We're all leveraged when we can build on the good ideas and good code of others. The danger, in some organizations, is when they believe they can hire low-skill or non-programmers to put the pre-designed components together. As an old-timer, I've watched software development over the years, and there is a continual tendancy of enterprise managers to conceptualize programmers as low-cost, commodity labor. One company reorganized their development group out of existence, conceiving of this work to be done by vendors and rare consultants. The result is that they are frequently in a state of chrisis from their systems failing and from having nobody on staff with the skill to diagnose or fix them. Managers need to know that they need highly skilled developers, and they need to pay them what they are worth. These people can intelligently build on the work of others in a way that works for the unique problems of their business.
This is pure nonsense. If the spam scam works, the spammer gets money from someone and that someone has to be the one who receives the spam - ie, you. You could work out the model of how you lose but it's sort of self-evident beyond a reasonable. By the time you get the spam, it's too late to buy.
Whatever you think about how Bill Gates screwed Netscape or Borland or anyone else who tried to compete with him, you must accept one thing: Before Bill, there were two kinds of people: The Geeks and the people who tell the Geeks what to do. Think about it. Thank you, Bill.
>>So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network?
I can't believe hospital systems are linked to the internet and email. In the good old days, we weren't even permitted to have modems connected to mission-critical systems. These systems should be required, by hospital certification authorities, to be physically isolated from any email or web connections. Firewalls are a joke, for protecting sick people in the context of today's security threats. With only slight loss of convenience, staff can have separate workstations and networks to access their email and use the web.
Solving "the last mile" makes buses/trains work!
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On the surface, I would agree that:
>>How many people live close enough to work that they can afford the time to communte on a device that moves at walking speed? (no one I know)
But Segway may just be the missing piece to the puzzle of mass transit. How many people would take the train/subway/bus if they could use this gadget to get to the bus/train station, or to get to their job after they get off the bus or train? Without something like this, trains/buses just don't work for the masses.
This could be a fun hack for someone with a better mind than me. Create software to "fingerprint" any mp3 file. Then you could license it to Napster to include with the client(under pressure from publishers) to upload the fingerprint with the mp3 file. Then they could keep a database of copyrighted fingerprints....the fingerprinting could be fun - combination of time-sequence of fast fourier transforms - to get the frequency distribution of the sounds over time?
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We're all leveraged when we can build on the good ideas and good code of others. The danger, in some organizations, is when they believe they can hire low-skill or non-programmers to put the pre-designed components together. As an old-timer, I've watched software development over the years, and there is a continual tendancy of enterprise managers to conceptualize programmers as low-cost, commodity labor. One company reorganized their development group out of existence, conceiving of this work to be done by vendors and rare consultants. The result is that they are frequently in a state of chrisis from their systems failing and from having nobody on staff with the skill to diagnose or fix them. Managers need to know that they need highly skilled developers, and they need to pay them what they are worth. These people can intelligently build on the work of others in a way that works for the unique problems of their business.
This is pure nonsense. If the spam scam works, the spammer gets money from someone and that someone has to be the one who receives the spam - ie, you. You could work out the model of how you lose but it's sort of self-evident beyond a reasonable. By the time you get the spam, it's too late to buy.
Whatever you think about how Bill Gates screwed Netscape or Borland or anyone else who tried to compete with him, you must accept one thing: Before Bill, there were two kinds of people: The Geeks and the people who tell the Geeks what to do. Think about it. Thank you, Bill.
>>So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network?
I can't believe hospital systems are linked to the internet and email. In the good old days, we weren't even permitted to have modems connected to mission-critical systems. These systems should be required, by hospital certification authorities, to be physically isolated from any email or web connections. Firewalls are a joke, for protecting sick people in the context of today's security threats. With only slight loss of convenience, staff can have separate workstations and networks to access their email and use the web.
On the surface, I would agree that:
>>How many people live close enough to work that they can afford the time to communte on a device that moves at walking speed? (no one I know)
But Segway may just be the missing piece to the puzzle of mass transit. How many people would take the train/subway/bus if they could use this gadget to get to the bus/train station, or to get to their job after they get off the bus or train? Without something like this, trains/buses just don't work for the masses.
This could be a fun hack for someone with a better mind than me. Create software to "fingerprint" any mp3 file. Then you could license it to Napster to include with the client(under pressure from publishers) to upload the fingerprint with the mp3 file. Then they could keep a database of copyrighted fingerprints....the fingerprinting could be fun - combination of time-sequence of fast fourier transforms - to get the frequency distribution of the sounds over time?