The issue is not that those people don't exist -- it's figuring out how to attract them to projects. This goes two ways: a) code monkeys need to figure out how to incorporate their input, and b) they need to figure out how to join up with a project and contribute in a meaningful sense with something other than patches.
OTTOMH (off the top of my head) perhaps one way is to create "team of two" submitters. Pair a UI coder closely with a UI "critical thinker".
Sure, I've made a couple too. But the fun for me is not swishing stuff in the soup. It is designing the board and building the widget. I'd just a soon keep the nasty chems out of my garage, thank you. And I'd rather spend the etch time on the software or whatever.
So, let's say those clever folks over at whatever-Gator-calls-themselves-now gets the brilliant idea that they could download one of them thar transparent-overlay-thingies whenever you browse to random-evil-webpage. Then, whoosh! They can sell remote access to your desktop so that advertisers can move all the annoying icons out of the way so that you can see the advertising more clearly. Or whatever. An since the overlay is transparent, the user can't figure out what is happening and simply thinks their system is posessed by the devil.
having worked in both proprietary and open source cultures... I think the traing in IP issues is actually better in the well-seasoned open source teams than in many corporate teams. In open source projects, greenhorns don't get to comit changes -- changes always get vetted first. Offenders are whacked with a cluestick. In many corporate cultures, greenhorns are turned loose, and well..., they are guided by their own compass without anyone having checked the calibration of said compass.
Big accusation there. To what, precisely, are you referring? Or are you trying to pull a SCO on us? Alpha was already losing the technology race in the PII timeframe. Let's see some details.
Oracle has always supported a *huge* number of platforms. Many you have not heard of, ever, I guarantee that. Development started on VMS, moved to Unix, now is moving to Linux. All other platforms have always been ports done by the porting engineering group after the mainline development group completed feature development.
exactly! why pay $19 for a ping program, when you can just let your computer become 0wn3r3d for free, than all that spam you relay will keep you connected. some people are just begging to be ripped off.
I've been filtering HTML mail into a folder and only a few people that I actually want mail from have ever sent me random HTML mail. I usully tell them nicely that any HTML is binned as spam in my system, and I may or may not get around to reading it. So far, 100% of my correspondents have gotten the clue and switched to plain text.
For Yahoo groups where I actually want the mail, I white list. For my sister, who can't figure out how to send plain text, and whose mail I don't really want but need to read anyway... I whitelist.
Big fat band-aid. But, by and large, HTML filtering is surprisingly effective at reducing spam.
It's pretty common when marketing something like a book or program or microprocessor or automobile to want to have the press publish reviews, etc, around about launch time. Now, given that some have *really* long lead times (think magazines), you have a problem. The common solution is to give reporters and reviewers advance information under an NDA that expires at product launch time. Commonly referred to as a "press embargo". Everyone plays nice because it is in everyone's interest to play nice. Reporters that break the embargo don't get invited back to the party next time, and therefore their rags don't get to report the next "scoop" in a timely fashion. Marketting folks play along because it gets them the "big bang" that they want.
It's the dance you do if you come to this particular party.
We used to have a choice of both Webvan and Peapod back in the day. Both were great. Right after our daugher was born, by C-section, my wife was ordered not to carry loads and to avoid stairs where possible.... we had a flight of stairs to the front door to our townhouse at the time. She was a heavy user of Peapod for groceries and DrugStore.com for diapers. She once said: "How did people ever have babies before the web?"
Anyway... Peapod was great, they did a wonderful job of selecting produce for you... always first rate stuff. But they pulled out of the area because they were competing with Webvan and were not interested in bleeding money in exchange for market share.
Webvan continued for a while, but let's face it... they were clucks. They had *no* control over their costs. Very stupid. In the grocery business the margins are thin and you *must* be on top of your costs. Webvan were completely brain-dead idiots in this regard, they did lots of things in expensive ways for no benefit at all over the cheaper ways. They deserved to die.
We have used Safeway.com a few times... but don't use them for anything other than food-in-a-box. Their produce is marginal to begin with, and what they select for web orders is the dregs of the bin. Both Webvan and Peapod delivered *great* produce... Safeway.com is a health hazard on wheels in that regard.
It's a trojan, I tell you!!!.... or maybe not. But it acts exactly like one. The button labeled "Download" does not start a download -- it actually asks for your e-mail address so that they can e-mail you a paper about spam....
Tinfoil hat mode would say that they are simply harvesting e-mail addresses for a future spamming run. With my tinfoil hat off, it pegs the needle on my irony-meter.
well, yes. and in fact the 1st A. gives broad protections mainly to political speech. you can stand in the park a rail against the mayor all you like. but the protections for commercial speech are *much* more narrow. and yes, forcing you to pay for them to advertise to you is not protected by the 1st A.
