WG == work group, ### = work group number WS == workstation #### = work station number Keep everything else in a simple-minded database. That's about the only practical solution for a large organization with hundreds to thousands of machines.
OTOH -- years ago when I was at startups, we had name "themes" per work team. The "Jay Ward cartoon characters" net was great -- watching the VP's squirm every time they had to say "Biggy Rat" with a straight face was exquisite.
Another net was the "beer" net. I specifically asked for 'leinenkugel' because if someone was looking to steal some mips for a simulation, they were far more likely to rlogin to 'bud' than a machine they (being an engineer) couldn't remember how to spell.
Honestly, Marvell chips have cost me more grief on Linux installs than all other vendors combined. If this gets mobo vendors to design out Marvell, then I say: "Grand!".
Your question is an oxymoron. You won't get experience in college. You will either learn to think, or you will not learn to think. If you learn to think, you will be hired. If you don't learn to think, you will not be hired, or at least not by the people you want to hire you.
Hiring managers looking for a particular language have a short term problem, and are probably better off looking at rent-a-coder. Hiring managers looking for someone who can think don't give a rat's rear end what language you used to develop thinking skills.
The article is kinda light on details. So, to you chemists out there, what controls where and how many times the trimethylbenzene bonds to the Buckyball? Why doesn't it form all sorts of bonds all over the ball and cause a giant, crystalized glop of randomly bonded Bucky-snot to precipitate out?
Count me as another who is, in fact, not unprepared, but unmoved. I go months without watching broadcast TV, and I haven't had cable either in nearly 20 years. I can easily go the rest of my life without broadcast TV.
Injunctions and FBI enforcement do happen. I have met a salesman who found himself face down in the tarmac during an FBI raid because (unkown to him) his Chinese bosses weren't paying Phillips for a DVD decoding license. Needless to say, he found this an unpleasant way to start the day.
In England, they've spent loads of taxpayer money to carpet the country with video cameras. Here in the good old US of A, we leverage the network effect by spying on each other. Much less cost to the taxpayer.
You say this is a mass market item. You say you are a one man shop. Guess what -- you can't scale yourself up to deliver to a mass market fast enough to be successful. IOW: your business model is utterly broken. Not to worry, I will describe a proven one that works well:
Step 1: Build a quick prototype using whatever and whoever is convenient. I would suggest hiring someone local to do the PCB design for you, get the source files from them so you can later do it yourself or hire someone else.
Step 2: Have the PCB's done by APCircuits or PCBExpress or similar. Or a local shop. You might even consider having a assembly house do your prototypes. Get it all working, mostly. The prototype can be ugly. You might find a local shop that can do all this from PCB design to assembly for you -- probably a good way to go if you can.
Steps 1 and 2 will cost you several (or even many) times what a production version of the unit will cost. So:
Step 3: Construct a bill-of-materials spreadsheet that is correct plus-or-minus 5 cents based on what it costs to source parts and manufacture in China. 5 cents. I'm not kidding. Real sourced-in-China 100K unit prices. I'm not kidding. Do your homework here.
Step 4: Market the idea to companies that have the manufacturing expertise and the marketing channel to deliver to the mass market. Sign a development contract where you: a) deliver a production design, b) support their PCB and manufacturing and purchasing people in China to bring up production, c) get progress payments for development engineering work so you can eat during that time, d) get a modest royalty if your product actually eventually ships.
This works. I know people that are quite successful with this model. They live well. They work their asses off, too, though.
Well, that depends on how you do the math. My wife figured the cost per square foot of our house in Silicon Valley, and calculated how much money it was costing her to store books. She cleaned out her bookshelves of time sensitive reference material and other books of zero sentimental value. This got several square feet of office space back, and made it much more convenient to read anything she wants when travelling.
Now, if volume and weight don't matter in your universe, it's harder to justify a Kindle. But it her universe they matter enough for the Kindle to make economic sense.
Fry's is definately better than CC or BB. And I really don't like Fry's much. I shop there for some things, but selectively. Basically only disposable items. They only carry low end stuff, and the service is absymal. CC or BB I pass without a glance.
Personally, I like Central. They are staffed with intelligent, helpful people. Thier stock is not real deep, but they will happily and quickly order things for you and have it in two days. I had the experience of trying two different Fry's looking for a particular hard disk. The amount of time I spent at two Fry's trying to find an intelligent being who was ultimately completely unhelpful was less than the total amount of time it took to get into Central, place an order, get on the road again, *and* get a follow-up cell phone call from the Central rep about when to expect my order.
