's content, they deserve a cut.
I personally see only one problem. Companies make such large investments in IT infrastructure (hardware and bandwidth let alone people and software) that they deserve to be able to find ways to regain those costs on their sites. This site (/.) and many other are expensive to run and maintain, let alone the huge initial costs.
So my problem is this...(UHaul case aside) could allowing changes to the site by third party software be denying companies the funds they deserve for providing the service? Each visitors costs them money. Do they not deserve to pick up the couple pennies for that?
Check out IBM's Eclipse and/or Slashdot's post about it a couple days ago here.
here are some useful other links (screenshots, downloads, and such) since the page was down (and google cache didn't catch it right)
o gram_id=76
http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com/program.asp?pr
http://home.media-n.de/lug-nb/software/xosl.html (In German for those of you who can't read it...use babelfish)
From the article..."With only 13 episodes in the first season, the first three-disc set will be fleshed out with loads of extra material, including the original shorts that debuted on ``The Tracey Ullman Show'' and never-before-seen lost episode."
you are almost correct. Try, not even Gary Kasparov can beat the games. ;-)
According to the author..."The licence has only ever granted right to redistribute/use, not modify. "
;-)
Dang...it looks like I can't submit those patches to that major security hole I found...I guess I will just have to exploit everyone til they learn.
No..but seriously...having an "open source" product without having the ability to modify kinda makes it a bad model. This creates a dependency on the author of the product to get a patch out. IANAL...but this seems worse than MS...because if you are relying on something that has 1 main author in this model...you technically could only get a fix from him/her. At least MS has a team of maintenance developers in case one is in the hospital.
As always...please correct me if I interperted this incorrectly.
I bet you will find that 90% of the companies out there will let you buy your own chairs and whatnot so that you don't get a bad back. Its worth it...so go do it.
I'd like a list of small bands that pass out full mp3 tracks so you can here there works. So far, I found this awesome artist (listening to his mp3s made me buy his CD), John Lardieri and apparently this artist, Down to Zero, will be putting their MP3s out. Anyone else contribute to this list?
or should I say, if, Microsoft is split up. Does this XBox group compose a 4th division (OS, Software, *Internet*/ASP/ISP, Gaming/XBox)?
Ya know...in a service based industry like we are (arguably) moving into, this is a non-problem. In the end the people with the best overall service (from tech support to consulting and everything in between) will get the work. So, you can say that it sucks...but I am of the belief that it can and will just get better.
I wonder if he would partially attribute this decision to the accident he was involved in. It seems like events like that make us appreciate life... and, depending on your view, get out from behind your computer for a bit. :-)
Good luck Jason!