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20% That high??? You are lucky. One friend of mine who for a time ran his own company doing very high priced ECAD software had this experience: He was entertaining clients at a pricey eatery -- the waiter quietly calls him asside and says: "Excuse me sir, but the name on this card does not match your signature" -- Indeed, it did not. The name was someone elses entirely -- not even close. (He settled the bill on another card without embarassment.) Turns out, about a month earlier, a salesmen and he had gotten their cards swapped by a waiter at some other resturant. They both went for *a solid month* of sales call T&E before this waiter caught it. They got to be well aquainted over the next two months as they sorted out their bills.
bad analogy. circular saws *are* intuitive. nobody *needs* to read the manual. an illiterate framer is more likely to be hurt by the know-it-all homeowner his boss is contracting with, when said homeowner leaves tools he has "borrowed" lying in the hallway, pointy-end up.
Just so nobody is misled by your "entertainment publishing company" comment, here is a list of CMP Media's print rags (copy/pasted from their web site):
Bank Systems & Technology BioMechanics C/C++ Users Journal Call Center CMP Books Communications Convergence CRN DB2 Magazine Diagnostic Imaging Diagnostic Imaging Asia Pacific Diagnostic Imaging Europe
Diagnostic Imaging SCAN Dr. Dobb's Journal DV Magazine EE Times Embedded Systems Programming Magazine Game Developer Geriatric Times InformationWeek Insurance & Technology Intelligent Enterprise Magazine MSDN Magazine
Network Computing Network Magazine Optimize Psychiatric Times Software Development SysAdmin Technology & Learning Transform Magazine VARBusiness Wall Street & Technology Windows Developer Network Xtreme Video
Several of which many SlashDot'ers probably read.
From time-to-time, I've gotten several of them. CMP is decidedly uneven -- some of their rags are good, some are woefully clueless. My personal assesment is that their management is mostly clueless, except for being able to sell advertising and bring those dollars to the bottom line.
So, while I agree with "I'd be worried, except that it is CMP media"... I think your characterization of them as entertainment media needs to be clarified as the sarcasm that it is.
In any case, their "please don't send me traffic" attitude is clueless.
Maybe for you, but that's not everyone's idea of ideal service. My ISP has discovered that about 1.5 T1's worth of his bandwidth is going to NOTHING BUT PORT SCANS, 99% of which originate in a tiny handful of APNIC and RIPE netblocks. You know what? A poll of his customers showed that most of us wished he would just lop those dark corners of the internet off. He is getting his IBP to implement exactly those filters on most of his IP blocks. Those few customers that need to do business with those heathens can have one of the raw, unfiltered IP's, and deal with the port scans. The rest of us get our upstream bandwidth back, and many fewer portscan hits against our firewalls. Hurray!!
You can find ways to explain it that make sense at a 4 year old level, and are the truth. My 4 year old daughter, given a card that says C2H4 and an organic chem model kit, can build an ethylene molecule. Does she understand all aspects of that? No, but we talk about numbers of bond holes on an atom, and using them all up makes a molecule. An organic chem kit is about equivelent to tinkertoys in complexity.
You can do a lot of things besides chemistry in analogous fashion. If you explain the rules of the game at a level they understand, they can accomplish wonderful things. People just don't even try, which is a shame. The young mind can absorb a great amount. It is a sponge for facts, even if critical thinking is not yet online. Early on, we got a small skeleton model and muscle charts, and started teaching anatomy. One day while swimming with her at the Y, she started naming her muscles with the latin names. (She was 2 1/2). It amazed people around us. It should not. Any kid exposed to that information could do it. And it's fun! What a hoot to hear: "Daddy, I hurt my patella."
And BTW -- she also knows the family honor code by heart. Some of the important things in life are non-techie.
I'm sorry I am not up on the details. It is my understanding that Part 15 powerline devices that are "unintentional radiators" are only allowed to transmit intermittently. Think garage door opener. But I am not an expert on the exact %age of the time they are allowed to be key-down, I expect the exact limit varies with frequency and power level. Sorry I can't be more help.
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I'd have more respect if they visited every White Castle
OK, just don't make me eat there. eeuww.
No.. Really.... all you have to do is specify the hole sizes +/- 0.00000000001 after plating. They are dead-on every time. I swear.
The issue is not that those people don't exist -- it's figuring out how to attract them to projects. This goes two ways: a) code monkeys need to figure out how to incorporate their input, and b) they need to figure out how to join up with a project and contribute in a meaningful sense with something other than patches.