Another poster in this thread mentioned Halted -- but that is a horse of a different color. That's a surplus house. That's where I go whenever I feel depressed and need a mood lift. But Halted is a place for solder-slingers, not a place to collect parts for a new gaming rig.
OK, I'm confused. What part of my comment are you disagreeing with? That WeDo is only appropriate at the low end of the age range? That Lego is a resonable choice to teach kids robotics, but that there are issues? Or that robotics competitions set up perverse incentives that get in the way of healthy learning?
We (my 9 YO daughter and I) have NXT. I've see WeDo, it is probably more appropriate at the lower age ranges, since it is more limited. I know people that teach robotics using lego, although I haven't done it myself.
First, philosophically, you have to decide if you want to go the "competition" (ie FIRST, Botball, etc) route, or more of an "educational constructionist" route. Personally, I think competitions set up a host of perverse incentives that work against true learning. Far better to set up "challenges", and let each kid (or team) see how far they can get. The learning is in the trying, not the winning.
How much money do you have? Lego works well with teams of two. Can you afford one kit per two kids? Also you need to handle the logistics of how to store/secure half-built robots between sessions. And you will also need to get good at inventorying Lego. Exotic Lego parts have a way of disappearing... you might find yourself on BrickLink more than you want to be.
NXT-G is not easy for kids to use, despite anything Lego tells you. Expect to spend some time on that.
So, having said all those negative sounding things, I don't really know of a better alternative than NXT for your sitation.... and my daughter and I *do* have a heaping pile of non-Lego robots of various kinds.
My wife has a Kindle 1.0, and loves it. She has loaded a large number of her favorite reference volumes (finance, mostly) on it, and cleared out several bookshelves in her office. For her, the dollars spent are well worth the space saved. The math is easy... compute the cost per square foot of owning a house in Silicon Valley, and consider if you really want to use those square feet as storage for books that have no emotional value. The Kindle is a bargain when analyzed like that. DRM and short life of the media is not an issue... all the books she put on it will be of little relevence in a few years. Oh... being able to make any book a "large print volume" is an outstanding benefit for those of us of bifocal age.
As for me, I wish I could put my entire O'Reilly bookshelf on it so that "lex & yacc" or "Practical C++ Programming" were always in my laptop bag where ever I went. But the Kindle technology sucks at displaying technical content. See Tim O'Reilly's blog post of a year or more ago on the topic. That's why you don't see nutshell books on Kindle. And that's why I don't own a Kindle. Wake me when Amazon gets a big, fat clue about formatting technical content. When it's good enough for Tim, it's good enough for me.
Of course this will happen with APAC shops unless the APAC employees get training in US buisiness culture, and the US employees get training in Chinese buisiness culture. Bootleg software is the *least* surprise your exectutives will receive unless they get out in front of this issue.
The APAC employees need the "this is how we do things here" speech. They will think you are nuts. If you repeat the speech enough, they will get it.
I use git for all of my stuff. I'm no expert, but I'm getting comfortable with what I need it for.
My adivce: play with git a lot before doing any production work with it. One highly refreshing thing about git is that you can create and blow away repos with nary a care... it's quick and painless. That being the case, it is the perfect sandbox toy. So think up some scenarios, create some toy repos, and whack away. Then blow the cruft away and do it again. Understand sub projects. Set up a couple or several machines and users and start pushing and pulling willy-nilly and see what happens. It will be fast and easy to do this on toy repos, and you will understand how it is all supposed to work.
Step two is to do some capacity tests.... scriptomatically create some monster size toy repos and see how they peform.
By the end of this, you'll understand git. And all this playing around is much less painful than with any other system I've seen.
Now, if you have an old repo to import, you have another whole batch of experiments to do. Getting all that history over correctly is going to require some research. Git has a lot of functionality -- the current state of the documentation leaves you to do some digging, though.
So what's left are people either too cheap or too poor for cable or satellite, or who (like me) are RF hobbyists.
You left out rural Americans. Those who currently live far from any metropolitan area are going to see their channel choices severely reduced. I suspect my inlaws will have zero choices in television viewing after the switch -- whereas now they get fringe reception from 10 or so stations in various directions, using a decent outdoor antenna.
There is no way any cable company is going to be wiring the area where they live -- there is about one television-owning family per square mile. (I say television-owning, because the families that are packed in greater than one per square mile are Amish.)
Part 15 devices already create a spectral cesspool. Between devices that are shoddily made, not made to their certifications (ie: the manufacturer certified a 'lab queen' and what they actually build doesn't meet spec), and end users adding illegal power amps and illegal antennas, Part 15 devices are already a huge headache to the licensed users with whom they share spectrum. The SNR on digital TV is already marginal enough. This could very well go badly for all concerned. Part 15 devices need to be segregated into totally unlicensed spectrum so that they don't cause interference to licensed users. Let them lie in their own dung.
The surface finish and material properties of 3D printer output is nothing like injection molded or machined plastics. If you want a weak, brittle copy in the wrong color with a rough surface, sure. But ain't nobody gonna be printing missing Lego parts with these.
Well, I disagree with your numbers. For the 3D printers I have seen the cost of consumables plus maintenance contract plus cost of capital to have the machine on site (own or lease) brings the total costs to around $15/in^3. They have a margin, sure. The also have some operator time.
Well, you know, cable is not an option for some people. My inlaws, for instance. They are in the fringe reception area for *any* analog TV. Takes a rotatable, high-gain antenna at 30+ feet to get any signal at all. Oh, BTW, cable isn't likely to reach them any time soon, given that the nearest cable plant is 5 miles away, they live in an area with about 2 families per square mile, and about 1/4 of those families are Amish.
You may think I am kidding, but those are the absolute facts. Now, of course, most people are not in that situation. But for those that are, TV could essentially go totally dark unless they buy a dish.
Of course, in the end, it is a political problem. And that has been handled by gerrymandering the state into pie-wedge shaped districts that take in enough of the metro district to guarantee that the citiots control every election.
And the concept of IT security negligence is little different from bank physical security or workplace safety negligence.
If a bank is robbed, of course you go after the robbers. But if the robbers cleaned out your safety deposit box, and it is shown that the bank was failing to use best practices with respect to security, you have an action against the bank as well.
If you suffer a workplace injury, and it can be shown that the company was not following safety regulations and requirements, then you can go after the company.
Why is IT negligence different? If you aren't following known best practices, then that is quite simply the standard definition of negligence. "Did know, or as a professional should have known. Didn't do it anyway. BZZZT! Thank you for playing."
Really, this is one place where the law developed over the past several hundred years applies perfectly to today's technology without much adjustment at all. It would be great if all technology law were such.
But Flash is over used. Badly, badly, absurdly overused. In places where it does not belong.
Just two days ago I had an utterly mind boggling experience with a commerce site. Lego, to be exact. I was ordering my daughter some more Lego. Filled my shopping cart. Ready to checkout. Get diverted to a page I *can't* *read*. Buggy display, no way to tell what it wanted out of me, and not even a "you don't have flash" blurb. Just crud on my screen.
WTF??
I booted a Mac (with Firefox) to investigate.
Turns out that Lego Shop-at-Home has updated their checkout system and I needed to update my profile and confirm the password. OK, sounds like progress -- no argument with that. But what part of updating my password could possibly in any way shape or form justify more graphic content than a spiffy.gif?
It boggles my mind that at the critical point where I am about to type in my credit card number they divert me to a buggy flash page without even a "this dude doesn't have flash" detector in it. WTF is up with that? Don't they want my money?
Seriously, if their Viking forefathers had been that inept, everybody in Denmark would be speaking Gaelic today.
Oh, so all we have to do is tell all the PHBs in the world that ISO standards are useless. Simplicity itself.
That's a comment on your own credibility with your on PHB, not the correctness of my assertion. You need to work on that problem first.
Or do you seriously think that the entire online community treating ISO as tainted and unclean will actually enact some sort of change?
No, the on line community is already doing that. I was talking about real people with real jobs in positions where they have influence. Not people still living in their parent's basement.
Isn't this the same argument leveled against purchasing RIAA member label music, or Hollywood movies?
In a word, no. We're not talking about a consumer end product. We are talking about an engineering standard read by informed decision makers. I'm talking about improving the level of informedness.
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WG == work group, ### = work group number
WS == workstation #### = work station number
Keep everything else in a simple-minded database. That's about the only practical solution for a large organization with hundreds to thousands of machines.