OTTOMH (off the top of my head) perhaps one way is to create "team of two" submitters. Pair a UI coder closely with a UI "critical thinker".
Sure, I've made a couple too. But the fun for me is not swishing stuff in the soup. It is designing the board and building the widget. I'd just a soon keep the nasty chems out of my garage, thank you. And I'd rather spend the etch time on the software or whatever.
So, let's say those clever folks over at whatever-Gator-calls-themselves-now gets the brilliant idea that they could download one of them thar transparent-overlay-thingies whenever you browse to random-evil-webpage. Then, whoosh! They can sell remote access to your desktop so that advertisers can move all the annoying icons out of the way so that you can see the advertising more clearly. Or whatever. An since the overlay is transparent, the user can't figure out what is happening and simply thinks their system is posessed by the devil.
having worked in both proprietary and open source cultures... I think the traing in IP issues is actually better in the well-seasoned open source teams than in many corporate teams. In open source projects, greenhorns don't get to comit changes -- changes always get vetted first. Offenders are whacked with a cluestick. In many corporate cultures, greenhorns are turned loose, and well..., they are guided by their own compass without anyone having checked the calibration of said compass.
Big accusation there. To what, precisely, are you referring? Or are you trying to pull a SCO on us? Alpha was already losing the technology race in the PII timeframe. Let's see some details.
Meeting rooms:
1. no chairs
2. work table set to standing height for papers, etc.
3. all the walls are whiteboard.
With no chairs, meetings are exactly as long as they need to be, and no longer. Yes, I *have* worked in this kind of environment, and it works great.
The last time I watched Peter Jennings read the news he said "aboot".
Presumably this porting engineering group have all manner of hardware with which to roll out the different binaries.
Yes.
Is there a full list of all the platform support?
It's called the price list. Thick document.
Do they offer everything on all supported platforms?
No, but quite a lot is.
Oracle has always supported a *huge* number of platforms. Many you have not heard of, ever, I guarantee that. Development started on VMS, moved to Unix, now is moving to Linux. All other platforms have always been ports done by the porting engineering group after the mainline development group completed feature development.
a friend is a partner in and the brewmeister of a local microbrewery -- i fixed network printing for his back office staff.
exactly! why pay $19 for a ping program, when you can just let your computer become 0wn3r3d for free, than all that spam you relay will keep you connected. some people are just begging to be ripped off.
I've been filtering HTML mail into a folder and only a few people that I actually want mail from have ever sent me random HTML mail. I usully tell them nicely that any HTML is binned as spam in my system, and I may or may not get around to reading it. So far, 100% of my correspondents have gotten the clue and switched to plain text.
For Yahoo groups where I actually want the mail, I white list. For my sister, who can't figure out how to send plain text, and whose mail I don't really want but need to read anyway... I whitelist.
Big fat band-aid. But, by and large, HTML filtering is surprisingly effective at reducing spam.
It's pretty common when marketing something like a book or program or microprocessor or automobile to want to have the press publish reviews, etc, around about launch time. Now, given that some have *really* long lead times (think magazines), you have a problem. The common solution is to give reporters and reviewers advance information under an NDA that expires at product launch time. Commonly referred to as a "press embargo". Everyone plays nice because it is in everyone's interest to play nice. Reporters that break the embargo don't get invited back to the party next time, and therefore their rags don't get to report the next "scoop" in a timely fashion. Marketting folks play along because it gets them the "big bang" that they want.
It's the dance you do if you come to this particular party.
We used to have a choice of both Webvan and Peapod back in the day. Both were great. Right after our daugher was born, by C-section, my wife was ordered not to carry loads and to avoid stairs where possible.... we had a flight of stairs to the front door to our townhouse at the time. She was a heavy user of Peapod for groceries and DrugStore.com for diapers. She once said: "How did people ever have babies before the web?"
Anyway... Peapod was great, they did a wonderful job of selecting produce for you... always first rate stuff. But they pulled out of the area because they were competing with Webvan and were not interested in bleeding money in exchange for market share.
Webvan continued for a while, but let's face it... they were clucks. They had *no* control over their costs. Very stupid. In the grocery business the margins are thin and you *must* be on top of your costs. Webvan were completely brain-dead idiots in this regard, they did lots of things in expensive ways for no benefit at all over the cheaper ways. They deserved to die.
We have used Safeway.com a few times... but don't use them for anything other than food-in-a-box. Their produce is marginal to begin with, and what they select for web orders is the dregs of the bin. Both Webvan and Peapod delivered *great* produce... Safeway.com is a health hazard on wheels in that regard.
It's a trojan, I tell you!!! .... or maybe not. But it acts exactly like one. The button labeled "Download" does not start a download -- it actually asks for your e-mail address so that they can e-mail you a paper about spam....