OTOH -- years ago when I was at startups, we had name "themes" per work team. The "Jay Ward cartoon characters" net was great -- watching the VP's squirm every time they had to say "Biggy Rat" with a straight face was exquisite.
Another net was the "beer" net. I specifically asked for 'leinenkugel' because if someone was looking to steal some mips for a simulation, they were far more likely to rlogin to 'bud' than a machine they (being an engineer) couldn't remember how to spell.
Honestly, Marvell chips have cost me more grief on Linux installs than all other vendors combined. If this gets mobo vendors to design out Marvell, then I say: "Grand!".
Your question is an oxymoron. You won't get experience in college. You will either learn to think, or you will not learn to think. If you learn to think, you will be hired. If you don't learn to think, you will not be hired, or at least not by the people you want to hire you.
Hiring managers looking for a particular language have a short term problem, and are probably better off looking at rent-a-coder. Hiring managers looking for someone who can think don't give a rat's rear end what language you used to develop thinking skills.
Don't learn a language. Learn to solve problems.
The article is kinda light on details. So, to you chemists out there, what controls where and how many times the trimethylbenzene bonds to the Buckyball? Why doesn't it form all sorts of bonds all over the ball and cause a giant, crystalized glop of randomly bonded Bucky-snot to precipitate out?
Count me as another who is, in fact, not unprepared, but unmoved. I go months without watching broadcast TV, and I haven't had cable either in nearly 20 years. I can easily go the rest of my life without broadcast TV.
Injunctions and FBI enforcement do happen. I have met a salesman who found himself face down in the tarmac during an FBI raid because (unkown to him) his Chinese bosses weren't paying Phillips for a DVD decoding license. Needless to say, he found this an unpleasant way to start the day.
In England, they've spent loads of taxpayer money to carpet the country with video cameras. Here in the good old US of A, we leverage the network effect by spying on each other. Much less cost to the taxpayer.
Do you mean an African or European swallow?
You say this is a mass market item. You say you are a one man shop. Guess what -- you can't scale yourself up to deliver to a mass market fast enough to be successful. IOW: your business model is utterly broken. Not to worry, I will describe a proven one that works well:
Step 1: Build a quick prototype using whatever and whoever is convenient. I would suggest hiring someone local to do the PCB design for you, get the source files from them so you can later do it yourself or hire someone else.
Step 2: Have the PCB's done by APCircuits or PCBExpress or similar. Or a local shop. You might even consider having a assembly house do your prototypes. Get it all working, mostly. The prototype can be ugly. You might find a local shop that can do all this from PCB design to assembly for you -- probably a good way to go if you can.
Steps 1 and 2 will cost you several (or even many) times what a production version of the unit will cost. So:
Step 3: Construct a bill-of-materials spreadsheet that is correct plus-or-minus 5 cents based on what it costs to source parts and manufacture in China. 5 cents. I'm not kidding. Real sourced-in-China 100K unit prices. I'm not kidding. Do your homework here.
Step 4: Market the idea to companies that have the manufacturing expertise and the marketing channel to deliver to the mass market. Sign a development contract where you: a) deliver a production design, b) support their PCB and manufacturing and purchasing people in China to bring up production, c) get progress payments for development engineering work so you can eat during that time, d) get a modest royalty if your product actually eventually ships.
This works. I know people that are quite successful with this model. They live well. They work their asses off, too, though.
Well, that depends on how you do the math. My wife figured the cost per square foot of our house in Silicon Valley, and calculated how much money it was costing her to store books. She cleaned out her bookshelves of time sensitive reference material and other books of zero sentimental value. This got several square feet of office space back, and made it much more convenient to read anything she wants when travelling.
Now, if volume and weight don't matter in your universe, it's harder to justify a Kindle. But it her universe they matter enough for the Kindle to make economic sense.
Fry's is definately better than CC or BB. And I really don't like Fry's much. I shop there for some things, but selectively. Basically only disposable items. They only carry low end stuff, and the service is absymal. CC or BB I pass without a glance.
Personally, I like Central. They are staffed with intelligent, helpful people. Thier stock is not real deep, but they will happily and quickly order things for you and have it in two days. I had the experience of trying two different Fry's looking for a particular hard disk. The amount of time I spent at two Fry's trying to find an intelligent being who was ultimately completely unhelpful was less than the total amount of time it took to get into Central, place an order, get on the road again, *and* get a follow-up cell phone call from the Central rep about when to expect my order.
Another poster in this thread mentioned Halted -- but that is a horse of a different color. That's a surplus house. That's where I go whenever I feel depressed and need a mood lift. But Halted is a place for solder-slingers, not a place to collect parts for a new gaming rig.
OK, I'm confused. What part of my comment are you disagreeing with? That WeDo is only appropriate at the low end of the age range? That Lego is a resonable choice to teach kids robotics, but that there are issues? Or that robotics competitions set up perverse incentives that get in the way of healthy learning?
We (my 9 YO daughter and I) have NXT. I've see WeDo, it is probably more appropriate at the lower age ranges, since it is more limited. I know people that teach robotics using lego, although I haven't done it myself.
First, philosophically, you have to decide if you want to go the "competition" (ie FIRST, Botball, etc) route, or more of an "educational constructionist" route. Personally, I think competitions set up a host of perverse incentives that work against true learning. Far better to set up "challenges", and let each kid (or team) see how far they can get. The learning is in the trying, not the winning.
How much money do you have? Lego works well with teams of two. Can you afford one kit per two kids? Also you need to handle the logistics of how to store/secure half-built robots between sessions. And you will also need to get good at inventorying Lego. Exotic Lego parts have a way of disappearing... you might find yourself on BrickLink more than you want to be.
NXT-G is not easy for kids to use, despite anything Lego tells you. Expect to spend some time on that.
So, having said all those negative sounding things, I don't really know of a better alternative than NXT for your sitation.... and my daughter and I *do* have a heaping pile of non-Lego robots of various kinds.
My wife has a Kindle 1.0, and loves it. She has loaded a large number of her favorite reference volumes (finance, mostly) on it, and cleared out several bookshelves in her office. For her, the dollars spent are well worth the space saved. The math is easy... compute the cost per square foot of owning a house in Silicon Valley, and consider if you really want to use those square feet as storage for books that have no emotional value. The Kindle is a bargain when analyzed like that. DRM and short life of the media is not an issue... all the books she put on it will be of little relevence in a few years. Oh... being able to make any book a "large print volume" is an outstanding benefit for those of us of bifocal age.
As for me, I wish I could put my entire O'Reilly bookshelf on it so that "lex & yacc" or "Practical C++ Programming" were always in my laptop bag where ever I went. But the Kindle technology sucks at displaying technical content. See Tim O'Reilly's blog post of a year or more ago on the topic. That's why you don't see nutshell books on Kindle. And that's why I don't own a Kindle. Wake me when Amazon gets a big, fat clue about formatting technical content. When it's good enough for Tim, it's good enough for me.
Of course this will happen with APAC shops unless the APAC employees get training in US buisiness culture, and the US employees get training in Chinese buisiness culture. Bootleg software is the *least* surprise your exectutives will receive unless they get out in front of this issue.
The APAC employees need the "this is how we do things here" speech. They will think you are nuts. If you repeat the speech enough, they will get it.
I use git for all of my stuff. I'm no expert, but I'm getting comfortable with what I need it for.
My adivce: play with git a lot before doing any production work with it. One highly refreshing thing about git is that you can create and blow away repos with nary a care... it's quick and painless. That being the case, it is the perfect sandbox toy. So think up some scenarios, create some toy repos, and whack away. Then blow the cruft away and do it again. Understand sub projects. Set up a couple or several machines and users and start pushing and pulling willy-nilly and see what happens. It will be fast and easy to do this on toy repos, and you will understand how it is all supposed to work.
Step two is to do some capacity tests.... scriptomatically create some monster size toy repos and see how they peform.
By the end of this, you'll understand git. And all this playing around is much less painful than with any other system I've seen.
Now, if you have an old repo to import, you have another whole batch of experiments to do. Getting all that history over correctly is going to require some research. Git has a lot of functionality -- the current state of the documentation leaves you to do some digging, though.
So what's left are people either too cheap or too poor for cable or satellite, or who (like me) are RF hobbyists.
You left out rural Americans. Those who currently live far from any metropolitan area are going to see their channel choices severely reduced. I suspect my inlaws will have zero choices in television viewing after the switch -- whereas now they get fringe reception from 10 or so stations in various directions, using a decent outdoor antenna.