Tinfoil hat mode would say that they are simply harvesting e-mail addresses for a future spamming run. With my tinfoil hat off, it pegs the needle on my irony-meter.
well, yes. and in fact the 1st A. gives broad protections mainly to political speech. you can stand in the park a rail against the mayor all you like. but the protections for commercial speech are *much* more narrow. and yes, forcing you to pay for them to advertise to you is not protected by the 1st A.
20% That high??? You are lucky. One friend of mine who for a time ran his own company doing very high priced ECAD software had this experience: He was entertaining clients at a pricey eatery -- the waiter quietly calls him asside and says: "Excuse me sir, but the name on this card does not match your signature" -- Indeed, it did not. The name was someone elses entirely -- not even close. (He settled the bill on another card without embarassment.) Turns out, about a month earlier, a salesmen and he had gotten their cards swapped by a waiter at some other resturant. They both went for *a solid month* of sales call T&E before this waiter caught it. They got to be well aquainted over the next two months as they sorted out their bills.
You've obviously never been on a construction site.
*bzzt* Sorry. Grew up in 'em. Thank you for playing.
bad analogy. circular saws *are* intuitive. nobody *needs* to read the manual. an illiterate framer is more likely to be hurt by the know-it-all homeowner his boss is contracting with, when said homeowner leaves tools he has "borrowed" lying in the hallway, pointy-end up.
Just so nobody is misled by your "entertainment publishing company" comment, here is a list of CMP Media's print rags (copy/pasted from their web site):
Bank Systems & Technology
BioMechanics
C/C++ Users Journal
Call Center
CMP Books
Communications Convergence
CRN
DB2 Magazine
Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic Imaging Asia Pacific
Diagnostic Imaging Europe
Diagnostic Imaging SCAN
Dr. Dobb's Journal
DV Magazine
EE Times
Embedded Systems Programming Magazine
Game Developer
Geriatric Times
InformationWeek
Insurance & Technology
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
MSDN Magazine
Network Computing
Network Magazine
Optimize
Psychiatric Times
Software Development
SysAdmin
Technology & Learning
Transform Magazine
VARBusiness
Wall Street & Technology
Windows Developer Network
Xtreme Video
Several of which many SlashDot'ers probably read.
From time-to-time, I've gotten several of them. CMP is decidedly uneven -- some of their rags are good, some are woefully clueless. My personal assesment is that their management is mostly clueless, except for being able to sell advertising and bring those dollars to the bottom line.
So, while I agree with "I'd be worried, except that it is CMP media"... I think your characterization of them as entertainment media needs to be clarified as the sarcasm that it is.
In any case, their "please don't send me traffic" attitude is clueless.
Maybe for you, but that's not everyone's idea of ideal service. My ISP has discovered that about 1.5 T1's worth of his bandwidth is going to NOTHING BUT PORT SCANS, 99% of which originate in a tiny handful of APNIC and RIPE netblocks. You know what? A poll of his customers showed that most of us wished he would just lop those dark corners of the internet off. He is getting his IBP to implement exactly those filters on most of his IP blocks. Those few customers that need to do business with those heathens can have one of the raw, unfiltered IP's, and deal with the port scans. The rest of us get our upstream bandwidth back, and many fewer portscan hits against our firewalls. Hurray!!
You can find ways to explain it that make sense at a 4 year old level, and are the truth. My 4 year old daughter, given a card that says C2H4 and an organic chem model kit, can build an ethylene molecule. Does she understand all aspects of that? No, but we talk about numbers of bond holes on an atom, and using them all up makes a molecule. An organic chem kit is about equivelent to tinkertoys in complexity.
You can do a lot of things besides chemistry in analogous fashion. If you explain the rules of the game at a level they understand, they can accomplish wonderful things. People just don't even try, which is a shame. The young mind can absorb a great amount. It is a sponge for facts, even if critical thinking is not yet online. Early on, we got a small skeleton model and muscle charts, and started teaching anatomy. One day while swimming with her at the Y, she started naming her muscles with the latin names. (She was 2 1/2). It amazed people around us. It should not. Any kid exposed to that information could do it. And it's fun! What a hoot to hear: "Daddy, I hurt my patella."
And BTW -- she also knows the family honor code by heart. Some of the important things in life are non-techie.
I'm sorry I am not up on the details. It is my understanding that Part 15 powerline devices that are "unintentional radiators" are only allowed to transmit intermittently. Think garage door opener. But I am not an expert on the exact %age of the time they are allowed to be key-down, I expect the exact limit varies with frequency and power level. Sorry I can't be more help.