There is no way any cable company is going to be wiring the area where they live -- there is about one television-owning family per square mile. (I say television-owning, because the families that are packed in greater than one per square mile are Amish.)
Part 15 devices already create a spectral cesspool. Between devices that are shoddily made, not made to their certifications (ie: the manufacturer certified a 'lab queen' and what they actually build doesn't meet spec), and end users adding illegal power amps and illegal antennas, Part 15 devices are already a huge headache to the licensed users with whom they share spectrum. The SNR on digital TV is already marginal enough. This could very well go badly for all concerned. Part 15 devices need to be segregated into totally unlicensed spectrum so that they don't cause interference to licensed users. Let them lie in their own dung.
The surface finish and material properties of 3D printer output is nothing like injection molded or machined plastics. If you want a weak, brittle copy in the wrong color with a rough surface, sure. But ain't nobody gonna be printing missing Lego parts with these.
http://candyfab.org/
"The Revolution will be Caramelized."
I've seen this unit in action. 10 dpi resoution, but it smells like baking sugar cookies :)
Well, I disagree with your numbers. For the 3D printers I have seen the cost of consumables plus maintenance contract plus cost of capital to have the machine on site (own or lease) brings the total costs to around $15/in^3. They have a margin, sure. The also have some operator time.
But yeah, $50/in^3 is no bargain.
Well, you know, cable is not an option for some people. My inlaws, for instance. They are in the fringe reception area for *any* analog TV. Takes a rotatable, high-gain antenna at 30+ feet to get any signal at all. Oh, BTW, cable isn't likely to reach them any time soon, given that the nearest cable plant is 5 miles away, they live in an area with about 2 families per square mile, and about 1/4 of those families are Amish.
You may think I am kidding, but those are the absolute facts. Now, of course, most people are not in that situation. But for those that are, TV could essentially go totally dark unless they buy a dish.
Of course, in the end, it is a political problem. And that has been handled by gerrymandering the state into pie-wedge shaped districts that take in enough of the metro district to guarantee that the citiots control every election.
And the concept of IT security negligence is little different from bank physical security or workplace safety negligence.
If a bank is robbed, of course you go after the robbers. But if the robbers cleaned out your safety deposit box, and it is shown that the bank was failing to use best practices with respect to security, you have an action against the bank as well.
If you suffer a workplace injury, and it can be shown that the company was not following safety regulations and requirements, then you can go after the company.
Why is IT negligence different? If you aren't following known best practices, then that is quite simply the standard definition of negligence. "Did know, or as a professional should have known. Didn't do it anyway. BZZZT! Thank you for playing."
Really, this is one place where the law developed over the past several hundred years applies perfectly to today's technology without much adjustment at all. It would be great if all technology law were such.
But Flash is over used. Badly, badly, absurdly overused. In places where it does not belong.
Just two days ago I had an utterly mind boggling experience with a commerce site. Lego, to be exact. I was ordering my daughter some more Lego. Filled my shopping cart. Ready to checkout. Get diverted to a page I *can't* *read*. Buggy display, no way to tell what it wanted out of me, and not even a "you don't have flash" blurb. Just crud on my screen.
WTF??
I booted a Mac (with Firefox) to investigate.
Turns out that Lego Shop-at-Home has updated their checkout system and I needed to update my profile and confirm the password. OK, sounds like progress -- no argument with that. But what part of updating my password could possibly in any way shape or form justify more graphic content than a spiffy .gif?
It boggles my mind that at the critical point where I am about to type in my credit card number they divert me to a buggy flash page without even a "this dude doesn't have flash" detector in it. WTF is up with that? Don't they want my money?
Seriously, if their Viking forefathers had been that inept, everybody in Denmark would be speaking Gaelic today.
Oh, so all we have to do is tell all the PHBs in the world that ISO standards are useless. Simplicity itself.
That's a comment on your own credibility with your on PHB, not the correctness of my assertion. You need to work on that problem first.
Or do you seriously think that the entire online community treating ISO as tainted and unclean will actually enact some sort of change?
No, the on line community is already doing that. I was talking about real people with real jobs in positions where they have influence. Not people still living in their parent's basement.
Isn't this the same argument leveled against purchasing RIAA member label music, or Hollywood movies?
In a word, no. We're not talking about a consumer end product. We are talking about an engineering standard read by informed decision makers. I'm talking about improving the level of informedness.